Lycopodium

Lycopodium is one of the pivotal remedies of the materia medica, and an

intimate acquaintance with its properties and relations is essential to a proper understanding of

the materia medica as a whole. The spores from which the attenuations are made have been

called "vegetable sulphur" (probably on account of their use for producing stage-lightning at

theatres), and Lyc. ranks with Sulphur and Calcarea in the central trio around which all the rest

of the materia medica can be grouped. The Lycopodiums stand between the mosses and the ferns,

and in past eras occupied a most important place in the world's vegetation as fossils show. In the

old school the function of Lyc. has dwindled into its use as an "inert" coating for pills and an

"inert" powder for dusting on excoriated surfaces. Earlier practitioners did not consider it as by

any means inert. Teste mentions that it is recorded of a decoction of the plant that it has caused

vomiting. The use of the powder in intertrigo was not regarded as a physical one but as

medicinal. It was praised by Wedel, Lantilius, Gesner, and others in (/) cardialgia and flatulent

colic of children and young girls; (2) diseases of children; (3) nephritic colic and calculi—which

is about as much as some homeeopathists know about it at the present day. But Mérat and de

Lens speak of its internal use in: Rheumatism; retention of urine; nephritis; epilepsy; and

pulmonary diseases. In Poland it is used for powdering the hair in "plica polonica," a decoction

being used internally and also externally at the same time. The comparative fruitfulness of the

two schools of medicine may be accurately measured in the history of this drug: in the old school

it has dwindled into an "inert" powder; in homceopathy, by means of the scientific methods of

developing and investigating drug action it possesses, all the old virtues of Lyc. have been

confirmed and precisionised, and a new world of medicinal action added to them. Teste puts Lyc.

• ▸at the head of a group containing Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Viol.
• ▸tric.
• ▸, and Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸Among the common characters

he attributed to them are: Primary action on digestive organs and adjoining glands; on liver and

larger intestines rather than stomach. Aversion to bread and < from eating bread and foods made

of fermented and fermentable dough. Frequent and painful eructations. Sour eructations;

vomiting; distension; alternate diarrhoea and constipation. Pale, whitish, cloudy, mucous urine,

• ▸often fetid.
• ▸Premature and profuse menses.
• ▸Peevishness.
• ▸Rush of blood to head.
• ▸Falling of hair;

• ▸with crusty scalp eruption.
• ▸Inflammation of eyes and lids.
• ▸Deficiency of vital heat.
• ▸Contraction

• ▸of tendons, especially hamstrings.
• ▸These are general features common to the group.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸acts

profoundly on the entire organism, on solids and fluids. It causes paralysis and paralytic

weakness of limbs, of brain, suppurative conditions, even gangrene. It is particularly suited to:

Persons of keen intellect, but feebler muscular development; upper part of body wasted, lower

semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic conditions; herpetic and scrofulous

constitutions; hypochondriacs subject to skin diseases; lithic acid diathesis, much red sediment in

urine, urine itself transparent; sallow people with cold extremities, haughty disposition, when

sick, mistrustful, slow of comprehension, weak memory; weak children with well-developed

heads but puny, sickly bodies, irritable, nervous, and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross,

pushing every one away angrily; old women and children. In my experience it has been more

indicated in persons of dry temperament and dark complexion; but this is not by any means

exclusive. Undernourished states suggest it. But it is impossible to get the best therapeutic results

for this great remedy without an intimate knowledge of certain leading characteristics. Lyc. will

cure any case in which the totality of symptoms correspond with symptoms of the remedy; but it

will be found that in a large proportion of cases in which this is the case, there will be present

some symptoms which are peculiarly characteristic of the remedy, constituting what are called

keynotes. Practice on keynote symptoms alone is an absurdity; but the right use of keynote

symptoms is an immense saving of labour. The Lyc. keynotes are very pronounced, and though I

cannot say that one is more important than another, I give them in this order. (/) < From 4 to 8

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸[In one case cured by Lyc.
• ▸it was: "Bad from 4 to 6; better at 8; gone at 9.
• ▸"] In any case,

when the symptoms are < from 4 to 8 p.m., the chances are very great that the rest of the case

will correspond to Lyc., no matter what the disease may be. The times may not be accurately at

• ▸these hours, and still Lyc.
• ▸may be the remedy.
• ▸< At 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸or from 4 to 6; and the condition may

• ▸continue into the night without the 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸alleviation.
• ▸But the grand characteristic is 4 to 8.
• ▸(2)

The second keynote is in direction, right to left. Any affection commencing on the right side and

spreading to the left is likely to require Lyc., whether it be headache, sore throat, chest affection,

abdominal affection, pains in ovaries—if the affection begins on the right side and spreads to the

• ▸left Lyc.
• ▸must be studied.
• ▸Cutting pains shooting from right to left in any part indicate Lyc.
• ▸In this

• ▸it is complementary to Lach.
• ▸, which has just as characteristically the opposite direction.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸is a

right-side medicine; but right-sidedness is not so characteristic as the direction right to left.

These two features are perhaps the most valuable keynotes, in the materia medica. After them in

importance, and scarcely less important, come others. (3) > From uncovering. This is general,

but it applies to Sufferings in the head more particularly. If a patient complains of headache, no

matter of what kind, and if the headache is distinctly > by taking off the hat or other covering,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸will probably be the remedy.
• ▸This is the great dividing line between this remedy and Si/.
• ▸,

another great headache medicine: in Si/. cases the patient must wrap up the head. > From

loosening the garments is in the same category. (4) The next characteristic is somewhat of an

opposite kind: > From warm drinks; < from cold food and drink. This does not refer to gastric

complaints alone, but to headache, sore throat, and any other condition. (5) Fan-like movement

of alz nasi occurring in cerebral, pulmonary, and abdominal complaints. The movements are

usually rapid, never slow, and are not synchronous with the breathing. In the same order with

this are spasmodic movements of facial muscles: angles of mouth alternately drawn up and

relaxed; and spasmodic movements of tongue, it cannot be protruded; rolls from side to side like

a pendulum. One prover had a kind of cramp in the tongue when speaking, cutting off the end of

• ▸every sentence.
• ▸Nodding and side to side movement of the head.
• ▸Loosvelt (1.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xiv.
• ▸396) has

found that "half-open condition of the eyes during sleep" is a strong indication for Lyc., and has

led him to make cures in cases of bronchitis, pneumonia, and typhoid when other remedies have

failed. The "fan-like movement" of the alze nasi led Halbert to the cure of a case of nervous

• ▸asthma (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiii.
• ▸545): Mrs.
• ▸S.
• ▸, 28, had periodic attacks of spasmodic asthma, always

ushered in by unusual excitement and attended by peculiar mental depression. The attack for

which Halbert saw her was induced by a violent fit of anger, and persisted longer than usual.

Extreme despondency and melancholy, would have nothing to do with her friends. Fan-like

motion of alz nasi. Constriction of throat, like globus, but always induced by regurgitation of

• ▸food.
• ▸Excessive appetite easily satisfied.
• ▸Fulness of abdomen with flatulence.
• ▸Constipation, dry,

• ▸hard stools.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Slight cough with chest constriction; > in open air.
• ▸All symptoms < 4 to 8

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸6x trit.
• ▸cured.
• ▸(6) Suddenness; sudden flashes of heat, lightning-like pains; sudden

satiety. Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly, as with Bell. (7) Sensation as if a hand were

• ▸in the body clutching the entrails (also as with Bell.
• ▸).
• ▸(8) Restlessness > by motion.
• ▸(9) Right foot

hot, left foot cold. (0) Burning pains > by heat; burning like hot coals between scapulz.

Burning stinging in breasts. (//) Dryness of parts: of mucous membranes; of vagina; of skin,

especially palms. Prominent among mental symptoms is Fear: of being alone; of men; of his

Own shadow. Apprehensiveness: susceptible to natural causes of fear which make a profound

impression on bodily organs, as the liver; mental states resulting from fear. Profound sadness and

• ▸inclination to weep.
• ▸Peevish.
• ▸Forgetful.
• ▸Avaricious.
• ▸Imperiousness.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸is a remedy for misers.

The headaches are in great variety, but the modalities will generally decide: < 4 to 8 p.m.; from

eating; from warmth of bed; from becoming heated during a walk; from heat in general; from

mental exertion; > in open air; in cool place; by uncovering. Hair falls out. Ophthalmia:

conjunctiva looks like red flesh. Lyc. has cured desperate cases of facial neuralgia with the

general characteristics of the drug. The facial appearance is pale and yellow; deeply furrowed;

• ▸looks elongated.
• ▸Sordes in teeth.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸is in the front rank among flatulent remedies.
• ▸Incarcerated

flatulence; more in intestines than stomach; painful with > by eructations. There is the sinking

sensation at epigastrium; and it is < in the night, waking up the patient; or < in afternoon. This

sensation becomes translated into canine hunger, but as soon as a morsel of food is swallowed

there is distension and fulness to the throat, preventing him eating any more. Sour stomach, sour

taste, sour vomiting. Thirst for little and often, but drinking cold water = nausea. Great weakness

with the vomiting. Cord-like tension across hypochondria. Flatulence incarcerated, pressing

outward, sensation as if something moving up and down in bowels. Great sensitiveness in liver

region. [This sensitiveness is a characteristic of Lyc., as it is of its complementary remedies,

• ▸Lach.
• ▸, Kali iod.
• ▸, and Jod.
• ▸It has led me to cure many cases of sciatica having this characteristic:

cannot bear to lie on painful side it is so sensitive. Especially in case of right-side sciatica of this

description. Gums, epigastrium, abdomen, right side of chest, eruption round anus, all soft parts

are sensitive. Touch and pressure < all these; only > tearing in head.] The flatulence presses on

rectum and bladder. There is out-pushing also in right inguinal ring; and Lyc. has cured many

cases of right inguinal hernia, especially in children. Lyc. is one of the great remedies for

constipation where purgatives have been abused. Spasmodic constriction of rectum. Constipation

of infants. The urinary symptoms present no less important characteristics than the gastric. Renal

colic, with stinging, tearing, digging pain in right ureter to bladder, as if some small calculus was

tearing its way to bladder. Aching in back before micturition. Child cries before micturating; red

sand is found on diaper. Aching in kidneys < before > after urinating. The catamenia are too

early and too profuse. Extreme sadness and irritability before, ceasing with the flow. Cutting

• ▸pain right to left.
• ▸Left leg colder than right.
• ▸Borborygmi under left ribs in front.
• ▸[ll-humour.

Bearing-down pains and headache. Intolerance of tight clothing. Sensation as if a hand were in

body clutching the entrails. Though a right-side remedy, it must not be supposed that Lyc. is

exclusively so. It has cured left ovarian pain, dull aching, < on raising the limb or turning in bed.

It is of great service in pregnancy (nausea; varices; excessive foetal movements); and in labour

(unsatisfactory pains). The "burning" of Lyc. is exemplified in the cure of a case of puerperal

fever having these symptoms: Feels as though hot balls dropped from each breast through to

back, rolling down back, along each leg, and dropping off heels; this alternated with sensation as

• ▸if balls of ice followed same course.
• ▸Phlegmasia dolens.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸has a very large range in

respiratory affections. Salt sputa; milky; greenish yellow; thick yellow muco-pus. Dry burning

catarrh of nose, larynx, throat, chest. A very characteristic cough of Lyc., which I have verified,

is this: "Dry teasing cough in emaciated boys". The cough of Lyc. is provoked by: Irritation from

deep breathing; stretching out throat; and by empty swallowing. A patient of mine to whom I

gave Lyc. 30 developed this symptom: "Pain under sternum as if food lodged there and she could

not breathe through it." Cough,< on waking. All the blood-vessels from the heart to the

capillaries are affected by Lyc. It has cured both nevus and aneurism, and relieved many

conditions of disordered heart. It is also one of the most important remedies in varicosis.

Excessive sensitiveness is a note of Lyc.: Cannot bear any strong smells. Cannot endure noise.

