Agnus Castus agn.

Absent-minded, reduced power of insight.
Low-spirited, fears of approaching death.
Despairing sadness; peevishness.
Anxious, fear and weakness.

After dulness in the head, a pressing long-lasting headache, followed by vomiting and spasmodic trembling.
Heaviness of head and pressure in the neck, as if the head would fall forward.

Tearing, with pressure in the temple and forehead, worse during motion.
Contractive headache, above the temples from reading.
Pain in upper head, as from staying in a close-room; looking to one point relieve it.

Biting-itching on the scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.
Tension and chilliness in scalp, which is warm to touch.

Dilated pupils; photophobia.
Eyes burn when reading in the evening.
Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes.

Ringing or roaring in the ears.
Hardness of hearing.

Illusion of smell; as of herring; musk.
Hard aching on dorsum of nose, relieved by pressure.

Corrosive itching on the cheeks.
Erysipelas on left cheek, spreading from nose over face and head.

Rending-tearing under alveoli of right lower jaw.

Teeth painful when touched by warm food or drink.
Throbbing, tearing toothache in left eye-tooth, small boil near the tooth, very painful to touch; in attacks.

Taste: metallic, coppery; bitter.
Tongue coated white.

Corrosive itching in pit of throat.

Lessened appetite; thirstlessness.

Abdomen distended after meals.

Hiccough; inclined to get angry; peevish.
Nausea in pit of stomach when standing; later, qualmishness in the abdomen, with pressing down, wants to support it.
Nausea as from eating fat food. θ Checked catamenia.

Pinching in scrobiculum when sitting bent over.

Soreness in region of spleen.
Swelling and induration of the spleen. θ Intermittent.
Aching in region of liver, worse from touch.

Rumbling in the abdomen during sleep.
Abdomen sensitive to pressure.
Incarcerated flatus.
Feels as if the entrails were sinking down, constantly inclined to support the bowels with the hands.
Violent contracting bellyache, coming suddenly in the morning, with bearing down. θ Suppressed menses.

Diarrhœa of children; chronic diarrhœa of adults.
Feels as if diarrhœa would set in, when standing; anguish, great weakness.
Great accumulation of wind; flatus smells like urine remaining long on the clothes.
Hard stool; constipation; difficult expulsion of soft stool.
When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid.
A sore feeling under the skin near the anus when walking.
Corrosive itching of the perineum; pruritus podicis.
Deep rhagades or fissures of the anus.
Ascarides.

Pains in bladder.
Passes more urine.
When urinating sometimes pain in lower abdomen, sometimes in the kidneys.
Red, turbid urine, with burning and pressure in urethra.
Emissions of prostatic fluid. See 20, 22.

Sexual desire lessened, almost lost; impotence with spermatorrhœa.
Feeble erections, no sexual desire.
Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erections.
Testes cold, swollen hard; penis small, flaccid.
Impotence, with gleet, especially with those who have frequently had gonorrhœa.
Yellow urethral discharge.
Itching of genitals.
Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erections.

Suppressed menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen.
A transparent leucorrhœal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts.
Leucorrhœa, not copious, but spotting, her linen yellow.
Hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.

Retained placenta.
Milk scanty, or disappears.
Sterility.

Voice as if passing through wool.

Oppression on going up stairs.
Dyspnœa; worse in the evening.

Cough: in the evening, in bed, before falling asleep; with raising of blood, followed by copious mucus; in paroxysms, with palpitation and nose bleed, mostly in the morning; when inhaling cold air.

Feeling of dryness in the chest.

Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible.

Pressure in region of sternum, worse when breathing deeply.

Sharp, deep stitches on and near the coccyx, to the left, near sacrum and coccyx.

Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse from touch or motion.
Swelling of finger-joints, tearing pains, arthritic nodes.

Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight.
Lancinating pain in the right hip-joint, worse during motion, somewhat better in rest.
Legs much fatigued and swollen towards evening.
Cold knees.
Ankles swollen after a sprain.
Tearing, rending in feet and toes, worse on walking.
Feet easily turn under when walking on stone pavement.

Pain as if luxated.

Motion: 3, 32, 33. Walking: 20, 33. Going up stairs: 26. Standing: 16, 20.

Spasmodic complaints of hypochondriacal men.
Great weakness: as from violent anguish; with depression of spirits; with agalactia.
Feels bruised all over.

Sleeplessness.
Awaking often, as if alarmed, startings.
Anxious dreams.

Morning: 19. Evening: 4, 5, 26, 27, 33, 40, 46.

Bad effects from getting feet wet.
Warm things: 10.

Chilliness, internal with trembling, skin warm.
Slight chilliness towards evening, followed by heat, with headache, no thirst, slight delirium, tormenting, profuse sweat.
Chill and heat alternate.
Chilly all over, but only hands feel cold to touch.
Flushes of burning heat, mostly in face, with cold knees; evening in bed.
Sweat on the hands when walking in the open air.
Sweats easily.

Right: 4, 9, 32, 33. Left: 8, 31, 33.

Bruised feeling all over.

Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints.
Gouty nodosities.

May be indicated in bruises or wounds.
Sprains and luxations of joints; strains from overlifting.
Prevents excoriation in walking.
Touch: 10, 16, 32. Pressure: 7.

Gnawing or itching on different parts of the body, relieved temporarily by scratching.
Itching around the ulcers, in the evening.
Yellow tint of skin.

Lymphatic constitution.
"Old sinners"; with impotence and gleet.

After Agn. cast. are useful: Arsen., Bryon., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Selen. (impotence), Sulphur.
Antidotes to Agn. cast.: Camphor., Natr. mur. (the headache); strong solution of table salt.