LYCOPODIUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Lyc. brings to mind old, tired people with feeble reaction who are sensitive to cold, agg. cold, cold air, cold food, cold drinks, from exertion and 16 -20h; whose faces are sallow, sickly, pale, often withered, shriveled and emaciated and whose foreheads wrinkle with every pain, jar or noise, whose nostrils flap, but are not as wide open nor sooty inside like Ant-t.; dyspnea agg. exertion; flatulence; faintness; rattling of mucus in chest or dry, hacking cough without expectoration; easy satiety or eating agg. the appetite: chest filled with mucus; inability to expectorate; inability to lie on back. Double pneumonia beginning on right side, extending to left. Neglected cases with dyspnea from accumulation of serum in pleura and pericardium. In hepatization it closely resembles Phos. and Sulph. (see Sulph.). Esp. useful for old people with feeble reaction and weakness of all functions and who do not tend to convalesce, and children who are extremely cross on waking. After the pneumonia the dry cough remains a long time or there is much asthmatic and whistling respiration, cold limbs, head and face hot, wants to go with head uncovered. Elects the right side or goes from right to left and is one of the leaders for neglected and typhoid cases. Very valuable for children who look wrinkled and prematurely old. Is the ONLY known remedy for: Weeping 16h - 20h, or when thanked; obstruction of nose with pus nights; face wrinkled with chest symptoms; anxiety in stomach after vexation; eating increases the appetite and the hunger, also during aversion to food; dry cough in emaciated boys, chronic in pining boys; cough overpowering, as if the larynx were tickled by a feather evenings before sleep.; burning heat 16h lasting several hours; amel. in general after midnight; pain in sides of chest at 16h. Is THE leading remedy for: Anger evening; dullness of mind amel. open air; irritability morning on waking; laughing during sleep; restlessness in room, and while sitting; weeping aloud; fan-like motion of alae nasi in pneumonia, obstruction of nose during sleep; confused expression on face; bitter eructations after eating, food comes up; nausea from fasting; thirst after sweat; breathing arrested nights, or difficult while lying on back; cough evening on going to sleep; palpitation during digestion; shocks in chest with cough; waking from hunger; chill 16h -20h; fever 18h - 20h; amel. in general forenoon; agg. eating onions; pulse frequent after eating; agg. in general 16h and esp. 16h - 20h; loathing of life mornings. Lyc.: THERAPEUTIC HINTS - The 16h - 20h agg. Borland bl4 (Ed.: Is one of Borland's "late pneumonia" - remedies. (Ant-t., Ars., Carb-v., Kali-c., Lyc., Sulph.) · Of the last three drugs (Ant-t., Carb-v., Kali-c.) I thought of looking at I think Lyc. probably follows the Kali picture more closely than any of the other drugs; it is very similar in many ways. · In the majority of cases you do not get indications for Lyc. before the second half of the course of the average pneumonia, in other words, it is not usually indicated until after the fourth day. As a rule, you will get a history that at the beginning of their illness these patients were mentally fairly active, and that they are now becoming very tired, very weary, rather worried about their condition, and not a little frightened. · In appearance, they give you the impression of being anxious; they have rather a worried look, and a practically perpetual frown. They are rather sallow in colour, a sort of yellow-ash-grey appearance, and they have obvious acute respiratory distress. The lips tend to be somewhat cyanosed, very often they are definitely cyanosed, and there may be a somewhat dusky appearance generally. If you see these patients latish in the subdivision, about the fourth or fifth day, you will find them becoming definitely weak, and rather torpid and sluggish. · The mentality of the typical Lyc. pneumonia patients is a little difficult to get hold of because although they are anxious, worried about themselves, wanting attention, wanting somebody about, yet they are peevish and irritable with those trying to help them. They are rather domineering, they are definitely exacting in their demands on their attendants, and yet that is coupled up with the desire to get as much attention as they possibly can. After they have been asleep they are very liable to wake up in a very cross-tempered mood. · Associated with the respiratory distress, there is a somewhat pinched appearance of the nose which is not unlike the Ant-t.-appearance, and there is a good deal of flapping of the nostrils. But there is more general twitching of the facial muscles in Lyc., and the nose gives the impression of being dusky, rather than sooty as in Ant-t. · Another point about the Lyc. patients is that they always tend to have a very noticeable yellow discoloration of the teeth. Very often they complain of a sour taste in the mouth, and the tongue tends to be coated white. In addition to this coat, there are often definitely sensitive spots along the margin of the tongue, and the patient often complains that it feels stiff and swollen. · Lyc. patients are rather variable as regards thirst. Sometimes you will get a Lyc. patient who is definitely thirsty, but again you may get a patient who is not thirsty at all. If they are thirsty they prefer warm drinks to cold. And if they have much to drink it is very apt to produce a sensation of fullness and flatulence; it may actually produce a sense of nausea. · The respiration in the Lyc. case is always very difficult, short, panting, laboured breathing. The patients usually complain of a feeling of tightness in the chest, or even of an actual sensation of constriction. · The cough is always a very difficult, paroxysmal; violent, spasmodic cough. Very often the patient complains of intense rawness in the chest after coughing. · The sputum is always scanty, tough, and very difficult to get up. It is very often a yellowish-grey, blood-stained sputum, and not infrequently the patients tell you that it tastes definitely salty. · As a rule the patients complain of feeling chilly. They are sensitive to cold, but they dislike a stuffy room. Usually there is very little sweating, the skin may be slightly moist but there is no definite sweat. · In most of these cases you will find your maximum involvement on the right side of the chest rather than the left. And you will always get a complaint