Lycopodium Clavatum

General

LYCOPODIUM. [Lycop.] Club Moss. Hahnemann. Lycopodiaceae.

Mind

► Unconscious. ► Weak memory ; confused thoughts ; mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words in writing. ► Uses the wrong words for correct ideas. ► Absent-minded, thinks he is in two places at the same time. ► Dread of men wants to be alone ; also in children ; or, dread of solitude, with irritability and melancholy. ► Imperious manner ; scolds ; commands. ► Weeps all day, cannot calm herself. ► Sad, or cheerful and merry. ► Loss of confidence in his own vigor. ► Doubts about one's salvation. ► Anxious as if about to die ; even prepares final messages. ► Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed. ► Indifferent, taciturn. ► Sensitive, even cries when thanked. ► Vehement, angry, headstrong. ► After a fright, liver complaints.

Sensorium

► Vertigo when drinking. ► Stupefying headache, with heat in the temples and of the ears ; mouth and lips dry worse from 4 to 8 P.M., when rising up or on lying down. ► Impending cerebral paralysis ; somnolence, staring eyes ; dropped jaw.

Inner Head

► Stitches in the temples, mostly the right, from within outward. ► Pain in temples, as if screwed together ; worse during menses. ► Pressing headache on the vertex ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., and from stooping ; followed by great weakness. ► Tearing in the forehead or right side of the head, extending down to the neck with tearing in the face, eyes and teeth ; worse on raising one's self, better on lying down. ► Tension in the head. ► Headache after breakfast. ► Headache worse from warmth of bed, getting warm while walking and from mental exertion ; better from the open, cold air, and uncovering the head.

Outer Head

► Eruption, beginning on the back of the head ; crusts thick, easily bleeding oozing a fetid moisture ; worse after scratching, and from warmth. ► Pityriasis in spots on the scalp. ► Hair falls off after abdominal diseases ; after parturition ; with burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise during the day. ► Hair becomes grey early.

Eyes

► Sparks before the eyes in the dark. ► Photophobia. ► Night blindness, with black spots before the eyes. ► Sees only the left half of an object distinctly. ► Arrested cataract (with chronic dyspepsia). ► Eyes hot, dim, wide open fixed and insensible to light. ► Obscuration of sight, as from feathers before the eyes. ► Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw flesh ; copious discharge of pus ; lids puffed out by the pus. ► Stitches and soreness in eyes evening when looking at light. ► Eyes inflamed, canthi itch, lids red and swollen ; troublesome pain if they get dry. ► Granular eyelids, dry, with smarting. ► Pustules and styes on the lids, more towards inner canthi. ► Much mucus in the eyes, with smarting pain.

Ears

► Oversensitiveness of hearing. ► Roaring, humming and whizzing in the ears ; hardness of hearing. ► Otorrhoea purulent, ichorous ; after scarlatina ; with impaired hearing. ► Sensation as if hot blood rushed into the ears. ► Polypus of the ears. ► Humid, suppurating scurfs on and behind the ears.

Nose

► Oversensitiveness of smell. ► Nose stopped up, especially at the root ; breathes with open mouth and protruding tongue. θ Diphtheria. ► Snuffles, child starts out of sleep rubbing its nose. ► Catarrh of nose and frontal sinuses ; discharge yellow and thick ; frontal headache, yellow complexion. ► Violent coryza, nose swollen ; discharge acrid, excoriating ; posterior nares dry. ► The ichorous discharge from nose begins in right nostril. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria. ► Scurf in the nose. ► Fan-like motion of the alae nasi.

Face

► Silly expression. See 11. ► Copper-colored eruptions of the forehead. ► Face : pale, with circumscribed red cheeks ; early, yellow, with deep furrows, blue circles around eyes, blue lips. ► Flushes of heat in the face. ► Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles. ► Oedema of the face. ► Eruption of the face, humid suppurating. ► Freckles.

Lower Face

► Lower jaw hangs down, especially during sleep ; or with stupor in exhausting fevers. ► Eruption around the mouth ; corners of the mouth sore. ► Swelling of lower lip. ► Swelling of submaxillary glands. ► Large ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower lip.

