{"id":1027,"remedy_name":"Lycopus Virginicus","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"According to Hale, Lycps. is mentioned by Rafinesque as \u201cpartaking of the properties of \nDigitalis, Sang., Cimic. and Spig.\u201d and as being \u201cone of the mildest and best narcotics in existence.\u201d  \nHale commended Lycps. as a substitute for Dig., having the advantage over it of being non -poisonous, as \nuseful in hemoptysis and \u201cwherever it is required to quell inordinate motions of the blood.\u201d \nBriggs of Fort Lovell, related the cure of a patient of tarantula bite by application of a liquid made of Lycps. He \nsaid the Cherokee Indians allow themselves to be bitten by rattlesnakes, centipedes and tarantula, chewing \nas an antidote large quantities of lycopus and swallowing the juice. \nH. W. Felter, an eclectic, is quoted as commending Lycps. in passive lung hem orrhage, wild, tumultuous \nbeating of heart, which often precedes the lung hemorrhage, cough of tuberculosis. Lycps . does not disorder \nthe stomach, he says, but acts a tonic and appetizer. \nMorrisson made an extensive proving of Lycps. and developed unmistakable heart symptoms. Lowers the \nblood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and increases the length of systole  to a great degree (Adren.). \nDiseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain. Feeble heart, with distress and weak \npulse. \nCardiac irritability with depressed force, with or without organic disease. Hemoptysis due to valvular heart \ndisease. Passive hemorrhages. \nPulmonary complaints associated with loose stools. Hemorrhoidal bleeding. Char acteristic cough with \nhemoptysis associated with feeble heart action. Violent cough at night. Lying down causes cardiac depression \nand lying on right side aggravates constriction of thorax. \nPains shift generally right to left. Exophthalmic goiter. Beneficial in toxic goiter used in the pre-operative stage. \nHistory of suppressed discharges.","modalities":"Worse motion, exercise, walk ing, ascending. Worse at sunset, evening, morning, with ach ing \ndown spine, better after rising.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Increased mental and physical activity in evening. N ervous, hurried and tremulous. General \nwakefulness and morbid vigilance. Instability. Irritability, unless spoken to very softly.  \nMind wanders from one thing to another. Slow comprehension. Slight dullness of intellect with headache. \nStupefaction, as if intoxicated, during menses. Increased mental and physical activity in evening. N ervous, hurried and tremulous. General \nwakefulness and morbid vigilance. Instability. Irritability, unless spoken to very softly.  \nMind wanders from one thing to another. Slow comprehension. Slight dullness of intellect with headache. \nStupefaction, as if intoxicated, during menses.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, tends to stagger to right. \nCOMMENTS - The association of Lycps. with Dig., Cimic. and Spig. particularly shows a very clear insight into \nthe action of the remedy, which an experience of Clarke's seems to confirm. \nMiss S., 25, came to him in October, 1899. About three years ago she had the first symptoms of exophthalmos, \nwhich was ascribed by her mother to a prescription of Macrin. in low potency, taken for pains in the eyes and \ncontinued for a long period. \nThe first symptoms were sore throat with ulcerations, then the goiter appeared and the heart became painful, \nits action intermittent with breathlessness and inability to take exertion. \nAfter a course of Thyr. and later of Thuj. 30c (she had been vaccinated), Lycps. 12c was given and this  took \naway all the heart pains. Attacks of influenza complicated the case and other remedies had to be given. The \npatient then did well under Spig. 30c, as far as the heart is concerned, though no impression was made on the \ngoiter, which was small. The heart sounds were normal. \nCharacteristic shifting symptoms. Pains shift from heart to eyes, from head to heart, from heart to left wrist and \nright calf, and back to wrist and heart. Proell noted two of his cases in which there was a shift from rectum to \nheart and head. \nProell's two cases concerned suppression of hemorrhoidal flux. The patients were each 60 years of age, a \nman and a woman, both fair with light eyes, tall, very irritable with weak innervation of the heart without decided \norganic disease. \nBoth had, years before, hemorrhoidal flux which stopped suddenly. Both were hypochondriacal and had noise \nin their left ear. \nThis last symptom was the chief thing the man complained of, along with throbbing in the head preventing \nsleep. \nNeither Cact., Kalm., nor Gels, helped radically. The night after taking Lycps. lx, the man was a little better and \nin the forenoon bled from the rectum (about three table spoonfuls after defecation) with great general relief.  \nThe woman had glycosuria, cataract of left eye and eve ry third night was restless. Lycps. lx, one drop in the \nevening. The following night she was excellent, and in the morning came an abundant bleeding from the rectum \nwith great relief. \nMorrison noted a case cured with Lycps. in which the sufferings were ass ociated with the menstrual period, \nwhich was exactly regular but intermittent in flow. The first symptoms appeared within three or four hours of \nthe onset of the flow and was a deep -seated pain with heat in occiput. Then followed a train of symptoms, \namong them nausea, and when the nausea came on the occipital pain was better.  \nStanley Wilde cured a desperate case of pericarditis associated with bronchitis with Lycps. tincture, as well as \na case of palpitation with darting pain in the heart in a young woman, following an attack of acute rheumatism \ntwo years before.","Head":"Frontal headache, worse frontal eminences, often succeeded by labored heart. Pressure in forehead, \nworse left portion. Noise and throbbing in head preventing sleep after suppressed hemorrhoids. Frontal headache, worse frontal eminences, often succeeded by labored heart. Pressure in forehead, \nworse left portion. Noise and throbbing in head preventing sleep after suppressed hemorrhoids.","Eyes":"Protrusion, pressing outward, with tumultuous action of heart. Eyes feel weak, as if fatigued. Neuralgic \npain in right supra orbital region. Supra-orbital pain with aching in testicles.","Ears":"Burning in right ear.","Mouth":"Toothache in lower molars. \nNose - Nosebleed. Sneezing and slight nasal catarrh.","Throat":"Rawness at back of right palate, extending to left. Burning in spot on soft palate, following headache.","Chest":"Constriction across lower half of thorax. Pulmonary disease associated with looseness of bowels. Precordial pain, constriction, tender ness. Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease. \nCyanosis. Heart's action is tumultuous and forcible. Pulse, weak, irregular intermittent, tremulous, rapid. \nPalpitation from nervous irritation with oppression around heart. Cardiac asthma (Sumb.). Rapid heart action \nof smokers. \nKidneys - Profuse flow of liquid, watery urine, especially when the heart is most irritable, also scanty urine. \nUrine is scanty, thick, muddy. Diabetes mellitus, great thirst and emaciation. Asthma. Wheezing. Breathing op pressed. Cough with hemoptysis. Needing small but frequent. \nCough and irritation of lungs with irregular action of heart.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Circumscribed pain and com pression in region of stomach. Indigestion with pain and distress in \ngastric region. Gastritis, enteritis. Nausea with faintness. Diarrhea, dysentery. Tugging pain in spleen. Tenderness in left hypochondrium. Aching in inguinal canal, bearing down \nas from hernia. Flatulence and rumbling. Severe colic followed by profuse, forcible diar rhea.","Urinary & Genital":"Pain in testicles. Neuralgic pain in testicle with supra-orbital pain. Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia. Menses intermit for ten or twelve days. Vagina very hot, os uterus \nengorged and swollen. Puffing of parts on and around \npubes and vulva, dilated condition of vagina.","Extremities":"Muscular rheumatoid pains. Rheumatoid pains in  forearm and wrists with trembling of hands. Hands \nunsteady, writing difficult. Rheumatoid pains in knees, legs, thighs, wandering to back. Slight lameness, \nunsteady gait.","Neck & Back":"Severe aching down spine. Acute pain at seventh cervical vertebra. Slight rheumatoid pain in left supra-\nscapular muscles. \nBladder - Tenderness in bladder. Bladder feels distended when empty. \nCausations - Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow.","Skin":"Prickings as if bitten by insects. Troublesome urticaria on left forearm and right leg, before retiring.","Sleep":"Wakeful on retiring, though fatigued. Sleep restless, full of troublesome dreams."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}