A Comparison Of Two Anti-Psoric Remedies.

Lycopodium

Common Name: Club moss

Also known as vegetable sulphur

Is a part of 3 great anti psorics: Calcarea-Sulphur-Lycopodium

Lycopodium was actually a huge tree and over the years it got reduced to small fern so the main feeling of lyco is that if the person remains snall its survival will be difficult

• Thermals Chilly
• Persons of keen intellect but feeble muscular development
• Affections goes fron left to right
• Excessive accumulation of flatulence and feels bloated and not relieved by belching
• Constipation since puberty, rectum contracts and expands during stool passing
• Red sand in urine, renal colic, right side
• Throat affections with great dryness, prevents food and water from going down
• Impotence of young men with cold and relaxed penis
• In old men strong desire but imperfect erections
• Hernia right sided
• One foot hot and the other cold
• Aggravation 4 to 8 pm aggravation
• Amelioration warm food and drinks

It represents a constant struggle between cowardice and egotism between lack of confidence and haughtiness , between timidity and dictatorial attitude. The person is scared of those in authority but to those for whom he can represent like juniors he is rude as lycopodium being too egoistic to admit his lack of self confidence will try to compensate by surrounding himself with the people he can dictate

• Confidence, want of self
• Egotism
• Cowardice
• Dictatorial, power, love of

Sulphur

Common Name: Brimstone

King of antipsorics

Sulphur one the early elememts to exist on earth usually erupted from volcanic eruptions in the form of gas with hot and burns in form of lava thus represented in this medicine

Used when carefully selected remedy fails to give the result in acute cases

• Thermals hot
• Sensation of burning in mouth, throat, stomach, rectum, skin of whole body
• Congestion of single parts eyes, nose, chest, abdomen.
• Weak empty all gone sensation at 11 am
•  Morning Diarrhoea frequently alternates with constipation, drive him out of bed in early hours of morning
• Tendency to congestion manifested by redness of various orifices
• Standing is the worst position, patient generally presents with stooping shoulders
• Very jolly as a person
• Skin affections that had been treated by medicated soaps

Embarrassment is one of the main feeling in sulphur, there is a constant effort in order to come up again to be someone to know something and to earn respect, the struggle is for ego and honour .

• Ailments, scorn, being scorned
• Delusion, great person, is a
• Foolish behaviour, happiness and pride
• Ailments, embarrassment

References from

1. MM by N M Choudhri
2. Leaders in hom theraps by EB Nash
3. Allens keynotes
4. Soul of remedies by R Sankran