Agnus castus [Agn]

Generalities
*Agn. produces its chief effect on ***SEXUAL ORGANS of both the sexes, also there
are characteristic symptoms in the ***MENTAL SPHERE. It lowers sexual vitality, with
corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. There is a great sadness,
with a fixed idea of approaching death. It influences both the sexes, but its influence is
more pronounced in men. ***IMPOTENCY and ***PREMATURE OLD AGE, from
abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhoea. Self contempt from sexual
abuse. Nervous debility in unmarried persons. A prominent remedy for sprains and
strains. Gnawing, itching in all parts especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in
neurotic young men. *jaded rakes. *Agn. was used in early days, by both men and
women to suppress sexual desire.
Worse
***SEXUAL EXCESS. Sprains of overlifting.
Mind
Absent minded. Despairing sadness with impression of speedy death. Distraction.
Unable to recollect things. Lack of courage. Says that she will die soon and there is no
use doing anything. Illusions of smells_ herrings, musk. ***BAD MEMORY.
Head
Pain as from staying in room, filled with thick and smoky atmosphere, looking to one
point better.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Gnawing, itching in eyes.
Nose

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Illusions of smell_of herring, musk. Hard ache on dorsum of nose better pressure.
Face
Corrosive itching on the cheeks. Formication in the cheeks. Rending, tearing under
alveoli of right lower jaw.
Mouth
Ulcers in the mouth and gums. Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or
drink.
Stomach
Nausea with a sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards, wants to support
bowels with hands. Only the most simple food agrees. Eructations smell like urine.
Abdomen
Rumbling in abdomen during sleep. Spleen swollen and sore. Flatus smells like
urine, remaining long on clothes. Deep fissures, in anus. Sensation as of subcutaneous
ulceration near the anus, only while walking. Bowels as if sinking down, has to support
with hands.
Urinary
Passes more urine, frequently.
Male
Sexual desire almost lost. Testes; cold, swollen, hard, penis small, flaccid.
Spermatorrhoea; with impotence. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Yellow discharge
from urethra.
Female

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A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed

genital. Aversion to coition. Leucorrhoea staining yellow. Agalactea, with sadness.
Menses suppressed; with abdominal pains. Hysterical palpitation with nose-bleed.
Sterility; with suppressions of menses and no sexual desire. Sexual thrill absent, from
excessive masturbation .
Related
Olnd; Ph-ac.

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Belladonna [Bell]
Generalities
Belladonna acts upon *nerve centres producing twitching, convulsions
and pain. Its action upon the *brain causes furious excitement and
perversion of special senses. Circulation in blood vessels and capillaries
becomes active causing congestion, throbbing, and dilatation of arteries.
Mucous membranes become dry. Its effects are *sudden and violent.
***BURNING HEAT, ***BRIGHT REDNESS and ***DRYNESS are very
marked. ***HOT; body, part, discharges etc. Redness occurs in streaks.
***SEVERE

NEURALGIC

PAIN,

that

comes

and

goes

suddenly.

***FULLNESS; CONGESTION esp. to head and ***SWELLING are other

characteristic

features.

***PAINS

ARE

THROBBING;

***SHARP;

***CUTTING; ***SHOOTING; or *clawing, of maddening severity; *coming

and going in repeated attacks. *Discharges are hot and scanty. ***SPASMS;
***SHOCKS; ***JERKS and ***TWITCHING. ***CONSTRICTIONS occur in
parts of the body like throat, vagina etc. or in whole body. *Sensitive to
***LIGHT, ***NOISE ***JARRING. Epileptic attacks are followed by nausea
and vomiting. Convulsions commence in the arm. Spasms are followed by
prolonged unconsciousness. Throws body forwards and backwards; chorea.
Acts as a prophylactic in scarlet fever. Exophthalmic goitre, with extreme
thyroid toxaemia. Hydrophobia. Useful in air-sickness. Its influence is felt
more in intelligent and plethoric persons who are jovial and entertaining
when well, but violent when sick, therefore a great childrens remedy. Ill
effects of hair cutting, head getting wet. Sausages. Sun. Walking in wind or
draft. Haemorrhages, hot. Heat in body; parts are hot, swollen, and dry.
*Right sided symptoms.
WORSE
Heat of Sun; if heated. *DRAFTS_*on head; haircut; washing head.
After taking cold. Light; noise; jarring. ***CHECKED ***SWEAT. *Touch.

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Company. Pressure. *Motion. *Hanging down affected part. Afternoon. Lying

down. Looking at shining objects or running water.

