Lycopus Virginicus

• ▸Whilst Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸and Mag.
• ▸sul.
• ▸are recognised old-school remedies, I can find

• ▸no mention of Mag.
• ▸mur.
• ▸or Mag.
• ▸Phos.
• ▸in modern text-books.
• ▸Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸first appeared in

• ▸Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases.
• ▸The general feature of Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸appears in many symptoms,

notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria. The salt, says Guernsey, "is found in many

mineral waters, and in seawater. It has a very bitter taste, and is decomposed by heat." The note

• ▸about the sea-water is important.
• ▸Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸is like Nat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, and Aq.
• ▸mar.
• ▸in the relation to seaside

• ▸effects.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is particularly indicated in constipation," biliousness," and generally disordered

• ▸health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside.
• ▸Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸is indicated when

excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief Localities of its action are: Head; r.

hypochondrium; inner region of liver; rectum and large intestine; bladder; uterus; heart; feet. It is

especially suited to: Diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with

uterine diseases. Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women. Women after suffering

months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver

Puny, rickety children during dentition. Men with disordered livers; and sexual disorders. Teste,

• ▸who places Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸in his Ferrum group, says that Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸and Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸"have been used for the

• ▸cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful diseases.
• ▸" He says he has seen Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸produce

great improvement in this case: "Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left thigh,

consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of cystitis

with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder, left elbow,

eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated." A connection between liver disorder and

nasal obstruction has often been traced, and Mag. m. has a large number of symptoms in both.

The nasal symptoms have led to its successful use in ozeena. One case cured had redness,

• ▸swelling and scaliness of nose, and sweat about the head and feet.
• ▸Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸is one of the leading

remedies in foot-sweat. Burning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed. In liver affections

there is enlargement, sensitiveness < from touch, and < lying on r. side; tongue large, coated,

indurated. It is especially suited to liver affections in children who are puny and rickety, and

• ▸have eruptions about the eyes.
• ▸The constipation of Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸is very distinctive, and has led to the

cure of many extremely obstinate cases. The characteristic stool is knotty and conglomerate, like

sheep's. It may remain in this condition, or it may crumble at the anus. Painful urging before

stool; burning at anus after. As well as intestinal atony, there is atony of bladder: urine can only

be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles. The hysterical symptoms are marked:

spasms, fainting, globus. Bearing down in uterine region; uterine spasms. Menses black or pitch-

like, accompanied by pains in back when walking, pains in thighs when sitting. Leucorrhcea after

every stool or following uterine spasms. Hysterical headaches. Patient is anxious, restless,

always < by mental exertion; during or after dinner seized with nausea, eructations, trembling

and faint spells, > by eructations. Palpitation < when quiet, > moving about. Perversions of taste

and smell are marked in Mag. m., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell

• ▸after influenza.
• ▸Among the Sensations of Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸are: As if some one was reading after her.
• ▸As

• ▸if boiling water was on side of head.
• ▸As if hair pulled.
• ▸As if tongue burnt; mouth scalded.
• ▸Stools

as if burnt. The pains are mostly boring and spasmodic contractive pains; dragging down. There

• ▸is much burning and heat.
• ▸R.
• ▸M.
• ▸Skinner reports (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxiv.
• ▸383) this case: A farmer had

been treated allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel

well. Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. Constipated, goes three or

• ▸four days without a stool.
• ▸It was for this that he sought advice.
• ▸Abdomen distended.
• ▸hard,

especially in ileo-czecal region. Cold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold snake.

• ▸Beating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there.
• ▸Vag.
• ▸m.
• ▸20 one dose on the tongue.
• ▸At 8

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸the bowels began to act and went on acting with the exception of one hour till 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸He

complained next morning that the medicine had "almost killed him," and he looked thin and

tired. No further medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was

• ▸normal in size and without tenderness.
• ▸In a large proportion of Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸cases the Conditions will

give the leading indications. There is general hyperzesthesia and < by touch or pressure; but the

head pains are > by hard pressure; eye pains > by pressure, and the menstrual pains > by pressing

on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to catch cold, > wrapping up head

warmly; but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are < in warm room; cough < in room.

