Lycopodium Clavatum lyc.

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

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

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

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; < if hot. Hair falls; comes in gray. Dandruff. Eyes half open. Hemiopia. Sees sparks. FANNING OF WINGS OF NOSE. Nose stuffy; dry posteriorly. Acrid ozœna. 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); < 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, < lower bowels. Meteorism. Flatulence, pressing out. Abdomen; sore, < lower; alternating sides; brown spots on and on chest. Colicky babies, < in evening. Stool, most seems to remain, after; contains sand. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Piles, > hot bathing. Frequent urging to urinate, > riding in cars, etc. Acrid urine. Urine scanty; cries before urinating; red sand in; suppressed. Sexual exhaustion. Pollutions. Violent dysmenorrhœa, with fainting. Menses of clots and serum; < stool. Acrid or periodical leucorrhœa. 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, < 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; < before menses. Aneurism. Rapid pulse, < eating; evening. Coldness; icy; head, throat, stomach; of one foot; < coughing. Chill, then vomits; after first sleep. Burning, between scapulæ. Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions.

Complementary: Calc-c. Iod. Kali-c. Lach. Related: Carb-v. Sil. Follows: Chel. or Graph.

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, or vexation with reserved displeasure (Staph.). Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malacious, pusillanimous. Irritable; peevish and cross on walking; ugly, kick and scream; 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.). Complexion pale, dirty; unhealthy; sallow, with deep furrows, looks older than he is; fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t.). 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.).

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.

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

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

Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; peevish; comprehension difficult,--does not seem to understand anything one says to them; memory weak. Anxious dreams of fatal accidents.

Great deal of noisy flatus in the abdomen, or particularly in the right hypochondriac region; there seems to be a constant fermentation in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking sound. This remedy is much used for troubles of the liver; there may be great pain, or some other trouble in this organ, with much rumbling of wind in the left hypochondriac region. Vomiting of sour matter; dyspepsia with loud croaking in the abdomen. Affections of the inner lower belly; inguinal ring; inguinal hernia; obstructed flatus. Extreme hunger.

Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallized sediment in the bottom of the chamber. In typhus fever, for example, where the patient is in a very low state, and can't retain the urine, we may see this sediment on the sheets; also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on the diaper. A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating, causing the patient to cry out; retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flows; children often cry out with pain before urinating; complaints while passing water; affections of the urethra.

Affections of the right side of the throat; for all troubles commencing there, though they may spread to the left side (ascertain on which side the trouble began. Right side, Lycop.; (Left side Laches.). Respiration with mucous rattle. Expectoration gray; purulent, i.e., pus like; taste of expectoration salty (Arsen., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia, have this symptom in a very marked degree); very white; profuse secretion of mucus. Palpitation of the heart, with or without anguish, with flapping of the wings of the nose; enlargement of the heart; hypertrophy in general.

Male: Impotency; as when in health, otherwise sexual desire is felt, but there is no erectile power. Female: Menstruation too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppressions of, or may be too scanty; complaints before. May find females at change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied. Sore nipples of nursing females.

Corns which are very sensitive, or with tearing pains. Exanthema in general, particularly with biting sensation; moist; scurfy; tearing and painful. Boils, which bleed a great deal all the time. Want of action of the skin. Itch, burning; creeping; gnawing. Skin scurf; sticky; clammy. Brown mortification. Pale swelling. Ulcers in general; bleeding; burning; burning on the edge; scabby; fistulous; hard; hard on edge; itching; painless tearing. Salt rheum. Varices suppurating.

Chilliness in general. Dry heat; heat with want of perspiration; perspiration stinking; perspiration viscid.

Sensation of coldness in inner parts; numbness or insensibility; pinching pains, particularly in inner parts; sensation as if single parts had gone to sleep; drawing pains in outer parts, drawing from above downward, or pains running from above downward.

Affections in general of right eye: right side of the face; right hypochondrium; right abdominal ring; left chest; left lower extremity; general symptoms right side (though they may spread to the left); hair of the head; rectum; bladder; hands; fingers; finger-joints; back part in the lumbar region; feet; ankles; legs, and lower extremities in general. Hard hearing; smell too sensitive. Deep furrows on the face; same on forehead; sensations in the temples. Collection of water in the mouth, i.e., "mouth waters." Obstructed evacuation; painless diarrhœa. Anything running from right to left. Apoplexia; erethism of blood, accompanied with flashes of heat; chlorosis. Consumption resulting from badly treated pneumonia. Crooked legs; ankles weak; emaciation in general; painless paralysis; old sprains; tension, tightness or stiffness of the joints; weakness of the joints. Great debility. Swelling of the glands; enlargement of the bones; caries of the bones; arthritic nodes.

In the afternoon from four to eight; in the evening; before midnight; after eating, if only a very little (this may be a sensation of great fullness, perhaps extending clear up to the throat; China, fulness is felt after eating a full, regular meal; Lycop., fullness after eating or drinking a little,--can't eat any more, though would like to, as they "feel so very full"); wrapping up the head, or even from wearing the hat or bonnet; before menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; while lying down,--must change the place every little while; lying on either side; on lying down and rising: from lamp light or gas-light; from looking fixedly at any point; from eating cabbage; from cold food generally,--must have everything warm; from eating vegetables with husks; from drinking, pressure from without, even of the clothes (must loosen them, especially with the "full" feeling); after rising from a seat; from strong smells; while urinating; on getting warm in the open air; in the wind; from wrapping up one's self.

On getting cool; in company; from eructation, up or down; from uncovering the head; from loosening the garments; from moving; after rising from a seat; after uncovering the body; generally from warm or hot things; and from getting warm in bed.

Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Hyosc., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia., Stramon., Sulphur., Veratr.

Pulsat.

Excessive fullness and distension of the abdomen, with flatulence, relieved by eructations. Hunger, but a small quantity of food seems to fill him full. Continuous rumbling and rolling in the abdomen. Severe backache, relieved by passing urine, urine deposits a red, sandy sediment. Fan-like motion of the alae nasi in respiratory diseases, especially of children and young persons. Aggravation of the symptoms from 4 to 8 p.m. Humid suppurating eruptions, especially on occiput and face, crusts thick, easily bleeding, oozing a fetid moisture, worse after scratching and from warmth. Much flatus accumulates here and there in the abdomen. in the hypochondria, in the back, in region of ribs and chest, causing tension, bubbling and gurgling, relieved by empty eructations.

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 Grauvogl's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithæmic. 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. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.

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 bear to see anything new. Cannot read what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking.

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.

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.

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

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 alæ nasi (Kali brom; Phos).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 form of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left.

Diarrhœa. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Hæmorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).

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).

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

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

Tickling cough. Dyspnœa. 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 dyspnœa, flaying of alæ nasæ and presence of mucous rales.

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

Burning between scapulæ as of hot coals. Pain in small of back.

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.

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).

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

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, nævi, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Depression of mind and sensorium, stupid; lower jaw drops; chronic conditions, memory fails; uses wrong words to express himself; mixes up things; failing brain power.

Right-sided complaints, or begins on right and travels leftward; throat, ovaries, uterine region, kidney and skin troubles; hernia.

Sense of satiety, or hunger, but soon fills up.

Great flatulence with rumbling, mostly intestinal and pressing downward.

Lithic acid diathesis; red sand in clear urine; > pains in back or kidneys after passing.

Dark-complexioned people; emaciated in face and upper parts, bloated or swollen in lower; keen intellectual but feeble muscular development.

Irritable; peevish and cross on waking; ugly, kick and! scream; easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is beside himself.

Complexion: Pale, dirty, unhealthy; sallow; looks. Older than he is.

One foot hot and the other cold.

Great thirst after the sweat.

Chill on left-side of the body (Caust., Carbo v.).

Sour vomiting between chill and heat; must uncover (Lach.).

Perspiration immediately after the chill. Thirst after sweating stage.

In intermittents, the flatulence, sour eructations, sour taste, sour sweat, sour vomiting.

The remedy with Sulphur and Calcarea forms the leading trio of Hahnemann's anti-psoric remedies. This makes a good starting point, as the boy said when he set a pin in a vacant chair. They all act very deeply. Each finds its affinity in a certain class of people or temperament. Lycopodium acts favourably in all ages, but particularly upon old people and children. It acts upon persons of keen intellect, but feeble muscular development; lean people, leaning towards lung and liver troubles. Such people are apt to suffer from lithic acid diathesis for which this is also great remedy. The Lycopodium subject is sallow, sunken, with premature lines in the face; looks older than he is. Children are weak with well-developed heads, but puny, sickly bodies. They are irritable, and when sick awake out of sleep ugly and kick and scream and push away the nurse or parents. These temperament remedies are not always appreciated by those who do not understand the true spirit of our own art of healing; but when appreciated the skillful observer can often see the picture of the right remedy in the face and build of his patient before he speaks a word. A remedy must not only be well proven, but extended clinical use and observation is necessary to develop it and indicate its true sphere of usefulness. I have known temperaments so intensely Aconite or Belladonna that they could not take these remedies except in the high and highest potencies, and then only in single doses at long intervals. Why should this be thought incredible? Carpenter, in his Physiology, tells of a person who was so susceptible to Mercury that she was salivated by sleeping with her husband, who had taken Mercury.

This is one of the leading trio of flatulent remedies, Carbo veg. and China being the other two. With Lycopodium there seems to be an almost constant fermentation of gas going on in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking and rumbling. Remember, while China bloats the whole abdomen Carbo veg. prefers the upper and Lycopodium the lower parts. With Lycopodium this flatulent condition is very apt to occur in connection with chronic liver trouble. Again this rumbling of flatulence is often found particularly in the region of the splenic flexure of the colon or left hypochondria.

A feeling of satiety is found under this remedy which alternates with a feeling of hunger of a peculiar kind. The patient sits down to the table very hungry, but the first few mouthfuls fill him right up and he feels distressingly full; in a Pickwickian sense "too full for utterance." This alternation of hunger and satiety is not markedly found under any other remedy.

Constipation predominates under Lycopodium, and like Nux vomica there may be frequent and ineffectual desire for stool, but while that of Nux vomica is caused by irregular peristaltic action that of Lycopodium seems to be caused by a spasmodic contraction of the anus, which prevents the stool and causes great pain.

Lycopodium should be thought of in anal troubles associated with chronic liver troubles, especially if with much flatulence.

Lycopodium is of use in right sided hernia. It has cured cases of long standing without the aid of a truss.

The liver troubles of Lycopodium are more apt to be of the atrophic variety, while those of China are hypertrophic, both being equally useful in their sphere.

Lycopodium has almost, if not quite, as marked action upon the urinary organs as upon the liver. It is the chief remedy for "red sand in the urine." This not simply the reddish sediment which is generally termed "brick-dust sediment," and which is found under many remedies, but is an actual sandy, gritty sediment that settles at the bottom of the otherwise perfectly clear urine. Unless thus condition is removed we have sooner or later renal calculi, or gravel forming, and terrible attacks of renal colic. In children this sand is sometimes found in the diaper after severe crying spells, and in adults much pain in the back in region of kidneys, which is relieved after the discharge of urine containing the sand. (See Borax, Sarsaparilla and Sanicula). No one remedy helps these cases more promptly or permanently than Lycopodium.

Lycopodium is also one of our best remedies for impotence. (Agnus castus). An old man marries his second or third wife and finds himself not "equal to the occasion." It is very embarrassing for the whole family. A dose of Lycopo d ium sets the thing all right and makes the doctor a warm friend on both sides of the house.

Young men from onanism or sexual excess become impotent. The penis becomes small, cold and relaxed. The desire is as strong as ever, and perhaps more so, but he can't perform. (Selenium, Caladium). I have known apparently hopeless cases of this kind cured by the use of this remedy, high single doses at intervals of a week or more.. Give it low, however, if you want to, but do not blame me if you don't succeed.

Lycopodium affects the right side most, or. at least the troubles begin on the right side. Swelling and suppuration of the tonsils I have aborted more than once in old quinsy subjects by an early dose of this remedy. In fact, I have had such success with Lachesis, Lycopodium, Lac caninum and Phytolacca that some who employ me for nothing else come for those powders that "break up quinsy " so quick. In diphtheria, if the disease begins in the nose or right tonsil and extends to the left, you will think of Lycopodium, but remember that Mercurius protoiodide also begins on the right side, but there is no difficulty in choosing between the two. (Bromine diphtheria begins below and comes upward, just the reverse of Lycopodium). Pains in the abdomen, ovarian and uterine regions also begin in right side, running from right to left; right foot gets cold while the other remains warm, eruptions begin on right and travel across to left side. Sciatica the same; any complaint that begins on right and goes to left makes me think of Lycopodium. The "sides of the body" subject is of more account than some imagine. Drugs have an affinity for particular parts, organs and even sides of the body.

Upon the respiratory organs this remedy also has a strong influence. It is one of our best remedies for chronic dry catarrh of the nose, which becomes completely closed, so that' the patient has to breathe through the open mouth, especially at night. Here the choice often lies between this remedy, Ammonium carb. and Hepar Sulphur., other symptoms, of course, deciding the choice. In infants Sambucus comes in for a share of attention.

Lycopodium has often saved neglected, mal-treated or Imperfectly cured cases of pneumonia from running into consumption. It may even come into the later stages of the acute attack itself, and here as usual the disease is apt to be in the right lung, and especially if liver complications arise. The disease has passed the first or congestive stage, and generally the stage of hepatization, or is irk the last part of this stage, and is trying hard to take a favourable turn into the breaking-up or third stage, the stage of resolution. Just here is where many cases die, neither free expectoration, nor perfect absorption of the disease product taking place. There is extreme dyspnœa, the cough sounds as if the entire parenchyma of the lung were softened; even raising whole mouthfuls of mucus does not afford relief, the breath is short and the wings of the nose expand to their utmost with a fan-like motion. Now is the tame when Lycopodium does wonders. Again, even when this stage is imperfectly passed, and the patient still coughs and expectorates much thick, yellow, purulent or greyish-yellow, purulent (sometimes fœtid) Matter, tasting salty, with much rattling in the chest, Lycopodium is indispensable Here the choice may have to be made between this remedy and Sulphur, Kali hydroiod. or Silicea. The characteristic aggravation as to time, of this remedy is from 4 to 8 o'clock P. M. Colocynth has 4 to 9 aggravation of abdominal pains, and Helleborus Niger, of the headache, with coryza; but the 4 to 8 aggravations of Lycopodium are general, not confined to any one, or one set of symptoms.

Lycopodium profoundly impresses the sensorium. We see by studying its pathogenesis that it depresses. This is found particularly in typhoid. The patient lies stupid, eyes do not re-act to light; lower jaw drops; apparent impending paralysis of the brain.

This condition may also be found in the advanced stage of many different acute diseases such as cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, pneumonia, etc. Now if you get the 4 to 8 P. M. aggravation this remedy surely comes in. But this depression of the sensorium is also found in chronic form. you remember what was said of this remedy in the impotence of old men. If you find corresponding failure in the sensorium of old men, the memory fails, they use wrong words to express themselves, mix things up generally in writing, spelling, and are, in short, unable to do ordinary mental work on account of failing brain power, remember Lycopodium Here again Anacardium, Phosphorus, Baryta or Opium may come in for comparison. Also Picric acid and Agnus castus.

Many more things might be written of this wonderful polychrest, but I have given the most important. Its strongest curative powers are not developed below the 12th potency, hence neither the old school nor the homœopaths who confine themselves exclusively to the low preparations know much about it. Like Carbo vegetabilis, Silicea and Sulphur its best powers are only developed by Hahnemann's peculiar process of potentization; "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Modalities: < 4 to 8 P. M., after eating, in warm room; > in cool open air, on motion.

Low-spirited, taciturn, melancholy ; doubts about his salvation. Desponding, grieving mood. Weeping, sad mood ; extremely sensitive. Dread of men ; desires to be alone, or aversion to solitude. Extremely indifferent. Headstrong, vehement, angry ; irritable and nervous.

Stupefying headache, with heat in the temples and of the ears ; dryness of the mouth and lips ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., when rising up, and on lying down. Pressing headache on the vertex ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M. from stooping, lying down, exertion of the mind, and followed by great weakness. Tearing in the forehead or in the right side of the head, extending down to the neck, with tearing in the face, eyes, and teeth ; worse on raising oneself up, better on lying down and in the open air. Tension in the head ; worse at night when lying in bed, and on getting warm while walking in the open air ; better when walking slowly in the open air, from cold, and when uncovering the head. Stitches the temples, mostly on the right side, from within without ; worse in the evening and at night when lying in bed, from heat and exertion of the mind ; better from cold and in the open air. Congestion of blood to the head, especially in the morning when raising himself in bed. Headache after breakfast. Tearing, boring, and sensation of scraping on the external head, during the night. Eruption of crusts on the back part of the head, moist smelling fetid, easily bleeding, and burning ; after scratching, more moisture and increase of the crusts. The hair becomes gray early. Baldness ; the hair falls out, first on the vertex, later on the temples (after diseases of the abdominal viscera ; after parturition), with violent burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise during the day.

Stitches and soreness in the eyes in the evening, when looking at the light. Inflammation of the eyes, with lachrymation during the day and agglutination during the night. Photophobia. Obscuration of sight, as from feathers before the eyes. Perpendicular half sight. Itching in the canthi. Cold feeling in the eyes. Styes on the eyelids near the internal canthus. Dim, hot eyes. The eyes are wide open, insensible to light fixed. Dryness of the eyes, in the evening. Sparks before the eyes, in the dark.

Over-sensitiveness of bearing. Music and sounds affect the ear painfully. Roaring humming and whizzing in the ears. Sensation as if hot blood rushed into the ears. Congestion of blood to the ears. Humid, suppurating scurfs on and behind the ears. Ulceration and running of pug from the ears. Hardness of hearing ; the ears become closed with whizzing. Singing in the ears, as from boiling water.

Over-sensitiveness of the swell. Bleeding from the nose, principally in the afternoon. Scurf in the nose. Nightly closing of the nostril by pus. Dryness of the nose. Obstruction about the root of the nose ; can only breathe through the nose. Dryness of the posterior nares. Coryza, with acrid discharge, making the upper lips sore. Violent coryza, with swelling of the nose. Fan-like motion of the nostrils.

Paleness of the face, with deep furrows, especially towards evening. Earthy, yellow complexion, with deep furrows, blue circles around the eyes, and blue lips. Flushes of heat in the face. Spasmodic twitching in the muscles of the face. Eruption around the mouth. A large ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower lip. Soreness of the corners of the mouth. Swelling of the upper lip. Eruptions on the face, humid and suppurating. The lower jaw hangs down. Freckles. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

The teeth are excessively painful on touching them. Yellow color of the teeth. Toothache, with swelling of the cheek ; relieved by the heat of the bed, and from warm applications. Fistula dentalis. The gums bleed violently on being touched. Gum-boils. Putrid smell from the mouth, especially in the morning when awaking. Dryness of the mouth and tongue, without thirst. Stiffness of the tongue and indistinct speech. Vesicles on the tip of the tongue ; they feel scalded and raw. Soreness of the tongue. Ulcers on and under the tongue. Convulsions of the tongue. The tongue is painful and swollen in different places (tubercles on the tongue). The saliva becomes dry on the palate and lips, and is converted into tough mucus. The posterior part of the mouth is covered by tough mucus. Dry and bitter mouth (in the morning). Tongue dry ; becomes black and cracked. Inflammation of the throat, with stitches on swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of the tonsils. The ulceration of the tonsils begins on the right side. The pharynx feels contracted, nothing can be swallowed. Hawking up of bloody mucus.

Canine hunger. Desire for sweet things. Aversion to coffee and smoking, and to boiled, warm food. Bitter taste or acidity in the mouth after a meal. Food tastes sour. Bitterness in the mouth with nausea in the morning. Nausea in the pharynx and stomach. Nausea in the morning and when riding in a carriage. Vomiting of food and bile ; of coagulated blood and matter. Vomiting between the chill and heat in intermittent fever. Heartburn. Hiccough frequently, periodically. Immediately after a (light) meal the abdomen is bloated, full, distended. Has a great appetite, but a small quantity of food fills him up and he feels bloated. After each meal pressure in the stomach with bitter taste in the mouth. Painful swelling and sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to tight clothing and to contact. Cancer of the stomach. Tension in the hypochondria as from a hoop. Inflammation and induration of the liver. Pressure and tension in the liver, especially on satisfying one's appetite. Indurations in the abdomen. Accumulation of flatulence-incarcerated flatulence, the flatulence cannot pass, and causes much pain. Gnawing, griping sensation in the region of the stomach. Continuous rumbling in the abdomen. Hernia (right side). Palpitation of the heart during digestion. Full, distended abdomen with cold feet. Spasmodic contraction in the abdomen.

Constipation. Hard stools with ineffectual desire to evacuate. Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of the rectum or anus. Small stool, with the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulations of flatulence. Hæmorrhage from the rectum, even after a soft stool. Feeling of fulness in the rectum continues after a copious stool. Contractive pain in the perinæum, after scanty hard stool. Stitches in the rectum. Pale, putrid smelling stools. Diarrhœa (during pregnancy), with earthly color of the face. Itching and tension at the anus (in the evening in bed). Itching eruption of the anus, painful to the touch. Painful closing of the anus. Protrusion of the varices. Distention of the varices of the rectum.

Frequent desire to urinate, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine. Frequent micturition during the night, with scanty and rare discharges through the day. Dark urine with diminished discharge. Red, sandy sediment in the urine ; greasy pellicle on the urine. Involuntary micturition. Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless. Foamy urine. Itching in the urethra during and after micturition. Stitches in the bladder. Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time. Renal colic.

Men. Sexual desire increased or suppressed. Impotence ; penis small, cold, relaxed. Feeble erections. Itching of the internal surface or the prepuce. Soreness between the scrotum and thigh. Dropsical swelling of the genital organs. A quantity of yellowish humor behind the corona glandis. Falls asleep during an embrace. Discharge of prostatic juice without an erection. Excessive and exhausting pollutions. Women. Menstruation too profuse and too long protracted. Suppression of the menses, also from fright. Before the menses, bloatedness of the abdomen, chilliness, low-spirited, desponding and melancholy. Dryness of the vagina. Burning in the vagina during coition. Varices on the genitals. Leucorrhœa corroding like milk, bloody, worse before the full moon. Disposition to miscarriages. Stinging in the nipples. Soreness of the nipples, or spreading scurf on them. Hard, burning nodosity in the mammæ.

Shortness of breathing in children, especially during sleep. Every exertion causes shortness of breathing. Oppressed breathing, worse when walking in the open air. Sensation as if there were too much mucus in the chest, with whizzing breathing in the day-time. Rattling in the chest. Dry cough, day and night. Cough at night which affects the stomach. Cough, with expectoration through the day and without expectoration during the night. Titillating cough caused by deep breathing. Cough, with copious purulent expectoration. Cough with gray, salty-tasting expectoration, or expectoration of blood. Hooping cough from irritation in the trachea as from fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of fetid pus or of mucus streaked with blood. Morning cough, with green expectoration. Cough aggravated from 4 to 6 P.M., frequently on alternate days, from exertion, from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on the (left) side, from eating and drinking cold things, in the wind, or in the warm room. Hoarseness ; voice feeble and husky. Roughness, soreness and tension in the chest. Cough with painfulness of the region of the stomach. Oppression of the chest, with shortness of breathing. Continuous pressure in the chest, it, feels raw internally. Stitches in the left side of the chest, also during an inspiration. (Typhoid and neglected) pneumonia. (Hepatization of the lungs). Paralysis of the lungs. Hydrothorax. Yellow, liver spots on the chest. Itching on the chest. Palpitation of the heart, worse after eating.

Pain and stiffness in the small of the back (at night). Stitches in the small of the back, especially when rising from a stooping position. Burning as of red-hot coals between the scapulæ. Painful stiffness of the (left side) of the neck. Stiffness and swelling of one side of the neck. Swelling of the cervical glands. Large clusters of red pimples around the neck, with violent itching. Soreness of the neck.

Upper. Rheumatic tension in the right shoulder-joint. Pain in the bones of the arms at night. The arms and fingers go to sleep easily. Weakness of the arms when at work. Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint. Redness, inflammation and swelling of all the joints of the fingers. Twitching in the arms and shoulder. The skin of the hands is dry. Burning in the palms of the hands. Stiffness of the fingers from arthritic nodosities. Itching pimples between the fingers. Panaritium. Lower. Nightly pains (tearing) in the legs. Rheumatic tension in the left hip. Pain as from a sprain in the hip. Swelling and stiffness of the knee. White-swelling of the knee. Swelling of the knee, with perspiration. Pain, as from contraction (cramps) in the calves when walking. Swelling of the feet, around the ankles. Swelling of the soles of the feet. Pain of the soles when walking. Cold, sweaty feet. Profuse sweat on the feet, they become sore. Stitches in the big toe of the right foot (in the evening). Rhagades in the heel. Cramp in the toes. Stitches in the corns, with sore feeling. Old ulcers on the lower legs, with tearing, itching and burning at night.

Drawing and tearing in the limbs, especially at night and during rest, or on alternate afternoons. Numbness of the limbs, sensation as if circulation ceased. Great emaciation, great internal debility. Twitches through the body. Contraction of some limbs. Stiffness of all the joints. The whole body feels bruised. Involuntary, alternate extension and contraction of the muscles in different parts of the body. Epileptic spasms, with screaming, foam at the mouth, loss of consciousness, throws the aims and limbs about, great anguish about the heart, and imagines he would have to die. Faintishness at certain hours of the day.

Sleepiness during the day, but cannot go to sleep at night, his mind is too active. Restless sleep, with anxious dreams and frequent waking. Loud coughing during sleep ; screaming while asleep. Sopor. Starting when falling asleep. Unable to find ease in any position. Hunger at night when waking. Unrefreshing sleep.

Pulse only accelerated in the evening and afternoon. Sensation as if the circulation stood still. Chilliness in the afternoon from 4 to 8, with sensation as of numbness in the hands and feet. Chilliness in the evening in bed, preventing sleep. One-sided chilliness, mostly on the left side. Chilliness followed by perspiration without heat after the chill. Chills and heat alternating. Want of natural heat. Flushes of heat over the whole body, mostly towards evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time ; constipation and increased micturition. Heat of one (left) foot with coldness of the other (right) foot. Violent perspiration during the day from the least exertion. Night and morning sweats, often with coldness of the face. Night-sweats, clammy. The perspiration is frequently cold, smelling sour, or offensive, or smelling like onions, or bloody. Intermittent fever. Nausea and vomiting and then chilliness, followed by perspiration (without previous heat). Chilliness in the evening, when in bed till midnight, this is followed by heat, in the morning sour-smelling perspiration. Great heat and redness of the cheeks, alternating with chilliness. Shaking chill 7 P.M., and great coldness as if lying in ice, with traction through the whole body, upon waking up from sleep, which is full of dreams, covered with perspiration, perspiration is followed by violent thirst. Tertian fever, with sour vomiting (worse between chill and fever) ; the chills are followed by bloatedness of the face and hands. Typhus fever (with threatening paralysis of the brain).

Biting, itching when becoming warm through the day. Humid, suppurating tetters, full of deep rhagades and covered with thick crusts. Soreness of children, the sore places are humid. Ulcers, at night, with tearing and itching pains, burning when touched. (Mercurial ulcers) ; bleeding and burning when dressing the otherwise painless ulcer. Blood-boils (periodically). Inflammation of the bones, with pains at night. Softening of the bones. Caries. Fistulous ulcers, with hard, red-shining, everted edges, and inflammatory swelling of the affected parts. Glandular swellings. Chilblains. Arthritic nodosities. Freckles. Liver spots (abdomen). Dropsical swellings.

Great disposition to get cold. Great desire for the open air or entire aversion to it. Aggravation from 4 to 8 P.M., when everything is better, with the exception of the debility. While at rest the debility is mostly felt, but there is also great aversion to exercise. Aggravation on lying down, while sitting, when rising from a seat and when beginning to walk (the stiffness), after eating and having satisfied one's appetite, after eating oysters, from salt food, from cold food or drink, from wet (warm) poultices, from pressure of the clothes, from strong smells, while urinating. Amelioration, on getting cold, from uncovering oneself, after rising from a seat and when continuing to walk, from warm food and drink. It is not advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lycopodium, it is better to give first another not antipsoric remedy. Lachesis and Lycopodium follow well one after another. Lycopodium follows well after Pulsatilla or Calcarea.

