Agnus Castus agn.

SEXUAL ORGANS. MIND. Nerves. Eyes.

VENERY. Sprains.

IMPOTENCY AND PREMATURE OLD AGE. Jaded rakes.

Distraction. BAD MEMORY. Sad and despairing; repeats that he will soon die. Cold, relaxed genitals. Spermatorrhœa. Gnawing-itching; < eyes. Agalactia.

Related: Old. Pho-ac.

For the lymphatic constitution. Absent-minded, reduced power of insight; cannot recollect; has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend (Lyc., Phos. ac., Sep.). "Old sinners," with impotence and gleet; unmarried persons suffering from nervous debility. Premature old age: melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self- contempt; arising in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers; from seminal losses. Complete impotence: relaxation, flaccidity, coldness of genitalia. No sexual power or desire (Cald., Sel.). Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhoea. Bad effects of suppressed gonorrhoea (Med.). Gleet, with absence of sexual desire or erections. Leucorrhoea: transparent, but staining linen yellow; passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts. Deficient secretion or suppression of milk in nursing women. (Asaf., Lac. c., Lac. d.); often with great sadness; says she will die. Complaints of imaginary odor before the nose, as of herring or musk. Prevents excoriation, from walking.

Calad. and Selen. follow well after Agnus in weakness of sexual organs or impotence.

The most striking curative influences of this remedy are found cropping out in the male generative organs, and we may also expect much in the female.

Absent-minded and forgetful; finds it difficult to read or keep up the train of thought. Despairing sadness; keeps repeating that she will die soon.

Pressure and heaviness, as if the head would fall forward. Tearing, with pressure in the temples and forehead, in the brain.

Dilated pupils and photophobia.

Ringing in the ears, or roaring.

An odor of herring or musk before the nose continually. Aching in the dorsum of the nose relieved by pressure.

Corrosive itching in either cheek. Deep tearing in the right ramus of the lower jaw, below the sockets.

Swelling and induration of the spleen, often with soreness, after intermittent fever. Nausea and sinking down sensation in the abdomen, constantly inclined to hold it up with the hands. Much flatulency.

Discharge of prostatic fluid when straining at stool; stools are soft, and sometimes seem inclined to re-enter the rectum. Deep fissures of the anus, often giving pain when walking. Difficulty of passing soft stools.

Male: The sexual desire lessened, almost lost. Voluptuous fancies excite no erections. The testicles are cold, hard, swollen, and painful; penis sunk and flaccid. Impotence with gleet, specially with those who have frequently had gonorrhœa. Yellow urethral discharge. Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erection. Want of erection and sexual desire. Pollutions from irritable weakness with prostatorrhœa. Many sufferings from sexual excesses. Impotency. Female: Metrorrhagia. Transparent, almost imperceptible leucorrhœa. Swelling and inflammation of the uterus. Retained placenta. Milk scanty or disappears; often with great sadness; says she will die soon. Sterility with want of menses, and no sexual desire.

Gnawing or corrosive itching on any part of the body temporarily relieved by scratching. Sprains; bad results from lifting too much. Feet turn under when walking.

Arsen., Bryon., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Sulphur.

Camphor.

Sexual desire lessened, almost lost, the penis so relaxed that the voluptuous fancies excite no erection; testes cold, swollen, hard, and painful. Especially useful in premature old age, which arises in young persons from abuse of sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self contempt, general debility, and frequent loss of spermatic fluid.

The Chaste Tree

The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhœa. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.

Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, musk. Nervous depression and mental forebodings.

Pupils dilated (Bell). Itching about eyes; photophobia.

Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure.

Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards; wants to support bowels.

Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone (Selen; Con; Sabal). Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful.

Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhœa. Agalactia; with sadness. Sterility. Leucorrhœa staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed.

Compare: Selenium; Phosph ac; Camphor; Lycop.

First to sixth potency.

Low-spirited, he fears approaching death. Melancholic and hypochondriac mood. Absent-minded.

Pain in the temple, as from a blow. Heaviness in the head, and pressure, as if the head would fall forward. Pain in the vertex, as from staying in a room filled with a thick and smoky atmosphere. Tension and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch.

Corrosive itching over and on the eyebrows, on the eyelids and under the eyes. Dilated pupils.

Roaring in the ears. Hardness of hearing.

Odor before the nose, like herrings or musk. Hard, aching pressing on the dorsum of the nose, relieved by pressure.

Corrosive itching of the cheeks, under the eyes, and on the chin. Formication in the cheeks.

Ulcers in the mouth, and on the gums. The teeth are painful, when touched by warm food or drink.

Thirstlessness and aversion to drink. Metallic, coppery taste.

Nausea first in the pit of the stomach, later in the stomach, with the sensation as if all the intestines were pressing downwards.

Swelling and induration of the spleen. Ascites. Rumbling of flatulence during sleep.

Difficulty of passing soft stools. When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid. Sensation as of subcutaneous, ulceration near the anus, only when walking. Corrosive itching of the perineum. Rhagades at the anus.

