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Lactuca Virosa

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Lactuca Virosa Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🩺 Homeopathic
  • Miasm: Tubercular Miasm
  • Temperament: ☀️ Hot
  • Aggravation: Neutral/Anytime

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
▲ GENERAL
  • Brunton noted that Lact has a soporific action and is used “instead of Opium to allay cough, quiet nervous ness and induce sleep in cases where from idiosyncrasy, Opium is not borne.” This use of lettuces has been known from very remote times and has not been added to by old -school observers.
  • The
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better in open air, bending, sit ting up.
  • Worse from touch, crossing legs, sneezing, in a warm room.
  • Yawning and stretching helps pressure in chest
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotedby: Vegetable acids and coffee. (In a proving of Lact., Acet -ac., aether and hoch.
were more effectual than coffee). Compare: (1) Drowsines s, dryness and constipation - Op., Nux -m. (2)
levitation, Stict. Puls., Ph-ac., Lac-c., Asar., Thuj., etc. (3) intolerance of anything tight around neck, Lach. (4)
gonorrhea, urine smells of violets, Terebe. (5) squeezing in left breast, Bor. (6) Bor. has empty feeling.
Coldness. (7) Helo., pain in soles as if he had jumped on a stone. (8) Bor., heart symptoms, Kali -c. and Kali-
i., cough Dros. (9) Nabal. (10) Lach., Kali-c., (11) Spira. - galactagogue.

