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 maxillć.
Stomach.–
Weakness and emptiness. Burning in śsophagus 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.