- Source: Derived from the spores of Lycopodium clavatum, a perennial evergreen plant native to temperate and arctic regions, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution to eliminate potential toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for gastrointestinal, psychological,.
- Respiratory, urogenital, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving digestive weakness,.
- Anxiety, and right-sided complaints.
- It is noted for symptoms such as bloating, anticipatory anxiety,.
- And urinary difficulties, often aggravated by cold, late afternoon (4–8 PM), or suppressed emotions,.
- And ameliorated by warmth, motion, or open air.
- Modern Context: Indicated for gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome,.
- Dyspepsia), psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder),.
- Respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma), urogenital conditions (e.g., benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary retention), and systemic conditions (e.g.,.
- Chronic fatigue, metabolic disorders).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by bloating, anticipatory anxiety, right-sided complaints, urinary difficulties, or low confidence, typically exacerbated by cold, late afternoon, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with intellectual, sensitive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, introspective constitution, often presenting with psychological symptoms like performance anxiety or inferiority complex alongside physical symptoms like flatulence or urinary hesitancy, commonly observed in patients with irritable bowel syndrome, social anxiety disorder, or benign prostatic hyperplasia triggered by stress, cold exposure, or dietary indiscretions.
- COMMENTS-Lyc was praised by Wedel, Lantilius, Gesner and others in cardialgía and flatulent colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. of children and young girls, diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. of children, and nephritic colic and ston es.
- Merat and de Lens spoke of its internal use in rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., retention of urine, nephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling., epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and pulmonary diseases.
- Diabetes, arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age., hypoglycemia🩺 HypoglycemiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., depression, and dyslexia.
- Useful for early stage alcoholics.
- Teste mentioned that it is record ed that a decoction of the plant caused vomiting.
- The use of the powder in intertrigo was not regarded as a physical one but as medicinal.
- In Poland it was used for powdering the hair in “plica polonica,” a decoction being used internally and also externally at the same time.
- Apprehensiveness.
- Anxiety about perfor mance, particularly sexual.
- Fear of public speaking, failure, success, new situations, commitments and responsibility.
- Fear of being alone, of men, of his own shadow.
- Agoraphobia.
- Hypochondriacs.
- Panic attacks (Ars., Phos., Kali-ar., Med.).
- Susceptible to causes of fear that make a profound effect on bodily organs.
- Profound sadness and inclination to weep.
- Poor confidence and low self-esteem.
- Forgetfulness.
- Peevish.
- Avaricious.
- Imperiousness.
- Miserliness.
- Overly concerned with image.
- Love of power.
- Dictatorial tendencies.
- Attracted to politics (Ign.🌿 Ign.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Nairn., Calc.🌿 Calc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Lyc., Nux-v.🌿 Nux-V.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), for the power and the stature, the ego, the class, society.
- Can be domineering, aggressive.
- Headaches, worse from 4 p .m to 8 p.m..
- Eating, warmth of bed, becoming heated dur ing a walk, heat in general, mental exertion, better in open air, in cool place, by uncovering.
- Rush of blood to the head.
- Falling of hair with crusty scalp eruption.
- Face is pale and yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., deepl y furrowed, looks elongated.
- Inflammation of eyes and lids.
- OphthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis., conjunctiva looks like red flesh.
- Sordes in teeth.
- Facial neuralgias.
- Nodding and side to side movement of the head.
- Spasmodic movements of facial muscles, angles of mouth alternately drawn up and relaxed and spasmodic movements of tongue.
- The tongue cannot be protruded, rolls from side to side like a pendulum.
- Cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in the tongue when speaking, cutting off the end of every sentence.
- Rapid, fan-like movement of ale nasi occurring in cerebral, pulmonary and abdominal complaints, not synchronous with breathing.
- Sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., cannot bear to lie on painful side it is so sensitive, especially if on right side.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. and paralytic weakness of limbs, of brain.
- Heaviness of the arm.
- Contracti on of the tendons, especially hamstrings.
- Right foot hot, left foot cold.
- Cutting pains shooting from right to left in any part (opposite of Lach.🌿 Lach.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Burning pains better by heat, burning like hot coals between scapula.
- Burning stinging in breasts.
- Dryness of parts, of mucus membranes, of vagina, of skin, especially palms.
- Suppurative conditions, even gangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection..
- Characteristic suddenness, sudden flashes of heat, lightning-like pains, sudden satiety.
- Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly (Bell.🌿 Bell.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Sensation as if a hand were in the body clutching the entrails (Bell.).
- Restless-ness, better by motion (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Keynote worse from 4 p.m to 8 p.m.
- In one case cured by Lyc it was “bad from 4 p.m to 6 p.m..
- Better at 8 p.m., gone at 9 p.m.” Characteristic right to left movement.
- Better from uncovering, particularly headaches (opposite Sil.🌿 Sil.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Better from loosening garments.