Frequent micturition.

Men. Diminution of sexual powers, the penis in small and flaccid, the testicles are cold. Yellow discharges from the urethra. Gonorrhœa, with suppressed sexual desire. Drawing along the spermatic cords. Itching of the genital organs. Women. Suppression of the menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen. Sterility, with suppressed menses, and want of sexual desire. Deficient secretion of milk in lying-in women.

Hard pressure in the region of the sternum, especially daring a deep inspiration. Cough in the evening in bed, before going to sleep.

Hard pressure in the (right) axilla and upper arm, increased by motion and contact. Swelling of the finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains.

Lancinating pain in the right hip-joint. Stitches in the legs, (left big toe). The feet easily turn, when walking on a stone pavement.

Great debility. Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints. Gouty nodosities.

Pulse. Small, Slow, imperceptible. Chilliness, internal with trembling, the external skin is warm. Much chilliness, with cold hands. Heat. Flushes of burning heat, principally in the face, with cold knees in the evening in bed. Perspiration. Almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air.

Corrosive itching on different parts of the body, relieved by scratching, but it soon returns. Itching around the ulcers, in the evening.

Verbena verticillata. Vitex agnus castus (Linn.). The Chaste Tree. (Shores of Mediterranean, Provence, and Greece.) N. O. Verbenaceæ. Tincture of ripe berries.

Agalactia. Anus, excoriation and chaps of. Ascites. Dislocations, Gonorrhœa, secondary. Gouty joints. Gums, ulcerated. Impotence. Knees, coldness of. Leucorrhœa. Mouth, ulcers in. Rheumatic nodes. Spleen, swelling of; induration of. Sprains. Sterility. Testicles, swelling of; induration of. Toothache.

As its name implies, Agnus Castus produces its chief effects in the sexual sphere, causing depression of function. General debility and depression of vital power are marked. There ire very characteristic symptoms in the mental sphere. Great sadness with a fixed idea of approaching death. This fear is not of immediate death as with Aconite , but the patient thinks it is sure to come after a while, and there is no use in doing anything. When this mental state is found after confinement and the milk fails to appear, Agn. c . is the remedy. Absent-mindedness. Drowsiness. It corresponds to lymphatic constitutions. Premature old age, with apathy and melancholy, self-contempt from sexual abuse. Nervous debility in unmarried persons. Impotence and gleet in old offenders. Among other peculiar symptoms are: Illusion of smell as of herrings; or musk; ulcers in mouth and on gums. Tearing pain in lower jaw. Toothache from hot food or drink. Swelling and induration of spleen. Rumbling of flatus during sleep. Discharge of prostatic fluid whilst straining at stool. Suppressed menses with abdominal pain. Leucorrhœa staining yellow. Sterility. Deficiency of milk, with despair of recovery. Pain as if dislocated in joints. Joints easily twisted. Rheumatic and gouty nodosities on joints.

Agnus is the only proved member of the Verbena family, though the Labiatæ or Mint family are closely allied. It is antidoted by: Camphor, Nat. mur. (headache); strong solutions of table-salt. It is followed well by: Ars., Bry., Ign., Lyc., Pul., Sul., Selen. Compare: (Leucorrhœa staining yellow), Nux, Chel., Carb. an., Kreas. Teste groups it with Mur. ac. and Hyo.

Sexual excesses. Repeated attacks of gonorrhœa or gleet. Sprains or over-lifting.

Extreme absence of mind; unable to recollect things; finds it difficult to read or keep up the train of thought. — Despairing sadness; low-spirited; fears of death; keeps repeating that she will soon die.

Tearing pain, with pressure in the temples and forehead (in the brain); < during motion. — Pain in the temple, as from a blow. — Heaviness in the head, and pressure, as if the head would fall forward. — Pain in the vertex, as from staying in a room filled with a thick and smoky atmosphere. — Tension and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch.

Corrosive itching or gnawing itching over and on the eyebrows, on the eyelids and under the eyes; > by scratching, but it soon returns. — Dilated pupils (and photophobia).

Roaring in the ears. — Hardness of hearing.

Odour before the nose, like herrings or musk. — Hard, aching pressure on the dorsum of the nose; > by pressure.

Corrosive itching of the cheeks, under the eyes, and on the chin. — Formication in the cheeks. — Rending, tearing pain under the alveoli of the r. lower jaw.

Ulcers in the mouth and on the gums. — The teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.

Thirstlessness and aversion to drink. — Metallic, coppery taste.

Nausea in pit of stomach when standing; later in the abdomen, with a sensation as if the intestines were pressing downwards; constant inclination to support bowels with the hands.

Abdomen sore to touch. — Swelling and induration of the spleen, esp. after intermittent fevers. — Ascites. — Rumbling of flatulence during sleep. — Fear as if entrails were sinking down; constantly wants to support bowels with hands.

Difficulty of passing soft stools. — When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid. — Sensation as of subcutaneous ulceration near the anus, only when walking. — Corrosive itching of the perineum. — Rhagades at the anus. — Deep fissures of the anus, often giving pain when walking.

