Russula
Fungus · Russulaceae
Russula produces a severe toxic picture resembling Agaricus, with hallucinations, muscular tremors, and clonic spasms. The eye symptoms are especially pronounced — complete blindness lasting many days with irregular and unpredictable pupillary reactions. Chorea, convulsions, and enuresis are clinical indications for this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Hallucinations constant for three days after spasms ceased
- Muscular tremors and clonic spasms with deathly anxiety and dyspnoea
- Complete blindness lasting many days after poisoning
- Pupils alternately normal, dilated, or contracted
- Unconsciousness
- Nausea, colic, vomiting, and diarrhoea with cold extremities
- Involuntary micturition
- Cyanosis of face; pulse small and contracted
Russula fœtens. N. O. Fungi. Tincture of the fresh mushrooms.
Clinical
Blindness. Chorea. Convulsions. Enuresis.
Characteristics
Some species of Russula are edible, and are much esteemed as a food on the Continent. Alphonse Barrelet observed the effects of eating cooked Russula fœtens, which produced a very severe poisoning. Hallucinations, muscular tremors, and clonic spasms recall the effects of Agaric. The eye symptoms were even more pronounced, complete blindness lasting many days occurred, with this peculiarity of the pupil, that it was sometimes normal, sometimes dilated, and sometimes contracted.
1. Mind
Unconsciousness.─Muscular spasms, deathly anxiety, dyspnœa.─Hallucinations constant for three days after spasms ceased.
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