Sensitiveness to sound has a curious development in this symptom: In the evening she continues

to hear the music she has heard during the day. "Heaviness of the arm" is a special feature among

• ▸the general paralysing effects of Lyc.
• ▸Skinner cured with Lyc.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.
• ▸this case: A lady had burning

in right arm with paralysis, preventing her grasping anything with the right hand. Had had much

• ▸worry.
• ▸Irritability before menstrual period, > by the flow.
• ▸< From 6 to 7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸With the burning

was a sharp pain shooting up the arm; but it was not the pain which caused the paresis. Nash

mentions that the sphere of Lyc. in impotence is considerable. It covers the case of old men who

marry again and find themselves impotent; and the case of young men who have become

impotent from masturbation or sexual excess. The desire is strong but the power is absent; penis

• ▸small, cold, relaxed.
• ▸P.
• ▸C.
• ▸Majumdar records (/nd.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Rev.
• ▸, x.
• ▸1) the case of a boy, 14, who

had general dropsy and anasarca consequent on the subsidence of an enlarged spleen under

• ▸allopathic medication.
• ▸There was afternoon fever (< 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸), slight chilliness, but no thirst;

difficult breathing on lying down, urine scanty and high coloured, bowels constipated, heart's

action weak but regular. Apis caused the urine to be more free, but a troublesome diarrhcea set in.

• ▸Apocy.
• ▸6x removed the diarrhoea, but had no effect on the dropsy.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸30 was now given purely

• ▸on the symptoms, and quickly cleared up the case.
• ▸S.
• ▸A.
• ▸Jones (Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xx.
• ▸283) calls

attention to the irritability of Lyc., and instances the cure of a boy of typhoid with excessive

tympanites when the case seemed almost hopeless, the guiding symptoms being: "When awake

exceedingly cross, irritable, scolding, screaming, behaving disagreeably," which was quite

• ▸different from his usual nature.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸30 was given.
• ▸The same writer (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸351) relates an

involuntary proving of Lyc. from inhalation of the fumes in the course of chemical experiment,

Lyc. powder being added to a boiling mass. The writer (apparently a medical man) had at times

whilst engaged in the experiments: Frightful headaches (occiput, vertex, and through right eye),

• ▸always > by Mag.
• ▸phos.
• ▸In addition he discovered 12.
• ▸5 per cent.
• ▸of albumen in his urine, which

had been tested a short time previously and found normal. Other characteristic symptoms of Lyc.

were present, and all disappeared, including albuminuria, when the experiments were abandoned.

• ▸H.
• ▸Goullon (77.
• ▸R.
• ▸, vi.
• ▸155) cured this case of cystitis: A man, 55, subject to attacks of enteralgia,

was seized two days after such an attack with a severe cystitis, with fever and palpitation of the

heart. The calls to micturate were increased, and he could hardly reach the vessel quick enough

to prevent premature escape of the urine, so severe and sudden was the urging. During and

sometimes after the passage there was intense burning pain, "as if molten lead were flowing

through the urethra." During the height of the pain he grasped the penis to obtain relief. The

urine, which was discharged in very scanty quantities, looked turbid, almost loamy, had a dirty

brownish-red colour, and a peculiar odour of malt. Lyc. 12 was given, six drops in half a

• ▸wineglassful of water: a teaspoonful every three hours.
• ▸Cured in twenty-four hours.
• ▸J.
• ▸E.
• ▸Winans

• ▸(Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xix.
• ▸499) points out the appropriateness of Lyc.
• ▸to the effects of chewing tobacco.

Allen records under Tabac. this symptom: Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of

muscles of back of neck; constantly recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of back being

principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the tobacco." Winans had a very similar

case from the same cause-clonic, opisthotonic spasms as of cerebro-spinal meningitis—which he

• ▸cured with Lyc.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.
• ▸and m.
• ▸m.
• ▸given after each tetanic seizure.
• ▸Other Lyc.
• ▸symptoms verified by

him are: "Forehead cold, but becomes warm if lightly covered" (Sil.); and, in pernicious

intermittents "a long-lasting chill coming on 9 a.m., and generally passing off without subsequent

• ▸heat or sweat.
• ▸" Drysdale has recorded (B.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸, xlii.
• ▸203) the cure of a young woman whose

• ▸hands were covered with warts.
• ▸One 2 gr.
• ▸tablet of Lyc.
• ▸6 trituration was given at bedtime.
• ▸The

warts soon began to shrivel, and in less than six weeks were all gone. The sphere of Lyc. in

• ▸metrorrhagia is illustrated by a case of Waszily's (quoted H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxviii.
• ▸320): Mrs.
• ▸O.
• ▸, 44,

menses after being absent eight months had come on and lasted fourteen days. She felt

particularly well, and had walked out, when a violent flooding came on, and she had to be taken

home in a carriage and put to bed. Dark blood with large clots flowed from her, < every

• ▸movement; no pain.
• ▸Previous day had much flatulent distress.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸30, two globules on the

• ▸tongue.
• ▸After that one large clot passed and nothing more.
• ▸Rapid recovery followed.
• ▸Among the

peculiar sensations of Lyc. are: As if everything was turning round. As if temples being screwed

• ▸together.
• ▸As if brain vacillating to and fro.
• ▸As if head would burst.
• ▸As if head opened.
• ▸Pain in

• ▸head as if caused by wrong position.
• ▸As if eyes too large.
• ▸As if hot blood rushed into ears.
• ▸As if

sulphur vapour in throat. Front teeth as if too long. Vesicles on tip of tongue as if scalded and

• ▸raw.
• ▸As if a ball rose up in throat.
• ▸As if hard body lodged in back of throat.
• ▸As if everything

eaten was rising up. As if oesophagus was being clutched and twisted. As if steam rising from

stomach to head. As if something were moving up and down in stomach. As if suspensor

ligament of liver would tear. As if stomach would fall down. As if drops of water were falling

• ▸down.
• ▸As if heart hung by a thread.
• ▸As if gimlets were running into spine.
• ▸As if dogs with sharp

teeth were gnawing her. Tension as from a cord in diaphragm. As if chest constricted with tight

waistcoat. (Cramps in chest accompanying stomach affections is a strong indication for Lyc.)

Burning as of hot coals between scapulz. As if hot balls dropped from each breast through to

back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels; alternating with balls of ice. As

if water spurted on back. As if lying on ice. The symptoms are < by touch, pressure, weight of

• ▸clothing.
• ▸Riding in carriage = nausea.
• ▸< Morning on waking; < afternoon, 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, 4 to 6

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; < evening before midnight.
• ▸< After eating, even if ever so little.

< Wrapping up head, even wearing hat or bonnet. < In warm room. < Getting warm by exercise.

Warmth of bed < headache and irritation of skin, but > toothache, rheumatism, and other

• ▸symptoms.
• ▸Great desire for open air.
• ▸> In open air; by uncovering.
• ▸Must be fanned, especially

wants to be fanned on the back (burning between shoulders). > By warm, < by cold food and

drink. < By wet weather; by stormy weather; especially by wind. < From moistening diseased

• ▸parts.
• ▸Rest <; motion >.
• ▸Lying down > headache; pain in epigastrium.
• ▸Lying on back > cough.
• ▸<

• ▸Lying on right side in liver affection.
• ▸< Lying on painful side (sciatica).
• ▸< Lying on left side.
• ▸<

By rising from a seat; > after. < From lamplight; from looking fixedly at any point. < From

eating cabbage; vegetables, beans and peas, with husks; bread, especially rye bread and pastry. <

• ▸From wine.
• ▸< From milk.
• ▸< Before menstruation.
• ▸< From suppressed menstruation.
• ▸[Lyc.
• ▸is very

prone to cause aggravations, especially when highly attenuated, and hence it is necessary to give

it with caution. Unless the indications are quite clear it is better to start a case on an allied

• ▸remedy.
• ▸I gave Miss E.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸30 for constipation.
• ▸Soon after taking it she had pains in upper

abdomen in all directions; urging to stool without ability to pass it; much flatus which could

• ▸neither be got up nor down.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸1m.
• ▸was now given, a few globules dissolved in water, a

teaspoonful at bedtime. All symptoms vanished. On rising a second teaspoonful was taken, and

• ▸after this the bowels were well relieved.
• ▸On another occasion she took Lyc.
• ▸Im.
• ▸in the evening,

and immediately felt her throat tight and uncomfortable; but this passed off and she went to bed.

• ▸At 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸she woke with choking; had the greatest difficulty in getting her breath.
• ▸She managed

• ▸to reach a bottle of Be//.
• ▸3, and a dose of this relieved her at once.
• ▸—A patient for whom Lyc.
• ▸5

had, to her great delight reduced the gouty swellings about her finger-joints, till she could get

rings on she had not been able to wear for years, was obliged to discontinue it on account of the

• ▸distressing headaches it caused.
• ▸—Mr.
• ▸W.
• ▸had every Sunday afternoon attacks of pain like biliary

• ▸colic.
• ▸They came on at 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸and lasted till 1 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸The pain started from right of gall bladder,

travelled to middle line, and then passed downwards. In the attack he was cold and yet sweated.

• ▸Bowels constipated.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸1m.
• ▸, one dose every alternate day.
• ▸A powder of the same was, given to

be dissolved in water, of which a teaspoonful was to be taken every twenty minutes in the event

of an attack. During the week he felt better, but on the next Sunday he had the worst attack he

had ever had, and the Lyc. given to be taken frequently did not relieve at all. Nux 30 was next

given night and morning. The next Sunday was passed without any pain, and he felt much better

generally. Cases of this kind could be multiplied indefinitely, and I have known some very good

prescribers almost abandon this remedy on account of unexpected aggravations. |

• ▸Fear.
• ▸Fright.
• ▸Chagrin.
• ▸Anger.
• ▸Vexation.
• ▸Anxiety.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Over-lifting.

• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Riding in carriage.
• ▸Tobacco-chewing.
• ▸Wine.

• ▸Melancholy; afraid to be alone.
• ▸Little things annoy, Extremely sensitive.
• ▸Averse to undertaking new things.
• ▸Head strong and haughty when sick.
• ▸Loss of self-confidence.
• ▸Hurried when eating.
• ▸Constant fear of breaking down under stress.
• ▸Apprehensive.
• ▸Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables.
• ▸Failing brain-power (Anac; Phos; Baryt).
• ▸Cannot bear to see anything new.
• ▸Cannot read what he writes.
• ▸Sadness in morning on awaking.

Silent, melancholy, and peevish humour; despair of eternal salvation —Desponding,

• ▸grieving mood.
• ▸—Sadness when hearing distant music.
• ▸—Anguish, esp.
• ▸in region of epigastrium,

with melancholy and disposition to weep; esp. after a fit of anger, or on the approach of other

persons.—Sensitive disposition.—Dread of men; desires to be alone, or else aversion to

solitude —Excitement after a glass of wine, almost mischievous.—Must laugh if any one looks at

her to say anything serious.—Inclined to laugh and cry at same time.—Irritability and

• ▸susceptibility, with tears.
• ▸—Irascibility.
• ▸—Obstinacy.
• ▸—Estrangement and frenzy, which manifest

themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbearing conduct.—Disposition to be very

haughty when sick; mistrustful; does not understand anything one says to them; memory

• ▸weak.
• ▸—A varicious.
• ▸—Character, mild and submissive-—Complete indifference.
• ▸—Aversion to

speaking.—Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of devotion to mental

labour.—Giddiness.—Inability to express oneself correctly; misapplication of words and

syllables.—Confused speech—Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on abstract

• ▸subjects.
• ▸—Inability to remember what is read.
• ▸—Stupefaction.
• ▸—Dulness.

