# Lapis Albus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Lapis albus is silico-fluo- ride of calcium. A kind of gneiss, it was found by Grauvogl in the 
mineral springs of Gastein, Germany. These waters flow over gneiss for mations into the valley of the Achen, 
where goiter and cretinism abound. The mineral waters have a reputation for curing ulcers, cancers and 
tumors. 
 
 
Grauvogl cured with it a case of carcinoma and he and others hav e cured cases of goiter and scrofulous 
glands. Uterine cancer. Fibroid tumors with intense burning  pains through the part with profuse 
hemorrhage. Pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma. Sarcoma. Lipoma. Growths. 
Glandular disorders, glands are elastic and pliable (Calc-f. and Cist, have a stony hardness). Goiter. Especially 
affects the con nective tissue about the glands. Glandular swellings where no glands are usually found. 
Scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases. Fat, anemic babies with a ravenous appetite. 
Burning, shooting, stinging pains in the stomach, pylorus, in the breasts and uterus. Severe menstrual pains 
causing weakness and swooning.
COMMENTS - In two cases of cervical glands cured by Lap -a. 6c, Dewey related that a raven ous appetite 
developed while the remedy was being taken. He also noted that the swelling of the glands was elastic rather 
than of stony hardness. 
In one patient, the swelling was as large as a goose -egg in the right sternoclavicular region. This patient, a 
young woman, was a blonde, as also was a woman of thirty-five whom he cured of goiter with the remedy. 
Whiting recorded a fragmentary proving of Lap -a. Mrs. Smith., 40, fair, stout, no children, had a large 
bronchocele. Averse to all animal food, craved sweets. Craved and drank much ice-water in all seasons since 
a child. Feet and legs cold to knees. 
Lap-a. 6x was given, 2 grains, powders, one four times a day. She reported in a month that the tumor was 
rapidly diminishing in size, but she was having much pain in it. No further medi cine was given. 
Two months later, the tumor had dimin ished to one-half, and the patient stated that since taking the powders 
she had had no pain at her menstrual period, no dyspepsia and no sick -headaches. She had experienced 
severe dysmenorrhea since the  menses first appeared. Since leaving off the medicine, the pain in the tumor 
ceased and also the decrease in size. 
Lap-a. 6x was again given and again the pain in the tumor came on and in addition, itching of the external 
genitals. The 30c and 200c caused such intense itching that the patient refused to take any more medicine of 
any kind. 
Since then, Whiting cured many cases of pruritus and also of dysmenorrhea with Lap -a. The pains come on 
before the flow and cause swooning. 
One patient, 19, had dysmenorrhea from the first. Pain so severe she would fall unconscious wherever she 
might happen to be, the swoon lasting half an hour at times. Better when flow established. Lap-a. 200c cured. 
Miss X., 34, normal until she had measles at age 20; since the n, pain at commencement of menstruation, so 
severe as to cause fainting. “This severe pain would continue less for a day or until the flow was established.” 
Lap-a. 200c cured in six months. 
W. P. Wesselheft, discussing Whiting's paper, narrated the cure of a case of epithelioma of the lip in a man of 
seventy with Lap-a. 12x in water. 
Dr. Gregory cured a young man of a tumor of the lip with Lap -a. 30c. It recurred two years later with “burning, 
stinging pain, which made him jump off his feet.” More Lap -a. 30c was given and cured in a year. There was 
in further recurrence. 
Bellows noted that where Sil. is indicated, progress is hastened by Lap-a.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Sick headache.
- Sick headache.

### Ears
- Suppurative otitis media.

### Face
- Opening in cheek as large as a sil ver dollar, in carcinoma.
- Epithelioma of lip, crusts coming off leave 
raw surface.
- Tumor of lower lip with burning, stinging pains, that make him jump off his feet.

### Chest
- Persistent pains in breast region.
- Glandular hardening.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Ravenous appetite.

### Urinary & Genital
- Painful menses, suddenly taken with pain so severe that she swoons.
- Lapis albus Severe pain preceding the flow.
- Pruritus vulva.
- Burning, shooting, stingingpains in breasts and 
uterus.
- Uterine carcinoma.

### Skin
- Scrofulous abscesses and sores.
- Pruritus.
- Enlargement and induration of glands, especially the cervical glands.
- Lipoma, sarcoma, carcinoma.