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Loss of self-confidence, yet finishes the job with competency:
- It has loss of confidence (+++) (Anac 1, Aur 2, Baryta 2, Bry 2, China 2, Lyco 2, Puls 2, Sil 2).
- Kent said. pt. has a tired state of the mind, a chronic fatigue, forgetfulness, aversion to undertaking anything new, aversion to appearing in any new role, aversion to his own work.
- Dreads lost something will happen, least he will forget something. Often in professional man, like lawyers and ministers, who have to appear in public, there is a feeling of incompetence, a feeling of inability to undertake his task although he has been accustomed to it for many years.
- A lawyer can’t think of appearing in court, he procrastinates, he delays until is obliged to appear, because he has a fear that he will stumble, that he will make mistakes, that he will forget and yet when he undertakes it, he goes through with ease and comfort.
- Tyler reports the dreaded moment arrives, he gets on to his legs, warms to his work, sails along in blissful self-forgetfulness, to sit-down feeling that he has made the speech of his life.
- It was all joy and fluency; he not only remembered all his points but made new once as he went along. But he will have the same terror next time, unless he gets his stimulus because he is Lycopodium.
- Farrington said the patient frequently mistakes in speech. The patient forgets words or syllables, he can’t find the right words while speaking, but if the subject is very important so as to call forth his utmost energy, words flow with ease.
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Cries when thanked:
- N. M. Chowdhury described that a prominent symptom is the lachrymal mood. The patient weeps all day and can’t calm herself by any means. She cries even when she is thanked.
- This is different from Nat. Mur., where sympathy elicits tear. With this lachrymal mood, however there is a sort of imperiousness in Lycopodium.
- We find her always assuming air of command. She is stiff pretentious. She does not hesitate even to strike her attendant when thwarted.
- Kent said the Lyco. patient often weeps in the act of receiving a friend or meeting an acquaintance. An unusual sadness with weeping comes over the patient on receiving a gift.
- At the slightest joy she weeps, hence we see that the Lyco. patient is a very nervous, sensitive, emotional patient.
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Opposition Unbearable:
- Amativeness, amorousness, sensitive, irritable, peevish & cross on waking. Easily excited to anger, cannot bear opposition and is speedily beside herself.
- Becomes confused about everyday things (Tyler). Haughty disposition, when sick, mistrustful, slow in comprehension, weak memory, weak children, well-developed heads but punny, sickly bodies, irritable nervous and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross, pushing away everyone angrily: old women & child (Clarke), i.e., dry temperament.
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Picks quarrel, Pusillanimous:
- N. M. Chowdhury illustrates that Lyco. patients are greedy, avaricious, malicious and parsimonious as is always true with such temperament, they are generally pusillanimous i.e., mean-minded.
- Lyco patient on the other hand will go a long distance out of his way to pick quarrel with his neighbour. They are fault finding. domineering, vehement and intolerant of contradiction. They are discontented, impatient and misanthropic.
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Obstinacy. Oversensitive:
- Clarke reports that the patient has irascibility, obstinacy estrangement and frenzy which manifest themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbeating conduct.
- Clarke again said that excessive sensitiveness is a note of Lyco. patient. Cannot bear any strong smells. Can’t endure noise. Sensitiveness to sound has curious development in this symptom.
- Irritability before menstrual period>by the flow.
- Oversensitive to pain, patient is beside himself. (Kent)
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Dreads solitude:
- The patient has dread of solitude (Coni 2, Nat.C.2, Sep.2) yet has aversion to (company Anac. 1, Baryta 1, Chamo.1, Gels 1, Ign.1, Nat M.1, Nux. Vom 1).
- Dr Kent gives a picture of this. He said the patient very often has aversion to company and yet he dreads solitude. "Dread of men & dread of solitude, imitability & melancholy the patient wants to feel that there should be somebody else in the house, but does not want company, doesn’t want to be talked to or forced to do anything, does not make any exertion, yet at times when forced to do so she a relieved. “Taciturnity, desire to be alone".
- If there were two adjacent rooms in the house you would commonly find the Lyco patient go into one and stay there, but very glad to have somebody in the other
- Tyler says that Lyco desire for solitude (is in italics), he fears when alone (is in black type).
