Lyc , Lycopodium clavatum

Mind

• It typically affects individuals who grow old prematurely, who are intellectually keen, and who have ill-effects of fear, fright, anxieties, loss of vital fluids
• Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases.  
• Pains: aching-pressure, drawing; chiefly right-sided
• Four to eight p.m. Agg
• A little ffects right side, or pain goes from right to left.

Lyc in family

• Fear of strangers: He marries late (Puls) because he is looking for a obedient woman who does not become dependent on him (A logical marriage without love)
• He loves for power and can not substitute it with anything.
• He prefers his wife loves him because of his Success / Power. When she falls in love with him, he leaves her because he is afraid of Obligation / Responsibility.
• A divorced man who thinks his wife has left him because of his lack of success.
• A man who does not have a good emotional relationship with his children and wants to run away from them.
• He is a conscientious man who wants to please his partner. But he cannot.
• If he feels danger, he becomes kind and sympathetic to those around him (Phos), but opposite to Phos, he does not like anyone to depend on him (Responsibility avoidance).

Lyc in society

• They are often seen in management positions. Maybe because they are very opportunistic.
• Gentle but dictatorial/ Selfish: He gathers everyone he can around him
• Caution in facing new conditions (Fear of Challenging) (Bar-c)
• He has a feeling of inferiority, (Lac-c ₳ Lyc) but he does not Confess to it anywhere, if so try Arg-n.
• In challenging situations he enter a paradox. He feels that he may not be able to handle it. But how the audience think about him, SoI have to prove that I am a brave person.
• In Iran we have an appropriate Poetry that explain Lyc nicely. If you don't want to be scandalized, act like everyone else
• He may be very lovely and emotional behind his rude appearance

Intellectual

• Active and creative mind: His mind works very fast and is ahead of himself
• He rushes so much that it causes mistakes and not following the order of things.
• Memory Weakness mostly in names and in children in reciting texts

Low self-esteem

• Lyc's famous sentence: Why should I have anxiety? He reproaches himself for his low self-esteem.(Lyc ₳ Sil)
• Palpitations and stammers at the beginning, but when he completely masters the situation as soon as possible.
• Continuous Self-control / Inner conversation (I Should / Can or not)

Anger control

• Lyc is king remedy of anger suppression . (Lyc ₳ Staph) (Lyc ₳ Nat-m)
• Reaction formation:They understand authority so early and change their reaction.(Staph) (Lyc ₳ Staph)
• Staph often gets angry and acts harshly, but only partially because he quickly regrets and controls himself. (Lyc ₳ Nux-v)
• In Lyc, control is important, so he is always Growling / Lamenting

Generality

Heat-Cold

• Coldness / Heatness of Lyc is not very clear / Reliable in diagnosis
• But he is more heat and has a lot of local heat, esp ear heat
• Cold / Cover removing amel (Sul, Iod)
• General sensitivity to cold / Drinking / Eating but Pharyngitis amel with warm drinks.
• Severe sensitivity of Head / Spine problems to hot air

Time

• Afternoon agg (4-8 P.M): (Both in acute and chronic) Fever and chills, typhoid fever and scarlet fever, gouty attacks, rheumatic fevers and inflammatory conditions.
• Child colic: He cries all day and sleeps all night (opposite Jal and Psor) (Jal ₳ Lyc) (Lyc ₳ Psor)
• Wakes up at night with hunger (Cina, Psor)
• Morning / Waking up Irritability / Impatience

Modalities

• Extremely right-sided : Problems start from the right and spread to the left
• Top-Down (descending): Movement of diseases from top to bottom
• Exercise agg
• Rheumatic pains amel with movement
• Restlessness with pain that amel with the warmth of the bed.
• Moving and rolling in bed amel him (Combination of movement and heat makes him better)
• Headache warm agg: In head problems combination of cold and movement amel him.

