# Agnus Castus (Vitex)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Casticin, Agnuside, Aucubin, Iridoid glycosides, Flavonoids, Volatile oils, Diterpenes
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Agnus Castus (Vitex) is the premier herb for female hormonal balance in Western herbal medicine. It works on the pituitary gland to normalize progesterone and estrogen ratios, making it valuable for a wide range of menstrual and hormonal conditions.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Emotional stress, suppressed sexual expression, cold weather, overexertion,. morning.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Absent-minded, and forgetful.
- Distraction of mind.
- Inability to fix attention when reading.
- Bad memory.
- Unable to recollect things has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend.
- Forgetful of purchases, 
goes off and leaves them.
- Depression.
- Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
- Fear of death.
- Great sadness with a fixed idea of 
approaching death (Aeon.).
- Sad and despairing, repeats that he will soon die.
- Desires death.
- Doubts if 
anything had existence.
- Changeable, moods.
- Indifference to everything, alternating with cheerfulness.
- Lack of courage.
- Discouragement alternat ing with haughtiness.
- Lethargy alternating with frenzy.
- Exhilaration alternating with 
 
 
sadness.
- Neurotic.
- Peevish.
- Inclined to get angry.
- Premature old age with apathy and mel ancholy.
- Mental ailments 
from sexual excesses, masturbation.
- Sexual melancholy.
- Self -contempt from sexu al abuse (Staph.).
- Aversion to sex.
- Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation.
- Illusion of smell, herring, musk.
- Starting 
during sleep.
- Absent-minded, and forgetful.
- Distraction of mind.
- Inability to fix attention when reading.
- Bad memory.
- Unable to recollect things has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend.
- Forgetful of purchases, 
goes off and leaves them.
- Depression.
- Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
- Fear of death.
- Great sadness with a fixed idea of 
approaching death (Aeon.).
- Sad and despairing, repeats that he will soon die.
- Desires death.
- Doubts if 
anything had existence.
- Changeable, moods.
- Indifference to everything, alternating with cheerfulness.
- Lack of courage.
- Discouragement alternat ing with haughtiness.
- Lethargy alternating with frenzy.
- Exhilaration alternating with 
 
 
sadness.
- Neurotic.
- Peevish.
- Inclined to get angry.
- Premature old age with apathy and mel ancholy.
- Mental ailments 
from sexual excesses, masturbation.
- Sexual melancholy.
- Self -contempt from sexu al abuse (Staph.).
- Aversion to sex.
- Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation.
- Illusion of smell, herring, musk.
- Starting 
during sleep.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo before menses.
- Vertigo from loss of vital fluids.

### Head
- Headache before menses.
- Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead, worse during 
motion.
- Pain in the temple, as from a blow.
- Heaviness in the head and pressure, as if the head would fall 
forward.
- Pain in the vertex.
- Tensio n and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch.
- Biting -itching on 
scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.
- Headache before menses.
- Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead, worse during 
motion.
- Pain in the temple, as from a blow.
- Heaviness in the head and pressure, as if the head would fall 
forward.
- Pain in the vertex.
- Tensio n and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch.
- Biting -itching on 
scalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.

### Eyes
- Gnawing itching in eyes.
- Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes.
- Sensation 
as if one had received a blow on eye.
- Burning pain when reading in evening.
- Pupils dilated (Bell.).
- Photophobia.
- Dim vision before menses.

### Ears
- Roaring in the ears.
- Hardness of hearing.

### Face
- Corrosive itching on the cheeks.
- Formication in cheeks.
- Tearing under right lower jaw.
- Long sharp pain 
followed by fine pricking itching.
- Rending, tearing pain under alveoli of right lower jaw.
- Erysipelas on left cheek, 
spreading from nose over face and head.

### Mouth
- Mouth very dry.
- Saliva viscid and tough, drawing out in strings.
- Ulcers in the mouth and on the gums.
- Metallic, coppery, bitter taste.
- Boils.
- Tongue coated white.
- Nose - Hard ache on dorsum of nose, better pressure.
- Soreness and pain in left side of nose.
- Illusion of smell, 
herring, musk.
- Perspiration - Sweats, almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air.
- Sweats easily.
- Pungent smell, 
causes dullness and headache.
- Sweats followed by vomiting and trembling.

