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Hekla Lava

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Hekla Lava Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🩺 Homeopathic
  • Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
  • Temperament: Neutral
  • Aggravation: Neutral/Anytime

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🧬 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
  • When traveling in Iceland, Garth Wilkinson noticed that the sheep in the vicinity of Hecla had immense bony growths on the jaws.
  • Another effect noticed was the drying up of the milk both in sheep and cows.
  • The finer ash which feel on pastures at a distance was the most deleterious, the gross ash near the mountain was inert.
  • Wilkinson added that he used Hecla, with excellent effect in toothache, gum abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection., swellings about the jaws and in difficult dentition.
  • Hecla, affects mostly the bones of the head, jaws, jawbones, teeth and legs.
  • Osteosarcoma, exostosis and osteitis, arrests development and prevents recurrence.
  • Clinical experience has shown the power of Hecla, to arrest many forms of bone disease including osteosarcoma, scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. and syphilitic osteitis and exostoses.
  • Painful swellings, sensitive to touch, worse from touch and pressure.
  • Exostosis, gum abscess, toothaches, difficult teething.
  • Nodosities, decay of bone, etc.
  • Bone necrosisDeath of cells or body tissuesThe premature death of cells or tissues in a localized area, caused by injury, infection, or lack of blood flow. and sinus after mastoid operation.
  • Facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. from decayed teeth and after extraction.
  • IndurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. and infiltration of cervical glands, studding the neck like a row of pearls.
  • Tumors in general.
  • White swellings.
  • WhitlowPainful abscess on finger or toe tipA highly painful, localized infection or abscess near the fingernail or fingertip. and gumboils.
  • Syphilis.
  • Predominantly affects the right side
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from touch.
  • Worse pres sure.
  • Worse beginning of motion.
  • Worse sitting, rest.
  • Worse left side
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Calc-f., Calc., Merc., Phos., Sil. Still., Sulph., Kali-i., Symph., Ruta. (2) Conch. -
diaphysis of bone affected, parts extremely sensitive to touch. (3) A mph. - great affinity for the jaw bones,
worse by air and dampness. (4) Slag - great itching of parts.

▲ MIND
  • Irritability.
  • Nervousness in the morning.
  • Sensitive to criticisms.
  • Outburst of violent anger and feeling of helplessness.
  • Indignation.
  • Suppression of anger.
  • Ailments from shock.
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. everything goes up, down and sidewise.
  • COMMENTS - Affinity for bone deformities, bone spurs and tumors (Calc-f.), bone diseases.
  • Calcium deposits in the joints that cause deformities, deforming or rheumatoid arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age..
  • Spinal curvatures.
  • Hypertrophied bone cancer.
  • Osgood-Schlatter.
  • Bone lesions, osteitis, periostitis, exostosis, tumor, often follow an injury to the bone.
  • Painful and tender lesions.
  • Enlarged and indurated cervical nodes, sometimes likened to “a string of pearls.” Decomposition and necrosis of the sinus and nasal bones, or for a history of damage or surgery in the area.
  • Severe toothache, where the jawbone aches, boring and digging pains in the bone.
  • Bony lesion after a dental abscess.
  • Late state syphilis where the nasal bones deteriorate.
  • Facial neural gias after tooth extractions.
  • Damage to the jawbone from dental surgery.
  • Ulcerations of the bone.
  • Burnett noted “On July 3, 1880, a young lady, age 15, came under my observation with an exostosis on her right os caléis, somewhat smaller an a little flatter than half a walnut shell.
  • It was at times painful.
  • “Patient was in other respects in good health and well nourished, but her teeth were not very sound.
  • She goes blue in winter, and suffers also very badly from chilblains both on hands and feet, worse on hand.
  • “Hecla lava 2c given six grains three times a day.
  • July 17th.
  • The exostosis is decidedly smaller; it never pains now.
  • September 25.
  • The exostosis has entirely disappeared; the two heels being compared, no difference between them now can be discovered.” Burnett stated “I have cured several bony tumours of the jaws with the same remedy, and that very promptly: they were all of recent origin.”
▲ HEAD
  • Chronic headache, from dental or bone disease.
  • Headache from injury of dental nerves.
  • Tumors of the skull.
  • Jaws - Abscess or enlargement of bone remaining after a tooth extraction.
  • Violent pain in upperjaw.
  • Enlargement of maxil lary bone, from injury to jaw.
  • Painful to touch, upper jaw, swelling under right alae nasi sensitive.
  • Right cuspid of upper jaw sensitive to slight pressure.
▲ EARS
  • Caries of mastoid bone.
  • Exostosis in external meatus of ear
▲ FACE
  • Facial neuralgia from decayed teeth and after extraction.
  • Polyps, com mencing in Antrum of Highmore.
  • Tumor, deforming face, forcing eyeball upward, obstructing nostrils, extending downward into the mouth, impeding breathing and chewing, nosebleed, headache
▲ MOUTH
  • Neuralgia from decayed tooth in cavity from which tooth has been extracted.
  • P ain in wound, where tooth has been extracted.
  • Abscess of gums.
  • Difficult dentition in scrofulous and rickety children.
  • Neck - Swollen cervical glands, like a string of pearls.
  • Nose - Nasal polyps or tumors.
  • Ulceration.
  • Destructive, syphilitic ulceration of nasal bones
▲ CHEST
  • Muscle pain, especially of intercostal muscles
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Severe, continuous pain in lower limbs.
  • Swollen and bulging thighs and legs.
  • Varicose veins.
  • Arthritic nodosities.
  • Exostoses of tibia, severe continuous pain incapacitating from work.
  • Hip joint disease.
  • Hallux vulgus.
  • Deformity or nodules of the fingers, toes
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Induration and infiltration of the glands.
  • Neck glands are enlarged and indurated, like a row of pearls Bones - Necrosis and destruction of bone inflammation.
  • Bone spurs, tumors or exostoses, especially of the head, jaws, leg.
  • Benign bone cysts, tumors.
  • Painful bone tumors or nodosities after injury.
  • Exostoses of fingers.
  • Tumors of the tibia with severe continuous pain.
  • Osteomala cia, rickets.
  • Osteitis, periostitis.
  • Osteitis deformans.
  • Osteosarcoma.
  • Breasts - Breast tumors or nodules.
  • Diminished milk while nursing.
  • Dried up, no breast milk.
  • Causations - Injury to bone
▲ SKIN
  • Black warts.
  • Actinomycosis.
  • White swellings.
  • Teeth - Toothaches, especially of teeth that are very sensitive to pressure with swelling about jaws.Dental abscess with swelling, pus worse pressure on teeth.
  • Decay of teeth.
  • Pain or neural gia after extraction.
  • Chronic dental or jaw abscess.
  • Chronic gingivitisInflammation of the gumsA common and mild form of gum disease that causes irritation, redness, and swelling of the gums around the base of teeth..
  • FistulaAbnormal passage connecting two body partsAn abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow organs..
  • Gumboil.
  • Delayed or difficult dentition in malnourished children

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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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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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