• Incipient phthisis; related to the tubercular diathesis, anemia, chorea.

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• Twitching ceases during sleep.

• Agaricus Muscarius corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion.

• Agaricus Muscarius pictures various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles.

• Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice.

• Agaricus Muscarius is sensitive to pressure and cold air.

• Violent bearing-down pains.

• Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.

• Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness, and tingling.

• Four phases of cerebral excitement: Stimulation, Decided intoxication, Furious delirium, Mental depression.

• Agaricus Muscarius does not produce the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement.

• General sensation of coldness, especially in the back.

• Great weakness and exhaustion.

• Symptoms often appear in those of a nervous, excitable temperament.

• Complaints from suppressed eruptions or discharges.

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• General tendency to spasms and convulsions.

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• ; disposition to sing and make verses.

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• ; talks rapidly and incessantly.

• Great mental excitement and incoherence.

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• Delusion that he is enormously wealthy.

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• Irritability and impatience.

• Confusion of mind; difficulty concentrating.

• Weakness of memory.

• Aversion to mental work.

• Fixed ideas and obsessions.

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• Mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work.

• Ailments from fright.

• Vertigo with staggering gait.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• Headache with itching of the scalp.

• Frontal headache with pressure in the forehead.

• Sensation of a band around the head.

• Twitching of the eyelids.

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• Itching in the eyes.

• Burning sensation in the internal corners of the eyelids, which are painful on being touched.

• Pressure in the eyes.

• Humor in the corners of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids.

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• Flickering before the eyes.

• Letters seem to run together while reading.

• Spasms of the eyeballs.

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• Vision blurry as if looking through a fog.

• Noises in the ears, ringing, roaring, or humming.

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• Oversensitive to music.

• Sneezing, especially in the morning.

• Nasal catarrh with watery discharge.

• Itching of the nose.

• Nosebleeds.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Spasms of the esophagus.

• Spasmodic cough, worse in the evening and at night.

• Hoarseness.

• Dyspnea (difficulty breathing).

• Oppression of the chest.

• Whooping cough like symptoms.

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• Palpitations, especially after exertion or excitement.

• Irregular heartbeat.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Increased appetite, followed by nausea and vomiting.

• Eructations with a sour taste.

• Gastric pain with burning sensation.

• Craving for acids.

• Rumbling in the bowels.

• Colic.

• Spasmodic abdominal pain.

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• Diarrhea alternating with constipation.

• Itching and burning in the anus.

• Hemorrhoids with burning pain.

• Stools are offensive.

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• Frequent urination.

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• Burning pain in the urethra.

• Enuresis in children.

• Increased sexual desire.

• Impotence.

• Seminal emissions.

• Prostate enlargement.

• Increased sexual desire.

• Leucorrhea (vaginal discharge) with itching and burning.

• Metrorrhagia (uterine bleeding).

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• Vaginismus.

• Coldness in the back.

• Stiffness of the neck.

• Twitching, jerking, and trembling of the limbs.

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• Coldness of the extremities.

• Pain in the joints, worse from motion.

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• Crawling sensation as if ants were running over the skin.

• Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.

• Cramps in the calves.

• Weakness in the legs.

• Intense itching, burning, and redness.

• Chilblains that are red, swollen, and itch intolerably.

• Sensitive to touch.

• Eruptions that burn and itch.

• Formication, sensation of ants crawling on the skin.

• Vivid dreams.

• Dreams of falling from a height.

• Sleepy during the day, sleepless at night.

• Cold air, cold washing, before thunderstorms, mental exertion, coition, pressure, suppressed eruptions, winter.

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• Cold air.

• Cold weather.

• Open air.

• Walking in the open air.

• Before a thunderstorm.

• Looking out of an open window.

• Drinking cold water.

• After moving.

• By pressure from without.

• Sitting quietly (headache).

• Indoors (except vertigo).

• At rest (tearing pains).

• Evening (tension in thyroid gland).

• Light of the sun.

• Rest or sitting (tearing in limbs).

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• Warmth, gentle motion, rest, covering up, indoors.

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• Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.

• Complementary: Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Zincum metallicum.

• Compare: Belladonna (cerebral excitement), Hyoscyamus (delirium), Stramonium (mania), Tarentula (chorea), Secale (ergotism), Mygale (chorea), Calcarea Carb. (diathesis)

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• Moving about (slowly).

• Motion (tearing in limbs).

• Boring in ear (during menses).

• Indoors and at rest (vertigo).

• Acts prominently on the nervous system.

• Produces twitchings, spasms, and incoordination.

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• Symptoms often appear diagonally on the body (right upper and left lower, or vice versa).

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• Muscular jerking and twitching are prominent.

• Fetidity of breath, eructations, and stools.

• Ravenous appetite with bolting of food.

• Sexual appetite may be enormously increased.

• General paralysis with exalted notions, hilarity, excitement, followed by depression, confusion, and imbecility.

• Useful for effects of alcoholism and sexual excess.

• Nervous patients who pass little urine.

• Symptoms are often lateralized.

• Debility and exhaustion with nervous phenomena.

• Aversion to conversation.

• Indisposed to mental labor.

