- Source: Derived from the fresh leaves of Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel), an evergreen shrub native to Europe and Asia, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution to eliminate toxicity (due to cyanogenic glycosides) and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for cardiovascular, respiratory,.
- neurological, psychological, and systemic disorders, particularly those involving cyanosis,.
- breathlessness, and collapse-like states.
- It is noted for symptoms such as gasping respiration,.
- palpitations, fainting, and mental dullness, often aggravated by warmth, sitting, or exertion, and ameliorated by cold air, lying down, or rest.
- Modern Context: Indicated for cardiovascular conditions (e.g., heart failure, arrhythmias),.
- respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma), neurological conditions (e.g., syncope, seizures), psychological conditions (e.g., depression, cognitive impairment), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue, cyanotic states).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by cyanosis, breathlessness, palpitations, fainting, or mental sluggishness, typically exacerbated by warmth, exertion, or sitting, and often seen in individuals with weakened, chilly constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a cold, debilitated constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like labored breathing or heart weakness alongside systemic symptoms like exhaustion or cognitive fog, commonly observed in patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or chronic fatigue syndrome triggered by exertion, warm environments, or systemic decline.
- COMMENTS-Laur has a peculiar “gasping,” gasping without really breathing.
- Blueness and twitching of the muscles of the face.
- Cya nosis, particularly in newborns (Aeon., Carb-v.).
- Valvular problems, regurgitation, weak hearts.
- Suffocative spells about the heart, worse by sitting up, the patient is compelled to lie down (Psor.).
- Some heart symptoms compel the patient to sit up.
- Blue a round fingertips.
- Clubbing of fingers, common in cyanosis and tuberculosis.
- Guernsey gave these leading symptoms, “gasping for breath, the patient puts his hand to the heart as if there was some trouble there, this may result from running a short distance, which puts him completely out of breath, going upstairs, walking or any exercise may bring the gasping on.” Cough with valvular heart disease, in cessant cough, especially on lying down, fluttering in heart and gasping with cough.
- Spasmodic cough of later stages of whoop ing cough, when patient is much prostrated and has nervous spasmodic symptoms.
- Dry, harassing cough of tuberculosis.
- Alternation of chill, fever and sweat in tuberculosis.
- Long-lasting faints (Camph has sudden fainting), seems to have no reactive power, face pale, blue, cold surface.
- Prostrate before getting up in the morning with difficulty opening the eyes.
- Nervous disorders with constant jerks, cannot keep still.
- Allen noted an extremely nervous, excitable condition accompanying ailments.
- Attacks of indigestion and pains across lower abdomen that come suddenly in the morning and generally disappear on getting up.
- Gnawing pain in lower abdomen, with occasional looseness of stool, particularly in old men.
- Green mucus diarrhea, with suffocative spells about heart.
- Fluids roll audibly into the stomach.
- Digestion is weak, bowels confined.
- Low-spirited with flatulence and burning in chest after food.
- Audible and gurgling flatus, rolls about the upper abdomen.
- Constricted sensations in gullet, in rectum.
- Symptoms worse before eating.
- Inclined to lose flesh and hemorrhages that are small in quantity and bright in color.
- Menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea.
- Eruptions are livid after pressure with the finger, the skin is long in regaining its color.
- Constant tired and sick feeling.
- Sleepless with a great desire for sleep.
- Coldness, internal coldness and external heat.
- Cold tongue.
- Heat of single parts.
- Warmth on center of forehead, then a coldness as from a draft of air lasting a long time.
- The left chest is most affected.
- Pains start from the lower part of the spine and extend either around the pelvis or up to the head.
- Pains are accompanied with a sense of suffocation, a sick feeling with drowsiness, and a great desire to sleep that generally brings relief.
- Cooper, in his work in Cancer and Cancer Symptoms, offered cases emphasizing the uterine symptoms.
- The indications of Laur., according to Cooper, are a sense of fatigue that pervades the whole system with a very painful condition of the hard and indurated tissue of the parts affected.
- Pain is much better by sleep.
- Tendency to ooze blood, which is gener ally bright and mixed with gelatinous clots.
- This applies to the chest as well as to uterine and rectal symptoms, only the blood comes painlessly into the mouth, but with great pain in the vagina.
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- Wigg related the case of May S., 7, who had been troubled for some time with an almost incessant cough, for which many remedies were given without benefit.
- At last Wigg came to the conclusion that Laur was the remedy and put ten drops of Laur.
- 200c into five tablespoonfuls of water ordering a teaspoonful of this to be taken every two hours when the child was awake.
- This was at 4 p.m.
- After the third dose she fell asleep.
- At 3 a.m she awoke in a very ex cited condition.
- Her mother asked her if she had not been dreaming, but her tongue was so stiff she could not answer.
- Suddenly she began to tremble all over as if in a chill.
- After ten minutes she began to twitch and jerk.
- Wigg was sent for and found her i n this convulsed state.
- She could not articulate for the thickness and heaviness of the tongue.
- The mind was clear.
- Recognizing the action of Laur., Wigg antidoted it with camphor, and later a cup of coffee, and symptoms ceased in a few hours.
- She had no more of the cough.
- Temperature-Coldness, chills and heat alternate.
- Shuddering, followed by burning heat running down the back.
- Thirst with dry mouth in afternoon.
- Falling down sensation of a lump in abdomen from above the navel to small of back, worse talking or overexertion.
- Gurgling flatulence
