Lycopodium clavatum

Generalities

• It is called vegetable sulphur.

• It affects the NUTRITION; DUE TO WEAKNESS OF DIGESTION.

• Acts upon URINARY ORGANS and most of the symptoms develop on the RIGHT SIDE and go to the l eft; THROAT; chest, ovary.

• Ailments develop gradually; weakening the functional power; the function of liver is seriously disturbed.

• Deep seated progressive chronic diseases.

– Repeating symptoms or alternating symptoms; chill after chill, flushing the n paling; flexion then extension; automatic acts.

– Relapsing conditions.

• Prostration of mind and body.

• It is adapted to old persons; or who become old early, where the skin show yellowish spots; or to precocious weakly children.

– Lyco. patients are intellectually keen but of weak muscular power; lack vital heat; circulation poor; it seems to stand still; with cold, numb extremities, or numbness may appear in spots.

• Sudden symptoms pains come and go suddenly; or cause anger, jerking etc.

• The patient is thin, withered and FULL OF GAS.

• ACIDITY; sour, taste, eructations etc.

• Descending symptoms, colds, emaciation etc.

– Calculi; gall stones, gravel.

• Dropsy; ascites in liver diseases.

– Coldness; partial, head, throat etc.

• Dryness; of palms, soles, vagina, skin etc.

• Rawness; in folds, anus, nipple etc.

• Formication of affected limbs.

• Paralysis.

• Carcinoma.

• Inflammation of bones, mostly at ends; softening and caries of bones.

• Spasms with screaming, foaming at the mouth; throwing the arms about.

– Oversensitive, to pain; patient is besides himself.

• Sense of internal paralysis.

• Lithic acid diathesis.

• Ill effects of fear, fright, changrin, anger, anxiety, fevers; overlifting; masturbation; riding in a carriage.

• Tobacco chewing.

• Wine.

• One side of the body hypertrophied at change of life, in women.

• Atrophy of infants.

• Haemorrhages; dark blood.

• Erectile tumours.

• Boils recurring periodically.

• Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids.

Worse

• PRESSURE OF CLOTHES.

• WARMTH.

– Awakening.

• Wind.

• Eating; even a little; or to satiety; oysters.

– Indigestion.

• 4 to 8 p.m.

• Wet weather, stormy weather.

• Pressure.

• Before, or from suppressed menses.

• Milk.

• Vegetables, cabbages, beans; bread, pastry.

Better

• WARMS DRINKS; food.

• Cold applications.

• Motion.

– Eructations.

• Urinating.

• After midnight.

Mind

– Confusion over daily affairs.

• Mentally, active but grows weaker.

• Melancholy; afraid to be alone, of men; of his own shadow.

– Sensitive, weeps when thanked; or meeting a friends.

• Fearsome; dread of men; presence of new persons, of everything, even ringing of door bell.

• Loss of self confidence; from anticipation; averse to undertaking new things; yet when he undertakes it he goes through with ease and comfort.

• AWAKES; ANGRY, sad and anxious.

• Vehement; headstrong.

– Domineering; exacting; reserved, or despairing.

• Spells or writes wrong words of syllables.

• Can not bear to see anything new.

• Can not read what he writes.

• Hurried when eating.

• Incipient paralysis of brain.

• Weeps all day.

• Sad, on hearing distant music; or cheerful and merry.

• Hateful.

• Cranky.

• Miserly.

• Brainfag; after influenza.

• Anxious thoughts as if about to die.

• Indecision.

• Timidity.

• Resignation.

• Misanthrophic, flies even from his children.

– Amative.

• Distrustful; fault finding.

• Suspicious.

Head

• Shakes head without any apparent cause; or involuntarily, slow first, then rapid.

• Vertigo when looking at anything turning.

• Head cold.

• Pain in temples as if screwed together, agg. menses.

• Pain begins on one side goes to other where it is worse.

• Headache, agg. if not eating regularly; lying down, stooping, amel. uncovering.

• Pulsating pain in occiput; at night, agg. when hot.

• Hair falls, becomes gray early.

• Premature baldness; after abdominal affections; parturition.

– Deep furrows on forehead in abdominal, pulmonary and brain affections; and in misers.

• Dandruff.

• Hydrocephalus.

• Meningitis; tubercular.

• Catarrhal headache agg. when discharge from nose is slacked up.

• Throbbing after every spell of cough; pains when pressing at stools.

Eyes

• Half open.

• Haemiopia.

• Day-blindedness more.

• Sparks before the eyes; inn the dark.

• Styes on lids towards the inner canthi.

• Polypus on external canthi.

• Cataract; with suppressed menses.

• Feel cold, hot, seems too large.

Ears

• Humming and roaring; with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.

• Thick yellow offensive discharge, with deafness.

• Eczema about and behind the ears.

• As if hot blood rushed into cars.

Nose

• Nose stopped up; snuffles; breathes through mouth; child starts from sleep rubbing the nose.

– Fan like motion of alae nasi; in brain, lung and abdominal troubles.

• Feeling of dryness posteriorly.

• Ozaena; acrid.

• Chronic coryza; blows nose often.

• Nasal troubles from childhood.

• Acute smell.

Face

• Yellowish; pale; gray; with blue circles around the eyes.

• Face withered, shrivelled and emaciated.

• Flushes of heat.

• Twitchings.

– Mouth Hangs open.

– Sore lips.

• Twists face and mouth.

• Silly expression.

Mouth

• Toothache, with swelling of cheek amel. warm application.

• Tongue; dry; black; cracked, stiff heavy; swollen, lous to and fro or is darted out rapidly; trembling; painful ulcer on tip or below tongue.

• Speech indistinct; stammers the last word.

• Saliva dries on palate and lips.

• Dryness without thirst.

• Lower jaw drops; in fever.

• Teeth yellow.

• Mouth waters.

• Gums bleed when touched or cleaning teeth.

• Taste; too acute; sour, bitter, mouldy.

• Small tumours in mouth in various places.

Throat

• Feeling as of a hard body in oesophagus.

• A ball rises and sticks in throat.

– Sore throat; agg. cold drinks.

• Swelling and suppuration of tonsils.

• Chronic enlargement of the tonsils.

• Diphtheria – deposits spread from right to left.

• Food and drinks come through nose; on swallowing.

• Throat cold.

• As of a ball rose up in.

• Feeling of contraction provoking constant swallowing.

Stomach

• Digestion weak.

• Loss of appetite.

– Hunger, but quick satiety.

• EATING EVER SO LITTLE CREATES FULNESS.

• Hiccough.

– Incomplete burning eructations; rise only to pharynx and then burns for hours.

• Farinaceous and flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters disagrees.

• Sensation as if fasting after meals, but without hunger.

• Desire for sweet things.

• Aversion to soup, to bread.

• Canine hunger the more he eats, the more he craves.

• Wakes at night feeling hungry.

• Vomits; food and bile; coagulated blood; dark greenish masses, after eating and drinking.

• Cancer; perforating ulcer.

• Churning sensation in.

• Gnawing in stomach, amel. drinking hot water.

• Desire for sweets, delicacies, pastries etc.

• Food tastes sour.

• Likes to take drink and food hot.

• Coldness in stomach.

• Bad effects of onions.

Abdomen

• Epigastirc; anxiety; pressure.

• As of a band about waist.

• FLATULENCE; MUCH; NOISY, pressing out; amel. lower bowels.

• Sensitive congested liver.

• Chronic hepatitis; atrophic; nutmeg liver.

• Sensation of something moving up and down; or as of a hard body rolli ng, when turning to the right side.

• Ascites; from liver diseases.

• Soreness agg. hypogastrium alternating sides.

• Brown spots on.

• Colic in babies agg. evening.

• Constipation; of children; ineffectual urging from contraction of sphincters; feeling as if much remained unpassed after stools.

• Stools; contain sand, small, difficult, first parts is hard, is difficult to expel, last part is soft or thin and gushing; followed by faintness and weakness.

• Haemorrhoids, aching; painful to touch amel. hot bathing.

• Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

• Rawness of anus.

• Constipation when away from home or travelling.

• Chilliness in the rectum before stools.

• Constipation or diarrhoea during pregnancy.

• Gastro enteritis from fright.

• Diarrhoea from cold drinks.

• Continued burning in rectum.

Urinary

• Frequent urging to urinate amel. riding in cars.

• Renal colic in ureter (right) to bladder.

• Urine; scanty; cries before urinating; (esp. children who wake up from pain, with screaming, and toss the limbs about); red sand in; slow in coming must strain; suppressed; retained.

• Urine; milky, turbid.

• Polyuria, during the night.

• Haematuria.

• Involuntary urination (esp. in fever), or from fright during coition.

• Urinary blood; with paraplegia or sometimes with constipation.

• Urine burning hot.

Male

– Sexual exhaustion; impotence; erections feeble; falls asleep during coition.

• Yellow tumour corona glandis.

• Exhausting pollutions.

• Enlarged prostate.

• Premature seminal emission

Female

• Menses; of clots and serum; discharge of blood from genitals during at stools.

• Vagina; dry, burning agg. during and after coition.

– Leucorrhoea, acrid; periodical; milky; agg. before full moon.

• Physometra.

• Cutting from right to left ovary; ovarian; tumours; dropsy.

• Dropsy of uterus.

• Hard burning nodosities in mammae with stitching aching pains, and soreness.

• Rawness of nipples; sore, fissured, bleed easily.

• Foetus seems to be turning summersaults.

• Dysmenorrhoea; violent, with fainting.

• Menses; suppressed; for months.

• Delayed menses with undeveloped mammae at puberty.

• Milk in breast without being pregnant.

• Child vomits blood after sucking bleed nipples.

Respiratory

• Craves air but is chilled by it.

• Short, rattling breathing agg. lying on back.

• Cough; dry, tickling, teasing; in puny boys with emaciation; day and night; deep hollow; as from sulphur fumes, agg. on descending; with emaciation; agg. on empty swallowing, stretching the throat; deep breathing.

• Salty greenish-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration.

• Unresolved pneumonia.

• Brown yellow spots on chest.

• Abscess of the lungs, tuberculosis.

• Difficult respiration due to hydrothorax or/and hydropericardium, with flapping of alae nasi.

• Feeling of tightness in chest with burning.

Heart

• Aneurism.

• Aortic disease.

• Palpitation, with flapping of a alae nasi at night, agg. lying on right side; with cold face and feet.

• Pulse; fast, agg. after eating; evening.

• Sensation as if the circulation stool still.

• Hypertrophy.

Neck and back

• One side of the neck stiff and swollen.

• Burning as from hot coals between the scapulae.

• Pain in the back and right side from congestion of liver.

• Pain in the small of the back; agg. sitting erect; amel. urination.

• Stiff back.

• Emaciation about the neck.

• Bubbling sensation.

• Lumbago agg. slightest motion (after Bry).

Extremities

• Axillary abscess (right).

• Hands and feet numb; cramps in hands and feet.

• Fingers twitch during sleep.

• Sticky sweat on fingers.

• Pain jerks legs upward.

• Cramps in calves, when walking; at night.

• One foot hot, other cold, or cold sweaty feet.

• Constant troublesome heat of hands.

• Sciatica right side agg. pressure; can not lie on painful side, amel. hot application and walking.

• Cramps in toes; at night.

• Pain in heels on treading as from pebbles.

• Heels numb.

• Palms dry.

• Varicose veins on legs.

• Oedema of feet, rises until ascites forms.

• Pain in bones at night.

• Curvature and caries of bones.

• Emaciation of one hand or one leg.

• Hands and feet become heavy, relaxed, tremble amel. by motion.

• Painful corns on soles.

• Toes and fingers contracted.

• Toes bend when walking.

• Profuse foetid foot sweat.

Skin

• Dry; rawness in folds.

• Abscesses beneath the skin.

• Urticaria; chronic agg. warmth.

• Erectile tumours agg. before menses.

• Blood boils.

• Boils which do not mature but remain blue.

• Sites of old boils and pustules indurate and form nodules that remain long.

• Vesicular swellings.

• Eczema associated with urinary, gastric, hepatic disorders.

• Psoriasis.

• Ulcers, fistulous.

• Scabs do not separate.

• Viscid and offensive sweat.

Sleep

• Drowsy during day; on waking, the child starts, becomes cross, kicks, scolds, or holds his mother.

• Awakes terrified.

• Anxious dreams of fatal accidents.

• Child sleeps all day and cries all night.

• Laughs or weeps in sleep.

Fever

• Coldness; icy, partial; of head, abdomen, stomach, throat etc., agg. coughing.

• Body becomes cold during cough.

• Feels as if lying on ice.

• Chill; followed by another chill; then vomits; after first sleep.

• Foul, viscid sweat; axillary, of feet; like onions.

• Fever, continuous, remittent, intermittent.

Complementary

• Calc; Iod; Kali-c; Lach; Puls; Sulph.

Related

• Carb-v; Sil.

Source: Phatak materia medica