Agaricus muscarius

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Agaricus muscarius
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Agaricus muscarius

• Also know as Amanita muscaria or Fly Agaric, this
  hallucigenic mushroom (fungi) was featured in
  Lewis Carolls Alice in Wonderland.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus muscarius was used by Asiatic tribes in
  the form of an intoxicating drink. The Vikings
  would consume Agaricus before going into battle.

I shouldnt have eaten so many mushrooms!!!!
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Agaricu muscarius

• People who have eaten Agaricus mushrooms can have
  strange experiences which remind one of a person
  on hallucinogenic drugs.

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Agaricus muscarius

• SPINAL AXIS
• OCCIPUT
• NERVES
• Lumbar Region
• Peristalsis
• Heart Circulation
• Respiration
• Chest

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus is a remedy which is needed more often
  in our times than in the past since its
  psychological picture corresponds closely to many
  of the contemporary anxiety states encountered
  with increasing frequency today.

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Agaricus muscarius

• The psychological pathology of Agaricus typically
  manifests in dependent, weak-willed people.

MIND - WILL - weakness of agar. Alum. alum-sil.
am-c. am-m. ambr. Anac. ang. Anh. ant-c. Ars.
asaf. aster. aur-m-n. Bar-act. BAR-C. bism.
bros-gau. bry. buth-a. CALC. calc-act. cann-s.
carc. caust. cent-u. chin. cimic. cocc. coff.
coloc. Con. Croc. Dioxi. dulc. graph. grat. Haem.
hell. ign. ip. irid-met. kali-c. kali-sil. Lach.
lath. laur. Lyc. malar. merc. Mez. Moni. nat-c.
nat-m. nat-sil. nux-v. op. Petr. Pic-ac. podo.
puls. rheum sil. staph. sulph. tax. ulm-c.
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Agaricus muscarius

• These persons have from an early age established
  a pattern of seeking the guidance and domination
  of a stronger person.

MIND - SERVILE agar. bar-s. cham. gard-j. Gels.
lyc. m-arct. PULS. sil. staph. streptoc. sulph.
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Agaricus muscarius

• This dependence originates from an inability or a
  refusal to act with initiative or to accept
  responsibility. These patients cannot summon
  enough will power to confront life situations.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Instead they will attempt, by lavishing great
  love and devotion upon their mentor or protector,
  to seduce this stronger person into making and
  accepting responsibility for the difficult
  decisions that they have to make in their lives.

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Agaricus muscarius

• It is also frequently observed that angry
  emotions against others are readily repressed
  because of a fear of the consequences.

MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - suppressed acon.
agar. anac. ars. aur. Aur-m-n. aur-s. bamb-a.
carc. cham. cocc. COLOC. colum-p. Cortico.
crot-c. cupr. dendr-pol. falco-pe. fum. Germ-met.
gink-b. haliae-lc. hell. hep. Ign. ilx-a. Ip.
kali-c. lachn. LYC. lyss. mag-m. mag-p. Moni.
Nat-m. ph-ac. phos. pin-con. podo. pot-e. puls.
ruta sep. spect. spong. STAPH. stront-c.
tritic-vg. tus-p. ulm-c. vanil.
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Agaricus muscarius

• It is really amazing to see how much ridicule
  these persons can take from their parents, wives,
  superiors, teachers, etc. without being able to
  voice their objection or anger.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Their sweet, suppressed, non-aggressive manner
  bears resemblance to that of Staphysagria and
  Baryta carbonica .

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Agaricus muscarius

• Instead of showing anger, the muscles of their
  face twitch they can also develop choreic
  movements and involuntary muscle spasms.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Anxiety about their health, constipation, hay
  fever, as well as other symptoms can also result.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They constantly seek to avoid responsibility.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They are pampered people, living lives as
  sheltered and comfortable as their social
  environment or lifestyle will allow.

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Agaricus muscarius

• The impact of life's many stresses will be felt
  on in the peripheral or central nervous system.

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Agaricus muscarius

• At some point these people are confronted with a
  death, either of someone in their immediate
  environment or of a family member, but they are
  unprepared to face such an event and may, as a
  consequence, become overwhelmed by the fear that
  a similar tragedy may befall themselves.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They are especially sensitive to premature,
  sudden death and death from cancer.

