Luna
Imponderable
Luna is indicated for individuals whose complaints show a marked periodicity corresponding to lunar phases, especially worsening at the full moon. It is particularly suited to somnambulists, those with epilepsy, worm complaints, and menstrual irregularities showing clear lunar rhythmicity.
Key symptoms
- Somnambulism aggravated at full moon or when moon rises
- Epilepsy aggravated at full moon; worm affections worse at full moon
- Severe headache waking at 3 a.m. with sour vomiting
- Cramp-like pains in pelvic region as if uterus contracted by strong electric current
- Oedema of face, neck, and hands with neuralgic pain in swollen parts
- Burning and acidity in stomach worse from milk; better by eructations
- Horrible dreams of death, murder; waking in affright
- Symptoms worse on waking after sleep
Worse (aggravation)
- After sleep; on waking
- From milk
- Lying down (heart sensation)
- Full moon or rising moon in sensitive individuals
Better (amelioration)
- Open air
- Cold application
- Eructations and passing flatus from vagina (abdominal pains)
- Magnetic passes (headache)
Moon's Rays. Sugar of milk is exposed on a glass plate to the moon's rays and stirred with a glass rod meanwhile. The sugar of milk so charged is dynamised in the usual way (Fincke). Higgins made a preparation by exposing pure water to the moon's rays for three or four hours in South America and then dynamising the water so charged.
Clinical
Acidity. Epilepsy. Headache. Inter-menstrual flow. Œdema. Physometra. Somnambulism. Worms.
Characteristics
Goullon of Weimar contributed to Zeit. des Berl. Ver. H. A. (translated in Rev. Hom. Belge, January, 1897), a notable article on "The Influence of the Moon on the Human Organism," in which he mentions, among other interesting facts, that somnambulism is a lunar effect; that worm affections are most troublesome at the full moon, and that goître diminishes, more or less, during the waning moon. On this fact is based the following Spongia-Luna treatment, which he calls "infallible": Cut slices of sponge of the size of a finger. Grill them at a candle flame till …
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