# Lycopodium Clavatum ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications 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. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), late afternoon (4–8 PM), starchy foods,. emotional stress, suppressed emotions, tight clothing, lying down, damp weather, dust,. morning, public speaking. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Failing brain-power (Anae., Bar-c., Kali-p.). - Weak memory, confused thoughts. - Dyslexia. - Weakness of memory for names of letters. - Spells or writes wrong words and syllables. - Cannot read what he writes. - Brain fag after influenza. - Concentration difficult during conversation. - Confusion in warm room, better walking in open air. - Confused thoughts. - Confused about common words. - Hears wrong words and syllables. - Speech indistinct, stammers the last word. - Lack of aptitude for finance and math. - Indecision. - Timidity. - Loss of self confi dence. - Loss of confidence in physician and remedies. - Poor self- esteem. - Anticipation. - Averse to undertaking new things, yet goes through with ease. - Great anxiety, in pit of stomach. - Anxiety, as if about to die. - Anxiety in house, with company, during stormy weather, while walking in open air. - Conscientious about trifles. - Apt to worry about the future. - Hur ried when eating. - Panic attacks (Ars., Phos., Kali -ar., Med.). - Constant fear of breaking down under stress, fear of failure, public speaking, stagefright. - Fear of men, strangers, to be alone. - Fear of the dark, ghosts. - Agoraphobia. - Fear of being unable to reach his destination. - Frightened of everything. - Melancholy. - Resignation. - Sadness in morning. - Ill -humor and disposition to weep before me nses. - Extremely sensitive. - Weeps all day, when thanked or meeting a friend. - Sad, or cheerful, on hearing distant music. - Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things, alternating with melancholy and low -spirited. - Awakes, irritable, angry, sad and anxious . - Defiant, arbitrary. - Headstrong and haughty when sick. - Domineering. - Reproaches others. - Love for power. - Hateful. - Miserly. - Easily aroused to anger. - Quarrelsome. - Fault finding. - Suspicious. - Distrustful. - Hates being watched when at work. - Misanthropic, flees ev en from his children. - Religious aversion to opposite sex. - Aversion to company, yet dreads solitude. - Childish fantasies. - Delusions that he has neglected his duty. - Delusion of being in two places at the same time. - Delusion hears music in evening that was heard in the day. - Baby cries all day, sleeps all night. - Cranky. - Kicks, screams and very cross, on awaking from short, restless naps. - Indisposition to play in children. - Child desires to be carried. - Oversensitive to pain. - Feels as if she would die from weakness, when lying in bed. - Ailments from domineering parents or siblings. - Ailments from abuse, mortification, anger or vexation. - Ailments from fright. - Looks older than he is. - Failing brain-power (Anae., Bar-c., Kali-p.). - Weak memory, confused thoughts. - Dyslexia. - Weakness of memory for names of letters. - Spells or writes wrong words and syllables. - Cannot read what he writes. - Brain fag after influenza. - Concentration difficult during conversation. - Confusion in warm room, better walking in open air. - Confused thoughts. - Confused about common words. - Hears wrong words and syllables. - Speech indistinct, stammers the last word. - Lack of aptitude for finance and math. - Indecision. - Timidity. - Loss of self confi dence. - Loss of confidence in physician and remedies. - Poor self- esteem. - Anticipation. - Averse to undertaking new things, yet goes through with ease. - Great anxiety, in pit of stomach. - Anxiety, as if about to die. - Anxiety in house, with company, during stormy weather, while walking in open air. - Conscientious about trifles. - Apt to worry about the future. - Hur ried when eating. - Panic attacks (Ars., Phos., Kali -ar., Med.). - Constant fear of breaking down under stress, fear of failure, public speaking, stagefright. - Fear of men, strangers, to be alone. - Fear of the dark, ghosts. - Agoraphobia. - Fear of being unable to reach his destination. - Frightened of everything. - Melancholy. - Resignation. - Sadness in morning. - Ill -humor and