Frequent micturition.

Diminution of sexual power. — The penis is small and flaccid; so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection. — Feeble erections without sexual desire. — The testicles are cold, swollen, hard, and painful. — Impotence, with gleet (esp. with those who have frequently had gonorrhœa). — Gleet, without sexual desire or erections. — Emission of prostatic fluid when straining at stool; during micturition. — Drawing along the spermatic cords. — Pollutions from irritable weakness with prostatorrhœa. — Itching of the genital organs. — Yellow discharges from the urethra. — Gonorrhœa, with suppressed sexual desire.

Transparent leucorrhœa; parts very relaxed. — Leucorrhœa spotting linen yellow. — Sterility, with suppressed menses, and want of sexual desire. — Milk scanty or entirely suppressed. — Deficient, secretion of milk in lying-in women. — Swelling and inflammation of the uterus. — Retained placenta.

Hard pressure in the region of the sternum, esp. during a deep inspiration. — Cough in the evening in bed, before going to sleep.

Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm; worse from touch and motion. — Swelling of the finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains.

Lancinating pain in the right hip-joint. — Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight. — Stitches in the legs (left big toes). — Tearing pain in joints of toes; worse when walking.

Great debility. — Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints. — Gouty nodosities. — Sprains, bad results from lifting too much. — Feet turn under when walking.

Corrosive itching on different parts of the body, > by scratching, but it soon returns. — Itching around the ulcers, in the evening.

Pulse small, slow, imperceptible. — Chilliness, internal with trembling, the external skin is warm. — Much chilliness, with cold hands. — Flushes of burning heat, principally in the face, with cold knees in the evening in bed. — Perspiration almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air.

Vitex Agnus Castus. Verbenaceæ.
A shrub growing in damp places in Southern Europe. Since Dioscorides one of the most famous medicines.
Proved by Hahnemann and his school, and published in 1841, in the Archives , by Stapf ; later proved by Helbig.

Absent-minded, reduced power of insight ; cannot recollect things.
He finds reading difficult ; has to read several things twice ; is unable to fix his attention.
Low-spirited, fears of approaching death.
Despairing sadness ; keeps repeating that she will die, that there is no use doing anything. θ Cephalalgia. θ Agalactia.
Melancholy, hypochondriac mood. θ Cephalalgia.
Anxious, fear and weakness.
Peevish ; inclined to get angry ; with hiccough.

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

Tearing, with pressure in temples and forehead, in brain, worse during motion.
Tearing pain above right eye and temple, as if one had received a blow upon eye, attended with soreness to touch, < by motion, < in evening, lasting several days.
Contractive headache above temples from reading.
Headache in upper part of head, as from staying in a room filled with a thick and dusky atmosphere ; looking to one point relieves it.
Pain in temple as from a blow.
Megrim.

Biting itching on scalp, < evenings and when falling asleep.
Tearing, tension and chilliness in scalp, which is warm to touch.
Biting pains on upper right side, on bone, from behind forward, < evening and in sleep.

Burning in eyes and headache from reading in evening.
Pupils widely dilated.
Dilated pupils.
Photophobia.
Looking at a fixed point relieves pain in upper head.
Tearing pains above right eye and temple, as if one had received a blow upon eye. θ Cephalalgia.
Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes.

Ringing or roaring in ears.
Hardness of hearing.
Drawing pain in left parotid.

Illusion of smell : as of herring ; musk.
Soreness and pain in left side of nose.
Hard aching pain in dorsum of nose, as if a stone was pressing there, > by pressure.

Corrosive itching on either cheek, obliging him to scratch.
Erysipelas on left cheek, spreading from nose over face and head.
A long stitch followed by a fine pricking itching.
Formication of cheeks.

Rending, tearing, under alveoli of right lower jaw.
Deep tearing in right ramus of lower jaw, below socket.

Toothache from warm things.
Teeth painful, when touched by warm food or drink.
Throbbing, tearing toothache in left eye-tooth, small boil near tooth, very painful to touch ; in attacks.
Ulcers on gums.

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

Mouth very dry, saliva viscid and tough, drawing out in strings.
(OBS :) Ulcers on gums and in mouth.

Corrosive itching in pit of throat.

Hunger.
Relishes food, but it does not agree with him.
Lessened appetite.
Thirstlessness ; aversion to drink.

Abdomen distended after meals.
Nausea in pit of stomach after eating.
Food makes him feel uneasy and replete.
Warm food and drink cause teeth to ache.

The wind he brings up smells like old urine allowed to remain on clothes.
Hiccough ; inclined to get angry ; peevish.
Nausea in pit of stomach when standing ; later, qualmishness in abdomen, with a sensation as if intestines were pressing downward ; wants to support himself with his hands.
Nausea as from eating fat food. θ Checked catamenia.

Pinching in scrobiculum when sitting bent over.

