Lycopodium



Stool

Constipation of long standing. Hard stools with ineffectual desire to evacuate. Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of rectum or anus. Small stool, with the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulations of flatulence. Hemorrhage from rectum, even after a soft stool. Feeling of fullness in rectum continues after a copious stool. Contractive pain in perineum, after scanty, hard stool. Stitches in the rectum. Diarrhoea (during pregnancy), with earthy color of the face. During stool: burning and biting at anus, pressure, tenesmus, ringing in ears, headache, pain in back as if broken, hemorrhage. After stool: flatulent distension. Constriction of the abdomen, sometimes with ineffectual want to evacuate, and difficult evacuation. Constipation or diarrhoea in pregnant women. Feces: pale and of a putrid odor, thin brown, pale green mixed with hard lumps, thin yellow or reddish-yellow fluid, shaggy reddish mucus (urethral tenesmus, dysentery), green, stringy, odorless mucus. Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation. Lumbrici. Pains in the anus after a meal and after an evacuation. Itching and tension in the anus. Incisive pains, shootings and pain as from excoriation in the rectum. Spasms in rectum. Contraction of rectum so that it protrudes during a hard stool. Piles swollen, protruding, burning sticking, protruding during soft stool, painful on touch and when sitting. Haemorrhoidal excrescences in anus and in rectum, with prolapsus recti. Itching eruption in anus. Itching and tension at the anus (evening in bed). Painful closing of anus. Protrusion of the varices. Distension of the varices of the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Urgent want to urinate, with too frequent emission, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine. Frequent micturition by night, with scanty and rare discharges by day. Dark urine with diminished discharge. Greasy pellicle on the urine. Involuntary micturition. Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless. Old thickening of bladder with irritable urethra. Foamy urine. Urine deep colored, with yellow or reddish sediment. Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallized sediment in the bottom of the chamber. In typhus fever, where the patient is in a very low state, and cannot retain the urine, we may see this sediment on the sheets, also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on the diaper. A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating, causing patient to cry out, retention of urine, patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flow, children often cry out with pain before urinating. Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive purulent sediment, dull pressure in region of bladder and abdomen, disposition to calculi, cystitis. Hematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh. Renal calculus and gravel. Emission of blood instead of water, sometimes with paralysis of the legs, and constipation. Incontinence of urine. Smarting when urinating. Itching in urethra during and after emission of urine. Shooting pinchings and incisive pains in the bladder and urethra. Stitches in the bladder. Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time. Burning in urethra and glans. Urine burning hot, like molten lead.

Male Sexual Organs

Shooting, drawing, and incisive pain in the glans. Bastard gonorrhea, with a deep red and smarting pustule behind the glans. Excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Dropsical swelling of genital organs. Immoderate excitement, or absence of sexual desire. Repugnance to coition, or disposition to be too easily excited to it. Impotence of long standing. Weakness or total absence of erections. Penis small, cold, relaxed. Itching of the internal surface of the prepuce. Excessive pollutions, or absence of pollutions. Emission too speedy or too tardy during coition. Falling asleep during coition. Lassitude, after coition or pollutions. Flow of prostatic fluid, without an erection.

Female Sexual Organs.

Nymphomania with terrible teasing desire in external organs. Itching, burning, and gnawing in vulva. Pressure towards the outside, above the vulva, and extending as far as the vagina, when stooping. Expulsion of wind from the vagina. Chronic dryness of vagina. Shooting pains in labia, when lying down. Excoriation between the thighs, and at the vulva. Burning pain in the vagina, during and after coition. Catamenia (too early) too profuse, and of too long duration. Catamenia suppressed readily, and for a long time, by fright. Before menses: shivering, sadness, melancholy, bloatedness of the abdomen. During menses: delirium, with tears, headache, sourness in the mouth, pain in loins, swelling of feet, fainting, vomiting of sour matter, cuttings, colic, and pain in the back. Menstruation too late, lasts too long, sometimes suppression of, profuse, protracted, flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum, with labour- like pains followed by swooning, with sadness, suppressed by fright. May find females at change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied. Fetus appears to be turning somersaults. Metrorrhagia, at menopause, dark blood with large clots pour from her. A rumbling begins in upper abdomen and descends to lower, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively. Leucorrhea: milky, yellowish, reddish, and corrosive, sometimes preceded by cuttings in abdomen. Varices on the genitals. Disposition to miscarriages. Swelling of the breasts with nodosities. Excoriation and moist scabs on nipples. Stinging in nipples. Milk in breasts without being pregnant.

