Agnus castus (Vite).

Mind and Disposition.

Low-spirited, he fears approaching death.

Melancholic and hypochondriac mood.

Absent-minded.

Head.

Pain in the temple, as from a blow.

[5] Heaviness in the head, and pressure, as if the head would fall forward.

Pain in the vertex, as from staying in a room filled with a thick and smoky atmosphere.

Tension and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch.

Eyes.

Corrosive itching over and on the eyebrows, on the eyelids and under the eyes.

Dilated pupils.

Ears.

[10] Roaring in the ears.

Hardness of hearing.

Nose.

Odor before the nose, like herrings or musk.

Hard, aching pressing on the dorsum of the nose, relieved by pressure.

Face.

Corrosive itching of the cheeks, under the eyes, and on the chin.

[15] Formication in the cheeks.

Mouth.

Ulcers in the mouth, and on the gums.

The teeth are painful, when touched by warm food or drink.

Appetite and Taste.

Thirstlessness and aversion to drink.

Metallic, coppery taste.

Stomach.

[20] Nausea first in the pit of the stomach, later in the stomach, with the sensation as if all the intestines were pressing downwards.

Abdomen.

Swelling and induration of the spleen.

Ascites.

Rumbling of flatulence during sleep.

Stool and Anus.

Difficulty of passing soft stools.

[25] When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid.

Sensation as of subcutaneous, ulceration near the anus, only when walking.

Corrosive itching of the perineum.

Rhagades at the anus.

Urine.

Frequent micturition.

Sexual Organs.

[30] Men. Diminution of sexual powers, the penis in small and flaccid, the testicles are cold.

Yellow discharges from the urethra.

Gonorrhoea, with suppressed sexual desire.

Drawing along the spermatic cords.

Itching of the genital organs.

[35] Women. Suppression of the menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen.

Sterility, with suppressed menses, and want of sexual desire.

Deficient secretion of milk in lying-in women.

Chest.

Hard pressure in the region of the sternum, especially daring a deep inspiration.

Cough in the evening in bed, before going to sleep.

Upper Extremities.

[40] Hard pressure in the (right) axilla and upper arm, increased by motion and contact.

Swelling of the finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains.

Lower Extremities.

Lancinating pain in the right hip-joint.

Stitches in the legs, (left big toe).

The feet easily turn, when walking on a stone pavement.

Generalities.

[45] Great debility.

Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of the joints.

Gouty nodosities.

Fever.

Pulse. Small, Slow, imperceptible.

Chilliness, internal with trembling, the external skin is warm.

[50] Much chilliness, with cold hands.

Heat. Flushes of burning heat, principally in the face, with cold knees in the evening in bed.

Perspiration. Almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air.

Skin.

Corrosive itching on different parts of the body, relieved by scratching, but it soon returns.

Itching around the ulcers, in the evening.

AGNUS CASTUS

REGION:
SEXUAL ORGANS.
MIND.
Nerves.
Eyes.

WORSE:
VENERY.
Sprains.

IMPOTENCY AND PREMATURE OLD AGE. Jaded rakes. .................... Distraction. BAD MEMORY. Sad and despairing; repeats that he will soon die. Cold, relaxed genitals. Spermatorrhœa. Gnawing-itching; < eyes. Agalactia.

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Old. Pho-ac.

Agnus castus

[Agn.]

Mind.-- Extraordinary distraction, absence of mind and want of recollection. Great anxiety, as the diarrhoea would ensue, with great weakness. Sadness with fear of impending death. Melancholy, hypochondriacal mood, dissatisfied with himself, incapable for work and indifferent to his surroundings, Alternate over - exaltation and want of self - esteem.

Head.-- Contractive pain in, when reading. Pressive tearing in forehead and temples, more violent during motion. Headache in skull, as from remaining in a close, warm room. Biting itching on scalp, Tension, and chilliness in scalp with internal warmth thereof.

Eyes.-- Corrosive itching on and above brows and on lids. Greatly dilated pupils.

Ears.-- Roaring in.

Nose.-- Odor, as of musk or herring, before.

Face.-- Corrosive itching, especially on cheeks and under eyes.

Mouth.-- Ulcers in, also on tongue.

Stomach.-- Pinching in pit when sitting bent over.

Hypochondriac: Pressure in hepatic region by touch. Swelling and induration of spleen.

Appetite: Thirstlessness with aversion to all drinks.

Taste: Metallic, coppery, in mouth.

Eructation, etc. - Frequent hiccough with peevishness.

Qualmishness. In gastric region.

Abdomen.-- Sensation as though all the intestines were sinking downward. Ascites.

Stool.-- Soft. Constipated.

Anus.-- Deep, sharp stitches in and along sides of coccyx. Painful spots as if festering alongside anus when walking. Deep chaps and cracks at. Corrosive itching of perineum.

Urine.-- Increased discharge of.

Sexual Organs.-- Yellowish discharge from urethra, Gonorrhea with suppressed sexual desire. Cold testes. Swelled and indurated testes. Itching on. Flagging sexual powers, with torpid, cold, relaxed sexual parts. Desire wanting.

Female.-- Menses: Suppressed. Barrenness with both menses and sexual desire wanting.

Cough.-- In evening in bed, before falling to sleep.

Upper extremities.-- Hard pressure in axilla and upper arm, more violent during motion.

Generalities.-- Inflammatory swelling of joints. Sprained swollen limbs, especially at ankle joints. Gouty nodes on joints.

Skin.-- Corrosive itching here and there over entire body by scratching, but it rapidly returns. Itching around ulcers in evening.

Sleep.-- Somnolency, Restless at night.

Fever.-- Pulse: Weak and slow, often imperceptible. Chill: Internal with trembling, while external skin is warm. Alternating with heat. Much shivering with cold hands. Chilliness without thirst Predominates. Heat: Over - running, burning, most in face, with cold knees in evening in bed, Sweat: Almost exclusively on hands, when walking in open air.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Calc - c., Con., Graph., Lyc., Merc., Nux - v. Oleand., Puls., Rhod., Sep., Sul.

AGNUS CASTUS

(Chaste Tree)

PHARMACY - Agn. Agnus castus. Chaste tree. Vitex agnus castus. Verbena Verticillata.

N.0. - Verbenaceae. Found on the shores of Mediterranean, Provence and Greece. Tincture of ripe berries.

Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

CLINICAL - Abuse, sexuel. Agalactia, Anus, excoriation. Ascites. Breast-milk. Chronic fatigue. Debility. Depression. Dislocations. Fatigue. Gonorrhea. Gouty, joints. Gums, ulcerated. Hormonal, disorders. Impotency. fertility. Knees, coldness. Leucorrhea. Masturbation. Memory. weak. Mouth ulcers. Neurotic. Photophobia. Premature, aging. Rheumatism. Spleen, swelling, induration. Sexual, melancholy. Sexual, weakness. Sprains. Strains. Tachycardia. Testicles, disorders. Toothache.

HERBAL - The Vitex Agnus Castus of the Alchemists. the "chasteberry" from this tree is taken as a herbal tonic for the sexual organs and hormones. Agnus castus is for low sexual vitality with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy.

The Chaste Tree was used in ancient times by both men and women to suppress their sexual desire. It was used by the Greek monks centuries ago to lower their sex drive.

HOMEOPATHIC - Agnus produces its chief effect on sexual organs of both the sexes. General debility and depression of vital power are marked. impotency and infertility in both sexes, but more pronounced in men.

History of repeated gonorrhea or masturbation. Impotency and premature old age from loss of sexual power. Nervous debility m unmarried persons.

Weakness from masturbation habit. itching in all parts, especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men. A remedy for sprains and strains.

MIND - Absent-minded, and forgetful. Dis-traction of mind. Inability to fix attention when reading. Bad memory. Unable to recollect things has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend. Forgetful of purchases. goes off and leaves them.

Depression. Nervous depression and mental forebodings. Fear of death. Great sadness with a fixed idea of approaching death (Aeon.). Sad and despairing, repeats that he will soon die. Desires death. Doubts if anything had existence.

Changeable, moods. Indifference to everything, alternating with cheerfulness. Lack of courage. Discouragement alternating with haughtiness. Lethargy alternating with frenzy. Exhilaration alternating with sadness.

Neurotic. Peevish. Inclined to get angry. Premature old age with apathy and melancholy. Mental ailments from sexual excesses, masturbation. Sexual melancholy. Self-contempt from sexual abuse (Staph.). Aversion to sex. Sexual thrill absents from excessive masturbation. Illusion of smell, herring, musk. Starting during sleep.

Abdomen - Ascites. Abdome11 distended after meals. Incarcerated flatus. Abdomen sensitive to pressure. Rumbling in abdomen during sleep. Violent contracting pain coming suddenly in morning. Spleen swollen, sore. Swelling and induration of spleen, often with soreness, after intermittent fever. Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards. Bowels as if sinking down, wants to sup-port bowels with hands. Flatus smells like urine, remaining long on clothes.

Back - Creaking noise in vertebrae. Pain in sacrum, from flatus. Sharp, deep pain on and near coccyx. Sharp pain near sacrum.

Breasts - Agalactia. Breast-milk absent, with sadness. Milk scanty or entirely suppressed. Deficient secretion of milk in lying-in women (Calc-p.).

Chest - Sensation of dryness in chest. Hard pressure in the region of the sternum, especially during a deep inspiration. Pressure in xiphoid cartilage. Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse 

touch or motion.

Constitutions - It corresponds to lymphatic, sycotic constitutions. Premature old age with apathy and melancholy. Nervous debility in unmarried persons. Impotence and gleet in old offenders.

Cough – Coughs during the evening. Coughs in bed, before going to sleep. Coughs with raising of blood, followed by copious mucus. Coughs in paroxysms. Coughs with palpitations and epistaxis. Coughs when inhaling cold air.

Ears - Roaring in the ears. Hardness of hearing.

Eyes - Gnawing itching in eyes. Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes. Sensation as if one had received a blow on eye. Burning pain when reading in evening. Pupils dilated (Bell.). Photophobia. Dim vision before menses.

Face - Corrosive itching on the cheeks. Formication in checks. Tearing under right lower jaw. Long sharp pain followed by fine pricking itching. Rending, tearing pain under alveoli of right lower jaw. Erysipelas on left cheek, spreading from nose over face and head.

Female - Menses are suppressed with abdominal pains. Bearing down pains. Suppressed menses. Scanty menses. Infertility with suppressions of menses and no sexual desire (Sep.). Swelling of uterus. Leucorrhea staining yellow, transparent. Relaxation of genitals with leucorrhea. Transparent vaginal discharge passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital. Retained placenta. Ailments due to masturbation, sexual excesses. Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation. Aversion to sex.

Food - Appetite lessened. Food makes him feel uneasy and replete. Only the simplest food agrees. Relishes food, but it doesn't agree with him. Warm food and drink cause teeth to ache. Thirst during heat. Thirstlessness, and aversion to all drink.

Head - Headache before menses. Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead, worse during motion. Pain in the temple. as from ablow. Heaviness in the head and pressure, as if the head would fall forward. Pain in the vertex. Tension and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch. Biting-itching on scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.

Heart - Hysterical palpitations with nose-

bleed in women. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in nervous young men. Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible. Palpitations during cough.

Kidneys - Passes more urine, frequently.

Pain in bladder. When urinating, pain in kidneys. Red, turbid urine with burning and pressure in urethra. Gets up twice at night and even once during siesta to urinate.

Limbs - inflammatory. rheumatic swelling

of Joints Sprains and strains. Gouty nodosities. Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse from touch and motion. Strains from lifting a little too much.

Swelling of the finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains. Heaviness of right foot. as from a weight. Joints as if dislocated. Feels bruised all over. Cold hands, cold knees, even in bed. Joints easily twisted. Feet easily tum under when walking on stone pavement. Rheumatic and gouty nodosities on joints.

Liver - Aching in region of liver worse touch.

Lungs - Dyspnea worse evening. Dyspnea on going up stairs. Tough, hanging mucus like a rag in fauces.

Male - Itching of genitals. Testicles, cold, swollen. hard and painful. Penh small, flaccid. Drawing pain along spermatic cords. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Yellow discharge from urethra. Aversion to sex. Impotence with genitals cold and relaxed. impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhea. syphilis. No erections. Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection. Feeble erections without sexual desire. Impotence, with morning erections only. Spermatorrhea with impotence. Ailments  due to masturbation, sexual excesses. Sexual desire almost lost. Sexual desire gone(Sel.,Con.,Sabal.).Scanty emission without ejaculation.

Modalities - Better scratching. Belter pressure. Worse from over lifting, sprains.

Worse from sexual excess. Worse from seminal losses. Worse from masturbation.

Mouth - Mouth very dry. Saliva v1sc1d and tough, drawing out in strings. Ulcers in the mouth and on the gums. Metallic. coppery, biller taste. Boils. Tongue coated white.

Nose - Hard ache on dorsum of nose, better pressure. Soreness and pain in left side of nose. Illusion of smell, herring, musk.