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

Rumbling in abdomen during sleep.
Abdomen sensitive to pressure.
Incarcerated flatus.
Abdomen sore to touch.
Flatulency.
Feels as if entrails were sinking down, constantly inclined to support bowels with hands. θ Uterine complaint.
Violent, contracting bellyache, coming suddenly in morning, with bearing down. θ Suppressed menses.
(OBS :) Ascites.

Diarrhœa of children,
Chronic diarrhœa of adults.
Feels as if diarrhœa would set in, when standing ; anguish, great weakness. See 36 .
Difficult expulsion of soft stool.
Hard stools. θ Constipation.
When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid.
Great accumulation of wind.
Wind expelled by rectum smells like urine remaining long on clothes.
Ascarides.
A sore feeling under skin near anus, only when walking.
Corrosive itching of perineum, pruritus podicis.
Excoriated anus.
Deep rhagades or fissures of anus.

Pains in bladder.
Passes more urine.
Gets up twice at night and even once during siesta.
When urinating, sometimes pain in lower abdomen, sometimes in kidneys.
Red, turbid urine, with burning and pressure in urethra.
Emission of prostatic fluid.
A yellow discharge from urethra.

Complete loss of sexual desire, penis is small, flaccid and cold.
Frequent erections, but without voluptuous thoughts.
Usual morning erection with desire, but parts flaccid.
After an embrace involuntary emissions same night, and long-continued erection.
Sexual desire lessened, almost lost.
Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erections.
Testes cold, swollen, hard and painful ; penis small, flaccid.
Spermatic fluid thin, watery and deficient.
Impotence, with gleet, especially with those who have frequently had gonorrhœa.
Yellow urethral discharge. θ Gonorrhœa.
Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erections.
Induration of testicles. θ Suppressed gonorrhœa.
Drawing along spermatic cords.
Pollution from irritable weakness with prostatorrhœa.
Prostatic juice passes with hard stools.
Want of erection and sexual desire. θ Secondary gonorrhœa.
Itching of genitals.

Hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.
Sterility ; absence of menses and sexual desire.
Menses lasting from ten to eighteen days.
Metrorrhagia.
Suppressed menses, with drawing pain in abdomen.
A transparent leucorrhœal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts.
Leucorrhœa, not copious, but spotting her linen yellow. θ Suppressed menses.
Intumescence of the uterus.
Before menses : vertigo, headache, dim sight.
During menses : pain in pelvis and loins.
Inflammation of uterus.

Retained placenta.
Milk scanty, or disappears ; often with great sadness ; says she will die.
Suppression of milk in childbed, or during nursing period.

Voice as if passing through wool, has no timbre.

Oppression on going up-stairs.
Dyspnœa ; < in evening.

Cough : in evening, in bed, before falling asleep ; with raising of blood, followed by copious mucus ; in paroxysms, with palpitation and nosebleed, mostly in morning ; when inhaling cold air.
Tough sputa, hanging like a rag in fauces.

Feeling of dryness in chest.

Palpitation ; with cough.
Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible.

Pressure in region of sternum, < when breathing deeply.
Pressure in xiphoid cartilage, just above pit of stomach.

A creaking noise in vertebræ.
Acute, sharp stitches in coccyx, and on left side near coccyx and sacrum.
Pain in sacrum from flatus.

Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, < from touch or motion.
Swelling of finger joints, tearing pains, arthritic nodes.
Gouty swelling of finger joints.

Pain in left hip.
Thighs feel tired and swollen towards evening.
Lancinating pain in right hip joint, < during motion, > in rest.
Legs much fatigued and swollen towards evening.
Cold knees.
Ankles swollen after a sprain.
Tearing, rending in feet and toes, < on walking.
Stitches in legs and left big toe.
Fine lancinations in bottom of either foot.
Feet easily turn under when walking on a stone pavement.

Rest : relieves pain in hip.
Sitting bent over : causes pain in scrobiculum.
Standing : causes nausea and qualmishness in stomach and abdomen ; sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.
Motion : aggravates tearing and pressure in head, pressure in axilla and arm ; pain in hips.
Walking : soreness near anus ; tearing in feet and toes < ; feet turn under ; hands sweat.
Ascending stairs : causes oppressed breathing.

Spasmodic complaints of hypochondriac men.
Great weakness : as from violent anguish ; from depression of spirits. θ Agalactia.
Lethargy or frenzy.

Coma.
Sleeplessness.
Awaking often , as if alarmed ; startings.
Anxious dreams.

Night : gets up twice to urinate.
Morning : violent bellyache ; cough, with palpitation and nosebleed.
Evening : tearing pains, with pressure above right eye and temple ; itching on scalp < ; eyes burn when reading ; dyspnœa < ; cough in bed ; legs tired and swollen ; chilliness, followed by heat and sweat ; flushes of heat, knees cold.

Bad effects from getting feet wet.
Warm things : teeth pain.
In bed : heat of face, coldness of knees.
Cold air : coughs when inhaling it.
Open air : hands sweat when walking.

Internal chilliness, 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.
Heat with coryza, thirst. θ Borborygmus.
Sweat on hands when walking in open air.
Sweats easily.

Sudden attacks of bellyache.