▲ MIND
  • Stupefaction of sense.
  • Difficulty in thinking.
  • Loss of memory.
  • Anxiety and dis turbed sleep.
  • Great restlessness.
  • Fear driving him from place to place.
  • Negative thinking.
  • Contrary.
  • Excessive ill humor, provoked by slightest contradiction.
  • Repulsive mood.
  • Prolonged emotional suffering, resulting in emotional deadness orcoldness.
  • Forsaken feeling.
  • Disposition melancholy, fretful.
  • Sadness with extravagant and exaggerated notions.
  • Headache after grief.
  • Foolish behavior.
  • Plays antics.
  • Jumping.
  • Singing or sighing.
  • Delusions, sees soldiers on his bed.
  • Delusions, that he would be murdered.
  • Vivid, exaggerated fancies.
  • Contrary.
  • Jumping.
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with heaviness of head and lower limbs.
  • Vertigo with blackness before eyes.
  • Vertigo with sensation as if head were too large and expanded.
  • COMMENTS - There are several recorded instances of poisoning.
  • A man, 25, ate Lact in a salad, 7 p.m and went to bed at 9.
  • He woke at 11 with sharp, colicky pains, soon followed by nausea and vomiting that lasted all night.
  • He fell asleep at 5 a.m., but in the morning was astonished to find himself unable to distinguish objects clearly.
  • A boy of 10 who ate the same meal became affected with lively deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. at midnight that lasted until morning.
  • He jumped about on the bed, played all sorts of pranks and nobody could quiet him.
  • He had no colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. or vomiting.
  • His pupils were di lated until the iris was a mere rim.
  • Trying to read he mistook M for P and O for V.
  • In his delirium, he had hallucinations, saw on his bed a soldier, an inkstand, etc.
  • Both these patients as well as another had liquid stools.
  • The dilated pupils persisted some time.
  • Keynote indescribable sensation of tight ness, affecting the whole body, but especially the chest.
  • Intolerance to touch and pressure.
  • Pain in spinal marrow even to cauda equina, streaming along coccyx.
  • Right arm is much affected.
  • Much yawning and stretching to relieve the squeezing of the lower chest.
  • Squeezing in left breast.
  • Feeling as if a hundredweight on chest.
  • Feeling of relaxation in the chest.
  • AnginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. pectoris.
  • AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
  • Spasmodic cough in frequent par oxysms with feeling of suffocation.
  • Atta cks come suddenly without any apparent cause, induced by a violent tickling in pharynx and roof of mouth.
  • Whooping cough, paroxysms preceded by anxiety.
  • Antispasmodic.
  • Chest symptoms are better sitting up.
  • Lactuca virosa Tightness in the liver region.
  • Enlargements of the liver with tightness.
  • Stomach pain, better bending.
  • Pinching in umbilical region, better crossing the legs.
  • ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. and diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. with many concomitant anal symptoms.
  • Sensation as of a drop continually passing along the urethra when seated.
  • Urine smells like violets.
  • Hering noted “painful gonorrhea in females.” Used as a galactagogue (Aven..
  • Alf.).
  • Extraordinary lightness of body, more pronounced in open air.
  • Feels as if swimming in bed.
  • Dreams of swimming in the air or of walking above the ground.
  • The head feels light, empty.
  • Sensation as if head too large, as if brain loose.
  • Sensation as if looking through gauze.
  • Mild sedative.
  • Cured a case of hypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. of the ovaries in a woman of fifty as a consequence of a miscarriage twenty -five years before.
  • The tumor was excessively large and the patient could get no rest because of the pain from the pressure.
  • The rectum was contracted and feces evacuated with great pain.
  • “Fatigue during stool,” and also “sleepi ness during stool” were pecu liar and may prove characteristic.
  • Ebullitions rising up from abdomen suggest globus hystericus
▲ HEAD
  • Empty sensation of loose ness of brain.
  • Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy.
  • Heat of face and headache with general coldness.
  • Pain, stupefying headache, after grief.
  • Headache with disorders of respira - tory organs.
  • Kidneys - Dragging pressure in region of bladder, as from urgency to urinate.
  • Burning in urethra.
  • Urine smells of violets.
  • Urine clear as water, copious.
  • Sensation as of a drop continuously passing along the urethra when seated.
▲ EYES
  • Biting in the eyes.
  • Burning in eyes, especially in the lids.
  • Redness of conjunctiva with increased mucus secretion in elderly persons.
  • Pupils dilated.
  • Cloudiness of vision, weakness of sight.
  • Hemiopia.
  • Flying insects before eyes, on stooping after a meal.
  • Itching above the eyebrows
▲ EARS
  • Drawing pains in ears, shootings followed by tension in left ear.
  • Buzzing in ears, ringing sound before ears, in evening, in bed
▲ FACE
  • Pale.
  • Heat of face with trembling and sensation of swelling of lips.
  • Quiver ing in lips.
  • Tingling with a feeling of tightness on face.
  • Lancinations in chin at extremity of sub-maxillary nerve.
  • Swelling of the lymphatic glands
▲ MOUTH
  • Dry mouth, without thirst.
  • White coating on tongue, thick mucus, sore, as if burned at tip.
  • Contraction under tongue.
  • Sharp pain in molars on left side of lower jaw, as if they were being twisted.
  • Soreness of gums, on an empty socket on masticating.
  • Nose - Sensation as though end of nose were distended.
  • Peculiar smell before nose and a similar taste in mouth.
  • CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., followed by excoriation and dryness in nose.
  • Frequent sneezing
▲ THROAT
  • Slight burning in throat.
  • Difficult swallowing with sensation as if uvula were raw with burning.
  • Sensation of coldness in esophagus from eructations.
  • Accumulation of mucus in throat, viscid mucus in throat in morning
▲ CHEST
  • Constriction.
  • Sense of oppression of chest.
  • Squeezing sensation in lower chest.
  • Sensation of warmth.
  • Pain on bending forward.
  • Shaking of chest during cough as from dust.
  • Must hold chest with both hands.
  • Difficult breathing.
  • Suffocative breathing from dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. of the chest.
  • Irritat ing, suffocating cough.
  • Constant tickling cough.
  • Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Sensation of icy coldness in stomach.
  • Sensation of retraction.
  • Pains in stomach with contraction of pit of stomach, worse by pressure.
  • After a meal, sensation of fullness in stomach with pres sure downwards.
  • Pain better passing flatus.
  • Loathing, nausea, vomiting, sometimes with uneasiness at pit of stomach.
  • Temperature - Slight shivering chill.
  • Frequent coldness over back and head, with heat in face.
  • Chilliness in a warm room with coldness of hands and feet.
  • Dry heat of upper part of body, with icy coldness of feet.
  • Sensation of weight, fullness.
  • Movements in abdomen.
  • BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines., abundant emission of wind.
  • Colic i n early morning, tense abdomen, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind.
  • Cramping pain, better passing flatus.
  • Dull shocks or else lancinations in right hypochondrium.
  • Contusive pain in liver region, in morning.
  • Want of appetite, food is repugnant, no appetite for bread and meat.
  • Food tastes sickly, bitter.
  • Appetite and thirst increased.
  • Desires milk, pickles, sour.
  • Aversion to bread, meat, wine.
  • Better from bread, cof fee, vegetable acids, worse from milk
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Drawing pains at root of penis, in right spermatic cord and along internal surface of thigh.
  • Diminished sexual appetite, chases away lasciviousness and voluptuous fancies.
  • Painful erections during morning sle ep.
  • Swelling of a lym- phatic vessel in penis, following morning erections.
  • Promotes menses too early.
  • Bearing down and weak feeling about pelvic organs and general relaxed feeling.
  • Painful gonorrhea
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Cramp-like pains.
  • Rush of blood to lower limbs.
  • Sensation as if circulation in legs were suspended.
  • Numbness while sitting.
  • Coldness and numbness of feet and legs.
  • Lame hip down left side, worse walking.
  • Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg involvi ng calves.
  • Tension in hollow of knee on rising from a seat, while walking.
  • Tremor of hands and arms
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Tension in muscles of neck or right side, sometimes spasmodic.
  • Lancinations under right armpit.
  • Pains in spinal marrow, as far as the cauda equina and extending to sacrum.
  • Contusive pain in lumbar region.
  • Drawing pains in loins towards the groins.
  • Breasts - Milk absent.
  • Increase of milk in breasts (Asaf.)
▲ SKIN
  • Subcutaneous lancinating and pinching in various places.
  • Inflammation and eruptions
▲ SLEEP
  • Irresistible drowsiness in daytime.
  • Frequent yawning and stretching of limbs.
  • Restless, impossible to get to sleep.
  • InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep..
  • Disturbed sleep from anxiety, cough.
  • Position, lying on back impossible.
  • Sound, refreshing sleep.
  • Deep, comatose sleep
▲ GENERALITIES
  • As if chest would fly to pieces.
  • As if circulation in legs was suspended.
  • Coldness of stomach, throat, chest, feet

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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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