Agar, Agaricus Muscarius

Core theme

1. Jerking -Twitching, Chorea
2. Numbness - Tingling
3. Weakness - Trembling
4. Electric like shocks

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - Wrist - electric shocks, like

Diseases

Cerebral palsy

It is a useful remedy to palliate CP symptoms if he has

1. Cerebellar ataxia /In-coordination
2. Motor neuron imbalance
3. Dynamic Complex involuntary movements
4. Numbness

Developmental Disability

• Neural development is arrested. So he learn walking/talking too late/incomplete

• Primary motor cortex involvement

• Muscular spasm/Rigidity

Upper Motor Neuron Disease

• Myoclonic spasm
• Tremor
• Hyper Reflexia

Fasciculation

Seizure

Cerebellar ataxia

• Nystagmus
• Dysarthria (not Aphasia)

MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult

MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult - chorea, from

MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult - typhoid fever; in: Ars, Lach

MOUTH - SPEECH - indistinct

MOUTH - SPEECH - stammering

MOUTH - SPEECH – thick

MOUTH - SPEECH - wanting - typhus fever; in: Apis, Ars, Op, STRONT-C

MOUTH - SPEECH - stammering - excitement: Caust, dig

MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult - spasms; from - tongue, from: Arg-n, cupr, lyc, Ruta, sec, Stram

Jerking modalities

• Jerking/Twitching is a general characteristic of Agar and is seen all over the body in large or small muscles, Proximal and distal.

• The most characteristic accompanied  symptom is electric like shocks

• The most important modality is sleep on going agg and amel during deep sleep

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - sleep - amel

EXTREMITIES - JERKING - Lower limbs - sleep - going to; on

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Toes - First – jerking

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Fingers - Third / Fourth – jerking

EXTREMITIES - JERKING - falling asleep

EXTREMITIES - JERKING - sleep - amel

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - Lower limbs - sleep, on going to

• Another modality is amel with manual labor

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - manual labor amel

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - Upper limbs - working hard with hands amel

Miasms

1. CJD
2. GSS
3. JE, STLE, TBE, WNE, PLV, VZV, CXA, CXB, ECHO,