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Lathyrus Sativus
30C / 200CLathyrusChick Pea · Grass Pea · "The Spastic Paraplegia Remedy"
lath.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the lateral and anterior columns of the spinal cord, producing spastic paralysis and weakness.
📖 Boericke writes:
(LATHYRUS)
Affects the lateral and anterior columns of the cord. Does not produce pain.Reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza and wasting, exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant yawning.
👤 Constitution
•Typically a person suffering from chronic, exhaustive diseases or post-influenza weakness, characterized by a depressed, hypochondriacal temperament.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Reflexes always increased.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for patients experiencing low mood and balance issues related to neurological weakness.
Depressed; hypochondriacal.
Vertigo when standing with eyes closed.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Oxytropis Lamberti →Secale Cornutum →Agrostema Githago →Petiveria →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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