Agaricus Muscarius agar.

SPINAL AXIS: OCCIPUT. NERVES. Lumbar region. Peristalsis. Heart. Circulation. Respiration. Chest.

Air: COLD. FREEZING. OPEN. Stormy. Exhaustion: Mental. Coition. Debauchery. Alcohol. Pressure. Touch. Morning. During menses.

Gentle motion.

Gradual onset . Many symptoms (Tub.). IRREGULAR, ANGULAR, UNCERTAIN AND EXAGGERATED MOTIONS ( Ign.); he reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things, etc. TREMBLING, TWITCHING, JERKING or fibrillar spasm; here and there; < EYELIDS or tongue. Shuddering. Nervous and restless. Chorea. As of cold needles, a cold drop or a weight on parts. Painful twitching, then parts stiff and cold.

Hilarious or dull and dizzy; as if drunk. Turns head to and fro. Headache, > after stool or urine. Oscillating eyeballs. Gum in canthi. Musca volitantes. Angle of mouth droops. As of a lump in epigastrium. Rumbling and fermenting in bowels. Hot flatus or semen; cold urine. Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing; as if from spine; easy expectoration of flocculi or balls of mucus. Indistinct, jerky speech. Palpitation during coition; depressed afterward. Premature ejaculation. Pressure or burning sticking from heart to left scapula. Angina pectoris, has excessive pain only. Metastases from suppressed milk. Single vertebra sensitive to heat. Spine sensitive, > pressure or touch; shooting, burning along; seems short (Sul.), < stooping; stiff. Restless arms. BURNING-ITCHING (Ap.), < IN SKIN; AS IF FROZEN; changing place on scratching. Skin pains when cold. Chilblains. Yawning; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant. Chills or sweats easily. Sweats on alternate sides. Night sweats. Itching, over affected part. Cold buttocks.

Antidotes: Coff. Pul. Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Phys. Tub.

Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax. Old people with weak, indolent circulation. Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.). Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed; in typhoid or typhus. Headaches: of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections. Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face. Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, form simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.). Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles. Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot. Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten, when standing. Spine sensitive to touch (Ther.); worse mornings. Pain: sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.). Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali p.). Nervous prostration after sexual debauches. Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.). Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebra sensitive to touch. Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare, Lilium, Murex, Sepia). Exteremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.). Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram. - upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Similar; to, Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; to, Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunder-storm (Phos., Psor.).

This remedy is exceedingly rich in symptoms in almost every organ and function of the body. The confirmations of these symptoms are not yet so very numerous, but they are worthy of close study and observation. I am always well rewarded in its study and use when I find cropping out, itching, redness and burning, on any part of the body, as if frost-bitten or burning and itching of internal parts. Chilblains. It is a remedy of great value in typhus fever, also in St. Vitus' dance, etc.

Much out of humour and declines to answer questions. Quite indifferent. Disinclination to work. Delirium, tries to get out of bed. Delirium constant, knows no one, throws things at the nurse. Delirium tremens. Sings, talks, but does not answer questions. Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk.

Reeling and staggering to and fro when walking in open air. Dull headache, obliging him to move the head constantly to and fro, and to close the eyes. Twitches in the skin of the forehead above the right eyes. Sensation of coldness as of ice, on the scalp, right side of the frontal bone. Pain as from a nail in the right side of the head. The head constantly falling backwards, as if a weight were attached to the occiput. Lies almost unconscious though he could be roused for a moment when questioned. Throbbing and beating headache with a sensation of stiffness of the muscles of the face. Dull, drawing headache in the morning, extending into the root of the nose, with nosebleed or thick mucus discharge. Headaches in those subject to chorea, or who readily become delirious in fever or with pain; twitchings or grimaces. Head in constant motion. Vertigo in bright light. Tinea capitis, with crusts sometimes spreading to other parts of the body.

Twitching and trembling of the eyelids. Narrowing of the interval between the lids, as if half open eyes. Twitches and spasms of the eyeballs, with aching pain. Dimsightedness, everything seems obscured. He reads with difficulty, because the type seem to move. Much burning and itching in the eyes and agglutination. Angles of the eyes much affected, itch and burn and look red. Muscæ volitantes. Strabismus. As soon as she opens her eyes in the morning both eyeballs begin to revolve toward the right and left, with a velocity of half a second, almost constantly, the whole day. Blisters and ulcers on the cornea, eyes inflamed, with lachrymation.

Burning and itching in ears. Redness, burning itching of the ears, as if they had been frozen. Itching behind the ears.

Bleeding of the nose, particularly of old people. Profuse fetid discharge from the nose, sometimes dark and bloody. On blowing the nose, early in the morning blood comes out of it; followed by violent bleeding. Burning itching redness of the nose.

Redness of, with itching and burning. Twitching of the muscles of, lasting all day. Blue and puffed, in epilepsy. Lancinating, tearing and drawing pain in right cheek. Paralysis of, so that one or both corners of the mouth drop down, allowing the saliva to run out upon the pillow. Itching, burning, redness of, as if it had been frozen.

Swelling of the gums. Tongue is coated white. Shooting from right lower teeth up to left side of the head. Inarticulate speech. Tongue dry. Phagedenic ulcers on the ligament of the tongue, mercurial aphthæ on the roof of the mouth and tongue. Frequently suffering from aphthæ, want of appetite, diarrhœa. Burning thirst.

Throws up small flocculi or solid balls of phlegm, almost without cough. Sensation of dryness of the pharynx, causing contraction there, as when drinking liquids.

Frequent empty eructations; or with taste of apples; or with the taste of rotten eggs. Nausea--inclination to vomit. Vomiting. Much pain in the stomach.

Sharp, needle-like pains in region of the liver. Pinching below the umbilicus. Meteorism and distention of the abdomen. Rumbling of wind and passing of large quantities. Sensation of writhing in the abdomen.

Diarrhœa, with violent pinching in abdomen; with the passage of large quantities of wind. Dysenteric flux. Very hard and difficult stools. Diarrhœa of children, with grass-green, bilious stools. Fetid stools.

Effusion of viscid, glutinous mucus from the urethra; clear lemon-colored urine. The urine passes at intervals and dribbles away. Urine profuse and colorless.

Male: Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed. After emission, pain and weakness in the thighs. During coition: burning in urethra; most painful with the ejaculation; insufficient ejaculation, or very late; voluptuous ecstasy wanting. After coitus: loss of appetite, lassitude for several days, night-sweats. Complaints after sexual debauches. Old gleets and other sequelæ of gonorrhœa. Female: Very strong bearing-down pain, almost unbearable. Strong desire for an embrace, with itching and irritation. Complaints following parturition; nipples itch, bum, look red; lochia continues, metastases of milk to the brain, abdominal troubles, etc.

Constant irritation to cough, which can mostly be suppressed, but if not, several violent shocks of cough succeed each other. The cough appears in isolated attacks, and is very violent, often terminates in paroxysms of sneezing. Long-lasting cough and pus-like sputa. Can't sing from a scratching in throat. One is constrained to make deep inspirations, occasionally, in order to be able to continue the function of respiration. Sense of oppression at the cardiac region, as if the cavity of the thorax were narrowed. Jerking stitches through the right lung. Oppression in the lower part of the chest with drawing pains. Inflammation, tuberculosis and consumption of the lungs.

Very weak, unequal, intermittent pulse. Palpitation of the heart, particularly in the evening.

Stiffness in the nape of the neck. Pain in the back as after continual stooping. The muscles of the back feel bruised, and seem too short on stooping. Spasmodic and drawing pain, which starts from the back, and extends into the middle of the chest and into the œsophagus. Violent shooting, burning pains deep in the spine. Pain in the sacrum, a sort of crick, extending the whole length of the spine to the nape of the neck. A painful sensation in spinal column on stooping as if it were too weak to support the body. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. Increased painfulness of the spinal column at every motion of the body. The whole spinal column is exceedingly sensitive to touch. A sudden and violent stitch comes in the sacrum whilst walking in open air.

