ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS

Purple or Woolly Loco-weed


  • Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. 
  • First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics. 
  • After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. 
  • Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). 
  • Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. 
  • Loss of muscular coordination.

Head

  • Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. 
  • Pain over left eyebrow. 
  • Painful facial bones. 
  • Dizzy. 
  • Pressive pain in temples. 
  • Pain and pressure in maxillae.

Stomach

  • Weakness and emptiness. 
  • Burning in esophagus and stomach.

Extremities

  • Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. 
  • Icy coldness of left calf.

Relationship

  • Compare: Aragallus Lamberti-White Loco-Weed-Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.

Dose

  • Sixth potency.