Lamium album

White Nettle

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory · 1901 (9th ed. 1927)

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(LAMIUM)

Has a special affinity for female and urinary organs.

Headache, with backward and forward motion of head . Leucorrhœa and menses too early and scanty. Hæmorrhoids; hard stool, with blood. Sensation in urethra as though a drop of water were flowing through it. Tearing in the extremities. Hæmoptysis. Blisters on heel from slight rubbing. Ulcers on heel ( Cepa ).

Dose

Third potency.

Lamium album across the other classic books

Lamium album appears in 4 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Lamium album, Linn. Natural order , Labiatæ. Common names , Dead-nettle; (Germ.), Taub-Nessel; (Fr.), L'Ortie Blanche. Preparation , Tincture of (leaves and) flowers. Authorities. Archiv f. Hom., 12, 2, 179; 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Kummer; 4 , Langhammer; 5 , Stapf. Weeping mood; she wept as if she had been…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“album. L. lævigatum. L. maculatum. Dead Nettle. White Nettle. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant whilst in flower and seed. Hæmorrhoids / Headache / Hernia / Leucorrhœa / Menstruation, too early Lamium was proved by Hahnemann and others, including Stapf. It produced headaches of several kinds, one a…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Whining mood, inclination to weep, feels as if abandoned. Menses too early and too scanty. Leucorrhœa profuse, painless, white mucus. Bruised pain in the small of the back. Blister on the heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer with smarting and biting. Smarting and stinging in the ulcer…”

Lamium album in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lamium album in 23 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (8), MIND (6), FEMALE GENITALIA (3), BACK (2), EXTREMITIES (2).

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Thigh - posterior part
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - acrid,excoriating
HEAD - MOTIONS of head (Shaking,nodding,waving,etc.) - backward and forward
BACK - PAIN - bending - backward - agg.
HEAD - PAIN, - rising. - from sitting
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Sides - both sides
MIND - ANXIETY - chill, - during
MIND - CONFUSION of mind - intoxicated,as if - as after being
HEAD - PAIN, - sitting - amel.
MIND - FORSAKEN feeling
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - offensive
EXPECTORATION - HAWKED up,mucus
HEAD - PAIN, - walking in open air, - while
MIND - THOUGHTS - persistent
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - scanty
VISION - LOSS OF VISION (blindness)
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching
HEAD - PULSATING,beating,throbbing
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult

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