Frequent jumping of the muscles of the extremities. She feels as if her limbs did not belong to her. Irregular and hurried movements of the upper extremities. Painful drawings along the muscles of the arms. Tremor of the hands. Itching, redness, and burning of the hands and fingers, as from frost-bites. Trembling of the hands. Stiffness in fingers from gout. Much pain in the hips. Weight in the legs, they feel weary; much pain in, relieved by walking; feel so tired and heavy, can hardly lift them. Itching, burning, and redness of toes or feet, as if frozen. Cramp in the soles of the feet at night. Complaints of spin-bore. Frozen limbs and burned places with concomitant symptoms.

Burning, itching, redness and swelling as from frostbites. Miliary eruptions. Itching and burning all over the body, causing great distress.

Shivering through the body from above downwards. Easy chilliness on slight movement. Much heat, burning all over; air getting under bedclothes causes chilliness. Not much thirst is found in this remedy.

As a rule sleeps badly and unrefreshingly.

Convulsions. Frequent jumping of the muscles in different parts of the body. Symptoms appear diagonally, e.g., pain in the right arm and left leg, or vice versa. General trembling. Great weakness and weariness and uncomfortable feeling in the body. Uncertainty in walking, tumbling over everything in the way. In reaching for an object, it is usually missed. Chattering of jaws and trembling of limbs. Twitching of eyelids, eyeballs, cheeks, chest and abdomen. Involuntary movements of children when awake, ceasing during sleep. Jerking, twitching, chattering, and trembling seem to be strong characteristics. Chorea.

Bellad., Calc. carb., Mercur., Opium, Pulsat., Rhus tox., Silic.

Painfulness and violent burning, shooting pains in spinal column. Spinal column sensitive to touch. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. Violent muscular twitching and jumping, as if caused by a galvanic current. Burning, Itching and redness of various parts as if frostbitten. Sensation in various parts as if ice touched or as if ice-cold needles were piercing the skin.

Toad Stool-Bug Agaric (AGARICUS MUSCARIUS-AMANITA)

This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anæmia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.

1. Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.

2. More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.

3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.

4. Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat). Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.

Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein). Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.

Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.

Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides-Death cup-active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric). The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hæmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif; Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula.

Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.

Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

Ears, face, nose and skin in general, red and itch as if from chilblains.

Twitching in eyelids (especially), face, extremities, even choreaic jerkings, which cease during sleep.

Spinal column painful and sensitive to touch, aching extending into the lower limbs.

Agaricus has some very characteristic skin symptoms. "Ears, face, nose, toes and skin in general are affected with a redness, itching and burning as of from being frozen." This is a very valuable symptom and may lead to the choice of this drug in many very different diseases. I have used the remedy a good many years with very gratifying results for chilblains. I always use it internally in the 200th. It is also a remedy of first importance for twitchings, from simple twitching in face, eyelids (especially) and extremities, to severe cases of chorea. In the latter disease the twitchings cease during sleep. Again it has been found useful in spinal irritation. The symptoms indicating it here are best given in Allen's Encyclopædia. No doubt this remedy has been over proven, and as a consequence many of its recorded symptoms are unreliable. The best work that can be done with it now is to separate them, if possible, "proving all things and holding fast that which is true."

Indisposed to talk. Indisposed to perform any kind of labor, especially mental. Exuberant fancy. Ecstasy. Prophecy. He makes verses.

Vertigo, giddiness, as from intoxication, especially in the morning, in the open air, and caused by the bright rays of the sun. Sensation of heaviness, in the morning, as after intoxication. Drawing head-ache in the morning, extending into the root of the nose. Pressing in the (right) side of the head, as if a nail had been thrust in ; worse when sitting quietly ; relieved by slowly moving about. Great sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Itching of the hairy scalp, especially early in the morning, after rising.

Burning in the corners of the eyes. Twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs. A viscid yellow humor glues the eyelids together. Narrowing of the intervals between the eyelids. Muscæ volitantes. Short-sightedness. Black mote before the left eye. He sees things double.

Itching, burning and redness of the can, as if they had been frozen.

Bleeding of the nose in the morning, after blowing it.

Tearing in the face and jaw bones. Twitching in the right) cheek. Pulsation in the cheeks. Itching in the face, with redness and burning, as if frozen.

Tearing in the lower molar teeth, worse from cold air. Gums painful and bleeding.

Smell from the mouth offensive, as from horse-radish. Soreness of the tongue. Tongue coated white.

Stools pappy, with violent cutting in the abdomen, and discharge of much flatulency. Itching in the anus, as from worms.

Short breath and dyspnœa, making it very difficult to walk.

Sensation of soreness and great weakness in the back.

Trembling of the hands.

Heaviness of the legs.

Great debility, with trembling of the limbs. Trembling. Twitchings in the eyeballs, eyelids, cheeks, posteriorly in the chest, in the abdomen. Epilepsy (with great exertions of strength). Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure and cold air. Tearing pains, face, legs, continuous while at rest, disappearing while moving about. Soreness and sensation of rawness, (nose, mouth). Itching, burning, and redness, (as if frost-bitten), ears, node, cheeks, fingers, toes.

Sleepiness in the day-time, especially after eating.

Pulse. Accelerated in the morning, slower during the day, uneven, and sometimes intermitting. Chilliness. Great chilliness in the open air. Chilliness, with natural heat of the skin. Perspiration, from the least exertion.

Burning, itching, and redness, as if frost-bitten. Miliary eruptions, close and white, with burning and itching.

Symptoms often appear diagonally, (right arm, left leg).

Amanita muscaria. Agaricus muscarius. Fly Agaric. Bug Agaric. Champignon fou. (Europe, Asia, and America; in dry places, especially in dry pine woods.) N. O. Fungi. Trituration of the carefully dried-up cap (pileus); or tincture of the fresh fungus.

Acne rosacea . Blepharospasm. Brain, softening of . Bunion. Chilblains. Chorea. Coldness. Cough. Cramp . Delirium tremens. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever . Epilepsy (with great exertion of strength). Gangrene. General paralysis. Hyperpyrexia . Itching. Jaundice. Lachrymal fistula. Lichen. Lumbago . Meningitis. Myopia. Neuralgia. Numbness. Nystagmus. Phthisis. Rheumatism. Sacrum, pains in . Sebaceous tumours. Sexual excess, effects of. Spinal Irritation. Spleen, affections of. Starting . Stitch in side. Tic Convulsif. Toothache. Tremors. Typhoid fever. Typhus.

As Agaricus is used in many parts for making an intoxicating drink, we find in alcoholism a sphere for its action, and also in all states of delirium, mania, and even idiocy. A peculiarity of the delirium is to make verses and prophesy; also silly merriness, and incoherent talk, with mania; kisses companions. Talcott considers Agaric . gives the nearest approach to general paralysis of all remedies; exalted notions of grandeur and power, hilarity, and excitement followed by depression, confusion, imbecility. Accompanying bodily symptoms are vertigo (marked and persistent), with constant impulse to fall backward; twitching about eyes and face, redness without heat, puffy and distorted. Ravenous appetite, with bolting of food. Sexual appetite enormous and enthusiastic, with relaxed penis and impotence. Throughout the body there are spasmodic twitchings, followed by waning tremulousness; finally relaxation and exhaustion. In all these respects the drug accurately corresponds with the disease. Typhoid states often call for it, and also epilepsy. Rolling of the head is a leading indication for it in brain affections and fever. Peculiar headaches are: "Throbbing headache, with sensation of stiffness of muscles of face." "Dull, drawing headache in the morning, extending into root of nose, with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge." "Pain as from a nail in right side of head." One of the most characteristic of the Agaricus effects is the muscular jerking and twitching it sets up. This renders it appropriate in large numbers of cases of chorea. Twitchings are especially marked in the eyes, eyelids, and facial muscles; and Agaricus has cured many cases of blepharospasm and tic convulsif . Pain as if touched or pierced by needles of ice is very characteristic. Belonging to a low order of vegetation Agar . produces fetidity of breath, eructations, and stools. Sweat may be oily but is not offensive. Agar . is a spleen medicine, causing stitch in the side, and it has cured stitch in runners, enabling them to run further. The symptoms of Agaricus are apt to appear at the same time on opposite sides of the body but diagonally (right upper and left lower, or vice versâ ). The nervous patients requiring Agar . pass little urine (opp. Ign .), though the bladder may be irritable.

