Lapis Albus

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Lapis Albus Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Lapis albus is silico-fluo- ride of calcium.
  • A kind of gneiss, it was found by Grauvogl in the mineral springs of Gastein, Germany.
  • These waters flow over gneiss for mations into the valley of the Achen, where goiter and cretinism abound.
  • The mineral waters have a reputation for curing ulcers, cancers and tumors.
  • Grauvogl cured with it a case of carcinoma and he and others hav e cured cases of goiter and scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. glands.
  • Uterine cancer.
  • Fibroid tumors with intense burning pains through the part with profuse hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
  • Pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma.
  • Sarcoma.
  • Lipoma.
  • Growths.
  • Glandular disorders, glands are elastic and pliable (Calc-f and Cist, have a stony hardness).
  • Goiter.
  • Especially affects the con nective tissue about the glands.
  • Glandular swellings where no glands are usually found.
  • Scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases.
  • Fat, anemic babies with a ravenous appetite.
  • Burning, shooting, stinging pains in the stomach, pylorus, in the breasts and uterus.
  • Severe menstrual pains causing weakness and swooning
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Sil., Bad., Ars-i., Calc-i., Con., Kali-i., Aster. (2) Gast. - effect on scar tissues. (3)
Ars., Calc., Cund., lod., Kali-c., Spong.

HEAD
  • Sick headache.
EARS
  • Suppurative otitisEar infection or inflammationInflammation or infection of the ear, typically categorized as otitis externa (outer ear) or otitis media (middle ear). media
FACE
  • Opening in cheek as large as a sil ver dollar, in carcinoma.
  • Epithelioma of lip, crusts coming off leave raw surface.
  • Tumor of lower lip with burning, stinging pains, that make him jump off his feet
CHEST
  • Persistent pains in breast region.
  • Glandular hardening
ABDOMEN
  • Ravenous appetite
GENITALS ETC
  • Painful menses, suddenly taken with pain so severe that she swoons.
  • Lapis albus Severe pain preceding the flow.
  • PruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch. vulva.
  • Burning, shooting, stingingpains in breasts and uterus.
  • Uterine carcinoma
SKIN
  • Scrofulous abscesses and sores.
  • Pruritus.
  • Enlargement and indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of glands, especially the cervical glands.
  • Lipoma, sarcoma, carcinoma.
  • COMMENTS - In two cases of cervical glands cured by Lap -a 6c, Dewey related that a raven ous appetite developed while the remedy was being taken.
  • He also noted that the swelling of the glands was elastic rather than of stony hardness.
  • In one patient, the swelling was as large as a goose -egg in the right sternoclavicular region.
  • This patient, a young woman, was a blonde, as also was a woman of thirty-five whom he cured of goiter with the remedy.
  • Whiting recorded a fragmentary provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Lap -a Mrs.
  • Smith., 40, fair, stout, no children, had a large bronchocele.
  • Averse to all animal food, craved sweets.
  • Craved and drank much ice-water in all seasons since a child.
  • Feet and legs cold to knees.
  • Lap-a 6x was given, 2 grains, powders, one four times a day.
  • She reported in a month that the tumor was rapidly diminishing in size, but she was having much pain in it.
  • No further medi cine was given.
  • Two months later, the tumor had dimin ished to one-half, and the patient stated that since taking the powders she had had no pain at her menstrual period, no dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux. and no sick -headaches.
  • She had experienced severe dysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps. since the menses first appeared.
  • Since leaving off the medicine, the pain in the tumor ceased and also the decrease in size.
  • Lap-a 6x was again given and again the pain in the tumor came on and in addition, itching of the external genitals.
  • The 30c and 200c caused such intense itching that the patient refused to take any more medicine of any kind.
  • Since then, Whiting cured many cases of pruritus and also of dysmenorrhea with Lap -a The pains come on before the flow and cause swooning.
  • One patient, 19, had dysmenorrhea from the first.
  • Pain so severe she would fall unconscious wherever she might happen to be, the swoon lasting half an hour at times.
  • Better when flow established.
  • Lap-a 200c cured.
  • Miss X., 34, normal until she had measles at age 20; since the n, pain at commencement of menstruation, so severe as to cause fainting.
  • “This severe pain would continue less for a day or until the flow was established.” Lap-a 200c cured in six months.
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  • Wesselheft, discussing Whiting's paper, narrated the cure of a case of epithelioma of the lip in a man of seventy with Lap-a 12x in water.
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  • Gregory cured a young man of a tumor of the lip with Lap -a 30c.
  • It recurred two years later with “burning, stinging pain, which made him jump off his feet.” More Lap -a 30c was given and cured in a year.
  • There was in further recurrence.
  • Bellows noted that where Sil is indicated, progress is hastened by Lap-a

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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