Understanding Agaricus musc. (Amanita muscaria)

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo MD, FFHom (Lon.) et al.

An overwhelming weakness is affecting our patient since the very beginning of one´s life. As Kent says, it´s more a constitutional weakness, as if it was part of this patient from start. 

Great changeability, irritability, mental depression and complaints which come on from overexertion of the mind and prolonged study. The brain seems to be developed tardily.

Children are late in learning to talk and walk, thus combining the features of two remedies, Natrum muriaticum, which has the symptom "late learning to talk," and Calcarea carb., which has the symptom "late learning to walk."

It will be noticed in Calcarea that this is due to a defect in bone weakness. In Agaricus it is a mental defect, a slowly developing mind.

Children with twitching and early fainting, nervous girls prior to puberty who have convulsions from being scolded, from excitement and shock; late in mental development.

Children who cannot remember, make mistakes and are slow in learning. Nervous patients who on going over their manuscripts find out their mistakes in writing and spelling.

The condition of the mind is one in which they are slow to grasp ideas; wrong words float in kaleidoscopically.

When we read in the book "the whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed," we must read between the lines.

A long list of symptoms follows this observation, coming from the provers:

Discomfort and heaviness in whole body; general indescribable malaise.
Great debility.
Powerlessness and great weariness, had to remain in bed on account of great weakness.
Great prostration and inability to think.
Exhaustion with delirium.
Debility: after coitus; with trembling of limbs; from least exertion, with frequent palpitation; with vertigo.
Greatest lassitude with irresistible drowsiness, > after eating.
Great lassitude and heaviness in limbs, after a short walk, or even in bed, accompanied by anxiety and trembling. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Great weakness and viscous sweats
Sense of languor as if body were bruised and joints dislocated. θ Headache.
Sense of uneasiness and weakness all down spine. θ Headache.
Gaping: followed each time by involuntary laughter; makes him giddy; and sneezing, with pain in maxillary joint; with stretching, most of arms ; and shaking chill.
Frequent yawning: before spasms, or paroxysms of headache.
Drowsiness, cannot resist sleep, even soon after getting up.
Irresistible drowsiness in day time. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Early in evening very sleepy; has to go to bed, but a peculiar fear as if somebody would come and disturb him prevents sleep for hours.
Great drowsiness and weariness during day; at night a rush of ideas prevents sleep.
Sleepy and heavy headed, mist before eyes, pressure in eyes, lower limbs very tired.
Sleepiness, especially after or even while eating.
Afternoon drowsy and weary, with sexual desire.
Weary and drowsy by day, sleepless at night. θ From overworking at desk.
On falling asleep starts, twitches; sudden complete awakening. θ Chorea.
Sopor and convulsions.

Aversion to work. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Indisposed to perform any labor, especially mental.
She is indifferent, though naturally very solicitous.

This is our patient: tired, weakened and confused; convulsive children who had development problems and late learning to walk. 

But there´s another group of symptons all being part of this remedy; although he is feeling weak and tired, a great number of symptons are related to the very oppositive side of this condition. These symptoms may show us a contradictory condition happening within the Agaricus patient, a combination of a subjective mental impression of oneself, of what he believes can be achieved  but one´s physical condition is not alouding him to perform one´s desires. It is expressed by these symptoms:

In Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed, [7]. 

the evening, when desirous of enjoying an embrace, he tried in vain to have an erection; he was, therefore, obliged to desist; in the ensuing night, he had several copious, involuntary effusions of semen, [2]. 

In spite of strong excitement, there is no pleasurable sensation in an embrace, [7]. 

During an embrace, a copious effusion of semen, followed by a very long sleep, [7]. 

But, as this people from Siberia have experienced, with a decoction of the mushroom, the primary aeffects of Agaricus are related to joy, bravevy, courage – a feeling of strengh that  will soon be replaced by slepiness and tiredness. This observation can clearly gives us the Primary and the Secondary effcts, being the Primary the bravery, courage and joyfullness and the Secondary the sleepiness and prostraction. But as Hahnemann suggests, we should look for the Secondary reaction, the one that belongs to the patient reaction from the intoxication. 

