AGARICUS MUSCARIUS [Agar]

Twitching, fasciculations, tremors, spasms, convulsions, chorea, grimaces.

Anxiety and excitement. Ecstasy.

Dependent and fearful.

Awkwardness in arms and legs.

< before thunderstorms < coition
Diagonal affections.

Low back pain

SYNONYM
: Amanita Muscaria.

COMMON NAME
: Toadstool

FAMILY
: Fungi

A/F
: -Coitus 3, sexual excess
-Frost 2
-Sun 2
-Indolent circulation
-Bad effects of alcohol, debauches
-Suppressed eruptions, suppressed milk.

-After being scolded or punished
-Fright; mental application

MODALITIES
: < Before thunder storm 3 < Mental Exhaustion 3 > Gentle motion
< Coition 3 < Alcohol > When warm in bed
< Pressure on spine 3 < Touch 3 > Chorea
< During menses < Freezing air 3 > During sleep
< Open air (cold) < Fright
< Sun

MIND
: -Sings, talks, but does not answer.

-Loquacity, but answers no questions. Disinclined to answer questions.

-Aversion to work, indifference.

-Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.

-Fearlessness, or only fear of cancer.

-Fears to be left alone lest be injure himself in a frenzy.

-Anxiety about health.

-Makes verses. Poetic at night.

-Hilarious. Excited and ecstatic states.

-Excessively fanciful.

-Embraces and kisses hands.

-Selfish.

-Morose, self-willed, stubborn.

-Awkward, clumsy.

-Pressure on spine causes involuntary laughter.

-Convulsions after being scolded.

-Delirium and exaltation of strength, can lift heavy weights.

-Delusion that he is great person, he is under super human control.

-Occupation ameliorates.

-Aversion to being touched.

GUIDING INDICATIONS
: -Acts on cerebro-spinal axis. Its action on brain produces more vertigo and delirium.

-Affection of spinal cord, nerves and medulla produces irregular, angular, uncertain and exaggerated motions.

-Patient reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things etc.

-Symptoms appear slowly.

Patient suffers from many and diverse symptoms.

-Yawning before complaints.

-Symptoms appear diagonally-as right arm and left leg.

-Cold sensations-sensation as if pierced by cold needles or hot needles
-a cold drop or cold weight on the parts.

-Trembling, twitching, jerking, or fibrillar spasms here and there are very marked.

-Nervousness and restlessness. Chorea > during sleep.

-Tubercular diathesis-catarrhal condition of chest with night sweats
-cough and pus like sputa, small globules of mucus.

-C.N.S.-Painful twitching, then the parts become stiff and cold.

-Convulsions-after coition
-from suppressed milk
-after being scolded or punished
-In epilepsy and convulsions, the physical strength is increased, can lift heavy weights.

-Young nervous, hysterical, married women who faint after coition.

-Children walk and talk late on account of brain complaints.

-Chorea and involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep.

-Chorea from simple motions.

-Jerks of single muscles to dancing or trembling of whole body.

-Uncertain in walking, stumbles over everything in the way.

-Good for cases of blepharospasm and tics, convulsions.

-Head-Headache-dull, must move the head to and fro, > after stool or urine.

-Pain as from nail in right side of head.

-Headache < by cold air, before thunderstorm.

-Vertigo, from sunlight.

-Mouth-Looking out of open window causes toothache and pain in lower limbs < cold air

-G.I.T.-Ravenous appetite with bolting of food.

-Spleen medicine causing stitches in the side and it has cured stitch in runners, enabling them to run further.

-C.V.S.-Palpitation of tea or coffee drinkers.

-Male genitalia-Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.

-Sexual desire increased.

-After coition, great debility.

-Profuse sweat, palpitation during coition.

-Female genitalia-Complaints following parturition and coitus.

-Menses too profuse.

-Nipples itch and burn, look red during pregnancy.

-Metastases from suppressed milk to the brain, abdominal troubles etc.

-Prolapsus.

-Post climacteric bearing down pain most intolerable.

-Back-Spine is very sensitive to touch < morning

-Feels pain as if beaten, when standing.

-Pain sore aching in lumbar and sacral region, during exertion in the daytime, while sitting.

-Spinal irritation due to sexual excess.

-Every motion, every turn of body causes pain in spine.

-Single vertebra sensitive to touch

-Skin-Chilblains that itch and burn intolerably.

-Frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

-Burning, itching, redness of various parts. Red, swollen, hot.

-Angio-neurotic oedema.

-Sweat oily, but not offensive.

-Sleep-Unrefreshed.

-Yawning frequent, before pains or spasms as a concomitant.

-Yawning followed by involuntary laughter.

KEYNOTES
: -Involuntary, irregular, uncertain and exaggerated movements >during sleep < after coition.

-Touch to the back, makes him laugh.

-Frost bite and chilblains.

-Angio-neurotic oedema.

-Sensation as if ice meddles were piercing the skin.

-Complaints appear diagonally, upper left and lower right side.

-Cough ends in a sneeze. Sneezing in sunshine.

-Yawning before all complaints

CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
: -A/F :-Coition, suppressed eruptions.

-When being scolded or punished.

-Alcohol, debauches.

-Complaints appear diagonally-right lower and left upper.

-Extreme sensitiveness to cold air, sensation as if hot or cold needles are pricking in different parts of body.

-Chorea, twitching < coition > sleep during.

-Chilblains, frost bite, all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

- Nervous prostration after sexual debauches in both the sexes.

NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
: -Nervous (mental) disorders with involuntary movement while awake, cease during sleep, chorea.

-Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure, to touch, to cold air.

-Skin itches, burns - as if hot or cold needles pricking in the skin.

CLINICAL
: -Anxiety, Bell's palsy, Chilblain, Chorea, Delirium, Depression, Fasciculation,
Lumbago, Multiple sclerosis, Neuralgia, Neuromyopathy, Paraesthesia, Sciatica, Seizure disorders, Tremor, Twitching.

-Paralytic weakness in the lower limbs after becoming pregnant may lead to Agaricus( Homoeopathic Records Aug 1932).

-Agaricus corresponds to tubercular diathesis.

REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
: -Compare-Arg-n, Ars, Cupr, Nit-ac, Rhus-t.

-Remedy follows well after-Bell, Calc, Merc, Op, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil.

-Remedy precedes well-Bell, Calc, Cupr, Merc, Op, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil, Tar-h.

-Complementary-Calc
-Related to-Phys, Tub.

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