Agaricus muscarius

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Agaricus Muscarius

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Keynotes

Agaricus muscarius

T oadstool. Fungi.

Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax.

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation.

Drunkards, especially for their headaches; had effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.).

Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed ; in typhoid or typhus.

Headaches : of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections.

Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably ; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body ; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.).

Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles.

Burning, itching, redness of various parts ; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot.

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten, when standing.

Spine sensitive to touch (Then); worse mornings.

Pain : sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions ; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.).

Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali p.).

Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.

Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.).

Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebrae sensitive to touch.

Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare, Lilium, Murex, Sepia).

Extremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram. — upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Relations.— Similar : to, Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p.. Each., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; to, Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

Aggravation.— After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunder-storm (Phos., Psor. ) .

What the other books say about Agaricus muscarius

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Agaricus muscarius in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Agaricus muscarius in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Agaricus muscarius in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Agaricus muscarius — Keynotes, pp. 19–20. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/agaricus-muscarius. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.