The natives of Siberia intoxicate themselves with this decoction. Soon after drinking it they become jolly, and are gradually seized with such a fit of gayety that they take to singing, leaping, and reciting before the beauties of the tribe their exploits in war or the chase. Their physical strength is increased. They fall asleep, and after twelve or sixteen hours of slumber, they awake in a state of utter prostration; the head, however, does not feel so empty as after intoxication by brandy, 

When reading Kent´s MM, we may notice that his main concearn with the text symptoms are those related to the weakness and debility symptoms  of the remedy; although there are planty of symptoms regarding Agaricus feeling strenght, they were left aside in his studies. It can be understood: Kent was observing the Secondary symptoms, not the Primary ones. He was focused on symptoms of debility, tiredness, convulsions and the child late development. 

But here are Agaricus symptoms os strenght:

 Delirium; he imagines himself a military officer, commanding at a drill and directing the various manœuvres. 

She ran about the yard, romped with the children, threw them down, even hit them, [t]. 

 He becomes so furious that he can hardly be restrained from ripping up his bowels, as he fancies the mushroom had ordered him to do, [38]. 

Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy; also, frenzy which causes the patient to assail and injure himself, with great exertion of power, [37]. 

He is intoxicated with fearless frenzy; forming bold and revengeful projects, [36]. 

Screaming and raving like mad about the room, 

Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy; frenzy causing him to assail and injure himself, great exertion of power.

Sings, talks, but does not answer questions; strength augmented. 

Increase of strength during delirium.
All motions are much easier and are made with much more dexterity.
Extraordinary strength of muscles. θ Epilepsy.
They lift up heavy loads and carry them with great facility for distances;

Epilepsy: with great exertion of strength.
Extreme wakefulness and restlessness, and continual fever.
Ecstasy, fancies excited ; makes verses ; prophesies.
Taken in moderation it excites the intellect and inspires cheerfulness and courage.

The slightest influence of the will seems to have the most powerful effect.

Taken in moderation it excites the intellect and inspires cheerfulness and courage.

Increase of strength, with cheerful delirium; the patient sings and talks, but returns no answer when questioned,. 

Delirium; he imagines himself a military officer, commanding at a drill and directing the various manœuvres. 

Delirium. 

Delirium, with increase of strength 

Raging delirium; called for his hatchet; had to be confined; alternated with religious excitement, 

Great mental excitement. 

Falls into a delirium as with high fever; becomes now gay, now melancholic.

Agaricus believes oneself being an officer comandind a drill. And, as we read before, he´s a man longing for an sexual embrace although he´s missing his erections. Maybe this is what we might encouter amongst our Agaricus patients, this conflict has to be be present, noticed: this contrast between one´s fhysical condition of weakeness and one´s believes and longings to reach out what one´s present condition would not alout. A subjective sensation of power, strenght, but a lack of physical power to do it so. He believes being an officer comanding his men over a drill, he believes he can perform a sexual embrace but being impotent. Agaricus is weak, tired, believing he is endowed with special powers and strenght. Our hospitals are housing maybe too many Agaricus patients living in such delusion of greatness and importance, but being feeble and mentally ill.

Agaricus musc Groups

Symptoms from Allen, Hering, Kent & Clarke

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo MD FFhom (Lon)

With the environment

Vertigo:  when walking in open air, reeling as if drunk; long-lasting, with great sensitiveness to cold air; momentary; from strong light of sun; with stupefaction and burning in vertex; combined with a tottering gait and indistinct sight, even of near objects; > thinking of something else ; in attacks; objects whirling ; tendency to fall forward; brought on by protracted mental application or exciting debates.
Fainting after moving head, hearing others talk, smelling aromatics or perfumeries, even smelling vinegar.