Mushrooms are among the articles of diet forbidden by Grauvogl to persons having the "hydrogenoid constitution," as described by him, in which the patients are exceedingly sensitive to cold and damp. Agreebly with this we find in the provings of Agaricus great sensitiveness to cold air. All symptoms are < in cold weather, especially headache. Looking out of an open window causes toothache and pains in the limbs. Drinking cold water < Symptoms are < before a thunderstorm. At the same time many symptoms of intense coldness are produced: cold and blue; sensations as if touched with ice, or ice-cold needles. All the symptoms of frostbite and chilblains (itching, redness, and burning). Somewhat allied to chilblains is bunion, for which Agar . has been found specific by many practitioners. Many symptoms appear when walking in the open air; this is a very general and characteristic aggravation. On the other hand, all symptoms are < indoors and at rest, except vertigo, which may be either < or > in a room. Conversely to sensitiveness to cold there is sensitiveness to the rays of the sun, and sunstroke is within the curative range of Agaric . < After moving, and by pressure from without.

Compare: Bovista; Sticta pulmon.; Act. r.; Can. ind.; Op.; Stram. (alcoholism, chorea); Coff. (ecstasy); Cicut. (spasm of eyes); Codein (spasm of eyelids); Mygale; Tarent.; Verat. alb. (icy-cold feeling in head); Ars. ( hot needles; Agar. ice-cold needles) Agar. stands between Stram. and Lach. It is antidoted by: Charcoal; coffee; wine; brandy; camphor; fat or oil (relieves stomach); Calc. c. (relieves icy coldness); Puls.; Rhus (nightly backache). It follows well: Bell., Calc. c., Merc., Op., Puls., Rhus, Sil. Is followed by: Tarent. (typhoid with "rolling of the head"). Teste includes Agar. in his Belladonna group.

Coitus, subjective symptoms arising after. Frost. Sun. Fright. Mental application or excitement. Over-exertion. Sexual excess. Alcoholism. Blood poisoning.

Aversion to conversation. — Indisposed to perform any kind of labour, esp. mental. — Exuberant fancy. — Ecstasy. — Inclination to make verses and to prophesy. — Mania, timid, or furious, with great display of strength. — Embraces companions and kisses their hands; alternately with vexation. — Silly merriness. — Great loquacity; sings, talks, but does not answer questions. — Delirium, tries to get out of bed. — Delirium constant, knows no one, throws things at the nurse. — Delirium tremens. — Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk.

Dizziness, as from intoxication, principally in the open air, in the morning, and on reflecting. — Vertigo, with impulse to fall backward. — The bright light of the sun instantly produces a dizziness, so as to occasion falling. — Piercing pains in the head when seated. — Dull pain, chiefly in the forehead, with drawing of the eyelids. — Drawing pains in the head, extending to the eyes and root of nose, principally on waking in the morning. — Pain, as if a nail were driven into the head; < when sitting quietly; > by slowly moving about. — Digging pain and sensation as from a bruise in the brain. — Semilateral cephalalgia; pulling and pressing with confusion in the head. — Beating in the vertex, with almost furious despair. — Pressure in the head to the bottom of the brain, increased by pressure or contact of the hair, and accompanied by a complete loss of energy. — Sensation of icy coldness in the head; on the scalp, r. side of frontal bone. — A jerking sensation in the forehead and in the temple. — Great sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration. — Itching of the hairy scalp, esp. early in the morning.

Itching in the eyes. — Burning sensation in the internal corners of the eyelids, which are painful on being touched. — Pressure in the eyes. — Humour in the corners of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids. — Twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs. — The cleft of the eyelids growing narrower. — Canthi itch, burn, are red; < from touch; stick together (lachrymal fistula). — A viscid yellow humour glues the eyelids together. — Weakness and confusion of vision, as from a mist before the eyes. — Brownish spots (like flies) before the eyes. — Black motes before the eyes. — Myopia. — Diplopia. Muscular asthenopia; nystagmus; squint. — Clonic spasms.

Otalgia excited and aggravated on the admission of free air. — Itching in the ears, with redness and burning pain, as from chilblains. — Buzzing in the ears.

Excoriation and inflammation of the nostrils, with painful sensibility. — Itching in the interior and on the exterior of the nose. — Blood on blowing the nose, and bleeding at the nose. — Increased acuteness of smell. — Frequent sneezing without coryza. Dryness of the nose. — Flow of clear water from the nose, without coryza.

Tearing in the face and jaw bones. — Twitching in the (r.) cheek. — On waking, pain in l. jaw-joint, so violent, he can scarcely open his mouth. — Itching, redness, and burning in the cheeks, as if from chilblains. — Palpitations and pulsations in the cheeks. — Bluish lips. — Burning fissures in the upper lip. — Herpetic eruption, principally on upper lip. — Spasmodic drawing in the chin and in the lower jaw. — Needle-like prickings in chin; chin covered with minute blisters.

Tearing pains in the teeth, aggravated by cold. — Tearing in the lower molar teeth, < from cold air. — Shooting from r. lower teeth up to r. side of head. — Gums swollen, painful, and readily bleeding.

Pain, as from excoriation in the mouth and in the palate. — Excoriation of the tongue. — Tongue, after a meal, covered with aphthæ of a dirty yellow, with a sensation as if the skin were being taken off. — Tongue coated white. — Neuralgic splinter-like pains in tongue with salivation. — Ulcer on the frænum of the tongue. — Offensive smell of the mouth, as after eating horse-radish. — Foam about the mouth. — Flow of bitter saliva. — Speech inarticulate.

Dry fauces and pharynx, causing contraction and difficulty of swallowing; with ravenous appetite. — Pressure in fauces as though a foreign body stuck there which could not be removed by swallowing. — Induration of tonsils. — Tension in thyroid gland; < towards evening; feels cravat too tight. — Throws up small floculi or solid lumps of phlegm almost without any cough.

Insipid and fetid taste in the mouth. — Want of appetite for bread. — Hunger, with want of appetite. — Attacks of bulimy, chiefly in the evening. — After a meal, pressure in the stomach and the abdomen, with fulness. — Very drowsy after dinner.

Eructations alternately with hiccough. — Eructations, with the taste of the food that has been taken. — Frequent empty eructations; or with the taste of apples; or with the taste of rotten eggs. — Nausea, with cutting pains. — Inclination to vomit immediately after a meal. — Pressure on the stomach, and in the precordial region, after a meal. — Pain resembling cramp and oppressive heaviness in the stomach.

Shootings (sharp needle-like pains) in the hepatic region. — Prickings in the region of the spleen during and after inspiration. — Stitch in side from running. — Cutting and pinching pains in the abdomen as from diarrhœa. — Moving about and rumbling noise in the abdomen. — Abundant expulsion of flatulency of a fetid odour, like that of garlic.

Hard stools of a dark colour after a period of constipation. — Loose stools in the form of pap, with flatulency and severe colic. — Loose stools, a painful drawing in the stomach and in the abdomen. — Tingling in the anus. — Itching in the anus, as from worms. — Dysenteric flux. — Diarrhœa of children, with grass-green, bilious stools. — Fetid stools.

Urine scanty and infrequent. — Urine clear, and of a yellow (lemon) colour. — Flow of viscous mucus from the urethra.

Increase of sexual desire, with flaccidity of the penis. — Scanty emission in coition. — After coition great weakness and nocturnal sweat. — Itching in the genitals. — A sensation of drawing in the testes.