disposition to weep before me nses. - Extremely sensitive. - Weeps all day, when thanked or meeting a friend. - Sad, or cheerful, on hearing distant music. - Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things, alternating with melancholy and low -spirited. - Awakes, irritable, angry, sad and anxious . - Defiant, arbitrary. - Headstrong and haughty when sick. - Domineering. - Reproaches others. - Love for power. - Hateful. - Miserly. - Easily aroused to anger. - Quarrelsome. - Fault finding. - Suspicious. - Distrustful. - Hates being watched when at work. - Misanthropic, flees ev en from his children. - Religious aversion to opposite sex. - Aversion to company, yet dreads solitude. - Childish fantasies. - Delusions that he has neglected his duty. - Delusion of being in two places at the same time. - Delusion hears music in evening that was heard in the day. - Baby cries all day, sleeps all night. - Cranky. - Kicks, screams and very cross, on awaking from short, restless naps. - Indisposition to play in children. - Child desires to be carried. - Oversensitive to pain. - Feels as if she would die from weakness, when lying in bed. - Ailments from domineering parents or siblings. - Ailments from abuse, mortification, anger or vexation. - Ailments from fright. - Looks older than he is. ### Vertigo - Vertigo when looking at anything turning. - Vertigo in morning on rising. - Vertigo reels back and forth. - Vertigo in hot room. - Gets hot during vertigo, face reddens, eyes water and become dim. - Vision - Day-blindness (Both.). - Black, float ing spots before eyes. - Hemiopia, sees only one -half of an object. - Must wipe mucus from eyes in order to see clearly. - Letters run together or become indistinct while reading or writing, must vary distance of page. - Impaired vision seems as if one was looking through fine lattice. - Flickering and dim vision after a nap in afternoon. - Nightblindness. - In artificial light all objects tremble. - Sees sparks in the dark. - COMMENTS - Lyc. - was praised by Wedel, Lantilius, Gesner and others in cardialgía and flatulent colic of children and young girls, diseases of children, and nephritic colic and ston es. - Merat and de Lens spoke of its internal use in rheumatism, retention of urine, nephritis, epilepsy and pulmonary diseases. - Diabetes, arthritis, hypoglycemia, 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., Nairn., Calc., Lyc., Nux-v.), 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, deepl y furrowed, looks elongated. - Inflammation of eyes and lids. - Ophthalmia, 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 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, cannot bear to lie on painful side it is so sensitive, especially if on right side. - Paralysis 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.). - 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 gangrene. - Characteristic suddenness, sudden flashes of heat, lightning -like pains, sudden satiety. - Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly (Bell.). - Sensation as if a hand were in the body clutching the entrails (Bell.). - Restless - ness, better by motion (Rhus-t.). - 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 head aches (opposite Sil.). - Better from loosening garments. - Better from warm drinks, worse from cold food and drinks. - Desires fresh air (Puls.). - 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. - 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 catarrh 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. - 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. - Borborygmi under left ribs in front. - Sour stomach, sour taste, sour vomiting. - Often thirsty, for small amounts, but drinking cold water causes nausea. - Great weakness with the vomiting. - Craves sugar and starch (Kali -c, Chin., Nat-c.). - Aggravated by or averse to onions and garlic (Thuj.). - Worse from flatulence foods, cabbage, broccoli, and beans. - Kidney colic with stinging, tearing, digging pain in right ureter to bladder, as if some small calculus 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, especially in children. - Spasmodic constriction of rectum. - For constipation 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 proving 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 regurgitation 