Triturations (as prescribed by the Pharmacopoeias) are made of the pollen of Lycopodium clavatum, L.
General Action
A “tissue” remedy far-reaching in its effects. One of its most prominent effects is the peculiar indigestion (see symptoms of Stomach, Abdomen, Liver, Stool, Kidneys, etc.). The productions of the “uric-acid diathesis” is very clear. Its catarrhal symptoms in nose, throat, and especially in the lungs, are prominent. Consult also the eruptions, tendency to boils, carbuncles, etc. In general it is a drug adapted to atonic and sluggish types of disease, though, like sulphur, it is not infrequently required, as an “intercurrent,” during the course of an acute malady.
Allies. Sulph., Silicea, Sepia, Zincum met.; Pulsatilla, Bryonia, Nux-v., Carbo- v., Chelidonium, Cyclamen; Phosphorus, Mag-c., Natrum mur., Iodium, Iris, Kali-bi.
Generalities
Emaciation, Glands thickened and hardened on getting feet cold. Fell suddenly to the ground without vertigo. Shivering when walking, without chilliness. Trembling in afternoon; in attacks in evening in bed. Tremulous sensation through body after eating. Involuntary extension and contraction of muscles in various parts, in paroxysms every seven days, with complete consciousness. Involuntary turning and twisting of whole body, so that he gasped and the face became red and hot. Twitching, now here, now there; T. below stomach pit and on r. thigh. Epileptic attack, with screams and frothing at the mouth, then he thought that he should die and complained of anxiety at heart; E. attack, l. arm bent backward and fingers clenched, then unconsciousness, beating about with arms and legs, cries and frothing from the mouth, then motionless as if dead, then foolish sounds; E. attack, jerking of muscles of r. leg, extending to pit of stomach, then cries, unconsciousness, beating about with arms and legs, with frothing from mouth, then motionless, after cold water was put into his mouth he rejected it and returned to consciousness.
Sticking over whole body; here and there on body; in various parts; above pit of stomach, in sternum and deltoids; in l. ankle, toes, elbows and nape, in evening in bed; on head and upper arms, now in one place, now in another, with coldness of fingers; now in praecordial region, now in l. elbow, now in abdomen; in chest and umbilical region, taking away the breath; crawling, in lower part of back and in other parts; S. and tearing alternately in r. and l. shoulder, elbows, wrists, fingers, l. knee, r. great toe, r. and l. side of chest, in evening; tearing S. in evening, in second joint of r. thumb, suddenly changing to l. shoulder, then to l. elbow, then to r. thumb, l. knee, l. chest in region of sixth rib, the pain lasted in l. shoulder and elbow and r. hand till 9 P.M.; rheumatic tearing S. at times in r. ear and temple, with drawing in r. shoulder (possibly from sudden change of weather).
Tearing here and there; in head, then in other parts. Pinching here and there. Pains felt in sleep and dreams of them; P. appeared and disappeared suddenly; on touch in all soft parts; raging, in parts formerly injured; here and there in trunk as if single muscles were spasmodically contracted and then extended; rheumatic, in head (jaws, extending towards ears) and in limbs, (<) l. hand, r. forearm, and l. leg. Bruised pain over whole body in morning; in evening; B. feeling in feet and small of back. Feeling as if there were no marrow in the bones. Feeling as if flesh were loose from bones. Drawing now in scapulae, now in r. leg, now in chest; every other afternoon in limbs and across face; in gum and whole l. side of body, waking her at night. Throbbing through whole body after eating.
Inclination to take cold. Sick feeling in morning after a sleepless night; S. feeling, with disinclination to think, forgetfulness and absence of mind. Discomfort; in forenoon; in evening; in every position at night, which vexed him even to weeping; after eating. Everything that she sits or lies upon seems too hard. Desire to go into open air (Pulsatilla). Aversion to open air. Excitement of whole body. Necessity to walk about and weep when the pains are most severe. Desire to move about. Walking and persistent sitting at writing were irksome and she easily broke into a profuse sweat. Restlessness in morning on waking, with anxiety; R. in evening; R. when sitting, with oppression of chest and necessity to take a deep breath; in blood in evening, amounting to a trembling sensation; internal; internal, as if she would beat about her with her hands and feet, with faintness and headache. Lying at night was intolerable. Aversion to rising in morning. Inclination to rest without weariness. Feeling in morning as after a night of rioting.
