LYCOPODIUM.
Lycopodium clavatum, Linn.
Natural order
, Lycopodiaceæ.
Common names
, (?)
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
(Nos.
1 to
8, from
Hahnemann, Chr. K-n.) 1,
Hahnemann; 2, v. Gersdorff; 3, Goullon; 4,
Hartlaub; 5, Rummel; 6, Schreter; 7,
Wahle; 8, Rückert; 9, Dr. J. J. Schelling, A. H. Z., 25, 357,
proving with 19th dil., taken twice at intervals of four days (doubtful
symptoms in brackets); 9a, same, second proving with same; 9b, same,
proving with 23d dil.; 9c, same, A. H. Z., 82, 121, proving with
8th dil., one dose; 9d, same, proving with 20th dil.; three
doses in one forenoon; 9e, same, 20th dil., 3 drops a day; 9f, same,
repeated doses; 9g, same, proving with 24th dil.; 9h, same,
took Lyc., a year after last proving, for itching on scrotum and turbid
urine; 9i,
same, subsequently, in good health, took 200th dil. (Jenichen); 10, Dr. Segin, Hygea, 19, p. 11, took 2 drops
of 18th dil. every morning; 10a, same, proving with 30th, and afterwards
with repeated doses of 18th dil.; 10b, same, took 3d trit., no symptoms for
two days, then 30th dil. daily for five days; 10c, same, seven years after, took 1st dil.,
10 drops after breakfast; 10d, same, ten days later, took 10 drops of
tincture; 10e,
same, took 1 drop of the oily residue from evaporated tincture; 10f,
same, took 50 drops of 3d dil. in the morning, fasting; 11, Dr. Genzke, Hygea, 22, p. 446, took 3d
dec. trit., 2 grains morning and evening, increasing 1 grain a day to 14
grains; 11a,
same, proving with 20 drops of tincture (first day), 28 drops (second
day), 40 drops (third day), 54 drops (fourth day), 76 drops (fifth day),
100 drops in two doses (eighth day), 130 drops in two doses (ninth day),
160 drops in two doses (tenth day); 11b, same subsequently took large doses, 300
drops (first day), 400 drops (second day), 500 drops (third day), the
dose of each day taken in four parts at morning, 10 A.M., 6 P.M., and
before retiring at night; 12, from
last, Rusch, 24 years old, took 3d trit. daily for twelve days,
beginning with 2 grains and increasing 1 grain each day; (Nos. 13 to 23, from Martin’s provings, Vierteljahr-schrift
für Hom., 10, p. 52); 13, Blaufuss,
took one dose of 1 grain crude (first day), two doses (second day); 13a,
same, took 1 grain of 1st trit.; 14,
Græfe, took 1 grain crude (first day), two doses, each 1 grain (second
day); 15, Gunther, took 1st trit.
(first, second, and third days); 16,
Hilpert, took 1 grain crude twice (first day), 1 grain (third and fourth
days); 16a,
same, took 1st trit. (first, second, third, and fourth days); 17, Horn, took 1 grain crude (first day), 2
grains (second day); 17a, same, subsequently took 1st trit.
(first and second days); 18,
Kuntzmann, took 1 grain pure (first, second, and third days), also a
dose of 1st trit. on third and fourth days; 18a, same, took susbsequently 4 grains pure
twice in one day; 19, Dr. Martin,
took 1 grain triturated with 4 grains of Sacch. lac., afterwards
repeated on two successive days; 19a, same, took 1st trit.; 19b,
same, took 4 grains crude; 19c, same as last, repeated; 20, Oehler, took 1 grain (first day), 2
grains (second day); 20a, same, took 1st trit. three days in
succession immediately after last proving; 20b, same, subsequently took a dose of 1st
trit.; 20c,
same as last, dose repeated third and fifth days; 21, Reichmann, took 1 grain, repeated after
several days; 21a, same, subsequent dose of 1 grain; 22, Vulpius, took repeated doses of crude
drug, 1 to 3 grains; 22a, same, 1st trit. on first, second, and
fourth days; 22b,
same, subsequent proving, repeated doses of 4 grains crude; 23, Werther, took 1st trit. (first, second,
and third days); (Nos. 24 to 33, Dr. Huber’s
provings, Zeit. d. ver. hom. Aerste Oest., 1857, 1, p. 333); 24, Dr. Huber, took 5 grains of 5th trit.