Awfully bearing-down pains almost intolerable. — Menses too profuse and early, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen. — Itching and irritation of the parts with strong desire for an embrace. — During menses: headache, toothache, pain and itching in l. ear, > by boring; labour-like pains; pains in l. arm; itching; palpitation; salivation. — Leucorrhœa, with much itching internally and externally.

Expectoration of small globules of mucus, almost without cough. — Spasmodic, convulsive, nervous cough, which may provoke secondary hæmorrhage.

Respiration short and laboured, with difficulty of walking, even slowly. — Respiration difficult, as if the chest were full of blood. — Oppressive constriction of the chest, with a necessity for frequent and deep inspirations. Pain principally in the lower part of the chest, as if its contents were compressed. — Prickings in the chest. — Copious nocturnal sweat upon the chest. — Itching of the nipples.

Stitches; burning, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to l. shoulder-blade; < by coughing, sneezing, or deep inspiration. — Oppression in cardiac region as if thorax narrowed. — Painful palpitations of the heart. — With heart symptoms, paralysed feeling in l. arm and hand. — Pulse weak, dicrotic, intermittent.

Pain as from fatigue and dislocation in the back, at the nape of the neck and in the loins, esp. when sitting or lying down. — Painful weakness in the muscles of the back. — Sensation of soreness and great weakness in the back. — Paralytic pain in the loins, increased by walking or by standing.

Limbs affected diagonally; l. forearm, r. thigh; r. knee, l. hand. — Tearing in limbs, < in rest or sitting, > moving. — Cracking in joints. — Subsultus tendinum. — Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.

Arms weak and without vigour. — Burning pain in the arms, followed by an eruption of small pimples with scaling of the epidermis. — Irregular and hurried movements of arm. — Upper arms shaken as from an electric shock. — Prostration, weariness, and paralytic feeling in l. arm. — Tearing in both hands; on l. wrist. — Trembling of hands; and coldness. — Tearing in the fingers. — Cramp-like pain in the thumb. — Paleness and numbness of the fingers, which are, at the same time, very sensitive to cold. — Itching, burning pain, and redness in the fingers, as if from chilblains.

Legs heavy and fatigued, esp. in the thighs. — Twitching, quicksilver sensation, in gluteal muscles. — Pains in legs like electric shocks. — On crossing thighs feels a violent pain in them. — Drawing in the legs, as if in the interior of the bone, esp. when sitting or standing, > by motion. — Painful sensation in the hip on walking. — Drawing in the legs. — Darting pain in the feet and in the toes. — Drawing pressure in the malleolæ. — Burning itching and redness in the toes, as if from chilblains. — Bunion.

Painful cramps in the muscles when seated. — Sensation of tearing in the limbs, principally during repose, whether seated or standing, and which disappears on movement. — Twitchings in the eyeballs, eyelids, cheeks, posteriorly in the chest, in the abdomen. — Symptoms which exhibit themselves transversely (for instance, in the r. arm and in the l. leg), > by walking slowly. — Great sensibility in the whole body; the softest pressure produces continued pains. — Pains, as from a bruise in the limbs and in all the joints, after even moderate exercise. — Soreness and sensation of rawness (nose and mouth). — Piercing pains in different parts of the body, chiefly in the head, with desire for sleep, and faintness when seated. — Tearing pains (face, legs) continuous while at rest, disappearing While moving about. — Great weakness and heaviness in all the limbs. — Trembling. — Convulsions. — Epileptic fits. — Epilepsy (with great exertions of strength). — Great sensibility to cool air. — Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure and cold air.

Itching and titillation, which force the sufferer to scratch himself. — Itching, burning pain, and redness as from chilblains in different parts of the body. — Miliary eruption, whitish and close-grained, with excessive itching.

Desire to sleep in the day, particularly after a meal. — Violent yawning, followed by dizziness. — In the morning, a sense of dizziness, and great difficulty in rising. — As a rule sleeps badly and unrefreshingly.

Disposition exceedingly chilly, and shiverings in the open air, or on raising the bed-clothes, although the limbs may be warm. — Shivering through the body from above downwards. — Easy chilliness on slight movement. — Violent shivering and trembling over the whole body, with heat in the face and cold in the hands. — Sweat from even a moderate walk and slight exertion.

Cannot find proper word, uses wrong words ; < after exertion and sleepless nights.
Dulness almost amounting to idiocy. θ Chorea.
The whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed, hence a kind of idiocy.
Ecstasy, fancies excited ; makes verses ; prophesies.
Talks incoherently ; passes rapidly from subject to subject.
Falls into a delirium as with high fever ; becomes now gay, now melancholic.
Delirium : tries to get out of bed ; constant raving without exacerbation ; constant, does not know his relations, and throws his wine and medicine at his nurse. θ Typhus.
Delirium tremens.
Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy ; frenzy causing him to assail and injure himself, great exertion of power.
Silly merriness.
Great loquacity, convulsive motions of facial and cervical muscles, mostly right side, drawing head down to shoulder ; merry, incoherent talk, followed by malaise.
Sings, talks, but does not answer questions ; strength augmented.
Laughs at his attempts to stand and walk.
Disinclined to answer questions.
Aversion to work. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Indisposed to perform any labor, especially mental.
She is indifferent, though naturally very solicitous.
Very much out of humor.
Takes offense easily.
(OBS :) Mental solicitude about his condition. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Cross, self-willed, stubborn. θ Chronic spasms of eyes.
His mind much depressed. θ Chorea.
Great selfishness. θ Nymphomania.
Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk ; on trying to walk stumbled singularly often. θ Nystagmus.
Protracted mental application or exciting debates brought on vertigo.
Complaints after getting angry.
(OBS :) Epilepsy after fright.
While meditating : vertigo.
When thinking of pain : undefined disagreeable sensation.

Vertigo : when walking in open air, reeling as if drunk ; long-lasting, with great sensitiveness to cold air ; momentary ; from strong light of sun ; with stupefaction and burning in vertex ; combined with a
tottering gait and indistinct sight, even of near objects ; > thinking of something else ; in attacks ; objects whirling ; tendency to fall forward ; brought on by protracted mental application or exciting debates.
When walking does not arrive at point he sets out for. θ Chorea.
Constant dizziness. θ From overwork at desk.
Lay almost always unconscious, though he could be raised for a minute when questioned. θ Typhoid.
Confusion of head.
Heaviness as after drunkenness.
As if drunken and always sleepy. θ Epilepsy.
Unconscious and speechless with convulsions ; t.
Fainting after moving head, hearing others talk, smelling aromatics or perfumeries, even smelling vinegar.

Nervous headache.
Great weight in head, A. M. θ Chorea.
Throbbing, beating cephalalgia, with a sensation of stiffness of muscles of face. θ Climacteric years.
Beating pain, with despair bordering on rage.
Burning in head.
Pain as though sharp ice touched head or cold needles pierced it.
Dull pain, especially in forehead ; must move head constantly to and fro and close eyes as for sleep.
Violent oppressive pains, chiefly in forehead, with delirium.
Fulness and pain in temples. θ From overwork at desk.
In temples : burrowing pain ; drawing ; shooting cramplike pain.
Pressing in right side, as if a nail was thrust in ; worse sitting quietly ; better moving slowly about.
Tearing and pressure in left half of brain.
Heaviness or sense of bearing down ; weight in top of head, with a feeling of pressing together of brain.
In vertex : pressure ; burning ; throbbing.
Dull fulness after waking.
Heaviness, drawing and tension ; heaviness towards nape.
Dull, drawing headache in morning, extending into root of nose, with nosebleed or thick mucous discharge.
Headache from spine affection.
Headaches of those who are subject to chorea ; or who readily become delirious in fever or with pain ; twitchings or grimaces.

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The most striking things running through this medicine are twitchings and tremblings, jerkings of the muscles and trembling of the limbs; quivering and tremors, everywhere these two features are present in all parts of the body and limbs.

The twitching of the muscles becomes so extensive that it is a well-developed case of chorea. It has in its nature all that is found in chorea and has cured many cases. This is a general belonging to all parts to all muscles.

