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Lachnanthes Tinctoria

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Lachnanthes Tinctoria Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Emotional Miasm This remedy operates beyond physical miasms to balance emotional distress and inner harmony. Bach Flower Remedies are recognized for balancing psychological and emotional states.
🌸 Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
GENERAL
  • Lachnantes grows in sandy swamps near the coast.
  • The root is re d and fibrous, sword - shaped leaves, hairy stem, and yellow, woolly flowers.
  • It belongs to the same order as Aletris and is allied to the irises.
  • A curious observation is that the white pigs and sheep of Virginia lose their hooves if they feed on Lachnantes, while the black varieties eat it without inconvenience.
  • A remedy for rheumatic symptoms about neck.
  • Spasmodic torticollis, painful torti collis (Caust., Mag -p., Rhus-t).
  • Wry neck.
  • Stiffness of neck, drawn over to one side in sore throat.
  • Pain in nape as if dislocated, when turning the neck or bending the head back.
  • Body icy cold, face yellow, tendency to sweat.
  • Bubbling and boiling about the heart, rising to head.
  • Bridge of nose feels pinched.
  • Feeling of icy coldness in mid scapular region.
  • Successfully u sed for diphtheria, typhoid fever, and typhoid pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
  • Tuberculosis.
  • Affinity for the head, chest and circulation.
  • Very restless, throws herself about, feels weak
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Dulc., Bry., Puls. (2) Fei. - nape of neck pains and great tension there.

MIND
  • Restlessness, tosses about, with perspiration.
  • Tossing about and whining.
  • Ill -humored and sleepy.
  • Despondent, bitter crying spells during headache.
  • Sees images, while dozing through day.
  • Great loquacity, afterwards stupid and irrita ble.
  • Loquacious delirium with brilliant eyes and circumscribed red cheeks, at night between 1 a.m to 2 a.m..
  • Great hilarity, especially in the evening.
  • Excited over a trifles.
  • Restlessness, tosses about, with perspiration.
  • Tossing about and whining.
  • Ill -humored and sleepy.
  • Despondent, bitter crying spells during headache.
  • Sees images, while dozing through day.
  • Great loquacity, afterwards stupid and irrita ble.
  • Loquacious delirium with brilliant eyes and circumscribed red cheeks, at night between 1 a.m to 2 a.m..
  • Great hilarity, especially in the evening.
  • Excited over a trifles
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Giddiness in the head with sensation of heat in chest and around heart and perspiration.
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with icy coldness of the forehead.
  • COMMENTS - Hering said the Nati ve Americans chewed the plant when they met the “white man” to give them a flow of language.
  • Remarkable loquacity.
  • Produces a desire to talk a flow of language and the courage to make a speech.
  • Strong affinity for the head, chest and circulation.
  • Sharp stitches in quick suc cession in the right side of the chest below mamma.
  • Sensation of heat, bubbling and boiling in chest and region of heart, rising to head, giddy, breaks out into perspiration.
  • Trembling of the heart.
  • Tuberculosis when the neck is drawn over to one side.
  • RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. of the neck and stiffness of the neck.
  • Stiffness of the neck with the head twisted to one (right) side, especially when occurring with a sore throat.
  • Much dryness of throat, worse on waking in the night with coughing.
  • Headaches of great intensity, generally right -sided.
  • Sensation as if the head is split open with a wedge, with icy coldness of the body, crying spells, worse by vomiting.
  • Toothache, worse eating and drinking warm things.
  • Continued chilliness.
  • Sensation as if a piece of ice was lying on back between shoulders, then a shock followed by coldness over the whole body with goose bumps.
  • Cold attacks occur on moving, better after going to bed.
  • During the cold sensation, the skin is damp and clammy.
  • Fever with loquacious delirium, brilliant eyes and circumscribed red cheeks.
  • Blueness about face, under eyes, and lips.
  • Burning of palms and soles, under nail of left toe.
  • Arthur Dalzell reported the case of Mrs.
  • B., 43, who had fibroid tuberculosis of both lungs, collapse of right lower lobe.
  • Great prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. and night -sweats.
  • The bowels were alternately relaxed and confined.
  • Pain and stiffness in the back, bruised all over, dry cough, roughness of throat, weak heart sounds.
  • Bad sleep owing to a cough.
  • Lachn tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water., three drops every four hours, was given.
  • In three days the prostration was diminished and the cough was much bette r, night-sweats and bruised feeling gone.
  • From this time an emulsion contain ing cod- liver oil, liquor pancreaticus, eggs, cream, hypophosphites and eucalyptus oil were given in addition.
  • The case went on to recovery.
  • Dalzell also recorded the case of Mrs.
  • R., 45, who was in the last stage of tuberculosis.
  • Right lung consolidated, left in cavities.
  • This patient had circumscribed flush on face, bril liant eyes, throat felt rough, overall bruised feeling.
  • Remittent fever.
  • Skin dry, except at night, when she h ad profuse perspira tion.
  • Constant dry cough.
  • Muco-purulent expectoration.
  • Lachn tincture, five drops every three hours, relieved all the symptoms and pro cured euthanasia, the patient dying quite easily twelve days later
HEAD
  • Head feels heavy.
  • Head feels en larged, worse least noise.
  • Circumscribed red cheeks, scalp feels sore, as if hair was standing on end, burning in palms and soles.
  • Bridge of nose feels as if pinched.
  • Right-sided pain, extending down to jaw.
  • Scalp painful.
  • Head feels heavy.
  • Head feels en larged, worse least noise.
  • Circumscribed red cheeks, scalp feels sore, as if hair was standing on end, burning in palms and soles.
  • Bridge of nose feels as if pinched.
  • Right-sided pain, extending down to jaw.
  • Scalp painful
EYES
  • Looks with fixed eyes.
  • Bright, sparkling eyes with delirium.
  • Pressing in eyes as from dust.
  • Secretion of white mucus from eyes.
  • Violent lachrymation and burning of eyes, sensation of dryness.
  • Obscuration of sight, as if a cloud were before the eyes.
  • Yellow spots before eyes.
  • Eyes feel heavy, as if they could not be kept open.
  • Sensation of twitching in upper eyelids
EARS
  • Singing in ear when walking in open air.
  • Tearing in ears.
  • Crawling and itching in ears, better by boring with the finger, but immediately returning and feeling as if something had closed the ear.
  • Almost complete deafness during fever
FACE
  • Swelling with redness and blueness under eyes.
  • Pale, sickly countenance, face and lips bluish, eyes dull, feel thick an d cold.
  • Circumscribed redness of face with violent delirium and brilliant eyes.
  • Yellow face.
  • Sensation as if something were crawling over face
MOUTH
  • Saliva of tough mucus.
  • Sensation if the mouth were sore and thick.
  • Swelling and tension of the lips.
  • Lips red
THROAT
  • Great dryness in throat, especially on waking in the night with much coughing.
  • Sore throat with short cough.
  • Itching when swallowing.
  • Sensation of swelling in pharynx with stiffness of neck and head drawn to one side (diphtheria)
CHEST
  • Sensation of fullness in chest.
  • Stitches on left side of chest, under right breast and under clavicle.
  • Compelled to inhale deeply.
  • Stitches in heart with anxiety.
  • Frequent violent pulsations of heart, each beat is double, one hard and full, the other soft and small.
  • Trembling of heart with great debility.
  • Sensation of heat, bubbling and boiling around heart region, rising to head.
  • Cough worse in bed and after sleeping.
  • Dry cough, as if it came from larynx with sore throat.
  • Expectoration streaked with blood with severe pain in chest.
  • Pneumonia.
  • Nose - Profuse nosebleeds, pale blood.
  • Bridge of nose feels pinched.
  • Perspiration - Sensation the skin is moist and sticky.
  • Perspires freely after midnight.
  • Sweats during cold.
  • Sweats with dizziness.
  • Sweats in morning
ABDOMEN
  • Sensation of qualmishness above navel, when walking in open air.
  • Full ness in pit of stomach, beating as from a pulse, as if a hammer were beating on an ulcerated spot.
  • Teeth - Pain in all the teeth when eating or drinking warm things.
  • All the teeth feel loose and too long, worse in bed.
  • Temperature - Continuous chilliness.
  • Icy coldness of body, perspiration, principally on forehead.
  • The s kin is cold, damp and clammy during the chills.
  • Feels hot, but the chills run all over before the heat can develop itself.
  • Flashes of heat alternating with chilliness.
  • Fever with violent delirium and brilliant eyes.
  • Fever with somnolency.
  • Rolling of wind in abdomen and discharge of flatulency.
  • Sensation of heat through abdomen.
  • Aversion to meat.
  • Much thirst
GENITALS ETC
  • Violent burning in left half of the scrotum, drawing toward right side.
  • Tin gling and itching of scrotum.
  • Perspiration of scrotum and penis.
  • Menses too early, viscid blood mixed with mucus.
  • Profuse, bright red menstrual blood.
  • During menses, sensation of distention of abdomen, it feels as if it were boiling
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Tearing from the shoulder, extend ing to finger joints.
  • Tearing in elbow joints.
  • Tearing in knuckles of the middle fingers of the right hand.
  • Thumb and index finger feel as if sprained.
  • Burning of palms and soles.
  • Cramps in the feet during night
BACK AND NECK
  • Burning in right scapula, in spine above sacrum.
  • Burning in region of left k idney, extending towards right side.
  • Pain and stiffness in back.
  • Chilliness between the shoulder blades.
  • Sensation between the shoulder blades as if wet with cold perspiration.
  • Pain in nape, as if dislocated.
  • Spasmodic torticollis.
  • Rheumatism of the neck.
  • Drawn over to one side in sore throat.
  • Stiff neck, the head is drawn to one side.
  • Wry neck.
  • Bladder - Pressure on bladder while urinating
SKIN
  • Sensation in skin as if an eruption would appear.
  • Pimples appear here and there, containing a watery fluid.
  • Itching and burning in the skin all night, worse after scratching.
  • Stinging, itching and tingling on thighs, legs, feet, arms
SLEEP
  • Sleepiness with yawning, eyes feel so heavy that she cannot keep them open.
  • Cannot go to sleep easily.
  • Sleepless or rest less sleep with distressing dreams.
  • After waking and stretching, a shock followed by chilliness and goose bumps all over
GENERALITIES
  • As if head or vertex enlarged, as if split open with a wedge, as if hair standing on end.
  • As if a cloud before eyes, pressing as from dust in eyes.
  • As if something had closed ear.
  • Bridge of nose as if pinched.
  • As of something crawling over face

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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