Author: Urenus

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh mammary gland of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Galactorrhoea. Breast tenderness. Pre-malignant states. Fibroadenomas. Flaccid and underdeveloped breasts. Ovulation pain. After mastectomy.

The attenuations are prepared from racemic DL-Malic acid C₄H₆O₅, MW: 134.1.

An active factor in the Citric Acid cycle and in redox systems. Impregnation phas- es of all kinds, also asthma, angina pectoris, pruritus, skin diseases, psoriasis, pre- cancerous states and in neoplasm phases (especially in the early stages), to improve cell respiration. All kinds of paresis. Has a diuretic action.

Malic Acid should never be given without Fumaric Acid, Malic Acid being one of the main remedies for general detoxification as well as for oxygenation of glandular and muscular tissues. It also plays a dominant role in neoplastic processes.

In severe rheumatism it is recommended in combination with muscle and heart sarcodes: in Angina pectoris, Aorta sarcode should be added. Complementary reme- dies and sarcodes/nosodes are: Fumaric Acid, Silica, Echinacea, Diphtherinum, Apis, Thuja, Hydrastis, plus Heart and all sarcodes of glandular tissue.

Malic Acid is also indicated in pyrexia of unknown origin, in serious infectious diseases, chronic bronchitis since childhood, chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, and espe- cially in asthma and as a supporting remedy in bronchial cancer. Angina pectoris, myocardial weakness with dyspnoea, tachycardia from metabolic and post-infective weakness of the myocardium, circulatory collapse and bradycardia in athletes all call for Malic Acid. Cold hands and feet and cyanosis of the skin are all typical.

In intestinal cancers Malic Acid should always form part of the prescription, as well as in cancer of the bladder, incontinence of urine and ketonuria. It should also be used when rheumatic conditions have been treated over a long period of time with drugs such as salicylates and phenylbutazone.

Further indications for Malic Acid include seborrhoea, chronic dry, scaly eczemas, psoriasis with violent itching, eczema and fissures in the auditory canal.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower of Origanum majorana L., a native of the Mediterranean countries and cultivated in many places as a culinary herb. N.O. Labiatae.

The main indications are:

Nervous irritability. Colic. Flatulence. Mammary tumours in nursing mothers. The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of

Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Origanum majorana, published

the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for majorana: sexual hyperexcitability.

The attenuations are prepared from Magnesium hydrogen phosphate trihydrate MgHPO₄ · 3H₂O, MW: 174.3.

The triturations and liquid potencies prepared from Magnesium phospate are, ac- cording to Heinigke, “one of our most important pain remedies, none has a greater multiplicity of pains; they are stabbing, cutting, boring, coming and going like light- ning, spasmodic, often changing position, or in attacks which are almost intolera- ble.”

There may be sensory illusions and an inability to think clearly, with sleepless- ness, and this may be accompanied by digestive disorders and aversion to food. Neuralgic or rheumatic pains in the head occur particularly after mental work, and are associated with shivering. There is a sensation of fluid in the head, “as if the brain were wobbling” (Heinigke) or as if the patient were wearing a cap on the head.

Vertigo on movement of any kind is also susceptible to Magnesium Phospho-  ricum. Romberg’s sign, unsteadliness and falling over when the eyes are closed, seen in tabes dorsalis, can be helped by Magnesium Phosphoricum, if the patient falls forwards.

The headaches, which are frequently supra-orbital and worse on the right side, may be accompanied by double vision with dark spots and colour-spectra in front of the eyes, twitching of the eyelids with photophobia, and possibly squinting and pto- sis of the eyelids. Nervous earaches, especially behind the right ear (mastoiditis), are also an indication for Magnesium Phosphoricum, especially if they are aggravated in fresh air, or on washing the face and neck with cold water. The facial pains too, in- deed all the pains, are aggravated when the body becomes cold; the toothache is ag- gravated by eating or drinking cold things, and ameliorated by warmth. In epulis there are often glandular swellings in the throat and neck, especially in teething problems of children with spasmodic symptoms and fever – likewise an indication for Magnesium Phosphoricum.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is required in cramping pains, constriction in the neck, as if tied up, on trying to swallow, and also in torticollis, especially on the right-hand side, and it can also have a favourable action in cramps in the stomach area with gasping and retching, especially when there is thirst for cold drinks.

