# Agnus Castus (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** The Chaste Tree
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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

## Symptoms by System