Teeth

► Teeth excessively painful to touch ; front teeth loose or as if too long. ► Teeth yellow. ► Toothache, with swelling of the cheek ; relieved by the heat of the bed and warm applications. ► Gums bleed violently when touched. ► Gum-boils. ► Fistula dentalis.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : sour ; bitter ; fatty. ► Tongue is darted out and oscillates to and fro. θ Angina. θ Tonsillitis. ► Convulsions of the tongue. ► Tongue : heavy, trembling ; stiff with indistinct speech and dryness, mornings ; red, dry ; becomes black and cracked ; painful and swollen in places ; tubercles. ► Tongue distended, giving patient a silly expression. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria. ► Vesicles on the tip of the tongue, feeling scalded and raw. ► Ulcers on and under the tongue.

Mouth

► Mouth and tongue dry, without thirst ; mouth dry and bitter, in the morning. ► Putrid smell from mouth, especially in morning when awaking. ► Saliva dries on palate and lips, becoming tough. ► Saliva tastes saltish.

Throat

► Pain and soreness begin on right side of throat. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria. ► Fauces brownish-red ; diphtheritic patches spreading from right tonsil to left, or descending from the nose ; worse from cold drinks and after sleep. ► Swelling and suppuration of tonsils, going from right to left. ► Chronic enlargement of the tonsils. ► Hawking of bloody mucus, or of hard, greenish-yellow phlegm ; feeling as of a hard body in the oesophagus. ► Pharynx feels contracted nothing can be swallowed.

Desires And Aversions

► Desire for : sweets ; oysters, which disagree. ► Aversion to : coffee ; tobacco smoke ; boiled, warm food ; bread (rye) ; meat. ► Canine hunger ; the more he eats, the more he craves ; head aches if he dose not eat. ► Hunger, but a few mouthfuls fill him up ; constant feeling of satiety. ► Thirst with disgust for drink ; at night drinks little but often. ► Want of thirst.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : sudden repletion ; irresistible drowsiness ; followed by weariness ; pressure and tension in the liver ; especially after satisfying one's appetite ; constantly spitting food ; palpitation of heart. ► Eating or drinking : 16, 27. Eating : 29. Drinking : 2. Warm drink : 13. Cold drink : 16. ► Aggravation by cold drinks (except water in some cases). θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Everything tastes sour ; sour eructations. ► Frequent belching without relief. ► Heart-burn, water-brash. ► Hiccough. ► Nausea : in pharynx and stomach ; morning's fasting ; in the room, passing off in open air ; in the morning and when riding in a carriage ; after cold, not after warm drinks (in chills). ► Vomits : food and bile ; coagulated blood ; sour substances ; dark greenish masses after eating or drinking.

Stomach

► Pressure in scrobiculum. ► Sensation of twisting, crawling an emptiness in the stomach with yawning. ► Fulness in stomach and bowels ; pit of stomach sensitive to contact or tight clothing. ► Gnawing, griping in the region of the stomach. ► Perforating ulcer ; worse sitting bent, better walking about and when warm in bed.

Hypochondria

► Region of the liver sensitive to contact ; sore aching as if from a shock. ► Backache : 31. ► Tension in region of liver. ► Tensive aching, worse bending body or pressure of hand. ► Nutmeg liver and atrophic form. ► Hepatitis chronic forms ; abscesses ; fan-like motion of the alae nasi ; one hot, one cold foot. ► Violent gall-stone colic. ► Tension in the hypochondria as from a hoop. ► Tension as from a cord marking the diaphragmatic attachments ; cannot stretch or stand upright. ► Rumbling of wind in the splenic flexure of the colon.