- Better from warm drinks, worse from cold food and drinks.
- Desires fresh air (Puls.🌿 Puls.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Excessive sensitiveness, worse touch and pressure.
- All soft parts are sensitive, gums, epigastrium, abdomen, right side of chest, eruption around anus.
- Cannot bear any strong smells.
- Cannot endure noise.
- In the evening she continues to hear the music she has heard during the day.
- Deficiency of vital heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Puerperal fever with sensation as though hot balls dropped from each breast through to back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels, this alternates with a sensation as it balls of ice followed same course.
- Phlegmasia dolens.
- Respiratory disorders.
- Salt sputa, milky, greenish yellow, thick yellow mucus, pus.
- Dry burning catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. of nose, larynx, throat, chest.
- “Dry teasing cough in emaciated boys.” Cough provoked by irritation from deep breathing, stretching out throat and by empty swallowing.
- Cough worse on waking.
- Affects the blood vessels from the heart to the capillaries.
- Nevus, aneurysm, disordered heart.
- Varicose veins🩺 Varicose VeinsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Weak digestive tract.
- Easy satiety.
- Sleepy after meals.
- Diabetes and hypoglycemia.
- Sinking sensation at epigastrium, worse in the night, waking up the patient or worse in afternoon.
- Cord-like tension across hypochondria.
- Great sensitiveness in liver region.
- BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines. under left ribs in front.
- Sour stomach, sour taste, sour vomiting.
- Often thirsty, for small amounts, but drinking cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. causes nausea.
- Great weakness with the vomiting.
- Craves sugar and starch (Kali-c, Chin.🌿 Chin.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Nat-c.).
- Aggravated by or averse to onions and garlic🌿 GarlicMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. (Thuj.🌿 Thuj.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Worse from flatulence foods, cabbage, broccoli, and beans.
- Kidney colic with stinging, tearing, digging pain in right ureter to bladder, as if some small calculusStone in kidney, bladder, or gall bladderA hard mass or stone formed from mineral deposits in the urinary tract or gallbladder. was tearing its way to the bladder.
- Aching in back, kidneys, before urination, better after urinating.
- Pale, whit ish, cloudy mucus, urine often fetid.
- Child cries before urinating, red sand is found in diaper.
- Gas and bloating.
- Incarcerated flatulence, more in intestines than in stomach, painful with better by belchings.
- Flatulence pressing outward, on rectum and bladder, sensation as if something moving up and down in the bowels.
- Pushing out in right inguinal ring.
- Right inguinal hernia🩺 Inguinal HerniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., especially in children.
- Spasmodic constriction of rectum.
- For constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. where purgatives have been abused.
- Constipation of infants.
- Extreme sadness and irritability before menses, ceasing w ith the flow.
- Menses are too early and too profuse.
- Ill-humor.
- Bearing-down pains and headache.
- Intolerance of tight clothing.
- Left ovarian pain, dull aching, worse on raising the limb or turning in bed.
- Nausea, varicose veins and excessive fetal movements during pregnancy.
- Unsatisfactory labor pains.
- Impotence, from masturbation, sexual excess, or age.
- Desire is strong but the power is absent, penis small, cold, relaxed.
- There was an involuntary provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Lyc from inhalation of the fumes in the course of a chemical experiment, Lyc powder being added to a boiling mass.
- The writer (apparently a medical man) had at times, while engaged in the experiments, frightful headaches (occiput, vertex and through right eye).
- S. A Jones called attention to the irr itability of Lyc and noted the cure of a boy with typhoid with excessive tympanites when the case seemed almost hopeless.
- The guiding symptoms were “when awake exceed ingly cross, irritable, scolding, screaming, behaving disagreeably,” which was quite di fferent from his usual nature.
- Lyc. 30c was given.
- The “fan-like movement” of the ale nasi led Halbert to the cure of a case of nervous asthma.
- Mrs. S., 28, had periodic attacks of spasmodic asthma, always ushered in by unusual excitement and attended by p eculiar mental depression.
- The attack for which Halbert saw her was induced by a violent fit of anger and persisted longer than usual.
- Extreme despondency and melancholy, would have nothing to do with her friends.
- Constriction of throat like globus, but a lways induced by regurgitationBackward flow of blood or fluidsThe casting up of undigested food from the stomach, or the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve. of food.
- Excessive appetite easily satisfied.
- Fullness of abdomen with flatulence.
- Constipation, dry, hard stools.
- Dyspnea.
- Slight cough with chest constriction, better in open air.
- All symptoms worse 4 p.m to 8 p.m.
- Lyc. 6x cured.
- A patient of Clarke's took Lye.
- 30c and developed a “pain under sternum as if food lodged there and she could not breathe through it.” Loosvelt found that “half-open condition of the eyes during sleep” is a strong indication for Lyc and led him to make cures in cases of bronchitis, pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and typhoid when other remedies have failed.