• Exuberant fancy and ecstasy.

• Inclination to make verses and prophesy.

• Mania: timid or furious, with great display of strength.

• Embraces companions and kisses their hands, alternately with vexation.

• Silly merriness.

• Great loquacity, sings, talks, but does not answer questions.

• Delirium: tries to get out of bed.

• Delirium constant, knows no one, throws things at the nurse.

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• Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk.

• Vertigo, with constant impulse to fall backward.

• Anxiety with trembling.

• Confusion of mind.

• Forgetfulness.

• Irritability.

• Dizziness, as from intoxication, principally in the open air, in the morning, and on reflecting.

• The bright light of the sun instantly produces dizziness.

• Piercing pains in the head when seated.

• Dull pain, chiefly in the forehead, with drawing of the eyelids.

• Drawing pains in the head, extending to the eyes and root of nose, principally on waking in the morning.

• Digging pain and sensation as from a bruise in the brain.

• Semilateral cephalalgia; pulling and pressing with confusion in the head.

• Beating in the vertex, with almost furious despair.

• Pressure in the head to the bottom of the brain, increased by pressure or contact of the hair, and accompanied by a complete loss of energy.

• Sensation of icy coldness in the head; on the scalp, r. side of frontal bone.

• A jerking sensation in the forehead and in the temple.

• Great sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration.

• Itching of the hairy scalp, especially early in the morning.

• The cleft of the eyelids growing narrower.

• Canthi itch, burn, are red; < from touch; stick together (lachrymal fistula).

• A viscid yellow humor glues the eyelids together.

• Weakness and confusion of vision, as from a mist before the eyes.

• Brownish spots (like flies) before the eyes.

• Black motes before the eyes.

• Myopia.

• Diplopia.

• Muscular asthenopia; nystagmus; squint.

• Clonic spasms.

• Otalgia excited and aggravated on the admission of free air.

• Itching in the ears, with redness and burning pain, as from chilblains.

• Excoriation and inflammation of the nostrils, with painful sensibility.

• Itching in the interior and on the exterior of the nose.

• Blood on blowing the nose, and bleeding at the nose.

• Increased acuteness of smell.

• Frequent sneezing without coryza.

• Dryness of the nose.

• Tearing in the face and jaw bones.

• Twitching in the (r.) cheek.

• On waking, pain in l. jaw-joint, so violent, he can scarcely open his mouth.

• Itching, redness, and burning in the cheeks, as if from chilblains.

• Palpitations and pulsations in the cheeks.

• Bluish lips.

• Burning fissures in the upper lip.

• Herpetic eruption, principally on upper lip.

• Spasmodic drawing in the chin and in the lower jaw.

• Needle-like prickings in chin; chin covered with minute blisters.

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• Tearing pains in the teeth, aggravated by cold.

• Tearing in the lower molar teeth, < from cold air.

• Shooting from r. lower teeth up to r. side of head.

• Gums swollen, painful, and readily bleeding.

• Pain, as from excoriation in the mouth and in the palate.

• Excoriation of the tongue.

• Tongue, after a meal, covered with aphthae of a dirty yellow, with a sensation as if the skin were being taken off.

• Tongue coated white.

• Neuralgic splinter-like pains in tongue with salivation.

• Ulcer on the frenum of the tongue.

• Offensive smell of the mouth, as after eating horse-radish.

• Foam about the mouth.

• Flow of bitter saliva.

• Speech inarticulate.

• Dry fauces and pharynx, causing contraction and difficulty of swallowing; with ravenous appetite.

• Pressure in fauces as though a foreign body stuck there which could not be removed by swallowing.

• Induration of tonsils.

• Tension in thyroid gland; < towards evening; feels cravat too tight.

• Throws up small floculi or solid lumps of phlegm almost without any cough.

• Expectoration of small globules of mucus, almost without cough.

• Spasmodic, convulsive, nervous cough, which may provoke secondary hemorrhage.

• Respiration short and labored, with difficulty of walking, even slowly.

• Respiration difficult, as if the chest were full of blood.

• Oppressive constriction of the chest, with a necessity for frequent and deep inspirations.

• Pain principally in the lower part of the chest, as if its contents were compressed.

• Prickings in the chest.

• Copious nocturnal sweat upon the chest.

• Itching of the nipples.

• Stitches; burning, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to l. shoulder-blade; < by coughing, sneezing, or deep inspiration.

• Oppression in cardiac region as if thorax narrowed.

• Painful palpitations of the heart.

• With heart symptoms, paralyzed feeling in l. arm and hand.

• Pulse weak, dicrotic, intermittent.

• Insipid and fetid taste in the mouth.

• Want of appetite for bread.

• Hunger, with want of appetite.

• Attacks of bulimia, chiefly in the evening.

• After a meal, pressure in the stomach and the abdomen, with fullness.

• Very drowsy after dinner.

• Eructations alternately with hiccough.

• Eructations, with the taste of the food that has been taken.

• Frequent empty eructations; or with the taste of apples; or with the taste of rotten eggs.

• Nausea, with cutting pains.

• Inclination to vomit immediately after a meal.