Magnesium Phosphoricum also acts favourably on asthmatic chest-constriction with a dry, tickling cough which can take on a spasmodic nature, and even on nerv- ous, spasmodic palpitations and a constricted sensation of the heart, as if tied up (cf. Cactus Grandiflorus), as well as flatulent colic, abdominal spasms and umbilical colics, especially if the complaints radiate towards the back (cf. Belladonna), and also when there is chronic constipation in rheumatic persons, likewise constipation of children with cramping pains at every attempt to pass a stool.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is also an important remedy in dysmenorrhoea and when the menses arrive too early, especially when there is swelling and sensitivity of the vagina and so-called “ovarian neuralgia”.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is indicated in rheumatic pains in the limbs, associated with weakness in the arms and hands and stiffness and possible numbness in the fin- gers, with general muscular weakness, these complaints being aggravated by cold and ameliorated by warmth, pressure and rubbing.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is also the remedy of choice for Sydenham’s chorea with contortion of the limbs, for sciatica with vividly shooting, boring pains which often change their location and are ameliorated by warmth and pressure, being ag- gravated by light touch, and for writer’s and pianist’s cramp and cramps in the calves of the legs.

Boericke also emphasizes its action in whooping cough, in hoarseness, in laryngi- tis with a feeling of rawness and roughness, in intercostal neuralgia and in pains similar to angina pectoris. Where there are spasmodic complaints in the upper ab- domen, they are not relieved by the accompanying eructations (in contrast to Argen- tum Nitricum).

It is Boericke’s practice to give this remedy in hot water, as it is then said to act better, the action possibly being complemented with doses of Colocynthis, Silicea, Zincum, Dioscorea or Kali Phosphoricum.

Nash particularly refers to the fact that burning pains are susceptible to Arsenicum Album, and not to Magnesium Phosphoricum. However, both remedies have an amelioration from warmth.

Nash also gives the following characterisation of various painful states (“Leaders”

p. 250 [p. 324 in Jain edition]):

“Now in regard to the cramping pains so characteristic of Magnesium Phospho- ricum. When such a symptom stands out so prominently, it is a great leader, and nar- rows down the choice to a class of remedies having the same. Let me illustrate:

Cramping pains: Cuprum, Colocynthis, Magnesium Phosphoricum.

Burning: Arsenicum, Cantharis, Capsicum, Phosphorus, Sulphuricum Acidum, Sulphur, Carbo Vegetabilis.

Coldness (sensation): Calcium Carbonicum, Arsenicum, Cistus, Heloderma. Coldness (objective): Camphora, Secale, Veratrum Album, Heloderma.

Fullness (sensation): Aesculus Hippocastanum, China, Lycopodium. Emptiness (sensation): Cocculus, Phosphorus, Sepia.

Bearing-down: Belladonna, Lilium Tigrinum, Sepia, etc.

Bruised soreness: Arnica, Baptisia, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Ruta. Constriction: Cactus Grandiflorus, Colocynthis, Anacardium.

Prostration or Weariness: Gelsemium, Picrinicum Acid, Phosphoricum Acidum, all Acids, Silicea.

Numbness: Aconitum, Chamomilla, Platinum, Rhus Toxicodendron. Erratic pains: Lac Caninum, Pulsatilla, Tuberculinum.

Sensitive to pain: Aconitum, Chamomilla, Coffea. Sensitive to touch: China, Hepar Sulph., Lachesis, Silicea.