Lycopodium clavatum. Muscus terrestris repens. Pes ursinus. Clubmoss. Wolf's-claw. (Hilly pastures and heaths in Central and Northern Europe, Russian Asia, and North America. Common in Great Britain, especially the North.) N. O. Lycopodiaceæ. Trituration of spores. Tincture of spores. Tincture of fresh plant. Etherial tincture of spores (ether dissolves the spore cases).

Abdomen, distended . Abortion. Albuminuria. Aneurism . Angina pectoris. Aphasia . Asthma. Axilla, offensive perspiration of. Biliousness. Borborygmi . Bright's disease. Cancer . Cataract. Constipation. Consumption . Corns. Cough. Cramps. Cystitis. Debility. Diphtheria . Distension . Dropsies. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Ear, eczema behind. Eczema . Ephelis. Epistaxis. Epithelioma. Excoriation . Eye, inflammation of; polypus of canthus. Face, eruption on. Feet, perspiring . Fibroma. Flatulence . Gall-stone colic. Glands, swelling of. Goître. Gout. Gravel . Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, falling out. Hands, chapped. Heartburn . Heart, diseases of. Hemiopia . Hernia. Hydropericardium. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Impotence. Influenza. Intermittents. Intertrigo. Irritation . Labour-pains, abnormal. Lip, cancer of. Liver, derangement of. Liver-spots. Locomotor ataxy. Lungs, affections of. Menstruation, disorders of . Metrorrhagia. Nævus. Nymphomania. Otorrhœa. Panaritium. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Peritonitis . Phlegmasia dolens. Physometra. Plica polonica. Pneumonia . Polypus, of eye; of ear; of nose. Proctalgia. Prostatitis. Pylorus, affections of. Quinsy. Renal colic. Rheumatism . Rhagades. Sciatica. Sleep, abnormal. Speech, disordered ; stammering. Strains. Sunstroke. Taste, abnormal. Throat, sore. Tongue, coated ; cramp in. Typhoid fever. Urine, abnormal . Varicosis. Warts. Water-brash . Whooping-cough. Worms. Yawning .

Lycopodium is one of the pivotal remedies of the materia medica, and an intimate acquaintance with its properties and relations is essential to a proper understanding of the materia medica as a whole. 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 An t. 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. But it is impossible to get the best therapeutic results for this great remedy without an intimate knowledge of certain leading characteristics. Lyc . will cure any case in which the totality of symptoms correspond with symptoms of the remedy; but it will be found that in a large proportion of cases in which this is the case, there will be present some symptoms which are peculiarly characteristic of the remedy, constituting what are called keynotes. Practice on keynote symptoms alone is an absurdity; but the right use of keynote symptoms is an immense saving of labour. The Lyc . keynotes are very pronounced, and though I cannot say that one is more important than another, I give them in this order. ( 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 accurately 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 (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 morsel of food is swallowed there is distension and fulness 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 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 muco-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 had 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. H. Goullon ( H. R ., vi. 155) cured this case of cystitis: A man, 55, subject to attacks of enteralgia, was seized two days after such an attack with a severe cystitis, with fever and palpitation of the heart. The calls to micturate were increased, and he could hardly reach the vessel quick enough to prevent premature escape of the urine, so severe and sudden was the urging. During and sometimes after the passage there was intense burning pain, "as if molten lead were flowing through the urethra." During the height of the pain he grasped the penis to obtain relief. The urine, which was discharged in very scanty quantities, looked turbid, almost loamy, had a dirty brownish-red colour, and a peculiar odour of malt. Lyc . 12 was given, six drops in half a wineglassful of water: a teaspoonful every three hours. Cured in twenty-four hours. J. E. Winans ( Med. Adv ., xix. 499) points out the appropriateness of Lyc . to the effects of chewing tobacco. Allen records under Tabac . this symptom: Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of muscles of back of neck; constantly recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of back being principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the tobacco." Winans had a very similar case from the same cause-clonic, opisthotonic spasms as of cerebro-spinal meningitis — which he cured with Lyc . c.m. and m.m. given after each tetanic seizure. Other Lyc . symptoms verified by him are: "Forehead cold , but becomes warm if lightly covered " ( Sil .); and, in pernicious intermittents "a long-lasting chill coming on 9 a.m., and generally passing off without subsequent heat or sweat ." Drysdale has recorded ( B. J. H ., xlii. 203) the cure of a young woman whose hands were covered with warts. One 2 gr. tablet of Lyc . 6 trituration was given at bedtime. The warts soon began to shrivel, and in less than six weeks were all gone. The sphere of Lyc . in metrorrhagia is illustrated by a case of Waszily's (quoted H. W ., xxviii. 320): Mrs. O., 44, menses after being absent eight months had come on and lasted fourteen days. She felt particularly well, and had walked out, when a violent flooding came on, and she had to be taken home in a carriage and put to bed. Dark blood with large clots flowed from her, < every movement; no pain. Previous day had much flatulent distress. Lyc . 30, two globules on the tongue. After that one large clot passed and nothing more. Rapid recovery followed. 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.]

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Unconsciousness.
Vanishing of thoughts.
Weak memory, old people are very forgetful.
Uses wrong words for correct ideas ; uses wrong syllables ; makes mistakes in writing ; spells words wrong ; mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words.
She was quite unable to write ; having written a letter, she could not read it.
Cannot remember meaning of single letters ; imitates in writing without knowing signification.
Cannot read, because meaning of certain letters is not clear ; makes mistakes in speaking, because he cannot get right words ; when subject is very important, words are correctly chosen. θ Indigestion.
Thoughts confused, unable to fix them ; difficult to find fitting words.
Absent minded ; supposes to be in two places at a time.
Mental torpor and weakness ; slow of comprehension ; dulness to imbecility.
Fancies and delirium.
Child desires to be carried.
Taciturnity ; desires to be alone.
Dread : of men ; of solitude, irritability and melancholy.
Weeps all day, cannot calm herself, < from 4 to 8 P. M.
Sensitive ; even cries when thanked.
Her answers are quick, anxious and tremulous ; wandering ; imperiousness ; speaks with an air of command ; manner stiff and pretentious ; strikes her attendant and grows angry ; scolds much and violently at imaginary persons, or
laughs and cries alternately, or is exceedingly hilarious.
Catching at flocks.
Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things, again melancholy and low spirited.
Melancholy : has doubts about her salvation ; before catamenia ; in child characters.
Desponding, grieving mood.
Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed.
Apprehensiveness, difficult breathing ; fearfulness.
Easily frightened and starts up ; feels frightened at everything, even ringing of door bell.
Anthropophobia (in children) ; fear of phantoms in evening, with anguish.
Anxious thoughts, as if about to die, for which she prepares farewell messages.
Indifferent, taciturn ; insensibility to external impressions.
Amativeness or amorousness.
Want of self-confidence ; indecision ; timidity ; resignation.
Loss of confidence : in his own vigor ; in physician and remedies.
Sensitive, irritable disposition ; peevish and cross on getting awake ; easily excited to anger ; cannot endure slightest opposition, and is speedily beside herself.
Obstinate, defiant, arbitrary ; seeks disputes.
Very ill humored and morose, just before menstruation.
Discontented and impatient.
Misanthropic ; flies even from his own children.
Distrustful, suspicious and fault finding. θ Dyspepsia. θ Chronic hepatic congestion. θ Excess
of lithic gravel.
Haughty, reproachful and overbearing.
Parsimonious, greedy, avaricious, malicious and pusillanimous.
Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation, with reserved displeasure.
Nervous action weakened ; threatened softening of brain from overwork, or metastasis of ulcers suddenly healed.
Oversensitiveness to pain ; patient is beside himself.

Impending cerebral paralysis ; somnolence ; staring eyes ; dropped jaw. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Stupor, right pupil dilated ; grunting expirations, occasional outcries ; tympanitis ; head bent back ; urine dark ; constipated ; lower jaw sunken ; sliding down in bed.
Stupefying headache ; heat in temples and ears ; mouth and lips dry ; < from 4 to 8 P. M., rising up or lying down.
Vertigo : rising from seat ; whilst drinking ; in hot room ; in morning, when and after rising from bed, he reels back and forth ; in forenoon ; nausea, seems as though everything were turning round ; constantly dreads falling.
Congestion of blood to head, especially in morning when raising himself in bed.
Gets hot, face reddens, eyes water and become dim. θ Vertigo.

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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.

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.

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Best suited to persons intellectually keen, but physically weak; upper part of body wasted, lower part semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic affections (Phos., Sul.); the extremes of life, children and old people.

Children: weak, emaciated; with well-developed heads but puny, sickly bodies.

Weeps all day, cannot calm herself; very sensitive, even cries when thanked.

Irritable; peevish and cross on waking; ugly, kick and scream; easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is beside himself.

Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (rev. of Jal., Psor.).

Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malicious, pusilanimous.

Ailment from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation with reserved displeasure (Staph.).

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., Teuc.).

Deep-seated, progressive chronic disease.

Pains, chiefly aching-pressure, drawing, right-sided, < from 4 to 8 P. M.

Dread of men; of solitude; fear of being left alone (Ars., Bis., Kali c.).

Red sand in urine; on child's diaper (Phos.); child cries before urinating (Bor.); pain in back > by urinating.

Gastric affections : excessive accumulation of flatulence ; constant sensation of satiety ; good appetite, but a few mouth-fuls fill up to the throat, and he feels bloated ; borborygmus.

Complexion : pale, dirty, unhealthy ; fan-like motion of alæ nasi (see Ant. t.) ; sallow ; looks older than he is.

