Lyc , Lycopodium clavatum

Region

• NUTRITION: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Portal system. Skin, URINARY ORGANS, Brain, Lungs.
• RIGHT SIDE to left: THROAT. Chest. Ovary.

Constitution

• Facial freckles
• Hair falls; comes in gray.
• Thin, withered and FULL OF GAS.

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

General

Quality

Accompaniment

DRYNESS; palms, vagina, skin, etc. Rawness in folds, nipples, anus, etc. ACIDITY, sour taste, eructations, vomits, etc. Four to eight p.m. Agg Right side, or pain goes from right to left. Descending symptoms; emaciation, etc. Rapid pulse agg by eating; evening. Coldness; icy; head, throat, stomach; of one foot

It typically affects individuals who grow old prematurely, who are intellectually keen, and who have , loss of vital fluids Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases.   Pains: aching-pressure, drawing; chiefly right-sided Weak from digestive disturbances. Repeating or alternating symptoms; flexion, then extension; automatic acts; flushing, then paling, chill after chill, etc. Early senility Pains cause anger, jerking, etc.

• Mouth hangs open (Merc-c. Mur-ac.).
• Calculi; gall-stones, gravel, tophi.
• Dropsy
• .
• Eyes half open.
• Hemiopia. Sees sparks.
• Tongue; puts it in and out rapidly
• Meningitis; tubercular.
• Mammæ, achy; sore; nodes in
• Axillary abscess (right).
• Bubbling at scapulæ.
• Stiff back.
• Hands / Feet cramps
• Fingers twitch during sleep; sticky sweat on.
• Pains jerk legs upward. As of a stone under heel.
• Feet acrid sweat on.
• Chill, then vomits; after first sleep.
• Burning, between scapulæ.
• Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions.

Mind

• Confused over daily affairs. Mentally active, but grows weaker.
• Can't think. Miscalls or omits words, etc.
• AWAKES ANGRY, sad or anxious.
• Sensitive and fearsome, Ill-effects of fear, fright, anxieties
• Averse to being alone.
• Hateful, cranky, domineering, exacting, reserved or despairing.

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

Agg

• PRESSURE OF CLOTHES, , Awaking, Wind, Eating; to satiety; oysters, Indigestion,

• 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
• WARMTH agg esp Headache: In head problems combination of cold and movement amel him.

Amel

• WARM DRINKS, food, etc, Cold applications, Motion, Eructations, Urinating.
• Moving and rolling in bed amel him (Combination of movement and heat makes him better)
• Restlessness with pain that amel with the warmth of the bed.

Relations

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

Entities

Rhinitis

• Stuffy nose, esp during sleep with high smell sensitivity (Nux-v) (Lyc ₳ Nux-v)
• Nasal crusts. (Kali-bi, Marum)
• Ulcers of the nasal cavities (Sil, Thuj)
• Acrid ozoena.

Epistaxis

• Summer nosebleeds in children

Sinusitis

• FANNING OF WINGS OF NOSE. (Ant-t)
• Dry nasal catarrh that ends in Night Nasal obstruction. (Am-c, Nux-v, Sumb)
• 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, due to body smallness and not the head size.
• 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)
• Dandruff

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)
• Headache; pain goes to other side, where it is worse;
• Headache pulsating in occiput at night

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, frowning; twitching.
• Face yellowish; pale, gray

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)
• A ball rises and sticks in throat.
• Diphtheria,

Neck torticollis

Otitis media

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

Pneumonia / Bronchitis

• 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
• Short, rattling breathing.
• Salty, green-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration.
• Dry, teasing cough, with emaciation.

Gastritis

• Hunger, but quick satiety
• A LITTLE FOOD OVERFILLS. Averse to soups.
• Incomplete eructations.
• Gnawing in stomach. As of a band about waist. Sensitive, congested liver.
• Acid reflux, indigestion; Sour belching, heartburn, belching, sour vomiting

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

• Epigastric anxiety, pressure, etc.

Hepatitis

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

IBS

• Stool, most seems to remain
• Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.
• Piles amel with hot bathing.

Flatulence Gastroentritis

• MUCH, NOISY FLATULENCE esp lower bowels.
• Flatulence, pressing out. Alternating sides

• 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

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.
• 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)

Child Colic

• Tympanic abdomen: Hot water massage and compresses help to get rid of gas and belching that heals the abdomen.
• Colicky babies, agg in evening.

• 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

Cystitis

• Frequent urging to urinate agg riding in cars, etc. Dysuria, mucous secretions (Canth ₳ Lyc)
• Acrid urine.
• Urine scanty; cries before urinating; red sand in; suppressed.
• Back pain that amel urination.
• Nocturia

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

Renal Colic

• Renal colic, esp right (Berb ₳ Lyc)
• Urine Red Sands which is not common in Babies / Infants (Phos)

Glomerulonephritis

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

Male Impotency

• Young men impotency caused by Sexual 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
• Sexual exhaustion. Pollutions.

Dyspareunia

• Vaginal dryness, burning after sexual intercourse (Lyss)
• Painful coitus.
• Violent dysmenorrhoea, with fainting.

• Menses of clots and serum;agg stool.
• Acrid or periodical leucorrhoea.
• Gas from vagina. Craves air, but is chilled by it.

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
• Sore lips.
• Lips trembling; swelled; heavy; lolling; stiff; cracked; painful vesicle on tip.

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
• Hands numb
• Feet asleep, esp heels
• Poor circulation; it seems to stand still; limbs feel dead; numb spots.

Urticaria

• Nodular hives with severe itching
• Heat agg (Apis)
• 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)
• Suppurating eruptions. Receding boils, erysipelas, etc. Vascular swellings.

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

Infectious mononucleosis:

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

Rubrics

MIND - HAUGHTY - sick, when lyc

MIND - HAUGHTY - stiff and pretentious Lyc