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Agave Americana

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Agave Americana

Natural History.
American Aloe. Century plant. N. O. Amaryllidaceae. Tincture of fresh-chopped leaves.

Clinical.

Agave Americana

Gonorrhea.
Hydrophobia Scurvy. Stomacace.

Characteristics.
Agave is an unproved remedy.
The juice of if fermented is the Mexican intoxicating beverage called "Pulque. " The plant has a local reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia.
A striking case is quoted by the H. Recorder from El Siglo Medico. A boy developed the classical symptoms of hydrophobia four and a half months after being bitten: Quarrelsomeness,

Agave Americana

excitement, fright, inability to swallow, small frequent pulse, great anxiety.
Finally swallowing was impossible, restraint had to be used to prevent him biting his nurses in the hospital, when, as a last resource, a piece of Agave was offered to the boy by the doctor in attendance, cut from a hedge of the plant with which the hospital grounds were fenced.
To the astonishment of all, the boy reached for it and ate it greedily, almost without chewing.
By evening a decrease in the violence of the nervous attacks was manifest, though they remained as frequent as before.
The improvement was slow but continued.
On the fourth day he took some nourishment, but also continued.

On the fourth day he took some nourishment, but also continued chewing Agave and swallowing the juice.
On the fifth day he recovered consciousness by still demanded Agave. On the eighth day he said he did not want any more as "it tasted too bitter and caused a burning in the mouth." He had no further symptoms of the disease.
According to Hansen Agave is indicated in scurvy, stomacace, and painful erections in gonorrhea.

Relations.

Compare: Lyss., Fagu, Lach., Aloe, and other Liliaceous plants.

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Agaricus Phalloides

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Agaricus Phalloides
Natural History.
A. bulbosus.
Amanita bulbosa.

(A small stinking fungus common in Europe and U. S.) N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh fungus.

Agaricus Phalloides

Clinical.
Cholera.
Chorea.
Cramps.
Diarrhoea.
Gastritis.
Trismus.
Urine, suppression of.
Vomiting.

Characteristics.
Symptoms observed in poisoning cases give a complete picture of Asiatic cholera. There is extreme prostration and chilliness, the sweat is cold, the hippocratic face is marked, the tongue is cold, and there is violent thirst.
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 extremities are cold, and there are violent cramps in legs, feet, and calves.
Convulsions are another prominent feature.
There is mental excitement, which has in some cases lasted for three days.
Sometimes there is stupor, at other times consciousness remains till death.
The effects do not come on till ten or twelve hours after taking the drug (in this it is like Colchicum).
At times the development of choleraic symptoms saves the patient.

General cholera symptoms are developed as with A. muscarius.
Chilliness also predominates.
Agaric. Phal.
Is a poison of great intensity and fatality.

Head.
Vertigo always on rising up.
Frightful pains in head.

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

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

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

Throat.
Dry throat.

Stomach and Abdomen.
Violent thirst, nausea, vomiting, then diarrhoea.
Very frequent mucous and bilious vomiting.
Vomiting of an offensive greenish-colored fluid, of blood.
Pains in stomach and hypogastrium followed by anxiety and vomiting.
Incessant cramps of stomach.
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.

Stool and Anus.
Anus inflamed.
Stools: frequent, bilious, whitish as in Asiatic cholera, frequent, watery, bloody.

Urinary Organs.
Suppression of urine.

Respiratory Organs.
Voice hoarse.
Respirations short.

Heart and Pulse.
Pulse: small and intermittent, hardly perceptible, slow and somewhat irregular, hard and frequent.
Pulse full and rapid (later action).

Limbs.
Cold extremities.
Skin of extremities lost its elasticity.
Upper extremities swell and become livid, finger-tips livid.
Cramps of the legs, of the calves, of the feet with drawing back of the limbs.

Generalities.
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.
Debility, prostration.
Malaise.
Staggers as if intoxicated, and with odd gesticulations, labors to express his sufferings but cannot articulate a syllable.

Skin.
Body covered with livid spots.

Sleep.
Somnolence.

Fever.

Marked chilliness.
Sweat cold.

Skin cool, afterwards hot.

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Agaricus Muscarius

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Agaricus Muscarius
This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic

Agaricus Muscarius

(Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anæmia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind.--Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.

1. Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.

2. More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.

3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.

4. Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head.--Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat). Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.

Eyes.--Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein). Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Ears.--Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose.--Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face.--Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth.--Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Agaricus Muscarius

Throat.--Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach.--Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen.--Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Urinary.--Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Female.--Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs.--Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart.--Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back.--Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities.--Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin.--Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Sleep.--Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever.--Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities.--Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship.--Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides-Death cup-active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric). 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 of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hæmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif; Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula.

Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.

Dose.--Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

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