A few additional points from KENT, who reiterates, stresses and amplifies” Lycopodium emaciates above, while the extremities are fairly well-nourished. The Lycopodium patient cannot eat oysters. It does not seem to master what is the matter with him, if he eats oysters he gets sick headache, pain in the ovary, cough-after eating oysters. Oysters seem a poison to Lycopodium, just as onions are a poison to the Thuja patient. the Oxalic acid patient cannot eat strawberries. If you are ever caught in a place where you have a patient get sick after eating strawberries, tomatoes or oysters, and you have no homoeopathic remedies at hands it is a good thing to remember that a piece of cheese will digest strawberries, or tomatoes, or oysters, in a few minutes.”
“The eruptions of Lycopodium and sometimes the ulcers and abscesses of Lycopodium are better from something cool. The soothing thing to Lycopodium is something cooling, while the soothing thing to ARs. is heat. The old ladies of the house will want to do something, and put warm cloths or warm water on the suffering part, but these will make the Lycopodium patient worse.”
“Lycopodium is tired. A tired mind, a chronic fatigue, forgetfulness, aversion to undertaking anything new, to appearing in any new role; aversion to his own work.
“Taciturnity; desires to be alone. If there were two adjacent rooms in the house. the Lycopodium patient wild go into one and stay there, though very glad to have someone in the other That is the state of the Lycopodium mind.
Lycopodium often breaks down and weeps when meeting a friend. An unusual sadness with weeping comes over this patient on receiving a gift. At the slightest joy, Lycopodium weeps even cries when thanked.
“Left foot cold, the other warm red sand in urine, red pepper deposit. ”
In regard to throats and diphtheria, and the “right to left” of Lycopodium and the “left to right” of Lachesis Kent points out that “Lachesis is better from cold, and has spasms of the throat from attempting to drink warm drinks, while Lycopodium is better from warm drinks, through sometimes better from cold drinks.” It is important to know this, or one is apt to discard Lycopodium, when otherwise indicted.
To become a rapid and at all correct prescriber-for the bulk of the patients that crowd in to a hospital out-patient clinic, or for panel work, there are some dozen remedies that one needs to make friends with, so as to be able to recognize them after a minimum of glances and questionings. Such are SEPIA, SULPHUR, LYCOPODIUM, CALCAREA, SILICA, NATRUM MUR., ARSENICUM, BRYONIA- Hahnemann’s anti-psorics all!-and for acute work, ACONITE, BELLADONNA, again BRYONIA, RHUS, GELSEMIUM, BAPTISIA, and a few other other indispensables. These are all remedies of distinct personality, and should not be confused-when once their inwardness is grasped. It is to make these remedies easily recognizable that in our little drug pictures we reiterate,. and try to produce a snapshot of one or another, with its various uses. Such an assortment of drugs at one’s fingertips should make homoeopathic prescribing, in large proportion of the common complaints, comparatively easy and sure.
LYCOPODIUM IN ANEURISM
DR. HUGHES (Pharmacodynamics) mentions a “curious point” in regard to Lycopodium. He says: “Lycopodium has occasionally been suggested for aneurysm, but I had thought little of it, though in a case treated by Dr. Madden and myself what seemed to be an aortic aneurism ceased to be discoverable while we were giving the medicine for the general health. But I have since seen most striking results from it in an unmistakable carotid aneurism in an old lady, for whose dyspeptic symptoms the remedy had often proved serviceable. The shooting pains which accompanied the swelling disappeared in the first three days of taking the Lycopodium; and in a fortnight the enlargement of the artery was reduced to one-half, at which point it has since continued stationary, giving her no pain or inconvenience.”.