Throughout the body there is a sensation of creeping and crawling. It is hardly confined to the skin, it is felt as if in the flesh, a sensation as if of ants.

Itching of the skin all over which changes place from scratching. No place is exempt from this. There are strange sensations here and there upon the skin or in parts, cold sensations, sensations of cold needles and of hot needles; stinging and burning where the circulation is feeble, about the ears, nose, back of hands and fingers and toes, red spots with itching and burning as if frostbitten. It is a great remedy for chilblains.

The patient is extremely nervous and sensitive to cold. Itching, pricking, tingling, etc., come on from mental exertion and are relieved from physical exertion.

All the symptoms of Agaricus are also aggravated after sexual intercourse, especially in the symptoms of the spinal cord. It is useful for the symptoms which come on after coition in young, nervous married women, hysterical fainting after coition.

The mental symptoms are such as you would expect.

Great changeability, irritability, mental depression and complaints which come on from overexertion of the mind and prolonged study. The brain seems to be developed tardily.

Children are late in learning to talk and walk, thus combining the features of two remedies, Natrum muriaticum, which has the symptom "late learning to talk," and Calcarea carb., which has the symptom "late learning to walk."

It will be noticed in Calcarea that this is due to a defect in bone weakness. In Agaricus it is a mental defect, a slowly developing mind.

Children with twitching and early fainting, nervous girls prior to puberty who have convulsions from being scolded, from excitement and shock; late in mental development.

Children who cannot remember, make mistakes and are slow in learning. Nervous patients who on going over their manuscripts find out their mistakes in writing and spelling.

The condition of the mind is one in which they are slow to grasp ideas; wrong words float in kaleidoscopically.

When we read in the book "the whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed," we must read between the lines.

The whole mind and sensorium seem paralyzed; the patient is sluggish, stupid, at times seems to be delirious; there is confusion of the mind so nearly like delirium that it is not unlike intoxication.

A delirium such as is produced by alcohol. He also becomes silly, says foolish and silly things, sings and whistles at an inopportune time, makes verses and prophesies; or he lapses into an opposite state, becomes indifferent to Ids surroundings. One who is mild and placid becomes self-willed, obstinate and conceited.

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Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax.

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation.

Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.).

Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed

(Bell., Hyos.); in typhoid or typhus.

Headaches: of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections.

Chilblains that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.).

Sensation: as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles.

Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot.

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten when standing.

Spine sensitive to touch (Chin. s., Ther.); worse mornings.

Pain: sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.).

Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses.

Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.

Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.).

Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebræ sensitive to touch.

Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare Lilium, Murex, Sepia).

Extremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram.), upper right, lower left (Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Similar: to Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunderstorm (Phos., Psor.**).

**From 10–11 A. M.; from 12–1 P. M.

Shiverings, from above downwards (Ver.**); general, over the body; in the open air; on the slightest movement; from raising the bed clothes; shaking chill with gaping.

Chill in back as if cold water was running down, if he leans back in the chair.

Chilly feeling: with yawning; limbs cold and blue; weakness; ill-humor; no appetite.

**Almost wanting; chiefly on upper parts of body; in face and upper part of body.

Burning heat, has to uncover lower limbs; blood seems to run glowing through the vessels; turning in bed or lifting the covers produces chilliness.

**Profuse; oily, but not offensive (Cinch.); all night; during sleep; from slight exertion or bodily effort; on front of body, especially about the legs. The face, neck and chest were wet with cold perspiration. The sweat, though profuse, is not debilitating. Viscid, and great prostration.

Cannot find the proper word, uses wrong words; worse after exertion; sleepless nights.
Confusion of the head, heaviness, as after intoxication.
Ecstasy; fancies excited; makes verses.
Delirium, tries to get out of bed.
Great exertion of power with delirium.
Great loquacity, convulsive motions of facial and cervical muscles, mostly right side, drawing head down to shoulder, merry, incoherent talk; followed by malaise.
Sings, talks, but does not answer questions.
Disinclined to answer questions.
Indisposed to perform any labor, especially mental.
She is indifferent, though naturally very solicitous.
Very much out of humor.
Protracted mental applications or exciting debated bring on vertigo.

Vertigo: when walking in the open air, reeling as if drunk; long-lasting, with great sensitiveness to cold air; momentary, from strong light of the sun.
Great weight in the head, it constantly falls backwards.

Dull headache, especially in forehead; must move head to and fro and close the eyes as for sleep.
Dull, drawing headache in morning, extending into root of nose, with nosebleed or thick mucous discharge.
Tearing and pressure in left half of the brain.
Pressing in right side, as if a nail were thrust in, worse sitting quietly; better moving slowly about.
Pain as though sharp ice touched the head or cold needles pierced it.
Violent oppressive pains, chiefly in forehead.
Headaches of those who are subject to chorea, or who readily become delirious in fever or with pain; twitching or grimaces.

Sensation of coldness on right side of frontal bone, though warm to the touch.
Icy coldness in region of coronal suture after scratching.
Twitching of head and cervical muscles, worse on right side.
Drawing or stitching pains in head, shifting from side to side.

Feeling of weakness in eyes without having exerted them.
Indistinct sight; focal distance changes while reading; first grows shorter, then longer.
Dim sight; things look obscured, as from turbid water; muscæ volitantes; vibrating spectra, with vertigo.
Reads with difficulty, type seems to move. θ Diplopia.
Flickering before the eyes while writing.
Black spot before left eye.
Pupils dilated.
Viscid yellow humor gluing the lids; gum in canthi.
Burning in canthi; inner angles itch, burn and are red; worse from touch.
Frequent slight twitching in eyelids.
Twitching in eyeballs; while reading, frequent twitching and pressing in left eyeball.
Spasms, with aching in left eyeball. θ Myopia.
Narrowing of space between eyelids.
Clonic spasms; lids open and close in quick succession.
Swelling of tear gland.

Redness, burning-itching of the ears, as if they had been frozen.

Smell sensitive; vinegar unbearable.
Frequent sneezing.
Nosebleed when blowing nose early in the morning.
Profuse fetid discharge from the nose.
Mucous membrane very sensitive.
Frequent dropping of clear water from nose, without coryza.

Puffy, pale, blue under eyes, nose and lips blue.
Redness, with itching burning, as from freezing.
Twitching of facial muscles.
Tearing in face and jaw-bones.

Trembling vibration in lips and muscles of lower jaw; convulsive shaking of lower jaw.
Pricking in the chin, as from needles.

Tearing in lower molars, worse from cold air.
Swelling and bleeding of the gums.
Shooting from right lower teeth up to right side of head.

Left side of tongue numb.
Tongue: dry; coated white, mornings; sore; smarting; burning tip, as from pepper.
Tremulous propulsion of the tongue; inarticulate speech. θ Chorea.

Smell from mouth; offensive, like that after eating horse-radish.

Feeling of dryness of fauces and pharynx, causing contraction, as when drinking an astringent.
Great difficulty in swallowing, with ravenous appetite.
Throws up some flocculi or solid lumps of phlegm, almost without cough.

Much hunger, but no appetite early in the morning.
Burning thirst. θ Typhus.

Better for an hour after eating, while he is so exhausted; but great sleepiness remains.
After meat, heartburn.

Eructations: taste of rotten eggs or of apples; empty.
Nausea, vomiting.

Cardialgia lasting three hours after a meal; burning changing into a dull pressure, like from a foreign body, with nausea.
Heavy sensation in the stomach.

Liver enlarged, congested.
Sharp stitches, as from needles, in the region of the liver; dull stitches during breathing.
Stitches under short ribs, left side.
Pulsation deep in the spleen.

Loud rumbling in the bowels.

Grass green, bilious; thin, yellow, fecal, slimy; pappy, with cutting in the abdomen and much wind; bloody, dysenteric.
Diarrhœa mostly in the morning, after rising and eating, with much rumbling; crampy colic and passing of wind.
Passes much inodorous flatus.

