Laurocerasus Cherry-laurel Indications / Symtoms : Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients, is often magically influenced by this drug. Lack of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections. Drink rolls audibly through śsophagus and intestines. General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth. Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech. Spasm of facial muscles and śsophagus. Asphyxia neonatorum. Description : Fever.--Coldness; chills and heat alternate. Thirst, with dry mouth in afternoon. Respiratory.--Cyanosis and dyspnśa; worse, sitting up. Patient puts hands on heart. Cough, with valvular disease. Exercise causes pain around heart. Tickling, dry cough. Dyspnśa. Constriction of chest. Cough, with copious, jelly-like, or bloody expectoration. Small and feeble pulse. Threatening paralysis of lungs. Gasping for breath; clutches at heart. Heart.--Mitral regurgitation. Clutching at heart and palpitation. Cyanosis neonatorum. Sleep.--Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous breathing. Extremities.--Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue. Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels. Cold, clammy feet and legs. Clubbing of fingers. Veins of hands distended. Relationship.--Compare: Hydrocy ac; Camphor; Secale; Ammon carb; Ambra. Dosage : Tincture to third potency. Cherry-laurel water, two to five drop doses Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

Latrodectus mac SPIDER Indications / Symtoms : The bite produces tetanic effects that last several days. A picture of Angina pectoris is presented by the action of the drug. The præcordial region seems to be the center of attack. Constriction of chest muscles, with radiation to shoulders and back. Lowered coagulability. Description : Head.--Anxiety. Screams with pain. Pain in neck to back of head. Occipital pain. Respiratory.--Extreme apnœa. Gasping respiration. Fears losing breath. Chest.--Violent, præcordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and forearm to fingers, with numbness of the extremity. Pulse feeble and rapid. Sinking sensation at the Cramping pain from chest to abdomen. Extremities.--Pain in left arm, feels paralyzed. Weakness of legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles. Paræsthesia of lower limbs. Skin.--Coldness of whole surface. Skin cold as marble. Relationship.--Compare: Latrodectus Hasselti-New South Wales Black Spider--(Long lasting effects seem to indicate it as a "chronic" blood poisoning. Arrests intense pain in pyæmia. Great œdema in neighborhood of wound; paralysis of limbs, with great wasting of muscles. Violent, darting, burning pains preceding paralysis; vertigo, tendency to fall forward; septicæmic conditions; constant delusion of flying. Loss of memory. Roaring noises). Araena; Mygale; Theridion; Latrodectus Kalipo -New Zealand spider--(lymphangitis and nervous twitchings, scarlet burning eruption). Triatema-Kissing bug --(Swelling with violent itching of fingers and toes. Smothering sensation and difficult breathing succeeded by fainting and rapid pulse). Dosage : Sixth potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Lathyrus LATHYRUS SATIVUS (Chick-pea) Indications / Symtoms : Affects the lateral and anterior columns of the cord. Does not produce pain. Reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza and wasting, exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant yawning. Description : Mind.--Depressed; hypochondriacal. Vertigo when standing with eyes closed. Mouth.--Burning pain in tip of tongue; with tingling and numbness of tongue and lips, as if scalded. Extremities.--Tips of fingers numb. Tremulous, tottering gait. Excessive rigidity of legs; spastic gait. Knees knock against each other when walking. Cramps in legs worse cold, and cold feet. Cannot extend or cross legs when sitting. Myelitis, with marked spastic symptoms. Rheumatic paralysis. Gluteal muscles and lower limbs emaciated. Legs blue; swollen, if hanging down. Stiffness and lameness of ankles and knees, toe do not leave the floor, heels do not touch floor, Muscles of calves very tense. Patient sits bent forward, straightens with difficulty. Urine.--Increased bladder reflex. Frequent, must hurry, else voided involuntarily. Relationship.--Compare: Oxytrop; Secale; Petiveria, a South American plant (Paralysis; paraplegia with numbness. Sensation of internal coldness). Agrostema githago-Corn-cockle --(Burning sensations, in stomach, through śsophagus into throat, in lower abdomen and anus; nausea, bitter vomiting, impaired locomotion; difficulty in remaining erect; vertigo and headache, burning from lower jaw to vertex). Dosage : Third potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Lapis albus Silico-fluoride of Calcium Indications / Symtoms : Affections of glands, goitre, pre-ulcerative stage of carcinoma. Burning, stinging pain in breast, stomach, and uterus. Connective tissue about glands specially affected. Fat anćmic babies with Iodine appetite. Ravenous appetite. Remarkably successful in scrofulous affections, except in malarial cases. Uterine carcinoma. Fibroid tumors with intense burning pains through the part with profuse hćmorrhage. Glands have a certain elasticity and pliability about them rather than the stony hardness o Description : Ears.--Otitis media suppurativa. Where Silica is indicated progress is hastened by Lapis (Bellows). Chest.--Persistent pains in mammary region. Glandular hardening. Skin.--Scrofulous abscesses and sores. Enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical. Lipoma, sarcoma, carcinoma. Pruritus. Relationship.--Compare: Silica; Badiaga; Ars iod; Calc iod; Con; Kal iod; Asterias. Dosage : First to sixth potency. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Lactuca virosa Acrid Lettuce Indications / Symtoms : This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest. Seems to be a true galactogogue. Marked action on extremities. Mind.--Stupefaction of sense. Great restlessness. Description : Head.--Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and headache, with general coldness. Headache, with affections of respiratory organs. Abdomen.--Sensation of weight, of fullness; borborygmi; abundant emission of wind. Colic in early morning, abdomen tense, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind. Chest.--Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from dropsy of the chest. Constant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces. Squeezing sensation in lower chest. Female.--Promotes catamenia. Increase of milk in breasts (Asafoet). Sleep.--Restless; impossible to get to sleep. Deep, comatose sleep. Extremities.--Lame hip down left side; worse walking. Coldness and numbness of feet and legs. Tremor of hands and arms. Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg involving calves. Relationship.--Antidotes: Acet ac; Coff. Compare: Nabalus-Prenanthes Serpentaria-Rattlesnake root-White lettuce, similar to Lactuca, (chronic diarrhśa, worse after eating, nights and towards morning. Pain in abdomen and rectum; emaciation. Constipation and somnolence; susceptible to aura of others. Dyspepsia, with acid burning eructation. Craving for acid food. Leucorrhśa with throbbing in uterus); Lach; Kali carb; Spiranthes (galactagogue). Dosage : Tincture Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

