Vitex Agnus Castus. Hahnemann. Verbanaceae.
Mind
Absent-minded, reduced power of insight.
Low-spirited, fears of approaching death.
Despairing sadness; peevishness.
Anxious, fear and weakness.
Sensorium
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.
Inner Head
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.
Outer Head
Biting-itching on the scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.
Tension and chilliness in scalp, which is warm to touch.
Eyes
Dilated pupils; photophobia.
Eyes burn when reading in the evening.
Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes.
Ears
Ringing or roaring in the ears.
Hardness of hearing.
Nose
Illusion of smell; as of herring; musk.
Hard aching on dorsum of nose, relieved by pressure.
Face
Corrosive itching on the cheeks.
Erysipelas on left cheek, spreading from nose over face and head.
Lower Face
Rending-tearing under alveoli of r. lower jaw.
Teeth
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.
Tongue etc.
Taste: metallic, coppery; bitter.
Tongue coated white.
Throat
Corrosive itching in pit of throat.
Desires Aversions
Lessened appetite; thirstlessness.
Eating
Abdomen distended after meals.
Nausea and Vomiting
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. Checked catamenia.
Scrobiculum
Pinching in scrobiculum when sitting bent over.
Hypochondria
Soreness in region of spleen.
Swelling and induration of the spleen. Intermittent.
Aching in region of liver, worse from touch.
Abdomen
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. Suppressed menses.
Stool etc.
Diarrhoea of children; chronic diarrhoea of adults.
Feels as if diarrhoea 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 the stool. Stool inclined to re-enter rectum (Sil).
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.
Urine
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.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual desire lessened, almost lost; impotence with spermatorrhoea.
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 gonorrhoea.
Yellow urethral discharge.
Itching of genitals.
Gleet, with want of sexual desire or erections.
Female Sexual Organs
Suppressed menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen.
A transparent leucorrhoeal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts.
Leucorrhoea, not copious, but spotting, her linen yellow.
Hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.
Pregnancy
Retained placenta.
Milk scanty, or disappears.
Sterility.
Larynx
Voice as if passing through wool.
Breathing
Oppression on going up stairs.
Dyspnoea; worse in the evening.
Cough
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.
Lungs
Feeling of dryness in the chest.
Pulse
Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible.
Outer Chest
Pressure in region of sternum, worse when breathing deeply.
Back
Sharp, deep stitches on and near the coccyx, to the left, near sacrum and coccyx.
Upper Limbs
Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse from touch or motion.
Swelling of finger joints, tearing pains, arthritic nodes.
Lower Limbs
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.
Limbs in General
Pain as if luxated.
Position
Motion : Walking: Going up stairs: Standing :.
Nerves
Spasmodic complaints of hypochondriacal men.
Great weakness: as from violent anguish; with depression of spirits; with agalactia.
Feels bruised all over.
Sleep
Sleeplessness.
Awaking often, as if alarmed, startings.
Anxious dreams.
Time
Morning: Evening :.
Temperature and Weather
Bad effects from getting feet wet.
Warm things : 0.
Chill Fever Sweat
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.
Sides
Right :.
Sensations
Bruised feeling all over.
Tissues
Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints. Gouty nodosities.
Contact Injuries
May be indicated in bruises or wounds.
Sprains and luxations of joints; strains from overlifting.
Prevents excoriation in walking.
Touch : Pressure :.
Skin
Gnawing or itching on different parts of the body, relieved temporarily by scratching.
Itching around the ulcers, in the evening.
Yellow tint of skin.
Stages and States
Lymphatic constitution.
“Old sinners;” with impotence and gleet.
Relationship
After Agn. cast. are useful : Arsen., Bryon., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Selenium (impotence), Sulphur.
Antidotes to Agn. cast. : Camphor., Natr. mur. (the headache); strong solution of table salt.
