AGNUS CASTUS

AGNUS CASTUS. [Agn. cast.] Vitex Agnus Castus. Hahnemann. Verbanaceae.

► Absent-minded, reduced power of insight. ► Low-spirited, fears of approaching death. ► Despairing sadness ; peevishness. ► Anxious, fear and weakness.

► After dulness in the head, a pressing long-lasting headache, followed by vomiting and spasmodic trembling. ► Heaviness of head and pressure in the neck, as if the head would fall forward.

► Tearing, with pressure in the temple and forehead, worse during motion. ► Contractive headache, above the temples from reading. ► Pain in upper head, as from staying in a close-room ; looking to one point relieve it.

► Biting-itching on the scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep. ► Tension and chilliness in scalp, which is warm to touch.

► Dilated pupils ; photophobia. ► Eyes burn when reading in the evening. ► Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes.

► Ringing or roaring in the ears. ► Hardness of hearing.

► Illusion of smell ; as of herring ; musk. ► Hard aching on dorsum of nose, relieved by pressure.

► Corrosive itching on the cheeks. ► Erysipelas on left cheek, spreading from nose over face and head.

► Rending-tearing under alveoli of right lower jaw.

► Teeth painful when touched by warm food or drink. ► Throbbing, tearing toothache in left eye-tooth, small boil near the tooth, very painful to touch ; in attacks.

► Taste : metallic, coppery ; bitter. ► Tongue coated white.

► Corrosive itching in pit of throat.

► Lessened appetite ; thirstlessness.

► Abdomen distended after meals.

► Hiccough ; inclined to get angry ; peevish. ► Nausea in pit of stomach when standing ; later, qualmishness in the abdomen, with pressing down, wants to support it. ► Nausea as from eating fat food. θ Checked catamenia.

► Pinching in scrobiculum when sitting bent over.

► Soreness in region of spleen. ► Swelling and induration of the spleen. θ Intermittent. ► Aching in region of liver, worse from touch.

► Rumbling in the abdomen during sleep. ► Abdomen sensitive to pressure. ► Incarcerated flatus. ► Feels as if the entrails were sinking down, constantly inclined to support the bowels with the hands. ► Violent contracting bellyache, coming suddenly in the morning, with bearing down. θ Suppressed menses.

► Diarrhoea of children ; chronic diarrhoea of adults. ► Feels as if diarrhoea would set in, when standing ; anguish, great weakness. ► Great accumulation of wind ; flatus smells like urine remaining long on the clothes. ► Hard stool ; constipation ; difficult expulsion of soft stool. ► When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid. ► A sore feeling under the skin near the anus when walking. ► Corrosive itching of the perineum ; pruritus podicis. ► Deep rhagades or fissures of the anus. ► Ascarides.

► Pains in bladder. ► Passes more urine. ► When urinating sometimes pain in lower abdomen, sometimes in the kidneys. ► Red, turbid urine, with burning and pressure in urethra. ► Emissions of prostatic fluid. See 20, 22.

► Sexual desire lessened, almost lost ; impotence with spermatorrhoea. ► Feeble erections, no sexual desire. ► Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erections. ► Testes cold, swollen hard ; penis small, flaccid. ► Impotence, with gleet, especially with those who have frequently had gonorrhoea. ► Yellow urethral discharge. ► Itching of genitals. ► Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erections.

► Suppressed menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen. ► A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts. ► Leucorrhoea, not copious, but spotting, her linen yellow. ► Hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.

► Retained placenta. ► Milk scanty, or disappears. ► Sterility.

► Voice as if passing through wool.

► Oppression on going up stairs. ► Dyspnoea ; worse in the evening.

► Cough : in the evening, in bed, before falling asleep ; with raising of blood, followed by copious mucus ; in paroxysms, with palpitation and nose bleed, mostly in the morning ; when inhaling cold air.

► Feeling of dryness in the chest.

► Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible.

► Pressure in region of sternum, worse when breathing deeply.

► Sharp, deep stitches on and near the coccyx, to the left, near sacrum and coccyx.

► Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse from touch or motion. ► Swelling of finger-joints, tearing pains, arthritic nodes.

► Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight. ► Lancinating pain in the right hip-joint, worse during motion, somewhat better in rest. ► Legs much fatigued and swollen towards evening. ► Cold knees. ► Ankles swollen after a sprain. ► Tearing, rending in feet and toes, worse on walking. ► Feet easily turn under when walking on stone pavement.

► Pain as if luxated.

► Motion : 3, 32, 33. Walking : 20, 33. Going up stairs : 26. Standing : 16, 20.

► Spasmodic complaints of hypochondriacal men. ► Great weakness : as from violent anguish ; with depression of spirits ; with agalactia. ► Feels bruised all over.

► Sleeplessness. ► Awaking often, as if alarmed, startings. ► Anxious dreams.

► Morning : 19. Evening : 4, 5, 26, 27, 33, 40, 46.

► Bad effects from getting feet wet. ► Warm things : 10.

► Chilliness, internal with trembling, skin warm. ► Slight chilliness towards evening, followed by heat, with headache, no thirst, slight delirium, tormenting, profuse sweat. ► Chill and heat alternate. ► Chilly all over, but only hands feel cold to touch. ► Flushes of burning heat, mostly in face, with cold knees ; evening in bed. ► Sweat on the hands when walking in the open air. ► Sweats easily.

► Right : 4, 9, 32, 33. Left : 8, 31, 33.

► Bruised feeling all over.

► Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints. ► Gouty nodosities.

► May be indicated in bruises or wounds. ► Sprains and luxations of joints ; strains from overlifting. ► Prevents excoriation in walking. ► Touch : 10, 16, 32. Pressure : 7.

► Gnawing or itching on different parts of the body, relieved temporarily by scratching. ► Itching around the ulcers, in the evening. ► Yellow tint of skin.

► Lymphatic constitution. ► "Old sinners" ; with impotence and gleet.

► After Agn. cast. are useful : Arsen., Bryon., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Selen. (impotence), Sulphur. ► Antidotes to Agn. cast. : Camphor., Natr. mur. (the headache) ; strong solution of table salt.