Clinic

• Lyc and Calc are the most common used homeopathic medicine, but many people do not recommend it to start the treatment?!!!!!!
  • Because of annoying Aggs. Good starter before Lyc is Nux-v or Puls
• Lyc has a typical character. They behave or even sit and walk very similarly.
• We mistakenly think that Lyc is only for men, but Men to women statistics is 65 to 35%.
• Lyc is not usually used in acute disease except in digestive issues
• Lyc is a miasmatic remedy so repeat it cautiously.
• Premature graying of men's hair is very common and reliable

Relations

• Give Calc, Carb-v, Lach, Sul after Lyc
• Complementary remedies: Calc, Iod, Kali-c, Lach
• Related remedies: Carb-v, Sil
• Good followers: Chel, Graph (Graph ₳ Lyc)

Adult / Child entities

Rhinitis

• Stuffy nose, esp during sleep with high smell sensitivity (Nux-v) (Lyc ₳ Nux-v)
• Nostrils movements during breathing (Ant-t)
• Dry nasal catarrh that ends in Night Nasal obstruction. (Am-c, Nux-v, Sumb)
• Nasal crusts. (Kali-bi, Marum)
• Ulcers of the nasal cavities (Sil, Thuj)

Epistaxis

Summer nosebleeds in children

Sinusitis

• Frontal sinusitis + Cold and runny nose + Headache above the eyes
• Chronic Frontal/ Maxillary sinusitis from childhood + elastic crusts (Kali-bi)
• Headache from one side to another (Right to left)
• Headache worsens with lying down

HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - Middle - Frontal sinuses - coryza; from chronic

NOSE - CATARRH - extending to - Frontal sinuses

GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Sinuses; of - discharges; after suppressed

Nose obstruction

• Obstruction with thick secretions and scabs that prevents milk feeding (Kali-bi) (Kali-bi ₳ Lyc)
• Mother should frequently remove mucous secretions from the child's nose
• Babies' wheezing (Puls) because their nose is dry and it causes dry and chronic wheezing, and the parents ask him to blow, but nothing comes out. (Calc)

• Congestion /Chronic mouth breathing which leads his face looks silly.

Large Head

• The head is much larger than the body. This disproportion is due to the smallness of the body and not the size of the head
• Unlike Calc and Sil, which is due to the size of the head.

Hair

• Slow growth and thinning of hair
• Hair- falling in female due to Ovarian/ Hormonal problems
• Hair- falling in eyelashes
• Night sweats (Calc)

Headache

• Hunger headache (Sul, Phos) + Craving for sugar
• Headache caused by noise, which is associated with irritability and sensitivity
• Wake up with headache and irritability and express hunger (Tub)
• Teenagers Headache (Calc-p) : Pain in the right temple + Agg with heat + Amel with cold and walking (Nat-m, Puls)

Face emaciation

• Children with Mal-absorption syndrome / Weight lose in the upper half of body and the skin starts to wrinkle and hang.
• A lot of wrinkles with the loss of flesh
• Wrinkles on the forehead

Early Teeth decay

Yellow teeth because they don't like to brush their teeth

Pharyngitis

• Sore throat and recurrent tonsil infections (80%)
• 4 to 8 P.M Agg
• Right tonsillitis (Right to left)
• Tonsils are Enlarged / Hardened due to frequent infections + Offensiveness during infection (Hep).
• Lymphadenopathy + Touch sensitivity
• Amel with warm drinks / Local compress (Opposite to lach) (Lach ₳ Lyc)

Neck torticollis

Otitis media

• Recurrent otitis media which
  • Starts from right ear
  • Leads to rupture of tympanum and thick- purulent secretions. (Calc)

Pneumonia

• Susceptible to colds and flu/ Bronchitis/pneumonia
• Cold in his chest + a lot of phlegm + wheezing (Kali-s, Ant-t)
• Pneumonia of the lower lobe of the right lung with opening and closing of the nostrils/ Frontal folds
• As soon as the child catches a cold, he gets pneumonia and bronchitis very quickly and will get asthma in the future (Calc).
• Incompletely treated pneumonia, esp in lung-base lobes
• A deep, hollow cough + A lot of sputum, with little improvement

Hiccup

• Sucks the breast eagerly, swallows a lot of air and has hiccups after milk (Puls, Calc, Nux-v)
• Children who had hiccups in the mother's womb

Flatulence

• Tympan abdomen: Hot water massage and compresses help to get rid of gas and belching that heals the abdomen.

