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Lycopodium
If you take 2LM lyco on a daily basis for a few months every day - will you prove the remedy. If you do prove the remedy what would be your symptoms and do you stop for a while and then start it again.If you do prove lyco could it make your symptoms worse i.e. bloating
kohler on 2010-12-28
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Yes it is possible that you might prove the remedy. If you get a proving the symptoms will be new, different to your usual ones. There are tens of thousands of symptoms associated with this remedy, so there is no way to list all the possibilities here.
If your symptoms get worse, this is not a proving (side-effect) but it is an aggravation (medicinal effect). Often, worsening of current symptoms is a sign that the medicine should be stopped, especially on the LM potencies. When aggravation begins, it is typically a sign to stop that potency and move up to the next one.
However, I would not do so if you are self-prescribing. Someone with experience in using homoeopathy should supervise such a step.
If your symptoms get worse, this is not a proving (side-effect) but it is an aggravation (medicinal effect). Often, worsening of current symptoms is a sign that the medicine should be stopped, especially on the LM potencies. When aggravation begins, it is typically a sign to stop that potency and move up to the next one.
However, I would not do so if you are self-prescribing. Someone with experience in using homoeopathy should supervise such a step.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
That depends on the patient, the disease, the particulars of a case. There is no set time a person takes a remedy - they take it until it stops working. Usually an aggravation takes place at the end of the usefulness of an LM - that might be 3 days, it might be 3 months. It needs to be assessed regularly by a homoeopath to ensure it is stopped when necessary.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
kohler last decade
Yes that would be one of the signs to stop. Another would be the disappearance of all the important symptoms. A third would be a marked change of state which would indicate a new remedy.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I know this sounds terrible but I think I'm addicted to lycopodium even though it's not doing what I feel it should - some days I feelit helps my stomach issues then other days I don't.
By this I mean I'll stop taking it - try something else and then always go back on lyco. I really want to stop because I do feel that it's probably run it's course for me now. I've gone from 1 LM and then moved on up to 2 LM - what do I do because I'm worried I'm not doing myself or my health any good. It does help in some ways but then in other ways it doesn't - yet still I take it. I know you homeopaths will go mad at this and what I've said but how do I get of this roundabout! I probably need a totally different remedy now! I've tried borax and that does help the bloating but gives me really bad moods so I stop and go back on lyco - so you see now where I'm coming from.
Please advise me - what do I do?
By this I mean I'll stop taking it - try something else and then always go back on lyco. I really want to stop because I do feel that it's probably run it's course for me now. I've gone from 1 LM and then moved on up to 2 LM - what do I do because I'm worried I'm not doing myself or my health any good. It does help in some ways but then in other ways it doesn't - yet still I take it. I know you homeopaths will go mad at this and what I've said but how do I get of this roundabout! I probably need a totally different remedy now! I've tried borax and that does help the bloating but gives me really bad moods so I stop and go back on lyco - so you see now where I'm coming from.
Please advise me - what do I do?
kohler last decade
If you continue to take a medicine that only helps some of the symptoms while leaving others untouched, it is possible you will suppress your disease into a deeper, much more serious one. It is possible after a long period of suppression you will become incurable.
Are you asking someone here to take your case? If so, you must first stop the Lycopodium and wait for at least a week or so to report how the symptoms have settled (or reappeared).
Are you asking someone here to take your case? If so, you must first stop the Lycopodium and wait for at least a week or so to report how the symptoms have settled (or reappeared).
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
No-one who is on a truly curative remedy would ever describe themselves as addicted to it. This is the language of a sick person, not a healthy one. It is unlikely that Lycopodium is a truly curative medicine for you.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Don't think I'm sick but just wonder why I'm so drawn to it and keep going back to it when after all this time it's not cured me.
Yes if someone would like to take my case I'd be happy to post.
Yes if someone would like to take my case I'd be happy to post.
kohler last decade
If you are not cured, you are sick. Addiction of any sort is a sickness even if you were not showing any particular physical symptoms (which would be unlikely anyway).
Sickness in homoeopathic understanding is quite broad. Sickness is not merely the absence of symptoms, but the absence of health. Health should be a positive characteristic of all levels of the person (mental, spiritual, emotional, physical). Health is Freedom - whenever anything restricts our freedom it is considered disease.
Sickness in homoeopathic understanding is quite broad. Sickness is not merely the absence of symptoms, but the absence of health. Health should be a positive characteristic of all levels of the person (mental, spiritual, emotional, physical). Health is Freedom - whenever anything restricts our freedom it is considered disease.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Don't class myself as 'ill' just have this problem with the bloating stomach when I eat. Maybe the nat phos Joe recommends would help?
kohler last decade
In general, an LM2 might be used every 10 days or every month for a period of a few months to a year. Over that time there should be continuous improvement and the complete cure of many symptoms, until there aren't any symptoms left.
