Materia Medica de A a Z

LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA (lept)

Region

Liver. Right side.

Worse

Cold drinks. Motion. Periodically.

Better

Lying on stomach or side.

General

Hepato-hæmorrhagic diathesis. Burnings; in hepatic region..................... Hopeless, weak and drowsy. Craves iced drinks. Bilious vomitus. Sore or dull bursting ache over gall-bladder, or liver, down over bowels to navel or toward left scapula, or along spine. Liver swelled transversely. Acute liver conditions. Gall-stones. Muddy, watery, morning stool. STOOLS TARRY OR BLACK, FOUL; stringy, waxy; spurting; with pain at navel. Dysentery; after diarrhoa. Prolapsing piles; with hæmorrhage (Lach). Leucorrhoa; warm, watery; runs down limbs. Pain in (l) sciatic nerve on sitting. Nails very thin; soft and splitting. Jaundice.

Complementary: Phos.

Related: Bap. (Bapt), (Card-m), Chio. (Chion).