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Intellectually keen, but physically weak:
- Tyler said that Lyco. is an intellectual, as we said, with self-distrust and Lyco. has intellectual sufferings and failures and confusions when ill. Loss of memory.
- It is suited for intellectuals (rather skinny and old looking intellectuals) with more mental then bodily vigur.
- Hence it proves subversive and especially curative of mentality, affecting memory and restoring those who, after sickness or strain are affected with confusion and mental tiredness and incompetence.
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Ugly:
- N. M. Chowdhury said that, it is ugly in their build and mentality.
- Tyler said that Lyco. is in almost everything. <in the evening and >in the morning, except as one discovered over this case, that it is (mentally)-"Ugly on waking.
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Miserly, Malicious, Melancholy:
- is a remedy for misers (Clarke), silent, melancholy. peevish humour, despair of eternal salvation (Sulph. Ver. Alb.) desponding, grieving mood, sadness when hearing distant music.
- Anguish, esp. in region of epigastrium, with melancholy, and disposition to weep esp. after a fit of anger or on the approach of another person.
- Kent said, Lyco. also has a religious insanity, which has a mild & simple beginning a matter of melancholy. The religious melancholy grows greater and greater until he sits and broods. A condition of insanity-"despondent".
- The Lyco. "Patient wakes up in the morning with sadness. This state precedes conditions of insanity and finally a suicidal state comes, an aversion to life. It is a perversion of everything that makes the man, the destruction of his will.
- Apprehensive, difficult breathing and fearfulness. Anxious thoughts as if about to die.
- Extreme despondency and melancholy, would have nothing to do with her friends (Clarke).
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- Boericke said failing brain-power (Anac., Phos… Baryta), can’t bear to see anything new. Little things annoy. Hurried when eating constant fear of breaking down under stress.
- Dr. Clarke said apprehension of losing senses (Calc., Nux., Sil.). Acquisitiveness (Ars., Puls.). Nervous before under taking anything (Ars., Arg. N.). Laughs & cries alternately (Aur., Puls., Alum., Stram., Bov., Caps, Graph., Phos., Sep., Sul., Ver.). Globus hystericus (Ign., Lach., Puls) restlessness> by motion.
- Dr. Talcott said that melancholia accompanied with gastric complaints & mental disturbances in the later stage c phthisis pulmonalis.
- Dr. Hering said in his "Condensed Materia Medica" that patient is absent minded, thinks he is in two places, at the same time; after a fright liver complaint starts. [6]
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Canine hunger:
- Canine hunger: The more he eats, the more he craves; headache if he doesn’t eat.
- Kent said that Lyco. patient says "everything I eat turns into wind". After a mere mouthful he becomes flatulent and distended, so that he can’t eat any more. He says a mouthful fills him up to the throat.
- Kent also said that oysters seem to be poison to Lyco. patient, just as onions to Thuja patient and the strawberries to Oxalic Acid pt.
- According to Master Kent this hunger can be aptly discussed in three phases: i) eating increases the hunger; ii) canine hunger, but few mouthfuls feel up to the throat; iii) aggravation after eating.
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Left foot cold, right foot hot, -leading right sided:
- Text says, "one foot hot and the other cold" (China., Dig. Ipec.), is the characteristic of Lyco. patient.
- Kent illustrated that a child whose left foot is cold and the other warm with capricious appetite and great thirst yet losing steadily-give the drug-he’ll be cured.
- Again Dr. Kent said in the throat symps. that the right is cold and the left is warm.
- Clarke reports burning pain like red-hot coals between scapulae. (Phos.). (-burning pains>by heat. Ars.). Burning, stinging in breasts.
- Clarke have discussed the key-note is in direction, — right to left. Any affection commencing on the right side and spreading to the left (-opp., Lach.) is likely requires Lyco. whether it be headache, sore-throat. chest affection, abdominal affection, pain in ovaries etc.
- Kent said that 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 down-wards e.g., from head to the chest.
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Urine red sand like particles present:
- Red sand in urine, on child’s diaper (Phos.) child cries before urinating (Bor.).
- Aching in kidneys <before, and> after urinating (Ref: Clarke).
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Bloating:
- Lyco, is adapted in gastric affections: excessive accumulation of flatulence, good appetite, constant sensation of satiety, but a few mouthfuls fill up to the throat and he feels bloated.