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Lactic acid Homoeopathic Potency (dilution) Indications / Symtoms : Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field for this remedy. Troubles in the breasts. Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords Description : Stomach.--Tongue dry, parched. Thirst; voracious hunger. Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, especially in pale anćmic women. Hot, acrid eructation. Nausea; better, eating. Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causing profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, worse smoking. Throat.--Fullness or lump like a puff ball. Keeps swallowing. Constricted low down. Chest.--Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand. Extremities.--Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness. Trembling of whole body while walking. Limbs feel chilly. Urine.--Large quantities passed, frequently. Saccharine. Relationship.--Compare: Sarcolactic acid q v. Lithia; Phos ac. Dosage : Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier). Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6,12,30,200,1M, 10M, 50M, CM, LM1 to LM 10 Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William Boericke, M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMSOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D

Lachesis Bushmaster or Surucucu Indications / Symtoms : Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid; hence a hćmorrhagic tendency is marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much trembling and confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed discharges. Diph Description : ind.--Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time. Jealous (Hyos). Mental labor best performed at night. Euthanasia. Suspicious; nightly delusion of fire. Religious insanity (Verat; Stram). Derangement of the time sense. Head.--Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose. Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With headache, flickerings, dim vision, very pale face. Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh). Eyes.--Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic muscles too weak to maintain focus. Sensation as if eyes were drawn together by cords which were tied in a knot at root of nose. Ears.--Tearing pain from zygoma into ear; also with sore throat. Ear-wax hard, dry. Nose.--Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing (Silica; Sabad). Face.--Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into head (Phos). Tearing pain in jaw-bones (Amphisbćna; Phos). Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic. Mouth.--Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to ears. Pain in facial bones. Throat.--Sore, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. In diphtheria, etc, the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neck-band must be very loose. Stomach.--Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch. Hungry, cannot wait for food. Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric region. Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids. Abdomen.--Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist. Especially suitable to drunkards. Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful (Bell). Stool.--Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time be sneezes or coughs. Hćmorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles. Hćmorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool. Female.--Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, hćmorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow (Eupion). Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mammć inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation. Male.--Intense excitement of sexual organs. Respiratory.--Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch. Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window. Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from neck to larynx. Feels he must take a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in prćcordial region. Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep (Grind). Larynx painful to touch. Sensation as of a plug (Anac) which moves up and down, with a short cough. Heart.--Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats. Back.--Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region. Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes, etc. Extremities.--Sciatica, right side, better lying down. Pain in tibia (may follow sore throat). Shortening of tendons. Sleep.--Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting when falling asleep. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep (Bell; Op). Wide-awake in evening. Fever.--Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Intermittent fever every spring. Skin.--Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers. Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, (Kali bich). Lachesis sleeps into aggravation; ailments that come on during sleep (Calc); left side, in the spring, warm bath, pressure or constriction, hot drinks. Closing eyes. Better, appearance of discharges, warm applications. Relationship.--Antidotes: Ars; Merc; Heat; Alcohol; Salt. Complementary: Crotalus cascavella often completes curative work of Lachesis (Mure; Lycop; Hep; Salamandra). Incompatible: Acet ac; Carb ac. Compare: Cotyledon (climacteric troubles); Nat m; Nit ac; Crotal; Amphisbśna -snake lizard--(right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains. Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium. Dosage : Eighth to 200th potency. Doses ought not be repeated too frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

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Lac vaccinum Homoeopathic Potency (dilution) Indications / Symtoms : A remedy for diseases with faulty nutrition; sick headaches, with profuse flow of urine during pain. Car sickness. Description : Head.--Despondent. Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in morning on rising. Intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness, and obstinate constipation; worse, noise, light, motion, during menses, with great prostration, and better by pressure and bandaging head tightly. Stool.--Constipation. Stools hard, large, with great straining; painful, lacerating anus. Relationship.--Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhśa in infants. Whole body smells sour. Colic). Nat mur. Dosage : Dose.--Sixth, to thirtieth potency and higher. Group : Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6,12,30,200,1M,10M,50M,CM,LM1 to LM10 Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC WiMATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE,M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.

Homoeopathic Potencies Strength : 3,6, 12, 30, 200, 1000, 10M, 50M, CM, LM Reference : HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D.