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Lycopodium Clavatum

30C / 200C / 1MLycopodium
Club Moss · "The Lion Who is a Coward"
lyc.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 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 and .
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. . Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, acid , 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 , 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. . . in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. , 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.
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Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm.
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Pre-senility.
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; 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 (Lach; Opium).
face
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for emotional states characterized by deep insecurity, fear of being alone, and mental confusion.
; 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
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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 →Hydrastis Canadensis →Plumbago →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Lycopodium Clavatum is listed in 776 rubrics across 24 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 216 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System86Abdomen81Urinary System62Stomach59Respiratory System55Skin52Female Sexual System41Male Sexual System39Modalities37Nervous System36Mind30Head28Fever27Eyes27Generalities26Throat24Nose15Face9Circulatory System9Tongue9Ears8Teeth6Mouth5Taste5

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