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Lycopodium Clavatum
Lycopodium clavatum · LYC
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Origin Plant · Lycopodiaceae · Simple
Habitat Hilly pastures and heaths in Central and Northern Europe, Russian Asia, and North America. Common in Great Britain, especially the North
ClarkePreparation Trituration of spores. Tincture of spores. Tincture of fresh plant.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
6X, 200X, Ø
Both the lower and the highest potencies are credited with excellent result. For purposes of aiding elimination the second and third attenuation of the Tincture, a few drops, 3 times a day, have proved efficacious, otherwise the 6th to 200th potency, and higher, in not too frequent doses

Reason for useLippe

Drawing and tearing in the limbs, especially at night and during rest, or on alternate afternoons. Numbness of the limbs, sensation as if circulation ceased. [220] Great emaciation, great internal debility. Twitches through the body. Contraction of some limbs. Stiffness of all the joints. The whole body feels bruised. [225] Involuntary, alternate extension and contraction of the muscles in different parts of the body. Epileptic spasms, with screaming, foam at the mouth, loss of consciousness, throws the aims and limbs about, great anguish about the heart, and imagines he would have to die. Faintishness at certain hours of the day.


By regionLippe
Mind And Disposition Low-spirited, taciturn, melancholy ; doubts about his salvation. Desponding, grieving mood. Weeping, sad mood ; extremely sensitive. …
Head Stupefying headache, with heat in the temples and of the ears ; dryness of the mouth and lips ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., when rising up, and on lying down. …
Eyes Stitches and soreness in the eyes in the evening, when looking at the light. …
Stomach And Abdomen Canine hunger. Desire for sweet things. …
Extremities [190] Upper. Rheumatic tension in the right shoulder-joint. Pain in the bones of the arms at night. The arms and fingers go to sleep easily. …
Sleep Sleepiness during the day, but cannot go to sleep at night, his mind is too active. …
Fever Pulse only accelerated in the evening and afternoon. Sensation as if the circulation stood still. …
Skin Biting, itching when becoming warm through the day. Humid, suppurating tetters, full of deep rhagades and covered with thick crusts. …

Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 3, Aconitum Napellus 2, Allium Sativum 2 +14
Complementary Chelidonium Majus, Graphites, Iodium +27
Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Lachesis, Graphites +7
Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Nux Vomica, Arsenicum Album +32

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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