Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
Agnus Castus agn.
Mind
Extraordinary distraction, absence of mind and want of recollection. Great anxiety, as the diarrhoea would ensue, with great weakness. Sadness with fear of impending death. Melancholy, hypochondriacal mood, dissatisfied with himself, incapable for work and indifferent to his surroundings, Alternate over - exaltation and want of self - esteem.
Head
Contractive pain in, when reading. Pressive tearing in forehead and temples, more violent during motion. Headache in skull, as from remaining in a close, warm room. Biting itching on scalp, Tension, and chilliness in scalp with internal warmth thereof.
Eyes
Corrosive itching on and above brows and on lids. Greatly dilated pupils.
Ears
Roaring in.
Nose
Odor, as of musk or herring, before.
Face
Corrosive itching, especially on cheeks and under eyes.
Mouth
Ulcers in, also on tongue.
Stomach
Pinching in pit when sitting bent over.
Hypochondriac: Pressure in hepatic region by touch. Swelling and induration of spleen.
Appetite: Thirstlessness with aversion to all drinks.
Taste: Metallic, coppery, in mouth.
Eructation, etc. - Frequent hiccough with peevishness.
Qualmishness. In gastric region.
Abdomen
Sensation as though all the intestines were sinking downward. Ascites.
Stool
Soft. Constipated.
Anus
Deep, sharp stitches in and along sides of coccyx. Painful spots as if festering alongside anus when walking. Deep chaps and cracks at. Corrosive itching of perineum.
Urine
Increased discharge of.
Sexual Organs
Yellowish discharge from urethra, Gonorrhea with suppressed sexual desire. Cold testes. Swelled and indurated testes. Itching on. Flagging sexual powers, with torpid, cold, relaxed sexual parts. Desire wanting.
Female
Menses: Suppressed. Barrenness with both menses and sexual desire wanting.
Cough
In evening in bed, before falling to sleep.
Upper extremities
Hard pressure in axilla and upper arm, more violent during motion.
Generalities
Inflammatory swelling of joints. Sprained swollen limbs, especially at ankle joints. Gouty nodes on joints.
Skin
Corrosive itching here and there over entire body by scratching, but it rapidly returns. Itching around ulcers in evening.
Sleep
Somnolency, Restless at night.
Fever
Pulse: Weak and slow, often imperceptible. Chill: Internal with trembling, while external skin is warm. Alternating with heat. Much shivering with cold hands. Chilliness without thirst Predominates. Heat: Over - running, burning, most in face, with cold knees in evening in bed, Sweat: Almost exclusively on hands, when walking in open air.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Calc - c., Con ., Graph., Lyc., Merc., Nux - v. Oleand., Puls., Rhod., Sep., Sul.