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Lippspringe

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Lippspringe Aqua · Lippspringe Spa Water · "The German Spa Water Remedy"
MineralRarePsoric
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🎯 A cold, gaseous, saline spring remedy acting primarily on the respiratory, urinary, and digestive systems.
📖 Clarke writes:
The waters of the mineral spring in Lippspringe, Westphalia, containing Sulphates of Sodium and Calcium, Chloride of Magnesium, and other salts in smaller proportion, with carbonic acid, nitrogen, and oxygen gases, which are freely evolved. Dilution.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Cold, sulphurated, saline spring, and very gaseous
Refreshing and laxative medication
Marked purging effect
Marked diuretic effect
Vaunted against commencing phthisis complicated with haemoptysis
Indicated for pulmonary congestion
Temperament & Physical Profile
Subjects are plethoric
Subjects are irritable
Liable to pulmonary congestion
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Saline and piquante taste
Urine increased in quantity
Great urging to urinate
Itching of nose and anus (suggests worm remedy)
Alternation of bloody stools with haemoptysis
Jerking of the limbs
Uneasiness
Cramp in calves
Sneezing
Palpitation
Restlessness
Heaviness of chest
Modalities
Perspiration WORSE at night
Diarrhoea WORSE at night
Sneezing WORSE evening
Palpitation WORSE evening
Cramp WORSE evening
Restlessness WORSE evening
Heaviness of chest WORSE after coitus
Heaviness of chest WORSE by smoking
WORSE By walking
BETTER After micturition (a peculiar feeling of comfort)
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Flickering before eyes like a bright flaming star, preventing distinct vision, worse when reading in a recumbent position.
Clarke
Apprehension and anxiety, especially when riding in a carriage.
Clarke
Dryness of throat in the evening, not relieved by drinking, but better by holding sugar in the mouth.
Clarke
Pressive cramp in the stomach after dinner, worse lying on the back, better lying on the side.
Clarke
Trembling of hands while sitting, accompanied by anxious palpitation and a rush of blood to the chest.
Clarke
Itching of the nose and anus, suggesting its use as a worm remedy.
Clarke
Urine smells of violets and may contain small calculi.
Clarke
Haemoptysis occurring nearly every morning after rising.
Clarke
Peculiar feeling of comfort after micturition.
Clarke
Acrid leucorrhoea with soreness of the labia, worse from walking.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for anxiety, homesickness, and irritability.
Apprehension WORSE riding in carriage
Depressed
sad
apprehensive.
a kind of anxiety in the heart of impending misfortune with home sickness.
Irritable.
Great desire to write.
Weak memory.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
sneezing
palpitation
cramp
restlessness
fever
Better from
Micturition
peculiar feeling of comfort
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Rhus Toxicodendron
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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