### Throat
- Corrosive itching in pit of throat.
- Voice as if passing through wool.
- Voice has no timbre.

### Chest
- Sensation of dryness in chest.
- Hard pressure in the region of the sternum, especially during a deep 
inspiration.
- Pressure in xiphoid cartilage.
- Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse touch or motion.
- Constitutions - It corresponds to lymphatic, sycotic constitutions.
- Premature old age with apathy and 
melancholy.
- Nervous debility in unmarried persons.
- Impotence and gleet in old offenders.
- Cough - Coughs during the evening.
- Coughs in bed, before going to sleep.
- Coughs with raising of blood, 
followed by copious mucus.
- Coughs in paroxysms.
- Coughs with palpitations and epistaxis.
- Coughs when 
inhaling cold air.
- Hysterical palpitations with nose bleed in women.
- Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young 
men.
- Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible.
- Palpitations during cough.
- Breasts - Agalactia.
- Breast-milk absent, with sadness.
- Milk scanty or entirely suppressed.
- Deficient secretion 
of milk in lying-in women (Calc-p.).

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Only the most simple food agrees.
- Belchings, smell like urine.
- Pinching pain when sitting bent over.
- Nausea in pit of stomach after eating.
- Nausea in pit when standing.
- Nausea as from eating fat food.
- Stools - Stools soft, recede, difficult.
- Diarrhea of children.
- Chronic diarrhea of adults.
- Teeth - Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.
- Throbbing, tearing pain in left eyetooth.
- Small 
boil near tooth, very painful to touch.

### Urinary & Genital
- Kidneys - Passes more urine, frequently.
- Pain in bladder.
- When urinating, pain in kidneys.
- Red, turbid urine 
with burning and pressure in urethra.
- Gets up twice at night and even once during siesta to urinat e.
- Dyspnea worse evening.
- Dyspnea on going up stairs.
- Tough, hanging mucus like a rag in fauces.
- Itching of genitals.
- Testicles, cold, swollen, hard and painful.
- Penis small, flaccid.
- Drawing pain along 
spermatic cords.
- Loss of prostatic fluid on straining.
- Gleety discharge.
- Yellow discharge from urethra.
- Aversion to sex.
- Impotence with genitals cold and relaxed.
- Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhea, 
syphilis.
- No erections.
- Penis s o relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection.
- Feeble erections without 
sexual desire.
- Impotence, with morning erections only.
- Spermatorrhea with impotence.
- Ailments 
Agnus castus due to masturbation, sexual excesses.
- Sexual desire almost lost.
- Sexual desire gone (Sei., 
 
 
Con., Sabal.).
- Scanty emission without ejaculation.
- Menses are suppressed with abdominal pains.
- Bearing down pains.
- Suppressed menses.
- Scanty 
menses.
- Infertility with suppressions of menses and no sexual desire (Sep.).
- Swelling of uterus.
- Leucorrhea 
staining yellow, transparent.
- Relaxation of genitals with leucorrhea.
- Transparent vaginal discharge passes 
imperceptibly from the very relaxed genital.
- Retained placenta.
- Ailments due to masturbation, sexual 
excesses.
- Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation.
- Aversion to sex.

### Extremities
- Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of joints.
- Sprains and strains.
- Gouty nodosities.
- Hard pressure in 
right axilla and upper arm, worse from touch and motion.
- Strains from lifting a little too much.
- Swelling of 
the finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains.
- Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight.
- Joints as if dislocated.
- Feels bruised all over.
- Cold hands, cold knees, even in bed.
- Joints easily twisted.
- Feet easily turn under when 
walking on stone pavement.
- Rheumatic and gouty nodosities on joints.
- Liver - Aching in region of liver worse touch.

### Neck & Back
- Creaking noise in vertebrae.
- Pain in sacrum, from flatus.
- Sharp, deep pain on and near coccyx.
- Sharp 
pain near sacrum.

### Skin
- Generalized fatigue or low stamina, disproportionate to activity levels.
- Agnus castus (Chaste Tree) 43.
- Muscular weakness, especially in limbs, with a sensation of heaviness.
- Neurological/Cognitive:.
- Mild cognitive fog, difficulty concentrating, or memory lapses, often stress-related.
- Nervous restlessness or irritability alternating with exhaustion.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Mild functional dyspepsia or bloating, occasionally linked to emotional stress.

### Sleep
- Sleeplessness.
- Awaking often, as if alarmed, starting.
- Anxious dreams.
- Amorous dreams.