Lycopus Virginicus

Bugle-weed

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Lower the blood pressure, reduces the rate of the heart and increases the length of systole to a great degree. Passive hæmorrhages ( Adrenaline 6x).

A heart remedy, and of use in exophthalmic goitre and hæmorrhoidal bleeding. Indicated in diseases with tumultuous action of the heart and more or less pain. Hæmoptysis due to valvular heart disease . Beneficial in toxic goitre used in the pre-operative stage dose, 5 drops of tincture (Beebe).

Head

Frontal headache; worse, frontal eminences; often succeeded by labored heart. Nosebleed.

Eyes

Protrusion, pressing, outward, with tumultuous action of heart. Supraorbital pain, with aching in testicles.

Mouth

Toothache in lower molars.

Heart

Rapid heart action of smokers. Præcordial pain; constriction, tenderness, pulse, weak, irregular, intermittent, tremulous, rapid. Cyanosis. Heart's action tumultuous and forcible. Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression around heart. Rheumatoid, flying pains, associated with heart disease. Cardiac asthma ( Sumbul ).

Respiratory

Wheezing. Cough, with hæmoptysis , bleeding small but frequent.

Urine

Profuse flow of limpid, watery urine, especially when the heart is most irritable; also scanty urine. Bladder feels distended when empty. Diabetes. Pain in testicles .

Rectum

Bleeding from rectum. Hæmorrhoids.

Sleep

Wakefulness and morbid vigilance with inordinately active, but weak circulation.

Relationship

Compare: Ephedra -Teamsters Tea--(in exophthalmic goitre; eyes feel pushed out with tumultuous action of heart); Fucus; Spartein; Cratægus. Adrenaline 6x.

Dose

First to thirtieth potency.

Lycopus Virginicus across the other classic books

Lycopus Virginicus appears in 6 of the 13 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 — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Lycopus Virginicus, Linn. Natural order , Labiatæ. Common name , Bugle Weed. Preparation , Tincture of whole plant. Authorities.”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DISCHARGES, vicarious HEART, CIRCULATION AND PULSE LYING, right, Agg. PROTRUSION, also sense of; of internal parts, as eyes, hernia, etc. (Comp. Falling.) SLEEP, waking from, after, Agg.”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“HEART. Circulation. Left side. Excitement. Exertion. Heat. After sleep. Lying on (R) side. Abuse of heart remedies. Suppressions. Thinking of it. Irritable weakness. Heart, with many side-symptoms. Symptoms vary with heart action or associated with a RAPID TUMULTUOUS HEART BEAT. Cardio - hæmorrhagic cases. HÆMORRHAGE…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Virginicus. Bugle-weed. Virginia horehound. (Shady and wet places in U.S.) N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower. Aneurism / Bites of reptiles / Bright's disease / Cough / Diabetes / Exophthalmos / Hæmoptysis / Headache / Heart, diseases of / Pericarditis / Phthisis / Snake-bites / Tarentula bites /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Bugle Weed. Labiatæ. This plant, sometimes called Virginia Hoarhound, grows in shady and wet places throughout the United States. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant in flower. Provings by Chandler (Hale's New Rem.), tincture and first dilution, Morison (Mon. Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 737), tincture and 200th…”

Lycopus Virginicus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lycopus Virginicus in 268 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (48), CHEST (34), GENERALITIES (29), HEAD (24), BACK (12).

SKIN - WAXY
EXTREMITIES - VARICES , - Lower Limbs
GENERALITIES - VARICOSE veins
CHEST - PALPITATION heart - exertion
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - exertion, - after
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - lying, - on - right,agg.
GENERALITIES - VARICOSE veins - blue
HEAD - PAIN, - alternating with - pain in - teeth
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - heart,during pain in - complaints and urinary troubles
GENERALITIES - VARICOSE veins - pregnancy,during
EXTREMITIES - VARICES , - Leg - pregnancy,during
CHEST - PALPITATION heart - thinking of it
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - jaundice,during
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - pulsating
GENERALITIES - VARICOSE veins - inflamed
BLADDER - FULLNESS,sensation of - urination,after
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - eminence,frontal - left
CHEST - CLOTHING agg.
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE - exophthalmic

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