LACTUCA VIROSA
Acrid Lettuce
This treatment acts basically upon the talent and circulatory system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness and tightness affecting total body, specifically chest. Seems to be a proper galactogogue. Marked motion on extremities.
Mind.–Stupefaction of sense. Great restlessness.
Head.–Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and headache, with normal coldness. Headache, with affections of respiratory organs.
Abdomen.–Sensation of weight, of fullness; borborygmi; considerable emission of wind. Colic in early morning, stomach tense, relieved really with the aid of evacuation and passing of wind.
Chest.–Difficult breathing. Suffocative respiratory from dropsy of the chest. Constant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces. Squeezing sensation in decrease chest.
Female.–Promotes catamenia. Increase of milk in breasts (Asafoet).
Sleep.–Restless; not possible to get to sleep. Deep, comatose sleep.
Extremities.–Lame hip down left side; worse walking. Coldness and numbness of ft and legs. Tremor of arms and arms. Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and facet of leg involving calves.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Acet ac; Coff.
Compare: Nabalus-Prenanthes Serpentaria-Rattlesnake root-White lettuce, comparable to Lactuca, (chronic diarrhoea, worse after eating, nights and in the direction of morning. Pain in stomach and rectum; emaciation. Constipation and somnolence; inclined to charisma of others. Dyspepsia, with acid burning eructation. Craving for acid food. Leucorrhoea with throbbing in uterus); Lach; Kali carb; Spiranthes (galactagogue).
Dose.–Tincture.