morning and evening for eight days; 25,
Elizabeth Huber, 24 years old, took same; 26,
O. Huber, aged 1 year, took 2 grains of 5th trit. morning and evening
for five days; 27, Theresa Herold,
maid, 15 years old, took same as Dr. Huber; 28,
Maria Weber, aged 23, took same; 29,
Emil Koller, took 6th dec. trit., 20
grains (first and second days), 30 grains (third day), 60 grains (fourth
day), 90 grains (fifth day), 5th dec. trit.,
60 grains (sixth and seventh days), 90 grains (eighth and ninth days), 4th dec. Trit., 90 grains (tenth, eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth days), 3d dec. trit.,
90 grains (fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth
days), 2d dec. trit., 90 grains
(twenty-first to twenty-sixth day), 1st dec.
trit., 90 grains (twenty-eighth to thirty-first day); 30, Johann Huber, aged 33, took 6th dec. trit., 20 grains (first, second,
fifth, sixth, and seventh days), 5th trit.,
30 grains (eighth, ninth, and tenth days), 4th
trit., 30 grains (eleventh and twelfth days), 60 grains
(thirteenth and fourteenth days), 3d trit.,
60 grains (fifteenth to nineteenth day), 2d
trit. (twenty-first to twenty-fifth day), 1st trit., 60 grains (twenty-sixth,
twenty-seventh, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, and thirty-second
days); 31, Dr. Koller’s daughter, 6
years old, took 15 grains of 6th trit. (first, second, third, and fourth
days), 12 grains of 5th trit. (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), 20
grains of 4th trit. (eighth, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, and eighteenth
days), 20 grains of 3d trit. (twentieth, twenty-second, twenty-fifth,
and twenty-sixth days), 20 grains of 2d trit. (twenty-eighth, thirtieth,
thirty-third, and thirty-fifth days), 20 grains of 1st trit.
(thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-ninth, and fortieth days); 32, Kathrina Herzig, aged 16, took dilutions
from 30th to 1st, in various doses and at various intervals, with only
one effect; 32a,
same, afterwards took triturations, 60 grains of 6th (first day), 20
grains (second and third days), 60 grains of 5th (fourth, fifth,
seventh, and eighth days), 60 grains of 4th (ninth day); 33, Theresa Pell, aged 17 (had never
menstruated), took 60 grains of 6th dec. trit. (first, second, third,
and sixth days), 60 grains of 5th trit. (seventh, ninth, and tenth
days); 34, Dr. Baumgartner, Zeit. d.
ver. hom. Aerzte Oest., 1862, 1, p. 166, took one dose of 100 drops of
30th dil.; 34a,
same, took like dose of 24th dil.; 34b, same, two similar doses of 18th dil.,
with interval of a week; 34c, same, took 100 drops of 15th dil.
(first and second days), of 12th dil. (fourth day), of 9th dil. (sixth
and seventh days), of 6th dil. (ninth and tenth days, of 3d dil.