Abdomen

► Sensation of something moving up and down in stomach and bowels. ► Pressure on hypochondrium causes pains in epigastrium and vice versa ; chronic duodenitis. ► Spasmodic contraction in the abdomen. ► Colicky pains in the right side of the abdomen extending into the bladder with frequent urging to urinate. ► When turning on to the right side, a hard body seems to roll from the navel to that side. θ Ascites. ► Peritonitis with hepatitis and diaphragmitis. ► Ascites from liver affections, after abuse of alcohol. ► Abdomen distended ; feet cold ; indurations. ► Accumulation of flatulence, which becomes incarcerated ; pressure upward, with full feeling also downward on the rectum and bladder. ► Great fermentation in the abdomen ; rumbling, croaking, rattling ; also with colic and discharge of much flatus. ► Brown spots on the abdomen. ► Hernia (right side) ; crural hernia, females. ► Renal colic in (right) ureter to bladder ; red sand in urine. ► Skin of the abdomen is painfully sensitive.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : pale, putrid ; thin, brown mixed with hard lumps ; thin, yellow or reddish-yellow fluid. ► Constipation : stools hard ; ineffectual urging from a contraction of the sphincter ani ; after stool, feeling as if much remained unpassed, or great distress in the rectum ; much flatulence. ► Stitches in the rectum. ► Itching and tension at the anus (in the evening in bed). ► Continued burning pain in the rectum. ► Varices protrude ; painful when sitting. ► Discharge of blood, even with soft stool. ► Itching eruption at the anus, painful to touch.

Urine

► Severe backache, relieved by passing urine. ► Bearing down over the bladder, frequent desire to urinate ; pains worse lying down, especially at night ; better from horseback riding. ► Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive, purulent sediment ; dull pressing in region of bladder and abdomen, disposition to calculi. θ Cystitis. ► Urging to urinate, must wait long before it will pass. ► Incontinence of urine. ► No urine secreted. ► Urine : scanty, dark red, albuminous with strangury ; deposits a red, sandy sediment, frequent and copious at night, scanty by day ; pale. ► Haematuria, from gravel or chronic catarrh. ► Stitches in the neck of the bladder and anus at the same time. ► Before passing water, the child screams with pain ; red sand on the diaper. ► Jerking, cutting in the urethra after urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

► Impotence : penis small, cold and relaxed ; also from poisoning with chlorine ; after onanism. ► Erections feeble ; during an embrace falls asleep. ► Excessive and exhausting pollutions. ► Soreness between the scrotum and thigh. ► Itching of inner surface of the prepuce ; yellowish tumor behind the corona glandis.

Female Sexual Organs

► Nymphomania. ► Cutting across the hypogastrium right to left ; ovaries diseased, right to left ; ovarian tumors, ovarian dropsy. ► Sensation of pressure through the vagina when stooping. ► Physometra ; wind discharged from the vagina. ► Dropsy of the uterus. ► Menses profuse, protracted ; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum with labor-like pains, followed by swooning. ► Before the menses, sad, chilly, abdomen bloated. ► Menses suppressed, also from fright -delay of first menses. ► Leucorrhoea : in starts milky ; blood-red worse before the full moon ; corroding. ► Increased discharge of blood from the genitals during every passages of hard or soft stool. ► Vagina dry ; burning in vagina during and after coition. ► Occasional sharp pains running around the labia. ► Varices of the genitals. ► Erectile tumors. ► Polypi. ► Dry pediculated, painless condylomata. ► Inflammation of the external genitals.

Pregnancy

► Disposition to miscarriage ; moles. ► During the labor-pains she must keep in constant motion ; with weeping ; labor-pains run upward. ► Nipples sore, fissured, or covered with scurf ; bleed easily ; stitches and burning. ► Hard, burning nodosities in mammae ; with stitching pains.

Larynx

► Hoarseness ; feeble husky voice, dryness in the windpipe. ► Hoarseness remaining after croup ; loose cough by day, suffocating spells at night.

Breathing

► Short, in children, worse during sleep and from every exertion. ► Oppression of breathing, worse walking in the open air, with weakness. ► Dyspnoea, worse when lying on back. ► Whizzing breathing in the daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in the chest ; loud rattling.

Cough

► Dry, day and night, with painfulness of the region of the head and stomach ; from irritation in the trachea, as from fumes of sulphur. ► Sputa are : thick, yellow, purulent ; greyish-yellow or dirty ; fetid pus or mucus streaked with blood ; green in the morning ; tasting salt. ► Cough worse ; from 4 to 8 P.M., on alternate days, from exertion stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on the (left) side, from eating and drinking cold things ; in the wind warm room.

