Lyc , Lycopodium clavatum

Region

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

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	Characteristic Points
DRYNESS; palms, vagina, skin, etc. Rawness in folds, nipples, anus, etc. ACIDITY, sour taste, eructations, vomits, etc. 4-8 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 Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions. Calculi; Gall-stones, Gravel, Tophi	Individuals who grow old prematurely Individuals who are intellectually keen. Individuals who have loss of vital fluids. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases.   Weak from digestive disturbances. Repeating or alternating symptoms Flexion, then extension Automatic acts Flushing, then paling Chill after chill Pains cause anger, jerking, etc.	Mouth hangs open (Merc-c, Mur-ac.) Eyes half open. Hemiopia. Sees sparks. Tongue; puts it in and out rapidly Breasts, achy; sore; nodes in Axillary abscess (right) Bubbling at scapula 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.

Mind

Lyc in family	Lyc in society	Characteristics	Low self-esteem
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).	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 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 Anger control King remedy of anger suppression . (Lyc ₳ Staph) (Lyc ₳ Nat-m) Reaction formation:They understand authority so early and change their reaction.(Staph) (Lyc ₳ Staph) In Lyc, control is important, so he is always Growling / Lamenting AWAKES ANGRY, sad or anxious.	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) Confused over daily affairs. Mentally active, but grows weaker. Can't think. Miscalls or omits words, etc. Sensitive and fearsome, Ill-effects of fear, fright, anxieties Averse to being alone. Hateful, cranky, domineering, exacting, reserved or despairing.

Modalities

Heat-Cold	Time	Agg	Amel
Coldness / Heat 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) Pharyngitis amel with warm drinks. Sensitivity of Head / to hot air	4-8 P.M: Both in acute and chronic diseases (Fever and chills, typhoid fever and scarlet fever, gouty attacks, rheumatic fevers and inflammatory conditions) Child colic Night (opposite Jal-p and Psor) (Jal ₳ Lyc) (Lyc ₳ Psor) Wakes up at night with hunger (Cina, Psor) Morning / Waking up Irritability / Impatience	Pressure of cloths Wind agg Eating, oysters, Indigestion Extremely right-sided Top-Down (descending): Movement of diseases from top to bottom Exercise agg WARMTH agg esp Headache / Spine problems: Combination of cold and movement amel him.	WARM DRINKS, food, etc, Cold applications amel Eructations, Urinating amel 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. Rheumatic pains amel with movement

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

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.

GI tract

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)

Urinary tract

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.

Female genital

• Dyspareunia: Vaginal dryness, burning pain after sexual intercourse (Lyss)

• Violent dysmenorrhoea, with fainting.

• Menses blood consist of clots and serum
• Acrid periodical leucorrhoea.

• Vaginal Fistula: Presence of gas in Uterus / Vagina

• Blood coming out of the vagina with every bowel movement
• As if the fetus is turning and kicking.
• Chancre

Skin Ulcer

• Wound pains agg with heat and amel with cold
• Chronic, painful, burning skin wounds, small crusts,
• and granulated, painful and wounds
• Wounding abscesses: Wounds re-open and bleed and invade the skin around them. Pustular rash around wounds.

Vesicular rash

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

• Rashes lead to Cracking / Bleeding / Thickening of skin

• Sore lips: Lips trembling, swelled, heavy, stiff, cracked with painful vesicle on tip.

Arthritis

• Painful Gout: Calc, Sul and Lyc are useful gout remedies, with no deformities. (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 / Feet, esp heels numbness

Skin

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 / Back of ear (Graph)
• 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

Glycosuria

Rubrics

• MIND - HAUGHTY - sick, when
• MIND - HAUGHTY - stiff and pretentious

Main Regions

Nutrition	GI tract: LIVER is sensitive and congested. Atrophied liver. LIVER FAILURE Gallstones and kidney stones (like Calc.). TASTE ON. ACIDITY. HUNGRY BUT QUICKLY SATISFIED. INCOMPLETE ERUCTION. ACID ERUCTIONS THAT BURN THE THROAT FOR HOURS. ANXIETY FELT IN THE EPIGASTRA. NOISE AEROCOLIA. Sore lower abdomen. Colic in babies in the evening. Alternation of diarrhea and constipation. HARD, DIFFICULT, SMALL and incomplete Stools. DESIRE FOR HOT FOOD, DESIRE FOR SWEET THINGS. b - THE SYSTEM CARRIES: HAEMORROIDS, VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH, improved by hot sitz baths. (I should not tell you these modalities, all the symptoms of Lycopodium, rheumatic pains, sore throat are improved by heat.) c - The skin. DROUGHT ; palms of the hands, vagina, folds of the knuckles, nipples, anus like A LIVE. Eruptions that suppurate. Boils that recur. Erysipelas. Psoriasis. ACNE. VISCOUS, FETID SWEAT, especially from the feet and armpits. ONE FOOT COLDER THAN THE OTHER.
GUT	Kidney pain before urination; stop after urination. Flow is SLOW TO COME, must force. Retention of urine. NOCTURNAL POLYURIA. BRICK RED SEDIMENT. The child cries before urinating. GENITAL IMPOTENCE. When faced with a patient who complains of impotence, you should always start by thinking about Lycopodium which is still the most often indicated remedy. Do not start by prescribing AGNUS CASTUS systematically. Lycopodium acts so selectively on the digestive system and the urogenital system that it is rare that the symptoms of one or the other system are missing when Lycopodium is really indicated. Mainly the right ovary.
Throat	SORE THROAT IMPROVED BY HOT DRINKS. Swelling and suppuration of the tonsils. Ulceration of the tonsils STARTING ON THE RIGHT. Diphtheria. THE FALSE MEMBRANE DEVELOPS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT. WORSE BY COLD DRINKS. Ulceration of the vocal cords. Tuberculous laryngitis, esp at the ulceration stage.
Chest	Bronchitis in children, the chest is filled with bronchial rales. Neglected pneumonia, at the HEPATIZATION stage, with intense dyspnea and BEATING OF THE WINGS OF THE NOSE and PRESENCE OF BRONCHIC RALES.
Brain	Brain fatigue. Best remedies when the patient begins to show signs of brain paralysis. The patient lies in a stupor, the lower jaw drops; the bronchi are clogged with mucus and the eyes are filled with mucus. Lyc is not only a remedy for chronic conditions, it is also a very important remedy for acute conditions like diphtheria, pneumonia, etc...