• ▸Affections in general of r.
• ▸eye; r.
• ▸side of face; r.
• ▸hypochondrium; r.
• ▸abdominal

• ▸ring; |.
• ▸chest; 1.
• ▸lower extremity; general symptoms r.
• ▸side (though they may spread to the 1.
• ▸);

hair of head; rectum; bladder; hands; fingers; finger-joints; back part in the lumbar region, and

ankles.—Hard hearing; smell too sensitive-—Deep furrows on the face; same on forehead;

• ▸sensations in the temples.
• ▸—Collection of water in the mouth, 1.
• ▸e.
• ▸, "mouth waters.
• ▸".
• ▸—Pains in

different parts as from flatus: over r. hip; below chest; in lower abdomen, &c.—Obstructed

evacuation; painless diarrhoea—Anything running from r. to 1—Apoplexia; erethism of blood

accompanied with flashes of heat; chlorosis.—Consumption resulting from badly treated

pneumonia.—Crooked legs; ankles weak; painless paralysis; old sprains; tension, tightness of the

joints —Enlargement of the bones —Drawing and tearing in extremities, < at night and during

repose; sometimes also in the afternoon; every second day, and esp. in windy and rainy weather,

> by heat.—Shooting pains, internal and external.—Painful stiffness of muscles and joints, often

with torpor and insensibility of the extremities —Numbness of the limbs.—Great liability to strain

the back, which, when it occurs, is often followed by stiffness in nape of neck.—Cramps and

contraction of limbs.—Alternate spasmodic and involuntary extension and retraction of some of

the muscles, or some of the extremities—Shocks and jerks in some of the limbs or throughout the

body, during sleep and on waking.—Cramps, internal and external, < at night—Attacks of

epilepsy, sometimes with cries, foam at the mouth (loss of consciousness, throws the arms and

limbs about), and great anguish of heart (imagined he would have to die).—Dropsical and

• ▸inflammatory swellings.
• ▸—Varices.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities.
• ▸—Swelling of the glands.
• ▸—Inflammation

of the bones, with nocturnal pains.—Distortion and softening of the bones.—Ulceration of the

• ▸bones.
• ▸—The symptoms are frequently < towards 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and begin to abate towards 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, the

• ▸weakness excepted.
• ▸—Periodical sufferings.
• ▸—The whole body feels bruised.
• ▸—Ebullition of blood

throughout the body, esp. in the evening, with inquietude and trembling.—Sensation, as if the

circulation of the blood were suspended.—Internal weakness.—Great nervous

excitability.—Weakness and lassitude in limbs, < during repose, or on waking in

morning.—Fatigue, esp. in the legs, after a very short walk, accompanied by a burning sensation

in the feet—Fear of movement, with constant desire to remain lying down.—Total prostration of

strength, with falling of the lower jaw, eyes cloudy and half closed, and slow respiration through

• ▸the mouth.
• ▸—Great emaciation, also with children.
• ▸—Fainting fits, esp.
• ▸in evening, and sometimes

also on lying down, with loss of consciousness, cloudiness of sight, and great

• ▸listlessness.
• ▸—Trembling of limbs.
• ▸—Want of vital heat.
• ▸—Great desire for, or marked repugnance

to fresh air, with excessive sensitiveness to cool air.—Great tendency to take cold —< From east

winds.

• ▸Shakes head without apparent cause.
• ▸Twists face and mouth.
• ▸Pressing headache on vertex; worse from 4 to 8 pm, and from lying down or stooping, if not eating regularly (Cact).
• ▸Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing.
• ▸Headaches over eyes in severe colds; better, uncovering (Sulph).
• ▸Vertigo in morning on rising.
• ▸Pain in temples, as if they were screwed toward each other.
• ▸Tearing pain in occiput; better, fresh air.
• ▸Great falling out of hair.
• ▸Eczema; moist oozing behind ears.
• ▸Deep furrows on forehead.
• ▸Premature baldness and gray hair.

Dizziness and vertigo, as from intoxication.—As soon as she sees anything turning

about she feels as if her body were turning about.—Whirling vertigo, esp. when stooping, or in a

warm room, with inclination to vomit.—Headache from vexation.—Headache, with disposition to

• ▸faint, and great uneasiness.
• ▸—Headache with vertigo.
• ▸—Heaviness of the head.
• ▸—Headache when

shaking or turning head, and also at every step on walking.—Cephalalgia above eyes,

immediately after breakfast.—Semi-lateral headache in evening, < beyond endurance by

intellectual labour.—Aching as if head would be forced asunder and as if brain were swashing to

and fro, < walking, ascending steps, and rising from stooping; could not work and could scarcely

step without vertigo.—Throbbing after every paroxysm of cough.—Pressive headache sometimes

as if a nail were being driven into the head, or with tension, which is < by lying down; < at night

when lying in bed, and on getting warm while walking in open air; > when walking slowly in

open air, from cold, and when uncovering head.—Stitches in temples, mostly on r. side, from

within to without; < in evening and at night when lying in bed, from heat and exertion of the

mind; > from cold and in open air.—Thrust in temples during difficult stool —Pain at vertex

during moderate pressure at stool—Headache after breakfast—Tearing, boring, and sensation of

scraping on external head, during night—Screwing together in forehead, during menses.—Jerking

• ▸in r.
• ▸frontal bone extending to root of nose and eyebrows.
• ▸—Tearing headache, esp.
• ▸in afternoon

or at night, principally in the (r.) forehead, but often also in whole head, in eyes and nose,

extending to teeth, with inclination to lie down.—Stupefying headache, with heat in temples and

ears; dryness of mouth and lips; < from 4 to 8 p.m., when rising up, and on lying

• ▸down.
• ▸—Pressing headache on vertex < from 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; from stooping, lying down, exertion of

the mind, and followed by great weakness.—Tearing in forehead or in r. side of head, extending

down to neck, with tearing in face, eyes, and teeth; < on raising oneself up, > on lying down and

• ▸in the open air.
• ▸—Shooting headache.
• ▸—Throbbing in brain on leaning head backward.
• ▸—Throbbing

in head after lying down in evening.—Congestion in head, with heat, sometimes in morning on

rising up in bed.—Shaking and resonance in brain at every step.—Boring, scraping, and tearing in

• ▸scalp, esp.
• ▸at night.
• ▸—Involuntary movements and convulsive trembling of head.
• ▸—Head turned

involuntarily to 1—Involuntary nodding: now to r., now to L.; slow at first then constantly more

• ▸rapid.
• ▸—Involuntary shaking makes him dizzy.
• ▸—Shaking head on stepping hard.
• ▸—Great tendency

to take cold by the head.—Eruption on the head, with abundant and fetid suppuration, sometimes

with obstruction of the glands of the nape and neck.—The hair becomes grey early.—Baldness;

the hair falls out, first on the vertex, later on the temples (after diseases of the abdominal viscera;

after parturition), with violent burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, esp. on getting warm from

exercise during the day.—Scurf over whole scalp, child scratches it raw in night and then it

bleeds.—Contracted sensation with feeling as if the hair would be pulled up.—Hair falls off scalp,

but increases on other parts of body.

• ▸Styes on lids near internal canthus.
• ▸Day-blindness (Bothrops).
• ▸Night-blindness more characteristic.
• ▸Sees only one-half of an object.
• ▸Ulceration and redness of lids.
• ▸Eyes half open during sleep.

Aching in the eyes.—Gnawing, burning, and shooting pains in eyes (and lids), esp. in

evening, by candle-light—Smarting in eyes.—Sensation of coldness in eyes, evening.—Dryness

of eyes; and lids; as if dust in them; difficult to open.—Smarting and burning. —Swelling and

painfulness of lids —Inflammation of the eyes and lids.—Stye.—Styes on the internal

canthus.—A gglutination of eyelids, esp. at night, and lachrymation, < by day, and in a cold

wind.—Twitching of the eyelids.—Troubled sight, as from feather-down before the

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Photophobia.
• ▸—Itching in canthi—Dim, hot eyes.
• ▸—The eyes are wide open, insensible to

• ▸light, fixed.
• ▸—Dryness of eyes, in evening.
• ▸—Sparks before the eyes, in the dark.
• ▸—Must wipe

mucus from eye in order to see clearly —Purulent mucus.—Myopia or presbyopia.—Hemiopia

• ▸perpendicularis (sees only 1.
• ▸half of objects, esp.
• ▸with r.
• ▸eye).
• ▸—The characters are confused when

reading.—Obscurity, black spots, glittering, and sparks before eyes ——Eyes dazzled and irritated

by candle-light in evening.

• ▸Thick, yellow, offensive discharge.
• ▸Eczema about and behind ears.
• ▸Otorrhoea and deafness with or without tinnitus; after scarlatina.
• ▸Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.

Otalgia in open air—Congestion in the ears.—Ulceration of the ears.—Discharge from

the ears —Hearing excessively sensitive to least noise; music occasions fatigue.—Tinkling and

buzzing in ears.—Roaring, humming, and whizzing in ears.—Sensation as if hot blood rushed into

• ▸ears.
• ▸—Congestion of blood in ears.
• ▸—Singing in the ears as from boiling water.
• ▸—Ringing in r.
• ▸ear;

every noise has peculiar echo deep in ear.—Hears in evening music she heard played during

• ▸day.
• ▸—Hardness of hearing.
• ▸—Moist scabs on and behind ears.
• ▸—Has improved deaf-mutism

(Cooper).

• ▸Sense of smell 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; child starts from sleep rubbing nose.
• ▸Fan-like motion of aloe nasi (Kali brom; Phos).

Scurf in nose; crusts and elastic plugs.—Nostrils ulcerated, scabby, obstructed by

mucus at night.—Swelling of nose, with acrid, fetid, and corrosive discharge.—The ichorous

discharge from the nose begins in r. nostril; scarlatina or diphtheria.—(Patient bores and picks

nose.—Convulsive movements of muscles of nose.—Fan-like motion of the nostrils in

pneumonia.—Bleeding from nose, on blowing it, and epistaxis, principally in afternoon.—(Nose-

• ▸bleed in morning from r.
• ▸nostril.
• ▸).
• ▸—Excessive acuteness of smell.
• ▸—Coryza with acrid discharge,

making the upper lips sore.—Coryza of almost all kinds ——Dry coryza, with obstruction of the

nose, confusion in head, and burning pain in forehead —Dryness of the posterior

nares.—Obstruction of nostrils, esp. at night, and which prevents respiration except through the

mouth.—Stoppage: towards morning; in evening; child's breath often stopped in sleep for fifteen

seconds even when mouth is open.

• ▸Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes.
• ▸Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption.
• ▸Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid fever (Lach; Opium).
• ▸Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth.

Paleness of face, < in evening.—Face yellow and earthy, with deep wrinkles, blue

circles round eyes, lips bluish.—Circumscribed redness of the cheeks.—Face red and bloated,

• ▸with eruptions and red spots.
• ▸—Swelling and tension of face.
• ▸—Tearing in bones of face.
• ▸—Painful

sensation of coldness in face.—Twitching and convulsive movements in muscles of face.—At first

1. angle of mouth drawn outward, then r—Muscles of lips and cheeks drawn together making

mouth pointed, followed by broad distension of mouth.—Frequent attacks of transient heat in

face.—Eruption on face, sometimes with itching —Ephelis.—Tetters on face, which are

furfuraceous, and yellow at the base.—Lips pale and bluish.—Soreness of corners of

mouth.—Swelling of upper lip.—Eruption and excoriations on the lips and their

• ▸commissures.
• ▸—Eruptions on face, humid and suppurating.
• ▸—The lower jaw hangs down.
• ▸—Ulcers

on the red part of the lower lip.—Itching eruption round the chin.—Swelling of the submaxillary

glands.

• ▸Teeth excessively painful to touch.
• ▸Toothache, with swelling of cheeks; relieved by warm application.
• ▸Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst.
• ▸Tongue dry, black, cracked, swollen; oscillates to and fro.
• ▸Mouth waters.
• ▸Blisters on tongue.
• ▸Bad odor from mouth.

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst, with tension of the parts, the tongue heavy, and

speech indistinct.—Torpor of the interior of mouth and tongue —Exhalation of a putrid odour

• ▸from the mouth, esp.
• ▸in morning when awaking.
• ▸—Buccal hemorrhage.
• ▸—Tongue foul and

coated.—Involuntary movements of the tongue.—In talking, all the words of a sentence were

spoken completely and distinctly except the last, which was stammered; it seemed as though the

tongue were affected by a peculiar cramp; no amount of attention to this was of any avail; it

lasted four weeks and gradually disappeared of itself.—Stiffness of the tongue; vesicles on tip of

tongue; they feel scalded and raw.—Soreness of tongue.—Ulcers on and under tongue (from

tobacco).—Convulsions of the tongue.—The tongue is painful and swollen in different places

(tubercles on the tongue).—The saliva becomes dry on the palate and lips and is converted into

tough mucus.—The posterior part of the mouth is covered by tough mucus.—Dry and bitter mouth

(in the morning).—Tongue dry; becomes black and cracked.—Tongue is darted out and oscillates

to and fro; in sore throat——Tongue distended, giving patient silly expression; in angina or

diphtheria.

Odontalgia only at night, > by hot drinks, and by heat of bed.—Dull pains in teeth,

with swelling of the cheeks and gums.—The teeth ache as if suppurating; are excessively painful

on touching them; and when chewing; front teeth loose or too long.—Cramp-like drawing,

tearing, and jerking, or pulsations in teeth, esp. during or after a meal —Grinding of

• ▸teeth.
• ▸—Yellowness of the teeth —(Fistula in the gums.
• ▸).
• ▸—The gums bleed violently on being

touched; when cleaning teeth —Gumboils.—Swelling of gums, with shocks, tearings, and

shootings.—Ulcers in the gums.

Sensation of constriction in throat, with obstructed deglutition—Dryness of

throat.—Pain, as from excoriation, in throat.—Burning pain in throat, with nocturnal

thirst—Sensation in throat, as if a ball were ascending from the pit of the stomach.—Feeling on 1.

side of a lump moving up and down.—Inflammation of throat and palate, with shooting pain,

which obstructs deglutition.—Swelling and suppuration of tonsils.—The ulceration of the tonsils

• ▸begins on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—The pharynx feels contracted, nothing can be swallowed.
• ▸—Hawking of hard

• ▸greenish-yellow masses; granular; of bloody mucus.
• ▸—Sticking in region of r.
• ▸parotid.
• ▸—Sticking

in throat during cough.—Sticking preventing sneezing.—Sensitiveness of the submaxillary

glands.—Ulcers, like chancres, in the tonsils.—Goitre.

• ▸Dryness of throat, without thirst.
• ▸Food and drink regurgitates through nose.
• ▸Inflammation of throat, with stitches on swallowing; better, warm drinks.
• ▸Swelling and suppuration of tonsils.
• ▸Ulceration of tonsils, beginning on right side.
• ▸Diphtheria; deposits spread from right to left; worse, cold drinks.
• ▸Ulceration of vocal bands.
• ▸Tubercular laryngitis, especially when ulceration commences.

• ▸Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc.
• ▸Excessive hunger.
• ▸Aversion to bread, etc.
• ▸Desire for sweet things.
• ▸Food tastes sour.
• ▸Sour eructations.
• ▸Great weakness of digestion.
• ▸Bulimia, with much bloating.
• ▸After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth.
• ▸Eating ever so little creates fullness.
• ▸Cannot eat oysters.
• ▸Rolling of flatulence (Chin; Carb).
• ▸Wakes at night feeling hungry.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours.
• ▸Likes to take food and drink hot.
• ▸Sinking sensation; worse night.

Loss of appetite—Mouth clammy or bitter, esp. in morning, often with

nausea.—Nausea in pharynx and stomach.—Nausea in morning and when riding in a

• ▸carriage.
• ▸—Sourness in mouth, esp.
• ▸in morning, or sour taste of food.
• ▸—Absence of thirst, or

burning thirst—Nocturnal thirst—Loss of appetite, sometimes with the first mouthful——Sudden

• ▸satiety.
• ▸—Immoderate hunger.
• ▸—Bulimy.
• ▸—Aversion to: cooked or warm food; rye-bread; meat;

• ▸coffee; tobacco smoke.
• ▸—Craving for sweet things.
• ▸—Inability to digest heavy food.
• ▸—After a meal:

hepatic pains, oppression and fulness in chest and abdomen, nausea, heat in head, redness of

face, pulsation and trembling over whole body, hands hot, palpitation of heart, colic,

&c.—Sourness and diarrhoea after taking milk.

Violent risings in afternoon.—Incomplete eructations, burning, rising only into

pharynx, where they cause burning.—Sour eructations, the taste of which does not remain in

mouth, but the acid gnaws in the stomach.—Burning, sour, greasy or bitter risings.—Sour

• ▸regurgitation of food, esp.
• ▸of milk.
• ▸—Pyrosis, esp.
• ▸after a meal.
• ▸—Violent hiccough by fits, esp.

after a meal.—Nausea when in a room, which disappears in open air, and vice versd.—Frequent

continued nausea, esp. in morning, with bitter taste in mouth.—Nausea, caused by the motion of a

• ▸carriage.
• ▸—Sensation of nausea in stomach in morning.
• ▸—Heartburn.
• ▸—Cancer of the

stomach.—Water-brash, sometimes every second day, with flow of bitter water.—Vomiting of

food and bile, esp. at night, or when fasting in the morning.—Vomiting of bitter, greenish

matter.—Vomiting of blood—Vomiting between the chill and heat in intermittent

fever.—Vomiting after a meal with salivation; during menses.—Gnawing, griping sensation in

region of the stomach.—Slow digestion.—Pains in stomach, with shivering and deadness of the

hands after a slight chill.—Periodical pains in stomach, > by heat of bed.—Aching in stomach, in

evening, and after every meal, sometimes with a bitter taste in mouth.—Compressive or

contractive pains in stomach.—The pains in the stomach manifest themselves principally in

morning; in open air; after a meal; or after drinking wine; they are sometimes > in evening, and

are often accompanied by cramps in chest and difficulty of respiration Swelling of epigastrium

with painful sensibility to the touch.—The clothes round the stomach cause uneasiness.—Stitches

in |. side of pit of stomach, apparently externally.—Pain in epigastrium caused by cough.

• ▸Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated, full.
• ▸Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side.
• ▸Hernia, right side.
• ▸Liver sensitive.
• ▸Brown spots on abdomen.
• ▸Dropsy, due to hepatic disease.
• ▸Hepatitis, atrophic from of nutmeg liver.
• ▸Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left.

Tension round hypochondria, as from the pressure of a hoop.—Pressure and

tension in liver; esp. on satisfying one's appetite —Cramp-like pain in diaphragm, and contusive

pain in liver, on stooping.—Pain when walking in upper part of r. hypochondrium, as if the

suspensor ligament of the liver would tear—Pressive pain in r. hypochondrium, at times took

away the breath, became a sticking. —Pain in liver as from a blow, < by touch.—Violent gall-

• ▸stone colic.
• ▸—Sharp pain in dorsal hepatic region, in r.
• ▸shoulder and arm.
• ▸—Liver region

sensitive.—Griping; and rumbling in splenic flexure.—Inflammation and induration of the

liver.—Immediately after a (light) meal the abdomen is bloated, full, distended.—Has a great

appetite, but a small quantity of food fills him up and he feels bloated —Aching pains in

abdomen.—Fulness and distension of stomach and abdomen.—Weight in the

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Sensation of something heavy lying on |.
• ▸side of abdomen.
• ▸—Brown spots on

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Hardness in the abdomen.
• ▸—Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.
• ▸—Contractive cramp-

like pains in the abdomen, which is distended.—Tearing, drawing, tension, and pinching in

abdomen and sides of abdomen.—Clawing in hypogastrium, with suspended respiration.—Cutting

• ▸pains, esp.
• ▸above the navel.
• ▸—Pain above the navel, on touching the part.
• ▸—Burning pain in the

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Hernia on the r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Tearing shootings, pulsation, and pressure in the inguinal ring,

as if hernia were on the point of protruding. —Cramp-like pains in abdominal muscles, esp. at

night—Incarcerated flatus.—Imperfect expulsion of flatus—The flatulence cannot pass and

causes much pain.—Great deal of noisy flatulence in the abdomen, or particularly in the r.

hypochondriac region; there seems to be a constant fermentation in the abdomen, which

produces a loud croaking sound.—Sometimes much rumbling of wind in |. hypochondriac

region.—Dyspepsia with loud croaking in the abdomen.—Affections of the inner lower

belly. —Full, distended abdomen with cold feet—Gurgling and borborygmi in abdomen, esp. on I.

side.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Inactive intestinal canal.
• ▸Ineffectual urging.
• ▸Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete.
• ▸Haemorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).

Constipation of long standing.—Hard stools with ineffectual desire to

evacuate.—Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of rectum or anus.—Small stool, with

the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulations of

flatulence—Hzemorrhage from rectum, even after a soft stool —Feeling of fulness in rectum

continues after a copious stool.—Contractive pain in perineum, after scanty, hard stool.—Stitches

in the rectum.—Diarrhcea (during pregnancy), with earthy colour of the face.—During stool:

burning and biting at anus; pressure; tenesmus; ringing in ears; headache; pain in back as if

broken; heemorrhage.—After stool: flatulent distension.—Constriction of the abdomen, sometimes

with ineffectual want to evacuate, and difficult evacuation.—Constipation or diarrhoea in

pregnant women.—Feeces: pale and of a putrid odour; thin brown; pale green mixed with hard

lumps; thin yellow or reddish-yellow fluid; shaggy reddish mucus (urethral tenesmus,

dysentery); green, stringy, odourless mucus.—Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during

• ▸evacuation.
• ▸—Lumbrici.
• ▸—Pains in the anus after a meal and after an evacuation.
• ▸—Itching and

tension in the anus.—Incisive pains, shootings and pain as from excoriation in the

rectum.—Spasms in rectum.—Contraction of rectum so that it protrudes during a hard

stool.—Piles swollen, protruding, burning sticking, protruding during soft stool, painful on touch

and when sitting —Hzemorrhoidal excrescences in anus and in rectum, with prolapsus

recti—Itching eruption in anus.—Itching and tension at the anus (evening in bed).—Painful

closing of anus.—Protrusion of the varices.—Distension of the varices of the rectum.

Urgent want to urinate, with too frequent emission, with discharge of

large quantities of pale urine.—Frequent micturition by night, with scanty and rare discharges by

• ▸day.
• ▸—Dark urine with diminished discharge.
• ▸—Greasy pellicle on the urine.
• ▸—Involuntary

micturition.—Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless.—Old thickening of bladder with

• ▸irritable urethra.
• ▸—Foamy urine.
• ▸—Urine deep coloured, with yellow or reddish sediment.
• ▸—Clear,

transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallised sediment in the bottom of the chamber.—In

typhus fever, where the patient is in a very low state, and cannot retain the urine, we may see this

sediment on the sheets; also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on the diaper.—A

very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating; causing patient to cry out;

retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the

water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine

flows; children often cry out with pain before urinating —Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive

purulent sediment; dull pressure in region of bladder and abdomen; disposition to calculi;

cystitis—Hzematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh.—Renal calculus and gravel.—Emission of

blood instead of water, sometimes with paralysis of the legs, and constipation.—Incontinence of

urine.—Smarting when urinating.—Itching in urethra during and after emission of

urine.—Shooting pinchings and incisive pains in the bladder and urethra.—Stitches in the

bladder.—Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time.—Burning in urethra

and glans.—Urine burning hot, like molten lead.

• ▸Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in coming, must strain.
• ▸Retention.
• ▸Polyuria during the night. Heavy red sediment.
• ▸Child cries before urinating (Bor).

• ▸Menses too late; last 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 during stool.

Nymphomania with terrible teasing desire in external

organs.—Itching, burning, and gnawing in vulva.—Pressure towards the outside, above the vulva,

and extending as far as the vagina, when stooping.—Expulsion of wind from the

• ▸vagina.
• ▸—Chronic dryness of vagina.
• ▸—Shooting pains in labia, when lying down.
• ▸—Excoriation

between the thighs, and at the vulva.—Burning pain in the vagina, during and after

coition.—Catamenia (too early) too profuse, and of too long duration.—Catamenia suppressed

readily, and for a long time, by fright—Before menses: shivering, sadness, melancholy;

bloatedness of the abdomen.—During menses: delirium, with tears; headache; sourness in the

mouth; pain in loins; swelling of feet; fainting; vomiting of sour matter; cuttings, colic; and pains

in the back.—Menstruation too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppression of; profuse, protracted;

flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum; with labour-like pains followed by

swooning; with sadness; suppressed by fright—May find females at change of life with one side

of the body greatly hypertrophied.—Fcetus appears to be turning summersaults.—Metrorrhagia; at

menopause; dark blood with large clots pour from her.—A rumbling begins in upper abdomen

and descends to lower, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively.—Leucorrhcea:

milky, yellowish, reddish, and corrosive; sometimes preceded by cuttings in abdomen.—Varices

on the genitals—Disposition to miscarriages.—Swelling of the breasts with

nodosities —Excoriation and moist scabs on nipples.—Stinging in nipples.—Milk in breasts

without being pregnant.

• ▸No erectile power; impotence.
• ▸Premature emission (Calad; Sel; Agn).
• ▸Enlarge prostate.
• ▸Condylomata.