Bone pains: Aurum, Asafoetida, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Mercurius, Silicea. Sticking/Stitching/Stabbing pains: Bryonia, Kali Carbonicum, Squilla, Apis. Pulsation or throbbing: Belladonna, Glonoinum, Melilotus.

Haemorrhages (passive): Hamemelis, Secale, Crotalus, Elaps. Haemorrhages (active): Ferrum Phosphoricum, Ipecacuanha, Phosphorus. Emaciation: Iodum, Natrum Muriaticum, Lycopodium, Sarsaparilla, etc. Oedematous states: Calcium Carbonicum, Graphites, Capsicum.

Constitutions (psoric): Sulphur, Psorinum, etc.

Constitutions (sycotic): Thuja, Nitricum Acidum, Medorrhinum, etc. Constitutions (syphilitic): Mercurius, Kali Iodatum, etc.

Blue swellings: Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Tarantula Cubensis.

So we might go on and indicate from one to three or more remedies having char- acteristic power over certain symptoms or conditions, and it is well to have them in mind, for with this start we will be very apt to have, or seek to find out, the diagnos- tic difference between them. Such knowledge forearms a man, preparing him for emergencies, and often enables the prescriber to make those wonderful “snap-shot cures” that astonish the patient and all beholders.

The holistic view of homoeopathy clearly proceeds from this; for in all these syn- dromes Magnesium Phosphoricum as a supporting remedy is able not only to deal with the cramps but also to smooth the path for the action of the otherwise-men- tioned remedy.

If we summarise the total symptoms of Magnesium Phosphoricum, we have the following typical remedy-picture:

1. Cramping, shooting pains along the length of the nerves, and in cramps in a wide variety of parts of the body, ameliorated by pressure and warmth.
2. Facial neuralgias with twitching of the eyelids.
3. Cramps in the stomach area. Intestinal colic with eructations which do not re- lieve. Umbilical colic in children, with drawing-up of the legs, without diar- rhoea symptoms.
4. Menstrual colic and dysmenorrhoea with neuralgic complaints, relieved by onset of the flow (cf. Lachesis).
5. Gall-stone colic. Renal colic. Pains in chronic rheumatism of the joints.
6. Whooping cough, especially at night and lying down.
7. Sydenham’s chorea with contortion of the limbs.
8. Sciatica with boring, shooting pains, changing location, aggravated by light touch. Writer’s cramp. Cramps in calves.
9. All complaints worse from cold, at night in bed and from light touch. Amelio- rated by hot compresses, movement, pressure, doubling up, walking about slow- ly and damp warmth.
10. Vertigo on movement, falling forwards. Sensation of fluid in the head. Inability to think. Supra-orbital pains. Blurred vision. Right-sided mastoiditis. Toothache. Spastic torticollis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Magnesium phosphoricum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for magnesium phosphoricum: neuralgia; painful spasmodic conditions of the gastrointestinal tract; dysmenorrhoea.

The attenuations are prepared from Magnesium orotate C₁₀H₆MgN₄O₈ · 2 H₂O, MW: 370.5.

Not only Magnesium has important intracellular functions to fulfil, as an impor- tant trace-element factor in enzyme functions, e.g. the Citric Acid cycle, but the presence of Orotic acid steers the action of the remedy towards intermediate detoxi- fying functions, e.g. in the urea cycle, etc.

Thus Magnesium Oroticum has been used – as a trace element enzyme-activator – in preparations which are designed to re-activate blocked enzymes, e.g. those of the Citric Acid cycle, and particularly also for various liver enzymes.

The attenuations are prepared from a mixture of equal parts of Magnesium hydrogen phosphate MgHPO₄ · 3 H₂O, and Manganese(II)hydrogenphosphate, MnHPO₄, MW: 150.9.

The main indications are:

Catalytic action of trace elements, especially in support of the Citric Acid cycle. See also the intermediate catalysts of the Citric Acid cycle (theoretical references, scheme of injections).

