Lycopodium Clavatum

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A Primer of Materia Medica

for practitioners of Homoeopathy

by Timothy Field Allen

Presented by Médi-T.

LYCOPODIUM

Mind

Melancholia, with despair.

Anxiety, with depressed and lachrymose mood.

Easily made to weep.

Dread of people and anxiety when in their company.

Indecision, lack of self-confidence.

Easily frightened and startled.

Mental powers very sluggish.

Hears wrong words and syllables.

Confused about common words.

Loss of comprehension and memory.

Head

A feeling of rush of blood ; throbbing, especially after paroxysm of coughing.

Throbbing in the brain on leaning the head backward.

Shattering pains in the temples, as well as chest, during cough.

Tearing pains back and forth in the forehead.

One-sided headache in the evening, < mental effort.

Vertigo in the morning on rising and afterward.

Hair becomes gray and falls out.

Eruptions on the scalp, with scratching and bleeding.

Eyes

Dryness, with distressing pain, worse at night.

Stinging and smarting, worse in the evening by the light.

Dryness of the eyes in the morning, which are difficult to open, with smarting between the lids, as from dust.

Ulceration and redness of the lids.

Recurring styes.

Lids agglutinated at night.

Burning dryness in the lids and eyes, so that they cannot be opened in the morning.

Towards evening he becomes blinded, can see nothing.

Flickering and dim vision after a nap in the afternoon.

Black floating spots.

Can see only the left half of objects.

Ears

Roaring, humming and whizzing in the ears.

Loss of hearing.

Over-sensitiveness of hearing.

Clinical

Eczema of external ear, with crusts and fissures in the skin.

Discharges from the ear.

Nose

Nostrils ulcerated.

Dry stoppage of the nose, especially in children ; must breathe through the mouth.

Swelling of the nose.

Stoppage at night ; cannot breathe.

Acrid discharges from the nose, but with internal dryness.

Clinical

Acute chronic catarrh, with dry stoppage.

Fan-like motion of the wings of the nose, with dyspnoea.

Face

General paleness and yellowishness, with sickly color, worse towards evening.

The lines of the face become very deep, with blue rings about the eyes and mouth.

Humid eruptions on the face.

Freckles.

Mouth

Teeth become yellow.

Toothache at night or when eating, > warmth and the warmth of the bed.

Bleeding of the gums easily.

Tongue coated.

Vesicles on the tip of the tongue.

Mouth generally dry, without thirst, with stiffness of tongue, and indistinct speech.

Bitter taste in the morning, or sour taste after eating.

Throat

Inflammation, with internal swelling, or even ulceration ; frequent inclination to swallow.

Contracted feeling as if a ball rose into the throat ; on swallowing, food and drink regurgitate through nose.

Dryness in the throat, with soreness and pain on swallowing.

Clinical

Inflammations beginning on the right side, with stoppage of nose ; symptoms worse at 4 P. M., etc.

Stomach

Great appetite, but after beginning to eat satiety, and stomach and abdomen feel full and tense.

Sudden satiety, with thirst, heaviness and distention in the abdomen.

Appetite lost ; difficult to eat anything.

Aversion to customary coffee and tobacco.

Eructations incomplete, rising part way, where they cause burning.

Sour eructations, with gnawing in the stomach.

Rising of water.

Hiccough.

Nausea in the morning before eating, with salivation ; afterwards vomiting of food and bile.

General relief in the open air and from coffee.

Distention and pain or cramps in the stomach in the afternoon after eating a little, with heaviness ; caused by cough, with eructations as if over-distended, even after eating a little ; < sitting bent over, with dyspnoea, etc.

Digestion slow ; discomfort, sensitiveness to pressure.

Constriction, extending into chest.

Anxiety in the pit of the stomach.

Heartburn.

Abdomen

Distention, especially about the hypochondria.

Tightness as from a cord.

Distention over the region of the liver, worse after eating.

General flatulent distention.

Cutting pains.

Distention most in the upper part of the abdomen and in hypochondria, extending to back, ribs and chest ; > eructations.

Numerous rumblings and gurglings in the abdomen, griping, especially in the region of transverse colon.

Incarcerated flatulence.

Heat rises from abdomen to head, with burning cheeks.

Weight in the left side of abdomen when walking, sitting or lying.

Rectum and Stool :

Contraction and protrusion during hard stool.

Protruding haemorrhoids, with burning and sticking ; painful.

Anus painfully closed.

Stool constipated, with ineffectual straining.

Diarrhoea from eating milk.

First part of stool hard ; last part soft like diarrhoea.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urine ; burning during micturition.

Urine usually copious, often dark colored, even bloody, with red sandy sediment.

Sexual Organs

Loss of sexual power.

Male organs become small and cold.

Dryness of the vagina, burning of the vagina during coition.

Varicose veins of the pudenda.

Menses usually too long continued and too profuse ; sometimes too scanty.

Depressed mood before the menses, with indigestion, as above.

Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Respiratory organs :

Tickling in the larynx, causing forcible cough.

Cough dry at night ; expectoration in the day time.

Cough caused by tickling on deep inspiration.

Cough, with yellowish, purulent expectoration, with rawness and sore pain in the chest.

Cough, with gray, salty expectoration.

Dyspnoea, as if chest were constricted.

Heavy pressure on the chest.

Stitches in the left side, with inflammation of the lungs ; when breathing.

Heart and Pulse :

Palpitation, in the evening in bed, during digestion.

Neck and Back :

Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, with stiffness ; muscles seem too short.

Drawing and sticking pains in the back, especially in the region of the kidneys, extending into rectum, < pressure.

Pains in the region of the kidneys, < morning on rising or during menses.

Extremities

Stiffness of all the joints.

Pain worse in the right side, in the evening and by warmth.

Bone pains in the arms at night.

Jerking pains in the arms and shoulders.

Arms and fingers fall asleep easily.

Skin of the hands dry.

Finger-joints red and swollen, with tearing pains.

Tearing pains in the legs at night.

Swelling and stiffness of the knees, especially in the hollows of the knees, in the morning on rising.

Contractive pain in the calves when walking.

Swelling of the feet, which are habitually cold.

Skin

Brown spots appear here and there ; sometimes itching or inflamed, with burning pain.

Itching pimples in various places.

Boils.

Skin becomes unhealthy, raw, smarting on walking ; he feels rubbed sore.

Veins varicose.

Gouty nodes.

Sleep

Yawns all day, and is very sleepy, but falls asleep late at night.

Night sleep restless, with anxious dreams and frequent waking.

Fever

Periodic recurrence of chill ; fever and sweat every afternoon from 4 to 8, with thirst ; nervous irritability ; sour vomiting, cough.

Chill begins in the back, as from cold water, with sleepiness, cold hands and feet.

Heat of the face or between the scapulae.

Sweat at night on the feet, or during the day on the slightest effort.