The mouth and throat have numerous symptoms but the great dryness throughout is a cardinal feature; often dry mouth without thirst is a peculiar characteristic.
Tongue foul and coated, at times studded with small pinpoint ulcers. Scalded feeling in tongue.
In typhoid states the tongue is heavy and parched with a heavy brown coating with indistinct speech; stiffness of tongue, convulsions of the tongue; tongue black and cracked; tongue distended, giving patient a silly expression in angina or diphtheria.
In the throat, constriction with difficult deglutition; burning pains in throat, sensation in throat as if a ball were ascending from pit of stomach.
Inflammation of throat and palate; swelling and suppuration of the tonsils commonly beginning on right side and going to the left. Pains in throat better swallowing warm or hot drinks, < swallowing cold.
Right-sided hernia infants has been cured by Lycopodium. Many symptoms and distresses associated with the urinary tract symptoms are greasy pellicle on the urine, red sand in the urine, clear urine depositing a heavy red crystallized sediment in the vessel.
A very severe pain in the back is felt every time before urination, causing patient o cry out, retention, must wait for urine to start, the pan in the back 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 form calculi; cystitis; haematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh; renal calculi and gravel; emission of blood instead of urine, sometimes with paralysis of the legs and constipation.
Incontinence of urine with burning, smarting and itching in the urethra; urine burning hot like molten lead. In the diaper of Lycopodium infants is often found a deposit of red sand or brick- dust sediment.
Lycopodium affects the sexual system in both sexes profoundly. In the male, there is shooting, drawing, incisive pain in the gland, bastard gonorrhoea with a deep red and smarting pustule behind the glans; excoriation between th scream and the inner thigh, dropsical swelling of the genitals; immoderate excitement or absence of sexless desire.
Repugnance to coition or disposed to be too easily excited to perform it; importance of long standing; weakness or total absence of erections, penis small, cold, relaxed; excessive 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. Nash recommends Lyc. as the remedy par excellence for old men who marry young women and find themselves inadequate to perform their family duty.
In the female there is nymphomania with terrible teasing desire in external organs; itching, burning and gnawing in vulva; expulsion of wind from vagina, chronic dryness of vagina; excoriation between the thighs; burning pain in vagina and after coition.
Catamenia too early, too profuse and too long lasting; Catamenia easily suppressed by fright and other emotions; before menses shivering sadness and melancholy, bloated abdomen; during menses delirium with tears, headache, sourness of mouth, pain in loins and swelling of the feet, fainting, vomiting of sour material, cutting colic and black pains, flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum. May find females a the change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied; metrorrhagia, at the menopause, dark blood with large clots pour from her.
Foetus appears to be turning somersaults, Leucorrhoea milky- yellowish, reddish, corrosive; varices of the genitals; disposition to miscarriages (Sep.). swelling of the breasts with nodosities, excoriation and moist scabs of the nipples.
In he chest, respiratory organs and heart, many symptoms are manifested; many nondescript cough obstinate dry cough in the morning or nocturnal cough before sunrise, which affects the head, diaphragm and stomach; cough as if produced by 5he vapor of sulphur; or from deep inspiration; generally with a yellowish grey salty expectoration cough with expectoration at during the day or without expectoration at night with expectoration of fetid pus streaked with blood; cough < 4 to 6 p.m., or alternate days; < exertion. Continued oppression of chest with shortness of breath; hepatization of lungs, paralysis of lungs; Hydrothorax.
In delayed or slow resolution of pneumonias (Sulph.). In the pneumonias of the aged and bronchitis of infants this is one of our valuable and life-saving remedies.
Much heart disturbance associated with digestive troubles. Palpitation and trembling with anxiety, accelerated pulse with cold feet hands. Palpitation of the heart with flapping of ala nasi; enlargement of the heart, cramp constriction and dyspnoea; sharp pains shooting into the heart with fright and cold sweat, pulse quick and unsteady (angina pectoris). Dyspnoea, cyanosis, hasty eating and drinking in heart disease Beating of temporal arteries and carotids, heart sounds heart loudly at night when lying in bed, keeping patient awake. Hypertrophy; aneurism; hydropericardium.
Many suffering of rheumatic nature, neuritis and arthritis of back, neck and limbs, paralysis and numbness of the limbs, but these symptoms are best met by prescribing for the patient on his general and characteristic indications.
Many suffering of a rheumatic nature, neuritis and arthritis of back, neck and limbs, paralysis and numbness of the limbs, but these symptoms are best met by prescribing for the patient on his general and characteristic indications.
Clarke given a great array of clinical conditions and diseases cures by this remedy; but these are of little value as an aid in the selection of this remedy. So definite and characteristic is the symptomatology of this remedy for its use in sickness that whenever met with, regardless of diagnosis or pathology, i can be given with certainty of curative results.
A comparatively brief summary of characteristic symptoms or keynotes will enable the prescriber to use this broad deep remedy with certainty and satisfaction, regardless of diagnostic and pathologic conditions found.
A restless, sensitive, timid individual sensitive to both extremes of temperature, but much more sensitive to extreme heat.
The direction of symptoms going from right to left or markedly right-sided complaints predominating, or upper right and lower left.
Extreme dryness of mucous membranes, general aggravation of complaints from 4 to 8p.m. Red sand in urine, severe back pain > by urination. One foot cold, the other hot; emaciation of neck, arms an upper parts of body.
Easy satiety, a few mouthfuls fill up, even when extremely. Thirstless more often then great thirst and then a preference to warm drinks. Inability to assimilate milk. Easy fainting from pain, fright and fatigue. Flapping of the wings of the nose in respiratory affections. Child sleeps with eyes half open. Inordinate craving for sweets. Sympathy aggravates he weeping and sadness of this patient.
So rich is the symptomatology of this remedy, a much longer and fuller paper than this is required to do justice to the great possibilities of cure it contains.
The object of this paper is to direct more careful and more minute study to this medicine as such study will bring its reward in satisfaction and joy to both doctor and patients. Clarkes Dictionary of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica contains the best presentation of the symptoms and clinical result of this remedy met with in our literature.
In his book The Collected Works of Arthur Hill Grimmer, Grimmer spoke out against the fluoridation of water and vaccinations. Grimmer wrote prodigeously, Gnaphalium, Homeopathic Prophylaxis and Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of Dr. A.H. Grimmer, M.D.