Botanical name: Agrimonia eupatoria Linn.

Family: Rosaceae

Synonyms: Agrimony, Cocklelbur, Harvest-lice, Stickwort

French: Agrimoine

German: Odermennig

Mind / emotions

Internal restlessness and need for peace.  Antagonism within own self; works for balance and joy, yet does not want to acknowledge or integrate adverse experiences or circumstances. Repression and denial of conflicts or vexations; yet, disquiet, worries, resentments, and anxieties remain.  Since peace is constantly threatened within, outside interruptions and disharmony are hardly tolerated. Need to be the peacemaker.   Inability to be present in the here and now and find happiness in it, mainly due to restlessness and worry; worrisome, anxious projection into the future.   Lack of fulfillment and inner calm, may be due to a lack of partnership or family.  Lack of sexual fulfillment.  Conscientious about trifles.  Use of drugs and diversion to not have to face dilemmas.  Ability to uphold cheerful emotions, even in the midst of tragedies.  Heightened impressionability; disagreeable impressions may not be integrated into consciousness but create disquiet and repeated concern; unruly thoughts; internal torture.  Mild or repressed anxiety of conscience.

Mind

• MIND – ANXIETY
• MIND – ANXIETY – future, about
• MIND – BROODING
• MIND – BROODING – hidden cares; tormented by
• MIND – CHEERFUL
• MIND – COMPANY – desire for
• MIND – COMPLAINING – never
• MIND – DEATH – desires
• MIND – JOY
• MIND – RESTLESSNESS

Physical

All diseases resulting from psychological repression of conflicts for the sake of peace or “quickly cleaning up.”  Diseases marked by denial and the pretense that “all is well.”  The body talks symptomatically, expressing through subconscious mechanisms those vital issues that the conscious mind does not want to address and solve. Nervous restlessness and inner agitation; sensitivity to noise and confusion.  Insomnia and nightmares. All pains accompanied by restlessness and the attempt to master the pain, to pretend it is not there, and to continue to stay cheerful toward others.  Liver disorders; a weak liver is often associated with lack of aggressive power and love for peace. 22 [Agrimony finds herbal use as a liver remedy; it is a tonic and astringent plant and yields a yellow dye, hinting at its affinity with liver and gallbladder ailments. (Compare the yellow juice contained in the stem of Chelidonium majus, another liver and gallbladder remedy.)]

• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – overambitious patients
• Tension headaches, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar troubles, dysmenorrhea
• Hyperkinetic heart syndrome
• Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
• Hypertension
• Hyperventilation syndrome
• Chronic cough or ‘protest cough’
• Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
• Acute attack of ulcer in normally emotionally healthy patients
• Insulin-dependent diabetes
• Constipation
• Liver and gallbladder disturbance
• Soft tissue rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis
• Insomnia – intermittent type (due to excessive demands and suppression of hostility)
• Any physical illness based on conversion disorder (or hysterical neurosis, conversion type)
• Migraines
• Skin disease (pruritus)
• Cardiac neurosis
• Insomnia – initial and intermittent (due to compulsive thought activity)

Compare

Wild Oat: Restlessness from lack of direction and purpose; seeks excitement and adventure to find fulfillment; needs meaningful occupation.

Walnut: Overly impressionable, cannot process or integrate received content; suffers and is unnerved from disagreeable impressions.

Elm: Feels overwhelmed and worries about the future; subdued and despairing, not tackling tasks joyfully.

White Chestnut: Puts full concentration on problems; wrapped up in thoughts, yet finds no solution.

Mimulus: Worries about the future, wants to prevent unwanted experiences; overly careful, easily intimidated

Scleranthus: Loses interior balance, is overstimulated by impressions and ideas; cannot decide between options.

Rock Water: Appears uplifted, wants to inspire others; yet, internal hardship and lack of fulfillment remain; iron will, does not want to give in to grief or despair.