Urine sand

• Urine Red Sands which is not common in Babies / Infants (Phos)

Congenital urinary disease

• Congenital diseases such as Hypospadia, Urethral stricture, Undescended testicle and Right inguinal hernia are common
• Most of Lyc boys get sinusitis after hernia surgery

Hepatitis

• Jaundice, pain and feeling of fullness in the liver (Chin ₳ Lyc)
• Jaundice at birth

Gastritis

• Acid reflux, indigestion; Sour belching, heartburn, belching, sour vomiting

Colitis

• Noisy flatulence, mostly in the lower abdomen
• Fullness/ Distention / Fermentation : Accumulation of noisy wind in the stomach (Carb-v ₳ Lyc) (Chin ₳ Lyc)
• Has a good appetite but gets Bloated with a little eating
• He wakes up hungry at night (Cina, Psor), the more he eats, the hungrier he gets, And if he doesn't eat, he gets a headache. (Cina ₳ Lyc) (Lyc ₳ Psor)
• Bloated sensation in stomach which put pressure on his diaphragm and breathing.
• He complain that whatever I eat, I get bloated.
• Nervous during bloating, sensitive to all stimuli, esp noise (Ant-c, Borx, Nat-m).
• Shellfish agg

Child Colic

• Causation: Hunger, Tiredness ,Crowded places, Dark , Left Alone and Morning
• Hunger agg: They wake up at night to feed or because of colic
• Morning agg: waking up with screaming because of Hunger agg
• Tired and irritable on waking (unlike Phos). (Lyc ₳ Psor)
• A child who is born with a good weight but gradually loses weight due to colic
• His evenings colic will not be relieved by anything but passing Gas / Stool after 2 hours
• Desire to be carried, You can't even hug him for 5 minutes
• His adult problems start with infantile colic

Constipation

Time dependent

• From puberty til now
• Last months of pregnancy
• During the traveling
• Infantile constipation along with ineffective urging
• His rectum contracts and protrudes during defecation and hemorrhoids.

Child Constipation

• Caused by anxiety because anxiety loosens his anal sphincter and he cannot defecate.
• Constipation that he does not feel like defecating at all.
• Passing stool can be painful.
• He is restless and upset until he expels.(unlike Calc) (Calc ₳ Lyc)
• At first, his stool becomes hard and then becomes soft
• Hemorrhoids that are not very painful (unlike Mur-ac , Nux-v)

Renal Colic

• Renal colic, esp right (Berb ₳ Lyc)

Glomerulonephritis

Pain and inflammation of the kidneys, albuminous urine and red sediment in the urine (Apis)

Cystitis

• Inflammation, Urging, recurrence, dysuria, mucous secretions (Canth ₳ Lyc)
• Back pain that amel urination.

Male Impotency

• Young men impotency caused by excess or masturbation
• Imperfect erections in older men with high libido (Lyc ₳ Sel)
• He falls asleep during sex
• Premature ejaculation: Small, cold and loose penis

Dyspareunia

• Vaginal dryness, burning after sexual intercourse (Lyss)

Vaginal Fistula

• Presence of gas in the uterus
• Blood coming out of the vagina with every bowel movement
• As if the fetus is turning and kicking.

Skin Ulcer

• Wound pains agg with heat and amel with cold
• Painful skin wounds, small crusts, wounding abscesses
• Chronic and granulated, painful and burning wounds
• Wounds that do not heal and re-open and bleed and invade the skin around them and have a pustular rash around them.

