Agnus castus
MAN, 65 YEARS OLD
A: You were here on
December, 10, and your problem was that you were very anxious. You wandered, "What
is the matter with me?" You had potency problems. You couldn't have sexual intercourse anymore.
Do you see the difference
between this man and the other man? This man is very anxious, because his potency came down. The
other could just talk about it, but this man is very anxious
P: No, nothing.
A: How long does this
problem exist?
P: Since two months,
I think, the last time that I was here.
A: Since then
nothing?
P: Nothing.
A: You had a strange
feeling. What did you feel exactly in the testicles and in the penis?
P: Yes, the left side
was pulled upwards and became blue, redblue, rather
blue than red. And the veins were appearing.
A: And what else did
you feel there?
P: There was a
pressure below in my abdomen and I had cold hands and feet. And also my knees
were in between more cold than warm.
A very important symptom: cold hands, cold
feet, but especially coldness in the knees. Look in the Repertory:
"Extremities, coldness, knees" (p. 961)
EXTREMETIES, COLDNESS,Knee : Acon., Agn., ambr., apis., Ars., asar., aur., benz-ac., camph., cann-s.,
carb-s., Carb-v., card-m., chin-a., chin-s., chin., cimx., colch., coloc., cop., daph., euphr., graph., ign., lach., merc., nat-m., nit-ac., petr., Phos., puls., raph., rhod., sec., sep., Sil., stann., sulph., verat.
A: But you also had
the feeling as if you didn't have anything there?
P: Yes, yes, there
was nothing.
A: Try to say what
you exactly felt there.
P: I felt nothing,
nothing.
A: It felt as if
there was nothing.
P: Yes.
A: And this caused a
sadness in you. What did you think?
P: I thought that it
had to change.
A: Why? And when it
didn't change?
P: Yes, if it remains
so then it becomes only worse.
A: And then?
P: Then, there
wouldn't be anything. These were my thoughts. Then, sexually it was over.
A: And if there was
no sex?
P: Then life has no
sense anymore...
I have always been an
active man.
A: You have always
been active sexually?
P: Yes. Sexually and
also with my hands.
A: But what is the
difference? Let's suppose you were a priest - they are also active with their
hands.
P: According to me
that is another case. I don't think that a priest has had sexual intercourse in
his younger years. Probably, in my case it is different.
Sexually,
he has always been very active and he will tell us that he helped himself after
his wife died - of which remedy do we have to think? Conium
He comes from a small
village and there you cannot..
He says that he helps
himself. He was masturbating a lot and he had a
lot of sexual intercourse before. And now suddenly his potency goes away and a
very strong fear is developed in him
A: What do you mean?
P: When you have been
a widow for 11 years and the years before have lived with an sick wife who has
been operated on for 23 times, then you don't have any sexual intercourse.
There were too many years in between. I think so.
A: But previously,
didn't you have very much sexual intercourse?
P: When my wife was
still alive, when it was possible. But there were many years that it was not
possible.
A: You didn't have...
P: No, but you can
help yourself.
A: And you often did
so?
P: If there was no
other possibility.
A: But anyway you are
married again. How long?
P: Ten years.
A: And sexually it is
all right?
P: Yes, I can't say
all right. I always say that the family doctor has to be blamed. He tried
everything with the eruption.
Why did he go to a
dermatologist? He had itching in the face and then the dermatologist gave him
cortisone ointments and injections.
A: Why did you go
there?
P: Because they
advised me it was a very good doctor and with the face and everything. I was a
flaming scarlet. And what should you do then?
A: And he gave you
cortisone?
P: I don't know,
doctor. Because, at the end it was so bad that he only prescribed Nivea...
tried everything. Then I went to the beauty specialist and she helped me superficially...
My lips looked blue
and my face was very red. I put ointment on it that my skin specialist
prescribed me previously... And then they gave me this as well.
A: Yes, an eruption of the skin here. I
noticed following: you told me that the genitals were feeling cold and it was
surely a pressing pain.
P: Yes, it was
pressing. It was no real pain, it was no real pain, it
was pressing.
A: And this made you
anxious. You became anxious, because imagine that thing doesn't work anymore!
That is what he said
in the first consultation. That is why I always take the first consultation,
because in the second consultation they really do not tell what they felt when
they came first
He told me that he had a cold
feeling in the genitals and as if the genitals were no mere there. A
kind of coldness and a feeling of absence of the genitals; that is
what he said at the first consultation. Besides, he said that he had so cold knees
and third he was so anxious
P: Yes, and because
it looked blue.
A: What did you
think? Now, it is finished with me?
P: No, it was not
that bad...
A: But you were
rather anxious?
P: Yes.
A: And also a little
bit depressive, sad? On December, 10 you got the remedy and the next day your
wife had an appointment and said, "He succeeded."
P: Yes, the next day.
A: Then, you could
have again sexual intercourse. Then you were potent again. What did you think?
P: I thought I am on
the right way.
A: Now, that is two
months ago. What about the feeling now? Did it improve?
P: The feeling has
improved.
A: Is the pain still
there?
P: I still had it,
but now it is better. The testicle is not so pulled upwards anymore,
now it is hanging downwards. It has improved.
A: That is all what I
had to know. All right.
Look in the Repertory
"coldness of the genitals" (p. 693).
GENITALIA male, COLDNESS : Agar., Agn., aloe., berb., brom.,
calad., camph., cann-s., caps., carb-s., dios., gels., hell., Ind., iris., lyc., merc., pic-ac., psor., sulph., uran.
There is one capital remedy: Agnus
castus. Also "coldness in the knees" Agnus castus capital and Agnus castus has the feeling of
presentiment of death. They feel they will die because of the anxiety and
because their potency suddenly went away. Normally, these are people who are
very active on the sexual level. Look in "presentiment of death" (p.
17)
Mind,
death,presentiment of
: Acon., agn., aloe., alum., anac., Apis., arg-n., arn., ars., bapt., bar-m., Bell., bry., calc., cann-i., canth., cench., chel., cimic., cupr.,graph., hep., kali-ar., kali-c., kali-n., lac-d., lach., lyc., med., Merc., mosch., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-v., petr., phos., plat., podo., puls., rhus-t., sep., staph., stram., sulph, verat., vip., zinc.
Agnus castus
after Aconitum
Do not forget this
remedy. You do not need it often, but in the differential diagnosis of the
impotency it is important. In one case it is Lycopodium, in another case Agnus castus, the next case
Sulphur, Calcarea, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia and so on