Mind

He has very often aversion to company, and yet he dreads solitude.

"Dread of men and dread of solitude; irritability and melancholy."

When lying in bed suffering from the lower forms of fevers, there is delirium and even un consciousness. 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.

"Distrustful, suspicious and fault finding."

"Oversensitive to pain; patient is beside himself."

Mind.─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.─Avaricious.─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.

Lycopodium Clavatum.

Wolf's Foot; Club Moss (Lycopodiaceae)

For persons intellectually keen, but physically weak; upper part of body emaciated, lower part semi-dropsical; predisposed to lung and hepatic affections (Cal., Phos., Sulph.); especially the

extremes of life, children and old people . Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Pains: aching-pressure, drawing; chiefly right
sided, < four to eight P.M. Affects right side, or pain goes from right to left; throat, chest, abdomen, liver, ovaries. Children, weak, emaciated;
with well-developed head but puny, sickly bodies. Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (rev. of, Jal., Psor.). Ailments from fright, anger, mortification(Mortification
definition is - a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self-respect) or vexation with reserved displeasure (Staph.). Avaricious=greedy, miserly,

malicious, pusillanimous(timid). Irritable; peevish and cross on walking; ugly, kick and scream, Head
strong and haughty when sick. easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks
disputes; is beside himself. Weeps all day, cannot calm herself; very sensitive, even cries when thanked. Dread of men; of solitude,
irritable and melancholy; fear of being alone (Bis., Kali c., Lil.). Catarrh: dry, nose stopped at night, must breathe through the mouth (Am. c., Nux,

Samb.); snuffles, child starts from sleep rubbing its nose; of root of nose and frontal sinuses; crusts and elastic plugs (Kali bi., Marum).
Diphtheria; fauces brownish red, deposit spreads from right tonsil to left, or descends from nose to
right tonsil; < after sleep and from cold drinks (from warm drinks, Lach.). Everything tastes sour;
eructations, heartburn, waterbrash, sour vomiting (between chill and heat). Canine hunger; the more he eats, the more
he craves; head aches if does not eat. Gastric affections; excessive accumulation of flatulence; constant sensation of satiety; good appetite, but a few mouthfuls fill
up to the throat, and he feels bloated; fermentation in abdomen, with loud grumbling, croaking, especially lower abdomen (upper abdomen, Carbo v. - entire
abdomen, Cinch.); fulness not relieved by belching (Cinch.). Constipation: since puberty; since last confinement; when away
from home; of infants; with ineffectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes during stool, developing
piles. Red sand in urine, on child's diaper (Phos.); child cries before urinating (Bor.); pain in back, relieved by urinating; renal colic, right side (left side, Berb.).
Impotence: of young men, from onanism or sexual excess; penis small, cold, relaxed; old men, with
strong desire but imperfect erections; falls asleep during embrace; premature emissions. Dryness of
vagina; burning in, during and after coition (Lys.); physometra. Discharge of blood from genitals during
every stool. Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. Hernia: right sided, has cured many cases especially in children.
Pneumonia; neglected or maltreated, base of right lung involved especially; to hasten absorption or
expectoration. Cough deep, hollow, even raising mucus in large quantities affords little relief. One foot
hot and the other cold (Cinch., Dig., Ipec.). Waking at night feeling hungry (Cina., Psor.).

Relations. - Complementary: Iodine. Bad effects: of onions, bread; wine, spiritous liquors; tabacco
smoking and chewing (Ars.). Follows well: after, Calc., Carbo v., Lach., Sulph. It is rarely advisable to
begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lyc. unless it is clearly indicated; it is better to give first
another antipsoric. Lyc. is a deep-seated, long-acting remedy, and should rarely be repeated after
improvement begins.

Aggravation. - Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 p. m. (Hell. - from 4 to 9 p. m., Col., Mag. p.).

Amelioration. - Warm food and drinks; from uncovering the head; loosening the garments.

BOERICKE, M.D.