Affects right side, or goes from right to left ; throat, chest, abdomen, ovaries.

One foot hot and the other cold (Cinch., Dig., Ipec.).

Constipation : since puberty ; since last confinement ; when away from home ; of infants ; with ineffectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes during stool, developing piles.

Impotence : of young men, from onanism or sexual excess ; penis small, cold, relaxed ; *old men,

Morning paroxysm, 8 or 9 A. M. Afternoon paroxysm, 3 or 4 P. M.

Evening paroxysm (the most severe), 6 or 7 P. M., and continues until morning.

Evening fever without chill, every day, or every other day, at same hour.

Sometimes flushes of heat, and nausea and vomiting precede the chill, without thirst.

Without thirst. First, she awoke in the morning with chilliness, followed by great heat. Violent chill at 8 A. M., lasting half an hour, and followed by little heat. Chilliness at 9 A. M., over the whole body; she cannot get warm even by a stove. Pernicious intermittents with a long-lasting chill coming on at 9 A. M. and finally passing off without subsequent heat or sweat. Febrile paroxysm every afternoon at 3 o'clock, lasting till late in the evening; a constantly increasing chilliness, without subsequent heat or sweat (Bov.). Evening paroxysm; slight chill, followed immediately by violent, long-continuing heat, weariness, prostration, and pains in the limbs (Ars.). Alternating chill and heat, with great redness and heat of the cheeks (Bell.). Chilliness at 4 P. M., goose-flesh over the whole body, with incessant yawning, nausea, inclination to vomit, chilliness starting from the back and extending over the whole body (Caps., Gels.), with numbness and coldness of the hands and feet; no sweat, no thirst; but heat, which was confined to the face; the chill lasted two hours and a half, and ended with excessive weakness and weariness of the feet, inclination to sleep, and slight drawings in the wrists and fingers of both hands; she slept well through the night and woke well the next morning.

Chilliness over the whole body in the evening at 6 P. M., starting from the back, with a feeling as if water were spurted upon the back (Ant. t., Led., Rhus); chilliness with stupefying sleep, followed by uneasy sleep, with dreams; chilliness over whole body lasting two hours, with stupefaction of the head, sleepiness, tearing in the limbs, no thirst, and no sweat. At 7 P. M., shaking chill, commencing in the back, with numb, icy cold hands and feet (Ced., Sep.); she cannot get warm in bed for two hours, the tearing in the limbs is worse, with uninterrupted yawn-ing, nausea and inclination to vomit.

Febrile paroxysm at 7 P. M.; shaking chill, with icy coldness even in bed, as if she were lying on ice, lasting two hours, with drawings in all the limbs, back and whole body; on waking from sleep full of dreams, perspiration all over, with great thirst after the sweat. During chill it seems as if the blood ceased to be warm and everything internal would come to a stand-still. Chill on left side of the body (Caust., Carbo v.—right side, Bry.). Nausea and vomiting, then chill, followed by sweat, without intervening heat (Caust.); sour vomiting between chill and heat (bitter, bilious vomiting, Eup., Ipec.); face and hands bloated (Apis, Ars.). Shivering after drinking (Ars., Caps., Eup.) and while eating.

The first chills are usually one-sided; most frequently on the left.

With thirst. Flushes of heat over the whole body in the evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time (Ars., Cinch.). After eating, heat of the head and a red spot on the left cheek. Frequent rising of heat from the abdomen to the head, with burning in the cheeks. Great heat and redness of the face, with irresistible inclination to sleep (Apis, Ign.). Face, cheeks, ears, eyes, fingers and palms of hands hot and burning. Nausea after cold drinks (nausea relieved by drinking, Lob.); warm drinks are grateful (Casc., Ced.). Constipation; increased urination, which relieves the backache. Sour vomiting often occurs in or lasts during entire hot stage. Must uncover (Lach.).

Perspiration in the night, or in the morning after a restless night. Profuse sour-smelling perspiration on the body, but not on the lower legs. Night-sweat on body, not on the limbs. Morning-sweat only of the joints. Morning-sweat cold, sour, offensive, bloody, or smelling like onions. May be general over whole body. Perspiration immediately after the chill, without intervening heat (Caust.). Thirst after sweating stage.

Clean, but dry; red, trembling, stiff; vesicles on tip, or brown, or cracked. Taste: sour; bitter; fatty; eructations sour. Desire for sweets (Ipec.); for oysters, which disa-gree. Aversion to boiled warm food; tobacco smoke (Ign.).

Sensation as if the circulation stood still; accelerated in evening or after eating; ebullition with trembling (Mer.).

Not pronounced; but the concomitants are often guiding symptoms. Constant sense of fulness in the stomach and abdomen as if they would burst. Repletion after eating ever so little. Rumbling in the bowels; obstinate constipation. Cough, with thick, yellow, salty expectoration. Red, sandy sediment in the urine (Natr.). Patient cannot bear to be left alone (wants to be alone, Cinch., Nux).

This remedy is frequently rejected, when indicated, in intermittent fever, if the paroxysm does not occur at 4 P. M., and the red, sandy sediment is not present in the urine. The sediment rarely occurs in acute cases; and the most severe and most frequent paroxysm is the evening one at 6 or 7 P. M., which lasts all night. The flatulence, sour eructations, sour taste, sour sweat, sour vomiting, are much more reliable guides, because more often present. No single symptom, however guiding, is sufficient to warrant a prescription. If the totality corresponds, Lycopodium will cure, irrespective of time of paroxysm. The general symptoms of Lycopodium are aggravated from 4 to 8 P. M., and if present, constitute an additional indication.

The time 4–8 P. M. or 6–7 P. M.

Sour eructations, sweet taste and vomiting.

Sour vomiting between chill and heat or, during heat.

Chill; severe, with icy coldness, as if lying on ice.

Heat; thirst for warm drinks; must uncover.

Sweat; immediately after chill; most thirst after sweat.

Gastric repletion after eating ever so little.

Red, sandy sediment in the urine.

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.

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Triturations (as prescribed by the Pharmacopœias) are made of the pollen of Lycopodium clavatum, L.

A "tissue" remedy far-reaching in its effects. ▶ One of its most prominent effects is the peculiar indigestion (See symptoms of Stomach, Abdomen, Liver, Stool; Kidneys, etc.). ▶ The productions of the "uric-acid diathesis" is very clear. ▶ Its catarrhal symptoms in nose, throat, and especially in lungs, are prominent. ▶ Consult also the eruptions, tendency to boils, carbuncles, etc. ▶ In general it is a drug adapted to atonic and sluggish types of disease, though, like sulphur, it is not infrequently required, as an "intercurrent," during the course of an acute malady.

Sulph., Sil., Sep., Zinc., Puls., Bry., Nux v., Carbo v., Chel., Cycl ., Phos., Mag. c., Nat. m., Iod., Iris, Kali bi.

Emaciation. ▶ Glands thickened and hardened on getting feet cold. ▶ Fell suddenly to the ground without vertigo. ▶ Shivering when walking, without chilliness. ▶ Trembling in afternoon; in attacks in evening in bed. ▶ Tremulous sensation through body after eating. ▶ Involuntary extension and contraction of muscles in various parts, in paroxysms every seven days, with complete consciousness. ▶ Involuntary turning and twisting of whole body, so that he gasped and the face became red and hot. ▶ Twitching, now here, now there; T. below stomach pit and on right thigh. ▶ Epileptic attack, with screams and frothing at the mouth, then he thought that he should die and complained of anxiety at heart; E. attack, left arm bent backward and fingers clenched, then unconsciousness, beating about with arms and legs, cries and frothing from the mouth, then motionless as if dead, then foolish sounds; E. attack, jerking of muscles of right leg, extending to pit of stomach, then cries, unconsciousness, beating about with arms and legs, with frothing from mouth, then motionless, after cold water was put into his mouth he rejected it and returned to consciousness.

Sticking over whole body; here and there on body; in various parts; above pit of stomach, in sternum and deltoids; in left ankle, toes, elbows and nape, in evening in bed; on head and upper arms, now in one place, now in another, with coldness of fingers; now in præcordial region, now in left elbow, now in abdomen; in chest and umbilical region, taking away the breath; crawling, in lower part of back and in other parts; S. and tearing alternately in right and left shoulder, elbows, wrists, fingers, left knee, right great toe, right and left side of chest, in evening; tearing S. in evening, in second joint of right thumb, suddenly changing to left shoulder, then to left elbow, then to right thumb, left knee, left chest in region of sixth rib, the pain lasted in left shoulder and elbow and right hand till 9 P.M.; rheumatic tearing S. at times in right ear and temple, with drawing in right shoulder (possibly from sudden change of weather).

Tearing here and there; in head, then in other parts. ▶ Pinching her and there. ▶ Pains felt in sleep and dreams of them; P. appeared and disappeared suddenly; on touch in all soft parts; raging, in parts formerly injured; here and there in trunk as if single muscles were spasmodically contracted and then extended; rheumatic, in head (jaws, extending towards ears) and in limbs, agg. left hand, right forearm, and left leg. ▶ Bruised pain over whole body in morning; in evening; B. feeling in feet and small of back. ▶ Feeling as if there were no marrow in the bones. ▶ Feeling as if flesh were loose from bones. ▶ Drawing now in scapulæ, now in right leg, now in chest; every other afternoon in limbs and across face; in gum and whole left side of body, waking her at night. ▶ Throbbing through whole body after eating.

