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AGNUS CASTUS

AGNUS CASTUS
agnPlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the sexual organs, lowering sexual vitality and causing mental depression.
About: Agnus Castus is primarily used for conditions involving sexual exhaustion, premature aging, and mental melancholy. It is particularly indicated for individuals who have experienced a loss of nervous energy due to sexual abuse or repeated infections. It is also a notable remedy for physical strains and sprains.
👤 Constitution
Typically affects men who appear prematurely aged due to sexual excess, often presenting with a sad, fearful, and forgetful temperament.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Impotence with complete loss of sexual desire and cold, relaxed genitals.
Boericke
Sadness with the impression of speedy death.
Boericke
Lack of breast milk (agalactia) with sadness.
Boericke
Sensation as if intestines are pressed downwards, requiring support.
Boericke
Premature old age from sexual abuse.
Boericke
Gnawing itching in all parts, especially the eyes.
Boericke
Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.
Boericke
Testicles cold, swollen, hard, and painful.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental states characterized by deep sadness, fear of death, and lack of focus.
Deep sexual melancholy and sadness with a feeling that death is near.
Fear of death and lack of courage.
Absent-mindedness and forgetfulness.
Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
Hallucinations of smell, such as herring or musk.
🔑 Modalities
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1X to 6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
SELENIUM METALLICUMCAMPHORALYCOPODIUM CLAVATUMPHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM

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AGNUS CASTUS — Homeopathy Materia Medica