Agaricus Emeticus

      A small acrid species, found in woods in Europe. *N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh fungus.

Clinical

Gastritis. Vertigo.

Characteristics

The symptoms of *Agaricus *emet. resemble those of the other Agarics, but they have this characteristic, that whilst cold *water worse the symptoms of *Agaricus *musc. it speedily and permanently relieves those of *Agaricus *emet. Violent burning pains are caused in the stomach. There is sudden and violent longing for ice-cold water (during the worst attacks of anxiety), which causes gradual relief, violent vomiting, with anxious sensation, as if the stomach hung on threads which would be momentarily torn in two, with ice-cold sweat of face, and faintness worse by moving head, worse by smelling vinegar, which is unbearable. Most marked is the vertigo, which is so severe one must be carried to bed, is not able to sit or stand.

Relations.

Anxiety partially better by cold drinks, Aconite, Sulphur Worse From vinegar, Ant-c., Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bromium, Ferrum, Sepia, Sulphur

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica