Nystagmus (e.g., miners) when not a part of a serious organic nervous lesion may be benefited by this drug, and twitching of the eyelids, muscae volitantes, distortion of colour or shape in connection with headaches should cause it to be carefully studied.
Agaricus is one of the remedies for morning diarrhea with straining before, during and after stool; although the headache is relieved by the evacuation, straining in the rectum continues. The call is somewhat urgent and there is abdominal distension, loud rumbling and foetid flatus. The urine will be high coloured and scanty if much diarrhoea or perspiration has taken place; there may be difficulty in voiding it or it may dribble away.
The exercise of the genital function has an exhausting effect-it may cause fainting in sensitive women and exhaustion in men.
All symptoms in agaricus cases may be worse after intercourse, without any excessive indulgence. Prostatic aching maybe induced. In women the usual symptoms of the case are aggravated at the period; bearing-down and backache are noticeable, but they are of a nerve type than due to displacements, inflammatory lesions of the pelvis or rheumatism.
This drug will repay an extended study of the Materia Medica.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Delirium as described; delirium tremens.
(2) Chorea: involuntary jerking movements or loss of muscular control. Spinal Irritation.
(3) Retarded development of children-mental and physical- late walking and talking; alternations of stupidity and clumsiness with brilliancy.
(4) Skin: redness, burning and itching or icy coldness. Profuse perspiration, sensations of creeping and crawling Chilblains.
(5) Alcoholics-after drinking or for headaches.
(6) Most suitable subjects are thin, restless, highly-strung people, light complexioned and atonic.
(7) Elderly people with feeble circulation.
(1) AGGRAVATION: Morning, cold air; (nerve pains, vertigo), after eating; after sexual intercourse; during menses; after mental exertion; before storms.
(2) AMELIORATION: Walking (Backache): warmth of bed (nerve pains): mental powers heightened in the evening.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,