Urine: profuse, colorless; clear, lemon-colored.
Viscid, glutinous mucus from the urethra.
Weakness of sphincter vesicæ, with dribbling.

Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed.
Voluptuous itching of the genitals.
After coitus: great debility; profuse night-sweats; burning, itching of the skin; tension and pressure under ribs.
Spermatorrhœa, with pains and weakness in the thighs.
Complaints after sexual debauches.

Prolapsus uteri after cessation of menses.
Bearing down pain almost intolerable.
Itching and irritation of the parts, with strong desire for an embrace.
Menses too profuse, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen.

Nipples itch, burn, look red.

Scratching in throat when singing.

Oppression and constriction of the larynx; he fears suffocation.
Frequent deep inspiration.
Difficulty in breathing, as if the chest was too full; he must breathe more deeply; also from muscular constriction.

Violent coughs in isolated attacks, ending in repeated sneezing.
Convulsive, hacking cough, with oppressive sweat.
Sudden convulsive coughs, worse forenoons.
Violent spasmodic cough at night.
Expectoration of small transparent lumps, almost without cough, relieving the lungs.

Jerking stitches through right lung.
Oppression of the chest, in the region of the diaphragm, with drawing pains.
Tension in the lower part of the chest during motion and when sitting, taking away his breath.

Burning, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to left shoulder-blade; caused by deep inspiration and much worse from coughing, sneezing, hiccough.
Anxious sensation of pressure in heart, oppression on bending body.
Palpitation violent, strongly felt, worse evenings, with redness of face; on sitting down, some irregular strong beats; anxious oppression.
Constant feeling of a lump in the epigastrium, with pain under the sternum; drawing in region of diaphragm, sharp pains in left side.
Pulse: feeble, scarcely perceptible; becomes slower; small, irregular.

Twitching of the cervical muscles.
Stiffness in the nape of the neck.
Peculiar sensation of weakness and stiffness between shoulders; extends to the neck.
Pain in the back, as after continued stooping.
Muscles feel bruised; on bending forward, feel short.
Spasmodic, pressive, drawing pain starts from back, extends to middle of chest and into œsophagus.
Violent shooting, burning pains, deep in the spine.
Aching along spine and limbs.
Pain in lumbar region and sacrum; a sort of crick in the back; extends along to the nape of the neck.
Sensation of ants creeping along spine.
Spine sensitive to touch; worse mornings.
Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine.
Sudden stitch in sacral region while walking in open air.

Violent laming pain in left hand and arm after palpitation commences.
Drawing pain from left upper arm to forearm; drawing in muscles of left forearm and down over the elbow.
Burning, itching pimples on the arms.
Burning itching on both hands, as if frozen; parts hot, swollen, red.
Trembling of the hands.
Right hand unsteady while writing; arm feels paralyzed from much writing.
Stiffness in fingers from gout.

Twitching of the gluteal muscles.
Heaviness of the legs; languor.
Pains in legs, especially in region of right hip-joint, like from fatigue.
Violent pains in limbs, especially left hip under gluteal muscles.
Drawing, pressive pains in legs; especially in ankles.
Pains in legs most marked, standing or sitting; better when walking or from motion.
Dull pain along the tibia; drawing pains.
Toes itch and burn; are red and swollen, as if frostbitten.
Cramp in the soles at night.

Frequent jumping of muscles.
Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.
After repeated and severe epistaxis, great soreness and bruised feeling of joints of limbs.
Limbs cold, blue.

Rest: symptoms generally worse. Motion: 3, 28, 31, 44. Walking: 2, 28, 31, 33, 44. Exertion: 1, 40. Sitting: 3, 28, 29. Bending: 29, 31.

Debility after coitus.
Tremor of whole body.
Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms.
Spasmodic motions, from simple involuntary motions and jerks of single muscles, to a dancing of the whole body.
Twitching of eyelids and eyeballs; trembling of legs and hands, debility; soreness of spine; worse at approach of thunder-storm.
Involuntary movements while awake; ceasing during sleep.
Coma following the febrile excitement of dentition; eyes half open, showing the white; breathing not hurried, but often a deep inspiration, followed by a sigh and slight convulsive twitching of extremities.
Cramps in the hands and feet; body convulsed, as if a galvanic battery were applied to the spine.

Frequent yawning; before spasms, or paroxysms of headache.
Unusual sleepiness.
Uneasy, restless sleep, from violent itching and burning of the skin.
On falling asleep; starts, twitches; sudden complete awaking.
Awakes often at night, is wide awake.

Morning: 3, 11, 14, 20, 31, 44. Forenoon: 27, 44. Evening: 29. Night: 27, 33, 40.

Very sensitive to cold air.
Chilblains, frost-bite.
Approach of thunder-storm: 36. Cold air: 10. Open air: 1, 31, 40. In warm bed: 44.

Great chilliness in the open air, strikes through the whole body.
Chilly on slight movement, or from raising the bed clothes.
Shiverings over the body, running from above down wards.
Heat slight, chiefly on upper part of body.
Sweat: greasy, but not offensive, all night, during sleep; from slight exertion; often only on front of body; at night, especially about legs; cold, on face, neck, chest.

Symptoms often appear diagonally (right arm, left leg, etc.).
Right: 3, 4, 10, 28, 33. Left: 3, 5, 11, 18, 29, 32, 33, 44.

Burning itching and redness of various parts: ears, nose, face, upper and lower limbs, like chilblains.
Pricking as from pains, burning.
Sensation in various parts, as if ice touched or as if ice-cold needles were piercing the skin.
Corrosive biting now and then on the skin.
Formication, crawling.
Cramp-like pain in muscles, erratic, when sitting.

Makes the blood thin.
Veins swollen, with cool skin.
Muscles feel bruised from touch; better from walking.
Pains in long bones, as if bruised after motion.
Pains in bones morning and forenoon, especially left tibia, condyle of left elbow (like syphilitic pains, but better rather than worse in warmth of bed).
Joints feel as if dislocated.
Obesity.

Body sensitive to touch or pressure; burning in canthi; pain in spine, between vertebræ, muscles feel bruised; pricking in left thumb.
Worse from touch: 5, 31. After scratching: 4.
Slight blows cause ecchymoses.

Burning itching, redness and swelling, as from frost-bites.
Miliary eruptions close and white, with intolerable burning itching.
Itching stitches in various parts.
Violent itching between thumb and forefinger, left hand.

Light hair; skin and muscles lax.
Old people with indolent circulation.
Venous erythism.

Similar to: Act. rac. (delirium of alcoholism); chorea; spinal irritation; Bellad. (cerebral excitement, but more in chorea); Calc. ostr. (alcoholism; icy-cold feeling on head); Cannab. Ind. (alcoholism; extravagant fancies); Cicut. (spasms of eyes); Codein. (eyelids twitching, etc.); Coffea (ecstasy); Hyosc. (typhoid of drunkards; loquacity, dancing muscular twitchings, and with all tremor, tendency to stupor and feeble pulse) Ignat. (hysterical or emotional chorea; sighing; convulsive cough; twitches; laughing and crying); Laches. (loquacious delirium; alcoholism; typhoid of low type, tremulous protrusion of tongue tremor feeble pulse, livid extremities); Mygale (chorea); Nux vom. (chorea alcoholism; spinal irritation; convulsions; tremor paraplegic symptoms; enlarged liver); Opium (alcoholism; chorea with spasmodic, angular jerks of flexors; hands tremble slow pulse); Pulsat. (spinal irritation; chorea; chilblains, etc.); Sepia (icy cold feeling on head; jerks of head and tongue, etc.), Sticta (chorea with jumping and dancing); Stramon. (delirium tremens; singing laughing dancing; extravagant recitals; loquacity; chorea, with gyratory motions, etc.); Tarant. (chorea, one arm and leg constantly in motion); Thea (verbose; spinal irritation); Ver. alb. (icy cold feeling on head); Zincum (chorea).
Vinegar and Eau-de-Cologne induce fainting. Sal. Ammoniæ also aggravates it; t.
Mushrooms will not grow in ground containing either iron or coal.
Antidoted by: charcoal; coffee; wine; brandy; camphor; fat or oil (relieves stomach); Calc. ostr. (relieves icy-coldness); Pulsat., Rhus tox. (nightly backache).
Atropine is said to be antagonistic to Muscarine, but they both, when topically used, dilate the pupil.
Muscarine is very similar to Pilocarpine (Jaborandi), since both cause arrest of heart's action: profuse sweat, salivation, lachrymation; contracted pupils, etc. Muscarine acts more on the lachrymal glands, less on sweat and salivary glands; Pilocarpine causes more urging to urinate. Muscarine, given internally, contracts the pupil more than Pilocarpine; used topically only the former dilates the pupil. Gelsem. is here similar to Muscarine.
Follow well: Bellad., Calc. ostr., Mercur., Opium, Pulsat., Rhus tox. and Silicea.
Acted well after Dulcam., Phosph. ac., Pulsat. and Cuprum had failed. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Cured where Bellad., Stramon. and Hyosc. failed. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Compare in irritable weakness of accommodative apparatus of eye: Physostigma (pain after using eyes, muscæ volitantes, flashes of light, twitching of lids and around eyes; myopia); Jaborandi; (spasms of accommodation, vision continually changing; eyes tire easily, are irritable).

