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Fingers fly open spasmodically while holding things. You will sometimes cure Bridget in thekitchen with Agaricus or Apis, when the trouble is that she is continually breaking the dishes by lettingthem fall. These two remedies are opposites, Agaricus must stay near the fire, while Apis she wants toget out of the kitchen. The awkwardness, clumsiness, etc., are both mental and bodily. Every sort ofchange is run on the patient and the doctor. At times the patient is stupid, awkward and clumsy, at othertimes quick and poetical, can run off poetry without effort, especially at night. In the morning he istried and sluggish and this may last till noon. the mental symptoms are worse in the morning and arerelieved towards evening. All jerkings and twitchings subside during sleep. There is vertigo whenwalking in the open air. He is always chilly. On undertaking to do something he does the opposite.Vertigo and confusion of the mind are mixed up.It is a common feature for the headaches of this remedy to be associated with the spinalsymptoms, the quivering and the jerking. Headaches in spinal patients .Pain as though sharp icetouched the head, or as if from cold needles. That is general; we find it in other parts. Pain in the headas if from a nail. There is some bleeding in the morning, and the blood is thick, black and will hardlydrop. Coldness in the head. In the scalp there are all sorts of queer sensations, icy coldness after itchingor scratching. That runs all through the body. There is itching, although no eruption is visible; can't letit alone, and after scratching there is a sensation of icy coldness in the part or as if the wind wasblowing on it. The head is in constant motion as in chorea. Itching of the scalp, especially in themorning on rising. There again we have the general aggravation in the morning. There are markederuptions on the scalp. Eczema with crusts.Twitching and jerking of the eyes. You will observe this about the Agaricus eyes; as the patientlooks at you there is a pendulum-like action of the eyes, they go back and forth all the time; theyoscillate, though he tries his best to fix his look on you. This stops only during sleep; all the motionssubside during sleep. A few other medicines have cured this eye symptom, < Cicuta, Arsenicum,Sulphur, Pulsatilla, but Agaricus also produces and cures it. There is every conceivable kind ofdeception in colors and in vision. Flickering before the eyes; he reads with difficulty. Objects seem tobe where they are not.Black flies before the eyes; black motes; sees double; floating flies before the eyes. Muscularweakness of the eyes.Irregularity of the motions of the eyes; pupils dilated; pupils contracted. Sensation as of a mistor cobweb before the eyes.Spasmodic twitching and jerking. The jerkings and twitchings are the most marked symptoms,as also the choreic movements about the eyes, and the deceptions in colors and figures before the eyes.Redness, burning and itching of the ears as if they had been frostbitten. The sensation as ofchilblains, the same sensation as found throughout; the same itching and tingling as of the remedy ingeneral. Dulness of hearing. Deafness. Hearing acute.In the morning he is dumb, sluggish, stupid, tired, but when evening comes he brightens up,becomes warmed up, becomes excited, poetical and prophetical, wants to sit up late at night, isbrilliant, wants to play games.Nosebleed, profuse, foetid discharge from the nose. Agaricus will cure the most inveteratechronic catarrhs with dryness and crusts, in tubercular constitutions, so deep-seated is it. It has curedmany cases of incipient phthisis. It cures old coughs and catarrhs. Red nose, as if frostbitten. It is asgood as Ledum and < Lachesis for the red-tipped nose in old drunkards.From what we have already seen we expect twitching of the muscles of the face, and itching andredness and burning as if frostbitten, paralytic weakness, etc., because these are general features, andjust as we expect we see these things in the text.Choreic spasms. Expression as of idiocy. Now notice this. Some patients when going on withtheir own usual vocation are pretty smart, but if you put some new idea before them, something not inthe routine of their work, they are perfectly idiotic. This is especially noticeable in the morning. Hecan't take in anything new in the morning, but he is able to take in new ideas and is bright in theevening, like the effect produced by tea and coffee and alcoholic beverages. This remedy is a greatantidote to alcoholic beverages. In this remedy and in Zincum the spine is affected and both of thesehave aggravation from stimulants.Agaricus has cured many cases of epileptiform convulsions, more commonly the hysterioepileptictype with frothing of the mouth, opisthotonos, drawing of the muscles of the face. TheAgaricus patient has spells in which a little muscle of the face or a few fibers of a muscle with quiverfor a few minutes and stop, and then in another part of the face the same thing, an eyelid will quiver,and then another set of fibers, sometimes so bad as to nearly drive him crazy. Such is an Agaricus stateas well as Nux vomica.