Shooting, drawing, and incisive pain in the glans.—Bastard

gonorrhcea, with a deep red and smarting pustule behind the glans —Excoriation between

scrotum and thighs.—Dropsical swelling of genital organs —Immoderate excitement, or absence

of sexual desire-—Repugnance to coition, or disposition to be too easily excited to it—Impotence

• ▸of long standing.
• ▸—Weakness or total absence of erections.
• ▸—Penis small, cold, relaxed.
• ▸—Itching

of the internal surface of the prepuce.—Excessive pollutions, or absence of pollutions.—Emission

too speedy or too tardy during coition.—Falling asleep during coition.—Lassitude, after coition or

pollutions.—Flow of prostatic fluid, without an erection.

• ▸Tickling cough.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Tensive, constrictive, burning pain 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, seems full of mucus rattling.
• ▸Neglected pneumonia, with great dyspnoea, flaying of alae nasae and presence of mucous rales.

Crawling scraping in trachea, at night—Hoarseness, with roughness,

• ▸and pain as from excoriation in chest, after speaking.
• ▸—(Voice feeble and husky.
• ▸).
• ▸—Whizzing

breathing in daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in chest; loud rattling —Voice weak and

• ▸dull.
• ▸—Cough after drinking.
• ▸—Obstinate dry cough in morning.
• ▸—Nocturnal cough, < before

sunrise, which affects the head, diaphragm, and stomach.—Dry cough, day and night—Cough

excited by a tickling, or as if produced by the vapour of sulphur, or by taking a deep inspiration,

generally with a yellowish grey and saltish expectoration, sometimes with great weakness of

stomach, fever, nocturnal sweat, and emaciation.—Cough with expectoration through the day and

without expectoration during the night—Whooping-cough from irritation in trachea as from

fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of fetid pus or of mucus

• ▸streaked with blood.
• ▸—Cough < from 4 to 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, frequently on alternate days, from exertion,

from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on 1. side, from eating and

drinking cold things, in the wind, or in warm room.—Cough (morning), with copious

expectoration of greenish matter —Copious expectoration of pus, when coughing.—Cough, with

expectoration of blood—When coughing, shocks in the head, shortness of breath, smarting and

concussion in chest, or pains in region of stomach.

• ▸Aneurism (Baryta carb).
• ▸Aortic disease.
• ▸Palpitation at night.
• ▸Cannot lie on left side.

Short respiration during almost every effort, also in children, esp. during

sleep.—Continued oppression of the chest, < by walking in open air.—Rattling of mucus and

stertorous respiration.—When breathing, twitching and shooting in chest and sides of chest.—Pain

as if from a bruise in the chest—Constant pressure in the chest (it feels raw internally) —Weight

• ▸in the chest—Tension in anterior part of chest.
• ▸—Lancinations in the chest, esp.
• ▸on 1.
• ▸side, and

principally when sneezing or coughing, on laughing, or on the slightest movement, sometimes

with inability to remain lying on affected side, and difficult respiration —Pain as from

• ▸excoriation in the chest, esp.
• ▸after speaking.
• ▸—Stitches in the |.
• ▸side of chest, also during an

• ▸inspiration.
• ▸—Typhoid and neglected pneumonias.
• ▸—Hepatisation of the lungs.
• ▸—Paralysis of the

• ▸lungs.
• ▸—Hydrothorax.
• ▸—Itching on the chest.
• ▸—Stitches in the side, alternately with toothache and

pains in the limbs.—Painful eruption and maculz hepatice on the chest.

Palpitation of the heart, esp. during digestion, or in bed in evening, sometimes

attended with anxiety and trembling.—Accelerated pulse, with cold face and feet —Palpitation of

the heart with flapping of the wings of the nose; enlargement of the heart; hypertrophy in

general.—Cramp and constriction, dyspneea, stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of

back and shoulders; sharp pains shooting into heart, sensation of stoppage of circulation at night,

with fright and then sweat, pulse quick and unsteady (angina pectoris).—Dyspncea, cyanosis,

hasty eating and drinking (heart disease).—Beating of temporal arteries and carotids.—Heart

sounds heard loudly on lying down at night, keeping patient

• ▸awake.
• ▸—(Hypertrophy.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Aneurism.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Hydropericardium.
• ▸).

Burning between scapulae as of hot coals. Pain in small of back.

Traction and contraction from the nape of the neck to the

occiput.—Rigidity of the nape of the neck, sometimes caused by lifting a weight —Maculz

hepatice in the nape of the neck.—Tetters on nape of neck and under armpits.—Furunculi under

• ▸armpits.
• ▸—Stiffness, swelling, and induration of one side of neck.
• ▸—Painful stiffness of 1.
• ▸side of

neck.—Burning as of red-hot coals between scapulz.—Swelling of glands of neck and of the

shoulder, with shooting pain.—Weakness and paralysis of muscles of neck.—Painful eruption on

neck.—Large clusters of red pimples around neck, with violent itching —Soreness of the

• ▸neck.
• ▸—Goitre.
• ▸—Violent sacral pains, which do not permit sitting upright.
• ▸—Pains in the back and

loins, esp. when moving, stooping, and lifting anything, often accompanied by constrictive pains

in abdomen.—Shootings in loins on rising up after stooping.—Drawing, tearing, and shooting

pains in back and loins, with difficult respiration, chiefly when seated, and also at night.—Pain in

back and r. side, from congestion of the liver.—Stitches in region of kidneys, < from pressure;

extending into rectum.—Distortion of the spine.

Tearings and shootings in the joints of shoulder and elbow.—Rheumatic

tension in r. shoulder-joint.—Pain in bones of arms at night—Weakness of arms when at

work.—Difficulty in moving arms as if rheumatism were creeping on, with nodes on

• ▸fingers.
• ▸—Pain as from a sprain in r.
• ▸wrist-joint.
• ▸—Swelling of axillary glands Nocturnal aching

pains, in the arms and elbow.—Drawing pain in arms.—Jerking in shoulders and arms, also during

it siesta.—Paralytic weakness of arms.—Arms and fingers easily benumbed, even at night, or only

when raising them.—Biting, itching, and maculee hepaticz in the arms.—Arthritic stiffness of the

elbow and wrist.—Tetters on the arms.—Erysipelatous inflammation in the forearm, with

• ▸suppuration.
• ▸—Dryness of the skin of the hands.
• ▸—Burning sensation in the palms.
• ▸—Red and

painless swelling of the hands.—Warts on the hands and fingers.—Deadness of fingers and

hands.—Involuntary trembling of the hands.—Red swelling and arthritic tearing in joints of

fingers.—Arthritic nodosities and stiffness in fingers.—Stiffness of the fingers during

labour.—Itching pimples between the fingers—Panaritum.—Contraction and twitches in the

fingers.—Chilblains —Gouty contraction of palmar fascia: sudden pain runs down arm (1.?)

causing fingers to stiffen and draw away from each other and to draw towards hand, as though

palmar fascia were contracting (Cooper).

• ▸Rheumatic tension in |.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Pain as from a sprain in hip.
• ▸—Periodical pains,

• ▸from coxo-femoral joint to foot, every fourth day.
• ▸—Tearing: beneath r.
• ▸hip; in |.
• ▸hip-

joint.—Drawing along sciatic nerves to feet, evening, in bed.—Pain in muscles about joints, on

• ▸pressure, sitting or lying.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸hip > walking in open air.
• ▸—Pain from r.
• ▸hip-joint to feet

when walking, he must limp.—Tearing in legs and knees, extending to tibia and instep, esp. in

evening and at night—Soreness in inner side of |. thigh, with biting itching extending to

genitals—Brown spots on inner side of thighs, inflamed with burning pain.—Uneasiness, shocks,

and trembling in legs and feet, esp. in evening and at night.—Involuntary shaking in legs, or

alternate separation and bringing together again of the thighs.—Burning and biting itching in the

• ▸legs, esp.
• ▸in the hams.
• ▸—Curvature and stiffness of the knees.
• ▸—Swelling (and stiffness) of the

knees.—Swelling of the knee, with perspiration —Swelling of the legs, with large, red, burning

spots, and pains which prevent walking.—Paralysis of the legs, with emission of blood instead of

urine, and constipation.—Tetters on the legs and calves of the legs.—White swelling in the

knee.—Cramps and cramp-like pains in the calves, esp. when walking, and at night —Burning

pain in legs —Ulcers in the legs, with nocturnal tearing, itching, and burning heat.—Pain in the

soles when walking. —Cramps in the feet and toes. —Swelling of the feet and of the malleoli, or of

the soles (with shooting pain).—Coldness of the feet—One foot (r.) hot the other cold —Cold

sweat on feet, sometimes copious, and with excoriation of the skin.—Stitches in r. big toe

(evening).—Rhagades in the heel——Cramp in the toes.—Bending of the toes when

walking.—Contraction of the toes—Corns on the feet, sometimes with shooting pain.

• ▸Numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs, especially while at rest or at night.
• ▸Heaviness of arms.
• ▸Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints.
• ▸One foot hot, the other 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 right side. Cannot lie on painful side.
• ▸Hands and feet numb.
• ▸Right foot hot, left cold.
• ▸Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed.
• ▸Limbs go to sleep.
• ▸Twitching and jerking.

• ▸Ulcerates.
• ▸Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications.
• ▸Hives; worse, warmth.
• ▸Violent itching; fissured eruptions.
• ▸Acne.
• ▸Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily.
• ▸Skin becomes thick and indurated.
• ▸Varicose veins, naevi, erectile tumors.
• ▸Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose.
• ▸Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray.
• ▸Dropsies.
• ▸Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axilla.
• ▸Psoriasis.

Gnawing and itching in daytime, on getting heated, or in evening, before lying

• ▸down.
• ▸—Tendency of the skin to become chapped.
• ▸—Painful eruptions.
• ▸—Nettle-rash

• ▸(chronic).
• ▸—Large red spots on skin.
• ▸—Itching maculze hepaticze.
• ▸—Abundant ephelis.
• ▸—Insensible

tetters, of a yellowish brown, wrinkled or moist, purulent, full of deep cracks and thick

• ▸scabs.
• ▸—Large furunculi, which return periodically.
• ▸—Mercurial ulcers.
• ▸Bleeding ulcers, with

shooting pain, which burn while being dressed, or with nocturnal tearing and itching.—Fistulous

ulcers, with callous, red edges, reversed and shining, sometimes with inflammation and swelling

of the part affected —Excoriated places on the skin of children; the sore places are

humid.—Intertrigo; raw places bleeding easily.—Skin unhealthy, corrosive vesicles —Nzevus

• ▸maternus.
• ▸—Vascular tumours.
• ▸—Warts.
• ▸—Corns which are very sensitive, or with tearing

pains.—Exanthema in general, particularly with biting sensation; moist; scurfy; tearing and

• ▸painful.
• ▸—Want of action of the skin.
• ▸—Itch, burning; creeping.
• ▸—Skin scurfy; sticky;

• ▸clammy.
• ▸—Brown mortification.
• ▸—Pale swelling.
• ▸—Salt rheum.
• ▸—Varices

suppurating.—Chilblains—Great dryness of the skin.

Drowsy during day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of accidents.

Frequent, and sometimes interrupted, yawning.—Inclination to sleep during day and

early in evening, with sleep retarded by mental activity and excessive nervous

excitement.—Disturbed and restless sleep, with anxious and frightful dreams, and frequent

waking with fright—Loud coughing during sleep; screaming while asleep.—Sopor.—Hunger at

night when waking.—Unrefreshing sleep.—Soporous sleep in typhoid and exanthematous

fevers.—Voluptuous, vivid, mournful dreams; dreams of murder or of the occupations of the day,

&c.—Anxious dreams of fatal accidents.—Jerks, cries, starts with fright, or bursts of laughter, or

• ▸tears and groans during sleep.
• ▸—(Sleeps with eyes half-opened,).
• ▸—Sleeps with mouth open.
• ▸—At

night, jerking and restlessness in the legs, headache, anguish, nightmare, ebullition of blood and

palpitation of heart, stomach-ache, colic, asthmatic sufferings, &c.—Lying on I. side is difficult

on account of the palpitation of heart and stitches.—It is impossible to remain lying down at night

on account of every position being uneasy.—Child sleeps all day and cries all night.