BETTER
Light covering. *Bending backward, semi-erect. Rest in bed. Standing.
Leaning head against something. Bending or turning the affected part.
Mind
Acuteness of senses. ***WILDLY DELIRIOUS. *Excited ferocious;
*noisy; *cries out. Talks fast; *VERY RESTLESS. Biting, striking, tearing
mania. Spits on faces of other persons. Sees monsters, hideous faces. Fear
of imaginary things. Desire to escape or hide himself. Perversity, with tears
(children). Excitable, easily weeps. Quarrelsome. Tendency to dance, laugh,
sing, whistle. Starts in fright at the approach of others. Constant moaning.
Craving for snuff. An angel when well and a devil when sick. Sits and breaks
pins. Mental symptoms better taking light food. Patient lives in his own
world.
Head
***THROBBING, ***HAMMERING, ***HEADACHE worse *temples;
worse motion; better letting hair down; laying the hand on head; bending
head backwards. Feeling in the brain like swashing of water. It rises and falls
in waves. Cold sensation in head at the middle of the forehead. Vertigo
worse stooping and rising from stooping. Hydrocephalus, with boring of head
in the pillows. Hairs split, are dry and come out. *Rolls head. Pulls her hair.
Meningitis. Sunstroke. Pains go downward from head. *Head sensitive to
drafts and cold, or washing hair.

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Anacardium orientale [Anac]

Generalities

*Anac. patients are neurasthenic patients. ***MIND, nerves,

muscles and joints are affected. There is physical and mental
***LACK OF POWER *Special senses are weakened, sight, hearing,
touch etc. *Sensation of a plug, in various parts; or as of a
***DULL PRESSURE, which is repeated from time to time.
*Sensations of* a band or hoop. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear
of examination in students. *Trembling, on slight exertion, worse
knees or arms. Paralytic condition. Wants to lie or sit continually.
Eating temporarily relieves all the symptoms. Nervous exhaustion
from over-study. Paresis of muscles subject to volition. Wounded
tendons. Joints contracted. Old people. Ill natured children. Nervous
hysterical women. Diseases of spinal cord. Heaviness and fullness of
the whole body after piano playing.
Worse

***MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions. *Anger. Fright, care.

Mortification. *Stepping hard. Motion. Draughts, open air; cold,
Long after eating. Rubbing; scratching. Talking. Morning. Evening to
midnight. Checked eruptions. Strong smells.
Better

By eating. Lying on side. Rubbing. Heat; hot bath. In the sun.

Mind

Fixed ideas; thinks he is possessed of two persons or; two wills.

Illusion of *duality, others are present; behind her, etc. Her husband
is not her husband, her child is not hers. There is no reality in
anything, all appears like a dream. Apprehends trouble from
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everything. Senseless talk. Screams loudly; as if to call someone.

Religious mania. ***BAD MEMORY. Suddenly forgets names, those
around her, what she has seen. Aversion to work. Lack of self
confidence; desire to swear and curse. Fear of paralysis. Despairs of
getting well. *Contradictory impulses*laughs at serious things,
remaining serious when anything laughable occurs. Cowardly.
Vacillating. At odds with himself. Melancholy. *Ill natured, Profane*.
Takes everything in bad parts. Absent minded; as if in a dream.
Clairaudient_hears voices far away or of the dead. Suicidal tendency
by shooting. Sees everybodys faces in the mirror except his own.
Hard hearted, cruel. Hesitates; often does nothing. Unsocial.
Neurotic. Suspicious. Very easily offended. Senile dementia. Refuses
to eat for fear of being poisoned.
Head

Vertigo worse walking; stooping and rising from stooping;

objects seem too distant. Pressing pain as from a plug; in temples,
occiput, forehead and vertex, better during meals; falling asleep;
worse coughing, deep breathing. Itching and little boils on the scalp.
Gastric and nervous headaches. Headache from strong smells.

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Aurum metallicum [Aur]

Generalities

Gold makes a profound impression on the ***MIND, producing

acute mental depression, hopelessness and loss of love of life.
***CIRCULATION IS DISTURBED; all the blood seems to rush from
head to lower limbs. Orgasms, as if blood were boiling in all the
veins. *Erratic ebullitions. *Venous congestion_more to head and
chest. Caries of bones esp. of nose; palatine and mastoid. Bone
pains are boring and cutting. Pains wander, impelling motion, finally
attack heart. Indurations and glandular swellings. Exostosis,
osteitis, Sclerosis of arteries; coronary, liver, brain. Extremely
violent symptoms. Mercuric syphilitic dyscrasia. Chronicity of
complaints. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part.
It is adapted to nervous, hysterical women; girls at puberty; pining
boys; old people with heart disease; to persons who are lowspirited, lifeless, weak memory; yet sensitive to pain; which drives
them to despair. Ill effects of grief, fright, anger, disappointed love,
contradiction, reserved displeasure. Prolonged anxiety; unusual
responsibility. Loss of property. Hopeless with heart disease; hopeful
with lung disease. Cancerous ulcers. Necrosis. Dropsy.
Worse

Emotions. Depressing; disordered affections. Mental exertion.