Right : tearing in lower jaw ; aching in liver ; pressure in axilla and arm ; lancinating in hip joint.
Left : drawing in parotid gland ; painful soreness in side of nose ; erysipelas on cheek ; soreness in spleen ; stitches side of sacrum and coccyx.
Above downward : nausea and qualmishness.

Bruised feeling all over.
As if head would fall forward ; as if one had received a blow on eye ; headache as from staying in a room with thick atmosphere ; pain in temple as from a blow ; as if a stone was pressing in dorsum of nose ; a long stitch followed by a fine pricking itching in face ; as if intestines were pressing downward ; voice as if passing through wool ; pains as if luxated.
Pain : in left side of nose ; in bladder ; in testicles ; in sacrum ; in left hip.
Burning : in eyes ; in eyelids ; in nose ; in throat ; in mouth ; in urethra ; in bladder ; in skin.
Lancinating : in right hip joint ; in soles of feet.
Stitches : in head ; in face ; in eyes ; in ears ; in rectum ; in coccyx ; near sacrum ; in legs ; in left big toe ; in skin.
Tearing : in head ; above right eye and temple ; in scalp ; under alveoli of right lower jaw ; deep in ramus of lower jaw ; toothache ; in finger joints ; in feet and toes.
Gnawing : in different parts.
Rending : under alveoli of right lower jaw ; in feet and toes.
Pinching : in scrobiculum.
Aching pain : in dorsum of nose ; in region of liver.
Soreness : in left side of nose ; in region of spleen ; under skin near anus.
Biting pains : in outer head.
Drawing pain : in left parotid ; along spermatic cords ; in abdomen.
Pressing : headache ; in neck ; in temples, forehead and brain ; in urethra ; in region of sternum ; in xiphoid cartilage ; in right axilla and upper arm.
Throbbing : toothache.
Contractive pain : in head above temples ; in abdomen.
Tension : in scalp.
Dulness : in head.
Tired feeling : in thighs ; in legs.
Heaviness : of head.
Swollen feeling : in thighs.
Biting itching : on scalp.
Corrosive itching : on eyebrows and lids and beneath eyes ; on cheeks ; in pit of throat ; of perineum.
Itching : of male genitals ; on different parts of body ; around ulcers.
Formication : of cheeks.
Heat : burning ; flushes ; with coryza.
Chilliness : in scalp ; internal ; all over.
Coldness : of knees.
Dryness : of mouth ; in chest.
Stitches : head, face, eyes, ears, rectum and skin.

Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of joints.
Gouty nodosities.

May be indicated in bruises or wounds.
Sprains and luxations of joints.
Strains from lifting a little too much.
Prevents excoriation from walking.
Pressure : relieves aching on dorsum of nose ; abdomen sensitive therefrom.
Touch : aggravates toothache ; aching in liver ; abdomen sore ; pressure in axilla and arm.
Must scratch : in corrosive itching of cheeks.

Pungent odor exhaled from him, gives him a dulness and headache, followed by vomiting and trembling.
Gnawing or itching on different parts of body, relieved temporarily by scratching.
Itching around ulcers, in evening.
Yellow tint of the skin.

Lymphatic constitution. θ Agalactia.
Premature old age, in young persons from abuse of sexual powers, melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-contempt, general debility, frequent loss of spermatic fluid.
Unmarried persons suffering from nervous debility. θ Cephalalgia.
"Old sinners," with impotence and gleet.

The only one proved from the large family of Verbenaceæ. Helbig calls attention to the nearly related family of Labiatæ, from which we have several valuable remedies.
Antidotes to Agn. cast . : Camphor., Natr. mur . (the headache), strong solution of table-salt.
After Agnus are useful : Arsen., Bryon., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Sulphur, Selen . (impotence).

This wonderful remedy is often overlooked. It should come to mind for old sufferers who are broken from sexual excesses and secret vice.

The pale sickly and sad mortals who lament over their misspent life. It is good for both sexes.

Sexual weakness; relaxation of parts. Perversion of all the functions.

A woman who indulged extensively in secret vice, found after marriage that she had no sexual thrill, was cured by this remedy.

Later she was confined and no milk came in her mammae, again Agnus started the belated milk at the end of three weeks.

When the milk ceases after it has started, or becomes scanty when the above history is known, and the woman is said, this remedy will, if not opposed, most likely cure.

It cures uterine haemorrhage, and restores suppressed menses in young women with a history. The vagina is much relaxed, there is often prolapsus, and there is a copious white-of-egg-like leucorrhoea.

But the pitiful, woebegone young man, heart-broken over his early life, now finds himself newly married, and impotent.

He has had gonorrhoea; he has lived in excesses, and now suffers from relaxed and cold genitalia, emissions, prostatic discharge at stool.

His young and beautiful wife excites no erection, though only recently he had a clandestine success, and he has morning erections but no more.

Out of the above cause and condition come many distressing symptoms.

Loss of memory, despair, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, fear and peevishness. These patients suffer from headaches, photophobia and nervous symptoms too numerous to mention. Formication of the skin.

