Lycopodium clavatum
lyco-claClub Moss 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 Grauvogle'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
Lycopodium clavatum — Materia Medica
Lycopodium clavatum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Lycopodium clavatum — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms of Lyc. are numerous. He is tired. He 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 lest something will happen, lest he will forget something. A continually increasing dread of appearing in public comes on, yet a horror, at times, of solitude. Often in professional men, 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 cannot think of appearing in court; he procrastinates, he delays until he 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. This is a striking feature also of Silicea. No medicines have this fear so marked as these two. Lyc. also has a religious insanity, which has a mild and simple beginning, a matter of melancholy. This religious melancholy grows greater and greater until he sits and broods. He has very often aversion to company, and yet he dreads solitude. "Dread of men and dread of solitude; irritability and melancholy." This dread of men is not always a state of dread in women. It is a dread of people, and when that is fully carried out in the Lyc.
Lycopodium clavatum — general · James Tyler Kent
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.
Lycopodium clavatum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
{Allen, Hering, with some of Hahnemann's italics) Mentals. Dread of men : of solitude : irritable and melancholy. Weeps all day, cannot calm herself. Worse 4 / 0 8 p.m. Sensitive : even cries when thanked. Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed. Amativeness, and amorousness. Sensitive, irritable : peevish and cross on waking. Easily excited tc anger ; cannot bear opposition, and is speedily beside herself. Ailments from fright, anger, mortification or vexation, with reserved displeasure. Oversensitive to Pain. Patient is beside herself. {Cham.) Speaks wrong words and syllables. Selects wrong words. Becomes confused about everyday things. Great apprehensiveness in the pit of the stomach. {Kali c.) Head. Vertigo in the morning when and after rising from bed, so that he reels back and forth. Throbbing in brain on leaning head back during the day. Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing. With the cough, shattering in temples and in chest. Pain in temples as if screwed together, worse during menses. Rush of blood to head on waking. Excessive falling of hair : hair becomes grey too soon. Eyes, distressing pain, as if dry, with nightly.agglutination. Styes on lids, more towards inner canthi. Ulceration and redness of eyelids. Evening light blinds him very much : cannot see anything on ■t table. Soaring, humming, rushing, etc., in ears. Loss of hearing in connection with otorrhcea. Eczema of ears, with thick crusts and fissures. Violent catarrh, with swelling of nose. Stopped catarrh, so that he cannot get breath at night. Complete stoppage of nose : child's breath stopped during sleep, frequently for fifteen seconds, even while the mouth is open. Fan-like motion of the ala nasi. Face yellowish grey. Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles. Teeth painful when chewing and when touched. Numerous blisters on the tongue.
Lycopodium clavatum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Club Moss) One of Hahnemann’s precious gifts, and one that exhibits and justifies his teachings in regard to potentization. Of Lycopodium, he writes : “ This dust-like powder, which is yellowish, smooth to the touch, is obtained from the ears of a moss, Lycopodium clavatum, which grows in the forests of Russia and Finland ” [also in this country.—Ed.]. “ Towards the end of Summer, the ears are dried, and afterwards beaten. " When thrown into a flame, it flashes up, and has been used to cover pills which easily adhere to one another, and to protect sore places in folds against the friction occasioned by walking and otherwise. It floats upon liquids without being dissolved, has neither taste nor smell, and when in its natural crude condi tion, has almost no effect upon the health of man . . . “ This drug has wonderful medicinal properties, which can only be disclosed by trituration and succussion . . . “ A moderate dose acts from forty to fifty days. It may be repeated after the intermediate use of another antipsoric, but a second dose acts less favourably than the first. “ It acts with especial benefit, when homceopathically indicated, after the action of Calc, shall have passed over . . Kent says : " Though classed among inert substances, and thought to be useful only for rolling up allopathic pills, Hahne mann brought it into use and developed its power by attenuation. It is a monument to Hahnemann. It enters deep into the life. . . . There is nothing about man that Lycopodium does not rouse into tumult . . This “ unmoist enable powder ”—inert, yet flashing brilliantly “ when thrown into a flame ” has been also used in the manu facture of fireworks.
Lycopodium clavatum — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 p.m. (Hell.—from 4 to 9 p.m., Coloc., Mag-p.). Amelioration: Warm foods and drinks; from uncovering the head; loosening the garments.
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