Lyc , Lycopodium clavatum
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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
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- Mouth hangs open (Merc-c. Mur-ac.).
- Calculi; gall-stones, gravel, tophi.
- Dropsy
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- 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
Pancreatitis
Glycosuria
Cholecystitis , Cholangitis , Biliary colic
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.
Chancre
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
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
Lyc in Children
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