How could they have died? They were fine before!
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Agaricus muscarius

• They become preoccupied with thoughts of death
  disease, with morbid ideas.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus patients are frequently troubled by an
  extreme anxiety about their health or, at other
  times, by a preoccupation with the diseases of
  those around them, especially cancer.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They will go through sleepless nights thinking
  about the possibility of having cancer.

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Agaricus muscarius

• This extreme anxiety is usually triggered by very
  mild pains and will provoke the patients to
  complain in a very exaggerated fashion.

Oy, Im always in pain, I cant take it anymore!
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Agaricus muscarius

• The anxiety is so great that they constantly
  pester the doctor with questions about cancer.

Doctor, do I have cancer???
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Agaricus muscarius

• During the interview they may cry and cry due to
  the anxiety they feel. Their fear of cancer
  causes them to weep even with the smallest amount
  of pain.

Im so afraid! I stubbed my toe, and now I cant
stop this crying!
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Agaricus muscarius

• These patients are not demanding like Kali
  arsenicosum, Nitric acid, and Arsenicum.

Demanding NOT
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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus patients can make everyone's life
  miserable because of their constant worrying,
  complaining, groaning and moaning.

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Agaricus muscarius

• During the course of interacting with such a
  patient, the practitioner will sense a prevailing
  selfishness she will give the impression that
  she cares only about herself and constantly
  thinks only of her own condition.

MIND - SELFISHNESS agar. anac. androc. anh.
aq-mar. aq-pur. arizon-l. ars. asaf. aur-m-n.
bar-s. bell. Calc. calc-f. caust. cench. chin.
choc. cic. crot-t. cygn-be. cypra-eg. granit-m.
heroin. hydrog. ign. ignis-alc. Kola lac-h. lach.
Lyc. marb-w. Med. merc. mosch. nat-m. nit-ac.
Nux-v. oncor-t. Oxyg. ozone Pall. petr-ra.
phasco-ci. phos. PLAT. plb. positr. Puls. pyrus
sacch. sal-fr. senec. sep. sil. staph. stront-c.
Sulph. tarent. tax. thuj. tub. ulm-c. valer.
Verat.
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Agaricus muscarius

• At other times these patients may be obsessed
  with the sufferings of people around them. They
  seem to collect information on all varieties of
  accidents and tragedies, especially cases of
  cancer. After listening to these people for a
  while, one is struck by the fact that they speak
  of nothing but tragedies.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus patients, despite their fear, do not
  have an aversion to visiting or even helping
  patients who are dying or very ill with severe
  disfiguring or horrifying conditions. Agaricus
  patients seem to be able to cope with horrible
  diseases and will even go to the home of a
  suffering person to help with his care.

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Agaricus muscarius

• This preoccupation with death and disease has
  another facet, namely an absorption in all kinds
  of different morbid thoughts.

MIND - DEATH - thoughts of ACON. Agar. agath-a.
agn. aloe alum. am-c. Apis aq-mar. Arg-n. arn.
Ars. ars-h. Aur. aur-br. Aur-m. aur-m-n. aur-s.
camph. cann-i. carb-an. cartl-s. caust. Cham.
chel. clem. Coff. Con. cortico. cortiso. Crot-c.
Crot-h. cupr. cypra-eg. dendr-pol. Dig. Ferr.
ferr-ar. galla-q-r. GRAPH. haliae-lc. hist. hura
hydrog. kali-ar. kali-c. kali-p. lac-d. lac-h.
Lach. lat-m. Lob. loxo-recl. lyc. merc. mez.
Nat-m. nux-v. olib-sac. op. oxal-a. ozone Phos.
plat. positr. Psor. Puls. rauw. rhus-t. rob. ruta
sal-fr. Sep. spong. stram. symph. tarent. tax.
tax-br. thuj. tritic-vg. tung-met. ulm-c. vanil.
verat. verat-v. vinc. Zinc.
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Agaricus muscarius

• The Agaricus mind easily turns to such topics as
  death, ghosts, tombs and graveyards.

MIND - DELUSIONS - specters, ghosts, spirits -
seeing acon. agar. alum. am-c. ambr. ant-t. Ars.
ars-met. atro. aur. BELL. bov. brom. Calc. Camph.
carb-v. cocc. Croc. Cupr. Cupr-act. cupr-f. dig.
dulc. hell. hep. hura Hyos. hyper. ign. Kali-br.
kali-c. kali-i. kali-sil. lac-mat. lach. lepi.
lyc. merc. Nat-c. Nat-m. nit-ac. Op. phos. phys.
plat. psor. puls. ran-b. sal-fr. sars. sep. sil.
spect. spig. Stram. Sulph. tarent. thuj. verb.
visc. zinc.
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Agaricus muscarius

• Another aspect of this spookiness is that these
  patients possess a striking tendency for
  "out-of-the-body" experiences.

MIND - DELUSIONS - body - out of the body agar.
agath-a. alum. Anh. ara-maca. arge-pl. bit-ar.
Cann-i. carneg-g. clem-vit. cypra-eg. falco-pe.
galeoc-c-h. Hydrog. lac-c. lac-lup. lac-mat.
nux-m. Op. phos. Plut-n. pyrus
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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus patients may actually enjoy these
  conditions and even try to provoke them. They
  often find that their general psychological state
  is ameliorated after out-of-the-body experiences.

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Agaricus muscarius

• To this group of symptoms belongs easy,
  hysterical fainting, which can occur after
  orgasm, especially in young hysterical women.

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Agaricus muscarius

• There are periods when the Agaricus anxiety can
  subside and an extreme euphoria and then
  marvelous cheerfulness can take its place.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They feel abnormally strong with a sense they are
  capable of doing anything they want.

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Agaricus muscarius

• At times these ecstatic moments may be alluded to
  as being indicative of spiritual attainment.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Even during these episodes the feeling that
  something is wrong persists, and eventually the
  anxiety returns. Alternating states of
  cheerfulness and depression are also seen.

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Agaricus muscarius

• An mental derangement can occur which is
  characterized by an excessive loquacity.

MIND - LOQUACITY - nonsense agar. arg-met. cimic.
lach. lyc. meph. par. stram.
MIND - LOQUACITY - changing quickly from one
subject to another agar. ambr. aran. arg-met.
arg-n. bar-c. bit-ar. bry. choc. Cimic. hyos.
ketogl-ac. LACH. lachn. loxo-recl. lyc. marr-vg.
Meli. meph. nux-v. onos. par. phos. podo. raph.
rhus-t. sel. stram. teucr. tritic-vg. tub. valer.
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Agaricus muscarius

• The patient, engrossed in his own world, talks
  constantly his jabbering is incoherent and
  spontaneous. There is no contact with the
  practitioner, and if asked questions, he will not
  answer, yet he will keep on talking, changing
  from one subject to another.

MIND - LOQUACITY - changing quickly from one
subject to another - important matters about
on agar. aran. cimic. lach. meph. par.
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Agaricus muscarius

• His is in a state of silly hilarity he sings and
  laughs without any reason for him to do so.

Ha ha ha he he ha he ha he!
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Agaricus muscarius

• He embraces people and kisses their hands in a
  ridiculous or foolish and silly manner.

MIND - KISSING - hands of his companions agar.
anac.
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Agaricus muscarius

• He sings or whistles quite inappropriately while
  in this gay state in his elation he creates
  verses and makes prophesies.

I predict that our song will be world-famous for
all time and that creatures of all types will
remember us forever!
MIND - VERSES agar. ant-c. lach. stram.
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Agaricus muscarius
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Agaricus muscarius

• A crazy fearlessness prevails at times where
  danger is not perceived or recognized, resulting
  in a feeling of extreme mental and physical
  power/strength.

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Agaricus muscarius

• In fever states we observe either a state of
  raging delirium or mental sluggishness. The
  delirium is full of fury and mania, a frenzy that
  causes the patient to try to injure himself.

MIND - INJURING himself - frenzy causing him to
injure himself agar. lyss.
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Agaricus muscarius

• When mentally sluggish, the patient can reach a
  state in which he looks almost stupid and is
  indifferent to his surroundings in general.

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Agaricus muscarius

• From this state he can easily proceed into a gay,
  loquacious delirium. His whole condition suggests
  a state of inebriation and therefore this remedy
  has been prescribed with success in delirium
  tremens.

Agaricus muscarius
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Agaricus muscarius

• The typical anxious and depressed psychological
  state of Agaricus may at certain moments
  disappear this alteration occurs when some
  aspect of physical pathology becomes accentuated.
  For instance, when the pain of lumbago becomes
  especially pronounced, the pre-existing fear of
  cancer is minimized.

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Agaricus muscarius

• The aggravation of Agaricus, in the form of
  general debility and symptoms of the nervous
  system, after coition and sexual excesses is a
  keynot of Agaricus which should be stressed.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Aggravation from cold. Red patches result from
  exposure to cold, most notably on the face and
  hands this happens even though the extremities
  are covered with profuse sweat.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Symptoms appear diagonally.

GENERALITIES - PAIN - extending - diagonal agar.
alum. ambr. apis apisin. ASC-T. borx. calc. cycl.
gels. iris kali-bi. kalm. lac-ac. lac-c. lach.
lyc. mang. med. MURX. nat-c. nit-ac. nux-v. phos.
RHUS-T. sars. sil. stict. sul-ac. tarax. zing.
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Agaricus muscarius

• Convulsions after coition and excitement, after
  fright, from suppressed eruptions, and from
  suppressed milk in lactating women.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Epileptiform convulsions in hysterical women with
  frothing at the mouth and an aura consisting of
  the sensation of cold air spreading over the
  whole body or the spine.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Aggravation from motion, especially beginning
  motion, pressure, even simple touch.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Chorea that establishes its full severity slowly
  over the years. First seen is the twitching, the
  clumsy dropping of things, and/or the stumbling
  later the jerky movements of the face or
  grimacing occur and finally the full
  manifestation of chorea presents itself.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus is worse in the morning they feel
  heavy, sluggish, stupid, dissatisfied he
  complains a lot, moans about different things.

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Agaricus muscarius

• In the evening he feels livelier, brighter and
  more able to work.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Coldness of head, especially after scratching, is
  a keynote for Agaricus. Coldness of forehead
  though the forehead feels hot to the touch.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Pain on the right side of head as from a nail,
  worse sitting quietly, better walking about.

OUCH!
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Agaricus muscarius

• Chilblains are often noted in the ears, a key
  characteristic of this remedy, especially if
  these chilblains come during menses.

EAR - CHILBLAINS agar. Apis bell. rhus-t.
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Agaricus muscarius

• There is redness in areas made of cartilaginous
  tissue e.g., the ears and tip of the nose.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Pain in the nose, especially the root of the
  nose, during headache is a well known keynote.

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Agaricus muscarius

• The involuntary grimaces where several bundles of
  facial muscles participate in creating jerking
  movements is another strong keynote.

MIND - GRIMACES absin. agar. agath-a. All-c.
ant-met. ars. bell. Camph. cann-s. carb-ac. carc.
cina Cupr. dulc. gels. hell. Hyos. ign. meli.
merc. nux-m. Olnd. op. pall. plat. Rhus-t. spong.
Stram. tritic-vg. verat-v. zinc.
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Agaricus muscarius

• The feeling that the painful part is affected by
  frost the pain felt is similar to that of
  frostbite is another very important symptom.

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Agaricus muscarius

• In the back the usual coldness appears in
  different areas the back feels very cold, as if
  water were poured on different areas, especially
  between and beneath the scapulae.

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Agaricus muscarius

• In Agaricus we meet a lot of lumbago and sciatica
  cases where the main characteristics are worse
  from motion in general, but especially when
  rising from a sitting position, and, more
  specifically, when trying to raise the thigh
  while sitting better lying down, especially when
  the pain is located in the sacral region.

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Agaricus muscarius

• One of the worst positions for Agaricus is
  sitting, especially for the sacrum. A feeling of
  tension in the back is made very much worse by
  standing, stretching and again touch.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus has difficulty in coordinating the
  movements of the extremities.

EXTREMITIES - AWKWARDNESS aeth. AGAR. agath-a.
alum-sil. ambr. anac. androc. APIS ara-maca.
arg-n. ars. asaf. asar. aur-m-n. bar-c. bell.
bit-ar. BOV. bry. bufo CALC. calc-s. calc-sil.
camph. cann-i. Caps. carb-v. cardios-h. cartl-s.
Caust. chin. choc. cit-ac. cocc. Con. cygn-be.
cystein-l. dig. dulc. euphr. gels. germ-met.
haliae-lc. HELL. hep. heroin. Hydrog. Ign. IP.
kali-bi. kali-c. kali-chl. kali-s. lac-h.
lac-leo. lac-lup. LACH. lat-m. levo. limest-b.
Lol. loxo-recl. lyc. lyss. mag-p. med. mez.
mosch. musca-d. nat-ar. Nat-c. Nat-m. nat-ox.
nat-s. Nux-v. oncor-t. op. oxal-a. ph-ac. phos.
pieri-b. plb. positr. Puls. Rheum Rhus-g. ruta
sabad. sabin. sal-fr. sars. sep. sil. spong.
stann. staph. stram. streptoc. suis-em. suis-pan.
sulph. thuj. tritic-vg. vanil. verat-v. vip.
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Agaricus muscarius

• Burning and itching are the most characteristic
  of Agaricus skin eruptions, together with
  coldness in spots and the sensation as if the
  area which is affected is frostbitten.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus children are slow in walking, talking
  and learning. Their mind seems to develop slowly,
  which is why they make mistakes in speaking and
  writing later. They have a bad memory. They are
  also slow in comprehending and have difficulty in
  making decisions.

MIND - TALKING - slow learning to talk agar.
AGRA. aloe bar-c. Bell. borx. calc. calc-p.
caust. mag-c. med. NAT-M. nux-m. op. ph-ac. phos.
plb. sanic. sil. sulph. thuj. tub.
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Agaricus muscarius

• They feel weak and are very attached to and
  dependent upon their mother and father.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They may develop chorea or convulsions if they
  have been badly offended or reprimanded by their
  parents or teachers.

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Agaricus muscarius

• These children are clumsy, awkward, timid and
  very frequently look a little bit backwards.

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Agaricus muscarius

• They are prone to redness of the nose and to
  chilblains in the ears with occasional and
  sometimes frequent twitching of the face.

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Agaricus muscarius

• There is a tendency to convulsions. In meningitis
  these children roll their head and bite
  themselves and try to hurt themselves.

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Agaricus muscarius

• Another aspect of Agaricus children is described
  by J. Metzer in his Materia Medica "Nervous
  excessive liveliness of children with mental and
  motoric restlessness, they laugh, sing, dance and
  run about in a boisterous manner... With their
  great restlessness and fidgety nature these
  children become a real trial for their parent's
  patience. When playing they are wild, boisterous
  and incredibly agile in spite of the talent they
  possess, they are poor achievers at school due to
  their flightiness. These children have no
  perseverance due to their mental and physical
  restlessness, they slip from one thing to the
  next and and show no concentration whatsoever.
  Because of their fidgeting they are clumsy with
  their hands and drop things. When lying in bed
  they move their bottom rythmically or roll their
  head. In the treatment of chorea I always found
  Agaricus the most reliable remedy. Agaricus
  children are frequently subject to bed-wetting,
  particularly after lively play or excitement..."

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Agaricus muscarius

• It follows well belladonna, Calcarea carbonica,
  Mercurius, Opium, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron,
  Silicea, Tuberculinum. It is followed well by
  Tuberculinum, Tarentula hispanica, Calcarea
  carbonica.

RELATED REMEDIES - agar. - agar. follows well
after bell. calc. merc. op. puls. rhus-t. sil.
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Agaricus muscarius

• Agaricus is a strong tubercular remedy and can
  follow and complement Tuberculinum. In bronchitis
  or pneumonia there is convulsive cough with
  anxious, profuse night sweats or paroxysmal
  coughing ending in sneezing.