Lycopodium-Clavatum
(Club Moss)This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful medicinal properties are only disclosed by trituration and succussion.In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogle’s carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithaemic. Lycopodium is adapted more especially to ailments gradually […]
Lobelia-Purpurascens
(Purple Lobelia)Profound prostration of all the vital forces and of the nervous system; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS. NERVOUS PROSTRATION OF INFLUENZA. Coma. Tongue white and paralyzed. HEAD Confused and depressed. Headache with nausea, vertigo; especially between eyebrows. Cannot keep eyes open; spasmodic closure of lids. CHEST Superficial respiration; heart and lungs feel paralyzed; respiration slow. Heart beats sound […]
Lobelia-Inflata
(Indian Tobacco)Is a vase-motor stimulant; increases the activity of all vegetative processes; spends its force mainly upon the pneumo-gastric nerve, producing a depressed relaxed condition with oppression of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea and vomiting.Languor, relaxation of muscles, NAUSEA, VOMITING AND DYSPEPSIA are the general indications that point to the use of this remedy, in […]
Lithium-Carbonicum
(Carbonate of Lithium)Chronic RHEUMATISM CONNECTED WITH HEART LESIONS and asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes. Uric acid diathesis. Whole body is sore. Gout and tophi. HEAD Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out. Externally sensitive. HEADACHE CEASES WHILE EATING. Trembling and throbbing. Pain in heart; extends to head. Dizzy states with ringing in […]
Liatris-Spicata
SERRATULA (Colic Root)A vascular stimulant. Increases functional activity of the skin, mucous membranes.Of use in dropsy due to liver and spleen diseases, also renal dropsy. Here the suppressed urination is most favorably influenced. GENERAL ANASARCA due to heart and kidney disease. DIARRHOEA, with violent urging and pain in lower part of back. Colic. Locally, applied to ulcers and unhealthy […]
Ledum-Palustre
(Marsh-Tea)Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects. THERE […]
Lecithinum
(A Phosphorus-containing Complex Organic Body prepared from the yolk of egg and animal brains)Lecithin is important in the vital processes of plant and animal organisms. Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive condition and especially upon the blood hence its use in anaemia and convalescence, neurasthenia and insomnia. Increasing the number of red corpuscles […]
Lapis-Albus
(Silico-fluoridc of Calcium)Affections of glands, GOITRE, pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma. Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus. Connective tissue about glands specially affected. Fat anaemic babies with Iodine appetite. Ravenous appetite. Remarkably successful in scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases. UTERINE CARCINOMA. Fibroid tumors with INTENSE BURNING pains through the part with PROFUSE HEMORRHAGE. Glands have a certain elasticity and […]
Lachesis-Mutus
(Bushmaster or Surucucu)Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid; hence a hemorrhagic tendency is marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much […]