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Emaciation.
Weakness, particularly a feeling of loss of internal strength, especially after every effort.
Weakness is felt even during rest, yet every movement is dreaded.
Takes cold easily.
Symptoms aggravated at 4 P. M., but again better at 8 P. M.
Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs during rest and at night, or every other afternoon.
General desire for open air.

Melancholia, with despair.
Anxiety, with depressed and lachrymose mood.
Easily made to weep.
Dread of people and anxiety when in their company.
Indecision, lack of self-confidence.
Easily frightened and startled.
Mental powers very sluggish.
Hears wrong words and syllables.
Confused about common words.
Loss of comprehension and memory.

A feeling of rush of blood; throbbing, especially after paroxysm of coughing.
Throbbing in the brain on leaning the head backward.
Shattering pains in the temples, as well as chest, during cough.
Tearing pains back and forth in the forehead.
One-sided headache in the evening, < mental effort.
Vertigo in the morning on rising and afterward.
Hair becomes gray and falls out.
Eruptions on the scalp, with scratching and bleeding.

Dryness, with distressing pain, worse at night.
Stinging and smarting, worse in the evening by the light.
Dryness of the eyes in the morning, which are difficult to open, with smarting between the lids, as from dust.
Ulceration and redness of the lids.
Recurring styes.
Lids agglutinated at night.
Burning dryness in the lids and eyes, so that they cannot be opened in the morning.
Towards evening he becomes blinded, can see nothing.
Flickering and dim vision after a nap in the afternoon.
Black floating spots.
Can see only the left half of objects.

Roaring, humming and whizzing in the ears.
Loss of hearing.
Over-sensitiveness of hearing.

Clinical:
Eczema of external ear, with crusts and fissures in the skin.
Discharges from the ear.

Nostrils ulcerated.
Dry stoppage of the nose, especially in children; must breathe through the mouth.
Swelling of the nose.
Stoppage at night; cannot breathe.
Acrid discharges from the nose, but with internal dryness.

Clinical:
Acute chronic catarrh, with dry stoppage.
Fan-like motion of the wings of the nose, with dyspnœa.

General paleness and yellowishness, with sickly color, worse towards evening.
The lines of the face become very deep, with blue rings about the eyes and mouth.
Humid eruptions on the face.
Freckles.

Teeth become yellow.
Toothache at night or when eating, > warmth and the warmth of the bed.
Bleeding of the gums easily.
Tongue coated.
Vesicles on the tip of the tongue.
Mouth generally dry, without thirst, with stiffness of tongue, and indistinct speech.
Bitter taste in the morning, or sour taste after eating.

Inflammation, with internal swelling, or even ulceration; frequent inclination to swallow.
Contracted feeling as if a ball rose into the throat; on swallowing, food and drink regurgitate through nose.
Dryness in the throat, with soreness and pain on swallowing.

Clinical:
Inflammations beginning on the right side, with stoppage of nose; symptoms worse at 4 P. M., etc.

Great appetite, but after beginning to eat satiety, and stomach and abdomen feel full and tense.
Sudden satiety, with thirst, heaviness and distention in the abdomen.
Appetite lost; difficult to eat anything.
Aversion to customary coffee and tobacco.
Eructations incomplete, rising part way, where they cause burning.
Sour eructations, with gnawing in the stomach.
Rising of water.
Hiccough.
Nausea in the morning before eating, with salivation; afterwards vomiting of food and bile.
General relief in the open air and from coffee.
Distention and pain or cramps in the stomach in the afternoon after eating a little, with heaviness; caused by cough, with eructations as if over-distended, even after eating a little; < sitting bent over, with dyspnœa, etc.
Digestion slow; discomfort, sensitiveness to pressure.
Constriction, extending into chest.
Anxiety in the pit of the stomach.
Heartburn.

Distention, especially about the hypochondria.
Tightness as from a cord.
Distention over the region of the liver, worse after eating.
General flatulent distention.
Cutting pains.
Distention most in the upper part of the abdomen and in hypochondria, extending to back, ribs and chest; > eructations.
Numerous rumblings and gurglings in the abdomen, griping, especially in the region of transverse colon.
Incarcerated flatulence.
Heat rises from abdomen to head, with burning cheeks.
Weight in the left side of abdomen when walking, sitting or lying.

Contraction and protrusion during hard stool.
Protruding hæmorrhoids, with burning and sticking; painful.
Anus painfully closed.
Stool constipated, with ineffectual straining.
Diarrhœa from eating milk.
First part of stool hard; last part soft like diarrhœa.

Frequent desire to urine; burning during micturition.
Urine usually copious, often dark colored, even bloody, with red sandy sediment.

Loss of sexual power.
Male organs become small and cold.
Dryness of the vagina, burning of the vagina during coition.
Varicose veins of the pudenda.
Menses usually too long continued and too profuse; sometimes too scanty.
Depressed mood before the menses, with indigestion, as above.
Corrosive leucorrhœa.

Tickling in the larynx, causing forcible cough.
Cough dry at night; expectoration in the day time.
Cough caused by tickling on deep inspiration.
Cough, with yellowish, purulent expectoration, with rawness and sore pain in the chest.
Cough, with gray, salty expectoration.
Dyspnœa, as if chest were constricted.
Heavy pressure on the chest.
Stitches in the left side, with inflammation of the lungs; when breathing.

Palpitation, in the evening in bed, during digestion.

Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, with stiffness; muscles seem too short.
Drawing and sticking pains in the back, especially in the region of the kidneys, extending into rectum, < pressure.
Pains in the region of the kidneys, < morning on rising or during menses.

Stiffness of all the joints.
Pain worse in the right side, in the evening and by warmth.
Bone pains in the arms at night.
Jerking pains in the arms and shoulders.
Arms and fingers fall asleep easily.
Skin of the hands dry.
Finger-joints red and swollen, with tearing pains.
Tearing pains in the legs at night.
Swelling and stiffness of the knees, especially in the hollows of the knees, in the morning on rising.
Contractive pain in the calves when walking.
Swelling of the feet, which are habitually cold.

Brown spots appear here and there; sometimes itching or inflamed, with burning pain.
Itching pimples in various places.
Boils.
Skin becomes unhealthy, raw, smarting on walking; he feels rubbed sore.
Veins varicose.
Gouty nodes.

Yawns all day, and is very sleepy, but falls asleep late at night.
Night sleep restless, with anxious dreams and frequent waking.

Periodic recurrence of chill; fever and sweat every afternoon from 4 to 8, with thirst; nervous irritability; sour vomiting, cough.
Chill begins in the back, as from cold water, with sleepiness, cold hands and feet.
Heat of the face or between the scapulæ.
Sweat at night on the feet, or during the day on the slightest effort.

LYCOPODIUM. LYCOPODII POLLEN. SPORULES OF CLUB-MOSS. [*].

[] This yellowish powder, smooth to the touch and resembling dust, is obtained toward the end of summer in the forests of Russia and Finland from the spikes of the club-moss (Lycopodium clavatum), which are dried and then beaten. It has been used hitherto to make artificial lightning, by blowing it through the flame of a candle, also to sprinkle over pellets which else easily stick together, and also to sprinkle it on excoriated folds in the human body to protect them against painful friction. It floats on liquids without being dissolved, is without taste and smell, and in its ordinary crude state almost without any medicinal effect on the human body. The accounts given by the ancients as to its effects, have at least not been confirmed by modern investigators, but rather drawn into doubt. But when the pollen of the club-moss is treated in the mode by which the homœopathic art unveils the crude substances of nature, according to the direction given above for the preparation of antipsoric medicines*, there arises a wonderfully effective medicine in its thirty different degrees of dynamization.

When thus prepared Lycopodium becomes one of the most indispensable antipsoric remedies, especially in chronic diseases where the following symptoms also are a cause of trouble :