The attenuations are prepared from heavy, basic hydrated Magnesium carbonate, containing not less than 40%, and not more than 45% of MgO, MW: 40.3.

The main indications are:

Toothache in pregnancy, boring pain at night, must walk about. Dyspepsia. Green stool, like scum on a frog-pond, sour or hard, crumbling, “the whole child smells sour.” Arthritis of the shoulder joints. Dryness of the mucosa (eyes, nose, pharynx). Dry, itching skin.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Magnesium carbonicum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for magnesium carbonicum: constitutional remedy for the neuropathic type; digestive disorders; paramenia; enlargement and hardening of glandular organs.

The attenuations are prepared from Magnesium L-hydrogen aspartate dihydrate, the magnesium salt of L-aspartic acid C₈H₁₂MgN₂O₈ · 2 H₂O, MW: 324.5.

Magnesium salts are indispensible for numerous enzyme functions, e.g. for the Citric Acid cycle, but also for many intermediate conversions. Since aspartic acid also has an important part to play as an intermediate conductor, Magnesium aspar- tate is required in a wide variety of enzyme functions, such as e.g. the urea cycle, and also in transamination or as an ammonia donator for urea synthesis. In this, after deamination, aspartic acid can enter the citrate cycle, unless it is loaded with amino-groups by the transamination reaction, as is probable for a-ketoglutarate.

Thus Magnesium Asparaginicum is usually not used on its own, but in combina- tion with other enzyme-active factors.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower of Lycopus virginicus L., a native of North America. N.O. Labiatae.

The main indications are:

Heart tonic in thyrotoxicosis. Palpitations.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Lycopus virginicus, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for lycopus virginicus: tachycardia, especially when associated with hy- perthyroidism.

The attenuations are prepared from the dried ripe spores of Lycopodium clavatum

L. N.O. Lycopodiaceae.

Lycopodium clavatum, club moss, is one of the most important polychrests in ho- moeopathy. In the last few years it has been gaining in importance, probably be- cause, as a specific liver remedy, Lycopodium is able to bring significant relief, and even cure, in liver damage, liver dysfunctions, and even in serious degenerative symptoms. This weakness of the liver function runs through the whole remedy.

It must also be borne in mind that a wide variety of symptoms depend on liver function, or else provide a false outlet for the elimination of homotoxins which, be- cause of disordered liver function, are not being adequately eliminated otherwise. These include, e.g., skin diseases such as urticaria or ulcers like boils with a bluish appearance, or also pityriasis associated with falling out of hair in patches, and erysipelas, scrofulous skin conditions with moist eczemas, otorrhoea, tonsillitis, in- flammations of the nipples or eyelids, sciatica, haemorrhoids and other intestinal problems, and particularly flatulence with spastic constipation and violent pains in the anus obliging the patient to interrupt defaecation. These secondary symptoms are mostly reaction phases.

This is especially true of right-sided sore throats which will not clear up under otherwise well indicated remedies, such as Belladonna, Mercurius Iodatus Flavus and others. In these cases the liver must be treated with Lycopodium, or with a bio- therapeutic remedy which contains it.

An important indication for Lycopodium came to light shortly after the currency- reform, when cream was once again widely available, and numerous patients be- lieved that they should undertake so-called cream-treatments to improve their weight. This, however, obviously placed a considerable strain upon their liver func- tion, resulting not in an increase in weight, but in a loss of weight with absolute loss of appetite. In these cases Lycopodium, given by injection, provided a permanent cure after a few weeks. It should be mentioned that states of this kind did not nor- mally respond to any medication.

Lycopodium patients are thin, especially in the upper part of the body, whilst the abdomen and legs are frequently swollen. There may also be ascites. There may be ulcers on the lower legs as well, exuding serous fluid.