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM

Club Moss

(LYCOPODIUM)

This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful medicinal properties are only disclosed by
trituration and succussion.

In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance
will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogle's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithćmic. Lycopodium is adapted more especially to ailments
gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic
constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children. Symptoms characteristically run

from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm. In kidney affections, red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse
before urination. Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm. Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power.
Emaciation. Debility in morning. Pre-senility Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold
extremities.Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Marked regulating influence upon the
glandular (sebaceous) secretions.. Ascites, in liver disease. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to
noise and odors.

Mind.--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 read what he writes. Sadness in the
morning on waking Cannot bear to see anything new. .

Head.-- 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.
Face.--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.

Eyes.--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.

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

Nose.--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).

Mouth.--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.

Throat.--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.

Stomach.--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.

Abdomen.--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.

Stool.--Diarrhśa. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete.
Hćmorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).
Urine.--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).

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

Female.--Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. Vagina dry. Coition painful. Right ovarian pain.
Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhśa, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from genitals
during stool.

Respiratory.--Tickling cough. Dyspnśa. 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 dyspnśa, flaying of alć nasć and presence of mucous rales.

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

Back.--Burning between scapulć as of hot coals. Pain in small of back.

Extremities.--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.

Fever.--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).

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

Skin.--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, nćvi, 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.

Modalities.--Worse, right side, from right to left, from above downward, 4 to 8 pm; from heat or warm
room, hot air, bed. Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks.
Better, by motion, after midnight, from warm food and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered.

Relationship.--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.

Dose.--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

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 to, necrosis,
abscesses, spreading ulcers and great emaciation.

Generalities: There is a predominance of symptoms on the right side of the body, and they are likely to travel
from right to left or from above downward, e. g., from head 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 warmth of the bed and from heat, and worse from getting heated by exertion.

The patient is sensitive to cold and there is a marked lack of vital heat, and worse in general from cold and cold air
and from cold food and drinks. The pains are ameliorated from warmth except of the head and spine.

Exertion aggravates the Lycopodium patient in general. He 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 are often relieved by warm 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 the patient is better from the warmth of
the 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 complaints of Lyc. are likely to be worse at a fixed time, viz., from four till eight o'clock in the evening. An exacerbation comes on in the acute complaints 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.

Stomach: The Lycopodium patient is flatulent, distended like a drum, so that he can hardly breathe. The
diaphragm 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 eat 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 Natr. mur.

These general conditions go through all complaints, acute and chronic. There is an excitable stage of the whole
sensorium 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 Thuya 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.

Skin: The skin ulcerates. There are painful ulcer, sloughing ulcers beneath the skin, abscesses beneath the skin,
cellular troubles. The chronic ulcerations are indolent with false granulations, painful, burning, stinging and
smarting, often 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 the 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 either in nodules or in long and irregular stripes, especially in the heat, and itch violently. Lyc.
has eruptions upon the skin, with violent itching. Vesicles and scaly eruptions, moist eruptions and dry eruptions,
furfuraceous 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 will 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, offensive, green pus. Chancres and cancroids often find their similimum 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.

Mind: 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 something. 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 public, 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 delays until he is obliged to appear, because he has a fear that he will stumble that he will make mistakes, that he will forget,
and yet when he undertakes it he goes through with ease and comfort. This is a striking 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, hence we see that the Lyc. patient is a very nervous, sensitive, emotional patient. Here it is:

"Sensitive, even cries when thanked."

When lying in bed suffering from the lower forms of fevers, there is delirium and even un consciousness. 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 may 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.

See 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.

"Apprehensiveness, 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."

Head: Lyc. is subject to periodical headaches, and headaches connected with gastric troubles. If he 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 time. 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 headache 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 which 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 does and the fact that they are
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 quality of the pain that the patient feels, but if he describes the quality of the
pain it is spoken of as a throbbing, pressing, bursting or as a fullness.

Upon the scalp we find eruptions in patches, smooth patches with the hair off. Patches on the face and
eczematous eruptions behind the ears, bleeding and oozing a watery fluid, sometimes yellowish watery.