Melancholy ; grief ; anxiety, with sadness and disposition to weep ; fear of being alone ; fatigue ; irritability ; obstinacy ; sensitiveness ; peevishness ; peevish, disagreeable thoughts ; impeded mental activity ; ailments from mental labor ; vertigo, especially when stooping ; headache from vexation ; pressive, tensive headache ; fits of tearing on the top of the head, in the forehead, the temples, the eyes and the nose, and extending into a tooth, usually accompanied with lying down ; tearing to and fro in the forehead, every afternoon ; nocturnal external headache ; tearing, boring and scraping ; heaviness of the head ; rush of blood to the head ; rush of blood to the head, in the morning when rising up in bed, followed by headache ; baldness ; pressure in the eyes ; erosion of the eyes ; smarting, burning pain in the eyes, in the evening ; itching burning in the upper eyelid ; shooting in the eyes, in the evening, by candle-light ; inflammation of the eyes, with nightly closing by suppuration, and lachrymation by day ; lachrymation of the eyes in the open air ; sticky moisture in the eyes, interfering with the sight ; eyes closed by suppuration ; short-sightedness ; far-sightedness ; dim-sightedness, like feathers before the eyes ; flickering and blackness before the eyes ; fiery sparks before the eyes ; irritation of the eyes by candle-light ; excessive sensitiveness of the hearing ; music, sounds and the organ affect the mind ; hardness of hearing ; ringing in the ears ; roaring in the ears ; scabs in the nose ; nightly closing of the nostril by suppuration ; ulcerated nostrils ; epistaxis ; swelling and tension of the face ; frequent fits of heat in the face ; itching eruption in the face ; freckles in the face ; toothache, with swelling of the cheeks ; grumbling toothache after a meal ; dryness about and in the mouth, so that these parts are tense, the tongue moves with difficulty, and the speech is indistinct with adipsia ; coated, unclean tongue ; chronic sore throat ; ulcers in the throat, from abuse of mercury ; dryness in the fauces ; burning in the fauces, with nocturnal thirst ; hawking up of mucus ; slimy taste in the morning ; sensation as of putrid smell from the mouth ; loss of sense of taste ; bitterness in the mouth, in the morning, with nausea ; excessive hunger ; rabid hunger ; lack of appetite ; the appetite ceases with the first morsel ; distaste for cooked warm food ; distaste to rye bread or to meat ; too much inclination for sweet things ; milk causes diarrhœa ; cannot digest heavy food ; palpitation during digestion ; severe eructation in the afternoon ; fatty eructation ; sour eructation ; heartburn ; nausea, while driving in a carriage ; frequent, constant nausea ; rising as of a hard ball from the pit of the stomach into the fauces (globulus hystericus) ; qualmishness in the stomach in the morning ; waterbrash ; pressure in the stomach, also after meals ; swelling of the scrobiculus cordis and pain when touching it ; fullness in the stomach and abdomen ; tension about the hypochondria, as from a hoop ; pains in the liver after eating to satiety ; pain above the navel when touching it ; troublesome inflation of the abdomen ; induration in the abdomen ; griping pinching and clutching pain in the abdomen, checking the breath ; shooting, pinching pain in the hypogastrium, as if in the bladder, extending to the urethra, in the evening in bed ; pinching in the abdomen ; pinching in the right side of the abdomen ; colic ; colic in the epigastrium ; tearing in both sides of the hypogastrium and the groins, extending into the thighs ; burning in the abdomen ; incarceration of the flatus ; lack of emission of flatus ; rumbling in the left side of the abdomen ; gurgling in the abdomen ; ineffectual urging to stool and very hard stool ; difficult stool, evacuated only with much straining ; constipation for several days ; costiveness ; ascarides ; pains in the anus after eating and stool ; itching in the anus ; tension in the anus ; cutting in the rectum and the bladder ; urging to urinate ; too frequent micturition with urging ; renal gravel ; hæmorrhage from the urethra ; itching in the urethra, during and after micturition ; weak erection ; want of erections ; lack of pollutions ; old swelling of the testes ; excessive pollutions ; lack of sexual impulse ; impotence of several years' standing ; aversion to coitus ; too ready excitation to coitus, by the mere thought of it ; excessive impulse to coitus, every night ; too quick emission of semen ; menses too long and too profuse ; the menses long suppressed by fright ; sadness and melancholy before the menses ; itching, burning and erosion on the pudenda ; pressing outward above the pudenda, even into the vagina, on stooping ; shooting pain in the labia on lying down ; passage of flatus from the vagina ; leucorrhœa ; discharge of leucorrhœa, with previous cutting in the hypogastrium. Coryza of every kind ; fluent coryza ; coryza and cough ; stuffed coryza ; stoppage of both nostrils ; cough after drinking ; dry cough, day and night ; dry morning-cough of many years' standing ; difficulty in coughing up anything ; cough, with concussion of the chest ; cough, with expectoration ; cough, with purulent expectoration ; ulcerative phthisis ; short breathing in children ; constant oppression of the chest, with shortness of breath during any work ; constant pressure on the left lower ribs ; stitches in the left side of the chest ; bruised pain of the chest ; burning, rising upward in the chest, like heartburn ; anxious palpitation ; shooting in the sacrum on straightening up from stooping ; nocturnal pain in the back ; tearing in the shoulders ; drawing and clutching together in nape, extending up into the occiput, day and night ; stiffness of the nape ; stiffness of one side of the neck ; hard swelling on the one side of the neck ; swelling of the glands under the jaw ; drawing pain in the arms ; twitching of the arms in the afternoon-nap ; nocturnal pain of the bones in the arms ; the arms go to sleep, even on merely raising them ; nocturnal spasmodic falling asleep of the arms ; lack of strength in the arms ; nocturnal pain of the bones in the elbow ; wrist stiff from gout ; numbness of the hands ; dryness of the skin of the hands ; tearing in the finger-joints ; redness, swelling and gouty tearing of the finger-joints ; fingers stiff, as from arthritic nodosities ; rigidity of the fingers when at work ; the little finger goes to sleep ; nocturnal tearing in the lower limbs ; tearing in the knee ; tearing in the hough, in the evening ; tearing in the knee, extending across the tibia and the dorsum of the feet ; stiffness of the knee ; swelling of the knee ; burning on the legs ; burning, smarting itching of the houghs ; contractive pain in the calves, when walking ; old ulcers on the legs, with nocturnal tearing, itching and burning ; swelling of the ankle ; cold feet ; cramp in the feet ; cold, sweaty feet ; profuse sweat of the feet ; swelling of the soles of the feet ; pain in the soles, while walking ; the toes give way in walking ; cramp in the toes ; corns ; pain in the corns ; dryness of the skin ; the skin cracks here and there and is chapped ; itching every day, on being heated ; itching in the evening, before lying down ; painful eruption on the neck and the chest ; itching and erosion on the arms and legs ; furuncle ; cramp in the fingers and in the calves ; spasmodic contraction of the fingers and toes ; tearing in the arms and legs ; tearing in the knees, the feet and the fingers ; pain in the bones from abuse of mercury ; drawing pain in the limbs ; restlessness of the feet, in the evening ; all the limbs, the arms, hands and lower limbs go to sleep, by day and by night ; insensibility of the arm and the foot ; varices, distended veins with the pregnant ; readiness to strains and consequent painful stiffness of the nape ; jerking and twitching of single limbs or of the whole body, in sleeping and waking ; difficulty in lying on the left side, on account of palpitation and stitches ; readiness to take cold ; after a short walk, weariness of the feet and burning of the soles ; internal debility ; lassitude in the limbs ; weariness on awaking ; frequent yawning and drowsiness ; drowsiness by day ; restless sleep by night ; with frequent awaking ; sleep full of dreams ; sleep full of fancies ; frightful, anxious dreams ; late in going to sleep ; he cannot sleep for rush of thoughts ; at night, twitching and restlessness of the feet ; nocturnal headache ; starting up from sleep ; lack of bodily warmth ; flushes of heat ; fever lasting three days, with sour vomiting after the chill, and bloatedness of the feet and hands ; feverish perspiration by day ; sweat by day, especially in the face, from moderate work or with slight exercise. Camphor usually moderates the excessive effects of Lycopodium, but the feverish states which are caused by it in a great degree, are best allayed by Pulsatilla, while the ill-humor, taking things ill, mistrust and making of reproaches, are best removed by Causticum. Drinking coffee impedes the action of Lycopodium and extinguishes it. A moderate dose operates for forty to fifty days and longer. It may be repeated after the intermediate use of other antipsoric remedies, but with much less effect. It is especially efficacious, when it is homœopathically indicated after the previous use of Calcarea. The abbreviations are : Gff., Dr. Baron v. Gersdorff ; Gll., Dr. Goullon ; Htb., Dr. Hartlaub ; Rl., Dr. Rummel ; Sr., Dr. Schréter ; Whl., Wahle ; Th. Rkt., Theodor Rueckert. [*].

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Lyc. / (1st L - Club) / Lydia.

Lycopodium, - We note
Thee as one of yellow bloat.
Yellow sputum - scale and skin,
Bloat of cavities within.
Wind from out the matrix pouring,
Wind within the entrails roaring.
When we see a fan-like moving
Of the nostrils, we have proving
Of a call in thy direction
For some inner chest infection.
When we find the urine spent,
Shows a red and sediment.
Then a call for thee we find
For some ail of renal kind.
Or perhaps an intimation,
Of arthritic inflammation.
Thine a sadness of the mind,
Vertigo of the reeling kind.
Fetid scabs upon the head,
Gummy eyes, and eyelids red.
Black specks floating in the sight,
Only seeing left half-right.
Tender teeth, and bleeding gums,
Falling jaw, when typhoid comes.
Sore throat starting in the right,
Might be diphtheritic plight.
So closed up, that liquid flows
Back, when swallowed, through the nose.
With a craving hunger teased,
Or with sudden fullness seized.
Or condition, as a rule,
As of being over full.
Hawking, heartburn, water brash,
With tender liver, nash, -
Rectum down, and tender piles,
Constipation in all styles.
Backache finding mitigation
In the act of urination.
Menstruation stopped by fright,
Leucorrhoea thin and white.
Ailments worse we safely state
In the evening, 4 to 8.
Also worse when sitting, lying,
Or when first motion trying.
Better by continued motion,
Similar to the Rhus tox. notion.

Lydia, - Has red sand sediment in the urine.

Lydia Lobe is siding with Philip.

This Lydia, - Who is subject to Fan-like motion of the nostrils, in Tartary with her brother.

Red Sand Sediment In The Urine: Lyco., Lob., Sil., Dig., Pho.

Fan-Like Motion of the Nostrils: Lyc., Tart. e., Brom.

Indicated in deep-seated, chronic diseases, especially of persons who are weak muscularly, but have a keen, active brain; who are subject to digestive disturbances with much flatulency; catarrhal conditions; hepatic involvements, with tenderness and stitches in the liver, swallow complexion, yellowish sports on the abdomen; dropsy dependent upon disease of the liver; uric acid diathesis; tonsilitis; diphtheria; chronic pneumonia, especially of old people; indigestion, with flatulency and colic, of babies.

Fan-like motion of alae-nasi.

After eating, even very little, sense of repletion and epigastric fulness; cannot eat more because he is "so full."

Ulcers under the tongue, near the fraenum.

Pains begin in the right side, spreading to the left (throat, chest, abdomen, ovaries); preference for the right side.

Tongue, when protruded, sways from side to side, like a pendulum.

Sensation of coldness in inner parts.

Deep furrow on the forehead, making face look aged.

