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Agaricus muscarius

Toad stool-bug agaric

28 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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 dizziness and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
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  • Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
  • 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.
  • Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice.
  • Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc.
  • Sensitive to pressure and cold air.
  • Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
  • Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

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Mind & mood

  • Sings, talks, but does not answer.
  • Loquacity.
  • Aversion to work.
  • Indifference.
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  • 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.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Open cold airAfter eatingAfter coitusIn cold weatherBefore a thunder-stormPressure on dorsal spineWhich causes involuntary laughter

Better

Moving about slowly

Symptoms by body part

Head

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

Eyes

Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision, dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs. 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. Mouth ulcers on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue. 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 belching, 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 and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhoea 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 dysmenorrhaea. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. White vaginal discharge, 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 phlegm coughed up 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. Low back pain; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities

Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Joint and muscle pain 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. 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 rash, with intolerable itching and burning. Cold-induced itchy swelling. Angioneurotic swelling; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and oedematous 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.

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