# Lithium Carbonicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Hering introduced and made the first provings of Lith -c. It affects the entire organism, but 
notably the head and eyes, urinary organs, heart andjoints. Uric acid diathesis. Gout and tophi. Acidity. 
Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions  and asthenopia. Rheumatism connected with heart or 
eye lesions. Rheumatic nodes. Arthritic complaints accompanied with heart or eye symptoms. Recurring 
attacks of acute inflammation of the small joints. 
Whole body feels sore and heavy.  Pressing from within outward in head, abdominal ring, perineum, chest. 
Pain as of adull point. Violent sharp pains, as from red hot needles. Paralytic stiffness of the whole body. 
Prostration. Increase of bulk and weight. 
Dry and harsh skin. Hot water aggravates the itching. Effects of bruises and falls. Bruised spots from falls and 
blows. Open air causes post -nasal dripping from nose and constriction of chest. Inspired air f eels cold even 
into lungs.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from rest, eating, uri nating. Better motion, rising and moving about outside. Worse in 
morning, at night, motion, on right side. Worse during menses, after menses suppressed.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Absent-minded.
- Slow, confused mind.
- Concentration difficult.
- Difficulty in remembering names.
- Makes 
mistakes while talking, omitting words, mispronounces, words.
- Want of self confidence.
- Timidity, bashful.
- Restless, nervou s.
- Anxiety and hopeless ness at night, about future.
- Startled easily.
- Oversensitive.
- Easily 
irritable.
- Impatient.
- Quarrelsome, scolding.
- Averse to being spoken to, to being touched.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Depression.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition.
- Staring, thoughtless.
- Manic depression.
- Obsessive compulsive disorders.
- Claustrophobia.
- Fear in narrow places.
- Absent-minded.
- Slow, confused mind.
- Concentration difficult.
- Difficulty in remembering names.
- Makes 
mistakes while talking, omitting words, mispronounces, words.
- Want of self confidence.
- Timidity, bashful.
- Restless, nervou s.
- Anxiety and hopeless ness at night, about future.
- Startled easily.
- Oversensitive.
- Easily 
irritable.
- Impatient.
- Quarrelsome, scolding.
- Averse to being spoken to, to being touched.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Depression.
- Sadness, despondency.
- Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition.
- Staring, thoughtless.
- Manic depression.
- Obsessive compulsive disorders.
- Claustrophobia.
- Fear in narrow places.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with ringing in the ears.
- Vertigo during headache.
- Vertigo as if floating.
- Dizzy states.
- Vision - Asthenopia.
- Hemiopia with pain 
over eyes, invisible right half, worse during menses.
- Black motes.
- Sunlight blinds him.
- Sensation as if a veil 
before eyes.
- COMMENTS - Keynote soreness.
- Bones, joints, muscles, whole body sore as if beaten.
- Prostration of whole 
body, especially knee joints and sacrum.
- Paralytic stiffness of whole body.
- Pressing from within outward, in 
head, abdominal ring, perineum, chest.
- Bruised spots from falls or blows.
- Rheumatic soreness in heart region.
- Heart symptoms, worse bending forward and better after urinating, though 
worse on rising to urinate.
- Heart pain before and during menses.
- Menses cease suddenly and head ache 
comes on.
- Heaviness, better while eating, worse after.
- Confusion in the head.
- Eyes pain as if sore.
- Red and inflamed 
nose, dropping of solid lumps down the back of the nose.
- Acidity of the stomach.
- According to Allen, lithium lactate has been found valuable for sub-acute rheumatism of the shoulder joint.

### Head
- Tension, as if bound, better sitting and going out.
- Constriction of forehead.
- Pains over the eyes.
- Headache, better while eating,  but returns and remains until food is again taken.
- Headache from sud den 
suppression of menses.
- Head feels too large.
- Externally sensitive.
- Trembling and throbbing.
- Head pain, better 
rubbing.
- Tension, as if bound, better sitting and going out.
- Constriction of forehead.
- Pains over the eyes.
- Headache, better while eating,  but returns and remains until food is again taken.
- Headache from sud den 
suppression of menses.
- Head feels too large.
- Externally sensitive.
- Trembling and throbbing.
- Head pain, better 
rubbing.

### Eyes
- Pain over eyes.
- Photophobia.
- Eyes sensitive after using t hem by candlelight.
- Eyes pain after reading.
- Dry lids.

### Ears
- Pain behind left ear, extending to neck.

### Face
- Prosopalgia.
- Both cheeks are cov ered with dry, bran -like scales.
- Glandular swellings on left side of 
face, throat and neck, some suppurating.

### Mouth
- Teeth feel numb, dull and loose, can't bite on them.
- Nose - Swollen and red nose, especially right side.
- Nose internally sore and dry.
- Soreness of tip of nose.
- Nose 
obstructed, worse morning and forenoon.
- Coryza, dripping from nose in open air.
- Mucus discharge in evening.
- Perspiration - Copious sweats.

### Throat
- Soreness of throat, extending to ear.
- L umps of mucus drip into throat.
- Hawking up mucus in large 
quantities.

### Chest
- Constriction of chest when walking in open air, after breakfast.
- Pressure in middle of chest from within 
outward, towards sides.
- Constitutions - Gouty constitutions.
- Uric acid diathesis.
- Trembling and fluttering of the heart, extending to back, worse vexation.
- Throbbing, dull stitch in cardiac 
region.
- Sudden shock in heart.
- Rheumatic soreness in heart region.
- Heart pain, extends to head.
- Sore pain 
in heart, with eye symptoms.
- Heart pain associated with bladder pains, b etter after urinating.
- Heart 
symptoms, worse bending forward and better after urinating.
- Pressure in heart while urinating.
- Heart pain 
before menses.
- Kidneys - Pain in right kidney and ureter.
- Uric acid diathesis.
- Frequent, copious urination disturbing sl eep.
- While urinating, pressure in heart.
- Urine scanty with much thirst.
- Urine with red brown sedi ment.
- Urine less in 
spite of taking normal drinks.
- Urine, free and colorless.
- Turbid urine with mucus.
- Urine scanty and dark, acrid, 
sandy deposits.
- Air feels cold on inspiring, even into lungs.
- Violent cough when lying down.
- Cough from irritation in 
throat.
- Expectoration of much mucus.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Acidity of stomach.
- Sticking, burning pains.
- Gnawingpain in stomach, better by eating (Anae.).
- Nausea with gnawing in stomach.
- Temperature - General feeling of heat in body.
- Fever with sweat on back of hands.
- Shuddering starting from 
chest.
- Feels swollen as if distended with wind.
- Cannot endure slightest pressure of clothes from fullness 
in epigastrium (Lach., Lyc.).
- Pressure, pain in hepatic region.
- Pain in left abdominal ring like a pressing from 
within outward.
- Indurated inguinal glands.
- Syphilitic bubo in left groin.
- Appetite diminished.
- Appetite satisfied on beginning to eat.
- Worse after fruit 
Lithium carbonicum or chocolate.

### Urinary & Genital
- Pain in testes.
- Sharp pain in penis when sitting.
- Erections after copious urination at night.
- Erections 
disturbing sleep, better urinating.
- Gonorrhea with hemorrhage, alternating with thick, profuse discharge.
- Menses late, scanty.
- Menses cease suddenly and headache comes on.

### Extremities
- Paralytic stiffness all over.
- Uric acid diathesis.
- Arthritis and gout.
- Gout with pains in joints.
- Rheumatic pains throughout shoulder joint, arms, fingers and small joints.
- Pain in joints, relieved by very 
hot water.
- Nodular swellings in joints.
- Ankle join t pains while walking.
- Pain in hollow of foot, extending to the 
knee.
- Swelling and tenderness of finger and toe joints, better hot water.
- Itching about joints, feet and hands.
- Soreness of fingers, better grasping.

### Neck & Back
- Pressure as from a dull point, here and there.
- Sticking pain in sacral region.
- Soreness in right side, 
extending to sacrum.
- Prostration in sacrum at night.
- Bladder - Tenesmus of bladder, while and after urinating.
- Soreness of bladder with frequent urination.
- Pain in 
bladder extending to spermatic cord after urination .
- Flashes of pain in region of bladder, more towards right, 
before urination.
- Burning in urethra.
- Sub-acute and chronic cystitis.
- Breasts - Pain in breast glands, which extends into the arms and fingers.

### Skin
- Dry, harsh skin.
- Rough rash all over body, much loose epithelium tough, dry, itchy skin.
- Dull stitch, 
ending in itching.
- Eczema.
- Scabby, tettery eruption on hands, head and cheeks, preceded by red, raw skin.
- Barber's itch.

### Sleep
- Sleepless the whole night with anxiety and feeling of helplessness.
- Restless sleep.
- Sleep disturbed by 
pains in joints, sacrum and feet.
- Sleep disturbed from copious urination, followed by erections.
- Voluptuous 
dreams, disturbing sleep.

### Generalities
- Temples as if bound.
- Head too large.
- Eyes dry.
- As if veil before eyes.
- Lancination as from red-
hot needles in bubo.
- Arm as if paralyzed.
- Border of foot and soles as if gouty, itching.