Vesicular rash

• Small dry or moist crusts
• Near the lips
• Behind the ears
• Under the nose
• Above the genitals

• Rashes that lead to Cracking / Bleeding / Thickening of skin

Arthritis

• Painful Gout: Calc, Sul and Lyc are useful in gout when organ changes have not occurred. (Calc ₳ Lyc) (Lyc ₳ Sul)
• Rheumatic arthritis and sciatica pains esp right-sided, with Rhus-t modalities. (Lyc ₳ Rhus-t)
• Painless swelling of the ankle + Big swelling.
• Esp in small joints (fingers and toes) (Colch) (Colch ₳ Lyc)
• Esp in Knees, shoulders, elbows, ,
• Joints Stiffness / Cracking in moving
• Arthritic nodules

Restless legs syndrome

• Lyc child moves his leg while sleeping.
• RLS from the knee down with circular movement (Nat-m)

Neuropathy

• Warm feet
• Heat of one foot and coldness of the other. (Cinch, Dig, Ip)
• Coldness of feet and hands

Urticaria

Nodular hives with severe itching agg by heat

Hives (with anxiety or food allergy) which agg by heat.

Eczema

• Since birth

• Eczema of occiput and back of ear
• Yellow and watery discharge from head eruptions
• Neurodermatitis (itchy vesicles that are torn, heal slowly and remain hard and colorless)

Skin crack

• Painful crack behind the ear
• Dry and cracked skin on feet soles of the and warts on the right heel
• Boys who often lick their lips and this causes redness and rashes around the mouth

Lyc children

• According to Paul Herscu, Lyc is one of the most important children remedies
• Red sand in urine, in diapers (Phos)
• Children who scream before urinating (Borx)

• Lyc child has two aspects of personality:
  • Anxiety / Insecurity /Irresolution / Fear of strangers make them weak and irritable
  • The desire for power and coercion has turned them into small dictators

• The tension between these two aspects is the Diagnostic key of lyc

Hesitation

• He does not like to answer questions during the interview.
• He looks at his mother to make sure she is telling the truth
• If you force him to make a decision, he may Run away / Cry and ask his parents to make the decision for him. (Bar-c, Sil)
• He looks younger than his age

Dictator

• Try to be the boss esp when he encounters younger ones
• Coercion to family members and gradually to others in order to control them and if they do not obey, he will shout
• Reversal of the power relationship between parent and child: he corrects his parents during the interview.

Irritability

• Contradiction agg
• Irritability in order to maintain his tyranny
• Irritability during esp Constipation, Waking up and Pain
• They are irritable and scream with the least discomfort. You understand that their crying is in demand

Intellectual

• Disability in speech, writing mistakes and motor and speech skills

Fears / Insecurity

• He is very fearful, many fears esp insecurity
• Fears lead to physical symptoms, e.g. stomach-ache or diarrhea (Phos). (Lyc ₳ Phos)
• Fear /Anxiety face expression e.g. forehead folds

• He likes to be in his mother's arms, In the presence of his parents, fears disappears.
• Fear of being alone or among strangers, e.g., he is afraid of doctor during the first interview
• Fear of dark, unknown things such as demons, ghosts, giants, and animals that may attack them.

Social affair

• Fear of failure esp in front of people
• Fear of starting new tasks
• Sensitive to being Scolded / Blamed / Losing social image
• He gives up soon
• He cares about his appearance, fashionable (Ars, Nat-m, Carc) (unlike Sul)

Insomnia

• Caused by Anticipation
• Caused by fear of the dark, Amel by light or sleep next to his parents.
• Talking or laughing while sleeping
• Thumb sucking when tired until late childhood or beyond
• Unlike Nat-m and Sul, they don't want to eat breakfast.
• Waking up at mid-night with panic / Does not know where he is.
• Sleep on right side with knees bent or on their stomach (Phos)

Reliable symptoms

• Sweet lover
• Relatively without thirst
• Hunger agg
• Dislikes beans, cabbage family vegetables
• High appetite but low weight gain (Nat-m)
• Right-sided problems (Esp respiratory infection), progressing to the left
• Coldness, better with heat
• Many children who need Lyc may not have any digestive problems

Young girls

• Primary amenorrhea until the age of 17-18
• Lyc girls have male body. They are thin with big thighs and hips and small breasts. Their ovaries do not work well. (Calc-p) (Calc-p ₳ Lyc)
• Late puberty Med has premature puberty)
• PMS: Increased appetite, Constipation, Irritability, Crying
• Right ovary pain during ovulation.

Infectious mononucleosis:

A cold, tired child + Abdominal pain and Nausea / Vomiting + Blue circles under the eyes