(thirteenth day), of 2d dil. (fourteenth day), of 1st dil. (fifteenth
day), 10 drops of tincture (sixteenth day), 30 drops of tincture
(seventeenth day), 100 drops of tincture (eighteenth and twentieth
days), 1 1/2 ounces of tincture (twenty-fourth day); 34d,
same, subsequently took 5 grains of 1st trit. morning and evening for
twenty-nine days; 35, Dr. Robinson,
Br. J. of Hom., 24, 515, proving in a young woman, glob. 1/1000 (1000th
dil.) (Epps), in 8 ounces of water, a teaspoonful every third morning; 36, same, proving in a middle-aged woman,
gtt. 1/18 (18th dil.), three times a day; 37,
same, proving in a middle-aged man, gtt. 1/12 (12th dil.), three times a
day; 38, Dr. Berridge, N. Am. J. of
Hom., N. S., 1871, p. 71, a “patient” took one dose of cm
Fincke (expunged, T. F. A.); 39, Berridge, a man took in water 200th dil.,
repeated doses (first and second days), on third and fifth days 30th
dil., 40, same, proving in same man
with 5000th (Jenichen), one dose; 41
and 42, same, in patients (expunged, T. F. A.); 43,
Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 500, a man took a dose of 6000th
(Jenichen), repeated twice with same result; 44,
Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., July, 1874, p. 296, effect of a high
potency on self in health; 45,
Berridge, N. E. Med. Gaz., September, 1874, p. 401, effect of 5m
(Jenichen), repeated for twelve days.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Delirious at
night, [41]. ►
Delirious, raging, envious, reproachful, presumptuous, and imperious
(after twelve hours), [1]. ► Irrational talking, with weeping, as if
she would become delirious, the day preceding and the first day during
menstruation (after seven days), [1].
► A kind of living outside of
herself, as in the commencement of fever, [1].
► Involuntary whistling and humming, [1]. ►
Desires to be alone, [1]. ► Disinclination to talk, [3]. ► Weeping,
with chilliness, [1]. ► Weeping at night in sleep, [1]. [10.] ► He cries and howls, at first about past
and then about future troubles, [1].
► He laughs without being pleased;
humorous, [1]. ► If one looks at her to say anything
serious, she is obliged to laugh, [1].
► Inclined to laugh and cry at the
same time, [1]. ► Excited and exceedingly merry, [1]. ►
Very much excited, almost jovial, from a glass of wine (third day), [9i]. ►
Lively mood (ninth day), [29]. ► Very lively mood during the whole
proving, [17a]. ► Lively and excited, with busy fancies, in
the afternoon (fourth day), [9i]. ► Great hilarity, especial good humor
(fifth day), [31]. [20.] ►
Remarkably joyous mood for several days, [17].
► Exceedingly merry, with dizzy
vertigo, [1]. ► Sad mood, [1].
► Sad mood, she is obliged to cry all
day, and cannot be contented; without cause, [1]. ► *Very sad
mood, with confusion of the head (fourth day), [16a]. ► Sad,
despondent, at last lachrymose, [1].
► Extremely sad and ill-humored, [1]. ►
Sadness when hearing distant music (thirty-fifth day), [45]. ►
Melancholy in the evening, [1]. ► *Melancholy; loss of spirits; sad
thoughts, [1]. [30.] ►
Extremely melancholy; depressed, joyless mood, [1]. ► *Depression
of spirits (after seventeen days), [1]. ► She
became very miserable (with sore throat), and the color of the face
became yellowish-gray), [7]. ► *Despondent, sad, fanciful, [1]. ►
Very despondent and weak, [1]. ► Despairing, lachrymose, [1]. ►
Hypochondriac, complaining mood; he feels unhappy (first two days), [1]. ►
Anxiety in the evening, whereby there seems to be a sort of
semiconfusion before the eyes, [1].
► Anxiety on falling asleep, [1]. ►
Attack of anxiety on waking after midnight, so that she is unable to get
her breath, lasting two hours, two nights in succession, [1]. [40.] ► If people come near her, she is
immediately attacked with anxiety at the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
*Great anxiety, as if in the pit of the stomach, without
special thoughts (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Internal anxiety in the forenoon, and internal chilliness, like an
internal trembling, [1]. ► Anxious thoughts, as if she were about to
die, for which she even prepared by thinking of her farewell messages,
in the morning after waking from a deep sleep (after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
Loss of confidence in his own vigor, [1].
► While walking in open air,
apprehensiveness and attacks of vertigo, [1]. ► He is
easily frightened and starts up, [1].
► *Great fearfulness, [1]. ►
*Very fearful all day, [1].
► Fear of going to bed in the
evening, [1]. [50.] ► In
the evening on entering a room he is attacked with fear, as though he
saw some one; even during the day he believes that he hears some one in
the room, [1]. ► In the evening, in the dark, he is seized
with fear when a door that he wishes to open moves with difficulty, [1]. ►
Great fear of frightful images, which her fancy conjures up, in the
evening, and lachrymose during the day, [1].