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 and typhoid when other remedies have failed. - Majumdar recorded the case of a boy, 14, who had general dropsy and anasarca 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 caused the urine to be more free, but a troublesome diarrh ea set in. - Apoc. - 6x removed the diarrhea, 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 cystitis 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 globules 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. ### Head - Right-sidedheadaches. - Pain begins on one side goes to other where it is worse. - Headaches over eyes in severe colds. - Headache with ravenous hunger, better eating. - Frontal headache after breakfast. - Headache, worse if not eating regularly, lying down, stooping, better uncovering. - Pulsating pain in occiput, at night, worse when hot. - Pain in temples as if screwed together, worse menses. - Catarrhal headache, worse when discharge from nose is slacked up. - Hydrocephalus. - Meningitis, tubercular. - Incipien t paralysis of the brain. - Shakes head without any apparent cause or involuntarily, slow first, then rapid. - Deep furrows on forehead. - Eczema, moist oozing behind ears. - Dandruff. - Hair becomes gray early. - Hair loss, premature baldness after abdominal affections, childbirth. - Hearing - Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing, every noise causes peculiar echo in ear. - Oversensitive hear ing, to musical sounds and noise. - Ring ing, during stool. - Singing noises as from boiling water. - Noise is intolerable after distension of abdomen. - Impaired of lost hearing, with otorrhea, with or without tinnitus. - Deafness after scarlatina. - Tearing pain in right or left meatus. - Right-sidedheadaches. - Pain begins on one side goes to other where it is worse. - Headaches over eyes in severe colds. - Headache with ravenous hunger, better eating. - Frontal headache after breakfast. - Headache, worse if not eating regularly, lying down, stooping, better uncovering. - Pulsating pain in occiput, at night, worse when hot. - Pain in temples as if screwed together, worse menses. - Catarrhal headache, worse when discharge from nose is slacked up. - Hydrocephalus. - Meningitis, tubercular. - Incipien t paralysis of the brain. - Shakes head without any apparent cause or involuntarily, slow first, then rapid. - Deep furrows on forehead. - Eczema, moist oozing behind ears. - Dandruff. - Hair becomes gray early. - Hair loss, premature baldness after abdominal affections, childbirth. - Hearing - Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing, every noise causes peculiar echo in ear. - Oversensitive hear ing, to musical sounds and noise. - Ring ing, during stool. - Singing noises as from boiling water. - Noise is intolerable after distension of abdomen. - Impaired of lost hearing, with otorrhea, with or without tinnitus. - Deafness after scarlatina. - Tearing pain in right or left meatus. ### Eyes - Eyes sunken, blue rings. - Eyes feel cold, hot, seem too large. - Eyes painful as if bruised, and dazed by light. - Stinging and smarting, worse evening, in light. - Photophobia. - Sparks before the eyes in the dark. - Dilated pupils before menses. - Cataract with suppressed menses. - Inflam matory affections of eyes. - Ophthalmia ne onatorum during suppurative stage. - Lachrymal fistula. - Nocturnal agglutina tion and lachrymation by day. - Ulceration and redness of lids. - Smarting and burning of eyelids. - Polyps on external canthi. - Recurring styes. - Styes on lids near internal canthus. - Eyes half open during sleep. ### Ears - Sensation as if hot blood rushed into ears. - Itching in ear. - Polyps. - Thick, yellow, offensive discharge with deafness. - Otorrhea and deafness with or without tinnitus. - Otorrhea after scarlatina. - External meatus excoriated by offensive discharge. - Eczema, humid scurfs about and behind ears. ### Face - Freckles. - Silly expression. - Face withered, shriveled and emaciated. - Yel lowish, pale, gray with blue circles around the eyes. - Grayish-yellow color of face with blue circles around eyes. - Flushes of heat. - Edema of face. - Itching, scaly eruptions. - Herpes on face and corner of mouth. - Small, white, pedunculated warts Lycopodium clavatum on chin. - Submaxillary glands swollen. - Tearing pain in bones of