Lupulus humulus
Humulus lupulus · Hops, Lupulus humulus · Plant · Cannabaceae
Appropriately enough for a remedy based on a plant used to make beer, Lupulus is often used to treat hangovers or the aftereffects of drinking alcohol, such as nausea, dizziness, and headaches. It may also be given for nervous twitches or delirium associated with drunkenness.
Muscles affected by twitching, nervous tremors may also be treated by Lupulus, as may rheumatic pains that shift from place to place, mainly in the shoulders, arms, and hands. There may be a sensation of churning in the stomach, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Burning in the urethra when urinating and overexcitability are further possible symptoms, as is greasy, clammy, profuse perspiration.
Key symptoms
- Nervous symptoms after a night's debauch; wakefulness and delirium of drunkards
- Dull, heavy headache with dizziness and giddiness
- Drawing and twitching in almost every muscle
- Infantile jaundice; slow pulse
- Profuse, clammy, greasy perspiration
- Painful erections; spermatorrhea from sexual weakness
- Drowsy during the day; sopor
- Scarlatina-like eruption on face; skin feels chapped and peels
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Hops
Is a good remedy in unstrung conditions of the nervous system attended with nausea, dizziness, headache following a night's debauch. Infantile jaundice, Urethral burning. Drawing and twitching in almost every muscle. Nervous tremors; wakefulness and delirium of drunkards. Giddiness and stupefaction. Slow pulse. Perspiration profuse, clammy, greasy.
Head
Morbid vigilance. Highly excited. Dull, heavy headache with dizziness. Drawing and twitching in every muscle.
Sleep
Drowsy during the day. Sopor.
Male
Painful erections. Emissions, depending on sexual weakness and after organism. Spermatorrhœa.
Skin
Scarlatina-like eruption on face. Feels like insects crawling under skin; feels chapped, skin peels.
Relationship
Antidotes: Coffea; Vinegar.
Compare: Nux; Urtica; Cannab.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Lupulin 1X trit (Best in seminal emissions. Locally in painful cancers).
Humulus lupulus. Hop. N. O. Cannabinaceæ (of the Urticaceæ). Tincture of the seeded spikes. Trituration. Tincture of Lupuline (small resinous granules covering the scales).
Clinical
Dyspepsia. Dysuria. Gonorrhœa.
Characteristics
Lupulus has had a somewhat extensive proving, to the symptoms of which have been added the effects of working with hops and of sleeping in rooms where hops were stored. The "hop-pillow" remedy for sleeplessness is well known; and this sleep-provoking effect passes into delirium and stupefaction. In a child of twelve, who remained several days in a room where hops were being picked, there was: Frequent starting up from deep sleep with violent delirium, from which he could only be aroused with great difficulty, when he recognised the bystanders, but immediately fell backward into stupor. It was months before he recovered. The effects which remained were: Dilated pupils; mental indolence; unsteady movements; erythema. Among other symptoms of Lupulus are: Burning in urethra during urination. Nausea and vomiting. Turning sensation in stomach. Fermenting in abdomen. Twitching of tendons. Faintness. > In open air.
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