Tearing pains of head, face and teeth. All but the simplest food disorders the stomach, and he complains much of nausea. His muscles are flabby.

He is anemic, and his glands are enlarged, especially, the spleen. lie is growing increasingly flatulent.

The abdominal viscera hang down as a weight. There is a growing weakness of the rectum and constipation, and he presses hard at stool, which often fails and slips back, like Silica, Sanic and Thuja.

The stool is large and hard. Itching, smarting at the anus, noisy flatus of a urinous odor. Excoriated anus. He soon takes on a hacking cough and night sweats.

The limbs are tired and cold. He is sensitive to cold, and wants to remain quiet. Exertion and motion intensify his complaints.

He has been to many advisers, and they have told him he has Neurasthenia. He must have Agnus castus.

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.

Diarrhœa of children; chronic diarrhœa of adults.
Feels as if diarrhœa 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 spermatorrhœa.
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 gonorrhœa.
Yellow urethral discharge.
Itching of genitals.
Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erections.

Suppressed menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen.
A transparent leucorrhœal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts.
Leucorrhœa, 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.
Dyspnœa; 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.

The chaste tree, Vitex Agnus-Castus, L., is a shrub four or five feet in height, indigenous in Southern Europe. A tincture is prepared from the bruised berries.

The most prominent effect seems to be the loss of sexual power (followed in provers by an increased desire). ▶ Our meagre provings show a corresponding loss of nervous energy (See Mind especially).

Gelsem., Phosph., Picric. ac.

Bruised feeling all over. ▶ Weakness; when standing, as from anguish, with sensation as before diarrhœa.

▶ ▶ Absence of mind, with loss of memory (Anac.). ▶ Inability to fix his attention when reading (Gels., Phos., Cimicif.). ▶ Sadness, saying that she shall die soon (Aurum). ▶ Melancholy, feeling as if nothing existed around him, dissatisfied with himself, incapable of attending to business, indifference to things about him. ▶ Feeling as if he were nobody, and would rather be dead than have that feeling, with no courage, when free from it he feels exalted, would like to read like an orator, etc. ▶ (Compare Plat.).

The symptoms of sadness, with the impression of speedy death, has led to the successful use of this drug in puerperal mania, in which the patient even hinted that she intended to commit suicide.

Agnus castus is an extremely valuable remedy for loss of sexual power in men, amounting even to complete impotency. ▶ The indication for the use of this drug is coldness of the genital organs, with complete loss of sexual instinct; it has also been used for loss of sexual power following gonorrhœa, or associated with a chronic gleety discharge. ▶ It may be used for great relaxation of the genital organs of women, with leucorrhœa, or with these symptoms, scanty and diminishing secretion of milk, perfect abhorrence of sexual intercourse.

Contractive aching when reading. ▶ Confusion; like a drawing. ▶ Heaviness, with pressure in nape, and sensation as if head would fall forward. ▶ Intoxication. ▶ Vertigo, as if everything turned in a circle. ▶ Tensive tearing in forehead; tearing in left frontal eminence, with pressure.

Tearing in left ; right, agg. motion; with pressure. ▶ Tearing, especially above right eye, agg. motion, and in other parts of the brain, with sticking; tearing in temples and forehead, in brain, agg. motion, with pressure. ▶ Contractive pain above temples.

Pressure in region of left parietal bones. ▶ Pain in upper part of right side, more a smarting and sticking, as if in bone, ending in a corner of the forehead, agg. in evening, felt even in sleep. ▶ Fine stitches in scalp, then sticking itching, amel. scratching. ▶ Biting itching spots on scalp.

Pain towards temple, as from a blow, agg. touch. ▶ Burning in evening when reading. ▶ Lachrymation in the house. ▶ Smarting stitches in right ball, amel. rubbing. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Corrosive itching in upper lids.

▶ ▶ Ringing, or rather roaring. ▶ Hardness of hearing.

Aching as from pressure of a stone, on dorsum, on right nasal bone and between right brow and root of nose, amel. pressure. ▶ Much sneezing, with dry nose. ▶ Illusion of smell, of herring, and sometimes of musk.

Paralytic tearing in right malar-bone. ▶ Tearing deep in right ramus of lower jaw, below the sockets; tearing in right ramus of lower jaw, with pressure.

Teeth pain when touched by warm food or drink. ▶ Acute drawing in region of left parotid gland. ▶ Taste coppery, as if mouth had been galvanized. ▶ Mouth dry, with saliva so tough that it can be drawn out in threads, velum pendulum palati and uvula red, scratching in throat, obliging him to cough, and while coughing the mucus feels viscid, like a piece of cloth hanging in the throat. ▶ Corrosive itching in pit of throat. ▶ Sensation of tenacious mucus in throat.

Great appetite. ▶ Thirst; want of thirst; aversion to drink. ▶ Frequent hiccough. ▶ Eructations, both the eructations and the flatus emitted by rectum smell like old urine in clothes. ▶ Nausea in pit; when standing, afterwards in abdomen, as if the bowels sank down. ▶ Pinching in pit when sitting bent. ▶ Food made him feel uneasy and replete.