The Lycopodium patient also tends strongly towards states of weakness and ex- haustion, and also to depression, the mental functions slowing down considerably, especially in old people, in whom the weakness of memory is particularly pro- nounced. The children too are weak, with well-formed heads but weak, sickly bod- ies. (Nash)

One of the most importants symptoms of Lycopodium is the tendency towards flatulence, with discharge of odourless wind, which collects particularly in the lower abdomen and also the left hypochondrium and the sigmoid flexure of the colon (cf. Lachesis).

Lycopodium is also said to work well in right-sided inguinal hernia. (Nash)

An important symptom of Lycopodium is red sediment in the urine, often a pre- cursor of renal colic.

Lycopodium can also be very effective in impotence, especially following mastur- bation and sexual deviations, when the libido is not reduced.

One thinks of Lycopodium for nasal catarrh with the nose completely obstructed, so that the patient has to breathe through the mouth, above all during the night; in young children, possibly Sambucus.

If cases of pneumonia reach a dangerous stage, especially during the resolution following the crisis, and the expectoration is difficult to expel, being possibly puru- lent and yellow or greenish-yellow and offensive and tasting salty, then Lycopodium in many cases is the remedy, since all right-sided conditions point to Lycopodium, and in many cases are attributable to a liver dysfunction. The right-sidedness applies to all symptoms: right-sided varicose veins, right-sided inguinal hernia, right-sided tonsillitis, (but left-sided spasms in the hypochondrium, like Lachesis), and the right foot is cold.

The aggravation of all complaints between 16:00 hours and 20:00 hours must es- pecially be emphasized, this modality often leading us to Lycopodium in symptoms which obviously have nothing to do with the liver or the symptomatology of Ly- copodium; nevertheless, they react well if this typical aggravation-time is present.

We may just refer also to a recommendation regarding Lycopodium in ileus and intussusception. Here Papaver Somniferum may at times be a life-saver, but it can develop an even better action in combination with Lycopodium or when followed by Lycopodium.

In such cases, where there is usually a chronic tendency to spastic constipation and a tendency towards symptoms of ileus, Lycopodium will normally thoroughly remove not only this tendency towards ileus but also the spastic constipation.

If we summarise the most important symptoms of Lycopodium, the following typ- ical remedy-picture is the result:

1. Weakness and exhaustion. Tendency to depression. Greyish-yellow complexion. Yellowish patches on the skin. Weak muscle development. Weak, sickly children with well-formed heads.
2. Uric acid diathesis. Red sand in the urine, (brick-dust sediment.) Tendency to gravel and renal colic.
3. Tendency to flatulence, especially in the lower abdomen, with cramping com- plaints in the left hypogastrium. Haemorrhoidal complaints. Spasm of the anal sphincter. Want of appetite. Feels full after the first mouthful.
4. Right-sided inguinal hernia. Lycopodium is a predominantly right-sided remedy. Right-sided tonsillitis. Liver problems with jaundice, hepatic enlargement, and greenish, bitter vomiting. Spastic constipation. Tendency to ileus.
5. Typical aggravation from 16:00 to 20:00 for all complaints.
6. Bronchitis with accumulation of mucus, rales, and dyspnoea, as well as pneumo- nia with difficult expulsion of expectoration. Chronic nasal catarrh with obstruc- tion of the nose and acrid, excoriating discharge.

• 7.   Moist eczema. Dandruff. Urticaria. Pityriasis versicolor. Erysipelas. Tubercular skin-diseases. Nipples inflamed, sore and bleeding.
• Right foot cold, left foot warm. Varicose veins on the right lower leg.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Lycopodium clavatum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for lycopodium: inflammations of the respiratory organs; general blood poisoning; sequelae of infectious diseases; inflammations and disorders of the hepa- tobiliary system; digestive disorders; metabolic disorders; inflammations of the uri- nary organs; nephrolithiasis; varicose veins; various chronic and acute dermal dis- eases; paramenia and inflammations of the female reproductive organs; other age-re- lated illnesses; behavioural disorders; emotional discord or upset.