{"id":1004,"remedy_name":"Lactuca Virosa","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Brunton noted that Lact. has a soporific action and is used \u201cinstead of Opium to allay cough, \nquiet nervous ness and induce sleep in cases where from idiosyncrasy, Opium is not borne.\u201d This use of \nlettuces has been known from very remote times and has not been added to by old -school observers. The","modalities":"Better in open air, bending, sit ting up. Worse from touch, crossing legs, sneezing, in a warm \nroom. Yawning and stretching helps pressure in chest.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Stupefaction of sense. Difficulty in thinking. Loss of memory. Anxiety and dis turbed sleep. Great \nrestlessness. Fear driving him from place to place. Negative thinking. Contrary. Excessive ill humor, provoked \nby slightest contradiction. Repulsive mood. \nProlonged emotional suffering, resulting in emotional deadness orcoldness. Forsaken feeling. Disposition \nmelancholy, fretful. Sadness with extravagant and exaggerated notions. Headache after grief.  \nFoolish behavior. Plays antics. Jumping. Singing or sighing. Delusions, sees soldiers on his bed. Delusions, \nthat he would be murdered. Vivid, exaggerated fancies. Stupefaction of sense. Difficulty in thinking. Loss of memory. Anxiety and dis turbed sleep. Great \nrestlessness. Fear driving him from place to place. Negative thinking. Contrary. Excessive ill humor, provoked \nby slightest contradiction. Repulsive mood. \nProlonged emotional suffering, resulting in emotional deadness orcoldness. Forsaken feeling. Disposition \nmelancholy, fretful. Sadness with extravagant and exaggerated notions. Headache after grief.  \nFoolish behavior. Plays antics. Jumping. Singing or sighing. Delusions, sees soldiers on his bed. Delusions, \nthat he would be murdered. Vivid, exaggerated fancies.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with heaviness of head and lower limbs. Vertigo with blackness before eyes. Vertigo with \nsensation as if head were too large and expanded. \nCOMMENTS - There are several recorded instances of poisoning. A man, 25, ate Lact. in a salad, 7 p.m. and \nwent to bed at 9. He woke at 11 with sharp, colicky pains, soon followed by nausea and vomiting that lasted \nall night. He fell asleep at 5 a.m., but in the morning was astonished to find himself unable to distinguish objects \nclearly. \nA boy of 10 who ate the same meal became affected with lively delirium at midnight that lasted until morning. \nHe jumped about on the bed, played all sorts of pranks and nobody could quiet him. He had no colic or vomiting. \nHis 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 \n \n \ndelirium, he had hallucinations, saw on his bed a soldier, an inkstand, etc. Both these patients as well as \nanother had liquid stools. The dilated pupils persisted some time. \nKeynote indescribable sensation of tight ness, affecting the whole body, but especially the chest. Intolerance \nto touch and pressure. Pain in spinal marrow even to cauda equina, streaming along coccyx. Right arm is \nmuch affected. \nMuch yawning and stretching to relieve the squeezing of the lower chest. Squeezing in left breast. Feeling as \nif a hundredweight on chest. Feeling of relaxation in the chest. Angina pectoris.  \nAsthma. Spasmodic cough in frequent par oxysms with feeling of suffocation. Atta cks come suddenly without \nany apparent cause, induced by a violent tickling in pharynx and roof of mouth. Whooping cough, paroxysms \npreceded by anxiety. Antispasmodic. Chest symptoms are better sitting up. \nLactuca virosa \nTightness in the liver region. Enlargements of the liver with tightness. Stomach pain, better bending. Pinching \nin umbilical region, better crossing the legs. \nConstipation and diarrhea with many concomitant anal symptoms. Sensation as of a drop continually passing \nalong the urethra when seated. Urine smells like violets. Hering noted \u201cpainful gonorrhea in females.\u201d Used as \na galactagogue (Aven.. Alf.). \nExtraordinary lightness of body, more pronounced in open air. Feels as if swimming in bed. Dreams of \nswimming in the air or of walking above the ground. The head feels light, empty. Sensation as if head too large, \nas if brain loose. Sensation as if looking through gauze. Mild sedative. \nCured a case of hypertrophy of the ovaries in a woman of fifty as a consequence of a miscarriage twenty -five \nyears before. The tumor was excessively large and the patient could get no rest because of the pain from the \npressure. The rectum was contracted and feces evacuated with great pain.  \n\u201cFatigue during stool,\u201d and also \u201csleepi ness during stool\u201d were pecu liar and may prove characteristic. \nEbullitions rising up from abdomen suggest globus hystericus.","Head":"Empty sensation. Sensation of loose ness of brain. Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and \nheadache with general coldness. Pain, stupefying headache, after grief. Headache with disorders of respira -\ntory organs. \nKidneys - Dragging pressure in region of bladder, as from urgency to urinate. Burning in urethra. Urine smells \nof violets. Urine clear as water, copious. Sensation as of a drop continuously passing along the urethra when \nseated. Empty sensation. Sensation of loose ness of brain. Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and \nheadache with general coldness. Pain, stupefying headache, after grief. Headache with disorders of respira -\ntory organs. \nKidneys - Dragging pressure in region of bladder, as from urgency to urinate. Burning in urethra. Urine smells \nof violets. Urine clear as water, copious. Sensation as of a drop continuously passing along the urethra when \nseated.","Eyes":"Biting in the eyes. Burning in eyes, especially in the lids. Redness of conjunctiva with increased mucus \n \n \nsecretion in elderly persons. Pupils dilated. Cloudiness of vision, weakness of sight. Hemiopia. Flying \ninsects 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 \nears, in evening, in bed.","Face":"Pale. Heat of face with trembling and sensation of swelling of lips. Quiver ing in lips. Tingling with a \nfeeling of tightness on face. Lancinations in chin at extremity of sub-maxillary nerve. Swelling of the lymphatic \nglands.","Mouth":"Dry mouth, without thirst. White coating on tongue, thick mucus, sore, as if burned at tip. Contraction \nunder tongue. Sharp pain in molars on left side of lower jaw, as if they were being twisted. Soreness of gums, \non an empty socket on masticating. \nNose - Sensation as though end of nose were distended. Peculiar smell before nose and a similar taste in \nmouth. Coryza, 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 \nof 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. \nPain on bending forward. Shaking of chest during cough. \nCough - Cough as from dust. Must hold chest with both hands. Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from dropsy of the chest. Irritat ing, suffocating cough. \nConstant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Sensation of icy coldness in stomach. Sensation of retraction. Pains in stomach with contraction of \npit of stomach, worse by pressure. After a meal, sensation of fullness in stomach with pres sure downwards. \nPain better passing flatus. Loathing, nausea, vomiting, sometimes with uneasiness at pit of stomach.  \nTemperature - Slight shivering chill. Frequent coldness over back and head, with heat in face. Chilliness in a \nwarm room with coldness of hands and feet. Dry heat of upper part of body, with icy coldness of feet. Sensation of weight, fullness. \nMovements in abdomen. Borborygmi, abundant emission of wind. Colic i n early morning, tense abdomen, \nrelieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind. Cramping pain, better passing flatus. Dull shocks or \nelse 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 \nand thirst increased. Desires milk, pickles, sour. Aversion to bread, meat, wine. Better from bread, cof fee, \nvegetable acids, worse from milk.","Urinary & Genital":"Drawing pains at root of penis, in right spermatic cord and along internal surface of thigh. Diminished \nsexual appetite, chases away lasciviousness and voluptuous fancies. Painful erections during morning sle ep. \nSwelling of a lym- \nphatic vessel in penis, following morning erections. Promotes menses. Menses too early. Bearing down and weak feeling about pelvic organs and \ngeneral relaxed feeling. Painful gonorrhea.","Extremities":"Cramp-like pains. Rush of blood to lower limbs. Sensation as if circulation in legs were suspended. \nNumbness while sitting. Coldness and numbness of feet and legs. Lame hip down left side, worse walking. \nCramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg involvi ng calves. Tension in hollow of knee on rising \nfrom a seat, while walking. Tremor of hands and arms.","Neck & Back":"Tension in muscles of neck or right side, sometimes spasmodic. Lancinations under right armpit. Pains \nin spinal marrow, as far as the cauda equina and extending to sacrum. Contusive pain in lumbar region. \nDrawing pains in loins towards the groins. \nBreasts - 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 \nget to sleep. Insomnia. Disturbed sleep from anxiety, cough. Position, lying on back impossible. Sound, \nrefreshing sleep. Deep, comatose sleep.","Generalities":"As if chest would fly to pieces. As if circulation in legs was suspended. Coldness of stomach, \nthroat, chest, feet."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}