Lithium benzoicum


Lithium benzoicum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Lithium benzoicum is used…


      Benzoate of Lithium. LiC7H5O2.

Clinical

Uric acid, deposit of.

Characteristics

Hale quotes ***T.O. Summers (*Nashville f. of Medorrhinum and Surg.) as saying that *Li. ben. had great effect in diminishing uric acid deposits and increasing the free hippuric acid of the urine. “It acts upon the urine before it leaves the blood.” Bearing in mind the powerful action which each of its elements possesses over the urinary functions, homoeopaths can understand this action, and future experience will probably extend it.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica