Lapis Albus


Symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Lapis Albus from the Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, a ten volumes comprehensive record of confirmed symptoms, published in 1879….


     Silico Fluoride of Calcium.

     The name Lapis Albus, or white stone, was given by Grauvogl to a species of gneiss which he found in the mineral springs of Gastein, which flow over formations of gneiss into the valley of the Achen, where goitre and cretinism abound.

CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.

Goitre (ten cases), Bellows, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, vol. 411 (Grauvogl’s reports did not appear until 1874) ; Carcinoma, Grauvogl, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 182.

LOWER FACE.

Opening in cheek as large as a silver dollar. θ Carcinoma.
  

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.


Burning, shooting, stinging pains in cardiac region and pylorus.
  

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.


Burning, shooting, stinging pains in breasts and uterus.
Uterine carcinoma (5 cases).
Fluor albus.
  

NECK AND BACK.


Goitre, cretinism and scrofulous diseases.

SENSATIONS.


Burning, shooting, stinging pains : in cardia and pylorus ; in breasts and uterus.
  

TISSUES.


Affections of glands and lymphatics.
Scrofulous affections, abscesses and sores ; enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical ; glandular tumors, where no glands are usually found ; goitre, cretinism.
Lipoma, sarcoma, glandular and fibrous tumors ; carcinoma, as long as ulceration has not set in, based on scrofulosis.
Scirrhus.
Tuberculosis scrofulosa.
  

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.


Woman, at. 50 ; carcinoma.
  

RELATIONS.


Compare : Arsen., Arsen iod., Badiaga, Calcarea, Calcarea iod., Conium, Condur., Iodium, Kali carb., Kali iod., Silica, Spongia.

NOTE:
PLAIN TEXT : LOWEST & DESIGNATES AN OCCASIONALLY CONFIRMED SYMPTOMS;
Plain blue: MORE FREQUENTLY CONFIRMED;
BOLD BLUE : SYMPTOMS VERIFIED BY CURES;
BOLD RED : REPEATEDLY VERIFIED;
$BOLD ITALIC RED$ : AN APPROVED CHARACTERISTIC;
θ : STANDS BETWEEN CURED SYMPTOM & PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION;
** : OBSERVED FROM OLD SCHOOL OR NEW SCHOOL;
toxic : Toxicology;
r : Right;
l : Left;
< : Increased or aggravation;
> : Decrease or amelioration;
^^ : Symptoms observed only on the sick

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.