Lippspringe
Mineral
Lippspringe suits plethoric, irritable individuals prone to pulmonary congestion and haemoptysis. It is indicated in persons with a strong diuretic and purgative tendency, and those suffering from urinary calculi, haemorrhoids, and worm complaints.
Key symptoms
- Purging and diuretic effects with greatly increased urine quantity
- Urinary calculi expelled in quantity after taking the waters
- Peculiar feeling of comfort after micturition
- Alternation of bloody stools with haemoptysis
- Itching of nose and anus suggesting worm affections
- Violent palpitation every evening obliging cessation of drinking the water
- Urticaria with violently itching eruptions; larger vesicles on continued bathing
- Apprehension worse riding in carriage with homesickness and impending misfortune
Worse (aggravation)
- Night (perspiration, diarrhoea)
- Evening (sneezing, palpitation, cramp, restlessness)
- Walking
- After coitus (heaviness of chest)
- Smoking
Better (amelioration)
- After micturition (peculiar feeling of comfort)
- Lying on side (stomach cramp)
- Holding sugar in mouth (throat dryness)
The waters of the mineral spring in Lippspringe, Westphalia, containing Sulphates of Sodium and Calcium, Chloride of Magnesium, and other salts in smaller proportion, with carbonic acid, nitrogen, and oxygen gases, which are freely evolved. Dilution.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhoids. Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Urinary calculi. Urticaria. Worms.
Characteristics
Lippspringe is a cold, sulphurated, saline spring, and very gaseous, of saline and piquante taste. "It is used in drink and bath as a refreshing and laxative medication. It is vaunted above all against commencing phthisis complicated with hæmoptysis, when the subjects are plethoric, irritable, and liable to pulmonary congestion" (Constantin James). The homœopathic data are derived partly from provings and partly from observations on patients. The purging effect was very marked, as also the diuretic. The urine was increased in quantity and the urging great; in one case many calculi were found. There was > after micturition in one case─"a …
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