Respiratory Organs

Crawling scraping in trachea, at night. Hoarseness, with roughness, and pain as from excoriation in chest, after speaking. (Voice feeble and husky.) _ Whizzing breathing in daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in chest, loud rattling. Voice weak and dull. Cough after drinking. Obstinate dry cough in morning. Nocturnal cough, worse before sunrise, which affects the head, diaphragm, and stomach. Dry cough, day and night. Cough excited by a tickling, or as if produced by the vapor of sulphur, or by taking a deep inspiration, generally with a yellowish grey and saltish expectoration, sometimes with great weakness of stomach, fever, nocturnal sweat, and emaciation. Cough with expectoration through the day and without expectoration during the night. Whooping-cough from irritation in trachea as from fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of fetid pus or of mucus streaked with blood. Cough worse from 4 to 6 p.m., frequently on alternate days, from exertion, from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on left side, from eating and drinking cold things, in the wind, or in warm room. Cough (morning), with copious expectoration of greenish matter. Copious expectoration of pus, when coughing. Cough, with expectoration of blood. When coughing, shocks in the head, shortness of breath, smarting and concussion in chest, or pains in region of stomach.

Chest

Short respiration during almost every effort, also in children, especially during sleep. Continued oppression of the chest, worse by walking in open air. Rattling of mucus and stertorous respiration. When breathing, twitching and shooting in chest and sides of chest. Pain as if from a bruise in the chest. Constant pressure in the chest (it feels raw internally). Weight in the chest. Tension in anterior part of chest. Lancinations in the chest, especially on left side, and principally when sneezing or coughing, on laughing, or on the slightest movement, sometimes with inability to remain lying on affected side, and difficult respiration. Pain as from excoriation in the chest, especially after speaking. Stitches in the left side of chest, also during an inspiration. Typhoid and neglected pneumonias. Hepatization of the lungs. Paralysis of the lungs. Hydrothorax. Itching on the chest. Stitches in the side, alternately with toothache and pains in the limbs. Painful eruption and macule hepatice on the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, especially during digestion, or in bed in evening, sometimes attended with anxiety and trembling. Accelerated pulse, with cold face and feet. Palpitation of the heart with flapping of the wings of the nose, enlargement of the heart, hypertrophy in general. Cramp and constriction, dyspnoea, stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and shoulders, sharp pains shooting into heat, sensation of stoppage of circulation at night, with fright and then sweat, pulse quick and unsteady (angina pectoris). dyspnoea, cyanosis, hasty eating and drinking (heart disease). Beating of temporal arteries and carotids. Heart sounds heard loudly on lying down at night, keeping patient awake. (Hypertrophy.) _ (Aneurism.) _ (Hydropericardium.).

Back and neck

Traction and contraction from the nape of the neck to the occiput. Rigidity of the nape of the neck, sometimes caused by lifting a weight. Macule hepatice in the nape of the neck. Tetters on nape of neck and under armpits. Furunculi under armpits. Stiffness, swelling, and induration of one side of neck. Painful stiffness of left side of neck. Burning as of red-hot coals between scapula. Swelling of glands of neck and of the shoulder, with shooting pain. Weakness and paralysis of muscles of neck. Painful eruption on neck. Large clusters of red pimples around neck, with violent itching. Soreness of the neck. Goitre. Violent sacral pains, which do not permit sitting upright.lifting anything, often accompanied y constrictive pains in abdomen. Shootings in loins on rising up after stooping. Drawing, tearing, and shooting pains in back and loins, with difficult respiration, chiefly when seated, and also at night. Pain in back and right side, from congestion of the liver. Stitches in region of kidneys, worse form pressure, extending into rectum. Distortion of the spine.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica