Astragalus mollissimus
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Purple or Woolly Loco-weed Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. Loss of muscular coordination.
Head
Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples. Pain and pressure in maxillæ.
Stomach
Weakness and emptiness. Burning in œsophagus and stomach.
Extremities
Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.
Relationships
Compare: Aragallus Lamberti-White Loco-Weed-Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.
Dose
Sixth potency.
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