Lungs

► Continuous pressure on the chest ; raw feeling internally ; tearing under clavicles, tension. ► Catarrh on the chest, of infants ; rattling on the chest, which seems full of mucus. ► Pneumonia, with raising of mouthfuls of mucus at a time of a light rust color, stringy and easily separated. ► Neglected pneumonia ; especially with continuing hepatization and purulent sputum. ► Typhoid pneumonia. ► Stitches in the left chest, also during inspirations. ► Paralysis of the lungs. ► Hydrothorax.

Heart And Pulse

► Hydropericardium. ► Trembling, palpitations ; pulsating-tearing in region of heart. ► Pulse unaltered ; accelerated only after eating or in evening. ► Sensation as if the circulation stood still ; or, ebullitions of blood. ► Acceleration of the pulse with cold face and feet.

Outer Chest

► Brownish-yellow spots on the chest.

Neck And Back

► One side of the neck stiff and swollen. ► Large clusters of red pimples around the neck with violent itching ; cervical glands swollen. ► Burning as from hot coals between the scapulae. ► Pain and stiffness in the small of the back (at night). ► Stitches in the small of the back, especially when rising from stooping. ► Pain in small of back as if it would break ; with hard stool and colic as if intestines would burst. ► Pain in the small of the back, extending into the thighs. ► Pain in back and right side from congestion of liver : 18. ► Pain in sacral region, worse rising from a seat.

Upper Limbs

► Axillary glands swollen ; fetid sweat in the axillae. ► Rheumatic tension in the right shoulder-joints. ► Tearing pains in the shoulder and elbow-joints during rest, not in motion ; tearing from neck to elbow ; also in whole arm ; in hands only while in bed. ► Pains in the bones of the arms at night. ► Weakness of the arms when at work ; and conversely they feel powerless, yet he can work : 36. ► Arms and fingers go to sleep easily. ► Twitching in the arms, and shoulders. ► Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint. ► Great dryness of the hands, especially of the palms. ► Panaritium ; with gastric affections.

Lower Limbs

► Rheumatic tensions in left hip. ► Coxalgia, with violent jerks of the limbs ; child awakens cross or with a scream. ► Knee : swollen and stiff ; swollen, with sweating ; white swelling. ► Pain as from contraction in the calves when walking (cramp), cramp in the toes. ► Oozing of water from sore places in oedematous legs. θ Ascites. ► Old ulcers on legs, with nightly tearing, burning and itching. ► Varicose veins on the legs. ► Oedema of feet ; also when oedema rises till ascites form. ► Swelling of the soles ; they pain when walking. ► Profuse, fetid foot-sweat ; with burning of the soles. ► One foot hot, the other cold, or cold, sweaty feet. ► Feet feel as if dead or asleep. ► Stitches in the big toe of the right foot (in the evening).

Limbs In General

► Drawing, tearing in limbs at night and on alternate days ; worse at rest ; muscles and joints rigid, painful, with numbness ; finger-joints inflamed ; also with arthritic nodes ; swelling of the dorsa of feet ; rheumatism ; worse in wet weather ; better in warmth. ► Fissure on the hands ; also on the heels.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 24, 32. Walking : 3, 17, 26, 33. Exertion : 26, 27. Exercise : 4. Stretching : 18, 27. Rising : 2, 3, 31. Rest : 32, 34. Lying : 2, 3, 21, 27 ; on left side : 27. Sitting : 20 ; bent : 17. Stooping : 3, 23, 27. Standing upright : 18. In bed : 32. ► While at rest debility is mostly felt, yet averse to exercise. ► Worse on beginning to walk (stiffness) ; better continuing to walk ; child wants to be carried.

Nerves

► Formication of affected limbs. ► Pain drawing, tearing, worse at night ; muscles and joints rigid ; sensation of torpor in affected part. ► Involuntary alternate extension and contraction of muscles. ► Spasms, with screaming, foaming at the mouth, unconsciousness ; throwing the arms about ; cardiac anguish ; imagines he will die. ► Causes depression of nearly all functions. ► Great emaciation and internal debility. ► Paralysis.

