AGNUS CASTUS

Scientific / Botanical Name AGNUS CASTUS Common Name The Chaste Tree Abbreviation Source
Materia Medica AGNUS CASTUS
Origin
Medicine Type
Family

Keynote / Introductory Description

Acts chiefly on sexual organs causing lowered sexual vitality, nervous depression and premature aging from sexual excess.

Modalities

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Dose / Potency

First to sixth potency.

Relationship

Compare: Selenium, Phosphoric acid, Camphor, Lycopodium.

Compare

Selenium, Phosphoric acid, Camphor, Lycopodium

Complementary

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Mind

Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness and forebodings. Forgetful and absentminded.

Eyes

Dilated pupils. Itching and photophobia.

Nose

Odor of herring or musk. Aching dorsum relieved by pressure.

Abdomen

Spleen swollen and sore. Soft difficult stool. Deep anal fissures. Nausea with bearing-down sensation.

Rectum

Stools recede and are difficult. Deep fissures in anus.

Male

Yellow urethral discharge. No erections. Impotence. Cold relaxed genitals. Desire absent. Gleet. Swollen painful testicles.

Female

Scanty menses. Aversion to intercourse. Relaxed genitals with leucorrhoea. Agalactia. Sterility. Yellow leucorrhoea.

Heart

Hysterical palpitation with nosebleed. Tachycardia from tobacco.

Skin

Gnawing itching, especially about eyes.

General Description

AGNUS CASTUS
The Chaste Tree

The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. More pronounced in men. Premature old age from sexual abuse. History of repeated gonorrhoea. Remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco.

Mind.--Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, musk. Nervous depression and forebodings.

Eyes.--Pupils dilated. Itching about eyes; photophobia.

Nose.--Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure.

Abdomen.--Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downward.

Male.--Yellow urethral discharge. No erections. Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone. Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid. Gleet. Testicles cold, swollen, hard and painful.

Female.--Scanty menses. Aversion to intercourse. Relaxed genitals with leucorrhoea. Agalactia with sadness. Sterility. Yellow transparent leucorrhoea. Hysterical palpitation with nosebleed.

Relationship.--Compare: Selenium, Phosphoric acid, Camphor, Lycopodium.

Dose.--First to sixth potency.