They lift up heavy loads and carry them with great facility for distances;
It seems as if they were dancing, they make the strangest pantomimes with the hands;
They run to places where they had no intention to go;
Trembling of legs and hands, with debility; soreness of spine; < at approach of thunder-storm.
Dreams as if he was walking up and down in his room and reading, while he was sure he was in his bed; could not overcome it.
The natives of Siberia intoxicate themselves with this decoction. Soon after drinking it they become jolly, and are gradually seized with such a fit of gayety that they take to singing, leaping, and reciting before the beauties of the tribe their exploits in war or the chase. Their physical strength is increased. They fall asleep, and after twelve or sixteen hours of slumber, they awake in a state of utter prostration; the head, however, does not feel so empty as after intoxication by brandy, 

They lift up heavy loads and carry them with great facility for distances;
He imagines himself at the gate of hell and that the mushroom commands him to fall on his knees and confess his sins, which he does, [38]. 

Some of them leap, dance, and sing; others weep with anguish; a small hole appears to them a frightful chasm; a spoonful of water an immense lake (only from abuse of the drug).. 

With Oneself

Fury

He becomes so furious that he can hardly be restrained from ripping up his bowels, as he fancies the mushroom had ordered him to do, [38]. 

Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy; also, frenzy which causes the patient to assail and injure himself, with great exertion of power, [37]. 

He is intoxicated with fearless frenzy; forming bold and revengeful projects, [36]. 

Screaming and raving like mad about the room, 

Fearless, menacing, mischievous frenzy; frenzy causing him to assail and injure himself, great exertion of power.
Silly merriness. 

It seems as if they were dancing, they make the strangest pantomimes with the hands;
They run to places where they had no intention to go;
Nervous excitement bordering on convulsions.
At night, 3 A. M., awakes with an inner restlessness in all voluntary muscles, followed by a trembling and finally an irresistible playing and twitching of all muscles.
Great loquacity, convulsive motions of facial and cervical muscles, mostly right side, drawing head down to shoulder; merry, incoherent talk, followed by malaise.
Sings, talks, but does not answer questions; strength augmented. 

Increase of strength during delirium.
All motions are much easier and are made with much more dexterity.
Extraordinary strength of muscles. θ Epilepsy.
They lift up heavy loads and carry them with great facility for distances;

Epilepsy: with great exertion of strength.
Extreme wakefulness and restlessness, and continual fever.
Ecstasy, fancies excited ; makes verses ; prophesies.

Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk; on trying to walk stumbled singularly often. θ Nystagmus.
Great selfishness. θ Nymphomania.

Cannot find proper word, uses wrong words; < after exertion and sleepless nights.
Dulness almost amounting to idiocy. θ Chorea.
The whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed, hence a kind of idiocy.
Talks incoherently; passes rapidly from subject to subject.
Falls into a delirium as with high feve ; becomes now gay, now melancholic.

Aversion to work. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Indisposed to perform any labor, especially mental.
She is indifferent, though naturally very solicitous.
Cross, self-willed, stubborn. θ Chronic spasms of eyes.

Complaints after getting angry. 

Very much out of humor.
Takes offense easily.
His mind much depressed. θ Chorea.

(OBS :) Mental solicitude about his condition. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Protracted mental application or exciting debates brought on vertigo.
Epilepsy after fright.

While meditating: vertigo.
When thinking of pain: undefined disagreeable sensation.
Laughs at his attempts to stand and walk.
Vertigo  when walking in open air, reeling as if drunk; long-lasting, with great sensitiveness to cold air; momentary; from strong light of sun; with stupefaction and burning in vertex; combined with a tottering gait and indistinct sight, even of near objects; > thinking of something else ; in attacks; objects whirling ; tendency to fall forward; brought on by protracted mental application or exciting debates.
When walking does not arrive at point he sets out for. θ Chorea.
Constant dizziness. θ From overwork at desk.
Lay almost always unconscious, though he could be raised for a minute when questioned. θ Typhoid.
Confusion of head.
Heaviness as after drunkenness.
As if drunken and always sleepy. θ Epilepsy.
Unconscious and speechless with convulsions
Fainting after moving head, hearing others talk, smelling aromatics or perfumeries, even smelling vinegar.