• Pressure on the stomach, and in the precordial region, after a meal.

• Pain resembling cramp and oppressive heaviness in the stomach.

• Shootings (sharp needle-like pains) in the hepatic region.

• Prickings in the region of the spleen during and after inspiration.

• Stitch in side from running.

• Cutting and pinching pains in the abdomen as from diarrhea.

• Moving about and rumbling noise in the abdomen.

• Abundant expulsion of flatulency of a fetid odor, like that of garlic.

• Hard stools of a dark color after a period of constipation.

• Loose stools in the form of pap, with flatulency and severe colic.

• Loose stools, a painful drawing in the stomach and in the abdomen.

• Tingling in the anus.

• Itching in the anus, as from worms.

• Dysenteric flux.

• Diarrhea of children, with grass-green, bilious stools.

• Fetid stools.

• Urine scanty and infrequent.

• Urine clear, and of a yellow (lemon) color.

• Flow of viscous mucus from the urethra.

• Increase of sexual desire, with flaccidity of the penis.

• Scanty emission in coition.

• After coition great weakness and nocturnal sweat.

• Itching in the genitals.

• A sensation of drawing in the testes.

• Awfully bearing-down pains almost intolerable.

• Menses too profuse and early, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen.

• Itching and irritation of the parts with strong desire for an embrace.

• During menses: headache, toothache, pain and itching in l. ear, > by boring; labor-like pains; pains in l. arm; itching; palpitation; salivation

• Leucorrhea, with much itching internally and externally.

• Pain as from fatigue and dislocation in the back, at the nape of the neck and in the loins, esp. when sitting or lying down.

• Painful weakness in the muscles of the back.

• Sensation of soreness and great weakness in the back.

• Paralytic pain in the loins, increased by walking or by standing.

• Limbs affected diagonally; l. forearm, r. thigh; r. knee, l. hand

• Tearing in limbs, < in rest or sitting, > moving

• Cracking in joints

• Subsultus tendinum

• Feels as if her limbs did not belong to her

• Arms weak and without vigor

• Burning pain in the arms, followed by an eruption of small pimples with scaling of the epidermis

• Irregular and hurried movements of arm

• Upper arms shaken as from an electric shock

• Prostration, weariness, and paralytic feeling in l. arm

• Tearing in both hands; on l. wrist

• Trembling of hands; and coldness

• Tearing in the fingers

• Cramp-like pain in the thumb

• Paleness and numbness of the fingers, which are, at the same time, very sensitive to cold

• Itching, burning pain, and redness in the fingers, as if from chilblains

• Legs heavy and fatigued, esp. in the thighs

• Twitching, quicksilver sensation, in gluteal muscles

• Pains in legs like electric shocks

• On crossing thighs feels a violent pain in them

• Drawing in the legs, as if in the interior of the bone, esp. when sitting or standing, > by motion

• Painful sensation in the hip on walking

• Drawing in the legs

• Darting pain in the feet and in the toes

• Drawing pressure in the malleoli

• Burning itching and redness in the toes, as if from chilblains

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• Itching and titillation, which force the sufferer to scratch himself.

• Itching, burning pain, and redness as from chilblains in different parts of the body.

• Miliary eruption, whitish and close-grained, with excessive itching.

• Desire to sleep in the day, particularly after a meal.

• Violent yawning, followed by dizziness.

• In the morning, a sense of dizziness, and great difficulty in rising.

• As a rule sleeps badly and unrefreshingly.

• Restless sleep with frequent waking.

• Starting in sleep.

• Compare: Bovista; Sticta pulmon.; Act. r.; Can. ind.; Op.; Stram. (alcoholism, chorea); Coff. (ecstasy); Cicut. (spasm of eyes); Codein (spasm of eyelids); Mygale; Tarent.; Verat. alb. (icy-cold feeling in head); Ars. (hot needles; Agar. ice-cold needles)

• Stands between: Stram. and Lach.

• Antidoted by: Charcoal; coffee; wine; brandy; camphor; fat or oil (relieves stomach); Calc. c. (relieves icy coldness); Puls.; Rhus (nightly backache).

• Follows well: Bell., Calc. c., Merc., Op., Puls., Rhus, Sil.

• Is followed by: Tarent. (typhoid with "rolling of the head").

• Causation: Coitus, Frost, Sun, Fright, Mental application or excitement, Over-exertion, Sexual excess, Alcoholism, Blood poisoning.

• Clinical Indications: Acne rosacea, Blepharospasm, Brain, softening of, Bunion, Chilblains, Chorea, Coldness, Cough, Cramp, Delirium tremens, Dysmenorrhea, Enteric fever, Epilepsy (with great exertion of strength), Gangrene, General paralysis, Hyperpyrexia, Itching, Jaundice, Lachrymal fistula, Lichen, Lumbago, Meningitis, Myopia, Neuralgia, Numbness, Nystagmus, Phthisis, Rheumatism, Sacrum, pains in, Sebaceous tumors, Sexual excess, effects of, Spinal Irritation, Spleen, affections of, Starting, Stitch in side, Tic Convulsif, Toothache, Tremors, Typhoid fever, Typhus.