► Great apprehensiveness in the pit of
the stomach, from peevishness, [1].
► Anthropophobia (first day), [1]. ►
She flees from her own children, [1].
► She dreads to be alone, [1]. ►
Great irritability, [34a]. ► *Extreme irritability, with apprehensiveness,
[1]. ►
*Very irritable and violent, [1].
[60.] ►
*Very irritable, and inclined to melancholy, [1]. ►
*Extremely irritable, fearful, and peevish, [1]. ►
*Irritable, peevish mood, [9a]. ► *Very irritable mood (twenty-seventh
day), [29]. ► *Very irritable, peevish mood (fifth
day), [9c]. ►
Extremely sensitive mood, she cries about being thanked (after twenty
hours), [1]. ► *Ill-humor (ninth and tenth days), [30]; (eleventh day), [29]; (eighteenth day), [31]. ►
Ill-humor; no desire to talk (after two days), [34]. ►
Ill-humor, with ravenous hunger, in the evening (fourth day), [34d]. ►
Ill-humored in the morning (seventeenth day), [29]. [70.] ► Ill-humored, fretful (twenty-first
day), [29]; (twenty-seventh day), [30]. ►
Ill-humored all day, and made to weep by the slightest causes (sixth
day), [34c]. ►
Ill-humored and indolent (eleventh day), [30].
► Very ill-humored (first day), [22]. ►
*Very ill-humored, morose, and melancholy just before menstruation,
[1]. ►
Ill-humored and fretful mood (seventeenth day), [29]. ►
Extremely ill-humored in the evening (twentieth day), [29]. ► Out of
humor, with disinclination to talk, all day (seventh day), [34c]. ►
*Fretfulness, [3];
(eighteenth day), [30]. ► Fretfulness and peevishness (seventh
day), [24]. [80.] ►
*Fretful, ill-humored (sixth day), [29]. ►
Fretful; very irritable in the evening (eight day), [29]. ►
Fretful, taciturn, inclined to weep (sixth day), [28]. ►
Frequent crying, the child was fretful, and in the evening would not go
to sleep for a long time (sixth day), [26].
► Fretful mood, with disinclination
for everything, in the morning (twenty-second day), [29]. ►
Peevish and irritable; easily excited to anger (twenty-third day), [34d]. ►
Peevish, despondent (fifteenth day), [1].
► *Sad, hypochondriac (peevish) mood,
[1]. ►
He can hardly conceal an internal obstinacy and peevishness, [1]. ►
She cannot endure the slightest opposition, and is speedily beside
herself from peevishness, [1]. [90.] ► *Mood
very morose, excitable, easily roused to anger; becomes peevish about
trifles, and is taciturn (fifth day), [9c]. ► She is
overpowered by many unpleasant recollections, about which she becomes
vexed; even at night on waking, [1].
► *Easily roused to anger and scorn,
[1]. ►
Passionate mood without fretfulness (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Indolent, obstinate, rebellious, wrathful, [1]. ► He
mentally quarrels with absent persons, [1].
► Quarrelsome rage, partly at
herself, partly at others, [1]. ► As if out of her mind, she seeks
quarrels, makes unfounded reproaches, is most exceedingly violent, and
strikes those whom she thus insults (after two hours), [1]. ►
Anxious, fearful, quarrelsome, [1].
► The child becomes disobedient,
though not ill-humored, [1]. [100.] ► Impatience, [1]. ► Seems
impatient on waking, [41]. ► Discontented (after seventy-two hours), [1]. ►
Distrustful, suspicious, morose, [1].
► Extremely suspicious and
distrustful, [1]. ► After the anxiety, there is great
inclination to laugh at trifles, for several hours, followed by weeping
for half an hour without cause, [1].
► Her temper became very much
affected, at one time she was excessively merry
and laughed at the simplest things, again she was melancholy and low-spirited,
[35]. ►
Indifferent, [3]. ► Indifferent and impatient, [1]. ►
Indifference to external impressions, with irritable mood, [1]. [110.]