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Please use the homeopathic patient intake form and give us the appropriate information about your case, and hopefully someone here will help you begin correct homeoapthic treatment.
http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/239454/
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Please use the homeopathic patient intake form and give us the appropriate information about your case, and hopefully someone here will help you begin correct homeoapthic treatment.
http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/239454/
♡ Homeopathy International 1 last decade
Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.
1. Describe your main suffering? Constant stomach bloating as soon as I eat or drink - getting to the point where Im scared to eat now even though I am on a wheat sugar and yeast free diet. Constipation and muggy head, don't seem to pass much fluid neither but do have low kidney funtion
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Certain foods like yoghurt, seeds can make my face puff and bloat, certain foods can give me the spaced out tight chest chills and muscle pain - like a sensitivity to them
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Makes me very annoyed and depressed because one day I can fit clothes the next I can't - clothes don't look or fit properly and I look pregnant
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words. 'Why - other people are normal and can eat normal - I have to monitor all the time what I eat - can't let it slip for one moment'
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? Always had it but worse the last 2 years
6. Which time of the day you are worst? From getting up to going to bed
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
Eating any kind of food makes it worse as does drinking
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? No - just eating and drinking - no menses now for 18 months
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? /Prefer warm weather but weather climate etc. doesn't affect the bloating - it's bad all the time
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. Mild but since menopause do have mood swings
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? Don't mind them
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? No not really - just get on with it
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Smells effect me greatly - very sensitive to smell and sometimes they can really bother me - other people can't smell it as much as me but I seem to be sensitive - i.e. paint, petrol, fumes etc. and it can linger in my nose for days on end
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? No
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Love family and partner - no problems in relationships etc.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? Phobia of feathers - only fear
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Love butter and bread - crave those at the moment
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? Less
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive? Varies - regardless of how hungry I am (and some days I do feel hunger other days no hunger) I have to restrict my diet and wath what I eat
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand? As I've got older Im noticing foods I could eat years ago I can't now because I get symptoms of tight chest, spaced out feeling as Imentioned earlier - any new food I've not had for a while I have to introduce in a small quanity to see if I will react
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? No sweat only when I exercise heavily
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? constipated - thin long pencil like
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Left side best but don't sleep well but never have even as a baby - mum said I never slept much but I don't seem to need a lot
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? Yes
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others? None
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? Homeopathy - i.e. lyco, als arb sepia lachesis
22. What major diseases are running in your family? rheumatoid arthritis - mum
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
Small - petite features small hands, small feet, attractive
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc. No periods since 18 months ago
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Usual childhood bronchitis, tonsilitis, flu, measles, chicken pox, german measles, shingles
Hope someone can help
1. Describe your main suffering? Constant stomach bloating as soon as I eat or drink - getting to the point where Im scared to eat now even though I am on a wheat sugar and yeast free diet. Constipation and muggy head, don't seem to pass much fluid neither but do have low kidney funtion
2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Certain foods like yoghurt, seeds can make my face puff and bloat, certain foods can give me the spaced out tight chest chills and muscle pain - like a sensitivity to them
3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Makes me very annoyed and depressed because one day I can fit clothes the next I can't - clothes don't look or fit properly and I look pregnant
4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words. 'Why - other people are normal and can eat normal - I have to monitor all the time what I eat - can't let it slip for one moment'
5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? Always had it but worse the last 2 years
6. Which time of the day you are worst? From getting up to going to bed
7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
Eating any kind of food makes it worse as does drinking
8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? No - just eating and drinking - no menses now for 18 months
9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? /Prefer warm weather but weather climate etc. doesn't affect the bloating - it's bad all the time
10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. Mild but since menopause do have mood swings
- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? Don't mind them
- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? No not really - just get on with it
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Smells effect me greatly - very sensitive to smell and sometimes they can really bother me - other people can't smell it as much as me but I seem to be sensitive - i.e. paint, petrol, fumes etc. and it can linger in my nose for days on end
- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? No
- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Love family and partner - no problems in relationships etc.
11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? Phobia of feathers - only fear
12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Love butter and bread - crave those at the moment
13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? Less
14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive? Varies - regardless of how hungry I am (and some days I do feel hunger other days no hunger) I have to restrict my diet and wath what I eat
15. Is there any kind of food which your body cant stand? As I've got older Im noticing foods I could eat years ago I can't now because I get symptoms of tight chest, spaced out feeling as Imentioned earlier - any new food I've not had for a while I have to introduce in a small quanity to see if I will react
16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? No sweat only when I exercise heavily
17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? constipated - thin long pencil like
18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Left side best but don't sleep well but never have even as a baby - mum said I never slept much but I don't seem to need a lot
19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? Yes
20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others? None
21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? Homeopathy - i.e. lyco, als arb sepia lachesis
22. What major diseases are running in your family? rheumatoid arthritis - mum
23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance.
(For Females)
Small - petite features small hands, small feet, attractive
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc. No periods since 18 months ago
25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Usual childhood bronchitis, tonsilitis, flu, measles, chicken pox, german measles, shingles
Hope someone can help
kohler last decade
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