Agaricus muscarius

 Generalities

 – This poisonous mushroom, acts on Cerebro-spnal axis.

 – Its action on brain produces more vertigo and delirium.

 – Affection of spinal cord, nerves and medulla, produces irregular, UNGULR, UNCERTAIN and exaggerated MOTIONS; patient reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things etc.

 – Symptoms appear slowly.

 – Patient suffers from MANY and DIVERSE symptoms.

 – TREMBLLING; TWITCHING; JERKINGS or fibrillar spasms here and there are very marked, EYELIDS and tongue are specially affected, Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.

 – Shuddering.

 – Nervousness and restlessness.

 – Chorea amel. during sleep.

 – Sensation as if pierced by cold needles, or hot needles, a cold drop or cold weight on the parts.

 – Painful twitching, then the parts become stiff and cold.

 – In epilepsy and convulsions physical strength is increased, can left heavy loads.

 – Twitching cease during sleep.

 – Convulsions after coition; from suppressed milk; after being scolded; or punished.

 – Young nervous hysterical married women who faint after coition.

 – Children walk and talk late on account of brain complaints.

 – Yawning before complaints.

 Worse

 – COLD air.

 – FREEZING air.

 – Before thunderstorms.

 – Mental exhaustion.

 – Coition.

 – Debauchery.

 – Alcohol.

 – Pressure on spine.

 – Touch.

 – Morning.

 – During menses.

 – Sun.

 – Fright.

 Better

 – Gentle motion.

 Mind

 – Sings, talks incoherently, changes rapidly from subject to subject but does not answer.

 – Loquacity.

 – Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.

 – Fearlessness.

 – 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 involuntary laughter.

 – Can not do anything new, can not do his routine work or does the opposite.

 Head

 – Vertigo; from sunlight.

 – Dull headache; must move the head to and fro.

 – Headache amel. after stool or urine; headache with nose-bleed or thick mucus discharge.

 – Pain as from nail in right side of head.

 – Head is in constant motion.

 – Head drawn towards shoulders.

 Eyes

 – Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.

 – Double vision, oscillating eyeballs.

 – Gum in canthi.

 – Muscae volitantes; brown.

 – Twitching of eyelids.

 – Narrowing of space between eyelids.

 – Nystagmus; squint.

 – Eyelids thick, dry, burning.

 Ears

 – Itching in the ears with redness and burning pain, as if they had been froze.

 – Twitching of the muscles about the ears.

 – Noises.

 Nose

 – Frequent sneezing, without coryza.

 – Flow of clear water, without coryza.

 – Sneezing, after coughing.

 – Itches internally and externally.

 – Foetid dark bloody discharge.

 – Epistaxis; in old people.

 – Redness of.

 – Obstruction on stooping.

 Face

 – Facial muscles, feel stiff; twitch.

 – Face, itches and burns.

 – Pain in the cheeks, as of from splinters.

 – Neuralgia, as if cold needles run through nerves.

 – Grimaces.

 – Idiotic expression.

 – Face, blue and puffed.

 Mouth

 – Angles of mouth droop; from paralysis; saliva runs out.

 – Herpes on lips.

 – Taste; sweet, bitter.

 – Aphthae on the roof of the mouth.

 – Tongue; dry, tremulous; one side numb, with vertigo.

 – Indistinct, jerky speeph.

 – Offensive breath.

 – Froth at mouth.

 – Swelling and bleeding gums, with pain.

 Throat

 – Feels contracted.

 – Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up, without coughing.

 – Dryness with difficulty in swallowing.

 – Scratching on every attempt to sing.

 Stomach

 – Always thirsty.

 – Eructation; empty, tasting of apples; or of rotten eggs.

 – Eructations, alternating with hiccough.

 – As of a lump in epigastrium.

 – Gastric disturbances, with sharp pain in liver region.

 – Vomiting; bitter, with prostration, with stitches in rectum and groins.

 Abdomen

 – Rumbling and fermenting in bowels.

 – Profuse inodorous flatus.

 – Diarrhoea, with much foetid garlicky odour flatus.

 – Diarrhoea, of children, with grass green bilious stools.

 – Flatus hot.

 – Sensation of writhing in.

 – Stitch, in the splenic region; in runners.

 Urinary

 – Urine, profuse colourless, clear, lemon coloured.

 – Viscid, glutinous, mucus from urethra.

 – Frequent urination.

 – Urine cold.

 – Urine, flows slowly or in drops; has to press for passing urine.

 Male

 – Sexual desire increased.

 – After coition, great debility, profuse sweat, burning and itching of the skin; tension and pressure under ribs.

 – Seminal discharge hot.

 – Palpitation during coition; depressed afterwards (in both the sexes).

 – Premature ejaculation.

 – Testes painfully retracted.

 – Old gleet.

 – Complaints after sexual; debauches.

 Female

 – Bearing down pain, especially after menopause.

 – Sexual excitement.

 – Menses, too profuse.

 – Nipples, itch and burn, look red; during pregnancy.

 – Complaints following parturition and coitus.

 – Metastases, from suppressed milk; to the brain, abdominal troubles etc.

 – Leucorrhoea, dark, bloody, excoriating, patient is unable to walk.

 – Itching with sexual desire.

 Respiratory

 – Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing.

 – Cough comes as if from spine.

 – Easy expectoration of floculi or balls of mucus.

 – Laboured, oppressed breathing.

 – Chest seems too narrow.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, during coition.

 – Palpitation, irregular, tumultuous; with redness of face, amel. tobacco.

 – Pressure or burning sticking, from heart to left scapula.

 – Angina pectoris, with excessive pain only.

 – Shocks; at heart region, from sudden noise, from eructation or coughing.

 Back

 – Single vertaebra sensitive to heat.

 – Pain, as from fatigue.

 – Painful weakness and soreness.

 – Spine sensitive to pressure and touch; everywhere on the body.

 – Shooting, burning along spine.

 – Spine seems short.

 – Pain in lumbar region and sacrum, a sort of crick in back, extending to nape of neck agg. stopping.

 – Lumbago agg. in open air; agg. sitting.

 – Twitching of cervical muscles.

 – Formication, along spine.

 – Muscles of the back feel tight, as if they would break on bending.

 – As if cold air were spreading, along the back, like an aura.

 Extremities

 – Arms restless.

 – Burning, itching of both hands as if frozen.

 – Trembling of the hands.

 – Right hand unsteady while writing; arm feels paralyzed from much writing.

 – Uncertain gait.

 – Itching of toes and feet as if frozen.

 – Cramps in soles and feet.

 – Pain in shine bone.

 – Violent pain in thigh on crossing them.

 – Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms.

 – Numbness of legs on crossing them.

 – Buttocks cold.

 – Pain in the hips agg. lying.

 – Fingers fly spasmodically while holding things.

 – Legs feel heavy.

 – Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her.

 Skin

 – BURNING, ITCHING, redness and swalling.

 – As if FROZEN.

 – Chilblains.

 – Itching changing place on scratching.

 – Skin pains, when cold.

 – Angio-neurotic oedema.

 – Miliary eruptions with intolerable itching and burning.

 – Itching over affected part.

 – Slight blow causes ecchymosis.

 Sleep

 – Yawning: frequent; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant.

 – Yawning followed by involuntary laughter.

 – On falling asleep, starts, twitches and awakes often.

 Fever

 – Chilled easily, sweats easily, sweats on alternate sides.

 – Night sweats.

 Complementary

 – Calc.

 Related

 – Phys; Tub.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica