Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. Loss of muscular coordination.
ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS
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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Clinical Applications
Compare: Aragallus Lamberti -White Loco-Weed-Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. Loss of muscular coordination.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples. Pain and pressure in maxillæ.
Stomach
Weakness and emptiness. Burning in sophagus and stomach.
Extremities
Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS
Head
Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples. Pain and pressure in maxillæ.
Stomach
Weakness and emptiness. Burning in œsophagus and stomach.
Extremities
Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Relationship
Compare: Aragallus Lamberti-White Loco-Weed-Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.
Dose
Sixth potency.
Astragalus Menziesii.
Clinical
Emptiness, sensation of. Face, bones of, painful. Headache.
Characteristics
From eating some of the green leaves J. M. Selfridge experienced: Burning in pharynx, œsophagus, stomach. Fulness right temple and right upper jaw; slight nausea, with shivering and chilliness; dizziness and fulness of the head. Later, weakness and sense of emptiness in stomach; eating relieved empty sensation, but not the weakness. Pressive pains in both temples; later, slight pain in left maxilla; and still later, aching in right maxilla, with pressure in both bones.
Astragalus mollissimus
(Purple Loco-Weed)
PHARMACY
astra-mo. Astragalus mollissimus. Purple loco-weed. Woolly loco-weed. Loco-weed. Papilionoideae. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.
CLINICAL
- Mania
- Vision
- Weakness
HOMEOPATHIC
Purple loco-weed causes irregularities in gait, paralytic disorders. Loss of muscular coordination.
Affects animals like the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and morphine in man. After acquiring a taste for the plant, the animals refuse every other kind of food. In the first stage, a period of hallucination or mania with defective eyesight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics.
The second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair, and feeble movements. After a few months, the victim dies from starvation.
Head
Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples.
Face
Painful facial bones. Pain and pressure in maxillae.
Limbs
Purring sensation in right foot, outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Stomach
Weakness and emptiness. Burning in esophagus and stomach.
RELATIONS
Compare: (I) Aragallus Lamberti - White Loco-Weed, Ranleweed, Barc., Oxytropis.
REFERENCES
Boericke.
In the opinion of Ayurvedic physicians, it causes rheumatism and is a useful medicine in bilious complaints, cough, worms, jaundice, fever, and chlorosis. Lt. Col. R. N. Chopra in his Indigenous Drugs of India has written that its "Root is used in snake-bite".
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Sixth potency.
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