The slightest influence of the will seems to have the most powerful effect.

Very restless. θ Typhus.
Great weakness and trembling. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Trembling of lower jaw and lips.
Chattering of jaws and trembling of limbs. θ Typhoid fever.
Tremulous sensation in whole body.
Tremor of whole body. θ Typhus.
Trembling of parts or all over. θ Chorea.
Trembling, with anxiousness and prostration.
Trembling of legs and hands, with debility; soreness of spine; < at approach of thunder-storm.
Twitching of muscles in different places, now here, now there; subsultus tendinum.
Twitching and spasms during sleep.
Muscular twitchings grow more violent; only a few hours sleep. θ Chorea.
Twitchings: of eyelids and eyeballs; of cheeks : in chest posteriorly; in abdomen.
Twitching of arms ceased when patient used them in his work of shoemaking. θ Chorea.
Spasmodic motions, from simple involuntary motions and jerks of single muscles, to a dancing of whole body. θ Chorea. θ Hysteria.

Involuntary movements (especially with children) while awake; ceasing during sleep. θ Chorea.
As soon as she opened her eyes in morning the two eyeballs began to turn to right and left at intervals of half a second, and this continued all day.

Frequent attacks of slight convulsions. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Cramps in hands and feet; body convulsed, as if a galvanic battery was applied to spine.
Convulsions and tremor.
Convulsions, fever with hot head, lying in a lethargic state ; distortion of eyes and crying out in sleep. θ Nystagmus.
Catalepsy.
Epilepsy: with great exertion of strength; from fright, every seven days: he falls and lies almost motionless; from suppressed eruptions; two or three attacks a week, after suppression of tinea capitis; attacks increase at first and lessen gradually.

Eclampsia.
Discomfort and heaviness in whole body; general indescribable malaise.
Great debility.
Powerlessness and great weariness, had to remain in bed on account of great weakness.
Great prostration and inability to think.
Exhaustion with delirium.
Debility: after coitus; with trembling of limbs; from least exertion, with frequent palpitation; with vertigo.
Gets tired from a short walk.
Greatest lassitude with irresistible drowsiness, > after eating.
Great lassitude and heaviness in limbs, after a short walk, or even in bed, accompanied by anxiety and trembling. θ Incipient tuberculosis.
Great weakness and viscous sweats
Sense of languor as if body were bruised and joints dislocated. θ Headache.
Sense of uneasiness and weakness all down spine. θ Headache.
Paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms.
Paralysis of upper and lower limbs. θ Incipient softening of spinal marrow.
Paraplegia from congestion of lumbar part of cord.
A child, æt. 15 months, paralyzed all over, eyes turned, face bluish pale, puffed up, small, irregular pulse, slight tearing and twitches in upper limbs.
In all paralyzed parts, violent pains.
Gaping: followed each time by involuntary laughter; makes him giddy; and sneezing, with pain in maxillary joint; with stretching, most of arms ; and shaking chill.
Frequent yawning: before spasms, or paroxysms of headache.
Drowsiness, cannot resist sleep, even soon after getting up.
Irresistible drowsiness in day time. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Early in evening very sleepy; has to go to bed, but a peculiar fear as if somebody would come and disturb him prevents sleep for hours.
Great drowsiness and weariness during day; at night a rush of ideas prevents sleep.
Sleepy and heavy headed, mist before eyes, pressure in eyes, lower limbs very tired.
Sleepiness, especially after or even while eating.
Afternoon drowsy and weary, with sexual desire.
Weary and drowsy by day, sleepless at night. θ From overworking at desk.
On falling asleep starts, twitches; sudden complete awakening. θ Chorea.
Sopor and convulsions.
Coma, with paralysis of face and limbs. θ Typhus.
Convulsive affections, which cease during sleep.
During sleep, one does not notice any motion of eyes whatever. θ Clonic spasms of eyes.
Uneasy, restless sleep ; from violent itching and burning of skin.
Restless night and chilliness.
Tosses about from annoying crawls over whole body, head, chest, abdomen and feet.
Restless nights, suffers pain in back, chest, loins and thighs.
Restless night, a burning itching pain on different parts awakens him.
Restless night, a heaviness in whole body, in head, chest, abdomen and feet induces him to toss about.
Unpleasant dreams waking him from sleep.
Dreams he could not open his mouth on account of pain in maxillary joint, and that they made him smell caustic ammonia, which wakened him.
Dreams as if he was walking up and down in his room and reading, while he was sure he was in his bed; could not overcome it.
In his dreams, anxiety as if suffocating.

