Lyssinum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Lyssin
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General
Hydrophobinum Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.
Modalities
Worse, sight or sound of running water or pouring water, or even thinking of fluids; dazzling or reflected light; heat of sun; stooping.
Head
Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Emotion and bad news aggravate; also, thinking of fluids. Hypersensitiveness of all senses. Chronic headache. Boring pain in forehead.
Mouth
Constant spitting; saliva tough, viscid. Sore throat; constant desire to swallow, which is difficult; gagging when swallowing water. Froths at mouth.
Stool
Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water. Profuse, watery stools, with pain in bowels; worse, evening. Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water.
Male
Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions. No emission during coition. Atrophy of testicles. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.
Female
Uterine sensitiveness; conscious of womb (Helon). Feels prolapsed. Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful (Berberis). Uterine displacements.
Respiratory
Voice altered in tone. Breathing held for a time. Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles.
Relationships
Compare: Xanthium spinosum-Cockle––(said to be specific for hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic cystitis in women). Canth; Bell; Stram; Lach; Nat mur.
Dose
Thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Lyssinum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Lyssinum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Lyssinum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Lyssinum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/lyssinum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.