Agaricus Muscarius; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Agaricus Muscarius is commonly known as Toad Stool, Bug Agaric, Fly agaric etc. It is a poisonous fungus growing all over the Northern Hemisphere in dry places and in summer. It looks very attractive with bright red cap flecked with pale to dark orange marks. This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the well-known is Muscarin. It acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo? and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.

Materia Medica of Agaricus Muscarius

• Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
• Head – Bones of the skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain? extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
• Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain? through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm? of accommodation from the irritable weakness? of the ciliary muscle. Nausea? from looking on moving objects.
• Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
• Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea?. Epistaxis.
• Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea? and vomiting?, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
• Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain? so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
• Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
• Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea?. Vomiting? during pregnancy. Pain? from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
• Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea?; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
• Fever? – Intermittent fever?, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea?, vomiting?, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
• Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
• Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
• Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash?.

Uses/Indications of Agaricus Muscarius

• Cancer treatment (chemotherapy) side effects – Developing research suggests that taking Agaricus mushroom might reduce some of the side effects of chemotherapy including weakness? and loss of appetite.
• Crohn’s disease – Early research shows that taking Agaricus mushroom extract does not reduce fatigue? or improve symptoms in people with Crohn’s disease.
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• Hepatitis? B – Early research suggests that taking Agaricus mushroom extract might help reduce liver damage in people with long-term hepatitis? B infection?.
• Cancer of the blood called “multiple myeloma Early research suggests that taking Agaricus mushroom extract during cancer chemotherapy for multiple myeloma does not improve survival or response to chemotherapy treatment.
• Ulcerative? colitis. Early research shows that taking agaricus mushroom extract helps reduce fatigue? and improve symptoms in people with ulcerative? colitis.
• High cholesterol?.
• Hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis).
• Heart disease prevention.
• Weak bones (fracture? risk. সহজ বাংলা: হাড় দুর্বল হয়ে ভাঙার ঝুঁকি বেশি।" data-rx-term="osteoporosis" data-rx-definition="Osteoporosis means weak, fragile bones with higher fracture risk. সহজ বাংলা: হাড় দুর্বল হয়ে ভাঙার ঝুঁকি বেশি।">osteoporosis?) prevention.
• Stomach ulcer? prevention
• Acne rosacea
• Blepharospasm
• Bunion
• Coldness
• Cough
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Enteric fever
• Epilepsy (with great exertion of strength)
• Gangrene
• Hyperpyrexia
• Jaundice
• Lachrymal fistula
• Lumbago
• Meningitis
• Myopia
• Neuralgia
• Numbness
• Nystagmus
• Rheumatism
• Spinal irritation
• Toothache
• Tremors
• Typhoid fever

Dosage of Agaricus Muscarius

• 10 drops orally, 3 times a day. Consult a physician for use in children under 12 years of age.
• The higher the potency, the longer the effect. A 6C potency may need to be repeated every 1 – 2 hours for a period to improve symptoms while an M potency may only have to be given once.
• Medium potencies such as 30C are a good choice for home prescribers who have some familiarity with homeopathy. They may be given every 2 – 4 hours until symptoms are relieved, and then only repeated if symptoms return. Improvement should be noticed by 1 – 3 doses if the correct remedy has been selected.

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