• ▸Chill between 3 and 4 pm, followed by sweat.
• ▸Icy coldness.
• ▸Feels as if lying on ice.
• ▸One chill is followed by another (Calc; Sil; Hep).

Shivering in evening, sometimes only on one side; or every second day, with heat, or

followed by sweat without heat.—Chilliness in the afternoon from 4 to 8, with sensation as of

numbness in hands and feet.—Chilliness in evening in bed, preventing sleep.—One-sided

• ▸chilliness, mostly on the 1.
• ▸side-—Chills and heat alternating.
• ▸—Want of vital heat.
• ▸—Tertian fever,

with sour vomiting and bloatedness of the face and hands after the shivering.—Transient

heat.—Burning heat, with short respiration.—Flashes of heat over whole body, mostly towards

evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time; constipation and increased

micturition.—The perspiration is frequently cold, smelling sour, or offensive, or smelling like

onions, or bloody.—Intermittent fever—Nausea and vomiting and then chilliness, followed by

perspiration (without previous heat).—Chilliness in the evening till midnight, this is followed by

heat, in the morning sour-smelling perspiration —Great heat and redness of the cheeks,

• ▸alternating with chilliness.
• ▸—Shaking chill 7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and great coldness as if lying in ice, with

traction through whole body, upon waking up from sleep, which is full of dreams, covered with

perspiration, perspiration is followed by violent thirst—Typhus fever (with threatening paralysis

of the brain).—Malignant fever, with malevolence and ill-humour on waking, or with nervous

excitability, without heat of the head or redness of the face, red spots on the cheeks, great

weakness, sweat without any mitigation, tongue red and dry, and constipation.—Slow fever, with

viscid sweat, at night.—Fever, with total prostration of strength, lower jaw hanging down, eyes

clouded and half-closed, and respiration slow, with the mouth open.—Sweat principally in face,

easily excited during the day by slight exercise.—Febrile sweat by day.—Nocturnal sweat, often

fetid or viscid, principally on chest and back.—Pulse only accelerated in the evening and

afternoon.—Sensation as if circulation stood still.

• ▸Abdomen, distended.
• ▸Abortion.
• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Aneurism.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Aphasia.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Axilla, offensive perspiration of.
• ▸Biliousness.
• ▸Borborygmi.
• ▸Bright's disease.
• ▸Cancer.

• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Consumption.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Cramps.
• ▸Cystitis.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diphtheria.

• ▸Distension.
• ▸Dropsies.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Ear, eczema behind.
• ▸Eczema.

• ▸Ephelis.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Epithelioma.
• ▸Excoriation.
• ▸Eye, inflammation of; polypus of canthus.
• ▸Face,

• ▸eruption on.
• ▸Feet, perspiring.
• ▸Fibroma.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Gall-stone colic.
• ▸Glands, swelling of.
• ▸Goitre.

• ▸Gout.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Hematuria.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hair, falling out.
• ▸Hands, chapped.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Heart,

• ▸diseases of.
• ▸Hemiopia.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Hydropericarditum.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Impotence.

• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸Intertrigo.
• ▸/rritation.
• ▸Labour-pains, abnormal.
• ▸Lip, cancer of.
• ▸Liver,

• ▸derangement of.
• ▸Liver-spots.
• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Lungs, affections of.
• ▸Menstruation, disorders of.

• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Neevus.
• ▸Nymphomania.
• ▸Otorrhcea.
• ▸Panaritium.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Paralysis agitans.

• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Phlegmasia dolens.
• ▸Physometra.
• ▸Plica polonica.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Polypus, of eye; of ear;

• ▸of nose.
• ▸Proctalgia.
• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Pylorus, affections of.
• ▸Quinsy.
• ▸Renal colic.
• ▸Rheumatism.

• ▸Rhagades.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Sleep, abnormal.
• ▸Speech, disordered; stammering.
• ▸Strains.
• ▸Sunstroke.
• ▸Taste,

• ▸abnormal.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Tongue, coated; cramp in.
• ▸Typhoid fever.
• ▸Urine, abnormal.
• ▸Varicosis.

• ▸Warts.
• ▸Water-brash.
• ▸Whooping-cough.
• ▸Worms.
• ▸Yawning.

• ▸Antidoted by: Aco.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Nux, Puls.
• ▸, Coffee.
• ▸/t

antidotes: Chi. (yellow face, liver and spleen swollen, flatulence, tension under short ribs < right

side, pressure in stomach and constipation); Merc.; Chlorine (effects of the fumes when they

• ▸cause impotence).
• ▸Compatible: Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸(a dose of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸every eighth day

• ▸facilitates action of Lyc.
• ▸); Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸(predisposition to constipation, hard stools evacuated with

• ▸difficulty, or urging ineffective); Graph.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸,

• ▸Ver.
• ▸Follows well: Sul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸Js followed well by: Graph.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Sil.

• ▸Incompatible: Coffee.
• ▸Complementary: Jod.
• ▸, Chel.
• ▸(K.
• ▸iod.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸); Ipec.
• ▸in capillary

bronchitis, < right side, sputa yellow and thick. "Unless undoubtedly indicated the treatment of

chronic diseases should not be commenced with Lyc., it is best to give first another antipsoric

• ▸remedy.
• ▸" Compare: Desires fresh air, desire to be uncovered, Sul.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸Terrible sadness during

• ▸menses, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Action on veins, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Thirst for little and often, Ars.
• ▸(wants

it cold and vomits it immediately); Ant. t. Sinking at epigastrium < at night preventing sleep,

• ▸Ign.
• ▸; (Sul.
• ▸< 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, also 8-9 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸and 1-2 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Hot flushes in afternoon, Sul.
• ▸Nausea fasting,

• ▸Pul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸Moth spots or liver spots, Thuj.
• ▸Canine hunger, especially at night, Ign.
• ▸, Chi.

Hungry but cannot get food down, Sil. < Every other day, Chi. Fan-like motion of alz nasi,

• ▸Chlorof.
• ▸(slow); Gadus and Kreas.
• ▸(rapid).
• ▸Apprehension of losing senses, Calc.
• ▸, Nux, Sul.

• ▸Acquisitiveness, Ars.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸Fear of being alone, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸(Ars.
• ▸, Bism.
• ▸, fear and forgetfulness

when alone; Pho., fears something is going to happen when alone in room, especially at night;

Arg. n., fears to remain alone lest he should harm himself; anxiety compels moving about; fears

• ▸to go on a lofty place lest he should throw himself down—Anac.
• ▸also).
• ▸Fear of darkness, Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Stram.
• ▸Imperiousness, Plat.
• ▸(haughtiness).
• ▸Cursing, Anac.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, jug.
• ▸r.
• ▸Nervous before

• ▸undertaking anything, Ars.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸Shaking head, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Aur.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸i.
• ▸, Eupion.
• ▸, Nux

• ▸m.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Tarent.
• ▸Head drawn to one side, Camph.
• ▸; spasmodically to right side in diphtheria,

• ▸Lachn.
• ▸Burning pains > by heat, Ars.
• ▸, Caps.
• ▸, Alumina.
• ▸Bloody sweat, Calc.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Nux m.
• ▸,

• ▸Nux, Arn.
• ▸Hoarseness 4 to 6 or 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Hell.
• ▸(Coloc.
• ▸and Pul.
• ▸at 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Col.
• ▸and Mag.
• ▸p.
• ▸4 to 9

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸and 4 to 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Constipation when from home (when on journey, Plat.
• ▸).

• ▸Laughs at serious things, Pho.
• ▸, Anac.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸Laughs and cries alternately, Aur.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸,

• ▸Alm.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Bov.
• ▸, Caps.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Globus hystericus, Ign.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸<

• ▸Ascending, Ars.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Restlessness > by motion, Rhus (Rhus generally in recent Lyc.
• ▸in old

• ▸cases), Puls.
• ▸> slow motion.
• ▸Emaciation from above down, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Burning as if hot coals

between scapulze, Glo. (burning as if hot water whole length of spine), Pho. Head symptoms >

• ▸cold, Ars.
• ▸(Ars.
• ▸has general > by warmth, Lyc.
• ▸< by warmth).
• ▸Flashes of heat, Lach.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.

Feet cold and damp to knees, Calc. Sore throat right to left (Lach. left to right) less sensitive than

• ▸it looks (Lach.
• ▸more); < cold drink (Lach.
• ▸>) Inguinal hernia, Nux (Nux more left, Lyc.
• ▸more

• ▸right).
• ▸Piles, Aésc.
• ▸, Nux, Caust.
• ▸, Alo.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Child screams before passing urine, just as it begins to

pass > by flow, red sand (Sarsa. cries before and during flow, grey sand). Sufferings of widowers

• ▸from unsatisfied desire, &c.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸Physometra, Bro.
• ▸, Lac c.
• ▸, Nux, Sang.

• ▸Burning in vagina during coitus, Kre.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Dryness of vagina with painful coitus, Bel.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Nat.

• ▸m.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Burning and stinging in breasts, Apis, Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Lauro.
• ▸Milk in breasts when it

• ▸should not be there, Cycl.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸; (unhealthy milk, Cham.
• ▸, Phyt.
• ▸, Acet.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸,

• ▸Pul.
• ▸) > Fanning (Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸and Sul.
• ▸in collapse; Lyc.
• ▸wants the back fanned).
• ▸Acid dyspepsia,

• ▸Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Robin.
• ▸> By warm drink and food (Pul.
• ▸and Phos.
• ▸> by cold food).
• ▸Catarrh of chest after

• ▸badly treated pneumonia, Sul.
• ▸Chest rattling, full of mucus, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸Child sleeps with eyes half-

open, Sul. Black boils, Lach. Distress in stomach immediately after eating (Nux some time

• ▸after).
• ▸In labour and threatened miscarriage, pains fly from right to left (Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸from side to side;

Ip. from left to right with nausea). Ordinary amount of food causes full sensation, Ars.

Diphtheria, nose obstructed, excoriating discharge, patient picks and bores nose, Ar. t. (but Lyc.

has right to left; < after sleep, even a short nap; irritable and peevish; urine stains red). Large

• ▸tonsils studded with small indurated ulcers, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸Aneurism, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, K.
• ▸iod.
• ▸Nzevus,

• ▸Fl.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸, Vacc.
• ▸Tympanites, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸(Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸rancid belching; Lyc.
• ▸sour).
• ▸Fan-like

• ▸motion of alz nasi; one foot hot, one cold, Chel.
• ▸(Lyc.
• ▸and Chel.
• ▸are much alike and

• ▸complementary; Lyc.
• ▸favours dark, Chel.
• ▸fair people; Lyc.
• ▸pains more dull, Chel.
• ▸lancinating;

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸rumbling of flatus in left hypochondrium, sour taste; Chel.
• ▸bitter).
• ▸Distension after eating

• ▸with great accumulation of flatus, Graph.
• ▸(Graph.
• ▸has rancid or putrid eructations, Lyc.
• ▸has not;

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸has constriction, Graph.
• ▸none).
• ▸Intermittent fever; syphilis; ulcers; flatulent dyspepsia; <

• ▸after sleep, Lach.
• ▸Ulcers on instep (Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸ulcers on heel).
• ▸Half sight, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Titan.
• ▸, Aur.
• ▸, Lith.

• ▸c.
• ▸Dyspepsia with thick urine; Sep.
• ▸(Lyc.
• ▸repletion after eating, Sep.
• ▸emptiness of epigastrium);

• ▸ball in anus, Sep.
• ▸Yellow-brown spots, Sep.
• ▸, Nux, Curar.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Cough excited by talking, Sil.

• ▸Impotence, Tab.
• ▸(Lyc.
• ▸cured impotence caused by indulgence in tobacco).
• ▸Ailments from fright,

• ▸anger, or mortification with reserved displeasure, Staph.
• ▸Nose stopped at night, Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Nux,

• ▸Samb.
• ▸Red sand on child's diaper, Pho.
• ▸Cries before urinating, Bor.
• ▸Dryness of vagina, Hdrfb.

• ▸One foot hot, the other cold, Chi.
• ▸, Dig.
• ▸, Ip.
• ▸Waking at night hungry, Cin.
• ▸, Pso.
• ▸Enforced sexual

• ▸abstinence, Con.
• ▸Proctalgia, Pho.
• ▸Craving for sweets, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Pain in head during stool,

• ▸Indium.
• ▸Fulness after a meal, Chi.
• ▸(Chi.
• ▸after a full meal; Lyc.
• ▸after ever so little.
• ▸The Lyc.