Weakness; all day after coition; in morning; in morning on rising, with heaviness; in morning on waking, with inclination to draw up feet; in morning, with heaviness of head, reeling and pain in neck; in morning, with dizziness, shivering, nausea and colic, in forenoon diarrhoea twice, in afternoon, chilliness, shivering, (<) over back, abdomen and thighs, with heat in head and colic over whole abdomen, hernia painful and tense when protruded and when touched, frequent yawning, and when lying pain as if beaten in nape, shoulders and limbs, scarcely able to rise, after going to bed some sleep, after rising again shivering, with heat in head, emission of flatus, and after a glass of wine diarrhoea; W. in forenoon when walking; in forenoon after a vexation, with palpitation and trembling; in afternoon and evening; in afternoon after a glass of wine; in afternoon, with trembling of hands; in evening before sleep; in evening, with sleepiness; in evening, with excitement and late falling asleep; (in evening from business); at 5 P.M. when walking; at 9.30 P.M., with incessant yawning; after every exertion; on waking; after stool; after dinner, with sleepiness; after eating, with rapid pulse; during menses; after an emission, with trembling; when walking; when walking, with reeling unless he had a firm hold; on ascending steps, when bones of lower limbs ache; (from studying, with heaviness of head); (<) rest; (<) thighs, starting from small of back, on dismounting and walking, with bruised sensation; with nervous irritability; with heaviness and trembling of limbs, (<) hands; with hanging of lower jaw, slow respiration through mouth, and filmy half-open eyes; (in a child), could not hold his head up, could stand upon his feet only with crying, fear and trembling, and wished to be carried, muscles flabby, ill humor, the slighest worry caused weeping and sobbing, restless night, rapid breathing, foolish talk in his sleep and frequent starting up in sleep, next day sank down if he attempted to sit up, cried if any one touch his thighs and was emaciated; so that she could scarcely speak; in frequent attacks, so that she must let the hands fall; sudden, in afternoon; sudden, when sitting; mental and physical, also in evening.
Little fatigue in evening in bed and early waking in morning. Desire to go to bed in the forenoon. Faintness when standing in church during menses, with internal heat, (<) head, remains stupid all the evening, and confusion of head lasts next day; F. at a certain hour daily, (<) evening; sudden; in attacks when lying, without desire to relieve the condition by moving. Feeling as if circulation stopped. R. side of body is asleep in morning after heavy, dreamy sleep. Stiffness of muscles in upper part of body and trunk; S. of limbs and small of back, with cracking in joints on bending them. Aggravation at 4 P.M., better at 8 P.M., but weak.
Clinical It is frequently useful in dropsies of the pericardium, pleura and abdomen. In general it is a remedy for conditions of malnutrition, and is more frequently useful for persons who are emaciated than for those who are well nourished. It is very valuable for children who look wrinkled and prematurely old. General relief in open air.
Mind
Delirious at night; D., raging, envious, reproachful, presumptuous and imperious. Irrational talking the day before and the first day of menstruation, with weeping. Excitement in evening, busy mood without perseverance, with difficulty in fixing the thoughts and in accomplishing anything, and when reading fell asleep; E., with mirth; E. after a glass of wine, almost mischievous. Involuntary whistling and humming. Mirth, with vertigo. Liveliness; in afternoon, with busy fancies. Hilarity. Joyous. Necessity to laugh if any one looks at her to say anything serious. Inclined to laugh and cry at the same time. Smiles without being pleased, humorous.
Anger; easily aroused to A. and scorn (Nux v.). Ill humor (Nux- v.); all day, and weeping at slightest causes; in morning; in morning, with disinclination to everything; in evening; in evening, with ravenous hunger; just before menstruation, with sadness; with apprehension; with violence; with taciturnity; with obstinacy; with pallor of face and sleepiness during the day; (in a child), it cried and would not go to sleep in the evening; causing apprehension in pit of stomach. Passionate mood without fretfulness. Insolent, obstinate, rebellious, passionate. Quarrelsome, makes unfounded reproaches, and strikes those whom she thus insults; quarrels mentally with absent persons; quarrelsome rage, partly at himself, partly at others. Impatience; on waking. Disobedient. Anthropophobia. Flees from her own children. Desire to be alone. Dread of being alone. Ennui. Discontented. Suspicious (Pulsatilla). Remembered many unpleasant events, which vexed her, even at night on waking.
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.