Lyssinum

Lyssin-Saliva of Rabid Dog

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

(HYDROPHOBINUM)

Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.

Head

Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Emotion and bad news aggravate; also, thinking of fluids. Hypersensitiveness of all senses . Chronic headache. Boring pain in forehead.

Mouth

Constant spitting; saliva tough, viscid. Sore throat; constant desire to swallow, which is difficult; gagging when swallowing water. Froths at mouth.

Male

Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions. No emission during coition. Atrophy of testicles. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.

Female

Uterine sensitiveness; conscious of womb ( Helon ). Feels prolapsed. Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful ( Berberis ). Uterine displacements.

Respiratory

Voice altered in tone. Breathing held for a time. Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles.

Stool

Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water. Profuse, watery stools, with pain in bowels; worse, evening. Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water.

Modalities

Worse , sight or sound of running water or pouring water, or even thinking of fluids; dazzling or reflected light; heat of sun; stooping.

Relationship

Compare: Xanthium spinosum -Cockle--(said to be specific for hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic cystitis in women). Canth; Bell; Stram; Lach; Nat mur .

Dose

Thirtieth potency.

Lyssinum across the other classic books

Lyssinum appears in 9 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“The Saliva of a Rabid Dog. (A Nosode.) Ziemsen suggested Lyssin as a substitute for Hydrophobinum, Encyclopaedia, vol. iii, p 472. The sight or sound of running water or pouring water aggravates all complaints . Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Bluish discoloration of wounds (Lach.). Complaints resulting from…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“The virus from the mad dog. Preparation , Trituration with sugar of milk. Authorities. ( 1 to 7 , provings by J. R. Coxe, Jr., M.D.; Phil. J. of Hom., 3, p. 262).”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“GLISTENING HEAT of fire, sun, overheating, etc., Agg. HUMID, warm, wet weather, Agg. STINGING (Comp. Burning, Stinging.)”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Nerves. Cord. Throat. Sexual organs. Running water (Canth. Stram.). Heat of sun. Glistening objects. Drafts. Bending backward. Gentle rubbing. Spasm. Overacute senses. .................... Fear. Anger. Rapid speech. Impatience and violent temper. Roams about. Constant spitting; ropy, frothy saliva. Spasm of gullet…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Lyssin. The nosode of rabies. Trituration of sugar of milk saturated with the saliva of a rabid dog. Triturations might also be made of Pasteur's strongest virus. Bubo / Clairvoyance / Convulsions / Corns, pains in / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Fever / Hair, oiliness of / Headache / Hydrophobia / Hypersensitiveness /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The saliva of a mad dog. A nosode. For historical review, see Hering's Monograph (North American Journal of Homœopathy, 1879). The first saliva was obtained by Hering in August, 1833 (see North American Journal of Homœopathy, 1879), and proved by himself in the same year ; by Schmid, an Allentown student, in 1835 ; by…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Ill-humor; irritable; inclined to use offensive language, to scold his friends, to heat those near him, and to abuse them. Heat and redness of the face. The articulation of the jaw feels stiff imagines he cannot open the mouth. Large quantities of tough saliva in the mouth and throat. Continued spitting. Sensation of…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: the saliva of a rabid dog. May be used as a prophylactic in hydrophobia (Hr.). Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire (Canth., Phos., Plat.; from abstinence- Con.) (A.). There is a desire to urinate on seeing running water (Canth., Sulph.) (Bl.). There is a pressing, boring pain in the forehead…”

Lyssinum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lyssinum in 951 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (129), EXTREMITIES (124), MIND (114), GENERALITIES (44), MOUTH (44).

HEARING - ACUTE - voices and talking - water running
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - excessive - complaints,from
MIND - IRRITABILITY - water,hearing or seeing,on
MIND - SHINING objects agg. - surface of water
MOUTH - SPASMODIC spitting
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - water,hearing running,agg.
RECTUM - PAIN - tenesmus - water,on hearing running
RECTUM - URGING,desire - water,on hearing running
HEAD - PAIN, - noise,from - falling water,of
MIND - ANXIETY - noise,from - of rushing water
MIND - EXCITEMENT,excitable - water poured out,from hearing
MIND - FEAR - noise,from - rushing water
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - shining objects,from
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - water,at sight of
MIND - SENSITIVE, - noise,to - water splashing
STOMACH - DESIRES - strange things - during pregnancy
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - sudden - running water,on seeing
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - swallow,during attempt to
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - water, - hearing,running or putting hands in
EYE - SENSITIVE to bathing - brilliant objects

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