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Lycopodium Clavatum

30C / 200C / 1MLycopodium
Club Moss · "The Lion Who is a Coward"
lyc.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the digestive and urinary systems, addressing chronic metabolic disturbances and liver dysfunction.
📖 Boericke writes:
(LYCOPODIUM)
This drug is inert until the spores 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 will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogle's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithaemic. Lycopodium 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. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children. Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm. In kidney affections,red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse before urination. Intolerant of cold drinks;craves everything warm. Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions.Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.
👤 Constitution
•Thin, withered individuals with an earthy complexion and yellowish spots on the skin; often older persons or precocious, weakly children with a tendency toward digestive and urinary issues.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Atony.
introduction
Malnutrition.
introduction
Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm.
introduction
Emaciation.
introduction
Pre-senility.
introduction
Melancholy; afraid to be alone.
mind
Apprehensive.
mind
Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables.
mind
Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.
ears
Nose stopped up.
nose
Fan-like motion of aloe nasi (Kali brom; Phos).
nose
Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid fever (Lach; Opium).
face
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for emotional states characterized by deep insecurity, fear of being alone, and mental confusion.
Melancholy; afraid to be alone.
Little things annoy, Extremely sensitive.
Averse to undertaking new things.
Head strong and haughty when sick.
Loss of self-confidence.
Hurried when eating.
Constant fear of breaking down under stress.
Apprehensive.
Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables.
Failing brain-power (Anac; Phos; Baryt).
Cannot bear to see anything new.
Cannot read what he writes.
Sadness in morning on awaking.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
2nd and 3rd attenuation of the Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒3 times a day
📝For purposes of aiding elimination
Primary Dosage
6th to 200th
Centesimal
🕒not too frequent
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Calcarea Carbonica →Sulphur →Chelidonium Majus →Iodium →Graphites →Lachesis Mutus →
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Causticum →
🔄 Compare With
Antimonium Crudum →Natrium Muriaticum →Mercurius Solubilis →Urtica Urens →Hepar Sulphur →Rhus Toxicodendron →Nux Vomica →Bothrops Lanceolatus →Alumina →Plumbago →Hydrastis Canadensis →
📚 Sources & References

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