Most symptoms except headache are > in open air. Sea-bathing = bloody expectoration; great

weakness. Rest <; motion > (this is especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). <

Lying down. Palpitation is > lying on left side. Liver symptoms < lying right side, < on side lain

on. [Also lying on left side = sensation of something (liver) dragging to that side.] Rumination <

• ▸while walking.
• ▸< At meals (fainting).
• ▸> By eructations (nausea and trembling).
• ▸< After coitus

(pain in testes and cords). Mental exertion <.

Uneasiness and lachrymose humour.—Peevishness and chagrin.—Aversion to

conversation; prefers solitude.—Repugnance to exertion.—Nervous excitability, with tendency to

• ▸weep readily.
• ▸—Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional.
• ▸—Fearful and inclined to weep.
• ▸—Anxiousness

in room, > in open air.—While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must

keep reading faster and faster.

Boring or contractive cramp-like pains.—Paralytic drawing and tearing in

limbs.—Indurations after inflammations.—Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical

weakness.—Hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night.—Liability to take

cold.—Bodily weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach.—Sensation of

uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to least

noise.—General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes.—Sensation as of

boiling water on side on which one rests.—The majority of the symptoms present themselves

when the patient is seated, or at night, and are generally > by movement.—Uneasiness in evening

in bed on closing the eyes.

Frontal headache; worse, frontal eminences; often succeeded by labored heart. Nosebleed.

Stupefaction as from intoxication.—Vertigo in morning, on rising, and during dinner;

disappears in open air.—Heaviness in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down.—Pains, >

by covering up head.—Sensation of numbness in forehead.—Compressive sensation in head from

both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it—Tearing and

stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by

pulling.—Tearing and stitches in r. temple, extending to eye; necessity to press eyes

together.—Griping and raging in both temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and

lose consciousness; disappearing on pressing the head with both hands, in evening after lying

down (5th day).—Tensive pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in

head, principally on awaking and when lying; > from exercise in open air and when wrapping

head up warm.—Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in temples, in evening, in bed, with

sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were coming on.—Jerking, or shooting and

pulsative tearings, in head.—Congestion, with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in

head.—Painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on side upon which one

rests.—Quotidian headache.—Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a

• ▸sensation of confusion in head.
• ▸—Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput.
• ▸—Boils on head.
• ▸—Great

sensitiveness of scalp.—Nodes on occiput, tearing, painful to touch.—Tendency of head to sweat.

Protrusion, pressing, outward, with tumultuous action of heart. Supraorbital pain, with aching in testicles.

Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica—Lachrymation and

burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight—Nocturnal agglutination of

eyelids —Yellow colour of sclerotica.—Green halo round candle in evening.

Pulsation in ear.—Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before

• ▸ear.
• ▸—Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears.
• ▸—Itching of herpes behind ears.
• ▸—Great

sensitiveness to noise.—Buzzing in ears.

Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when

touched.—Excoriation of nostrils —Discharge of corrosive serum from nose.—Stoppage of nose,

with want of breath.—Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose.—Swelling, redness,

induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are < in morning.—Troublesome dryness of

nose.—Nocturnal obstruction of nose.—Coryza, with loss of taste and smell; and emission of

yellow and fetid mucus on blowing nose.—Ulcerated nostrils.—Loss of smell.

Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion —Drawing pains in nerves of face.—Tension in

face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face.—Facial eruption.—Pimples on forehead, itching in

evening.—Lips cracked.—Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by

tongue.—Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards

burning).

Toothache in lower molars.

Dryness of mouth at night.—Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst—Rhagades

in tongue with violent burning —Tongue coated white early in morning.—Copious accumulation

of serous saliva in mouth.—Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt.—Burning in

tongue as from fire—Tongue coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby,

yellow.—Bad taste, with poor appetite.

Toothache, aggravated to highest degree by contact of food.—Sensation of elongation

in upper incisors.—Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.

Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw, < in evening, and at

night—Hawking up of viscid and thick mucus from the throat, often mixed with blood and very

tenacious.—Dryness and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice.

