- According to Hale, Lycps is mentioned by Rafinesque as “partaking of the properties of Digitalis, Sang., Cimic and Spig.” and as being “one of the mildest and best narcotics in existence.” Hale commended Lycps as a substitute for Dig., having the advantage over it of being non -poisonous, as useful in hemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. and “wherever it is required to quell inordinate motions of the blood.” Briggs of Fort Lovell, related the cure of a patient of tarantula bite by application of a liquid made of Lycps.
- He said the Cherokee Indians allow themselves to be bitten by rattlesnakes, centipedes and tarantula, chewing as an antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. large quantities of lycopus and swallowing the juice.
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- Felter, an eclectic, is quoted as commending Lycps in passive lung hem orrhage, wild, tumultuous beating of heart, which often precedes the lung hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse., cough of tuberculosis.
- Lycps .
- does not disorder the stomach, he says, but acts a tonic and appetizer.
- Morrisson made an extensive provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Lycps and developed unmistakable heart symptoms.
- Lowers the blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and increases the length of systolePhase of heart contractionThe stage of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries. to a great degree (Adren.).
- Diseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain.
- Feeble heart, with distress and weak pulse.
- Cardiac irritability with depressed force, with or without organic disease.
- Hemoptysis due to valvular heart disease.
- Passive hemorrhages.
- Pulmonary complaints associated with loose stools.
- Hemorrhoidal bleeding.
- Char acteristic cough with hemoptysis associated with feeble heart action.
- Violent cough at night.
- Lying down causes cardiac depression and lying on right side aggravates constriction of thorax.
- Pains shift generally right to left.
- Exophthalmic goiter.
- Beneficial in toxic goiter used in the pre-operative stage.
- History of suppressed discharges.
- COMMENTS - The association of Lycps with Dig., Cimic and Spig particularly shows a very clear insight into the action of the remedy, which an experience of Clarke's seems to confirm.
- Miss S., 25, came to him in October, 1899.
- About three years ago she had the first symptoms of exophthalmos, which was ascribed by her mother to a prescription of Macrin in low potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration., taken for pains in the eyes and continued for a long period.
- The first symptoms were sore throat with ulcerations, then the goiter appeared and the heart became painful, its action intermittent with breathlessness and inability to take exertion.
- After a course of Thyr and later of Thuj.
- 30c (she had been vaccinated), Lycps.
- 12c was given and this took away all the heart pains.
- Attacks of influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh. complicated the case and other remedies had to be given.
- The patient then did well under Spig.
- 30c, as far as the heart is concerned, though no impression was made on the goiter, which was small.
- The heart sounds were normal.
- Characteristic shifting symptoms.
- Pains shift from heart to eyes, from head to heart, from heart to left wrist and right calf, and back to wrist and heart.
- Proell noted two of his cases in which there was a shift from rectum to heart and head.
- Proell's two cases concerned suppression of hemorrhoidal flux.
- The patients were each 60 years of age, a man and a woman, both fair with light eyes, tall, very irritable with weak innervation of the heart without decided organic disease.
- Both had, years before, hemorrhoidal flux which stopped suddenly.
- Both were hypochondriacal and had noise in their left ear.
- This last symptom was the chief thing the man complained of, along with throbbing in the head preventing sleep.
- Neither Cact., Kalm., nor Gels, helped radically.
- The night after taking Lycps lx, the man was a little better and in the forenoon bled from the rectum (about three table spoonfuls after defecation) with great general relief.
- The woman had glycosuria, cataract of left eye and eve ry third night was restless.
- Lycps lx, one drop in the evening.
- The following night she was excellent, and in the morning came an abundant bleeding from the rectum with great relief.
- Morrison noted a case cured with Lycps in which the sufferings were ass ociated with the menstrual period, which was exactly regular but intermittent in flow.
- The first symptoms appeared within three or four hours of the onset of the flow and was a deep -seated pain with heat in occiput.
- Then followed a train of symptoms, among them nausea, and when the nausea came on the occipital pain was better.
- Stanley Wilde cured a desperate case of pericarditisInflammation of the sac around the heartInflammation of the pericardium, the thin, double-layered sac that surrounds and protects the heart. associated with bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. with Lycps tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water., as well as a case of palpitation with darting pain in the heart in a young woman, following an attack of acute rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. two years before