face. - Drawing or lacerating pain in lower jaw. - Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid feve r (Lach., Op.). - Twitchings. - Twists face and mouth. ### Mouth - Mouth hangs open. - Sore lips. - Bad odor from mouth. - Dryness of mouth and tongue without thirst. - Speech indistinct, stammers the last word. - Saliva dries on palate and lips. - Dropping of lower jaw in typhoid fever (Lach., Op.). - Mouth waters. - Gums bleed when touched or cleaning teeth. - Taste to o acute, sour, bitter, moldy. - Blue lips. - Ulcers on lips. - Small tumors in mouth in various places. - Nose - Nasal troubles from childhood. - Nose stopped up, snuffles, breathes through mouth, child starts from sleep rubbing the nose. - Fan like motion of alae nas i in brain, lung and abdominal troubles. - Feeling of dryness. - Sore pimples on tip of nose. - Crusts and elastic plugs (Kali -bi.). - Ulcerated nostrils. - Acrid ozaena. - Violent catarrh, with swelling of nose. - Catarrh of nose and frontal sinuses. - Discharge yellow and thick. - Thick yellow discharge, copious and fatty. - Fluent coryza. - Chronic coryza, blows nose often. - Scanty excoriat ing, discharge. - Obstruction of nose during influenza. - Sense of smell very acute. - Perspiration - Viscid and offensive per spiration. - Cold, sour sweats. - Foul sweat, smelling like onions, of axillary, feet. - Sweats from least exertion. - Clammy sweats at night with coldness of face. - Perspiration on chest and trunk, face, about scalp and temples. ### Throat - Sore throat, better warm drinks, worse cold drinks, after sleep. - Stitching pain in throat. - Throat feels cold. - Dryness of throat without thirst. - Inflammation of throat with sharp pain on swallowing and coughing, begins on right side. - As if a hard body in esophagus. - Sensation as if a ball rose up in throat. - Chronic enlargement of the tonsils. - Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. - Tonsils covered with lardaceous ulcers. - Ulceration of tonsils, beginning on right side. - Ulceration of vocal bands. - Diphtheria, deposits spread from right to left, worse cold drinks. - Tubercular laryngitis, especially when ulceration commences. - Food and drink regurgitates through nose. - Tongue - Tongue dry, black, cracked, swol len. - stiff and heavy. - White coated tongue with a dry line down center. - Dryness of tongue, without th irst. - Blisters on tongue. - Tongue burning and thick, as after much smoking. - Tongue feels scalded and raw. - Vesicles on tip of tongue, ulcers on and under tongue. - Convulsions of tongue. - Tongue oscillates to and fro, trembles. - Urine - Urine, scanty, cries before urinating, must strain. - Urine, milky, turbid, pale and clear, burning hot. - Heavy red sediment in urine, thick, purulent, nauseating smell. - Hematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh. ### Chest - Wheezing or dyspnea, with a sensation of tightness or oppression, resembling asthma. - or COPD, worse with cold, dust, late afternoon, or lying down, often right-sided. - Cough or respiratory distress, with a tendency to dry or spasmodic attacks,. - resembling bronchitis, aggravated by cold, night, or damp weather. - Chest tightness or suffocation, with a sensation of constriction, resembling. - pulmonary edema, worse with cold or exertion. - Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or allergic states. - Urogenital:. - Urinary hesitancy or weak stream, with a sensation of obstruction or burning,. - resembling benign prostatic hyperplasia or urinary retention, worse with cold, sitting,. - or night, often right-sided. - Lycopodium clavatum (Club Moss) 1261. - Frequent urination or nocturia, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,. - resembling overactive bladder, aggravated by cold or emotional stress. - Prostate discomfort or swelling, with a sensation of fullness, resembling prostatitis,. - worse with cold or rest. - Tendency to urogenital hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or stressed states. - Systemic:. - Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or lethargy, resembling. - chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, exertion, or late afternoon. - Coldness or chilly extremities, with a sensation of intolerance to cold, resembling. - hypothyroidism, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or night. - Metabolic sluggishness or weight gain, with a tendency to aggravation in cold. - conditions, resembling metabolic syndrome, worse with starchy foods or inactivity. - Tendency to systemic debilitation, with aggravation in fatigued or cold states. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Sensation as if fasting after meals, but without hunger. - Pressure in stomach with difficult breathing. - Churning sensation. - Coldness in stomach. - Wakes at night feeling hungry. - Nausea in morning before eating, with salivation. - Hunger, but quick satiety. - Eating ever so little creates fullness. - Gastralgia and chronic gastritis. - Great weakness of digestion with much bloating. - Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, onions. - Derangement of stomach from sweets and pastry. - Cramps in stomach from eating fruit. - Constrictive pains. - Burning pain. - Gnawing pa in in stomach, better drinking hot water. - Stomach pains better rubbing abdomen. - Rumbling of flatulence (Carb-v., Chin.). - Hiccoughs. - Sour eructations, belchings. - Belchings rise only to pharynx. - Vomiting of dark greenish masses, after eating and drink ing. - Vomits, food and bile, coagulated blood, dark greenish masses after eating and drinking. - Stomach cancer. - Perforating ulcer. - Stools - Diarrhea from cold drinks, cold food, beer, milk, fruit, vegetables. - Stool hard, difficult, small incomplete. - Stools, first part is hard is difficult to expel, last part is soft or thin and gushing. - Stools pale, putrid, thin, brown. - Stools mixed with hard lumps, sand. - Stools thin, yellow, or reddish yellow fluid. - Stools shaggy, reddish mucus, green, stringy, odorless mucus. - Discharge of blood during stool. - Teeth - Teeth yellow. - Front teeth feel loose. - Teeth excessively painful to touch. - Sensations as if teeth too long. - Grinding of teeth during heavy stupor, as when fully awake. - Toothache when chewing. - Toothache with swelling of cheek, better warm application, warm drinks. - Toothache at night, keeps her awake at night. - Swelling of gum above front teeth, with swelling of upper lip. - Gumboils. - Gums and soft palate covered with a lardaceous coating. - Gums bleed when touched or cleaning teeth. - Fistula dentalis. - 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.). - 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. - Typhoid fever. - Febrile attacks during tuberculosis. - Bloated abdomen. - Tympanitic distension with cold feet. - Ascites. - Brown spots on abdomen. - Food allergies. - Gastroenteritis 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. ### Urinary & Genital - Cutting pain in glans penis on ur inating. - Soreness between scrotum and thigh. - Discharge of prostatic fluid without an erection. - Chronic orchitis. - Enlarged prostate. - Tumor behind corona glandis. - Condylomata. - Sexual desire too strong. - Performance anxiety. - Premature seminal emission (Agn., Calad., Sel.). - Exhausting pollutions. - Falls asleep during sex. - Sexual exhaustion, weakness. - Impotence. - No erectile power, penis small, cold, relaxed. - Loss of sexual desire after gonorrhea or cystitis. - Delayed menses with undeveloped breasts at puberty. - Depressed mood and indigestion before menses. - Menses too late, with sadness. - Menses protracted, too profuse. - Menses partly black, partly bright red. - Menses of clots and serum. - Menses suppressed for months, from fright. - Chronic suppression of menses from tuberculosis or cancer. - Dysmenorrhea, violent with fainting. - Labor-like pains during menses with fainting. - Discharge of blood from genitals during stools. - Leucorrhea, acrid, with burning in vagina. - Leucorrhea, periodical, milky, worse before full moon. - Pains in right ovary, from right to left. - Ovarian tumors. - Ovarian dropsy. - Dropsy of uterus. - Cramps in uterus after stool. - Flatus from vagina. - Vagini tis. - Serous cysts in vagina. - Vagina, dry, burning, worse during and after sex. - Aversion to sex. - Sex painful. - Nymphomania. - Fetus seems to be turning somersaults. - Disposition to miscarriage, moles. ### Extremities - Limbs go to sleep. - Numbness, draw ing and tearing in limbs. - Twitching and jerking. - Cannot lie on painful side. - Rheumatism. - Stiffness of all joints. - Chronic gout with chalky deposits in joints. - Pain