Argimony

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.