Lycopodium Clavatum lyc.

Unconscious.
Weak memory; confused thoughts; mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words in writing.
Uses the wrong words for correct ideas.
Absent-minded, thinks he is in two places at the same time.
Dread of men wants to be alone; also in children; or, dread of solitude, with irritability and melancholy.
Imperious manner; scolds; commands.
Weeps all day, cannot calm herself.
Sad, or cheerful and merry.
Loss of confidence in his own vigor.
Doubts about one's salvation.
Anxious as if about to die; even prepares final messages.
Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed.
Indifferent, taciturn.
Sensitive, even cries when thanked.
Vehement, angry, headstrong.
After a fright, liver complaints.

Vertigo when drinking.
Stupefying headache, with heat in the temples and of the ears; mouth and lips dry worse from 4 to 8 P.M., when rising up or on lying down.
Impending cerebral paralysis; somnolence, staring eyes; dropped jaw.

Stitches in the temples, mostly the right, from within outward.
Pain in temples, as if screwed together; worse during menses.
Pressing headache on the vertex; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., and from stooping; followed by great weakness.
Tearing in the forehead or right side of the head, extending down to the neck with tearing in the face, eyes and teeth; worse on raising one's self, better on lying down.
Tension in the head.
Headache after breakfast.
Headache worse from warmth of bed, getting warm while walking and from mental exertion; better from the open, cold air, and uncovering the head.

Eruption, beginning on the back of the head; crusts thick, easily bleeding oozing a fetid moisture; worse after scratching, and from warmth.
Pityriasis in spots on the scalp.
Hair falls off after abdominal diseases; after parturition; with burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise during the day.
Hair becomes grey early.

Sparks before the eyes in the dark.
Photophobia.
Night blindness, with black spots before the eyes.
Sees only the left half of an object distinctly.
Arrested cataract (with chronic dyspepsia).
Eyes hot, dim, wide open fixed and insensible to light.
Obscuration of sight, as from feathers before the eyes.
Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw flesh; copious discharge of pus; lids puffed out by the pus.
Stitches and soreness in eyes evening when looking at light.
Eyes inflamed, canthi itch, lids red and swollen; troublesome pain if they get dry.
Granular eyelids, dry, with smarting.
Pustules and styes on the lids, more towards inner canthi.
Much mucus in the eyes, with smarting pain.

Oversensitiveness of hearing.
Roaring, humming and whizzing in the ears; hardness of hearing.
Otorrhœa purulent, ichorous; after scarlatina; with impaired hearing.
Sensation as if hot blood rushed into the ears.
Polypus of the ears.
Humid, suppurating scurfs on and behind the ears.

Oversensitiveness of smell.
Nose stopped up, especially at the root; breathes with open mouth and protruding tongue. θ Diphtheria.
Snuffles, child starts out of sleep rubbing its nose.
Catarrh of nose and frontal sinuses; discharge yellow and thick; frontal headache, yellow complexion.
Violent coryza, nose swollen; discharge acrid, excoriating; posterior nares dry.
The ichorous discharge from nose begins in right nostril. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria.
Scurf in the nose.
Fan-like motion of the alæ nasi.

Silly expression. See 11.
Copper-colored eruptions of the forehead.
Face: pale, with circumscribed red cheeks; early, yellow, with deep furrows, blue circles around eyes, blue lips.
Flushes of heat in the face.
Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles.
Œdema of the face.
Eruption of the face, humid suppurating.
Freckles.

Lower jaw hangs down, especially during sleep; or with stupor in exhausting fevers.
Eruption around the mouth; corners of the mouth sore.
Swelling of lower lip.
Swelling of submaxillary glands.
Large ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower lip.

Teeth excessively painful to touch; front teeth loose or as if too long.
Teeth yellow.
Toothache, with swelling of the cheek; relieved by the heat of the bed and warm applications.
Gums bleed violently when touched.
Gum-boils.
Fistula dentalis.

Taste: sour; bitter; fatty.
Tongue is darted out and oscillates to and fro. θ Angina. θ Tonsillitis.
Convulsions of the tongue.
Tongue: heavy, trembling; stiff with indistinct speech and dryness, mornings; red, dry; becomes black and cracked; painful and swollen in places; tubercles.
Tongue distended, giving patient a silly expression. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.
Vesicles on the tip of the tongue, feeling scalded and raw.
Ulcers on and under the tongue.

Mouth and tongue dry, without thirst; mouth dry and bitter, in the morning.
Putrid smell from mouth, especially in morning when awaking.
Saliva dries on palate and lips, becoming tough.
Saliva tastes saltish.

