AGARICUS MUSCARIUS

Synonym: Toadstool, Fly agaric, Bug Agaric

Source: Tincture is prepared from fresh fungus.

Habitat: Parts of Europe, America and Asia.

Proved by: Dr. Stapf, a disciple of Hahnemann and two years later by Hahnemann himself

Description:

Agaricus mascarius is very much suited to nervous affection of old people, drunkards who often become delirious and get epileptiform fit. Agaricus finds a respectable place in material medica as an excellent remedy for nervous affection.

• Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
• Neurological  remedy with twitching spasm and even convulsions
• 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.
• Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
• 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.
• Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
• Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind

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

• Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.
• Makes verses.
• Hilarious, Embraces and kisses hands, Selfish, Indifferent.
• Dull and dizzy as if drunk.
• Morose self willed stubborn; slow in learning to walk and talk.
• Awkward clumsy.
• Knows no one; throws things.
• Pressure on spine causes in voluntary laughter.
• Can not do anything new can not do his routine work or does the opposite.

Head

• 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.
• Causation of headache: Headache may be caused by defective circulation, alcohol or sexual cases.

Eyes

• 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.

Ears

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

Nose

• 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.

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.

Mouth

• 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.

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.

Stomach

• 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.

Abdomen

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

Urinary

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

Female

• 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.

Respiratory Organs

• 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.

Heart

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

Back

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

Extremities

• 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.

Skin

• 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.

Sleep

• 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.

Fever

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

Modalities

• 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.

Relationship

• Phys; Tub.

Antidotes:

• Calcarea carbonica
• Pulsatilla nigricans
• Rhus toxicodendron
• Wine.

Dose

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