Agaricus Muscarius

▲   GENERAL

General

Agaricus Muscarius 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, anaemia, CHOREA, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of Agaricus Muscarius. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensations 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.

Dose

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

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

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

BETTER: moving about slowly.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Antidotes

Antidote: Absinthium ^Absinth.; Coffea Tosta ^Coffea; Camphora ^Camphor.

▲   MIND

Mind

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 gaiety 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 ^Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Delirium

raging, raving

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

Insanity; mania, madness; from drinking (delirium tremors)

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking

▲   HEAD

Head

Head in constant motion

Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput

Icy coldness, Like icy needles, or splinters

Neuralgia with icy cold head

Coldness

Expanded sensation (see swollen); enlarged sensation

Movements of head; convulsive

Headache

Lateral headache, as if from a nail ( Coffea Cruda ^Coff.; Ignatia ^Ign.) Dull headache from prolonged desk-work

Desire to cover head warmly ( Silicea ^Silica) Headache with Nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.

Pain, headache

morning

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); from spirits

from emotions; nervous

from sex; after sexual excesses

pulling; forehead

extending to other parts; nose

▲   EYES

Eyes

Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim

Vibrating specters

Double vision (Gelsemium Sempervirens ^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.

Discoloration; redness

Movement of eyeballs; pendulum like, from side to side

Quivering; lids

Twitching

lids

Vision

Dim

▲   EARS

Ear

Burn and itch, as if frozen

Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Coldness; as if frozen

Itching

in ear; burning

in ear; as if frozen

external ear

Pain; burning; external ear

Skin

discoloration; redness

discoloration; redness; chilblains

▲   FACE

Face

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.

Expression; idiotic

Twitching

▲   NOSE

Nose

NERVOUS nasal disturbances

ITCHING internally and externally

Inner angles very red

Fetid, dark, bloody discharge

Nosebleed in old people

Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Nose bleed; during headache

Pain

with headache

root; with headache

Discharge

Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge

Sneezing; after coughing

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Twitching

Aphthae on roof of mouth

Thirsty all the time

Lips

Burning and smarting on lips

Herpes on lips

Tongue

Splinter like pains in tongue

Tremulous tongue ( Lachesis ^Lach.) Tongue white.

Dryness; tongue

Taste

Taste sweet

▲   THROAT

Throat

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.

Irritation; larynx

Voice; hoarseness; from singing

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Irregular, tumultuous palpation, after tobacco

Pulse intermittent and irregular

Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed

Palpitation with redness of face.

Heart; palpitations

Lungs; tuberculosis

▲   COUGH

Cough

With constriction feeling; larynx

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages; in larynx

Comes on suddenly; with sneezing

Racking

Sneezing; coughing ends in sneezing

Intermittent

Violent

▲   SKIN

Skin

Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites

Pimples, hard, like flea-bites

Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning

Chilblains

Angioneurotic oedema; rosacea

Swollen veins with cold skin

Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and edematous lesions.

Discoloration; red

Itching

gnawing, biting

crawling

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain; sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back)

Neck

Twitching of cervical muscles.

Stiffness; neck

Back

Pain, With sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region

Lumbago; worse in open air

Crick in back

Coldness; travelling down back

Pain

on movement

rising from sitting

while sitting

when stooping

lumbar (lower half of back); while sitting

sacrum (base of spine)

forced to lie down

while lying down; not able to rise from lying down

lying down

while sitting

spine

irritation

irritation; leaning against a chair

aching; base of spine

sitting

aching; spine

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

dorsal (shoulder level); between shoulder blades; spine

lumbar (lower half of back)

sacrum (base of spine)

spine

Skin; like insects crawling on skin; spine

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough

Unnatural hunger

Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen

Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Stitching pains in liver, Spleen (Ceanothus Americanus ^Ceanothus) and abdomen

Stitches under short ribs, left side

Fetid stools.

Urinary Organs.

Stitches in urethra

Sudden and violent urging to urinate

Frequent urination.

Bloated

Abdominal muscles; twitching and jerking

Noises from abdomen; rumbling

Pain

groin region

cramping, griping

pulling; lower part of abdomen

sudden, sharp (sticking, etc.); navel

Tension; groin region

Bladder; urge to urinate, but producing nothing

Stomach; burping, belching; empty

Eating

Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure

Eructation

Stomach; Empty eructations, tasting of apples

Flatus

Profuse inodorous flatus

Diarrhoea with much fetid flatus

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

Flatulence

odourless

Haemorrhoids

Itching

Pain

burning

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; before stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during stool

urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; after stool

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing)

Stool

Watery

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Milky; afternoon

Womb

Female; pain; bearing down; womb, and region of womb (see labour-like pains, also pains in abdomen)

Genitals

Itching and tearing, oppressive pains of genitals and back

Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea

Severe Bearing-down pains, especially after menopause

Sexual excitement

Nipples itch, burn

Complaints following parturition and coitus

Leucorrhoea, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs.

Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts

Spasmodic coughing at night after falling asleep, With expectoration of little balls of mucus

Labored, oppressed breathing

Cough ends in a sneeze.

Menses

Female; Menses, increased, earlier

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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.

Awkwardness

lower limbs

stumbling when walking

Chilliness; feet

Coldness; like ice in spots

Hands and feet

chilblains

chilblains; feet

chilblains; toes

Heat; hand

Movements and positions

chorea (convulsive twitching, involuntary movements of limbs)

convulsion; convulsive movement

jerking; toes

trembling; hand

twitching; buttocks

Numbness (see tingling)

Pain

lower limbs

bones

thigh

in bone

lower leg

night

bones

shin bone

shin bone; walking

aching

burning; hand

stitching, sudden, sharp; thigh

tearing

movement

while sitting

lower limbs; bones

Paralysis

upper limbs

lower limbs

Skin

discoloration; hand; red

itching

like insects crawling on skin; foot

hand

hand; burning

hand; as of chilblains

hand; back of hand

lower limbs

leg

foot; as if frozen

toes; toes that had been frozen

out-break on skin; hand; back of hand; pimples

Stiffness; fingers; gouty

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Very sensitive to cool air

Violent attacks of heat in evening

Copious sweat

Burning spots.

In the open air

On going into the cold air

Cold travels downwards (see coldness of back)

When uncovering, undressing

Localised; upper body

Continued fever

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Paroxysms of yawning

Restless from violent itching and burning

On falling asleep, Starts, twitches, and awakens often

Vivid dreams

Drowsy in daytime

Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Sleepiness, tiredness

after dinner

after eating

Convulsions

Convulsions; rapid muscle spasm

Perspiration

Late morning

During slight exertion (see walking)

Generalities

Morning

Faintness, fainting; after sexual intercourse

Movement; after

Pain

pressing; externally

sensation of splinters

sudden, sharp; internally; like cold needles

Pressure

Symptoms after sexual intercourse

symptoms after sexual excesses

Symptoms not symmetrical; crosswise, left upper and right lower

While sitting

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold air

Touch

Twitching

twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

sleep

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