This poisonous mushroom, Agaricus muscarius, is not uncommon in dry forests. It is usually distinguished by its scarlet, mettled top. A tincture is made from the younger fresh plants.

Agaricus acts energetically upon the circulation, respiration, peristalsis and secretion. ▶ It irritates and excites the cardiac filaments of the pneumogastric, causes tonic contractions of arterioles and smooth muscle fibre (intestines, bladder, iris), increases secretions from the salivary glands, liver, pancreas, mucous membrane of intestinal canal, etc., and causes contraction of the pupil and spasm of accommodation. ▶ Paralysis results as a reaction from prolonged spasm or as the primary effect of large doses. ▶ Numerous effects (motor and sensory) may be referred to an anæmia of nerve centres (brain and spine), caused by persistent spasm of bloodvessels.

Secale corn. , Physostigma, Pilocarpine, Nicotine.

Belladonna.

Emaciations. ▶ Cracking in joints on motion. ▶ Convulsions; amel. vomiting, with anxiety and pain at epigastric region; alternating with stupor; frequent convulsions in posterior part of chest, passing obliquely through, then in epigastrium, then in hypogastrium, especially right side in evening, when standing, with a feeling as if the whole body were shaken. ▶ Spasm more like a trembling than a convulsion, with delirium. ▶ Convulsive motions of head and upper part of trunk, with startings in limbs. ▶ Frequent twitching of different muscles (Zinc.); twitching and jumping of single fingers. ▶ Twitching when lying sometimes in one group of muscles, sometimes in another; sometimes with electric stitches here and there in the skin. ▶ Restlessness; of every voluntary muscle at 3 A.M., then quivering of whole body, especially of lower jaw, then action of muscles as in St. Vitus' dance. ▶ Trembling; internal. ▶ Sudden shaking of body and pulling of right arm from under his head down to the trunk when lying then fine stitches in condyles of elbows. ▶ Commotion of nervous system. ▶ Tumbling about in a grotesque way. ▶ Awkwardness in evening.

Stitches in various parts of the body, especially between skin and flesh, no part of the body seems free from them, sometimes with electric shivering and restless sleep. ▶ Tearing now and then in tendinous expansions, especially on left outer thigh. ▶ Pain simultaneously in several parts, especially on both sides above small of back; pain of various kinds simultaneously in all parts when sitting; intermitting, in bones in morning, agg. noon, amel. afternoon and evening, especially located in left tibia, sometimes appearing in condyle of left elbow, resembling syphilitic bone-pains, except that they are amel. warmth of bed. ▶ Cramplike pain in various muscles and parts of body, even within left ear, or of all muscles when sitting. ▶ Bruised feeling, agg. sitting; bruised feeling in joints. ▶ Boring in head, thighs, tibiæ and bones of tarsus, when sitting, with somnolence and general relaxation. ▶ General malaise, discomfort in whole body; all forenoon; in evening; with tired feeling in legs, preventing sleep, though very sleepy. ▶ Sensitiveness of all parts to pressure. ▶ Pulsations in all parts, especially in epigastrium. ▶ It seems as if the whole body were diminishing. ▶ Constant inclination to bend backward and forward and to stretch. ▶ Impulse to fall backward. ▶ Rising in morning difficult.

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With its active principle, Muscarine, presents a very complex physiological study.
Poisonous doses produce violent vomiting and diarrhœa with numerous nervous phenomena; tonic contractions of smooth muscle fibre everywhere, increased glandular and mucous secretions, persistent anæmia of nerve centres from spasm of arterioles, et cetera.
Its symptomatology offers a large field; most useful are the chorea-like spasms; vertigo and general intolerance of the sun; a heavy weight in occiput; a very irritable and sensitive spine; asthenopia with flickerings, twitching of eyes and lids; (especially valuable for near-sighted people); gastro-enteric inflammation with excessive flatulence, inodorous; irritable bladder; a host of neuralgic pains everywhere, mostly splinter-like, burning and shooting. Particularly valuable in burning of the skin as from a frost-bite, especially on the ears and feet.

Chorea-like twitchings of various fibrillæ and even groups of muscles.
Tremblings, external and internal.
Flesh feels bruised, or as if frost-bitten, sensitive to touch, and to cold air.
General aggravation from walking in the open air, ameliorated when warm in bed.
Pains in the limbs may disappear on motion, and return during rest.
Symptoms often appear cross-wise, as in right arm and left leg, etc.
Shooting, splinter-like pains everywhere.

Delirium; attempts to escape.
Incoherent talking.
Aversion to mental work.

Confusion and vertigo, aggravated by heat of sun.
Drawing in bones of forehead, to the root of the nose.
Shooting pains, mostly in the sides of the head or in small spots.
Feeling of icy coldness on the head.

Twitching of lids and eye-balls.
Margins of lids red, agglutinating.
Vision dim on attempting to use the eyes.
Flickering.
Type wavers with itching and burning.

External ear burns and itches, as if it had been frozen.
Twitchings of the auricular muscles.
Numerous ringing and other noises within the ear.

Clear water runs from the nose, without inflammatory symptoms.

Pale.
Twitching of the muscles.
Pains lancinating, tearing in the cheek.

Upper lip chapped, smarting; dry, with burning vesicles.
Lips twitch.
Splinter-like pains through the jaws.

Dryness on salivation.
Taste sweet.
Toothache, neuralgic, aggravated by open air.
Splinter-like pains in the tongue.

Stitches extend through right Eustachian tube to ear.
General dryness.
Contractions.
Feels swollen externally, hands feel tight.

Unnatural hunger, evenings.
Eructations, empty.
Numerous sensations (pain, gnawings, boring, cramp, fullness, etc.), with spasmodic contractions, irritable spine, etc.

Flatulent distention, rumblings, cutting, griping, stitches, tension, etc.

Burning.
Piles.

Emission of much inodorous gas.
Watery diarrhœa.
Constipation.

Irritable bladder.
Burning on urinating.
Stitches.
Discharge of sticky mucus.
Urine lemon colored.
Not profuse (as a rule).

Sexual desire without erections.
In women, violent pressing-tearing pains in back and abdomen with the menses.
Pruritus pudendi.

Constriction of larynx.
Convulsive paroxysms of cough, sudden, end with repeated sneezing.
Expectoration (rare) of balls of mucus.
Respiration difficult as if chest were full; deep and sighing; noisy at night.

Numerous pains, tearing, pinching, tensive, stinging, burning.
Constriction.
Oppression.
Heaviness.
Rawness.
(Compare back.)