Pain and soreness begin on right side of throat. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.
Fauces brownish-red; diphtheritic patches spreading from right tonsil to left, or descending from the nose; worse from cold drinks and after sleep.
Swelling and suppuration of tonsils, going from right to left.
Chronic enlargement of the tonsils.
Hawking of bloody mucus, or of hard, greenish-yellow phlegm; feeling as of a hard body in the œsophagus.
Pharynx feels contracted nothing can be swallowed.

Desire for: sweets; oysters, which disagree.
Aversion to: coffee; tobacco smoke; boiled, warm food; bread (rye); meat.
Canine hunger; the more he eats, the more he craves; head aches if he dose not eat.
Hunger, but a few mouthfuls fill him up; constant feeling of satiety.
Thirst with disgust for drink; at night drinks little but often.
Want of thirst.

After eating: sudden repletion; irresistible drowsiness; followed by weariness; pressure and tension in the liver; especially after satisfying one's appetite; constantly spitting food; palpitation of heart.
Eating or drinking: 16, 27. Eating: 29. Drinking: 2. Warm drink: 13. Cold drink: 16.
Aggravation by cold drinks (except water in some cases). θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.

Everything tastes sour; sour eructations.
Frequent belching without relief.
Heart-burn, water-brash.
Hiccough.
Nausea: in pharynx and stomach; morning's fasting; in the room, passing off in open air; in the morning and when riding in a carriage; after cold, not after warm drinks (in chills).
Vomits: food and bile; coagulated blood; sour substances; dark greenish masses after eating or drinking.

Pressure in scrobiculum.
Sensation of twisting, crawling an emptiness in the stomach with yawning.
Fulness in stomach and bowels; pit of stomach sensitive to contact or tight clothing.
Gnawing, griping in the region of the stomach.
Perforating ulcer; worse sitting bent, better walking about and when warm in bed.

Region of the liver sensitive to contact; sore aching as if from a shock.
Backache: 31.
Tension in region of liver.
Tensive aching, worse bending body or pressure of hand.
Nutmeg liver and atrophic form.
Hepatitis chronic forms; abscesses; fan-like motion of the alæ nasi; one hot, one cold foot.
Violent gall-stone colic.
Tension in the hypochondria as from a hoop.
Tension as from a cord marking the diaphragmatic attachments; cannot stretch or stand upright.
Rumbling of wind in the splenic flexure of the colon.

Sensation of something moving up and down in stomach and bowels.
Pressure on hypochondrium causes pains in epigastrium and vice versa; chronic duodenitis.
Spasmodic contraction in the abdomen.
Colicky pains in the right side of the abdomen extending into the bladder with frequent urging to urinate.
When turning on to the right side, a hard body seems to roll from the navel to that side. θ Ascites.
Peritonitis with hepatitis and diaphragmitis.
Ascites from liver affections, after abuse of alcohol.
Abdomen distended; feet cold; indurations.
Accumulation of flatulence, which becomes incarcerated; pressure upward, with full feeling also downward on the rectum and bladder.
Great fermentation in the abdomen; rumbling, croaking, rattling; also with colic and discharge of much flatus.
Brown spots on the abdomen.
Hernia (right side); crural hernia, females.
Renal colic in (right) ureter to bladder; red sand in urine.
Skin of the abdomen is painfully sensitive.

Stools: pale, putrid; thin, brown mixed with hard lumps; thin, yellow or reddish-yellow fluid.
Constipation: stools hard; ineffectual urging from a contraction of the sphincter ani; after stool, feeling as if much remained unpassed, or great distress in the rectum; much flatulence.
Stitches in the rectum.
Itching and tension at the anus (in the evening in bed).
Continued burning pain in the rectum.
Varices protrude; painful when sitting.
Discharge of blood, even with soft stool.
Itching eruption at the anus, painful to touch.

Severe backache, relieved by passing urine.
Bearing down over the bladder, frequent desire to urinate; pains worse lying down, especially at night; better from horseback riding.
Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive, purulent sediment; dull pressing in region of bladder and abdomen, disposition to calculi. θ Cystitis.
Urging to urinate, must wait long before it will pass.
Incontinence of urine.
No urine secreted.
Urine: scanty, dark red, albuminous with strangury; deposits a red, sandy sediment, frequent and copious at night, scanty by day; pale.
Hæmaturia, from gravel or chronic catarrh.
Stitches in the neck of the bladder and anus at the same time.
Before passing water, the child screams with pain; red sand on the diaper.
Jerking, cutting in the urethra after urinating.

Impotence: penis small, cold and relaxed; also from poisoning with chlorine; after onanism.
Erections feeble; during an embrace falls asleep.
Excessive and exhausting pollutions.
Soreness between the scrotum and thigh.
Itching of inner surface of the prepuce; yellowish tumor behind the corona glandis.