• ▸Frequent thirst.
• ▸—Violent thirst (3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Bulimy and craving in stomach,

followed by nausea.—Hunger, without knowing what is wanted.—Poor appetite, with bad taste in

mouth.—Desire for dainties.

Regurgitation of food, while walking.—Violent hiccough during and after dinner,

which = pain in stomach.—Sensation as if a ball were ascending from abdomen into cesophagus;

> by eructations.—Increased hunger, followed by nausea.—Eructations tasting like rotten eggs,

like onions.—Nausea, esp. in morning, on first rising —Frequent nausea with fainting, day and

night—Constant nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed

tears —Aching in stomach, with nausea.—Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as from a

bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch.—Throbbing in pit of stomach.—Heat in

stomach.—Painful commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.

Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, > by emission of

flatus, forenoon.—After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat; if she has

waterbrash it disappears.—Fermentation in abdomen.—Tension and shooting in hepatic

• ▸region.
• ▸—A ffections of r.
• ▸hypochondrium; inner region of liver—Congestion of |.
• ▸lobe of

liver.—Burning in r, hypochondrium, up to r. scapula; when putting foot forward in

walking.—Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part, < lying on r.

side.—Hardness and tightness of abdomen.—Violent and constant distension of abdomen, with

• ▸constipation.
• ▸—Painful hardness of abdomen, and esp.
• ▸of r.
• ▸side.
• ▸-—Cramp-like pains in abdomen,

• ▸esp.
• ▸in evening, and sometimes followed by leucorrhcea.
• ▸—Tearing in abdomen.
• ▸—Dragging down

from region of r. ovary to thigh Cuttings, pinchings, and acute drawing in abdomen.—Stinging

shootings in the muscles of the abdomen.—Colic (in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending

to thighs, followed by fluor albus.

Bleeding from rectum. Haemorrhoids.

Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations.—Obstructions of

bowels from induration of feeces.—Hzemorrhoids pain during normal stool.—Burning and

smarting in anus during and after stool.—Stools crumbling as if burnt—Stool crumbles at verge

of anus.—Feces knotty, like sheep-dung.—Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an

emission of flatus—Chronic tendency to diarrhcea.—Violent diarrhoea of mucus and

blood.—Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations.—Feces coated with mucus and

blood.—Ejection of tenia.

Frequent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty emission.—An

emission can be accomplished only by contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal

muscles.—Torpor of urethra—Urine, pale-yellow, followed by burning in urethra.—Urine passes

only by drops, always some seeming to remain behind.—High-coloured urine, loaded with

lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.

• ▸Profuse flow of limpid, watery urine, especially when the heart is most irritable; also scanty urine.
• ▸Bladder feels distended when empty.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Pain in testicles.

Catamenia too early and too copious.—Suppressed menses.—Black

and coagulated blood during catamenia.—During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins

and depression; fainting; pain in |. leg —Cramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to

thighs, and leucorrhcea.—Leucorrheea, esp. during movement, or preceded by cramps in

abdomen.—Scirrhous induration of uterus.—Leucorrhcea immediately after stool.

Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as

the anus.—Frequent erections; early in morning with burning in penis.—Burning in back after

coition.—Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after

unrequited sexual excitement.—Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams;

scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat; constipation; indigestion; biliousness;

itching at anus.—Scrotum relaxed.

Wheezing. Cough, with haemoptysis, bleeding small but frequent.

Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat——Hoarseness in the

morning after rising.—Tingling in larynx.—Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-

bathing.—Dry cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in

chest.—Cramp-like cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.

• ▸Rapid heart action of smokers.
• ▸Praecordial pain; constriction, tenderness, pulse, weak, irregular, intermittent, tremulous, rapid.
• ▸Cyanosis.
• ▸Heart's action tumultuous and forcible.
• ▸Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression around heart.
• ▸Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease.
• ▸Cardiac asthma (Sumbul).

Oppression of chest, in region of heart.—Oppression in pit of stomach.—Sudden

feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner.—Tension and contraction in

chest.

Shootings (stitches) in heart, which impede respiration.—Pain at apex of heart, a

pricking as of needles and pins, with pain under |. scapula as if knife were hacking the

bone.—Palpitation of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.