Rumbling; in sleep. ▶ Feeling as before diarrhœa. ▶ Pressure in upper, after dinner, shifting pressure in upper, with cutting. ▶ Stitches in right inguinal region; in superior and anterior spinous process of left os ilium. ▶ Cutting above left os ilium.

Pain as from subcutaneous suppuration in flesh near anus when walking. ▶ Twitching in sphincters. ▶ Loose stools; with pain in abdomen. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Stool inclined to re-enter rectum.

▶ ▶ Discharge of prostatic fluid when straining at stool (Phos. ac.). ▶ Urine copious, passes in a strong stream. ▶ Frequent micturition, with copious, dark urine. ▶ Disagreeable feeling in back part of urethra after micturition. ▶ Yellow discharge from urethra.

Itching; corrosive in membranes of penis. ▶ Drawing along spermatic cords. ▶ Penis relaxed, not excited by voluptuous fancies. ▶ Erections feeble, without desire; frequent erections; painful in morning; violent, in morning after rising. ▶ Crawling in testes. ▶ Testicles cold. ▶ Desire increased; diminished. ▶ Emission at night after an embrace (Phos.); semen discharged in a stream, without ejaculation (Gelsem.), scanty and has but little smell.

Voice sounds as if passing through wool. ▶ Cough, evening in bed. ▶ Pressure in chest; above right nipple, agg. expiration and touch; in region of last true and the first rib of right side, agg. touch; in xiphoid cartilage, directly above pit of stomach; externally in region of sternum, agg. during deep inspiration.

▶ Pulse, slow and weak.

Cracking in dorsal vertebræ like rubbing a thumb along a board. ▶ Stitches above crest of right ilium, near spine; deep, sharp stitches in coccyx; intermittent, deep stitches on left side, near os sacrum and coccyx.

▶ ▶ Pressure in right axilla, agg. touch. ▶ Tearing stitches on top of left shoulder. ▶ Tearing in right shoulder-joint, agg. motion and inspiration, with pressure. ▶ Pressure in upper arm, superiorly, externally, agg. touch. ▶ Prickings on external surface, just above left elbow. ▶ Pressure on right elbow, agg. motion. ▶ Twitching in region of right elbow, amel. moving arm. ▶ Dull stitch in outer side of right ulna, a few inches above wrist. ▶ Paralytic pain in left wrist, on turning hand. ▶ Drawing pain in metacarpal bones. ▶ Paralytic twitching drawing in metacarpal bone of left index, agg. touch. ▶ Swelling of a finger-joint, with arthritic tearing. ▶ Sticking in right fingers in evening; in eminence of lower joint of index; in upper joint of right thumb. ▶ Pressure in muscles of left thumb. ▶ Buzzing of humming of right index.

Tearing. ▶ Pricking high up in right side of right thigh. ▶ Lancinating pain in right hip-joint, sometimes extending above and below joint, agg. motion, amel. rest, when it is more a tearing with pressure, accompanied by weakness. ▶ Crampy pain externally, near left hip when walking. ▶ Shooting in bend of right knee when standing. ▶ Sticking drawing pain in bends of knees, extending into thighs and legs, agg. motion, in rest changing to drawing, with pressure. ▶ Stitching in external side of left fibula, a little above foot, amel. pressure. ▶ Tearing in inner side of left leg, from knee to foot. ▶ Aching in right tibia when standing. ▶ Paralytic twitching drawing in muscles of left leg, from knee to foot, when walking and on touch. ▶ Sharp intermittent stitches in region where the fibula and tibia join the tarsus anteriorly. ▶ Ankles turn easily when walking on pavement; in morning. ▶ Heaviness of foot as from a load attached to right tarsal bones. ▶ Sticking in one part of outer side of foot when standing still. ▶ Dull intermittent sticking in sole near heel. ▶ Fine lancinations in soles. ▶ Stitches in left big toe; causing whole limb to jerk. ▶ Tearing in anterior joints of left toes, agg. walking.

Red itching spots on inner surface of left forearm. ▶ Formication of right cheek; under skin of hands. ▶ Sensation in upper part of left calf as if pulled at with a string. ▶ Itching stinging in different parts; in inguinal region. ▶ Itching around an ulcer in evening. ▶ Stinging itching in places on face, beginning with a long stitch on each side. ▶ I. as from fleas, especially up back. ▶ Corrosive I. amel. scratching, but returns.

Drowsiness. ▶ Long sleep. ▶ Restless S. ▶ Starting in S. ▶ Dreams anxious; constant, unremembered; voluptuous.

Chilliness; without thirst, or subsequent heat; C. in scalp, with tension, however it feels warm. ▶ Testes cold at night, objectively, not subjectively. ▶ Internal coldness, with external warmth, except of hands; internal, with trembling and external warmth. ▶ Shuddering, alternating with heat, without thirst. ▶ Heat in left external ear; face, with dry mouth, then thirst when the H. is over. ▶ Pleasant warmth of left hand and forearm. ▶ Creeping H. in whole body, evening in bed, with cold knees. ▶ Sweat of left hand, especially interior sides of fingers, in open air, previous to heat.