Excited sexual desire, most mornings.
After siesta, an irresistible urging, and, after emission, tensive pressure in hypochondria.
Erections night and morning.
Pollutions: several nights; in siesta.
After emission, pains and weakness in thighs.

Penis cold and shrunken.
Great desire for coition, with relaxed penis.
Sexual power much diminished, apathy, nothing can produce an erection.
During coition: burning in urethra; most painful with ejaculation; insufficient ejaculation, or very late; voluptuous ecstasy wanting.
After coitus: loss of appetite; each time great relaxation for several days, lassitude ; night-sweats; for two nights burning itching of skin, with sweat on upper chest and shoulders, afterwards on abdomen and arms.
Complaints after sexual debauches.
Drawing in testicles, with a sense of discomfort, heaviness and drowsiness; evenings.
Spasmodic drawing in left testicle and spermatic cord.
Excessive and painful retraction of testes towards inguinal ring, has to palliate it by pressing them off with fingers.
Disagreeable sensation in urethra, only in front part of penis, like a crawling, has to squeeze penis.
Itching in penis, on foreskin and scrotum.
On left side of scrotum red swelling, tickles and itches.
Old gleets and other sequela of gonorrhœa.
Excessive itching of genitals, in mons veneris ; unbearable for several days.
Itching and burning at night above genitals, lichen pilaris urticatus.
Awful, almost intolerable bearing-down pain.
Cramps as if she must have a child, obliged to lie down.
Itching and irritation of parts, with strong desire for an embrace.
Menses too profuse, with tearing, pressive pains in back and abdomen.
At beginning of menses : nightly restlessness on account of troublesome rigors ; toothache and wakefulness.
During menses : headache, toothache, pain and itching in l. ear, lessened by boring ; pains, like those of labor, in belly and back ; pains in left arm ; itching here and there, particularly about genitals; rigors; palpitation; running of water from mouth.
After menses: pain as from exhaustion; palpitation; headache and dizziness ; prolapsus after cessation of menses ; interrupted sleep with anxiety.

Delirium. 

Delirium, with increase of strength 

Raging delirium; called for his hatchet; had to be confined; alternated with religious excitement, [t]. 

Increase of strength, with cheerful delirium; the patient sings and talks, but returns no answer when questioned,. 

Delirium; he imagines himself a military officer, commanding at a drill and directing the various manœuvres. 

Half an hour later, he falls into a delirium, like a patient with a high fever, and becomes now immoderately gay, now profoundly melancholy. 

Great mental excitement, [t]. 

He talks incoherently: passes very rapidly from one subject to another, and soon enters a state of cheerful delirium, with great loquacity, [35]. 

She ran about the yard, romped with the children, threw them down, even hit them, [t]. 

He imagines himself at the gate of hell and that the mushroom commands him to fall on his

Great loquacity, and at the same time strong convulsions of the facial and cervical muscles, especially on the right side, drawing the head down toward the right shoulder. At the same time, movements of flexion and extension alternately in the lower limbs, not preventing locomotion; these cause movements of putting them down and lifting them. He walks for some time in this way, with a great deal of merry, incoherent talk. After this condition has lasted more than half an hour it is followed by quietude, disturbed, in a little while, by nausea and general malaise, [35]. 

During intoxication they lift and carry the heaviest loads, take long steps and jump over small objects, as if trunks of trees lay in their way, [t]. [20.] 