Swelling of glands of neck.—Pain as from bruises above and in small of

back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch.—Shooting, tearing, and burning

pains in the back.—Contractive and cramp-like pains in loins.—Tearing stitches in

loins.—Burning in back after coitus.—Drawing in loins after a stool —Gnawing in spinal

• ▸cord.
• ▸—Burning and bruised feeling between scapule.
• ▸—Tearing in r.
• ▸scapula, then in hip; in both

scapulz.

Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and

hand, < by movement.—Numbness of arms in morning, on waking; or in evening in bed.

Great lassitude in legs, even when seated —Heaviness of legs.—Jerking

tearings in hips——Uneasiness and tension in thighs.—Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the

• ▸knee.
• ▸—Cramps in calves, at night.
• ▸—Burning pain in soles, in evening.
• ▸—Sweating of feet.

Tingling in different parts of the skin.—Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles

of feet) —Itching pimples, with burning pain after scratching —Pustular eruptions.—Eruption of

small red papulee.—Furunculi.—Swelling of the glands.

Wakefulness and morbid vigilance with inordinately active, but weak circulation.

Great inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and indolence.—Retarded sleep

and sleeplessness, caused by heat, with thirst, and great agitation in whole body on shutting the

eyes.—Anxious and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep.—Sleep unrefreshing;

tired in morning.—Jerking in body, when lying awake at night—Nightmare.

Shivering in evening, which disappears in bed.—Chill in evening from 4 to 8, even

near warm stove.—Chill, followed by heat in evening till midnight—Heat in evening with

perspiration only on head.—Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning.—Sweat after

midnight.—Pulse accelerated with ebullitions while sitting.

• ▸Biliousness.
• ▸Bladder, paresis of.
• ▸Cardialgia.
• ▸Co/d.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Diarrhoea.

• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Foot-sweat.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.

• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Home-sickness.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Leucorrheea.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Menstruation, painful.

• ▸Nocturnal emissions.
• ▸Ozzena.
• ▸Palpitation.
• ▸Pregnancy, nausea of.
• ▸Smell, disordered.
• ▸Spleen,

• ▸enlarged.
• ▸Stomach, disorders of.
• ▸Taste, disordered.
• ▸Tinea ciliaris.
• ▸Urine, straining to pass.

Uterus, pain in; induration of. Waterbrash. Whooping-cough.

• ▸Antidoted by: Cham.
• ▸, also Camph.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Nux.
• ▸It antidotes: Merc.
• ▸(metrorrhagia).

• ▸Compatible: Bell.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Compare: Hysteria, Mosch.
• ▸, Asaf.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, and Castor.

• ▸Uterine spasms, Ign.
• ▸(Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸may have induration); Caust.
• ▸and Secale (both have continuous

• ▸spasm).
• ▸Erections and burning in penis, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Enlarged liver, < by touch and lying on

• ▸right side, Merc.
• ▸Foot-sweat and head-sweat, Sil.
• ▸(Sil.
• ▸is offensive); scrofulous and rickety

children, headache > wrapping, Sil. Congestion of liver, enlargement, feeling of weight and

• ▸pressure, Ptelea (Ptel.
• ▸is > lying right side).
• ▸Rumination, Sul.
• ▸(Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸is while walking).

• ▸Nervous restlessness, Zn.
• ▸> Motion, Rhus.
• ▸Heart symptoms > by motion, Gels.
• ▸Lips chapped and

• ▸serrated, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸< After coitus, Kal.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Bro.
• ▸Enlarged liver of children, Calc.
• ▸ars.
• ▸Sensitiveness

• ▸to noise, Ign.
• ▸, Nux, Ther.
• ▸Eructations tasting like onions (Sinap.
• ▸, breath smells of onions).

• ▸Leucorrhoea two weeks after menses, Bar.
• ▸, Bov.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸Menstrual headache, Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸(Mag.
• ▸m.

more hysteria).

Compare: Ephedra-Teamsters Tea--(in exophthalmic goitre; eyes feel pushed out with tumultuous action of heart); Fucus; Spartein; Crataegus. Adrenaline 6x.

First to thirtieth potency.