Agar, Agaricus Muscarius

Core theme

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

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - Wrist - electric shocks, like

Modalities

Agg

• Air: COLD. FREEZING. OPEN. Stormy.
• Exhaustion: Mental. Coition
• Alcohol / Debauchery
• Pressure
• Touch
• Morning
• During menses

Clinic

• Turns head to and fro.
• Headache amel after stool or urine
• Angle of mouth droops.
• As of a lump in epigastrium.
• Rumbling and fermenting in bowels.
• Hot flatus or semen; cold urine.
• Isolated coughing attacks, then sneezing; as if from spine; easy expectoration of flocculi or balls of mucus.
• Palpitation during coition; depressed afterward.
• Premature ejaculation.
• Angina pectoris has excessive pain only. Pressure or burning sticking from heart to left scapula.
• Single vertebra sensitive to heat. Spine sensitive, seems short (Sul)
• Restless arms.
• BURNING-ITCHING IN SKIN; AS IF FROZEN; changing place on scratching.
• Skin pains when cold. Chilblains. Yawning; before pains or spasms; as a concomitant.
• Chills or sweats easily. Sweats on alternate sides. Night sweats.
• Itching, over affected part. Cold buttocks.

Jerking

• 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
• IRREGULAR, ANGULAR, UNCERTAIN AND EXAGGERATED MOTIONS (Ign.); he reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drops things, etc.
• TREMBLING, TWITCHING, JERKING or fibrillar spasm; here and there;
• Jerking in EYELIDS or tongue. Oscillating eyeballs
• Shuddering. Nervous and restless.
• Chorea. As of cold needles, a cold drop or a weight on parts.
• Painful twitching, then parts stiff and cold
• Indistinct, jerky speech.

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

• Amel with manual labor

EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING - manual labor amel

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

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

Miasms

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