Cherry Plum: Antagonism within, has two conflicting wills; forcefully suppresses unwanted thoughts or impulses, asserts reason and mental control.

Chestnut Bud: Does not integrate experiences, does not learn from them; restless immaturity.

Pine: Overly conscientious, anxiety of conscience.

Homoeopathic Medicines and Agrimony

Magnesia carbonica: Sensitive, anxious, works for peace and harmony,
avoids confrontation and aggression; sensitivity to noise; liver pathology (hepatitis); abdominal colic; constipation; insomnia during early morning hours (intermittent type); (chronic fatigue syndrome).

Magnesia muriatica: Peacemaker, unable to bear disharmony or quarrel in  the environment; children cannot tolerate parental dispute; conscientious, takes on many responsibilities and worries anxiously about them, has insomnia from worry, especially during early morning hours; restlessness; sensitivity to noise; liver disorders (cirrhosis, hepatitis), jaundice; constipation; (chronic fatigue syndrome).

Natrum carbonicum: Gentle and selfless people; cheerful expression even when sad; yet, resentment against certain people builds up; failure to “assimilate” impressions, as well as nutrients; may become emotionally and physically drained; gastric ulcer; chronic inflammation of liver, jaundice; irritable bowel syndrome; (allergies).

Calcarea carbonica: Aggravating news cannot be “digested”; occupation and  work are sought to divert the mind; repeated dwelling on past disagreeable occurrences; migraines; gastric ulcer from overwork and worry; hypertrophy of heart (hyperkinetic heart syndrome); hypertension; rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue disease; cholecystitis; constipation; initial insomnia.

Lilium tigrinum: Inner agitation and restlessness; lack of sexual  fulfillment; occupation ameliorates, though experienced as hurried and scattered; anxiety of conscience; hysterical neurosis; cardiac neurosis, arrhythmia, palpitations; colitis, irritable bowel syndrome; rheumatoid arthritis.

Platinum: Ailments after anger and vexation, with silent grief; laughing over serious matters, laughing during pain and physical sufferings; lack of sexual fulfillment; hysterical neurosis; migraines; constipation; dysmenorrhea; insomnia and nightly dwelling on past disagreeable occurrences; restlessness and nervousness.

Chelidonium majus: Suppression or deflating of emotional issues in favor of a pragmatic attitude; cheerfulness is upheld, despite hard work or hardships; denial of sickness, portraying the attitude that “all is well”; underlying anxiety of conscience; migraines; soft tissue rheumatism; liver and gallbladder disorders [hepatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis (formation of gallstones)]; insomnia in early morning hours.

Spigelia anthelmia: Cheerfulness while in pain; excitement after sadness; conscientious about trifles; restless, nervous, sensitive to noise; migraines; cardiac neurosis, arrhythmia.

Arsenicum album: Sensitivity to noise and confusion; restlessness and inner dissatisfaction; occupation ameliorates; conscientious about trifles; anxiety of conscience; gastric ulcer from overwork and worry; diabetes; tachycardia, arrhythmia; cardiac neurosis; liver dysfunction (cirrhosis, hepatitis); colitis, inflammatory bowel disease; insomnia.

Helonias dioica: Restless boredom from overindulgence in luxury or indolence; feels better from occupation, from applying the mind, from exercise (cf. Wild Oat); headaches that improve from mental exertion; diabetes; dysmenorrhea.

Staphisagria (Delphinium staphisagria): Tries to be gentle and live with abuse or neglect, yet internal anger builds up and may be vented in sudden outbursts of temper; hysterical neurosis; migraines; cough from anger (‘protest cough’); heart palpitations; gastric ulcer; colic from anger; pruritus; constipation; insomnia.

Refrence for further study

RICHARDSON-BOEDLER C., The Psychological / Constitutional Essences of the Bach Flowers Remedies

SCHROYENS F., Synthesis

MURPHY R., Homeopathic Remedy Guide

VARMA P. N. and INDU V., Encyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia

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