Lithium Carbonicum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Heart.
Small joints.
Lungs.
Urine.

WORSE

Night.
Menses; after; suppressed.

BETTER

Eating.
Urinating.
Motion.

SORE and heavy. Acidity. Outward pressure or as of a dull point. Gout. Rheumatism. .................... Headache, > eating. Eyes dry from using them. Vertical hemiopia (r). Red nose. Lumps of mucus drop into throat. Gnawing in stomach, with pain in left temple (Ars.), > eating. Urine scanty, with much thirst; with red-brown sediment. Heart pains; sore; with eye symptoms; going to head; < bending over, > urinating; from mammæ to arms. Soreness of fingers, > grasping. Dry, harsh skin. Eczema.

Related: Lyc. Nat-p. Sul-ac.

Lithium Carbonicum across the other classic books

Lithium Carbonicum appears in 8 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.
“Lithium Carbonate, LiCO3. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. (Hering's provings, Am. Hom. Rev., 3, p. 485). Memory for names less retentive than usual (second day), 3.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Carbonate of Lithium Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions and asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes. Uric acid diathesis Whole body is sore . Gout and tophi. Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out. Externally sensitive. Headache ceases while eating . Trembling and throbbing…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DIRECTION of sensations, Outward JOINTS, arthritic complaints, etc.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Carbonate of Lithia. Lithic Carbonate. Li 2 CO 3 . Trituration. Albuminuria / Aneurism / Angina Pectoris / Barber's itch / Bubo / Dyspepsia / Eyes, affections of / Gall-stones / Gastralgia / Glands, swelling of / Gout / Headaches / Heart, affections of Hemiopia / Hernia / Menstruation, disorders of / Nose, affections…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Lithia. Li 2 CO 3 . Introduced and proved by Hering, assisted by Neidhard and Geist. See Am. Hom. Rev., 1863, vol. 3, p. 485, 1863. A proving of Gettysburg water, containing lithia, was made by Swan. See H. Mo., 1871, p. 389. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Weakness of eyes , A. R., Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 110 ; Hemiopia …”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Pain over the eyes and tension, as if bound in the temples; diminished while eating, but returning soon after eating, and remains as a pressure in the temples until in the night, and only goes away after falling asleep. Pains in a small spot in the right temple. Pressure in the temples from without inwards, with a…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Chronic rheumatism connected with valvular heart troubles should call our attention to this remedy, for it has done good service in such cases. Symptoms: “Rheumatic soreness in the cardiac region.” “Violent pains in the heart when bending over.” “Pains in heart when urinating or at menstrual period.” “Fluttering of…”

Lithium Carbonicum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lithium Carbonicum in 405 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (84), HEAD (52), CHEST (35), EYE (27), BLADDER (25).

CHEST - PAIN - Heart - bending forward agg.
VISION - HEMIOPIA - right half lost
VISION - HEMIOPIA - vertical
URINE - SEDIMENT - renal calculi
EXTREMITIES - ARTHRITICnodosities - Finger joints
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - rheumatic
CHEST - HYPERTROPHY - of heart
CHEST - AFFECTIONS - Heart
EXTREMITIES - ARTHRITICnodosities
CHEST - PAIN - Heart
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - sour
BACK - WEAKNESS (tired feeling - in Spine) - Sacrum - night
BLADDER - TENESMUS - evening,walking in open air
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - morning - bending over the bed,on
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - urination, - before
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Heart - morning
CHEST - PAIN - sore - bruised - Heart - stooping
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - extending - outward
HEAD - PAIN, - menses, - after - morning,on awaking,after sudden cessation of
VISION - LOSS OF VISION. - light,by - of sun

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