in bones at night. - Curvature and decay of bones. - Sciatica, worse right side. - Varicose veins on legs. - Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed. - Emaciation of one hand or Lycopodium clavatum one leg. - Painful callosities on soles, toes and fingers contracted. - Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. - Profuse sweat of the feet. - One foot hot, the other cold. - Corns. - Chilblains. - Hands and feet numb. - Heaviness of arms. - Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. - Axillary abscess. - Liver - Weak liver and poor digestion. - Atro phic, nutmeg liver. - Sensitive, congested liver. - Sore, pres sive, bruised, in region of liver, on breathing, worse touch. - Liver painful to pressure in spots. - Liver com plaints after mortification. - Chronic hepatitis. - Hepatitis with pneumonia. - Hepatitis of children. - Jaundice with flatulence, retarded stool, wearines s and drowsiness. - Violent gallstone colic. - Dropsy, due to hepatic disease, after abuse of alcohol. - Ascites from liver diseases. ### Neck & Back - Pain and stiffness in back. - Bubbling sensation. - Throbbing and pulsating in back. - Rising of warmth along spine. - Lumbago, worse slightest motion, worse sitting erect, better urinating. - Tensive pain in nape. - One side of the neck stiff and swollen. - Emaciation about the neck. - Burning, as from hot coals between the scapulae. - Pain in the back and right side from congestion of liver. - Back as if broken during stool. - Stitches in small of back. - Darting in right cervical muscles from below upward. - Swelling of cervical glands. - Bladder - Involuntary urination. - Frequent urging to urinate, after taking cold, better riding in cars. - Bearing down over blad der. - Stitches in neck of bladder. - Urging to urinate, must wait long before it will pass. - Urine frequent and copious at night, scanty by day. - Urine suppressed, retained. - Breasts - Stitches and burning pains in nipples, with discharge of blood and water. - Hard burning nodosities in breasts with stitching, aching pains and soreness. - Rawness of nipples, sore, fissured, bleed easily. - Delayed menses with undeveloped breasts at puberty. - Milk in breast without being pregnant. - Child vomits blood after sucking bleeding nipples. - Causations - Ill effects of fear, fright, abuse, anger, anxiety, embarrassment. - Ailments from sugar, sweets, tobacco chewing, wine. - Ailments from fevers, overlifting, masturbation, riding in a carriage. ### Skin - Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of prostration or lethargy, resembling. - chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with cold, exertion, or late afternoon. - Coldness or chilly extremities, with a sensation of intolerance to cold, resembling. - hypothyroidism, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or night. - Metabolic sluggishness or weight gain, with a tendency to aggravation in cold. - conditions, resembling metabolic syndrome, worse with starchy foods or inactivity. - Tendency to systemic debilitation, with aggravation in fatigued or cold states. ### Sleep - Drowsy during day. - Irresistible drowsiness after eating. - Child sleeps all day and cries all night. - Starting up on falling asleep. - Restless sleep. - Laughs and weeps in sleep. - Soporous sleep in typhoid and exanthematous fevers. - Confused, anxious, vivid dreams. - Horrid dreams, of sickness, of fatal accidents. - Frightful d reams frequently awaking him. - Wakes at night feeling hungry. - On waking, the child starts, becomes cross kicks, scolds or holds his mother. - Awakes terrified. - Unrefreshed in morning. ### Generalities - As if everything was turning around. - As if brain vacillating to and fro. - As if temples being screwed together. - As if head would burst. - As if head opened. - Pain in head as if caused by wrong position. - As if esophagus was being clutched and twisted. - As if steam rising from stomach to head. - As if something were moving up and down in stomach. - Asif stomach would fall down. - As if suspensory ligament of liver would tear. - As if drops of water were falling down. - As if heart hung by a th read. - Tension as from a cord in diaphragm. - As if chest constricted with tight waistcoat. - As if gimlets were running into spine. - As if dogs with sharp teeth were gnawing her.