Materia Medica GV Note ‘L’

 

LAC CANINUM (Lac-c.)

 

 SYMPTOMS ALTERNATE SIDES, FEAR OF SNAKES

 

 MENTAL

 

FEAR OF SNAKES. Has hallucinations or dreams about them.

 

Fear of fainting, death, falling, impending diseases.

 

Very forgetful, absent-minded. Goes off and leaves purchases.

 

Delusions is swimming in the air.

 

Low confidence.

  

PHYSICAL

 

SYMPTOMS APPEAR IN ALTERNATING SIDES.

 

Vertigo with feeling as if he’s not touching the bed, as if floating, as if gliding and feet did not touch the ground.

 

Shining, glazed appearance of throat.

White, pearly membrane in throat esp. when alternating sides.

Migratory diphtheria. Post diphtheritic paralysis.

 

Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end with menstruation.

 

Food does not taste salty enough, it only tastes natural.

 

Desires PEPPER.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm (wraps, bed), beginning of sleep.

AMEL.: bathing, cold.

DES.: pepper, salt, spices, highly seasoned food, warm drinks, whisky.

 

LACHESIS (Lach.)

 

The Lachesis patient is passionate with strong emotions, jealous. We see hypertension, hypersexuality, loquacity. Any constriction or suppression is intolerable. Often the patient experiences chocking, suffocative feeling in the throat, intolerance to tight clothing. There’s the need to bring out, to release the emotions or the discharges (on the physical level) in order for the patient to be ameliorated.  

  

LOQUACITY, JEALOUSY, FEAR OF SNAKES

 

MENTAL

 

JEALOUSY, ailments from jealousy. Delirium from jealousy. Envy.

LOQUACITY. Changing from one subject to another.

FEAR OF SNAKES. Dreams of snakes.

 

Premenstrual syndrome. Sadness before menses. >beginning of menses, during menses.

 

Mental symptoms are worse on waking in the morning. (anxiety, confusion, dullness, forsaken feeling, sadness, loathing).

 

Religious affections, religious despair.

  

PHYSICAL

 

Left sided complaints usually, where the heart is involved. Sciatica is right sided.

 

Complaints may go from LEFT TO RIGHT.

PAINS COME IN WAVES.

 

Symptoms (dysmenorrhoea, back pain, head pain and mental symptoms etc.)

< BEFORE MENSES > BEGINNING OF MENSES, when flow begins.

 

Affections of ovaries (induration, pains, tumors, swelling, abscess, inflammation, cysts etc.). Ovarian complaints are worse around menses (before, during, after).

 

Constriction on various parts of the body esp. throat.

 

THROAT IS SENSITIVE TO SLIGHTEST TOUCH. CANNOT TOLERATE CLOTHING AROUND THROAT.

 

Arrested respiration on going to sleep, or during sleep that makes her jump with terror of suffocation. Difficult respiration <touching the larynx, exertion of hands and arms.

 

Impossible to lie on left side. Palpitations worse lying on left side.

 

Heat flushes esp. in face during climaxis. Heat flushes with perspiration.

 

Slight pressure aggravates but hard pressure ameliorates.

 

Unrefreshing sleep.

 

Skin has bluish, red, purple discoloration (eruptions, boils, ulcers, swelling).

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: touch, on waking, suppressed discharges, sleep (before, during, after, beginning of), lying on left side, warm wet weather, change of temperature from cold to warm, spring, autumn.

AMEL.: BEGINNING OF MENSES, DISCHARGES, loosening clothing, hard pressure.

 

 

LEDUM PALUSTRE (Led.)

 

PAINFUL ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES, GOUT >COLD APPLICATIONS

 

 MENTAL

 

Restless, must move constantly.

Aversion to company. Dread of men. Misanthropy, hatred.

Morose, malicious.

  

PHYSICAL

 

RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS. Painful ARTHRITIC NODOSITIES.

 

GOUT. The toe is red, swollen, painful.

 

Rheumatic pain in extremities ascending upward.

Rheumatic pain in right hip and left shoulder.

Inflammation of periosteum.

 

PAINS > COLD APPLICATIONS although there is coldness of affected part.

< warm, warmth of bed, night.

 

For penetrating wounds, stings and bites with swelling.

 

Tetanus where the injured parts become cold and spasms begin in the wound.

 

Skin eruptions > cold applications <warmth.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm wraps or bed, motion, walking.

AMEL.: COLD APPLICATIONS, cold bathing.

 

LILIUM TIGRINUM (Lil-t.)

 

CONFLICT BETWEEN MORALITY AND SEXUALITY

 

MENTAL

 

STRONG RELIGIOUS AND SEXUAL FEELINGS leading to INNER CONFLICT.

 

Religious despair alternating with sexual excitement.

 

SUPPRESSION OF SEXUAL DESIRE (e.g. by keeping busy).

 

Irritable, nasty, snappish. Depression of spirits.

 

Hurried. Nervous.

 

Conscientious, duty-bound, domineering people.

 

Anxious about disease. Anxiety about salvation. Fear of evil.

Constant inclination to weep.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

Main action upon the venous circulation of the heart and female organs.

 

Increased sexual desire. Nymphomania.

Prolapsus of uterus.

BEARING DOWN AS IF EVERYTHING WOULD COME OUT

< standing, >crossing limbs, pressing vulva.

 

Flow of menses only during motion.

Frequent urging to urinate. Feeling of congestion in chest if urination is postponed.

Alternating symptoms (pain in uterus with pain in heart or chest, mental symptoms alternate with physical, alternating sides in headache).

 

Tottering. Can't walk straight or on uneven ground.

 

Pressure in the rectum during stool.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.:sexual excitement, suppression of sexual desire, heat, pressure, evening standing, warm room, after menses, after coition.

AMEL.: pressure, open air, motion.

DES.: meat.