Lamium Album
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General
Lamium.
Lamium album. L. laevigatum. L. maculatum. Dead Nettle. White Nettle. N. O. Labiatae. Tincture of entire fresh plant whilst in flower and seed.
Clinical
Haemorrhoids. Headache. Hernia. Leucorrhoea. Menstruation, too early.
Characteristics
Lamium was proved by Hahnemann and others, including Stapf. It produced headaches of several kinds, one a "deep-in" headache like that of Bacil.; tightness of scalp; and a backward and forward motion of the head. Much uneasiness of mind and body; trembling of limbs; weakness during the chill. Tearing and drawing in the limbs.
The menses appeared too early and were scanty. Much leucorrhoea, with biting sensation or without sensation, white mucus. Farrington says Lamium has been recommended for external piles. "Hard stool with blood" is the nearest symptom bearing on this.
A characteristic symptom seenms to be "backward and forward motion of head." Symptoms were < in morning on waking (headache); < while lying down in bed in morning, > on rising (headache); > on sitting (headache); < in open air (headache);
< by drinking (burning in chest) < by eating (pressure beneath pit of stomach; burning in chest) < rising from stooping (indescribable headache).
Relations
Compare: Other members of the Mint tribe (Hedeoma, Ocimum canum, Origanum, Mentha piperita); "deep-in" headache, Bacil.; head moves backwards and forwards, Arn., Cham., Lyc.
Mind
Whining mood, inclination to weep, feels as if abandoned
Great sadness, with lachrymose humour
Great agitation and anxiety, which permit no rest.
Head
Aching in centre of brain, < on rising from a stooping posture
Headache, < by rising from a seat, > when seated
Cephalalgia, as if brain were compressed on all sides, with very violent pains in centre of brain
Excessive tightness of scalp, esp. near coronal suture
Great mobility of head, esp. from before backward
Sight and hearing are diminished.
Mouth
Hawking up of thick mucus of an acid taste, which is detached from bottom of gullet.
Stomach
Burning pain in middle of chest, or in oesophagus, after eating or drinking anything whatever.—Nausea and vomiting of food, with heat, great lassitude, excessive dejection, and cloudiness of sight.
Abdomen
Excessive distension of the abdomen
Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, which is not > by expulsion of the wind
A dragging in l. side of abdomen down into pubic region as if a hernia would protrude there
Great agitation in the abdomen, as if catamenia were about to come on violently.
Stool
Evacuations of the consistence of pap, hard, with emission of blood.
Urinary Organs
Urgent want to urinate, with very scanty emission.—Discharge of serum from the urethra.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia too early and too scanty; eleven days too early at the new moon
Leucorrhoea, sometimes with a biting sensation in genitals
Leucorrhoea profuse, painless, white mucus.
Respiratory Organs
Voice weak and faltering, as from mental agitation
Want of breath when speaking, with weakness of the chest
Anxious pressure on chest, with nausea.
Back
Bruised pain in small of back.
Upper Limbs
Torpor and crawling numbness of back of hand, and of the fleshy part of thumb, < by touch, with painful sensation of rawness in the parts on moving the hand.—Tearing and drawing in fingers.
Lower Limbs
Intermitting drawing, pressive tearing on lower posterior muscles of r. thigh (while sitting).—Blister on heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer with smarting and biting.
Generalities
Tearing and drawing in limbs.—Great restlessness of body and mind, with trembling of limbs.
Skin
Smarting and stinging in the ulcer (< in evening when lying) with redness and swelling around it, and smarting early in morning in bed.—Ulcers, with pain as from excoriation, and shootings.
Fever
Shivering, with general weakness, or with anxiety
Burning heat in both cheeks, without redness, and without thirst
Constant thirst, except during shivering fit.