Materia Medica de A a Z

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM (lyc)

Region

NUTRITION (DIGESTIVE TRACT. Portal system. Skin). URINARY ORGANS. RIGHT SIDE to left (THROAT. Chest. Ovary). Brain. Lungs.

Worse

PRESSURE OF CLOTHES. WARMTH. Awaking. Wind. Eating; to satiety; oysters. Indigestion. 4-8 P.M.

Better

WARM DRINKS, food, etc. Cold applications. Motion. Eructations. Urinating.

General

Weak from digestive disturbances. Repeating or alternating symptoms; flexion, then extension; automatic acts; flushing, then paling, chill after chill, etc. Progressive affections. Relapses. Sudden symptoms. Throbbing. Pains cause anger, jerking, etc. ACIDITY; sour taste, eructations, vomitus, etc. Calculi; gall-stones, gravel, tophi. Gout. Thin, withered and FULL OF GAS. Poor circulation; it seems to stand still; limbs feel dead; numb spots. Descending symptoms; emaciation, etc. Early senility. Dropsy..................... Confused over daily affairs. Mentally active, but grows weaker. Can't think. Miscalls or omits words, etc. Paralysis of brain. AWAKES ANGRY, sad or anxious. Sensitive and fearsome. Averse to being alone. Hateful, cranky, domineering, exacting, reserved or despairing. Headache; pain goes to other side, where it is worse; pulsating in occiput at night; agg. if hot. Hair falls; comes in gray. Dandruff. Eyes half open. Hemiopia. Sees sparks. FANNING OF WINGS OF NOSE. Nose stuffy; dry posteriorly. Acrid ozona. Face yellowish; pale, gray; wrinkled forehead; frowning; twitching. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis; tubercular. Mouth hangs open (Merc-c, Mur-ac). Sore lips. Yellow teeth. Tongue; puts it in and out rapidly; trembling; swelled; heavy; lolling; stiff; cracked; painful vesicle on tip. A ball rises and sticks in throat. Sorethroat (r); agg. cold drinks. Diphtheria. Hunger, but quick satiety; A LITTLE FOOD OVERFILLS. Averse to soups. Incomplete eructations. Epigastric anxiety, pressure, etc. Gnawing in stomach. As of a band about waist. Sensitive, congested liver. MUCH, NOISY FLATULENCE, agg. lower bowels. Meteorism. Flatulence, pressing out. Abdomen; sore, agg. lower; alternating sides; brown spots on and on chest. Colicky babies, agg. in evening. Stool, most seems to remain, after; contains sand. Alternate diarrhoa and constipation. Piles, amel. hot bathing. Frequent urging to urinate, amel. riding in cars, etc. Acrid urine. Urine scanty; cries before urinating; red sand in; suppressed. Sexual exhaustion. Pollutions. Violent dysmenorrhoa, with fainting. Menses of clots and serum; agg. stool. Acrid or periodical leucorrhoa. Painful coitus. Gas from vagina. Craves air, but is chilled by it. Short, rattling breathing. Salty, green-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration. Unresolved pneumonia. Dry, teasing cough, with emaciation. Mammæ, achy; sore; nodes in (l). Axillary abscess (r). Bubbling at scapulæ. Stiff back. Hands numb; cramps in, and in feet. Fingers twitch during sleep; sticky sweat on. Pains jerk legs upward. As of a stone under heel. Feet asleep, agg. heels; acrid sweat on. DRYNESS; palms, vagina, skin, etc. Rawness in folds, nipples, anus, etc. Suppurating eruptions. Receding boils, erysipelas, etc. Vascular swellings. Erectile tumors; agg. before menses. Aneurism. Rapid pulse, agg. eating; evening. Coldness; icy; head, throat, stomach; of one foot; agg. coughing. Chill, then vomits; after first sleep. Burning, between scapulæ. Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions.

Complementary: (Calc), Iod, Kali-c, Lach.

Related: Carb-v, Sil.

Follows: Chel or Graph.