Mirza Tahir Ahmad - James Tyler Kent - William Boericke
Agnus Castus is mostly related to diseases of women. After childbirth, the muscles become weak, stretched and flabby. They do not revert to their original tone and physical status. (This is just like a stretched out piece of rubber which loses its elasticity.)
The uterus feels like it is sagging downwards. Menses are scanty. Infertility and hatred towards conjugal relationship develops. Leucorrhoeal discharge is yellow. The woman feels uneasy, sad and depressed. She is usually sad and sallow. She may develop hysteria. The uterus remains inflamed. The nose bleeds. Agnus Castus is a treatment of choice in this symptom complex.
The Agnus Castus patient thinks of committing suicide and is indifferent to the world around her. She prepares herself for impending death. In Aurum, the tendency to commit suicide and depression are prominent features which become part of the patient’s temperament. But in Agnus Castus, such tendency is transient and short-lived.
The patient has a weak memory, she is absent-minded and neurotic, she lacks courage and lacks determination. She feels pain on the temporal areas and forehead, aggravated by movement.
The patient is hypersensitive to light (as in many other remedies) and develops headache due to light-hypersensitivity. In case the headache is already present, it becomes unbearable in light, so much so that the eyes cannot be opened. Graphites is good in isolated light-sensitivity without the symptoms of Agnus Castus.
The bony bridge of the nose is painful but feels better with pressure. The patient can be unusually sensitive to certain kinds of fragrance. The cheeks itch and tingle, this is specific in Agnus Castus. There is wind in the tummy. The stomach rumbles. The intestines seem to be falling downwards, and the patient holds on to the drooping belly.
Agnus Castus is useful in certain male sexual disorders, such as sexual weakness and impotence, secondary to the pubertal misconduct. It also relieves nervous disorders (like Kali Phos).
Antidotes: Camphor, Nux Vomica
Potency: 30 to CM
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
AGNUS CASTUS
This wonderful remedy is often overlooked. It should come to mind for old sufferers who are broken from sexual excesses and secret vice.
The pale sickly and sad mortals who lament over their misspent life. It is good for both sexes.
Sexual: Sexual weakness; relaxation of parts. Perversion of all the functions.
A woman who indulged extensively in secret vice, found after marriage that she had no sexual thrill, was cured by this remedy.
Later she was confined and no milk came in her mammae, again Agnus started the belated milk at the end of three weeks.
When the milk ceases after it has started, or becomes scanty when the above history is known, and the woman is said, this remedy will, if not opposed, most likely cure.
It cures uterine haemorrhage, and restores suppressed menses in young women with a history. The vagina is much relaxed, there is often prolapsus, and there is a copious white-of-egg-like leucorrhoea.
But the pitiful, woebegone young man, heart-broken over his early life, now finds himself newly married, and impotent.
He has had gonorrhoea; he has lived in excesses, and now suffers from relaxed and cold genitalia, emissions, prostatic discharge at stool.
His young and beautiful wife excites no erection, though only recently he had a clandestine success, and he has morning erections but no more.
Out of the above cause and condition come many distressing symptoms.
Mind: Loss of memory, despair, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, fear and peevishness. These patients suffer from headaches, photophobia and nervous symptoms too numerous to mention. Formication of the skin.
Tearing pains of head, face and teeth. All but the simplest food disorders the stomach, and he complains much of nausea. His muscles are flabby.
He is anemic, and his glands are enlarged, especially, the spleen. lie is growing increasingly flatulent.
The abdominal viscera hang down as a weight. There is a growing weakness of the rectum and constipation, and he presses hard at stool, which often fails and slips back, like Silica, Sanic and Thuja.
The stool is large and hard. Itching, smarting at the anus, noisy flatus of a urinous odor. Excoriated anus. He soon takes on a hacking cough and night sweats.
The limbs are tired and cold. He is sensitive to cold, and wants to remain quiet. Exertion and motion intensify his complaints.
He has been to many advisers, and they have told him he has Neurasthenia. He must have Agnus castus.
by James Tyler Kent
AGNUS CASTUS (The Chaste Tree)
The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhœa. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.
Mind.--Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage. Illusion of smell-herrings, musk. Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
Eyes.--Pupils dilated (Bell). Itching about eyes; photophobia.
Nose.--Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure.
Abdomen.--Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards; wants to support bowels.
Male.--Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone (Selen; Con; Sabal). Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful.
Female.--Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhœa. Agalactia; with sadness. Sterility. Leucorrhœa staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed.
Relationship.--Compare: Selenium; Phosph ac; Camphor; Lycop.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
by William Boericke