Tumbled about the room in the most grotesque manner, [t]. 

Laughed about their not standing and walking straight, [t]. 

Some run and walk involuntarily in the most dangerous places, [t]. 

Dancing, [t]. 

Singing, [t]. 

Telling secrets. 

Extravagantly exalted fancy, ecstasy, prophecies, making verses,. 

Great prostration, with delirium very much resembling that which occurs in adynamic fevers. 

Taken in moderation it excites the intellect and inspires cheerfulness and courage.

Bright mood, with absence of care, . 

Bright mood, but no inclination to talk,

Calm, composed, sociable, active, and glad of having done his duty (healthful reaction of the organism). 

Cheerfulness took the place of ill-humor. 

Cheering up,

He forces himself to speak; but he answers only in a few words, though his general disposition is cheerful at the time, [7]. 

An impulse to laugh overcame him in bed, owing to an indescribably mixed sensation of happiness and misery. 

Depression of spirits, 

His mood was depressed,

Discouragement, [7]. 

Melancholy that cannot be overcome, [16]. 

Sad mood from trifling causes. 

The gayety changes into suffering, [35]. 

Anxiety, [t]. 

Anxiety, as though something unpleasant were going to happen to her, [7]. 

His mind is uneasy and anxious; he was constantly concerned only about himself, his present and future condition, [6]. 

Restlessness and uneasiness of body and mind (after the lapse of half an hour), [2]. 

Timid craziness, [37]. 

Fretfulness of mind,

Vexed, irritable, moody, [48]. 

Ill-humor and irritability, [15]. 

Peevish and irritable mood, [15]. 

Extremely peevish and irritable, [7]. 

Quarrelsome mood, [15]. 

Easily irritated and out of humor, [15], [21]. 

Reading did not fix his attention as usual; he soon became excited, grew angry at the servant and felt inclined to fight, [25]. 

She is vexed with herself and pities herself, [13]. 

Ill-humored and indifferent, [9]. 

Waking in morning in ill-humor,

She was very much out of humor all day and disinclined to answer when asked questions, [13]. 

Disinclination to speak, with ill-humor, peevishness, and disinclination to work, [6]. 

She who ordinarily felt so extremely solicitous about everything, is now quite indifferent, [7]. 

It seemed as though he were at a loss to discover the words he wished to use, [7]. 

Thoughtless staring; disinclined to think; he is sluggish and dull, [32]. 

Indifference and moody taciturnity; repugnance to work, [9]. 

Disinclination to work. 

He trifles with everything, to save himself the trouble of working, [2]. 

Aversion to all labor that occupies the mind; if he, nevertheless, undertakes any, there is a rush of blood to the head, throbbing in the arteries, heat in the face, and the thinking faculty is disturbed, [9]. 

Indisposition to think

Confusion of mind, with silent delirium, which lasts all day, [35]. 

Heaviness of mind; imbecility (reaction of the organism in old age), [37]. 

Stupefaction, [t]. 

Forgetful; he finds it difficult to recollect the things which he had heard and imagined before, [2]. 

The train of thought is easily disturbed, and the last thoughts cannot be recalled easily, [32]. 

The patient retains no recollection of his serious sickness, [35]. 

Next day the patient did not remember having been indisposed; he thought he had made a journey, [35]. 

Loss of consciousness, [t], [41]. 

Senseless, with closed eyes, [t]. 

Unconscious, with red, puffy face,

Continual erections (first night), [9]. 

Erections early in the morning, 

Frequent erections, also at night, [7]. 

Mornings, excessive sexual desire, [30]. 

Very lively sexual desire, [30]. 

The sexual desire becomes excited, [7]. 

A nap after dinner is succeeded by an unbounded desire, in the sexual organ, for an emission of semen; after the emission there is a pressive tension below the ribs, without any symptoms of flatulence,. 

Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed, [7]. 

In the evening, when desirous of enjoying an embrace, he tried in vain to have an erection; he was, therefore, obliged to desist; in the ensuing night, he had several copious, involuntary effusions of semen, [2]. 

In spite of strong excitement, there is no pleasurable sensation in an embrace, [7]. 

During an embrace, a copious effusion of semen, followed by a very long sleep, [7]. 

Tardy effusion of semen during an embrace.

Insufficient effusion of semen during an embrace, which is succeeded by weariness of the body, 

After every embrace there is great weariness, lasting several days, [7]. 

Every embrace is followed by copious night-sweats, attended with a general lassitude of the body, which lasts for several days, [7]. 

After an embrace he feels very much exhausted; there is a burning itching upon the skin, and copious night-sweats for two nights; the sweat appearing first upon the upper part of the chest and shoulders, and then upon the abdomen and the anus, [7]. 

Sexual desire very much diminished, [15]. 

Noticeable sexual apathy, [15], [21]. 

Great aversion to sexual intercourse, [2]. 

Pollutions (first night), [9]. 

Nightly pollutions, without any lascivious dreams, [6]. 

Emissions, several successive nights, [21]. [1420.] 

Several slight emissions, 

Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough (after seven and a half hours). 

Frequently repeated yawning; it is so violent that it makes him giddy; early in the morning when walking in the open air (immediately),

He yawned frequently, and each yawn was followed by involuntary laughter, [25]. 

Very frequent convulsive yawning, with excessive opening of the mouth; repeated two or three times in a minute, [16]. 

Yawning, extension, and stretching of the limbs (after one hour), [2]. 

Frequent yawning, with somnolence; he can hardly help falling asleep in the forenoon, [7]. 

Sleepy, yawning, and stretching; pulse 65 (one hour), [32]. 

Sleepy and tired the whole day, [7]. 

Unusual sleepiness,

Irresistible sleepiness, which makes it necessary that the person should lie down, [11]. 

Sleepiness, with heaviness of the head (immediately). 

Early and unusual sleepiness,

Somnolence; he answered slowly, [t]. 

Sleepiness, early in the morning, one hour after rising, [2]. 

In the forenoon, when reading, he was overwhelmed with sleep, [7]. 

Unusually great sleepiness after dinner, [12]. 

Irresistible somnolence after dinner, [7]. 

Great sleepiness the whole afternoon, [32]. 

Unusually long and profound sleep after dinner, [18]. 

Slept well, but roused himself with difficulty in the morning, [30]. 

Sleep during the night was good, quiet, and strengthening, [23]. 

Sleep unusually long and profound, [18]. [2460.] 

Sleep always good, but profound, as if stupefied on waking, [15], [21]. 

Slept well during the night, but she awakes unrefreshed, with a sensation of heat and heaviness in the whole body. 

In spite of great somnolence, he cannot fall asleep (in the forenoon), [7]. 

Although he felt extremely drowsy in daytime, yet he was prevented from falling asleep by an abundance of ideas that thronged his mind, [7]. 

After dinner sleep oppressed his eyes; nevertheless, he was unable to fall asleep on account of pain and uneasiness in his legs, [7]. 

Already, at eight o'clock in the evening, he felt so sleepy that he was obliged to go to bed; from fear lest some one should disturb him he only fell asleep an hour afterwards, after which he slept until near morning, [2]. 

Being very sleepy in the evening he went to bed, but he felt so uncomfortable all over the body, and his legs felt so tired, that he was unable to fall asleep; this symptom continued after he had waked up from a dream, [7]. 

Slept well, but often gnashed his teeth while asleep, [30]. 

Frequent waking up in the night, as though he had slept enough, [6]. 

Frequent waking up at night (fifth day), [8]. 

Frequent waking up in the night, attended with anxiety, [9]. 

He frequently wakes up in the night, is wide awake, but falls asleep again a little while after, [7]. 

