{"id":1311,"remedy_name":"Agnus Castus","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the ripe berries of  Vitex agnus-castus , a shrub in the Lamiaceae family,. commonly known as Chaste Tree or Monk\u2019s Pepper. Traditional Context : Historically used in homeopathy for  sexual and hormonal dysfunction ,. particularly  in  men  and  women  with  low  libido,  impotence,  or  menstrual  irregularities,. accompanied by mental symptoms like sadness, despair, or lack of vitality. It is also noted for. physical weakness and symptoms aggravated by suppressed sexual function. Modern Context : Indicated for  hormonal imbalances  affecting sexual function or reproductive. health,  such  as  low  libido,  erectile  dysfunction,  or  premenstrual  syndrome,  often  with. psychological distress  (e.g., depression, apathy) and  generalized fatigue . It suits patients with. neuroendocrine  dysregulation,  functional  sexual  disorders,  or  emotional  symptoms  linked  to. physical decline.","modalities":"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. \nUnable to recollect things has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend. Forgetful of purchases, \ngoes off and leaves them. \nDepression. Nervous depression and mental forebodings. Fear of death. Great sadness with a fixed idea of \napproaching death (Aeon.). Sad and despairing, repeats that he will soon die. Desires death. Doubts if \nanything had existence. \nChangeable, moods.  Indifference to everything, alternating with cheerfulness. Lack of courage. \nDiscouragement alternat ing with haughtiness. Lethargy alternating with frenzy. Exhilaration alternating with \n \n \nsadness. \nNeurotic. Peevish. Inclined to get angry. Premature old age with apathy and mel ancholy. Mental ailments \nfrom sexual excesses, masturbation.  Sexual melancholy. Self -contempt from sexu al abuse (Staph.). \nAversion to sex. Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation. Illusion of smell, herring, musk. Starting \nduring sleep. Absent-minded, and forgetful. Distraction of mind. Inability to fix attention when reading. Bad memory. \nUnable to recollect things has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend. Forgetful of purchases, \ngoes off and leaves them. \nDepression. Nervous depression and mental forebodings. Fear of death. Great sadness with a fixed idea of \napproaching death (Aeon.). Sad and despairing, repeats that he will soon die. Desires death. Doubts if \nanything had existence. \nChangeable, moods.  Indifference to everything, alternating with cheerfulness. Lack of courage. \nDiscouragement alternat ing with haughtiness. Lethargy alternating with frenzy. Exhilaration alternating with \n \n \nsadness. \nNeurotic. Peevish. Inclined to get angry. Premature old age with apathy and mel ancholy. Mental ailments \nfrom sexual excesses, masturbation.  Sexual melancholy. Self -contempt from sexu al abuse (Staph.). \nAversion to sex. Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation. Illusion of smell, herring, musk. Starting \nduring sleep.","Vertigo":"Vertigo before menses. Vertigo from loss of vital fluids. \nCOMMENTS - Great sadness with a fixed idea of approaching death, especially after confinement when milk \nfails to appear. Deficiency of milk with despair of recovery. Absent-minded. Drowsiness. \nIllusion of smell, like herrings or musk. Ulcers in mouth and on gums. Tearing pain in lower jaw. To othache \nfrom hot food or drink. Swelling and induration of spleen. Rumbling of flatus during sleep.  \nDischarge of prostatic fluid while straining at stool. Suppressed menses with abdominal pain. Leucorrhea \nstaining yellow. Infertility. Pain as if dislocated in joints. Joints easily twisted. Rheumatic and gouty nodosities \non joints. \nHahnemann became interested in this remedy when he read that the Chaste tree was used by the Greek \nmonks centuries ago to stop their sex drive. They would take tinc ture doses and they took so much that their \ntesticles and genitals would atrophy. \nIn Boericke there are descriptions of shrinking and atrophying, \u201cTesticles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful,\u201d \n\u201clower sexual vitality,\u201d and \u201ccorresponding depression.\u201d \nUseful for people who have over exerted themselves sexually, a promiscuous period, and since have lost sex \ndrive, very apathetic. Emaciated, pale, blue circles around their eyes with dilated pupils. Sexual neurasthenia. \nSexual melancholy, depression about not having a lover,  gloom, moroseness. All sexual desire is gone. \nImpotence. History of repeated gonorrhea or promiscuity. The genitals are cold and relaxed, can get no \nerection. \nHistory of cures of chronic spermatorrhea, chronic dribbling of semen and prostatic fluid becaus e of the \nweakness in the whole area. Women's abhorrence or aversion to sexual intercourse and infertility (Nat-m., Ph-\nac., Sep.).","Head":"Headache before menses. Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead, worse during \nmotion. Pain in the temple, as from a blow. Heaviness in the head and pressure, as if the head would fall \nforward. Pain in the vertex. Tensio n and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch. Biting -itching on \nscalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep. Headache before menses. Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead, worse during \nmotion. Pain in the temple, as from a blow. Heaviness in the head and pressure, as if the head would fall \nforward. Pain in the vertex. Tensio n and chilliness in the scalp, which is warm to the touch. Biting -itching on \nscalp, worse evenings and when falling asleep.","Eyes":"Gnawing itching in eyes. Corrosive itching over and on eyebrows and lids, and below eyes. Sensation \nas if one had received a blow on eye. Burning pain when reading in evening. Pupils dilated (Bell.). \nPhotophobia. 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 \nfollowed by fine pricking itching. Rending, tearing pain under alveoli of right lower jaw. Erysipelas on left cheek, \nspreading 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. \nMetallic, coppery, bitter taste. Boils. Tongue coated white. \nNose - Hard ache on dorsum of nose, better pressure. Soreness and pain in left side of nose. Illusion of smell, \nherring, musk. \nPerspiration - Sweats, almost only on the hands, when walking in the open air. Sweats easily. Pungent smell, \ncauses 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 \ninspiration. Pressure in xiphoid cartilage. Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm, worse touch or motion. \nConstitutions - It corresponds to lymphatic, sycotic constitutions. Premature old age with apathy and \nmelancholy. Nervous debility in unmarried persons. Impotence and gleet in old offenders. \nCough - Coughs during the evening. Coughs in bed, before going to sleep. Coughs with raising of blood, \nfollowed by copious mucus. Coughs in paroxysms. Coughs with palpitations and epistaxis. Coughs when \ninhaling cold air. Hysterical palpitations with nose bleed in women. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young \nmen. Slow and weak pulse, often imperceptible. Palpitations during cough. \nKidneys - Passes more urine, frequently. Pain in bladder. When urinating, pain in kidneys. Red, turbid urine \nwith 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.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Only the most simple food agrees. Belchings, smell like urine. Pinching pain when sitting bent over. \nNausea in pit of stomach after eating. Nausea in pit when standing. Nausea as from eating fat food. \nStools - Stools soft, recede, difficult. Diarrhea of children. Chronic diarrhea of adults. \nTeeth - Teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink. Throbbing, tearing pain in left eyetooth. Small \nboil near tooth, very painful to touch. \nTemperature - Chilliness, internal with -trembling, the external skin is warm. Chill alternating with heat. Chilly \nall over, but only hands feel cold to touch. Much chilliness, with cold hands. Flushes of burning heat, principally \nin the face, with cold knees in the evening in bed. Ascites. Abdomen distended after meals.  Incarcerated flatus. Abdomen sensitive to pressure. \nRumbling in abdomen during sleep. Violent contracting pain coming suddenly in morning. Spleen swollen, \nsore. Swelling and induration of spleen, often with soreness, after inter mittent fever. Nausea with sensation \nas if intestines were pressed downwards. Bowels as if sinking down, wants to support bowels with hands. \nFlatus smells like urine, remaining long on clothes. Appetite lessened. Food makes him feel uneasy and replete. Only the most simple food agrees. \nRelishes food, but it doesn't agree with him. Warm food and drink cause teeth to ache. Thirst during heat. \nThirstlessness, and aversion to all drink.","Urinary & Genital":"Itching of genitals. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard and painful. Penis small, flaccid. Drawing pain along \nspermatic cords.  Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Yellow discharge from urethra. \nAversion to sex. Impotence with genitals cold and relaxed. Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhea, \nsyphilis. No erections. Penis s o relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection. Feeble erections without \nsexual desire. Impotence, with morning erections only. Spermatorrhea with impotence. Ailments \nAgnus castus due to masturbation, sexual excesses. Sexual desire almost lost. Sexual desire gone (Sei., \n \n \nCon., Sabal.). Scanty emission without ejaculation. Menses are suppressed with abdominal pains. Bearing down pains. Suppressed menses. Scanty \nmenses. Infertility with suppressions of menses and no sexual desire (Sep.). Swelling of uterus. Leucorrhea \nstaining yellow, transparent. Relaxation of genitals with leucorrhea. Transparent vaginal discharge passes \nimperceptibly from the very relaxed genital. Retained placenta. Ailments due to masturbation, sexual \nexcesses. Sexual thrill absent from excessive masturbation. Aversion to sex.","Extremities":"Inflammatory, rheumatic swelling of joints. Sprains and strains. Gouty nodosities. Hard pressure in \nright axilla and upper arm, worse from touch and motion. Strains from lifting a little too much. Swelling of \nthe finger joints, with arthritic, tearing pains. Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight. Joints as if dislocated. \nFeels bruised all over. Cold hands, cold knees, even in bed. Joints easily twisted. Feet easily turn under when \nwalking on stone pavement. Rheumatic and gouty nodosities on joints. \nLiver - 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 \npain near sacrum. \nBreasts - Agalactia. Breast-milk absent, with sadness. Milk scanty or entirely suppressed. Deficient secretion \nof milk in lying-in women (Calc-p.).","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."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}