AGARICUS PHALLOIDES

(Amanita Bulbosa)

PHARMACY - agar-ph. Agaricus phalloides. Amanita bulbosa. Agaricus bulbosa. Amanita phalloides. N. 0. Fungi. Europe and North America. Tincture of fresh fungus. Historical dose: All potencies.

CLINICAL - Chills. Cholera. Chorea. Cold. Collapse. Coma. Cramps. Convulsions. Delirium. Diarrhea. Gastritis. Malaise. Trismus. Urine, suppression. Vomiting.

HOMEOPATHIC - Agaricus phalloides is a small stinking fungus common in Europe and North America. The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained.

The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling specimens and breathing the spores affects some people unpleasantly.

The poison is slow in development, even twelve to twenty hours after taking it the patient feels all right.

Symptoms generally begin with vertigo, followed by violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength, with death pre-ceded by stupor and spasms on the second or third day. Symptoms observed in poisoning cases give a complete picture. Extreme prostration and chilliness, the sweat is cold, marked Hippocratic face, the tongue is cold and there is violent thirst.

Debility, prostration. Malaise. Staggers as if intoxicated and with odd gestures, labors to express his sufferings but cannot articulate a syllable. Violent convulsions. Slight convulsive motions in the legs and arms, which generally extend to the muscles of the trunk and cause irregular distortions of the whole body. Constant restlessness.

Very frequent bilious vomiting. Incessant cramps in stomach. Hard, tense abdomen. Frequent whitish watery stools or bilious, bloody stools.

The urine is suppressed, the voice is hoarse. Pulse small intermittent, hardly perceptible. The limbs are cold and there are violent cramps in legs, feet and calves. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and

kidneys, hemorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sudden changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing. intense thirst for cold water, dry skin.

Extreme collapse. Cholera, cramps in stomach, cold limbs, urine suppressed. Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain.

MIND - Mental excitement for three days after taking them. Delirium with faint indistinct dreams. Very averse to lying down.

Restlessness and impatience lead him to make frequent attempts to walk about, but without any fixed object or design. Complete consciousness until death. Stupor. Coma and rattling respiration before death.

Abdomen - Violent pains in epigastrium, which spread rapidly over the whole abdomen, greatly worse by pressure. Abdomen tense, swollen, painful. Unendurable pain in hypogastrium and lumbar region.

Eyes - Eyes sunken, weak and lusterless. Pupils much dilated.

Face - Deathlike pallor, face sunken, cyanotic. Nose and mouth dry. Anxious countenance, hippocratie. Tetanic closure of jaws with at times grating of the teeth.

Head - Frightful pains in head.

Kidneys - Suppression of urine.

Limbs - Cold limbs. Skin of limbs lost its elasticity. Upper limbs swell and become livid; fingertips livid. Cramps of the legs of the calves of the feet with drawing back of the limbs.

Lungs - Respirations short.

Modalities - Worse from pressure.

Mouth- Teeth and gums black. Cold tongue. Breath cold. Trismus. Speech slow, difficult. Stammering.

Perspiration - Sweat cold.

Pulse - Small and intermittent, hardly perceptible, slow and somewhat irregular, hard and frequent. Pulse full and rapid (later action).

Rectum-Anus inflamed. Frequent. bilious, whitish stools as in Asiatic cholera. Frequent, watery, bloody stools.

Skin - Body covered with livid spots.

Sleep - Somnolence.

Stomach - Violent pain in epigastrium, worse pressure. Violent thirst, nausea, vomiting, then diarrhea. Pains in stomach and hypogastrium followed by anxiety and vomiting. Incessant cramps of stomach. Very frequent mucus and bilious vomiting. Vomiting of an offensive greenish-colored fluid of blood.

Temperature - Marked chilliness. Skin cool, afterwards hot.

Throat - Dry throat. Constant burning sensation in the pharynx after vomiting. Voice hoarse.

Vertigo- Vertigo always on rising up without loss of consciousness.

COMMENTS- General cholera symptoms are developed. As with Agar Muscarius. At times, the development of choleraic symptoms saves the patient. Chilliness predominates.

Prominent convulsions. Mental excitement, which has in some cases lasted for three days. Sometimes there is stupor, at other times consciousness remains until death.

The effects do not come on until ten or twelve hours after taking the drug (Colch.).

RELATIONS - Compare: Agar. Agar-cpn., Agar-cps., Agar-em.. Agar-pa.. Agar-st., Amanita vermus.

REFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke.