Homeopathy Remedy Leptandra


Leptandra homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Leptandra…


      A tincture is made from the fresh root of Leptandra (Veronica) Virginica, Nutt.

General Action

      An active cathartic, with feeble action on the liver.

Generalities and Mind

      Jaundice, with clay-colored diarrhoea, headache and the other symptoms usual in such cases. Languor; in morning. Gloomy; and irritable.

Head and Eyes

      Headache; (<) regions of causality; with frequent pains in bowels; with distress in umbilicus. Dizzy when walking. Frontal pain; on frequent waking at night; (<) walking; deep in cerebrum; deep in region of causality; (<) temples; with neuralgic pain in r. temple; with sensation as if hair were pulled; with aching in umbilicus. Eyes smarting; and sore; and aching; with pain in balls. Lids agglutinated in morning. Profuse secretion of tears.

Mouth

      Tongue coated yellow in morning; coated yellow along centre. Taste flat in morning; unpleasant in morning.

Stomach

      Great appetite; on waking at 5 A.M., (>) breakfast, with pain in epigastric region. Sour eructations of food at 10 A.M. Nausea on rising in the night, with deathly faintness. Aching in cardiac portion; in S. and umbilical region; in epigastric region; constant, in epigastric and umbilical regions, with intermittent cutting; burning A. in region of S. and liver. Aching burning in morning, on rising, (<) 10 A.M., so that I cannot sit or stand still, (>) 9 P.M. Distress in S. and small intestines, with urging to stool and mushy fetid stool; constant D. in lower part of epigastrium and in umbilicus, with intermittent cutting; D., with burning, and in bowels; burning D. in epigastric and hypochondriac regions.

Abdomen

      Rumbling, with cutting and desire for stool. Aching in morning, with heat and dryness of skin; preventing sleep after midnight. DIstress in small intestines, with desire for stool, stool soft, fetid, black. Cutting near gall-bladder. Aching in lower part of r. hypochondrium; near gall-bladder, with aching in umbilical region and rumbling in abdomen; in liver extending to spine, (<) region of gall-bladder.

Umbilicus. Distress; with burning distress in back part of liver and in spine. Aching; in region; in region all the afternoon; frequently at night, with rumbling all day; in region, with intermittent sharp pains; in region of U. and hypogastrium, also constantly with intermittent sharp pains, causing weakness and faintness; in region, then soft yellow stool; in region of U. and hypogastrium, (<) drinking cold water, with aching burning in region of gall-bladder, chilliness along spine, urging to stool, (>) profuse black stool, of the consistence of cream, containing undigested potatoes, then hot aching in region of liver extending to spine, with chilliness along spine, then pain in whole abdomen, (<) umbilicus and hypogastrium, with rumbling and urging to stool, (>) profuse, black, fetid stool that ran out in a stream and could not be retained a moment.

Frequent pains in umbilical and hypogastric regions at night, being up all night with a patient, stool running out in a stream at 3 A.M., then cutting in intestines, then distress in stomach and small intestines, then at 8 A.M. urging to stool, which could not be retained a moment, fetid, running out in a stream, containing much mucus, then pain in hypogastrium, distress in stomach and small intestines, with frequent pains in umbilicus causing faintness and weakness, with rumbling, at 10 A.M. stool that could not be retained, of water, much mucus and a little yellow matter, then pain in umbilicus, burning aching in whole abdomen, with rumbling and urging to stool, stool of water and mucus, then pain in hypogastric and umbilical regions, another profuse thin stool, with much mucus, then sleep from 3 to 5 P.M., on waking distress in whole abdomen and urging, stool profuse, watery, mixed with mucus, could not be retained, another stool of water and mucus, with part natural faeces, fetid, and at 6 P.M. another stool with much mucus, then cutting and distress in umbilical region, weakness and faintness, another stool at 9 P.M., profuse, could not be retained, then pain in bowels, the two next days no stool.

Hypogastric Region. Rumbling in morning, with distress and with soft, profuse, black, fetid stool, then pain in abdomen. Aching in r. inguinal region, passing to r. testicle.

Stool

      Profuse black, fetid running out in a stream (compare Arsen.). Clay-colored diarrhoea. Mushy; and fetid; then weak feeling in bowels and rectum; second part, the first part natural. At first hard, black and lumpy, then mushy. Omitted.

Clinical It is occasionally indicated by black, tar-like, pasty stools, generally profuse and fetid. It has been used for pain in region of gall-bladder extending to spine, with chilliness and diarrhoea. Dysenteric diarrhoea has been reported cured.

Urine

      Acid before the proving, afterwards scanty, not affecting blue litmus paper, next day red, afterwards neutral.

Back and Extremities

      Aching in lumbar region; intermittent, sharp, with constant distress. Wrists lame in morning and aching, the pain lasting till noon, (<) l.

Sleep

      Sleeplessness.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.