Agnus castus

Common name: chaste tree.

Especially useful in premature old age, which arises in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers (C.).

Mental distraction; self-contempt (A.).

Melancholic and hypochondriacal mood.

Sad and despairing (B.).

Desires death (Aur., Lac-C., Nux-V.) Lack of courage (Br.).

ABSENT-MINDEDNESS (Alum., Apis, Bar-C., Cann-I., Caust., Cham., Graph., Hell., Kali-P., Lach., Mez., Nat-M., Nux-M., Plat., Puls., Sep., Verat.).

FORGETFUL (Con., Kali-P., Nux-V.) (Br.).

Cannot recollect; has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend (Lyc., Phos-Ac., Sep.) (A.).

Illusion of smell-herring or musk (Br.).

Retention of urine, from paralysis of the bladder (Caust., Op., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Rumbling of flatulence, during sleep.

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.

Swelling and induration of the spleen, often with soreness, after intermittent fever (Cean.) (G.).

COMPLAINTS OF JADED RAKES (B.).

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

Gleety discharge (Kali-B., Nat-M., Sep.) (Br.).

Sexual desire lessened, almost lost; penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection (Calad.) (N.).

Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhœa (Cob., Cub., Hydr., Med., Sulph., Thuj.; impotence from syphilis-- Merc.) (A.).

THE SEXUAL DESIRE IS SUPPRESSED.

DIMINUTION OF SEXUAL POWERS; THE PENIS IS SMALL AND FLACCID (Bar-C., Berb., Caps., Lyc., Sulph.) AND THE TESTICLES ARE COLD (Aloe, Berb., Brom., Camph., Caps., Cer-S., Gels., Merc., Zinc.).

COMPLETE IMPOTENCE (Calad., Calc., Chin., Con., Lyc., Med., Nux-V., Phos., Sel., Sep., Sulph.) (A.).

Spermatorrhæa in old sinners (F.).

When pressing at stool there is a discharge of prostatic fluid (Agar., Anac., Calc., Caust., Con., Hep., Kali-B., Nat-C., Nat-M., Nux-V., Petr., Phos-Ac., Phos., Sel., Sep. Sil., Sulph., Zinc.).

DRAWING ALONG THE SPERMATIC CORDS (All-C., Berb., Chel., Clem., Con., Ham., Ind., Mang., Merc., Nux-V., Ox-A.).

ITCHING ON THE GENITAL ORGANS, WITH YELLOW DISCHARGES FROM THE URETHRA (A.).

In old men, who, having spent their youth and early manhood in the practice of excessive venery, are just as excitable in their sexual passion at sixty as at eighteen or twenty, and yet they are physically impotent, Agnus Castus is a good remedy (F.).

HISTORY OF REPEATED GONORRHŒAS (Thuj.) (Br.)

Sterility (Aur., Bor., Graph., Nat-C., Nat-M., Sep.) (Br.).

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

THERE IS DEFICIENT SECRETION OF MILK IN LYING-IN-WOMEN (Bry., Calc., Carb-V., Caust., Cham., Hyos., Iod., Lac-D., Lach., Merc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sec., Sil., Sulph., Urt-U., Verat.).

Milk entirely suppressed (N.).

LEUCORRHŒA: STAINING YELLOW; TRANSPARENT (Br.).

Leucorrhœa, passing imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts (A.).

Difficulty of passing soft stools (Alum.) (G.).

Sometimes stools seem inclined to re-enter the rectum (Sil.).

AGGRAVATION: From seminal losses.

AMELIORATION: By scratching (itching); by pressure (aching in the dorsum of the nose).

RELATIONSHIP: Calad. and Selen. follow well after Agnus in weakness of sexual organs or impotence.

ANTIDOTE: Camph.