Agnus castus

 Generalities

 – Agn. Produces its chief effect on SEXUAL ORGANS of both the sexes, also there are characteristic symptoms in the MENTAL SPHERE.

 – It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression loss of nervous energy.

 – There is a great sadness, with a fixed idea of approaching death.

 – It influences both the sexes, but its influence is more pronounced in men.

 – IMPOTENCY and PREMATURE OLD AGE, from abuse of sexual power.

 – History of repeated gonorrhoea.

 – Self contempt from sexual abuse.

 – Nervous debility in unmarried persons.

 – A prominent remedy for sprains and strains.

 – Gnawing, itching in all parts especially eyes.

 – Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.

 – Jaded rakes.

 – Agn. was used in early days, by both men and women to suppress sexual desire.

 Worse

 – SEXUAL EXCESS.

 – Sprains of overlifting.

 Mind

 – Absent minded.

 – Despairing sadness with impression of speedy death.

 – Distraction.

 – Unable to recollect things.

 – Lack of courage.

 – Says that she will die soon and there is no use of doing anything.

 – Illusions of smells – herrings, musk.

 – BAD MEMORY.

 Head

 – Pain as from staying in room, filled with thick and smoky atmosphere, looking to one point amel.

 Eyes

 – Pupils dilated.

 – Gnawing, itching in eyes.

 Nose

 – Illusion of smell – of herring, musk.

 – Hard ache on dorsum of nose amel. pressure.

 Face

 – Corrosive itching on the cheeks.

 – Formication in the cheeks.

 – Rending, tearing under alveoli of right lower jaw.

 Mouth

 – Ulcers in the mouth and gums.

 – Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.

 Stomach

 – Nausea with a sensation as if intestines were pressed downswards, wants to support bowels with hands.

 – Only the most simple food agrees.

 – Eructations smell like urine.

 Abdomen

 – Rumbling in abdomen during sleep.

 – Spleen swollen and sore.

 – Flatus smells like urine, remaining long on the clothes.

 – Deep fissures, in anus.

 – Sensation as of subcutaneous ulceration near the anus, only while walking.

 – Bowels as if sinking down, has to support with hands.

 Urinary

 – Passes more urine, frequently.

 Male

 – Sexual desire almost lost.

 – Testes; cold, swollen, hard, penis small. flaccid.

 – Spermatorrhoea; with impotence.

 – Loss of prostatic fluid on straining.

 – Yellow discharge from urethra.

 Female

 – A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital.

 – Aversion to coition.

 – Leucorrhoea staining yellow.

 – Agalactia, with sadness.

 – Menses suppressed; with abdominal pains.

 – Hysterical palpitation with nose-bleed.

 – Sterility; with suppression of menses and no sexual desire.

 – Sexual thrill absent, from excessive masturbation.

 Related

 – Old, Pho-ac.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica