Benno Lipton

CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBING

The knowledge of the temperamental reaction pattern will be a great help in prescribing for a patient. Dr. Roberts, in his “Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy” has pointed out that we should not rely too much on the temperament of the patient for this is likely to lead us to keynote prescribing.

LYCOPODIUM IN ITS RELATION TO THE MIASMS

In Lycopodium we find chronic gout with chalky deposits in the articulations, and a sciatica, especially at night, which is better by motion and worse by rest. These features are clearly sycotic. The characteristic symptom of Lycopodium, “One foot hot and the other cold,” is a psoric symptom.