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Agaricus Phalloides

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Agaricus Phalloides · Death Cap / Amanita Phalloides · "The Death Cap Remedy"
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🎯 A highly toxic fungus that induces a state of profound collapse and physiological failure mimicking Asiatic cholera.
📖 Clarke writes:
A. bulbosus. Amanita bulbosa. (A small stinking fungus common in Europe and U.S.) N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh fungus.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Symptoms observed in poisoning cases give a complete picture of Asiatic cholera
Poison of great intensity and fatality
Effects do not come on till ten or twelve hours after taking the drug (in this it is like Colchicum)
At times the development of choleraic symptoms saves the patient
General cholera symptoms are developed as with A. muscarius
Physical Profile & Constitutional Symptoms
Extreme prostration
Chilliness predominates
Sweat is cold
Hippocratic face is marked
Tongue is cold
Violent thirst
Very frequent bilious vomiting
Incessant cramps in stomach
Hard, tense abdomen
Frequent whitish watery stools
Bilious, bloody stools
Urine is suppressed
Voice is hoarse
Pulse small, intermittent, hardly perceptible
Extremities are cold
Violent cramps in legs, feet, and calves
Convulsions are a prominent feature
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Mental excitement, which has in some cases lasted for three days
Sometimes there is stupor
At other times consciousness remains till death
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Symptoms mimic Asiatic cholera: extreme prostration, cold sweat, and cold tongue.
Clarke
Violent, incessant cramps in the stomach and legs.
Clarke
Abdominal pain and epigastric distress are greatly worsened by pressure.
Clarke
Suppression of urine accompanied by hoarse voice and small, intermittent pulse.
Clarke
Delayed onset of symptoms, often appearing 10 to 12 hours after ingestion.
Clarke
Face is sunken, cyanotic, and hippocratic.
Clarke
Frequent, watery, bilious, or bloody stools.
Clarke
Violent convulsions and irregular distortions of the body.
Clarke
Mental state fluctuates between excitement and stupor.
Clarke
Marked chilliness with cold extremities.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Vertigo upon rising and frightful head pains.
Vertigo always on rising up.
Frightful pains in head.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Pressure
epigastric pain
abdominal pain
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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