LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
Club Moss
(LYCOPODIUM)
This drug is inert till the spores are crushed. Its splendid medicinal homes are solely disclosed by using trituration and succussion.
In almost all instances the place Lycopodium is the remedy, some proof of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogle’s carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithaemic. Lycopodium is tailored greater specially to illnesses step by step developing, useful energy weakening, with screw ups of the digestive powers, the place the characteristic of the liver is significantly disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, the place the pores and skin suggests yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; additionally precocious, weakly children. Symptoms typically run from proper to left, acts specifically on proper facet of body, and are worse from about four to eight pm. In kidney affections, purple sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse earlier than urination. Intolerant of bloodless drinks; craves the whole thing warm. Best tailored to people intellectually keen, however of weak, muscular power. Deep-seated, progressive, continual diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating have an impact on upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycop affected person is thin, withered, full of fuel and dry. Lacks fundamental heat; has negative circulation, bloodless extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.
Mind.–Melancholy; afraid to be alone. Little matters annoy, Extremely sensitive. Averse to assignment new things. Head robust and haughty when sick. Loss of self-confidence. Hurried when eating. Constant worry of breaking down underneath stress. Apprehensive. Weak memory, burdened thoughts; spells or writes incorrect phrases and syllables. Failing brain-power (Anac; Phos; Baryt). Cannot endure to see something new. Cannot examine what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking.
Head.–Shakes head except obvious cause. Twists face and mouth. Pressing headache on vertex; worse from four to eight pm, and from mendacity down or stooping, if now not ingesting in many instances (Cact). Throbbing headache after each and every paroxysm of coughing. Headaches over eyes in extreme colds; better, uncovering (Sulph). Vertigo in morning on rising. Pain in temples, as if they have been screwed towards every other. Tearing ache in occiput; better, clean air. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing in the back of ears. Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and grey hair.
Eyes.–Styes on lids close to inside canthus. Day-blindness (Bothrops). Night-blindness extra characteristic. Sees solely one-half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids. Eyes 1/2 open at some point of sleep.
Ears.–Thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Eczema about and at the back of ears. Otorrhoea and deafness with or except tinnitus; after scarlatina. Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing; each and every noise motives ordinary echo in ear.
Nose.–Sense of scent very acute. Feeling of dryness posteriorly. Scanty excoriating, discharge anteriorly. Ulcerated nostrils. Crusts and elastic plugs (Kal b; Teuc). Fluent coryza. Nose stopped up. Snuffles; toddler starts offevolved from sleep rubbing nose. Fan-like movement of aloe nasi (Kali brom; Phos).
Face.–Grayish-yellow shade of face, with blue circles round eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption. Dropping of decrease jaw, in typhoid fever (Lach; Opium). Itching; scaly herpes in face and nook of mouth.
Mouth.–Teeth excessively painful to touch. Toothache, with swelling of cheeks; relieved with the aid of heat application. Dryness of mouth and tongue, besides thirst. Tongue dry, black, cracked, swollen; oscillates to and fro. Mouth waters. Blisters on tongue. Bad scent from mouth.
Throat.–Dryness of throat, barring thirst. Food and drink regurgitates via nose. Inflammation of throat, with stitches on swallowing; better, heat drinks. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Ulceration of tonsils, commencing on proper side. Diphtheria; deposits unfold from proper to left; worse, bloodless drinks. Ulceration of vocal bands. Tubercular laryngitis, in particular when ulceration commences.
Stomach.–Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc. Excessive hunger. Aversion to bread, etc. Desire for candy things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations. Great weak spot of digestion. Bulimia, with lots bloating. After eating, stress in stomach, with bitter style in mouth. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Cannot consume oysters. Rolling of flatulence (Chin; Carb). Wakes at night time feeling hungry. Hiccough. Incomplete burning eructations upward thrust solely to pharynx there burn for hours. Likes to take meals and drink hot. Sinking sensation; worse night.
Abdomen.–Immediately after a mild meal, stomach is bloated, full. Constant experience of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; top left side. Hernia, proper side. Liver sensitive. Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease. Hepatitis, atrophic from of nutmeg liver. Pain capturing throughout decrease stomach from proper to left.
Stool.–Diarrhoea. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Haemorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).
Urine.–Pain in returned earlier than urinating; ceases after flow; sluggish in coming, have to strain. Retention. Polyuria at some point of the night. Heavy purple sediment. Child cries earlier than urinating (Bor).
Male.–No erectile power; impotence. Premature emission (Calad; Sel; Agn). Enlarge prostate. Condylomata.
Female.–Menses too late; closing too long, too profuse. Vagina dry. Coition painful. Right ovarian pain. Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhoea, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from genitals throughout stool.
Respiratory.–Tickling cough. Dyspnoea. Tensive, constrictive, burning ache in chest. Cough worse going down hill. Cough deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty (Ars; Phos; Puls). Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes. Catarrh of the chest in infants, appears full of mucus rattling. Neglected pneumonia, with incredible dyspnoea, flaying of alae nasae and presence of mucous rales.
Heart.–Aneurism (Baryta carb). Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Cannot lie on left side.
Back.–Burning between scapulae as of warm coals. Pain in small of back.
Extremities.–Numbness, additionally drawing and tearing in limbs, specifically whilst at relaxation or at night. Heaviness of arms. Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the different cold. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of the feet. Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica, worse proper side. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and ft numb. Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night time in bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.
Fever.–Chill between three and four pm, observed by means of sweat. Icy coldness. Feels as if mendacity on ice. One sit back is accompanied via some other (Calc; Sil; Hep).
Sleep.–Drowsy at some point of day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of accidents.
Skin.–Ulcerates. Abscesses under skin; worse heat applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema related with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily. Skin turns into thick and indurated. Varicose veins, naevi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left aspect of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, particularly palms; hair turns into in advance gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, mainly of ft and axilla. Psoriasis.
Modalities.–Worse, proper side, from proper to left, from above downward, four to eight pm; from warmth or heat room, warm air, bed. Warm applications, barring throat and belly which are higher from heat drinks. Better, with the aid of motion, after midnight, from heat meals and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered.
Relationship.–Complementary: Lycop acts with one of a kind gain after Calcar and Sulphur. Iod; Graphites, Lach; Chelidon.
Antidotes: Camph; Puls; Caust.
Compare: Carbo-Nitrogenoid Constitution: Sulphur; Rhus; Urtica; Mercur; Hepar. Alumina (Lycop is the solely vegetable that takes up aluminum. T. F. Allen) Ant c; Nat m; Ery; Nux; Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely see after sunrise; ache in proper tremendous toe). Plumbago littoralis-A Brazilian plant–(Costive with purple urine, ache in kidneys and joints and physique generally; milky saliva, ulcerated mouth). Hydrast follows Lycop in indigestion.
Dose.–Both the decrease and the absolute best potencies are credited with notable result. For functions of assisting removing the 2nd and 1/3 attenuation of the Tincture, a few drops, three instances a day, have proved efficacious, in any other case the sixth to two hundredth potency, and higher, in no longer too universal doses.