Sore throat, with stitching pain when swallowing, better from warm drinks; ulceration of right tonsil.

Cough deep, hollow, with rattling of mucus, copious expectoration of mucus or of gray, purulent matter of salty taste.

Sour taste of everything; heartburn; waterbrash; sour vomiting.

Aversion to bread.

Canine hunger; eating does not satisfy; headache if he does not eat when he feels like it.

Sense of hunger awakens him at night.

Excessive accumulation of flatulence in stomach and bowels (right hypochondriac region), with loud rumbling in the bowels; not relieved by belching.

Diarrhoea of thin, yellow stools, with much flatulency.

Constipation of hard, lumpy stools, with feeling after stool as though the evacuation had been incomplete. Intestinal flatulency.

Inclination to stool; at stool, spasmodic pain or constriction at anus, making the evacuation difficult.

Before urinating, intense pain in the back; red sand in the urine.

Child cries before urinating; napkin stained yellowish or reddish; sand in the napkin.

Leucorrhoea blood-red in spells, with cutting pains across the body, from right to left.

Worse from 4 to 8 p. m.; from cold food and drinks; from starchy food.

Better from warm food and drinks; from escape of flatus; from loosening garments.

Diminished mental activity. Silent grief and melancholy, he doubts his salvation. Religious depression with mildness, weeping and silent meditation. Anxiety with grieving and weeping. Sensitive, he sheds tears easily. Nervous debility. Irritability. Anger and willfulness. Reserved ill - humor. anthropophobia, with anxiety at the approach of man, yet fears to be alone.

Whirling, when stooping or in a warm room.

Stupefying ache with heat in the temples and on ears, also dry mouth and lips. Congestion. Outward sticking in temples, right. Pains: Unilateral, worse on right side, pressive, on vertex and occiput, then weakness, tearing, here and there in forehead or from right side of neck, tensive. Jerking throw. Thrusts in temples. Worse: Evening, from 4 to 8 night, raising up, after lying down, warmth, mental exertion, becoming heated in open air, stooping. Better: Gentle motion in open air, cold, uncovering head

Nightly tearing, boring and scraping, especially in temples and sides, moving and uncovering head, while keeping rest of body warm in bed. Violent, erosive, creeping and burning itching when heated, intermingled with twitching tearing, most from vertex down over occiput, scratching causes moist swellings forming thick but painless crusts which bleed easily and painless crusts which bleed easily and discharge fetid pus from beneath. beginning on temples and vertex the hair turns gray early and falls out profusely, even to baldness, while it grows and increases on other parts, especially after suppurating scalp eruptions, or a coarse burning exanthem on nape, also after abdominal diseases or parturition.

Sticking and smarting in, by candle light in evening. Inflammation of, with lachrymation during day and nightly agglutination. Dim vision, as of feathers before. Presbyopia. Vertical hemiopia. Photophobia.

Suppurating. Roaring before. Hearing difficult, oversensitive.

Ulcerating nostrils. Oversensitive smell. Coryza, obstructing both nostrils.

Pale, especially toward evening. Earthy, yellowish countenance, deeply furrowed, with blue circles about eyes and blue lips, or with circumscribed redness of cheeks. Frequent attacks of heat in. Moist suppurating eruption on. Tearing in right side of face, eyes and teeth. Freckles. Swollen submaxillary glands.

Turn yellow. Jerks in, when eating. Toothache with swollen cheeks, by warmth and heat of bed. Dental fistula.

Foul staunch from. Dry, without thirst, with stiffness of tongue and indistinct speech. Inflammation of throat, with sticking on swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Hoarseness.

Taste: Lose. Bitter, in mouth, with qualmishness early in morning. Sour, of food.

Pressure in, with bitter taste in mouth after every meal. Cancer of. Swelling and sensitiveness of pit to touch and tight clothes.

Hypochondriac: Tension as from a hoop about. Inflammation of liver. Induration of liver. Pressure and tension in liver, especially after eating to satiety. Stitches in. Hepatic pain.

Appetite: Disappears as soon as he takes the first bite. Ravenous hunger. Excessive desire for sweat things. Milk excites diarrhoea.

Eructations: Sour. Heartburn. Attacks of violent hiccough.

Nausea: Frequent, early in morning, when fasting and when driving. Nightly vomiting of ingesta and bile.

Distressing fullness and distension of, and of stomach. Pain in both sides of. Indurations in. Pinching in. Cutting colic in upper. Ascites. Inguinal hernia.

Flatulence: Incarcerated. Inability to discharge flatus. Continued rumbling and gurgling in abdomen.

Constipation: With ineffectual urging, persistent. Diarrhoea during pregnancy, from milk. Pale, putrid, stinking stools. (Comp. with Podo)

Itching and tension in. Rectal spasm.

Bloody. Diminished discharge of dark u. Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse urine. Renal calculi.

- Sexual desire immoderate or wanting. Impotency of many years standing. gonorrhoea of glans. Chronic dryness of vagina. Burning in vagina during coition. Varicose veins on.

Menses: Too profuse and lasting too long. Too scanty. Low - spirited before. Corrosive leucorrhoea.

Shortness of breath in children, especially during sleep. Every exertion of chest, walking in open air. Threatening paralysis of lungs.

Dry, by day and night. At night, which affects the stomach. Excited by irritation as from sulphur vapor in trachea. Tickling c., from deep inspiration. With expectoration during the day, but not at night. Expectoration copious, purulent, offensive, lemon - yellow, gray, salty, bitter, flat, putrid, etc. Haemoptysis.

Continual pressure in. Stitches in left, (in typhoid or neglected) pulmonary inflammations. Shattered feeling and shocks in. Rattling. Roughness, soreness and tension in. Liver spots on. Hydrothorax. Moist nipples. Palpitation, with anxiety, especially during digestion.

Nightly drawing and sticking in.

Neck: Yellowness of skin of. Swelling and stiffness of one side of. Swelling of glands of. Stiffness of nape.

Nightly bone pains in arms. Twitches in arms and shoulders. The arms and fingers fall to sleep early. Dry skin on hands. Redness, swelling and tearing in finger - joints.

Nightly tearing in legs. White swelling of thigh. Swelling and stiffness of knees. Contraction of calves when walking. Old ulcers on lower leg with nightly tearing, itching and burning. Dropsical swelling of feet. Cold foot - sweat. Cold feet.

Drawing and tearing in limbs, especially at night and during rest or every alternate afternoon. Insensibility of limbs. Distortion of single limbs. Jerking of limbs. twitches through body. Extra ordinary emaciation. Great internal debility. During rest he feels his weakness most, yet he shuns every motion. Great desire for or aversion to open air. Easily takes cold. The symptoms are intensified at about 4 o'clock PM, but, with the exception of weakness, at about 8 o' clock they are again relieved.

Glands swollen, inflamed and suppurating.

Inflammation of, with nightly pains. Curvature. Softening. Caries.

Corrosive itching, when becoming heated during day. Moist suppurating herpes. Humid excoriations on children. Ulcers tear and itch at night, and burn when touched. Boils. Liver spots. Freckles. Varicose veins. Gouty nodosities. Dropsy of single parts or entire body.

Restless, with anxious dreams and frequent awaking. Day sleepiness, with late falling to sleep because of a rush of ideas. Yawning.

Pulse: Somewhat accelerated, only in evening and after eating. In evening, ebullition of blood with restlessness and trembling. Sensation as if circulation stood still. Chill: in afternoon and evening (from 4 to 8 o' clock) with deadness of hands and feet. In evening in bed, preventing sleep. One - sided, mostly the left. Then sweat, without previous heat. Alternating with heat. Want of natural vital heat. Heat: flashing over entire body, mostly toward evening, with frequent drinking, but little at a time, constipation and profuse urination. Of one foot (left) with coldness of the other. Sweat: Profuse during day from least exertion most on face Night and morning, often with a cold face. Clammy at, night. Often cold, sour or offensive, or with odor like blood or onions.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Agar., Ag-c., Alum., Ambr., Ang., Ap., Arg - n., ARS., Bry., CALC-C., CANTH., Caust, CHAM., Chel., Chin., Cic., cina., Con., Cupr., Euphor., Graph., Hep., Ign., Iod., Kali-c., LACH., Led., Mag - m., Mang., Merc., Mur-ac., NAT-C., Nat-s., Nit - ac., NUX-V., Petr., Phos., Phos - ac., PULS., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil.

Complementary: Carb - veg., Calc-c., graph., Iod.

Drawing and tearing in the limbs, especially while at rest or at night.

Numbness of the limbs.

Great emaciation.

Contraction of the limbs.

Twitching through the body.

Great debility - lower jaw hanging down, eyes half open and slow breathing through the mouth.

Limbs go to sleep.

Involuntary spasmodic contraction and stretching of the limbs.

Twitching and jerking during sleep.

While at rest he feels the debility most, but is disinclined to move.

Many symptoms are relieved by motion.

Ebullition in the evening, with trembling and restlessness.

Debility in the morning when awakening.

A sensation as if the circulation had ceased.

Oversensitiveness of the organs of sense.

Swelling, inflammation and suppuration of the glands.

Inflammation of the bones with nightly pains.

Softening of the bones.

Caries.

Dropsy.

Varices.

Amelioration of many symptoms in the heat of the bed.

Sandy sediment of urine.

Soreness in children.

Aggravation in the afternoon.

There is nightly aggravation as well.

There is inclination to lie about the real aversion to movement.

Impotence or sexual desire too strong.

Very often of great service in pneumonia with great dyspnoea, flaying of the alae nasae, and the presence of the mucous rattle.

Catamenia too profuse.