Nymphomania.
Cutting across the hypogastrium right to left; ovaries diseased, right to left; ovarian tumors, ovarian dropsy.
Sensation of pressure through the vagina when stooping.
Physometra; wind discharged from the vagina.
Dropsy of the uterus.
Menses profuse, protracted; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum with labor-like pains, followed by swooning.
Before the menses, sad, chilly, abdomen bloated.
Menses suppressed, also from fright -delay of first menses.
Leucorrhœa: in starts milky; blood-red worse before the full moon; corroding.
Increased discharge of blood from the genitals during every passages of hard or soft stool.
Vagina dry; burning in vagina during and after coition.
Occasional sharp pains running around the labia.
Varices of the genitals.
Erectile tumors.
Polypi.
Dry pediculated, painless condylomata.
Inflammation of the external genitals.

Disposition to miscarriage; moles.
During the labor-pains she must keep in constant motion; with weeping; labor-pains run upward.
Nipples sore, fissured, or covered with scurf; bleed easily; stitches and burning.
Hard, burning nodosities in mammæ; with stitching pains.

Hoarseness; feeble husky voice, dryness in the windpipe.
Hoarseness remaining after croup; loose cough by day, suffocating spells at night.

Short, in children, worse during sleep and from every exertion.
Oppression of breathing, worse walking in the open air, with weakness.
Dyspnœa, worse when lying on back.
Whizzing breathing in the daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in the chest; loud rattling.

Dry, day and night, with painfulness of the region of the head and stomach; from irritation in the trachea, as from fumes of sulphur.
Sputa are: thick, yellow, purulent; greyish-yellow or dirty; fetid pus or mucus streaked with blood; green in the morning; tasting salt.
Cough worse; from 4 to 8 P.M., on alternate days, from exertion stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on the (left) side, from eating and drinking cold things; in the wind warm room.

Continuous pressure on the chest; raw feeling internally; tearing under clavicles, tension.
Catarrh on the chest, of infants; rattling on the chest, which seems full of mucus.
Pneumonia, with raising of mouthfuls of mucus at a time of a light rust color, stringy and easily separated.
Neglected pneumonia; especially with continuing hepatization and purulent sputum.
Typhoid pneumonia.
Stitches in the left chest, also during inspirations.
Paralysis of the lungs.
Hydrothorax.

Hydropericardium.
Trembling, palpitations; pulsating-tearing in region of heart.
Pulse unaltered; accelerated only after eating or in evening.
Sensation as if the circulation stood still; or, ebullitions of blood.
Acceleration of the pulse with cold face and feet.

Brownish-yellow spots on the chest.

One side of the neck stiff and swollen.
Large clusters of red pimples around the neck with violent itching; cervical glands swollen.
Burning as from hot coals between the scapulæ.
Pain and stiffness in the small of the back (at night).
Stitches in the small of the back, especially when rising from stooping.
Pain in small of back as if it would break; with hard stool and colic as if intestines would burst.
Pain in the small of the back, extending into the thighs.
Pain in back and right side from congestion of liver: 18.
Pain in sacral region, worse rising from a seat.

Axillary glands swollen; fetid sweat in the axillæ.
Rheumatic tension in the right shoulder-joints.
Tearing pains in the shoulder and elbow-joints during rest, not in motion; tearing from neck to elbow; also in whole arm; in hands only while in bed.
Pains in the bones of the arms at night.
Weakness of the arms when at work; and conversely they feel powerless, yet he can work: 36.
Arms and fingers go to sleep easily.
Twitching in the arms, and shoulders.
Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint.
Great dryness of the hands, especially of the palms.
Panaritium; with gastric affections.

Rheumatic tensions in left hip.
Coxalgia, with violent jerks of the limbs; child awakens cross or with a scream.
Knee: swollen and stiff; swollen, with sweating; white swelling.
Pain as from contraction in the calves when walking (cramp), cramp in the toes.
Oozing of water from sore places in œdematous legs. θ Ascites.
Old ulcers on legs, with nightly tearing, burning and itching.
Varicose veins on the legs.
Œdema of feet; also when œdema rises till ascites form.
Swelling of the soles; they pain when walking.
Profuse, fetid foot-sweat; with burning of the soles.
One foot hot, the other cold, or cold, sweaty feet.
Feet feel as if dead or asleep.
Stitches in the big toe of the right foot (in the evening).

Drawing, tearing in limbs at night and on alternate days; worse at rest; muscles and joints rigid, painful, with numbness; finger-joints inflamed; also with arthritic nodes; swelling of the dorsa of feet; rheumatism; worse in wet weather; better in warmth.
Fissure on the hands; also on the heels.

