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Agaricus Muscarius

30C / 200CAgaricus
Fly Agaric · Amanita Muscaria · "The Twitching Remedy"
agar.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 Acts as a nervous system stimulant producing twitching, jerking, and mental excitement followed by profound exhaustion.
📖 Boericke writes:
Toad Stool-Bug Agaric
(AGARICUS MUSCARIUS-AMANITA)
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 vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anaemia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. 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. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis.Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air.Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally asright arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.
👤 Constitution
•Often indicated for individuals with a tubercular tendency, anemia, or those suffering from chronic nervous exhaustion and twitching.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice.
introduction
Violent bearing-down pains.
introduction
Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
introduction
Loquacity.
mind
Fearlessness.
mind
More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy.
mind
Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking.
head
Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.
eyes
Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein).
eyes
Nosebleed in old people.
nose
Twitching.
mouth
Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.
stomach
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of mental excitement, delirium tremens, or extreme nervous agitation.
Sings, talks, but does not answer.
Loquacity.
Aversion to work.
Indifference.
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.
Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.
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.
Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc. 4.
Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th and 200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Coffea Cruda →Absinthium →
🔄 Compare With
Coffea Cruda →Hyoscyamus Niger →Agaricus Emeticus →Tamus →Cimicifuga Racemosa →Cannabis Indica →Hepatica Triloba →
📚 Sources & References

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