Lycopodium Clavatum

Questions

What is Lycopodium ?

It is the Club Moss, and we prepare triturations of the pollen.

What is the general sphere of action of Lycopodium ?

It is especially adapted to ailments gradually developing; functional power weakening with failure of the digestive power; and where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Urinary disturbances are marked. Give four general characteristics of Lycopodium. 1. Aggravation from 4 to 8 p. m. 2. Great aggravation from cold. 3. Complaints go from right to left. 4. Offensiveness of discharges, and heavy, red sediment in urine.

What are the mental symptoms of Lycopodium ?

Weakness and relaxation, a tired mind; patients are • afraid to be left alone ; imperious and domineering or sad and melancholic; weak memory, makes mistakes in speech.

What are the characteristic nasal symptoms ?

Nose stuffed up; cannot breathe through it night or day; discharge of 5'yellowish-green matter from the nose; fanlike motions of the alse nasi.

What are the indications for Lycopodium in throat troubles ?

Enlarged tonsils, which are studded with small ulcers. It holds the same relation to the right side of the throat that Lachesis does to the left; diphtheritic deposits on the right side of the throat; tonsils and tongue are both swollen.

What are the digestive symptoms of Lycopodium ?

Goes to meals with a vigorous appetite; but a few mouthfuls fill him up full. Very sleepy after eating, great accumulation of flatulence in the intestines, which presses up and causes difficulty in breathing. Ravenous hunger, which, if not satisfied, causes a headache; there is sour taste, sour belching and sometimes sour vomiting; pit of stomach swollen and sensitive, and intolerant to tight clothing, belching of gas does not relieve; desire for sweets.

What are the stools of Lycopodium ?

Constipation with ineffectual urging and a sensation as if something remained behind due to constriction of rectum and anus. Bleeding piles.

What are the urinary symptoms of Lycopodium ?

The urine is turbid and bad smelling and deposits a red sand ; child cries before passing water on account of lithic acid in the urine, the diaper is stained yellow. What affection about the sexual sphere corresponds to Lycopodium ? " Impotence, with cold relaxed sexual organs, and diminished sexual power.

What are the respiratory symptoms of Lycopodium ?

Rattling cough and dyspnoea; accumulation of mucus in the chest. Pneumonia, with fan-like motion of the alse nasi; one foot warm and the other cold; expectoration thick and yellow, and cough worse from 4 to 8 p. m.

What is a symptom of Lycopodium in the back ?

Burning as of hot coals between the scapulae.

What are the symptoms of Lycopodium in impending paralysis of the brain?

The patient is in a stupor, has fishy eyes, the lower jaw is dropped, the breathing is snoring and rattling, pulse intermittent, tongue swollen, patient cannot protrude it or it rolls from side to side and is dry ?

What are the indications for Bovista in Hemorrhages ?

Hemorrhages from relaxation of the capillary system; epistaxis or menstrual hemorrhages, where the blood flows with very little exertion ; the flow occurs more at night or in the morning.

What are the symptoms calling for Ustilago in Hemorrhages?

Bright, partly clotted hemorrhages from passive congestion of the uterus; hemorrhages from slight causes, as from digital examinations.