Lycopodium clavatum is a key remedy for lack of confidence and types of acute and chronic digestive disorders. Physical symptoms such as eczema and cracked heels tend to be on the right side of the body, be worst on the right side, or start on the right and before extending to the left. Symptoms worsened by warm rooms and between 4 – 8 pm. Those needing Lycopodium often have dry skin or mucous membranes and crave sweets.
Lycopodium is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedar,[rx] in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family of fern-allies.[rx] They are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial or epiphytic plants, with widely branched, erect, prostrate or creeping stems, with small, simple, needle-like or scale-like leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly. The leaves contain a single, unbranched vascular strand and are microphylls by definition. The kidney-shaped or reniform spore-cases (sporangia) contain spores of one kind only[rx] (isosporous, homosporous) and are borne on the upper surface of the leaf blade of specialized leaves (sporophylls) arranged in a cone-like strobilus at the end of upright stems. The club-shaped appearance of these fertile stems gives the clubmosses their common name.
Materia Medica of Lycopodium Clavatum
- Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
- Head – Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
- Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from the irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
- Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
- Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
- Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
- Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
- Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
- Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
- Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
- Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
- Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
- Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
- Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash.
Indications of Lycopodium Clavatum
Mental-emotional Symptoms
- Egotistical Love of power which is used to dominate.
- Lack of self-confidence – feels weak and inadequate so avoids responsibility. Anxious about speaking in public but often does it well.
- Covers up lack of confidence with haughty, boasting, domineering or bullying behavior. Pleasant, ingratiating behavior with authority figures.
- Lack of discipline and lack of commitment.
- Irritability on waking in the morning.
- Intellectual pursuits are preferred over energetic sporting activities.
Respiratory Problems
- Nose blocks on lying down at night.
Gastrointestinal Problems
- Bloated and full of gas. Flatulent. Rumbling in the abdomen.
- Symptoms aggravated by flatulent food such as beans, onions, cabbage.
- Heartburn with sour belching. Constipation when traveling.
- A headache or other symptoms from missed meals.
- Preference for warm drinks. Craving for sweets.
- Changeable appetite – appetite either lost or increased by eating.
- Night-time hunger – may wake with hunger.
Skin Problems
- Hair graying in patches or streaks, especially on the right side.
- Deep furrows or creases in the forehead.
- Dryness of skin and mucous membranes.
- Cracked heels which start or are worse on the right.
Male Problems
- Promiscuity and lack of commitment. Premature ejaculation.
- Impotence with long-term partner but no problem with new partners.
Sleep Problems
- Waking unrefreshed.
- Waking with hunger.
others
- Abortion
- An aneurysm
- Angina pectoris
- Asthma
- Cancer
- Constipation
- Consumption
- A cough
- Cramps
- Cystitis
- Dysentery
- Dysmenorrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Eye inflammation of polypus of canthus
- Flatulence
- Gall-stone colic.
- Goiter
- Gout
- Hematuria
- Hemorrhoids
- Heartburn
- A hernia
- Hydropericardium
- Hypochondriasis
- Hysteria
- Intertrigo
- Menstruation, disorders
- Metrorrhagia
- Paralysis
- Paralysis agitans
- Peritonitis
- Pneumonia
- Prostatitis
- Rheumatism
- Sciatica
- Throat sore
- Typhoid fever
- Varicosis
- Warts
- Whooping-cough
The Dosage of Lycopodium Clavatum
- Adults dose take 2 tablets and Childrendoese take 1. Unless otherwise directed: take 1 dose every 2 hours for the first 6 doses. Thereafter, take 1 dose when required. Stop with improvement. If symptoms worsen or persist for more than a week please consult your doctor.
- Adult and children 2 years of age and older: Dissolve 5 pellets under the tongue 3 times a day until relieved or as directed by a doctor.
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