Sleep

► Sleepy during day, wakeful at night, mind too active. ► Comatose state ; often with fever and exanthemata. ► Child sleeps with half open eyes and throws its head from side to side, with moaning. ► Soporous in typhoid and exanthematous fevers ; impending paralysis of the brain. ► Sleep restless ; at ease in no position ; cries out, starts, has anxious dreams ; jerks of the limbs. ► Sleep uneasy ; wakes often, quite awake at 4 A.M. ; anxious, awakes often and cannot soon sleep again. ► On awaking : cross, kicks, scolds ; or awakes terrified, as if dreaming ; feels unrefreshed ; hungry when awaking at night.

Time

► Morning : 1, 11, 12, 16, 27. From 4 to 8 P.M. : generally worse, afterward better, except the debility ; also 2, 3, 27, 40. Evening : 5, 20, 29, 33, 40. Night : 5, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 44, 46. Day : 1, 25, 26, 27, 37, 46.

Temperature And Weather

► Generally inclination for the open air. ► Warmth : 3, 4, 10, 17, 27, 34. Open air : 3, 26. Uncovering : 3. Wind : 27. Wet weather : 34. ► Cold drinks : 13. ► Aggravation from moistening the diseased parts.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill from 4 to 8 P.M., with numb hands and feet, icy-cold at 7 P.M. ; feels as if lying on ice ; on awaking from a dreamy sleep, covered with sweat ; afterward violent thirst ; one sided (left) ; chilly all over at 9 P.M. even heat of stove won't warm. ► Nausea and vomiting then chill, followed by sweat without intervening heat ; or sour vomiting between chill and heat ; chill followed by bloated face and hands. ► Flushes of heat over the whole body, mostly toward evening ; with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time ; constipation and increased micturition. ► Heat, with red cheeks, alternating with chilliness ; hectic fever (with suppuration of the lungs). ► Heat, with inclination to uncover. ► Sweat : from the least exertion ; cold, sour, bloody, or offensive smelling like onions ; clammy at night, often with coldness of the face. ► Old, broken-down cases of malaria ; chill ; sweat greasy. ► Typhus : with stupefaction ; murmuring, delirium, subsultus tendinum ; meteorism ; constipation.

Attacks

► Faintish, at certain hours in the day ; worse every fourth day (pain from hip to foot). ► Full moon : 23. Alternate days : 27, 34. Worse in the spring.

Sides

► Right : 3, 7, 19, 32, 33. Left : 5, 18, 28, 33. ► Right to left : throat, chest, abdominal and ovarian symptoms. ► Within outward : 3. Above downward : 3, 13, 19, 31. Below upward : 24.

Tissues

► Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids ; upper parts wasted ; lower limbs swollen. θ Ascites. ► Glandular swellings. ► Bones inflamed, mostly the ends ; nocturnal bone pains. ► Sensation as if void of marrow. ► Softening ; caries.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► The whole body feels bruised. ► Touch : 10, 17, 18, 20, 46. Pressure : 17, 18. Scratching : 4. Riding : 16, 21. ► Soft parts feel painful to touch or pressure.

Skin

► Skin dry and hot, especially that of the hands. ► Biting-itching when becoming warm through the day. ► Dark red blotches here and there. ► Flesh in ridges, as if struck with a stick. ► Urticaria, chronic cases. ► Eruptions : humid suppurating ; full of deep rhagades ; breeding lice ; itching violently ; intertrigo raw places readily bleeding. ► Vascular tumours. ► Naevus maternus. ► Blood-boils. ► Boils which do not mature, but remain blue. ► Ulcers : bleed and burn when dressed ; tearing and itching at night, burning when touched, fistulous, with hard, red, shining, everted edges and inflammatory swelling of the affected parts ; bleeding easily.

Stages And States

► Often in old women ; also persons of keen intellect, but of feeble muscular development ; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic affections.

Relationship

► Complementary to Iodum. ► Lycop. follows well after Calcar. or Laches. ► After Lycop. are frequently indicated : Graphites, Lachesis, Ledum, Phosphor., Silic. ► It is rarely advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lyco. ; it is better to give first another antipsoric remedy. ► Lycop antidotes Cinchon. ► Antidotes to Lycop., Acon., Camphor., Caustic., Chamom., Graphit., Pulsat., also Coffee.