# Arctium Lappa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Lappa arctium has been extensively proved, notably by Dr. Jeanes and Dr. S. A. Jones. 
The provings generally confirm older teachings. 
Lappa chiefly affects the skin, liver joints an d uterus. Historically, it was given for prolapsed uterus, infertility, 
milky urine and sores about the joints. It was one of Culpepper's remedies for fetid sweat of axilla. Useful in 
skin therapeutics. 
A large number of symptoms were observed upon the skin and mucus membranes. Acne, eczema, especially 
of the scalp, with discharge. Eruptions on the head, face and neck. In skin disorders, it has been used externally 
as a glycerol, as well as internally. 
Styes and ulcerations on the edge of the eyelids. Cro ps of boils and styes (Anthr.). Profuse and frequent 
urination. Heavy, sore aching, as if lying uncomfortably. Numbness, lumbar region of aching calves. 
Constriction.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from cloudy weather. Worse cold, wet, shaking, violent exertion, lying on right side.  
Nose - Red discoloration across the nose.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with nausea and vomiting.

### Head
- Weight on vertex.
- Pain in head.
- Eczema of scalp.
- Weight on vertex.
- Pain in head.
- Eczema of scalp.

### Eyes
- Redness about eyes.
- Crops of styes.
- Feeling as if the eye was small and con stricted.

### Face
- Inveterate acne, worse touch.
- Spreading vesicular eruption, great tearing and itching.
- Herpetic eruption 
on right ala nasi.

### Chest
- Trembling in chest.
- Acute tingling, cutting pain under middle of sternum, extending across breast.
- Pain in heart with indescribable movement under sternum.
- Exceedingly rapid pulse with frequent 
intermissions.
- Kidneys - Profuse and frequent urination.
- Milky phosphatic urine.
- Tickling in glottidis, loose-sounding cough, no expectoration.
- Short breath on exertion.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sour stomach,  sour taste, all food turns sour, vomits it.
- Diarrhea alternating with rheumatic 
symptoms.
- Flatulent dyspepsia, belching inodorous gas.

### Urinary & Genital
- Cutting, squeezed pain in whole length of urethra, scalding on urination.
- Ringworm-like patch of eruption 
on thigh beside testicles, groins raw.
- Loss of sexual desire.
- Uterine displacement, worse standing, walking, sudden jar.
- Bruised, sore, heavy feeling in uterus 
with great relaxation of vaginal tissue.
- Prolapsed uterus with much bearing down pain.
- Leucorrhea.

### Extremities
- Eruption on limbs.
- Soreness of muscles.
- Pain in all joints.
- Old sores about joints.
- Rheumatic and gouty 
pains.
- Rheumatic pains entirely relieved by onset of diarrhea.
- Sharp, darting, fugitive pains in tendons.
- Dupuytren's contraction.
- Front 
of thigh weak.
- Pain in hands, knees and ankles extending downward to fingers and toes.
- Bunion.

### Neck & Back
- Pains in back about eighth dorsal vertebra.

### Skin
- Eruptions, sticky on head, face.
- Many small painful boils.
- Moist, offensive eruptions, grayish white crusts, 
especially when glands are swollen.
- Moist, foul eczema of infants.
- Old sores, about joints.
- Axillary sweat 
cold, runs down chest, foul.