Is chiefly indicated for complaints arising from or associated with loss of sexual power or desire.

Distracted, with loss of memory.
Inability to fix the attention.
Sadness; thinks to die soon.
(Puerperal mania.)

Contractive pain on reading.
Tearing in the temples and forehead < motion.

Roaring.

Male organs relaxed and cold.
Discharge from the urethra gleet-like or yellowish.
Involuntary emissions in sleep, even after coition.
Loss of desire.
Vagina relaxed; leucorrhœa; abhorrence of coition; menstruation ceases; milk diminishes in nursing women.

Arthritic nodes develop, especially on the toes; legs heavy.
General internal coldness, with trembling.
Cold hands; cold knees, even in bed.

Agn. / Agnus

Agnus castus, Thine the fire
of inordinate desire,
Which may render marriage use
Void, from sexual abuse.
With a weak and absent mind
Much to self-contempt inclined.
Body wrecked, wherein compete
Leucorrhoea drain, and gleet.

Agnus has Leucorrhoea.

Agnus Helen Euca, the Creole, seeks to hide from the Boer thug, Ova Carba, as she passes the Mug Inn, with Ida Calvin.

This Agnus, who is subject to absence of mind, is away on the coast of India with the hapless nun of St. Para.

Leucorrhoea: Agnus, Helon, Euca., Kreo., Sec., Hyd., Borax., Thuj., Ova., Carb. a., Pul., Sep., Mer., Graph., Nux m., Iod., Cal. c. (Ropy, Hyd., Kal. b.; streaming down Alu.; instead of menses, Coc., Iod., Sil.)

Absence of Mind: Agn., Alu., Apis, Ig., Pul., Verat. a. (Fixed thought, Ig.; things fall from hand, Hell.)

Extraordinary distraction, absence of mind and want of recollection. Great anxiety, as the diarrhoea would ensue, with great weakness. Sadness with fear of impending death. Melancholy, hypochondriacal mood, dissatisfied with himself, incapable for work and indifferent to his surroundings, Alternate over - exaltation and want of self - esteem.

Contractive pain in, when reading. Pressive tearing in forehead and temples, more violent during motion. Headache in skull, as from remaining in a close, warm room. Biting itching on scalp, Tension, and chilliness in scalp with internal warmth thereof.

Corrosive itching on and above brows and on lids. Greatly dilated pupils.

Roaring in.

Odor, as of musk or herring, before.

Corrosive itching, especially on cheeks and under eyes.

Ulcers in, also on tongue.

Pinching in pit when sitting bent over.

Hypochondriac: Pressure in hepatic region by touch. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Appetite: Thirstlessness with aversion to all drinks.

Taste: Metallic, coppery, in mouth.

Eructation, etc. - Frequent hiccough with peevishness.

Qualmishness. In gastric region.

Sensation as though all the intestines were sinking downward. Ascites.

Soft. Constipated.

Deep, sharp stitches in and along sides of coccyx. Painful spots as if festering alongside anus when walking. Deep chaps and cracks at. Corrosive itching of perineum.

Increased discharge of.

Yellowish discharge from urethra, Gonorrhea with suppressed sexual desire. Cold testes. Swelled and indurated testes. Itching on. Flagging sexual powers, with torpid, cold, relaxed sexual parts. Desire wanting.

Menses: Suppressed. Barrenness with both menses and sexual desire wanting.

In evening in bed, before falling to sleep.

Hard pressure in axilla and upper arm, more violent during motion.

Inflammatory swelling of joints. Sprained swollen limbs, especially at ankle joints. Gouty nodes on joints.

Corrosive itching here and there over entire body by scratching, but it rapidly returns. Itching around ulcers in evening.

Somnolency, Restless at night.

Pulse: Weak and slow, often imperceptible. Chill: Internal with trembling, while external skin is warm. Alternating with heat. Much shivering with cold hands. Chilliness without thirst Predominates. Heat: Over - running, burning, most in face, with cold knees in evening in bed, Sweat: Almost exclusively on hands, when walking in open air.

Allied Remedies: Calc - c., Con ., Graph., Lyc., Merc., Nux - v. Oleand., Puls., Rhod., Sep., Sul.

Melancholic and hypochondriacal mood.

Absentmindedness.

Rumbling of flatulence during sleep.

Corrosive itching of the perineum and difficulty of passing soft motions.

When pressing at stool there is discharge of prostatic fluid.

Thirstlessness and aversion to all drink.

Nausea first in the pit of the stomach, later in the stomach, with the sensation as if all the intestines were pressing downward.

Diminution of sexual powers, the penis is small and flaccid and the testicles are cold. Itching on the genital organs with yellow discharges from the urethra.

The sexual desire is suppressed.

Drawing along the spermatic cords.

In the female, there is suppressing of the menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen and lack of sexual desire.

There is deficient secretion of milk in lying-in women.