Agaricus Emeticus

(A. emeticus, Schæf.?), probably Russula emetica, Fr. A small acrid species, found in woods in Europe.

Authority.

Poisoning cases.

HEAD

• Vertigo so severe that one must be carried to bed; is not able to sit or stand.

EYE

• Lachrymation (from the smell).
• Lasting weakness of eyes.

NOSE

• Sneezing (from the smell).

MOUTH

• Nauseous taste of the fungus, several days.
• Sharp burning in mouth.

STOMACH

• Sudden, violent longing for ice-cold water (during the worst attacks of anxiety), which causes gradual relief.
• Dislike for wine and meat, several days.
• Violent vomiting, with anxious sensation, as if the stomach hung on a thread, which would momentarily break, with ice-cold sweat of face , and constantly renewed faintness, even from moving the head on listening to reading; increased by smelling cordials, especially by vinegar, which is unbearable.
• Violent burning pain in stomach becomes a sensation, as if a moving dull body in the stomach pressed it out; now in one place, now in another, with nausea and great qualmishness, violent eructations, and weak eyes.
• Painful pressure in stomach, followed by frequent eructations, repeated attempts to vomit.
• Constantly increasing anxiety in stomach.
• Stomach so sensitive for eight days that one could not touch it, nor cough.

ABDOMEN

• Abdomen distended.
• Constantly increasing pain in abdomen (for half hour).

STOOL AND ANUS

• Diarrhœa.

HEART AND PULSE

• Pulse rapid, exceedingly weak.

GENERALITIES

• Sudden great weakness (quarter of an hour).

CONDITIONS

• Cold water relieved speedily and permanently.