📖 Agnus Castus (HMT) Introduction

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 Arum Mur, 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-hypers ensitivity. In case the headache is already present, it becomes unbearab le 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). Adjuvants: Caladium, Selenium Antidotes: Camphor, Nux Vomica Potency: 30 to CM