• ▸fulness is full right up into the throat).
• ▸Colic, &c.
• ▸, > bending over, Coloc.
• ▸Crampy pains, < night.

Nux. After-effects of fevers, Pso.

Complementary: Lycop acts with special benefit 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 only vegetable that takes up aluminum.
• ▸T.
• ▸F.
• ▸Allen) Ant c; Nat m; Ery; Nux; Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely see after sunrise; pain in right great toe).
• ▸Plumbago littoralis-A Brazilian plant--(Costive with red urine, pain in kidneys and joints and body generally; milky saliva, ulcerated mouth).
• ▸Hydrast follows Lycop in indigestion.

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.

Lycopodium is an antipsoric, anti-syphilitic and anti-sycotic, and its

sphere is broad and deep. Though classed among the inert substances, and thought to be useful only for rolling up allopathic pills,

Hahnemann brought it into use and developed its power by attenuation. It is a monument to Hahnemann. It enters deep into the life,

and ultimate changes in the soft tissues, blood-vessels, bones, liver,

heart, joints. The tissue changes are striking; there is tendency tonecrosis, abscesses, spreading ulcers and great emaciation. There is

a predominance of symptoms on the right side of the body, and they

arc likely to travel from nghj to i^ft or from abo ve downward,

from Jhead to chest. The patient emaciates above, especially about the

neck, while the lower extremities are fairly well nourished. Externally there is sensitiveness to a warm atmosphere when there are head

and spine symptoms. The head symptoms also are worse from the

w^armt h of the be d . and^frmn^heatT and wors e from getting he a ted by.

exertion. The patient is sensitive to cold and there is a marked lack

^oF^aT heat, aiiT worse in general from cold and cold air and from

cold food and drinks. The pains arc ameliorated from warmth except

of the head and spine. Exertion aggravates the Lycopodium patient

• ▸in general.
• ▸lie becomes puffed and distressed, and dyspnoea is increased by exertion.
• ▸He cannot climb, he cannot walk fast.
• ▸The

cardiac symptoms are increased as well as the dyspnoea by becoming

heated from exertion. The inflamed parts are sometimes relieved

from the application of heat. The throat symptoms are generally

relieved from the application of heat, from drinking hot tea or warm!

soup. The stomach pains arc often relieved by zvarm drinks and taking warm things into the stomach. Nervous excitement and prostration are marked.

In the rheumatic pains and other sufferings the Lyc. patient is

ameliorated by motion. He is extremely restless, must keep turning,

and if there is inflammation with the aches and pains

better from. of ^e bed and relieved from motion, and he

will keep tossing all night. He turns and gets into a new place and

thinks he can sleep, but the restlessness continues all night. He wants

cool air, wants to be in a cool place with head symptoms. It is true

that the headache is worse from motion enough to warm the patient

up, but not from the motion itself. The headache is worse from lying

down and from the warmth of the room^ and better in cold air and

from motion until he has moved and exercised sufficiently to become

heated, when the headache becomes worse. That is quite an important thing to remember concerning Lycopodium, because it may constitute a distinguishing feature. The head symptoms are worse from

warm wraps and warm bed.

the remedy. This is a very prominent symptom. In chronic symptoms when the patient feels best the red sand is found in the urine

Lyc. has retention of urine and suppression of urine. It has ‘‘wetting

of the bed’’ in little ones, involuntarily micturition in sleep, involuntary

micturition in typhoids and low fevers. A marked feature of Lyc.

and one of the most prominent of all remedies, is polyuria during the

night. He must arise many times at night and pass large quantities

of urine, although in the daytime the urine is normal. Enormous

quantities of urine, very clear and of light specific gravity,

Male sexual organs. One of the most prominent remedies in inv

potency. Persons of feeble vitality, overwrought persons, overtired

persons, with feeble genital organs, seldom need Phosphorus, but

Lycopod. is a typical remedy where the young man lias abused himself by secret vices and has become tired out in his spine, brain and

genital organs. If this patient makes up his mind that he will live a

somewhat decent life and marries, he finds that he is impotent sexually, that he is not able to obtain erections, or that the ereciions arc

too feeble, or too short, and that he is not a man.

Lyc. has inflamation of the mucous membrane of the urethra, with

a gonorrhoeal discharge. It is anti-sycotic and has troublesome

fig warts upon the male and female genitals. ‘ Moist condylomata on

the penis, enlargement of the prostate gland.”

It is a great friend of the woipan in inflammation and neuralgia of

• ▸the ovaries) and in inflammation , of the uterus.
• ▸The neuralgia especially affects the right ovary, with a tendency to the left.
• ▸Inflammation of the ovaries, when the right is more affected than the left.
• ▸It

has cured cystic tumors of the right ovary.

Lycopodium produces and cures dryness in the vagina in which

coition becomes very painfid. Burning in the vagina during and after

coition. It has disturbance of menstruation. Absence or suppression

of menses for many months, the patient being withered, declining,

pale and sallow, becoming feeble. It seems that she has not the vitality to menstruate. It is also suitable in girls at puberty when the time

for the first menstrual flow to appear has come, but it does not come.

She goes on to 15, 16, 17 or 18 without development, the breasts do

not enlarge, the ovaries do not perform their functions. When the

symptoms agree Lyc. establishes a reaction, the breasts begin to grow,

the womanly bearing begins to come, and the child becomes a woman.

It has a wonderful power for developing, and in that respect it is ^'el7

much like Calc, phos, '‘Discharge of flatus from the vagina.” “Varices of the genitals.'’

In the respiratory organs Lyc. furnishes a wonderful remedy

Dyspnoea and asthmatic breathing in catarrh of the chest. The colds

settle in the nose, but nearly always go into the chest, with much

whistling and wheezing, and great dyspnoea. The dyspnoea is worse

• ▸from walking fast, after exertion and from going up a hill.
• ▸Throbbing, burning and tickling in the chest.
• ▸Dry, teasing cough.
• ▸Dry

cough in emaciated boys. After coming out of pneumonia, the dry,

teasing cough remains a long lime, or there is much whistling and

asthmatic breathing. The extremities are cold while whistling and

face are hot, with much coughing and troubles in the chest. He wants

to go about with the head uncovered, l)ccausc there is so much congestion in the head. 'Jliis patient has a feeble reaction. There is no

tendency to repair and the history of the case is that the troubles have

existed since an attack of bronchitis or pneumonia. Besides the dry,

teasing cough, Lyc. goes into another state in wliich there is ulceration, with copious expectoration of thick yellow or green muco-pus,

tough and stringy. Finally night sweats, with fe\cr in the afternoon

from 4 to 8 o’clock, come on. Its use in tk»e advanced stage of pneumonia, in the period of hepatization, with the wrinkled face and brow,

the flapping wings of the nose and scanty expectoration, we have already spoken of. Then it has marked catarrh of the chest with much

rattling, especially in infants. Rattling in the chest flapping of the

icings of the 'nose and inability to cxpcciorale. "Hie right lung is most

affected, or more likely to be affected than the left, or it is affected

first in double pneumania and troubles that go from one side to the

other. Think of Lyc. among the remedies for neglected pneumonia,

in difficult breathing from an accumulation of serum in the pleura and

pericardium.

I have mentioned sufficiently the gouty tendencies of the limbs and

the nerve symptoms. But there is a restlessness of the lower limbs and

which comes on when he tliinks of going to sleep and this prevents

• ▸sleep until midnight.
• ▸Much like Arsenicum.
• ▸Jt is often a very distressing feature.
• ▸Numbness of the limbs.
• ▸Drawing, tearing in the

limbs at night ; better by warmth of bed and motion. These pains are

sometimes found in chronic intermittent fever and arc cured by this

• ▸remedy.
• ▸I^iatica that comes on periodically^ better by heat and walking.
• ▸, Varicose veins of ilie legs.
• ▸One foot hot the other cold.

(Edema of the feel.

It has all manner of fevers, continued intermittent and remittent.

It is especially suitable in old age, and in premature old age, when a

person at 60 years appears to be 80 years, broken down, feeble and

tired. It is eminently suited in complaints of weakly constitutions.

It is suitable in various dropsies, associated with liver and heart affections. Scabs remain upon the skin, do not separate ; they crust over

and the crust does not fall, or may become laminated like rupia. Sulphur, Graph, and Calc, are not longer acting or deeper acting than

Lyc. These substances that seem to be so inert in their crude form

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come out strongest when potentized and form medicines of wonderful use.

The complaints of Lyc. are likely to be worse at a fixed time, viz.,

^rom four till ei^ht o^clock i n the, evening. An exacerbation comes

on in the acutFconipIaints and often in the chronic complaints at this

time. The Lyc. chill and fever is worse at this time, and in typhoid

and scarlet fever the patient is especially worse from 4-8 p. m. In

gouty attacks, in rheumatic fevers, in inflammatory conditions, in

pneumonia, in acute catarrhs, which are complaints especially calling

for Lycopodium, it is always well to think of this remedy when there

is a decisive aggravation from 4-8 p. m.

T he. Lycop odium patient is flatulent, distended like a drum, so that

• ▸he can hardly brelitFe.
• ▸TEe^dla^Ti'ragm is pushed upwards, infringing upon the lung and heart space, so that he has palpitation, faintness and dyspnoea.
• ▸It is not uncommon to hear a Lycop.
• ▸patient say,

‘‘Everything I eat turns into wind.” After a mere mouthful he becomes flatulent and distended, so that he cannot cat any more. He

says a mouthful fills him up to the throat. While the abdomen is distended he is so nervous that he cannot endure any noise. The noise

of the crackling of paper, ringing of bells or slamming of doors goes

through him and causes fainting, like Ant. crud., Borax and

mur. These general conditions go through all complaints, acute and

chronic. There is an excitable stage of the whole sensoriiim in which

everything disturbs. Little things annoy and distress.

The Lyc. patient cannot eat oysters ; they make him sick. Oysters

seem to poison the Lyc. patient, just as onions are a poison to the

Thuja patient. The Oxalic acid patient cannot eat strawberries. If

you ever have a patient get sick from eating strawberries, tomatoes or

oysters, and you have no homoeopathic remedies at hand, it is a good

thing to remember that cheese will digest strawberries or tomatoes or

oysters in a few minutes.

The skin idcerates. There are painful ulcers, sloughing ulcers beneath the skin, abscesses beneath the skin, cellular troubles. The

chronic ulcerations are indolent ivith false granualtions, painful, burning, stinging and smarting, ofteA relieved by applying cooling things

and aggravated by warm poultices. It is somewhat a general in Lycopodium that warm poultices and warmth ameliorates ; warm applications ameliorate the pain in ihc knee, the suppurating condition and

the gouty troubles. In an unusually warm bed, and in a warm room

hives come out. The hives come out cither in nodules or in long and

irregular stripes, especially in the heat, and itch violently. Lyc.

has eri^tions upon the skin, with violent itching. Vesicles and scaly

eruptions, moist eruptions and dry eruptions, furfuraccous eruptions,

eruptions about the lips, behind the ears, under the wings of the nose

and upon the genitals ; fissured eruptions, bleeding fissures like salt

rheum upon the hands. The skin becomes thick and indurated. The

sites of old boils and pustules become indurated and form nodules that

remain a long time. The skin looks unhealthy, and it wdll slough easily ; wounds refuse to heal. Surface wounds suppurate as if they had

contained splinters, and this suppuration burrows along under the skin.

Ulcers bleed and form great quantities of thick, yellow, olfensive,

green pus. Chancres and chancroids often find their simillimum in

Lyc.

The Lyc. state when deciphered shows feebleness throughout. A

• ▸very low state of the arteries and veins, poor tone and poor circulation.
• ▸Numbness in spots.
• ▸Emaciation of single members.
• ▸Deadness of the fingers and toes.
• ▸Staggering and inability to make use of

the limbs. Clumsiness and awkwardness of the limbs. Trembling of

the limbs.

