Materia Medica
Lycopus Virginicus
Bugle-weed
Lowers the blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and- increases the length of systole to a great degree. (Hinsdale.) A heart remedy, and of use in exophthalmic goitre and hamorrhoidal bleeding. Indicated in diseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain. Hcinoptysis due to valvular heart disease.
Head
Frontal headache; worse, frontal emi- nences; often succeeded by labored heart. Nosebleed.
Eyes
Protrusion, pressing, outward, with tumul- tuous action of heart. Supraorbital pain, with aching in testicles.
Mouth
Toothache in lower molars.
Rectum
Bleeding from rectum. Hemorrhoids.
Respiratory
Wheezing Cough, with haemoptysis. Urine.-Profuse flow of limpid, watery urine, es- pecially when the heart is most irritable; also scanty urine. Bladder feels distended when empty. Diabetes. Pain in testicles.
Heart
Precordial pain; constriction, tenderness, pulse, weak, irregular, intermittent, tremulous, rapid. Cyanosis. Heart's action tumultuous and forcible. Pal- pitation from nervous irritation, with oppression around Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease.
Relationships
Compare: Ephedra — Teamster's Tea -- (in exophthalmic goitre; eyes feel pushed out with tumultuous action of heart); Fucus; Spartein; Cra- tegus.
Dose
First to thirtieth potercy.