HomeoRemedyLactuca virosa
Acrid lettuce
Main symptoms
- This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory system.
- Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor.
- Hydrothorax and ascites.
- Sense of lightness and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest.
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- Seems to be a true galactogogue.
- Marked action on extremities.
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- Stupefaction of sense.
- Great restlessness.
Symptoms by body part
Head
Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and headache, with general coldness. Headache, with affections of respiratory organs.
Abdomen
Sensation of weight, of fullness; rumbling in the belly; abundant emission of wind. Colic in early morning, abdomen tense, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind.
Chest
Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from fluid swelling (oedema) of the chest. Constant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces. Squeezing sensation in lower chest.
Female
Promotes catamenia. Increase of milk in breasts.
Sleep
Restless; impossible to get to sleep. Deep, comatose sleep.
Extremities
Lame hip down left side; worse walking. Coldness and numbness of feet and legs. Tremor of hands and arms. Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg involving calves.
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