LYCOPODIUM IN ITS RELATION TO THE MIASMS



Lycopodium shows psoric symptoms in the mental sphere (a keen mind in a weak body), and in all the stomach symptoms. The tuberculous diathesis is represented in the inflammatory changes of the mucous membranes of the eyes, ears, and nose, in the chest symptoms, and certain circulatory symptoms, such as venous stagnation. We find sycosis in certain mental symptoms (irritability, weakness of memory), in symptoms of the kidney, right ovary, and those of the rheumatism. Under syphilis, we find most prominently the particular headache of Lycopodium. Thus the knowledge of the underlying miasm will guide us in certain cases to the successful use of Lycopodium.

Benno Lipton