- Majumdar recorded the case of a boy, 14, who had general dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. and anasarcaSevere generalized body swellingA medical condition characterized by widespread swelling of the skin due to severe fluid retention in tissues. consequent on the subsidence of an enlarged spleen under allopathic medication.
- There was afternoon fever (worse 4 to 8 p.m.), slight chilliness, but no thirst, difficult breathing on lying down, urine scanty and high colored, bowels constipated, heart's action weak but regular.
- Apis🌿 ApisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. caused the urine to be more free, but a troublesome diarrh ea set in Apoc.🌿 Apoc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- 6x removed the diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., but had no effect on the dropsy.
- Lyc. 30c was then given purely on the symptoms and quickly cleared up the case.
- H. Goullon cured a case of cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination. in a man, 55, subject to attacks of enteralgia.
- He was seized two da ys after such an at tack with a severe cystitis with fever and palpitation of the heart.
- The calls to urinate were increased and he could hardly reach the vessel quick enough to prevent premature escape of the urine, so severe and sudden was the urging.
- During, and sometimes after the passage, there was intense burning pain, “as if molten lead were flowing through the urethra.” During the height of the pain he grasped his penis to obtain relief.
- The urine, which was discharged in very scanty quantities, loo ked turbid, almost loamy, had a dirty brownish-red color and a peculiar odor of malt.
- Lyc. 12c was given, six drops in half a wine glassful of water, a teaspoonful every three hours.
- Cured in twenty-four hours.
- Drysdale recorded the cure of a young woman w hose hands were covered with warts.
- One 2 grains tablet of Lyc. 6c trituration was given at bedtime.
- The warts soon began to shrivel and in less than six weeks were all gone.
- Clarke gave Miss E. Lyc. 30c for constipa tion.
- Soon after taking it she had pai ns in upper abdomen in all directions, urging to stool without ability to pass it, much flatus which could neither be got up nor down.
- Lyc. 1,000c. was now given, afew globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. dissolved in water, a teaspoonful at bedtime.
- All symptoms vanished.
- On rising, a second teaspoonful was taken and after this the bowels were well relieved.
- On another occasion she took Lyc. 1,000c. in the evening and immediately felt her throat tight and uncomfortable, but this passed, and she went to bed.
- At 5 a.m she woke with ch oking and had the greatest difficulty in getting her breath.
- She managed to reach a bottle of Bell. 3c and a dose of this relieved her at once.
- A patient for whom Lyc. 5c had, to her great delight, reduced the gouty swellings about her finger joints.
- Now she could get rings on she had not been able to wear for years, but she was obliged to discontinue it on account of the distressing headaches it caused.
- Temperature-Chill between 3 p.m and 4 p.m., followed by sweat.
- Icy coldness, feels as if lying on ice.
- One chill followed by another (Calc., Sil., Hep.🌿 Hep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Body be comes cold during cough.
- Chill alternating with heat.
- Periodic recurrence of chill.
- Fever, continuous, remittent intermittent.
- Fever and sweat every afternoon from 4 p.m to 8 p.m.
- Old broken down cases of malaria🌿 MalariaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Typhoid fever🩺 Typhoid FeverClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. attacks during tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Bloated abdomen.
- Tympanitic distension with cold feet.
- AscitesFluid accumulation in the abdomenAn abnormal buildup of fluid in the peritoneal cavity of the abdomen, causing swelling, bloating, and discomfort..
- Brown spots on abdomen.
- Food allergies.
- Gastroenteritis🩺 GastroenteritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. from fright.
- Epigastric anxiety, pressure.
- Sensation as if a band about waist.
- Sensation of something moving up and down or as of a hard body rolling, when turning to the right side.
- Shooting pain across lower abdomen from right to left.
- Tension and pain in abdomen from incarcerated flatus.
- Hot pains flash across bowels.
- Bursting pain in abdomen, during stool.
- Fermentation in intestines like yeast.
- Much noisy flatulence, pressing out, worse lower abdomen.
- Immediately after eating, abdomen is bloated andfull.
- Flatulence before and after stool.
- Colic in babies with gas and bloating, worse evening.
- Diabetes.
- Inactive intestinal tract.
- Hernia, right side.
- Colon cancer.
- Malnutrition.
- Excessive hunger, canine hunger.
- Hurried when eating.
- Hypoglycemia, headache when not eating regularly.
- Loss of appetite.
- Bulimia, with much bloating.
- Diabetes.
- Likes to take drink and food hot.
- Desire for sweets, delicacies, pastries, alcohol.
- Food tastes sour.
- Food allergies, wheat.
- Worse fr om breads, fermentedfoods and fermentable dough.
- Aggravated from alcohol, wine tobacco, flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters and onions.
- Aversion to sweets, bread, fermented foods, soup, meat, coffee.
- Averse to boiled food, warm food, cold drinks or food
