Astragalus mollissimus
Alias: Astra-m., Astragalus menziesii
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
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 oesophagus 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.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
A. Menziesii, Gray. N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of leaves.
Clinical.─Emptiness, sensation of. Face, bones of, painful. Headache.
Characteristics.─From eating some of the green leaves J. M. Selfridge experienced: Burning in pharynx, oesophagus, stomach. Fulness right temple and right upper jaw; slight nausea, with shivering and chilliness; dizziness and fulness of the head. Later, weakness and sense of emptiness in stomach; eating relieved empty sensation, but not the weakness. Pressive pains in both temples; later, slight pain in left maxilla; and still later, aching in right maxilla, with pressure in both bones.