• Premature old age from abuse of sexual power
• History of repeated gonorrhoea
• Male genitalia cold and relaxed with desire gone
• Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes
• Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Chaste tree
Family: Verbenaceae

Introduction and History: Vitex Agnus castus is known since ancient times to suppress sexual desire in men and women. It was used by Greek monks to lower their sex drive centuries ago.

Preparation and Parts Used: Tincture is prepared from ripe berries.

Ailments From: Sexual excesses, repeated attacks of gonorrhoea or gleet, sprains or from overlifting.

Physiological Action

• The most effective point of attack of Agnus in the organism is the sexual sphere.
• A prominent remedy for sprains and strains.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

• It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy.
• Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhoea.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Sexual melancholy.
2. Fear of death.
3. SADNESS WITH IMPRESSION OF SPEEDY DEATH.
4. Absentminded, lack of courage, forgetful. .
5. Illusion of smell – herrings, musk. Nervous depression and mental
   forebodings.
6. Has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend it.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Lack of sexual power and lack of self-confidence, with depression and mental apathy.
2. Self-contempt from sexual abuse.
3. Women with excessive sexual desire and lasciviousness or sterility and loss of sexual desire.
4. Nervous debility in unmarried persons
5. Mental depression, apathy and great sadness with impotency. Bad effects (physical as well as mental) from excessive sexual indulgence.
6. Impotency with mental depression and sadness.
7. Premature old age for old sinners.
8. Excessive weakness, debility and loss of vital heat, with coldness of genitals and limbs.

Important Characteristic Features

Eyes: PUPILS DILATED (Bell). Itching about the eyes; photophobia.

Nose: Odour of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum, better by pressure.

Abdomen: Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in the anus. Nausea with SENSATION AS IF INTESTINES WERE PRESSED DOWNWARDS; wants to support bowels.

Male: Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. IMPOTENCE. PARTS COLD, RELAXED. DESIRE GONE (Sel, Con, Sabal). Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles, cold, swollen, hard and painful.

Female: Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercourse. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhoea. AGALACTIA; with sadness. Sterility. Leucorrhoea staining yellow; transparent. Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Sexual excesses, sprains or overlifting, warm room, touch.
Amelioration: Open air, pressure.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Ars, Bry, Ign, Lyc, Puls, Sel, Sulph.
Follow well: Calad and Sel follow well after Agn in weakness of sexual organs or impotency.
Antidote to: Camph, Nat-m (headache).
Compare: Sel, Ph-ac, Camph, Lyc.
Potency: First to sixth potency.
Therapeutic Value: Agalactia, Depression, Fissures (anus), Gonorrhoea,
Impotence, Leucorrhoea, Pupils dilated, Sexual melancholy, Spleen swollen, Sprains, Sterility, Strains, Tachycardia.