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Lycopus Europaeus

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Lycopus Europaeus Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Clarke knew of one instance in which the slightest indulgence in tomatoes brings on an attack of goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet..
  • Cooper comm ended the use of tomatoes in cases of obesity.
  • Cooper gave Lycpr in a case of rodent ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. and caused sharp pain and temporary spread of the disease.
  • CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., worse out of doors (All-c., better out of doors).
  • Polyuria, with great thirst.
  • Dia betes.
  • Marked action on deltoid and pectoral muscles, pain is better lifting arm upward and outward.
  • Pains leave after influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane...
  • Right side principally affected, symptoms proceed from right to left
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better in warm room, from external heat.
  • The headache in one instance was completely better by tobacco smoke.
  • Worse by noise, motion
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidoted by: Tobacco smoke. Compare: (1) Bell., Hyos., Dulc., Caps., Sol-t., Sol-n. (2) Ant-
t. - weakness of cervical muscles. (3) In coryza, All-c. but All-c. has better open air, Lycpr. worse open air. (4)
Contracted pupils. Op. (5)Deltoidrheumatism, Sang. (6) Diabetes. Uran -n. (7) Headache, sore throat, right
side. Bell. (8) Headache worse on coughing, worse in open air, Caps.

MIND
  • Peevish about trifles.
  • Very irritable, noises greatly annoy.
  • Un usually mentally active for short periods, followed by longer periods of mental dullness.
  • Weak memory, forgetful.
  • Thoughts disappear, worse when leaning head against anything.
  • Cannot keep mind fixed on work.
  • Peevish about trifles.
  • Very irritable, noises greatly annoy.
  • Un usually mentally active for short periods, followed by longer periods of mental dullness.
  • Weak memory, forgetful.
  • Thoughts disappear, worse when leaning head against anything.
  • Cannot keep mind fixed on work
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Giddiness, with inclination to faint on attempting to walk.
  • COMMENTS - Gross made a proving of Ly- cpr., noting peevishness and loss of memory, sticking and pressing pains, a sense of paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., pressing and boring pains in head, and stopped catarrh.
  • Some women cannot eat tomatoes without getting backache, leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. or metrorrhagia.
  • In Gross's proving, the headache was worse in evening, she was obliged to rise in the night to urinate.
  • The mind symptoms were worse and the headache better by leaning the head against something.
  • Dr.
  • Herbert H.
  • Roberts of Derby, Conn., published provings made by himself, two with the 3x and two with the 30x tinctures.
  • “The original tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. was made from the thoroughly ripened fruit, great pains being taken to thoroughly macerate t he seeds as well as the pulp.” The rheumatic and con gestive symptoms were mostly produced by the 3x, the nervous symptoms mostly by the 30x.
  • Roberts remarked that the natives of Mexico and California eat quantities of the ripe fruit to prevent rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
  • The right deltoid was very markedly affected and should make Lycpr a companion to Sang, in shoulder pains.
  • Headaches were intense and characteristic in some, great soreness remained after the pain had gone.
  • Dark-complexioned people seem to be suited to its action from two cases recorded by Roberts.
  • The first case concerned a widow, 50, dark complexion, large, stout, gray eyes.
  • Sudden attack of grip.
  • Very severe aching pains all over, up and down back, limbs, head.
  • Beating, throbbing in head, beginning in occiput, spreading all over head, settling with great violence in temples.
  • Excruciating pain back of eyes and in balls as if they would burst with the pressure.
  • Light causes pain.
  • Delirium.
  • Severe, deep, racking cough.
  • Thirst for large quantities.
  • Pupils contracted.
  • Lycpr.
  • 3x every hour cleared away the fever and acute symptoms by the following morning and rapidly cured the remaining cough.
  • The second case was a man, 40, dark com plexion, black hair and eyes, tall, thick -set.
  • Severe bursting, throbbing pain beginning in occiput and settling with great force in temporal and frontal regions, eyes painful, worse from light, pupils contracted.
  • Thirst for large quantities.
  • Temperature 104° F.
  • Pulse full flowing.
  • Lycpr.
  • 3x every hour given in evening removed the h eadache before midnight.
  • The next day, the right tonsil was swollen and inflamed, sore on swallowing, feeling of a lump there.
  • Temperature 101°.
  • He recovered rapidly
HEAD
  • Intense throbbing, bursting head ache.
  • Bursting pain in head, especially vertex and when coughing.
  • Dull, heavy pain in occiput.
  • Headache in the occiput, spreads all over the head and settles with great violence in temples, worse tobacco smoke.
  • Intense throbbing, bursting head ache.
  • Bursting pain in head, especially vertex and when coughing.
  • Dull, heavy pain in occiput.
  • Headache in the occiput, spreads all over the head and settles with great violence in temples, worse tobacco smoke
EYES
  • Dull, heavy, ache.
  • Sore and burning.
  • Pupils minutely contracted.
  • Twitching in left inner canthus.
  • Eyes water on close work.
  • Letters run together when reading.
  • Keeps wiping eyes to see clearly.
  • Light painful.
  • Lids feel heavy and swollen
FACE
  • Face flushed, pale.
  • Pressure in right or left zygoma
MOUTH
  • Itching and tickling in roof of mouth.
  • Tongue coated thick, yellow, white, more in center.
  • Foul breath, taste.
  • Nose - Stopped catarrh.
  • Profuse watery coryza excoriating ale, drops down pos terior sinuses, salty taste, markedly worse out of doors
THROAT
  • The throat slightly sore on swallowing.
  • Mucus membrane of pharynx pale, tip of uvula and arch es of pharynx red and inflamed.
  • Burning raw feeling right side of throat, changing to left.
  • Swelling of left tonsil.
  • Constant desire to clear throat.
  • Husky voice.
  • Hoarseness with constant tickling in pit of throat.
  • Hoarseness towards night
CHEST
  • Slight sticking beneath left side of sternum, without difficulty of respira tion.
  • Oppression in chest in lower lobe of right lung.
  • Fine, stitching pains at base of heart.
  • Lame pain in region of heart.
  • Pulse 100, full and flowing.
  • Kidneys - Increase of watery constituents of urine, not of total solids.
  • Must rise at night to urinate.
  • Constant debility when in open air, not at all in warm room.
  • Coughs are deep, harsh, starting from irritation in lower chest.
  • Explosive cough.
  • Dry, hacking cough coming on at night and keeping him awake.
  • Expectoration white and in lumps, early in morning
ABDOMEN
  • Thirst for large quantities of water.
  • Violent belchings of gas with taste of food.
  • Great f latulency between 10 a.m and 11:30.
  • Burning sensation in stomach towards evening and during evening.
  • Great flatulency of abdomen.
  • Back - Cannot get into a comfortable position.
  • Backache in lumbar region, making them gloomy and depressed.
  • Rheumatic pain near attachment of trapezius muscle to spine.
  • Heavy dragging in right scapula.
  • Breasts - Sore and tender scirrhous breast
GENITALS ETC
  • Profuse leucorrheal discharge.
  • Too frequent menstruation, brought on by free use of canned tomatoes, the flow would return whenever this food was eaten for a few meals
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Intense aching, rheumatic pain in muscles of all limbs.
  • Lame, tired feeling in all limbs with great exhaustion.
  • Intense aching pain in lower limbs.
  • Sharp sticking pain along course of right crural nerve.
  • Painful sticking behind articulation of left hip.
  • Sharp pain in right deltoid and pectoral muscles, worse lifting arm upward and outward.
  • Lameness of left wrist, hand and fingers, where it is painful even when not moving it
SKIN
  • Erythematous lupus much relieved (Cooper)
SLEEP
  • Unable to fall asleep in evening tosses about, every position uncomfort able.
  • Very restless sleep.
  • Frequent waking and tossing, limbs when pressed feel paralyzed.
  • Confused, disagreeable dreams.
  • Wakened by insignificant dreams

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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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