► Exceedingly indifferent, [1]. ►
The child loses its playfulness, becomes quiet and listless, [4]. ►
Apathetic, [31]. ► Intellectual. ►
Excited, busy mood in the evening, without perseverance, changing from
one subject to another, with difficulty of fixing the thoughts, and
greater difficulty in accomplishing anything; while reading fell asleep
(fourth day), [9i]. ► Special aptitude for mental work (third
day), [29]. ►
Disinclined for mental work (sixteenth day), [29]. ►
Disinclined to mental work, distracted, without connected thought
(second day), [9i]. ► Disinclined to thought; dulness of power
of thought, [9a]. ► Disinclined to work or think in the
afternoon (third day), [9c]. ► Ennui (second day), [1]. [120.] ► Inability to perform mental labor (sixth
day), [29]. ►
Inability for and aversion to mental work; apathy (fifth day), [29]. ►
Dull and without thought, in the evening, after a cup of milk (third
day), [9c]. ►
(Difficulty of fixing the thoughts, especially when reading), [9d]. ►
Frequently distracted in mind for a moment during earnest conversation
soon after dinner; I was unable to pay proper attention to what was
said, and was obliged to give way to thoughts which forced themselves
upon me (third day), [10]. ► Confusion of ideas while reading; is
unable to rightly comprehend or associate thoughts (third day), [9c]. ►
The thoughts seem to stand still; the mind is helpless and as if dazed,
like a confusion, without obscuration of mind, [1]. ►
Indecision and loss of confidence, [1].
► He is unable to do anything, cannot
think; passes his time with trifles, without being able to make up his
mind what to do, [1]. ► Confusion of thought; reflection is
difficult, causing a dulness of the head and dimness of vision, [9]. [130.]
► *Distraction of mind, [3]. ►
*Very much distracted; weak power of thought; can neither
comprehend nor remember what is read; much diminished power of
reflection (second day), [9c]. ► A piece of music I once heard came so
vividly before the mind that I could almost hear it (fifty-fifth day), [45]. ►
Great loss of memory, she talked confusedly; her friends laughed at her
and could not understand her altered manner; she was quite unable to
write; having written a letter, she burnt it, because she could not read
it, [35]. ►
Awoke about 2 A.M. with difficult recollection, heat of the head and
upper part of the body, with cold feet in bed, [9i]. ►
Forgets names of persons (twenty-second day), [43]. ► *Weakness
of memory (third day), [5];
(sixth day), [28]. ► Memory very weak; forgets words (fourth
day), [9i]. ► *A peculiar distraction of mind (loss
of ideas), lasted ten days (after twelve days), [33]. ► *He is
unable to fix his thoughts; it is difficult to express himself and to
find fitting words, especially in the evening, [1]. [140.] ► *When writing, omits and adds letters
(eleventh day), [45]. ►► *Speaks wrong words and syllables,
[3]. ►
*Mistakes in writing; spells words wrong (thirty-ninth day);
the mistakes have continued at times (fifty-fifth day), [45]. ►►
*Selects wrong words, [3].
► *When writing, uses wrong words, adds
too many letters, misspells, omits words and letters, but is, conscious
of these mistakes (tenth day), [45].
► *He is able to talk rationally on
exalted, even abstract subjects, but
becomes confused about every-day things, as, for example, he speaks of plums when he means pears,
[1]. ►
He is unable to read, because he does not recognize and confounds
letters; he sees and is able to copy them, but has no idea of their
significance; he knows, for example, that z is the last letter of the
alphabet, but has forgotten what it is called; he is able to write
whatever he wishes, writes the proper letters, but cannot read what he
has written, [1]. ► Insensibility of mind to external
impressions, [1]. ► Stupefaction, [33]. ►
Stupefaction, as if intoxicated; he could scarcely keep erect;
tottering, weakness of the feet, and vertigo; in the morning
(twenty-second day), [30]. [150.] ►
Stupefaction towards evening, with heat in the temples and ears. ► It seems as if everything would vanish
from her (third day), [1]. ► Stupefaction on reading, with heaviness
of the head, sleepiness, falling asleep (first day), [9c].® 2000
Article