Motion: 24, 32. Walking: 3, 17, 26, 33. Exertion: 26, 27. Exercise: 4. Stretching: 18, 27. Rising: 2, 3, 31. Rest: 32, 34. Lying: 2, 3, 21, 27; on left side: 27. Sitting: 20; bent: 17. Stooping: 3, 23, 27. Standing upright: 18. In bed: 32.
While at rest debility is mostly felt, yet averse to exercise.
Worse on beginning to walk (stiffness); better continuing to walk; child wants to be carried.

Formication of affected limbs.
Pain drawing, tearing, worse at night; muscles and joints rigid; sensation of torpor in affected part.
Involuntary alternate extension and contraction of muscles.
Spasms, with screaming, foaming at the mouth, unconsciousness; throwing the arms about; cardiac anguish; imagines he will die.
Causes depression of nearly all functions.
Great emaciation and internal debility.
Paralysis.

Sleepy during day, wakeful at night, mind too active.
Comatose state; often with fever and exanthemata.
Child sleeps with half open eyes and throws its head from side to side, with moaning.
Soporous in typhoid and exanthematous fevers; impending paralysis of the brain.
Sleep restless; at ease in no position; cries out, starts, has anxious dreams; jerks of the limbs.
Sleep uneasy; wakes often, quite awake at 4 A.M.; anxious, awakes often and cannot soon sleep again.
On awaking: cross, kicks, scolds; or awakes terrified, as if dreaming; feels unrefreshed; hungry when awaking at night.

Morning: 1, 11, 12, 16, 27. From 4 to 8 P.M.: generally worse, afterward better, except the debility; also 2, 3, 27, 40. Evening: 5, 20, 29, 33, 40. Night: 5, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 44, 46. Day: 1, 25, 26, 27, 37, 46.

Generally inclination for the open air.
Warmth: 3, 4, 10, 17, 27, 34. Open air: 3, 26. Uncovering: 3. Wind: 27. Wet weather: 34.
Cold drinks: 13.
Aggravation from moistening the diseased parts.

Chill from 4 to 8 P.M., with numb hands and feet, icy-cold at 7 P.M.; feels as if lying on ice; on awaking from a dreamy sleep, covered with sweat; afterward violent thirst; one sided (left); chilly all over at 9 P.M. even heat of stove won't warm.
Nausea and vomiting then chill, followed by sweat without intervening heat; or sour vomiting between chill and heat; chill followed by bloated face and hands.
Flushes of heat over the whole body, mostly toward evening; with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time; constipation and increased micturition.
Heat, with red cheeks, alternating with chilliness; hectic fever (with suppuration of the lungs).
Heat, with inclination to uncover.
Sweat: from the least exertion; cold, sour, bloody, or offensive smelling like onions; clammy at night, often with coldness of the face.
Old, broken-down cases of malaria; chill; sweat greasy.
Typhus: with stupefaction; murmuring, delirium, subsultus tendinum; meteorism; constipation.

Faintish, at certain hours in the day; worse every fourth day (pain from hip to foot).
Full moon: 23. Alternate days: 27, 34. Worse in the spring.

Right: 3, 7, 19, 32, 33. Left: 5, 18, 28, 33.
Right to left: throat, chest, abdominal and ovarian symptoms.
Within outward: 3. Above downward: 3, 13, 19, 31. Below upward: 24.

Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids; upper parts wasted; lower limbs swollen. θ Ascites.
Glandular swellings.
Bones inflamed, mostly the ends; nocturnal bone pains.
Sensation as if void of marrow.
Softening; caries.

The whole body feels bruised.
Touch: 10, 17, 18, 20, 46. Pressure: 17, 18. Scratching: 4. Riding: 16, 21.
Soft parts feel painful to touch or pressure.

Skin dry and hot, especially that of the hands.
Biting-itching when becoming warm through the day.
Dark red blotches here and there.
Flesh in ridges, as if struck with a stick.
Urticaria, chronic cases.
Eruptions: humid suppurating; full of deep rhagades; breeding lice; itching violently; intertrigo raw places readily bleeding.
Vascular tumours.
Nævus maternus.
Blood-boils.
Boils which do not mature, but remain blue.
Ulcers: bleed and burn when dressed; tearing and itching at night, burning when touched, fistulous, with hard, red, shining, everted edges and inflammatory swelling of the affected parts; bleeding easily.

Often in old women; also persons of keen intellect, but of feeble muscular development; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic affections.

Complementary to Iodum.
Lycop. follows well after Calcar. or Laches.
After Lycop. are frequently indicated: Graphites, Lachesis, Ledum, Phosphor., Silic.
It is rarely advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lyco.; it is better to give first another antipsoric remedy.
Lycop antidotes Cinchon.
Antidotes to Lycop., Acon., Camphor., Caustic., Chamom., Graphit., Pulsat., also Coffee.