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 […]
Kreosotum
(Beechwood Kreosote)Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.Pulsations all over the body, and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. EXCORIATING, burning, and offensive discharges. Haemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections. Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions, and burning pains. Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, […]
Kousso Brayera
(Hagenia Abyssinica)A VERMIFUGE-Nausea and vomiting, vertigo, precordial anxiety slowing and irregular pulse, subdelirium and collapse. Rapid and extreme prostration. To expel tape-worm. RELATIONSHIP Compare: MALLOTUS-Kamala-An efficient remedy for tape-worm in 30-60 minims of tincture taken in cinnamon water.
Kalmia-Latifolia
(Mountain Laurel)A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action en the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart’s action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; PAINS SHOOT DOWN-IS ARDS, WITH NUMBNESS. FULGURATING PAINS OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Protracted and continuous FEVERS, with tympanites. Paralyticsensations; pains and achings […]
Kalium-Silicicum
(Silicate of Potash)A deep-acting remedy. Lassitude is very marked. Desire to lie down all the time. Emaciation. HEAD Absent-minded, anxious, indolent, timid. Feeble will power. Head congested, blood surges from body to head. Vertigo, coldness of head; photophobia. Nasal catarrh, discharge BLOODY, excoriating, offensive nose, swollen, ulcerated.Gastric.Weight in stomach after eating, nausea, pain, flatulence. Pain in […]