# Liatris Spicata

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

## Keynote Indications
Generalanasarca due to heart and kidney disease. Colic. Diarrhea with violent urging and 
pain in lower part of back. Suppressed urine. Dropsy from liver or spleen diseases. Kidney dropsy. 
Applied locally to ulcers and unhealthy wounds. A prompt diuretic. Vascular stimu lant. Increases functional 
activity of the skin, mucus membranes. 
COMMENTS - Liatr. was introduced to ho meopathic medicine because of its action in two cases of dropsy 
under eclectic treatment. The first was a case of dropsy from material enlargement of liver and spleen, the 
second was a case of dropsy with almost total suppression of urine. After other remedies had failed. Liatr. was 
given and, on the second day. the patient passed a gallon and a half of urine.  
A. E. White wrote that it has a popular repute as specific in chronic diarrhea fol lowing exposure in camp life, 
and also as an application to non-granulating ulcers. For this purpose the root is to be chewed and then applied. 
White was invited to chew a piece, which he did. In six or eight hours he had three successive calls to stool, 
very urgent, a little griping in lower back and some straining at stool. He has confirmed its use in camp diarrhea, 
but says it acts better if Sulph. or Merc-c. is given first. 
White reported the case of Mr. X, 56, who had chronic diarrhea since the war. He had tried treatment of all 
kinds, homeopathic included. He had twelve to sixteen stools a day and had loss much weight. He was run 
down and had made up his mind he had only a short time to live. 
He was given Sulph. 30x two doses, one each night, then Merc -c. 3x, a dose each night for five nights, then 
Liatr. lx, four pellets each night for five weeks, by which time he was completely cured.

## Symptoms by System