- It is one of the trios of tympanitic & flatulent drugs of Dr. E. B. Nash, others are China & Carbo. Veg., in case of Lycopodium the lower part of abdomen is full of gas and distended. (-but the whole abdomen, China; -upper abdomen, Carbo, Veg).
- Kent says the noise of the crackling of paper, ringing of bells or slamming of door goes through him and causes fainting. Little things annoys and cause distress. Abdomen is distended like a drum, so that he can hardly breathe.
- This fullness, is not>by belching (China). Dr. E. B. Nash said, with Lyco. pt. this flatulent condition is very apt to occur in connection with chronic liver troubles. Rumbling and flatulent is often found particularly in the region of the splenic flexure.
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Modalities:
- <From 4 to 8 P.M. esp. in gouty attacks, in rheumatic fevers, in inflammatory conditions, in pneumonia, in acute catarrh (Ref: Kent).
- The grand characteristic of Lyco. is becoming worse in this fixed time.
Note: Dr. Kent have discussed the pains are ameliorated from warmth except head and spine.
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Over sensitiveness:
- <From 4 to 8 P. M. esp. in gouty attacks, in rheumatic fevers, in inflammatory conditions, in pneumonia, in acute catarrh (Ref: Kent).
- The grand characteristic of Lyco is becoming worse in this fixed time.
- Kent have discussed the pains are ameliorated from warmth except head and spine.
- Kent said that externally there is sensitiveness to a warm atmosphere, when there are head and spine symptoms. as those are aggravated.
- Clarke said great sensitiveness in liver region esp., in case of right-sided sciatica, the patient can’t bear to lie on painful side it is so sensitive. Gums, epigastrium, abdomen. right side of chest. eruption round the arms: all soft parts are sensitive.
- Touch and pressure <.
Note: Text says the patient weeps all day, can’t calm herself, very sensitive, even cries when thanked. Dr. Clarke said can’t bear any strong smell: can’t endure noise.
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Sourness of discharges, suitability:
- Everything tastes sour, eructation, heartburn, water brash, sour vomiting. Thus, the sourness of discharges is the characteristic of Lyco. patient.
- Clarke, the one of the pioneers of the homoeopathic world has said, "It is particularly suited to persons of keen. intellect, but feeble muscular development, upper part of the body becomes wasted, lower part semi-dropsical, lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic conditions, herpetic and scrofulous constitutions, hypochondriac, subjected to skin diseases. lithic and uric acid diathesis."
- Kent said, Lyco. is anti-psoric, anti-syphilitic and anti sycotic & its sphere is broad & deep.
- It is one of the trios of Master Hahnemann’s antipsoric remedies (others being Sulph., and Calc. Carb).
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Sweet desires:
- Tyler said the Lyco. food cravings are for sweet things (Cina, Sulph., Arg. N.), for hot drinks (Chel., Sab., Spig.).
- loves, but is made ill by oysters. Dr. Tyler said that Lyco. has> from warm drinks, though sometimes > from cold drinks (throat).
Note: The patient hates coffee and meat. (7)
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Introduction
Common name :
- Club moss, Stag’s-horn Clubmoss, Ground Pine
Synonyms :
- Wolf’s foot, Wolf’s claw, Witch Meal, Vegetable Sulphur,
- Latin: Lycopodium Inflexum
Family / Group / Class / Order :
- Vegetable kingdom
- Lycopodiaceae
Habit and habitat / Description :
- It is found in Europe, Russia, Finland, North America, from Kumaon eastwards in Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur and in the Western ghats. It is a small plant growing mostly in dry woods and in hilly pastures in all parts of the world.
- Lycopodium spore is yellow and mobile.
- It floats upon water and is not wetted by it.
- It is tasteless and odorless.
- It sinks in the water when boiled with it.
- It burns quickly. The spores are three-sided pyramids.
Name of prover :
- Dr Hahnemann in 1828
Introduction and history :
- Lycopodium is a magical, constitutional, deep acting remedy for chronic diseases. It is also called ‘Vegetable Sulphur’.
- The name Lycopodium is derived from the word ‘lucos’ which means wolf and ‘pes’ meaning the foot, since the shoots appear like wolf’s foot.
- Clavatum is derived from the Latin word ‘clavatus’ meaning club-like.
- The fertile spikes look like the club. Until 1828, it was used only as an absorbent and to prevent pills from adhering. (1)
Doctrine of signature :
- It is prepared from the spores of Club moss.
- The spores are externally hard but once broken, they are very soft internally.
- Similarly, the patient does not give his/her full cooperation to the physician in the beginning, but once he starts believing in the physician, he is very cooperative.
- Similarly, while giving a speech, his speech is not fluent in the beginning but after a while, as the speech continues, it becomes more fluent. (1)
Parts used & Preparation:
- The spores are used in the preparation of the mother tincture. Spores of the moss are triturated with sugar of milk from which higher potencies are prepared in alcohol. (1)
Active principles :
- It contains 50 per cent of fat, mixture of oils, hexadecanic, dehydro- caffeine acid, aluminum as the trace elements besides palmetic acid, myristic and lycopodium acids. (1)
Constitution
Physical make up :
- Lycopodium is best suited to the carbo-nitrogenoid constitution; those who are intellectually keen but physically weak. The upper part of the body is emaciated whereas the lower part of the body is characterized by the collection of an excess of watery fluid. Such people usually have a dry temperament and dark complexion.
Temperament :
- Choleric 3, Nervous2, Phlegmatic1 (5)
Diathesis :
- Uric acid and Lithic
Relation with heat & cold :
- Chilly
Miasm :
- Psora, syphilis and sycosis.(1)
Clinical
Clinical conditions of Lycopodium Clavatum
In Homeopathy Lycopodium medicine use by Homeopathic Doctors in treatment of following Disease Conditions
- Acidity, bloating, colitis, constipation, corns, emaciation, flatulence, food allergies, hair loss, haemorrhoids, indigestion, liver-derangements, malnutrition, kidney colic, kidney disorders,
Sites of action / Pharmacodynamics of Lycopodium Clavatum
- Lungs, liver, sex organs, digestive tract, mucous membranes, skin, urinary tract, nutrition and throat.(1)
Causation (Causes / Ailments from) of Lycopodium Clavatum
- Mortification, anger, vexation, fright, tobacco chewing and smoking, liquors, wine, onions, masturbation, riding in a carriage, over lifting, oysters.(1)
Physiological action of Lycopodium Clavatum
- Moderate doses of the tincture produce nervous excitement, quickened action and circulation, headache, increased appetite, diarrhoea and increased sexual desire; also frequent, painful urination; cloudy urine depositing much sediment sometimes with mucous and even blood. (1)
Patho-physiological changes / Pathogenesis of Lycopodium Clavatum
- The chief action of the drug is on the gastrointestinal tract. It reduces the process of digestion and thereby causes flatulence and constipation.
- Lycopodium acts powerfully upon the vegetative system depressing its action and causing a slowly advancing weakness of the functional power and decay of tissues.
- It acts upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract producing respiratory disturbances.
- It acts upon the lymphatic and glandular system where it produces congestion, atony and induration.
- It acts upon the liver where it produces a hepatic congestion and later on hypertrophy.
- Acts upon the genitourinary tract and kidneys, causing uric acid diathesis.
- It acts upon the skin causing sluggish, unhealthy skin and weakness of the muscular tissue. (1)
Mental Symptoms
Characteristic mental symptoms (psychology) of Lycopodium Clavatum
- The chief action of the drug is on the gastrointestinal tract. It reduces the process of digestion and thereby causes flatulence and constipation.
- Lycopodium acts powerfully upon the vegetative system depressing its action and causing a slowly advancing weakness of the functional power and decay of tissues.
- It acts upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract producing respiratory disturbances.
- It acts upon the lymphatic and glandular system where it produces congestion, atony and induration.
- It acts upon the liver where it produces a hepatic congestion and later on hypertrophy.
- Acts upon the genitourinary tract and kidneys, causing uric acid diathesis.
- It acts upon the skin causing sluggish, unhealthy skin and weakness of the muscular tissue.
- Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Headstrong and haughty when sick. (1)
Guiding Symptoms
- Generalities
- Head
- Eye
- Ears
- Nose
- Face
- Mouth
- Throat
- Stomach
- Abdomen
- Rectum & Anus
- Stool
- Urinary Organ
- Sexual Organ
- Respiratory System
- Heart & Pulse
- Neck & Back
- Extremities
- Skin
- Sleep
- Fever
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