On falling asleep electric shocks, with twitchings through legs, more in left, and sudden, complete waking, 

Slept well, but awoke at 1.30, and could not go to sleep again before 2.30, 

Wakes very early in the morning (4.30); lies half awake, with continued, violent, pressure pain in umbilical region; does not become fully awake. ´

During and after the proving somewhat heavy sleep, often interrupted by waking up,

Sleep stupefying, although several times interrupted by tossing about and waking up. 

Slept very little during the night, and awoke almost every half-hour, but without any other symptom,. 

Restless sleep at night, with much tossing about; early awaking, without being able to sleep again, 

Awaking three successive nights, exactly at midnight, [12]. 

Restless, interrupted night-sleep, with anxiety, [13]. 

Restless night-sleep, with constant tossing about, owing to an irksome heaviness in the whole body, in the head, as well as the chest, abdomen, and feet, [13]. 

Slept badly, with headache and depression, bordering on melancholy, [16]. 

At night, fear of suffocation; sensation as if the nose were entirely stopped, [21]. [2490.] 

Light sleep, with many dreams and constantly changing images, [11]. 

Sleep interrupted by anxious dreams, [7]. 

Internal uneasiness during a bad dream, the nature of which he is not able to recollect, and during which the body remained quiet; upon waking up all uneasiness had gone, [18]. 

Frequent waking up on account of bad dreams, [7]. 

Disagreeable dreams often wake him up in the night, [7]. 

Vivid dreams, partly agreeable, partly disagreeable, [6].
Great changeability, irritability, mental depression and complaints which come on from overexertion of the mind and prolonged study. The brain seems to be developed tardily.

Children are late in learning to talk and walk, thus combining the features of two remedies, Natrum muriaticum, which has the symptom "late learning to talk," and Calcarea carb., which has the symptom "late learning to walk."

It will be noticed in Calcarea that this is due to a defect in bone weakness. In Agaricus it is a mental defect, a slowly developing mind.

Children with twitching and early fainting, nervous girls prior to puberty who have convulsions from being scolded, from excitement and shock; late in mental development.

Children who cannot remember, make mistakes and are slow in learning. Nervous patients who on going over their manuscripts find out their mistakes in writing and spelling.

The condition of the mind is one in which they are slow to grasp ideas; wrong words float in kaleidoscopically.

When we read in the book "the whole psychological sphere as if paralyzed," we must read between the lines.

The whole mind and sensorium seem paralyzed; the patient is sluggish, stupid, at times seems to be delirious; there is confusion of the mind so nearly like delirium that it is not unlike intoxication.

A delirium such as is produced by alcohol. He also becomes silly, says foolish and silly things, sings and whistles at an inopportune time, makes verses and prophesies; or he lapses into an opposite state, becomes indifferent to Ids surroundings. One who is mild and placid becomes self-willed, obstinate and conceited.

Difficulty in coordinating the movements of the muscles of the body. Incoordination of brain and spinal cord. Clumsy motion of the fingers and hands. In handling things she drops them. Fingers fly open spasmodically while holding things.

You will sometimes cure Bridget in the kitchen with Agaricus or Apis, when the trouble is that she is continually breaking the dishes by letting them fall. These two remedies are opposites,

With the Others

Delirium; he imagines himself a military officer, commanding at a drill and directing the various manœuvres. 

She ran about the yard, romped with the children, threw them down, even hit them, [t]. 

The father had phantasies; seemed to see his dead sister in heaven, [t]. 

The natives of Siberia intoxicate themselves with this decoction. Soon after drinking it they become jolly, and are gradually seized with such a fit of gayety that they take to singing, leaping, and reciting before the beauties of the tribe their exploits in war or the chase. Their physical strength is increased. They fall asleep, and after twelve or sixteen hours of slumber, they awake in a state of utter prostration; the head, however, does not feel so empty as after intoxication by brandy, 

She was very much out of humor all day and disinclined to answer when asked questions, [13]. 

Disinclination to speak, with ill-humor, peevishness, and disinclination to work, [6]. 

Talking volubly and respectfully, as if to his parents; returning no direct answers when questioned; he alternately sings and is vexed, embraces his companions and kisses their hands.