Cold, weather. Night_Sunset to Sunrise. Mercury. Alcohol. PotIodide. Cloudy weather. Winter.
Better

Cool; Open air. *Cold bathing Becoming warm. Music. Walking.

Moonlight.
Mind
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*Intense hopeless depression; and disgust of life. Talk of

committing suicide. Suicidal anguish. Peevish and vehement on
least contradiction, or cheerful alternately. Brooding melancholy;
alternating with irritability or moroseness. Feeling of condemnation
and utter worthlessness. Weeping, praying and self reproaching
from heart disease. Loquacity. Rapid questioning, without waiting
for a reply. Fears the least noise. Weak memory. Vexed mood.
Violent hysteria; with desperate actions; thrashes oneself about etc.
Self reproach; self criticism. Changing moods. She does everything
wrong; thinks had neglected something; her friends; her duty.
Indisposed to talk. Hateful and quarrelsome. Future looks dark.
Grumbling.
Head

Violent pain in head causing confusion. Headache of students,

with precordial anxiety and flushes of heat to the head. Head hot,
full. Exostosis with boring pain. Boils on scalp. Lumps under scalp.
Baldness from syphilis. As if air passed over the brain.

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Bufo [Bufo]

Generalities

The poison of this toad has a remarkable action on nervous

system, and sexual organs. It arouses lowest passions; patient is
not only *low minded but develops low type of disease also. It is a
remedy for *depravities, *due to bad inheritance. Early broken
down, prematurely senile person. It affects circulation, causing
ebullitions of heat, flushings; *burnings in different parts. Bloody
oozing; from nipples, bloody saliva etc. Trembling like paralysis
agitans. Electric-like shocks, are felt throughout the whole body.
Feels whole body as if swollen; in a.m. Festering sensation. Falls
down unconscious, with a blood curdling scream. Obesity. Epileptic
seizures; occur during night; connected with sexual sphere- at the
time of menses, in women when sexual desire is excited; in young
men due to onanism or during coition, attacks are followed by
headache. As of a peg in joint. Dropsy. Paralysis. Cancer, Carbuncle.
Buboes. Septic lymphangitis, due to injuries, when pain runs up in
streaks. Spasms in children, after nursing angry or frightened
mother. Anaesthetic spots on skin. Aversion to the sight of brilliant
objects. Variety of symptoms occur before epileptic spasms. The
mind remains childish, only the body grows. Foetid discharges, and
exhalations. Convulsions from suppurative conditions.
Worse

Warm room. Sexual excitement. Masturbation. Least motion.

Injuries.
Better

Bleeding. Cool air. Cold bathing. Feet in hot water.

Mind
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Moral depravity. Idiocy; childish, silly, tittering. Feeble minded.

Fears; animals, strangers. Talks nonsense, then angry if not
understood. Walks the floor and wrings the hands. Desire for
solitude, to practice masturbation. Inclination to bite. Deceitfulness.
Music is unbearable.
Head

As of a hot vapour, rising to the top of head. Brain numb. Pillow

hurts occiput.

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Argentum metallicum [Arg-m]

Generalities
Silver affects NERVES causing convulsive and spasmodic effects. It acts
upon joints and their component elements, bones, condyles, *cartilages and
ligaments.

Secretions

of

mucous

membranes

are

***THICK,

*grey

or

tenacious*; or like boiled starch. It THICKENS the tissue esp, *cartilages, tarsi,
LARYNX is also prominently affected. Symptoms appear insidiously; slowly,
lingering but progressing, deeply penetrating. Pains gradually increase, become
violent then suddenly cease, worse by touch. Pains are accompanied by
polyuria. Painless twitching or electric-like shocks. *Loss of control over MIND
*and body. Cramps in muscles; limbs *feel powerless*. In epilepsy, the attacks
are followed by delirious rage, jumping about and striking those near.
Arthralgia. Bones; painful, tender. It is adapted to tall thin irritable people.
Exostosis of skull. Ill effects of onanism and sunstroke. *Sore rawness*. Lies
down on account of tiredness and weakness. Emaciation. Caries.
Worse

*Using voice. Speaking, singing. *Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 6

p.m. Touch, pressure. Riding in carriage. Lying on back. Sitting. Stooping.
Entering warm room. Sun.
Better

Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up.

Mind

*Loss of mental power. *Forgetful Hasty; deceitful. Talkative, or disinclined

to talk in society; changes subjects. Restless anxiety which drives him from
place to place. Time passes slowly. Bars out all sympathy for friends. Takes on
all sorts of whims, often does strange and unaccountable things. Anxiety about
his health.
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Head

Vertigo; whirling; worse looking at running water, or entering warm room.

Crawling and emptiness in head. Scalp very tender to touch.
Eyes

Itching in eyelids and canthi. Abundant purulent discharge. Lachrymal

stricture. Eyelids and tarsi become thick.

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