Agnus Castus – A Remedy for Sexual Weakness and Mental Sadness
Agnus Castus – A Remedy for Sexual Weakness and Mental Sadnes
General Overview
Agnus Castus mainly acts on the sexual organs of both men and women, and also shows strong effects on the mind.
Key Themes
Sexual Weakness: This remedy lowers sexual strength and drive.
Mental Depression: Along with physical weakness, there is a deep mental sadness and negative thoughts.
Premature Aging: The person feels old before time—physically and mentally—especially due to overuse or abuse of sexual energy.
Used in Past: In old times, people (both men and women) used it to reduce or suppress sexual desire.
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Who Needs Agnus Castus?
Men with impotence or loss of sexual power.
Those with a history of frequent gonorrhoea.
People who feel mentally low, especially due to sexual excess or abuse (like excessive masturbation).
Unmarried individuals suffering from nervous weakness.
Someone feeling physically weak and mentally old, with a deep sense of self-contempt.
Those who feel sad and hopeless, often thinking they are about to die soon.
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Mental and Emotional Symptoms
Absent-minded and forgetful.
Deep sadness, often with the fixed idea that death is near.
Says things like: “I will die soon, there is no use of doing anything.”
Fearful, low confidence, and unable to focus.
Illusions of smell – like herring or musk.
Poor memory, confusion, and mental tiredness.
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Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache worsens in a closed, smoky room.
Feels better when focusing eyes on one point.
Eyes
Itching and gnawing sensation.
Pupils are dilated (wide open).
Nose
Imagines strong smells like herring or musk.
Pain on top of nose, relieved by pressure.
Face & Mouth
Itching and crawling feeling on the cheeks.
Tearing pain in the lower jaw.
Mouth ulcers, gums affected.
Tooth pain, worse from warm food or drinks.
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Digestive Symptoms
Nausea, with a feeling like the intestines are falling—needs to support the abdomen with hands.
Only very simple food is tolerated.
Burps and gas smell like urine.
Swollen spleen, soreness in the abdomen.
Deep cracks near the anus, with pain while walking.
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Urinary Symptoms
Frequent urination.
Urine and gas both may smell like urine, and the smell lingers on clothes.
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Male Sexual Symptoms
Loss of sexual desire.
Penis is small, flaccid; testicles cold, hard, and swollen.
Spermatorrhoea (involuntary semen loss) with sexual weakness.
Yellow discharge from the urethra.
Prostatic fluid escapes during straining.
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Female Sexual Symptoms
Leucorrhoea: thin, transparent, often yellow-staining discharge.
No interest in sex.
Menses suppressed with abdominal pain.
Breast milk absent, along with sadness (agalactia).
Sterility, especially with no sexual desire and stopped periods.
Palpitations (fast heart rate) with nosebleeds—common in hysteria.
Sexual response is completely absent after excessive sexual activity or masturbation.
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Other Uses
Useful in sprains and strains from over-lifting.
For young men who get palpitations after using tobacco.
Also helpful for nervous exhaustion in people who have lived a wild or careless lifestyle (“jaded rakes”).
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Worsening Factors (Modalities)
From sexual excess.
After lifting heavy weights (sprains get worse).
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Related Remedy
Compare with Phosp
horic Acid, which also helps in sexual weakness and mental fatigue.