Perspiration - Sweats, almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air. Sweats easily. Pungent smell, causes dullness and headache. Sweats followed by vomiting and trembling.

Rectum -Anus excoriated. Deep fissures of the anus, often giving pain when walking. Flatus smells like urine, remaining long on clothes. Sens au on as of subcutaneous ulceration near the anus, only while walking. Difficulty of passing soft stools. When pressing at stool, discharge of prostatic fluid. Corrosive itching of the perineum. Sensation as if diarrhea would set in. when standing.

Skin - Corrosive itching on different parts of the body. better by scratching, but soon returns. itching around the ulcers, in-the evening. Yellow 1in1of skin.

Sleep - Sleeplessness. Awaking often, as if alarmed. starting. Anxious dreams. Amorous dreams.

Stomach - Only the simplest food agrees. Belching, smell like urine. Pinching pam when sitting bent over. Nausea in pit of st0mach after eating. Nausea in pit when standing. Nausea as from eating fat food.

Stools - Stools soft, recede. difficult. Diarrhea of children. Chronic diarrhea of adults.

Teeth - Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink, Throbbing, tearing pain in left eye tooth. Small boil near tooth, very painful to touch. 

Temperature - Chilliness, internal with trembling, the external skin is warm. Chill alternating with heat. Chilly all over, but only hands feel cold. Much chilliness, with cold hands. Flushes of burning heat, principally in the face, with cold knees in the evening in bed.

Throat - Corrosive itching in pit of throat. Voice as if passing through wool. Voice has no timbre.

Vertigo - Vertigo before menses. Vertigo from loss of vital fluids.

COMMENTS - Great sadness with a fixed idea of approaching death, especially after confinement when milk fails to appear. Deficiency of milk with despair of recovery. Absent-minded. Drowsiness.

Illusion of smell, like herrings or musk. Ulcers in mouth and on gums. Tearing pain in lower jaw. Toothache from hot food or drink. Swelling and induration of spleen. Rumbling of flatus during sleep.

Discharge of prostatic fluid while straining at stool. Suppressed menses with abdominal pain. Leucorrhea staining yellow. Infertility. Pain as if dislocated in joints. Joints easily twisted. Rheumatic and gouty nodosities on joints.

Hahnemann became interested in this remedy when he read that the Chaste tree was used by the Greek monks centuries ago to stop their sex drive. They would take tincture doses and they took so much that their testicles and genitals would atrophy.

In Boericke there are descriptions of shrinking and atrophying, "Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful," ''lower sexual vitality," and "corresponding depression."

Useful for people who have over exerted themselves sexually, a promiscuous period, and since have lost sex drive, very apathetic. Emaciated, pale, blue circles around their eyes with dilated pupils. Sexual neurasthenia.

Sexual melancholy, depression about not having a lover, gloom, moroseness. All sexual desire is gone. Impotence. History of repeated gonorrhea or promiscuity. The genitals are cold and relaxed, can get no erection.

History of cures of chronic spermatorrhea, chronic dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid because of the weakness in the whole area. Women's abhorrence or aversion to sexual intercourse and infertility (Nat-m., Ph-ac., Sep.).

RELATIONS - Agnus is the only proved member of the Verbena family, though the Labiate or Mint family are closely allied. Teste group sit with Merc. and Hyos.

Antidoted by: Camphor, Nat-m.-headache, strong solutions of table-salt.

Compare:

(1) Sel.,Con., Nat-m., Sep., Sabal., Ph-ac., Camph, Lye. Olnd.

(2) Leucorrhea staining yellow, Nux-v., Che!., Carb-an.. Kreos.

Followed well by: Ars. Bry., lgn., Lye., Puls., Sulph., Sel.

REFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke. Murphy.

Melancholic and hypochondriacal mood.

Absentmindedness.

Rumbling of flatulence during sleep.

Corrosive itching of the perineum and difficulty of passing soft motions.

When pressing at stool there is discharge of prostatic fluid.

Thirstlessness and aversion to all drink.

Nausea first in the pit of the stomach, later in the stomach, with the sensation as if all the intestines were pressing downward.

Diminution of sexual powers, the penis is small and flaccid and the testicles are cold. Itching on the genital organs with yellow discharges from the urethra.

The sexual desire is suppressed.

Drawing along the spermatic cords.

In the female, there is suppressing of the menses, with drawing pain in the abdomen and lack of sexual desire.

There is deficient secretion of milk in lying-in women.