Lycopodium clavatum

3-422.13.06IntroductionThe situation is that of a child, alone in the world, without a home, having to survive between adults. This makes them timid and shy towards stronger and bigger adults. But on the other hand they can be domineering and aggressive to weaker persons in order to get what they need to survive.MindHaughty, domineering, fault-finding; love of power.
Mistrustful, suspicious.
Hiding behind everyone, normality.
Irritable, nervous, cross, unmanageable when sick, < sleep, cross, pushing everyone away angrily.
Old women and children.
Scrupulous in trivial matters.
Indecision; loss of self confidence; timid, poor self esteem.
Sensitive, weeps when thanked or meeting a friend.
Melancholy, afraid to be alone.
Misanthropic, flies even from his children.
Awakes, irritable, angry, sad and anxious.
Mental weakness, weak memory, confused thoughts; dyslexia; low comprehension; mistakes, writes wrong words and syllables.
Keen intellect, precocious; big head, weak body.
Sexuality diminished or lacking.
Nervousness.
Concentration difficult, befogged.
Primitive autocratic societies.
Power, hierarchy.
Fear: men; new persons, things; anticipation; stage fright; public speaking; new things; examinations.
Ailments from fear, fright, chagrin, anger, anxiety, fevers, over-lifting, masturbation, riding in a carriage.
Expressions: naturally; obvious; this is the only way; obliged; different from what I am used to; plan everything in detail; embarrassing to show this in public; isn’t it; this is very often the case; normal ones; the same; this was often the case; all men have this; everyone suffers from this; that is exactly the right thing; how shall I describe this; what else can I say; everybody knows that.
Colour preference: 15-16E.GeneralRegion: right.
Type: carbo-nitrogenoid constitutions; dark.
Weather: > cold, wind; < wet, stormy weather; > uncovered, cold applications; < heat, warm room, hot air, bed, warm applications.
Time: < 4 until 8 pm.
Desire: sweets; warm drinks and food.
Aversion: cold drinks.
Food: < overeating; < oysters; < milk, vegetables, cabbages, beans, broad, pastry.
Physical: > motion; > belching, urinating; < pressure of clothes.BodyGeneral: fever; emaciation, undernourished, malnutrition, sallow, debility, < loss of fluids; atrophy; haemorrhages, dark blood; erectile tumours.
Action: aperative; aphrodisiac; diuretic; sedative; laxative; lithotriptic; carminative.
Nervous: brain fag, < influenza; paralysis of brain; spasms.
Eyes: burning, sharp pain.
Throat: pain, > warm drinks, inflammation.
Nose: dry; catarrh; itching, > pressure.
Mouth: dry.
Lungs: bronchitis.
Heart: arteriosclerosis.
Stomach: indigestion; dyspepsia; nausea; vomiting; acidity, sour taste, belching, > warm drinks; cancer.
Abdomen: gas and bloating; liver disturbed; ascites in liver diseases.
Rectum: diarrhoea, cholera; constipation.
Urinary: urine copious or scanty; dysuria; urine with lithic acid, transparent, red sediment, stones, gall stones, gravel; dropsy.
Female: inflammation ovary.
Back: backache in kidney region, > urination.
Limbs: cold; rheumatism.
Skin: intertrigo; plica polonica; yellowish spots; boils; herpes; cancer.HistoryLycopodium is historically one of the greatest remedies in homeopathy, a real polychrest. Its Materia Medica is so vast that it is impossible to memorise. The Swiss homeopath Künzli prescribed Lycopodium very frequently. I got the impression that he gave it to almost anyone. But I did not have such good results with Lycopodium when I tried to do the same.
In studying the Pteridophyta, the ferns, I left Lycopodium in the first period. Comparing and studying Lycopodium with other ferns would have overwhelmed all other information. The second reason was that there was no clear essence of Lycopodium, as if that was hidden in a mountain of information.
After a year, the theme of the ferns began to become clearer. At that moment the picture of Lycopodium also became clearer, an essence emerged in correspondence with the other ferns.
A colleague, I have forgotten who it was, has told me his picture of Lycopodium. I didn't write it down at that time, but what I remember is something as following. It is for a child who has to survive on his own in a world of adults, traveling from place to place. This fits very well with the picture in this book. And it is a good expression of the remedy code 3-422.13.06.
4 means Iron series: he lives in a village. 2 means he is child and that is there two times, so he is really feeling like a child, powerless to stand up against adults. But he has to, Stage 6: he has to prove he is able to do so. Meanwhile he feels weak, the Phase 3; he feels he does not really belong to a group, although he is tolerated.