The eczema spreads from behind the ears up over the ears and to the scalp. Lyc is a very important remedy to
study in eczema of the infant.

Eczema in a lean, hungry, withering child with more or, less head trouble, such as has been described, with a
moist oozing behind the cars, red sand in the urine, face looking wrinkled, a dry teasing cough, in a child that
kicks the covers of a child whose left foot is cold and the 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 of
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 by 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.

Ears: 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 fever, 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 cars and behind the ears.

Nose: 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 cruse, 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 shriveling 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 through the nose at night, as crusts form in all portions of the mucous membranes. Crusty
nostrils with eczema, with oozing eruptions about the face and nose. The mucous discharge is almost as thick and
tenacious as in Kalium bichromicum.

Face: The face is sallow, sickly, pale, often withered, shriveled and emaciated.

In deep-seated chest troubles, bronchitis or pneumonia, where the chest is filled up with mucus, it will be seen
that the face and forehead are wrinkled from pain, and that the wings of the nose flap with the effort to breathe.

This occurs with all forms of dyspnoea. We see something like it in Ant. tart., the sooty nostrils being wide open
and flapping. In Ant. tart. the rattling of the mucus is heard across the room and the patient is seen to be in
distress, but if you see the patient lying in bed with the nose flapping and the forehead wrinkled, with rattling in
the chest, or a dry, hacking cough and no expectoration, you will often find the particulars of the examination
confirm your mind that it is a case for Lyc.

In that exsudative stage of pneumonia, the stage of hepatization, Lyc. may save the life of that patient. It is closely
related in the period of hepatization to Phos. and Sulph.

The Sulph. patient is cold; there is no tendency to reaction; he feels the load in the chest, and examination of the
chest shows that hepatization is marked. He wants to lie still and is evidently about to die. Sulphur will help him.

It does not have the flapping of the nose, nor the wrinkles upon the forehead, like Lyc. In the brain complaints of
Stramonium, the forehead wrinkles, and in the chest complaints of Lyc. the forehead wrinkles, and their wrinkles
are somewhat alike. You go to a semi-conscious patient suffering from cerebral congestion and watch him; he is
wild, the eyes are glassy, the forehead wrinkled and the tendency is to activity of the mind.
That is not Lyc. but Stram. By close observation these practical things will lead you to distinguish, almost
instantaneously, between Stramonium in its head troubles, and Lyc. in the advanced stage of pneumonia.

The face is often covered with copper-colored eruptions, such as we find in syphilis, and hence it is that Lyc. is
sometimes useful in old cases of syphilis, cases which have affected the nose, with necrosis or caries of the nasal
bones, and the catarrhal symptoms already described. About the face also there is much twitching.

You will see by the study of the face that his face conforms to his sensations. lie is an oversensitive patient and at
every jar or noise, such as the slamming of a door, or the ringing of a bell, he wrinkles his face. He is disturbed,
and you see it expressed upon his countenance. He has a sickly wrinkled countenance, with contracted eyebrows
in complaints of the abdomen as well as in chest complaints.

We also see that the jaw drops as in Opium and Muriaticum acid. This occurs in a state marked by great
exhaustion and indicates a fatal tendency, It is especially marked in typhoid when the patient picks at the bed
clothes, slides down in bed, wants almost nothing, and can hardly be aroused.

It is the expression of the last stage of the disease, a low type of fever, typhoids, septic and zymotic diseases.
Under the jaw there is often glandular swelling, swelling of the parotid and submaxillary glands. The swelling is
sometimes cellular and the neck muscles are involved. The tendency is to suppuration of these glands, and
swellings about the neck in scarlet fever and diphtheria.

Throat: The next important feature we notice are the throat symptoms.

It was mentioned when going over the general state that the striking feature of Lyc. in regard to direction is that its
symptoms seem to spread from right to left; we notice that the right foot is cold and the left is warm; the right knee
is affected; if the pains are movable they go from right to left.