of a good deal of abdominal flatulence, particularly is this so after taking anything in the way of food; the patient feels absolutely bloated on any attempt to eat. · As a rule these Lyc. patients are very uncomfortable if they are lying on the back, their breathing becomes more laboured, and they are more distressed. They are very much better sitting up. · Another small point is that you will very often see these patients sleeping with their eyes half open. Not infrequently they have a very restless kind of sleep, and they often dream of fatal accidents. · In the Lyc. case there is one very constant period during which there is a general aggravation of the patient's distress, and that is between the hours of 16 to 20h in the evening. During this time you will get an increase of temperature, increased respiratory distress, and very often increased cough. Very often the temperature swings up about 16h, stays up until about 20h, and then begins to drop. · As regards the temperature in Lyc., commonly it is a medium high one, ranging round about 103°F/39, 4°C. The pulse tends to be rather compressible, soft and rapid. · Lyc. cases respond well to 10 M's repeated 2 hourly. Nash nh6 Lyc. is one of the best remedies for the later stages of typhoid or neglected pneumonia, and is especially indicated when there is copious expectoration, the parenchyma of the lung sounds full of mucus, there is often circumscribed redness of the cheeks, especially at 16 to 20h; often red sand in the urine and fan-like motion of the alae nasi. It is often the best remedy to finish the cure where there have been liver complications such as we noticed under Merc., Chel. and Kali-c. Of course, if we have the flatulent condition so characteristic of this remedy it is additional indication for its use. In the use of these remedies (Sulph., Calc. and Lyc.) I never use at this stage anything below the 30th potency, and often use much higher. Sulph. 55m, Fincke, and Lyc. 6m., Jenichen, are favorites with me. Lyc., which is exceedingly valuable in the lithic acid diathesis suffering from pleurisy or in any other disease. Blackwood bwax Crupous [Lobular Ed.] Pneumonia: ...the lips and tongue are dry and red, and show ulceration; he cannot endure the bed clothing, sweating brings no relief, and when coughing it sounds as though the whole parenchyma of the lungs were softening. The expectoration is muco-purulent in character, and is raised in mouthfuls... Lilienthal ll1 Maltreated or neglected pneumonia, passing into a typhoid state, particularly if suppuration of the lungs impends, with adynamia and night-sweats; extensive hepatization, with diaphragmatic breathing... mucus of a light rusty colour, but not thick, more stringy and easily separated (Bry., round, jellylike lump, almost a yellow or soft brick shade); ... coldness of one foot (right one) while the other is warm or hot. Hering hr1 Maltreated pneumonia: cough, shortness of breath, much thick, greenish-yellow, salty, very offensive sputum and rattling of mucus. Nichols nicx In secondary pneumonia, for instance, following measles, scarlatina, small-pox, or typhoid. Mezger mgx With or after influenza for weeks or even months kept in bed with irregular temperature, complete loss of appetite, yellowish appearance, brownish tongue, sweeling of liver, which is painful on pressure. Urine thick and brown-red, with a lot of sediment containing a lot of urobilin and urobilinogen. Badly smelling night-sweats following nightly dry heat-attacks. Attacks of weakness and loss of appetite after influenza. Double-sided pneumonia not reacting to other remedies with painful swelling of the liver. Galic glt2 Past history of stopped nose at night with variously treated long lasting coryza (DD - Lach., Nux-v., Puls.) and a tendency to persistent cough without relieve; in intervalls uncharacteristic abdominal pain; fear after vexation - felt in the stomach; irritability on waking. In children there is often a history of territorial conflict within the family (DD - Phos. has a past history of grief with compassion) Desire for company and agg. by being alone (DD - Ars., Puls.) and very dictatorial with care-takers. Behind the surface of fretfulness there is often a deep seated fear observable, which often can only be recognized by micro-expressions and is often overseen or not understood by the parents. Half-opened eyes during sleep in children. In confrontation the examiner can find a confused, anxious, suffering expression with raised eyebrows and wrinkled forehead. Nausea after drinking - accompanied by distension of abdomen and flatluency after eating just a little. Chestpain raw, sore after coughing (DD - Carb-v., Phos.) Best experience in children with C 10 000K potency. If Lyc. covers the case on a deeper level, children often also suffer from blood-sugar-fluctuation. Characteristic symptoms: Hunger at night and irritability mornings on waking, unsatiable appetite and quick satiety. Modi modx Lyc. patients during pneumonia talk in weak voice, can only utter a few words at a time. Useful in post pneumonia complications like weakness, incipient tuberculosis, patient cannot take a long breath as a sequel of pneumonia. Pneumonia followed by hectic fever with clammy night sweats. Rehman rma1 Complementary Ip. - Capillary bronchitis worse on right side, sputa yellow and thick. Nux-v. - Pneumonia in children. Followed by: Morg. - Broncho- or Lobar pneumonia in the critical case, where Lyc. as the well chosen remedy does not bring the wished result. Compare with: Chel. fr3, Phos. k2, Sulph. k2 Complementary: Ip. rma1, Nux-v. rma1 Followed by: Morg. rma1 Lyc: Is one of the important remedy for lobar pneumonia and broncho pneumonia. Patient has oppression in chest with short breath with difficulty in lying down, cannot lie on sides especially left side. Lungs feel full of mucus. In pneumonia where there is severe cough day and night with profuse expectoration. During pneumonia raising of a mouthful of mucus at a time of a light rust-color, which is stringy but easily separated. Lyco patients during pneumonia talk in weak voice, can only utter a few words at a time. Useful in post pneumonia complications like weakness, incipient tuberculosis, patient cannot take a long breath as a sequel of pneumonia. Pneumonia followed by hectic fever with clammy night sweats lyco is indicated. Lyco is indicated in Latent pneumonia or Neglected pneumonia with rattling in chest. I have found lyco useful in catarrh of lungs in infants.