• ▸The mental symptoms of Lyc.
• ▸are numerous.
• ▸He is tired.
• ▸He has

a tired state of the mind, a chronic fatigue, forgetfulness, aversion to

undertaking anything new, aversion to appearing in any new role,

aversion to his own work. Dreads lest something will happen, lest he

will forget soirfefliing. A continually increasing dread of appearing

in public comes on, yet a horror, at times, of solitude. Often in professional men, like lawyers and ministers, who have to appear In” puhlic, there is a feeling of incompetence, a feeling of inability to undertake his task, although he has been accustomed to it for many years,

A lawyer cannot think of appearing in court ; he procrastinates, he

Relays until he is obliged to appear, because he Jias a Tear “IHat he will

smmble ,fhat Ke will make mistakes, that he^ill forget, and yet when

he uncKH^H Jil^^ through with ease ~and comfort. Ihis is a

"stnEhg feature also of Silicea. No medicines have this fear so

marked as these two.

Lyc. also has a religious insanity, which has a mild and simple beginning, a matter of melancholy. This religious melancholy grows

greater and greater until he sits and broods. He has very often aversion to company, and yet he dreads solitude. -*^Dread of men and

dread of solitude ; irritability and melancholy.’' This dread of men

is not always a state of dread in women. It is a dread of people, and

when that is fully carried out in the Lyc patient you see that she

dreads the presence of new persons, or the coming in of friends or

visitors ; she wants to be only with those that are constantly surrounding her ; does not want to be entirely alone ; wants to feel that there

is somebody else in the house, but does not want company ; does not

want to be talked to, or forced to do anything ; does not want to make

any exertion, yet at times when forced to do so she is relieved. "Taciturnity, desires to be alone.” Now, let us follow that out a little

further. The taciturnity is because the patient does not want to talk,

wants to keep silent, yet, as I have said already, very glad to feel there

is somebody else in the house and that she is not alone. She is perfectly willing to remain in a little room by herself, so that she is practically alone, yet not in solitude. If there were two adjacent rooms

in the house you would commonly find the Lyc. patient go into one

and stay there, but very glad to have somebody in the other.

The Lycopodium patient often weeps in the act of receiving a friend

or meeting an acquaintance. An unusual sadness with weeping comes

over this patient on receiving a gift. At the slightest joy she weeps,

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hence we see that the Lyc. patient is a very nervous, sensitive, emotional patient. Here it is: ‘'l^nsitive, even cries when thanked/'

When lying in bed suffering from the lower forms of fevers, there

is delirium and even unconsciousness. He picks at imaginary things

• ▸in the air, sees flies and all sorts of little things flying in the air.
• ▸“Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things.
• ▸” A condition of insanity.
• ▸“Despondent.
• ▸” The Lyc.
• ▸patient wakes up in the morning

with sadness. There is sadness and gloom. The world may come to

an end, or the whole family may die, or the house ^^ay burn up.

There seems to be nothing cheering, the future looks black. After

moving about a while, this passes off. This state precedes conditions

of insanity, and finally a suicidal state comes, an aversion to life. Sec

how this remedy takes hold of the will and actually destroys man’s

will to live. That which is first in man is his desire to be, to exist,

and to be something, if ever so small. When that is destroyed, we

see what a wonderful thing has been destroyed. The very man himself wills then not to be. It is a perversion of everything that makes

the man, the destruction of his will. “Apprehcnsivencss. difficult

breathing and fearfulness.” “Anxious thoughts as if about to die.”

“Want of self-confidence, indecision, timidity, resignation.” Loss of

confidence in himself and in everything. “Misanthropic, flies even

from his own children.” “Distrustful, suspicious and fault finding.”

“Oversensitive to pain ; patient is beside himself.”

Lyc. is subject to periodical headaches, and headaches connected

with- gastric troubles. If be goes beyond his dinner hour a sick headache will come on. He must eat with regularity or he will have the

headache which he is subject to. This is somewhat like a Cactus

headache. Cactus has a congestive headache which becomes extremely violent with flushed face if he does not eat at the regular

rime. One distinguishing feature is that with the Lycopodium headache, if he eats something, the headache is better while the Cactus

• ▸headache is worse from eating.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸and especially Phos, and Psorinum have headaches with great hunger.
• ▸At or about the beginning

of the attack there is a faint all-gone hungry feeling which eating does

not satisfy. Such is the nature of Phosphorus and Psorinum when

the appetite and headache are associated. The Lycopodium headaclie

is < from heat, from the warmth of the bed, and from lying down,

> from cold, from the cold air. and from having the windows open.

Lean, emaciated boys are subject to prolonged pains in the head.

Every time this little fellow takes cold he has a prolonged, throbbing,

congestive headache, and from day to day and from month to month

he becomes more emaciated, especially about the face and neck. This

same trouble is present when a narrow-chested boy has a dry, teasing

cough, without expectoration, and emaciates about the neck and face.

This remedy is especially suitable in these withered lads, with a dry

cough or prolonged headache. In children who wither after pneumonia or bronchitis, emaciate about the face and neck, take cold on

the slightest provocation, suffer with headache from being heated,

have nightly headaches, and a state of congestion that affects the mind

more or less, in whicli they rouse out of sleep in confusion. The

little one screams out in sleep, awakes frightened, looks wild, does not

know the father and mother, or nurse or family until after a few

moments, when he seems to be able to collect his senses and then

realizes where he is and lies down to sleep again. In a little while

he wakes up again in a fright, looks strange and confused. That repeats itself. The headaches are throbbing and pressing, as if the head

would burst ; but this is not so important as the manner in which they

come on, the circumstance of their cause, the things that the child

docs and the fact that they arc better from cold, worse from noise and

• ▸talking, worse from 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and he emaciates from above downward.
• ▸These are more important than the (juality of the pain that tho

patient feels, but if he describes the quality of the pain it is spoken of

as a throbbing, pressing, bursting or as a fulness.

Upon the scalp we find eruptions mj)atchcs, smooth patches with

the hair off. Patches- on the face and eczematous eruptions behind the

cars, bleeding and oozing a watery fluid, sometimes yellowish watery.

The eczema spreads from l>ehind ihc cars up over the ears and to tl\Q

jicaip. Lyc is a vciy important remedy to study in eczema of the

ipfant. Eczema in a lean, hungry, withering child with more or less

head trouble, such as has been described, with a moist oozing behind

the ears, red sand in the urine, face looking wrinkled, a dry teasing

cough, in a child that kicks the covers off, a child whose left foot is

cold and tlic other warm, with capricious appetite, eating much, with

unusual hunger at times and great thirst, and yet losing steadily, will

often be cured by Lyc. It will throw out a greater amount of eruption at first, but this will subside finally and the child will return to

health. The head in general is closely related to one symptom, viz.,

red sand in the urine. A long as the red sand is plentiful, the patient

is free from these congestive headaches, but when the urine becomes

pale and free from the red pepper deposit ; then comes the bursting,

pressing headache, lasting for days. It might be said that this is a

uraemic headache ; but it does not matter what you call it, if the symptoms are present the remedy will be justified. In old gouty constitutions, when the headache is most marked, the gout in the extremities

will be > and vice versa. The headaches is present only in the absence

of pain in the extremities. Again, when there is a copious quantity

lof red sand in the urine the gouty state, either in the head or extremities, will be absent, but whenever he takes cold the secretion seems to

slacken up with an < of the pain. There is another feature of the

Lyc. headache related to catarrhal states. The headache is < when

the catarrh is slacked up hy an acute cold. The Lyc subject often

suffers from thick, yellow discharge from the nose. The nose is filled

with yellow, green crusts, blown out of the nose in the morning and

hawked out of the throat. Now, when the patient takes cold the thick

discharge to a great extent ceases, and he commences to sneeze and

has a watery discharge. Then comes on a Lyc. headache, with great

suffering, with pressing pains, with hunger, and finally the coryza

passes away, and the thick yellow discharge returns and the headache

subsides.

We have many eye symptoms in Lycopodium, but most prominent

are the catarrhal affections of the eyes. The symptoms are so numerous, they describe almost any catarrhal condition of the eyes, so that

you cannot discriminate upon the eye symptoms alone. Inflammatory

conditions with copious discharge, with red eyes, ulceration of the conjunctiva and lids, and granular lids.

For the ears Lyc. becomes an important remedy, because this selfsame emaciating child, with the wrinkled countenance and dry cough,

has had, since an attack of .scarlet fever, a discharge from the ears,

thick, yellow and offensive, with loss of hearing. If the suitable

remedy be given in a case of scarlet fever, there will be no ear trouble

left, because ear troubles do not .necessarily belong to scarlet fever.

They are not a part of scarlet fev#r, but are dependent on the constitutional state of the child. Lyc. has also most painful eruptions of

the ears, otitis media, abscess in the ear, associated with eczema about

the ears and behind the ears.

The nose .symptoms I have only partly described in association with

the head. The trouble often begins in infancy. The little infant will

lie at first with a peculiar rattling breathing through the nose, and

finally it will breathe only through the mouth, as the nose is obstructed.

This goes on for days and months. The child breathes only through

the mouth, and when it cries it has the shrill tone, such as is found

when the nose is plugged up. If you look you will see the nose is

filled up with a purulent matter and hanging down the throat is a

muco-purulent discharge. Much stuffing up of the nose is a chronic

state of Lyc. The child will go on with this trouble until it forms

into great crusts, yellow, sometimes blackish, sometimes greenish, and

the nose bleeds. It is most useful in those troublesome catarrhs associated with headaches ; in such patients as lose flesh about the neck.

It may seem strange and unaccountable that Lyc. can cause emaciation

about the neck and shrivelling of the face when the lower limbs are

in a very good state of preservation. In old chronic catarrhs of adults

they must keep continually blowing the nose. He cannot breathe

• ▸burning in ulcers and cancer ; pains immediately after eating ; vomiting of bile, coffee ground vomit, black, inky vomit.
• ▸Under Lyc.
• ▸apparently malignant cases have their life prolonged.
• ▸The case is so

modified that, instead of culminating in a few months, the patient may

last for years. Right hypochondrium swollen as in liver troubles.

Pain in liver, recurrent bilious attacks with vomiting of bile. He is

subject to gall stone colic. After Lyc. the attacks come less frequently, the bilious secretion become normal and the gall stones have

a spongy appearance as though being dissolved. '^Tjyc. pati'^htS^ are

Hways helching ; they have eructations that are sour and acrid like

strong acid burning the pharynx. “Sour stomach,'’ ^sour vomiting,

flatus, distension and pain after eating, with a sense of fulness. Awful goneness,'' or weakness, in stomach, not relieved by eating

(Digit,), The stomach is worse by cold drinks, and often relieved

by warm drinks. In the stomach and intestines there is a great commotion, noisy rumbling, rolling of flatus as though fermentation were

going on. Lyc., China and Carbo veg, are most flatulent remedies

and should be compared. The stomach symptoms are worse or

brought on from cold drinks, beer, coffee or fruit, and a diarrhoea follows. Old chronic dyspeptics, emaciated, wrinkled, tired and angular

patients, everything eaten turns to wind. Lycopodium is useful in old

tired patients with f^ble reaction and feebleness of ^all the functions,

with a tendency to run down and not convalesce.

This patient has most troublesome constipation. He goes for days

without any desire, and although the rectum is full there is no urging.

Inactivity of intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool hard,

difficult, small and incomplete. The first part of the stool is hard and

difficult to start, but the last part in soft or thin and gushing following

by faintness and weakness. Lyc. patients have diarrhoea and all kinds

• ▸of stool.
• ▸So you will see from reading the text that the characteristic of Lyc.
• ▸is not in the stool.
• ▸Any kind of diarrhoea, if the other

Lyc. symptoms are present, will be cured by Lyc. It has troublesome

haemorrhoids, but they are nondescript. Any kind of haemorrhoids

may be cured by Lyc. if the flatulence, the stomach symptoms, the

mental symptoms, and the general symptoms of Lyc. are present, because the haemorrhoidal symptoms are numerous.

The kidneys furnish any symptoms and may be the key to Lycopodium in many instances. There seems to be the same inactivity in

the bladder as in the rectum. Though he strain ever so much, he

must wait a long time for the urine to pass. It is slow to flow, and

flows in a feeble stream. The urine is often muddy with brick dust,

or red sand deposits, or on stirring it up it looks like the sediment of

fermenting cider. We find this state in febrile conditions. In acute

stages of disease; where the red sand appears copiously, Lyc. is often