Palpitation.
Tumultuous action.
Irregular, intermittent pulse.
Ameliorated by coffee.

Stiffness of nape.
Bruised and strained feelings.
Deep stitches, burning, itching along spine and limbs.
Spine sore to the touch and on stooping.
Extreme pain and soreness in lower dorsal regions, becoming a pulsating on motion.
Numerous and severe pains in the spine, boring, stitching, drawing, soreness, etc.
Mostly in lower dorsal region.
These sensations extend to nape and into the limbs.
Aggravated by walking in open air.

Trembling.
Twitching.
Shooting pains, shifting.
Limbs weary and heavy.
(Pains often ameliorated by motion.)

Jaundice.
Redness, stinging, burning as if frost-bitten.
Itching.
White nodular elevations, with intense itching and burning.

General sleepiness, especially after eating.

Chilliness on motion, in the air, or on lifting, the clothes.
Burning heat on different spots (mostly local).
Profuse inodorous sweat, often localized; chest.
Sweat oily.

AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. (Toad-stool.) [*].

[] Agaricus appears for the first time in this second edition, but Hahnemann acknowledges that his fellow observers and the himself also had already published their observations -Hahnemann with his son and Langhammer in Vol. IX., Apelt in Vol. X., of the Archiv ; Gross Schréter and Stapf in the Prakt. Mitth. d. cen. Gesell. hom. Aertze for 1828, Ng., Seidel, Sch., and Woost in Hartlaub and Trink's Arzneimittellehre, Vol. III, 1831. Apelt proved a tincture of the fresh fungus, beginning with six to eight drops of the tincture and going on to the twelfth and thirtieth potencies ; he gives his symptoms in schema form only, and does not indicate how each one was obtained. Of the doses taken by Gross we have no record, and the same may be said of the remaining observers ; but from the dates of their publications it may fairly be inferred that their provings were made after the earlier rather than the later manner. For the same reasons Hahnemann's own symptoms -to which no addition has here been made- may be accounted as derived from provings on the healthy and not from observations on the sick. Triturations of the dried fungus seem to have been used by all but Apelt. (Concerning Ng. see note on preface to Alumina.) -Hughes*.

Agaricus is the fetid toad-stool with scarlet-red top, which is studded with whitish warts and has a white border. Of the toad-stool carefully dried take one grain, or two grains of the fresh plant, and triturate it like any of the other medicines with sugar of milk for three hours ; this preparation is afterwards dissolved, attenuated and potentized by two successive strokes for every potency until we reach the thirtieth potency (or x).

Apelt found it useful in pains of the upper jaw-bone and of the teeth, as well as in pains of the bones of the lower limbs (seemingly in the marrow) and finally in itching eruptions as large as millet seeds, set closely together ; as also in lassitude following coition.

Whistling cured with it convulsions and trembling, and J. C. Bernhard cured with it even several varieties of epilepsy.

Dr. Woost saw the effect of agaricus in large does extend for seven or eight weeks. Camphor is the chief antidote in ailments due to toad-stool even when they become chronic. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-provers are as follows : Ap., Apelt ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Fr. H., Dr. Frederick Hahnemann, Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Ng., an anonymous contributor ; Sdl., Seidel ; St., Medicinalrath Dr. Stapf ; Schrt., Schréter ; Sch., another anonymous contributor ; and Wst., Dr. Woost, in Oschatz. [*].

[] Throughout the work the symptoms without a name or mark are contributed by myself. With respect to the symptoms of other contributors, I have sometimes found it necessary for the convenience of my readers to abbreviate phrases unnecessarily extended, sometimes also to substitute more intelligible expressions in the place of obscure or idiomatic ones. I have not knowingly omitted anything essential. -Sam. Hahnemann*.

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Agar. / Hagar.

Agaricus affects the spine
To this her ailments all incline.
She hath tender spine, and pains
From every motion it sustains.
Hath bearing down pains most intense,
And giddiness with falling thence.
Convulsions, trembling, twitching, starts
Paralysis in various parts.
Like chilblains, on the surface spread.
Or spots that feel as cold as ice,
That come and vanish in a trice.

Hagar has a tender spine.

Hagar Tell, the weeping sqaw, is with John Zee.

This Hagar, who is subject to chilblains, poor urchin, is at the Abbots.

Tender Spine: Agar., Tellurium, Alu., Pho., Cimi., Hyper., ZN.

Chilblains: Agar., Pul., Rhus., Urti., Abrot.

Indicated in hysteria, chorea, spinal irritation and neurotic states generally, with jerking, trembling, itching.

Twitching of the eye-lids.

Twitching in the face, mouth, muscles of neck, abdomen, extremities.

Trembling of the hands; general trembling; gouty stiffness of the fingers.

Pain in the lumbar region, worse from sitting.

Itching of the toes and feet as though frost-bitten.

Inclination to prophesying and versification. Timid or fearless, violent madness, Disinclination to speak and work.

In the sunlight. Vertiginous giddiness early in the morning and in open air, as from spirituous liquors.

Headache, as from a nail pressing into side (r), Drawing ache extending to root of nose, in early morning when awaking. Twitching in forehead and temples, Senses of icy coldness on outside of. Worse: sitting quietly, standing. Better: Gentle motion.

Disagreeable twitching in. - Quivering lids. - Vision, dim, as of a mist before.

Excoriated internally. Heightened sense of smell.

Tearing pains in. Itching of.

Tearing ache, by cold.

Bad odor, as of horseradish, from. Excoriation of buccal cavity and tongue.

Pressure in, after eating.

Appetite: Attacks of ravenous hunger in evening.

Eructations: Empty, alternating with hiccough.

Pinching and cutting in, with diarrhoea.

Flatulence: Copious discharge of flatus of a garlicky odor.

Hard, dark - colored, after previous constipation. papescent, with much flatulence and abdominal pain.

Clear, lemon - colored, Diminished.

Greatly excited sexual desire with flaccid penis. Intense exhaustion after coition.

Compression of chest with frequent desire to take a deep breath. Tightness of chest and short breathing when walking.

Easy Expectoration of small, hard balls of mucus almost without cough.

Nightly profuse sweat on.

Beaten and sprained sensation throughout whole. Great weakness in muscles of.

Weariness and heaviness in legs. Tearing in entire length of legs, as if in marrow of bones, motion.

Great sensitiveness of entire body, to pressure and cold air. Extra ordinary weariness and bruised feeling after moderate exercise. Pains in limbs are continuous during rest and disappear during motion. Complaints often appear diagonally, for instances on right arm and left leg. Epileptic attacks with great physical exertion.

Itching - burning and redness, as after freezing, on many parts, particularly on nose, ears, fingers and toes. Closely aggregated white miliary eruption with violent itching.

Great sleepiness, worse after eating.

Pulse, Somewhat accelerated in early morning, always slower as the day advances, very irregular and sometimes intermittent. Chills: And chilliness predominate, especially in cold, open air and when lifting the covers. Shivering over body running from above downward. Sense of chilliness with natural warmth of body. Heat: Slight, and almost exclusively on upper part of body. Sweat: Greasy, but not offensive, during sleep throughout night. - From slight motion.

Allied Remedies: Bell., CALC-C., Cocci., Coff., LYC, Nit-ac., NUX-V., Perr., Phos., Pul., Sep., SIL., Bep, Complementary: Calc-c.

Itching with burning and redness, as if frost-bitten, of the nose, ears, fingers and toes.

Great sensitiveness of the body to pressure and cold air.

Great debility and heaviness in the limbs.

Boring or dull pains.

Sensation of soreness in the nose and mouth.

Tearing pains in the limbs, which are continuous while at rest, but disappearing on moving about.

Twitching of the eye-lids.

Clonic spasms.

Rage with great efforts of strength.

The patient is excessively fanciful and full of ecstasy.

The symptoms frequently appear diagonally, as in the right arm and left

leg.

There is an aggravation after motion, and an amelioration when moving about slowly.

Bearing-down pains of a violent character at once benefited by the action of this medicine.