Most complaints seem to travel from right to left, or to affect the right side more than the left. This is also true of
sore throats; a quinsy affecting the right side will run its course, and when about finished the left tonsil will
become inflamed and suppurate if the appropriate remedy be not administered.

The common sore throat mill commence on the right side, the next day both sides will be affected, the
inflammation having extended to the left side. This remedy has all kinds of pains in the throat and fauces. It is
useful in cases of diphtheria when the membrane commences on the right side of the throat and spreads over
towards the left.

Patches, will be seen one day on the right side and the next day on the left side. We have noticed also that
complaints in Lyc. spread from above down, so it is with these exudations.

They often commence in the upper part of the pharynx and spread down into the throat. Lyc. has cured many such
cases. It is the case sometimes that Lyc. is better lay holding cold water in the mouth, but the usual Lyc. sore
throat is better from swallowing warm drinks. It is a feature whereby it is possible to distinguish Lachesis from
Lycopodium. Lachesis is better from cold and has spasms of the throat from attempting to drink warm drinks,
while Lyc. is better from warm drinks, though sometimes better from cold drinks. Lyc. does not sleep into the
suffocation and constriction of the throat and dyspnoea as in Lach. The throat is extremely painful, it has all the
violence of the worst cases of diphtheria. It has the zymosis.

Stomach and abdomen: The stomach and abdominal symptoms are intermingled.

There is a sense of satiety, an entire lack of appetite. He feels so full that he cannot eat. This sense of fullness may
not come on until he has swallowed a mouthful of food; he goes to the table hungry, but the first mouthful fills him
up. After eating he is distended with flatus, and gets momentary relief from belching, yet he remains distended.
Nausea and vomiting; gnawing pains in stomach as in gastritis; catarrh 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.

Lyc. patients are always belching; 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 fullness.

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 feeble 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 hemorrhoids, but they are nondescript. Any kind of hemorrhoids may be
cured by Lyc. if the flatulence, the stomach symptoms, the mental symptoms, and the general symptoms of Lyc.
are present, because the hoemorrhoidal symptoms are numerous.

Kidneys: 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 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 impotency.

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

Lyc. has inflammation of the mucous membrane of the urethra, with a gonorrheal 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."

Female sexual organs: It is a great friend of the woman 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 painful. 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 function.

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 very
much like Calc. Phos.

"Discharge of flatus from the vagina."

"Varices of the genitals."

Chest: 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 time 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, because there is so much congestion in the head.

This 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 which there is ulceration, with copious expectoration of thick yellow or green muco-pus, tough and
stringy. Finally night sweats, with fever in the afternoon from 4 to 8 o'clock, come on. Its use in the 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 wings of the nose and inability to expectorate.

The right lung is most affected, or more likely to be affected than the left, or it is affected first in double pneumonia
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 thinks of going to sleep and this prevents sleep until
midnight.

Much like Arsenicum. It 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 are
cured by this remedy. Sciatica that comes on periodically, better by beat and walking. Varicose veins of the legs.
One foot hot the other cold. Oedema of the feet.

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 come out strongest when potentized and form medicines of wonderful use.

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Characteristics.─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 (1) 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 homœopathists 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 homœopathy, 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 diarrhœa 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.

The Lyc. keynotes are very pronounced, (1) < 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
accurate 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 Sil., another great headache medicine: in Sil. 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 alæ 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 (H.
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 alæ 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 alæ 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.
Dyspnœa. 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 (intestines)(also as with
Bell.). (8) Restlessness > by motion. (9) Right foot hot, left foot cold. (10) Burning pains > by heat; burning
like hot coals between scapulæ. Burning stinging in breasts. (11) 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 mouthful of food is swallowed there is distension and
fullness 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 Iod. 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 the 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. Ill-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 fœtal 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
mucus-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 nævus 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 a 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 (Ind. 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
diarrhœa set in. Apocy. 6x removed the diarrhœa, 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.
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 œsophagus 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 scapulæ. 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.
1m. 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 Bell. 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.]