Materia Medica de A a Z

ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS (Astra-mo)

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 maxillae.

Stomach

Weakness and emptiness. Burning in oesophagus and stomach.

Extremities

Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf.

Relationship

Compare: Aragallus Lamberti (Arag) - White Loco-Weed - Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.

Dose

Sixth potency.