Lycopus virginicus

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Bugle-weed Lower the blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and increases the length of systole to a great degree. Passive hæmorrhages (Adrenaline 6x). A heart remedy, and of use in exophthalmic goitre and hæmorrhoidal bleeding. Indicated in diseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain. Hæmoptysis due to valvular heart disease. Beneficial in toxic goitre used in the pre-operative stage dose, 5 drops of tincture (Beebe).

Head

Frontal headache; worse, frontal eminences; often succeeded by labored heart. Nosebleed.

Eyes

Protrusion, pressing, outward, with tumultuous action of heart. Supraorbital pain, with aching in testicles.

Mouth

Toothache in lower molars.

Rectum

Bleeding from rectum. Hæmorrhoids.

Urinary

Profuse flow of limpid, watery urine, especially when the heart is most irritable; also scanty urine. Bladder feels distended when empty. Diabetes. Pain in testicles.

Respiratory

Wheezing. Cough, with hæmoptysis, bleeding small but frequent.

Heart

Rapid heart action of smokers. Præcordial pain; constriction, tenderness, pulse, weak, irregular, intermittent, tremulous, rapid. Cyanosis. Heart's action tumultuous and forcible. Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression around heart. Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease. Cardiac asthma (Sumbul).

Sleep

Wakefulness and morbid vigilance with inordinately active, but weak circulation.

Relationships

Compare: Ephedra-Teamsters Tea––(in exophthalmic goitre; eyes feel pushed out with tumultuous action of heart); Fucus; Spartein; Cratægus. Adrenaline 6x.

Dose

First to thirtieth potency.

What the other books say about Lycopus virginicus

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Lycopus virginicus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Lycopus virginicus — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/lycopus-virginicus. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.