{"id":1010,"remedy_name":"Leptandra Virginica","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Leptandra, in the form of the resinoid Leptandrin, was proved by Burt. As one of the grand \ncharacteristics of it relative Digitalis is white stools, so the grand characteristic of Leptandra is black stools. \nGreat varieties of stool, in the later stages of the proving it became dysenteric and mixed with shreds. \nConstipation with hard black stool, followed by softer stools. \nLiver symptoms, with adull, heavy, frontal headache. These symptoms confirm the use of the drug by eclectics \nas a kind of \u201cvegetable calomel.\u201d Sensation as if something was passing out of rectum.  \nFarrington noted the dull aching in the right hypochondrium, gallbladder and back of liver, accompanied by \nsoreness. Burning distress in and about liver after spreading to stomach and bowels, with drowsiness and \ndespondency. Bilious and typhoid fevers with black, tarry stools. \nEye symptoms (Euphr.). Generally right side. Chilly sensation along the spine and down r ight arm. Pains in \nright shoulder and arm. Symptoms are worse by motion, rising causes nausea and faintness. Weakness, so \ngreat he is hardly able to stand.","modalities":"Better from lying on abdomen, on side. Worse fromcolddrinks, exposure to wet weather, motion, \nperiodically.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Hopeless, despondent and drowsy. Sadness with liver troubles. Irritable. Anxi ety in abdomen after \nstool. Sensitive to penetrating noises. Weary, can hardly walk. Hopeless, despondent and drowsy. Sadness with liver troubles. Irritable. Anxi ety in abdomen after \nstool. Sensitive to penetrating noises. Weary, can hardly walk.","Head":"Dull pain, vertigo, drowsiness and depression. Dull frontal headache, with aching in navel. Smarting \nand aching in eyes. Dull pain, vertigo, drowsiness and depression. Dull frontal headache, with aching in navel. Smarting \nand aching in eyes.","Eyes":"Smarting and aching in eyes with dull pain in eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Lids agglutinated.","Mouth":"Tongue, yellow or black down center. Flat taste.","Chest":"Soreness in heart. Pulse slow and full. \nKidneys - Red or orange colored urine with dull aching in lumbar region.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Craving for cold drinks, which aggravate burning and aching in stom ach. Sinking at the pit of \nstomach. Great distress in stomach and small intestines with immediate desire for stool. Nausea and deathly \nfaintness on rising. Bilious vomiting. Vomiting of bile, yellow tongue, shooting pains about liver, black stools.  \nStools - Jaundice with clay-colored stools. Stools, muddy, watery, worse in morning. Stools, tarry or black, \nfoul with pain at umbilicus. Typhoid stools turn black and look like tar. Stingy, waxy or spurting stool in the \nmorning with pain at navel. \nTemperature - Chilly along the spine and down the arm. Shivering or dry, hot skin, \nlimbs cold and numb tongue black down center. Bilious typhoid fever. \nCOMMENTS - Affects the right side and liver. Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Hemorrhages due to \nliver disorders. Jaundice and black, tarry stools. Conditions with black, tarry stools. Melanotic stools. Hepatitis. \nHistory of cirrhosis, hepatitisjaundice or colon cancer with dried blood in the stools. Colon cancer. Weakness, \nhardly able to stand or walk. Typhoid. Malarial conditions. Useful as an herbal tonic for the liver. \nHale noted the order of the different kinds of stools in the proving. First there are black, thick, tar -like, fetid \nstools. This is followed by thinner, brownish, often fetid stools. Then stool s of mixed mucus, flocculent and \nwatery matter with yellow bile or blood. Finally, there is mucous, bloody stool mixed with shred-like substances, \noften pure blood. \nHale said it is only in cases of dysentery that have developed in this way that Lept. is curative, not in cases \nprimarily dysenteric. Cases due to sudden climatic changes have been cured by it.  \nNeidhard observed a periodicity in cases cured by him. Periodical, occurring every two or three months, yellow-\ncoated tongue, constant nausea with vomi ting of bile. Shooting or aching pains in region of liver, loss of \nappetite, urine brownish or very dark, often pain in transverse colon, giddiness. Characteristic very dark, almost \nblack stools. Sore or dull, burning ache over liver or near gall bladder, extending down over bowels to navel or \ntowards left scapula or along spine, which feels chilly. Constant dull achin g in umbilical region. Great distress \nin stomach and intestines with desire for stool. Canine hunger. Craving for cold food and drinks, raw food, salads. Worse fats, rich foods, meat and \nvegetables.","Urinary & Genital":"Menses, suppressed or retarded with liver affection. Warm, watery leucorrhea, runs down the limbs, \nfrom ulceration of the os.","Extremities":"Pain in sciatic nerve (left), worse on sitting. Nails very thin, soft and splitting. \nLiver - Acute liver conditions. Dull, burning aching in liver, worse near  gallbladder. Sore or dull pain, worse \nfrom touch or pressure. Burning distress in back part of liver and spine. Liver swollen trans versely. Periodical \nliver derangement, every two or three months. Bilious states. Gallstones. Jaundice. Hepatitis. Portal v ein \ncongestion.","Neck & Back":"Chilly sensation in shoulders and down back. Sore, lame feeling in small of back. Constant distress \nwith very sharp pains by spells in lumbar region.","Skin":"Jaundice. Dry, hot skin.","Sleep":"Sleepiness with liver troubles. Sound sleep. Sleep restless after midnight, feels very ill next day."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}