Materia Medica
Lycopodium
Club Moss
This drug is inert until the pores 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 wilr be found. A lithemic-neurasthenic remedy. Lyc- podium is adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Atony. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yell
Mind
Melancholy; afraid to be alone. Little things annoy. Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Headstrong and haughty when sick. Iwss of self-confidence Hurried when eating. Constant fear of breaking down under stress. Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or qerites wrong words and syllables. Failing brain-power. [Anac.: Phos.; Baryt.] Cannot bear to see anything new. ( Cannot read what he writes. S Sadness in morning on awaking.
Head
Shakes' head without apparent cause. Twists face and mouth. P'ressing headache on vertex; worse from 4 to 8 p. M., and from lying down or stoop- ing, if not eating regularly. [Cact.] Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing. Headaches over 'eyes in severe colds. [Sulph.] Vertigo in morning on rising. Pain in temples, as if they were screwed to- ward each other. Tearing pain in occiput; better, fresh air. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing behind ears. 1 Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair.
Eyes
Styes on lids near internal canthus. Day- blindness. [Bothrops.] Night-blindness more charac- teristic. Sees only one-half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids.
Ears
Thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Eczema about and behind ears. Otorrhoea and deafness with or without tinnitus; after scarlatina. Humming and roar- ing with hardness of hearing; every noise causes pe- culiar echo in ear.
Nose
Sense of smell very acute. Feeling of dry- ness posteriorly. Scanty excoriating, discharge an- teriorly. Ulcerated nostrils. Crusts and elastic plugs. [Kal. b.; Teuc.] Fluent coryza. Nose stopped up. Snuf- Aes; child starts from sleep rubbing nose. Fan-like no- tion of ala nasi. [Kal. brom.; Phos.]
Face
Grayish-yellow color of face. with blue cir- cles around eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated ; copper-colored eruption. Dropping of lower jaw, in ty- phoid fever. [ [Lach.; Opium.] 1 Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth.
Mouth
Teeth excessively painful to touch. Tooth- ache, with swelling of cheeks; relieved by warm appli- cation. Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst. Tongue dry, black, cracked, swollen; oscillates to and fro. 1 Mouth waters.l Blisters on tongue. Bad odor from mouth.
Throat
Dryness of throat, without thirst. Food and drink regurgitates through nose. Inflammation of thiroat, with stitches on swallowing; better. arm drinks. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Ulcera- tion of tonsils, beginning on right side. Diphtheria; dc- posits spread from right to left; worse, cold drinks. Ulceration of vocal bands. Tubercular laryngitis, es- pecially when ulceration commences.
Stomach
Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fer- mentable food. Excessive hunger. Aversion to bread, etc. Desire for sweet things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations. Great weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth. Eating ever so little creates full- ness. Cannot eat oysters. Rolling of flatulence. [Chin.; Carb.] Wakes at night feeling hungry. Hiccough. [Sulph. ac.; Hyos.] Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx, there burn for hours. Likes to take food and drink hot. 471
Abdomen
Immediately afer a light meal, abdo- men is bloated, full. Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side. Hernia, right.side. Liver sensitive. Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease. I Hepatitis, atrophic form of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across lower ab- domen from right to left.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Inactive intestinal canal. In- effectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, inco- plete. Hemorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching. [Mur. ac.] Urine. -- Pain in back before urinating; ceases after Aow; slow in coming, must strain. Retention. Polyuria during the night. Heavy red sediment. Child cries be- fore urinating. [Bor.]
Male
No erectile power; impotence. Premature emission. [Calad.; Scl.; Acn.] Enlarged prostate. c Condylomata. ' Female.-- Menses too late; last too long. Vagina dry. Coition painful. [Ary. n.; Berb.; Kreos.] Right ovarian pain. Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhcea, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from geni- tals during stool.
Respiratory
Tickling cough. Dyspnoea. Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest. Cough worse going down ill. Cough deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, purulent, salty. [Ars.; Phos.; Puls.] Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes. Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of mucus rattling. Neglected pneumonia. Left-sided pneumonia.
Heart
Aneurism. [Baryta carb.] Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Cannot lie on left side.
Back
Burning between scapula. Pain in small of
Extremities
Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the other cold. Chronic gout, with chalk deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of the feet. Pain in heel on reading as from a pebble. [Hep.] Toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica, worse right side. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and feet numb. Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed.
Skin
Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; Fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with. urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Vari- cose veins, nrevi, erectric tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration. Psoriasis.
Sleep
Drowsy during day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of accidents.
Fever
Chill between 3 and 4 p. M., followed by sweat. Icy coldness. Sweat from least exertion. [Calc.; Sil.; Hep.]
Modalities
W'orse, right side, from right to left, from above downward, 4 to 8 p. M. Warm applications, lying on left side, heat, hot air, hot bed. Better, by motion, after midnight, from warm food and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered; heat of bed.
Relationships
Complementary: Lycop. acts with special beneft after Calcar. and Sulphur. Iod.; Graph- ites; Lach.; Chelidon. Antidotes: Camph.; Puls.; Caust. Compare : Alumina. (Lycop. is the only vegetable that takes up alurninum. F. K. Allen.) Ant. c.; Nat. m.; Bry.; Nux; Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely 'see after sunrise; pain in right great toe). Hydrast. follows Lycop. in indigestion.
Dose
Both the lower and the highest potencies ' are credited with excelient results. For purposes of aiding elimination the second and third attenuation of the Tincture, a few drops, 3 tiincs a day, have proved efficacious, otherwise the 6th to 200th potency, and higher, in not too frequent doses.