Lyssinum
Hydrophobinum (Lyssin) · Nosode
Lyssinum suits individuals with extreme nervous hypersensitivity triggered by water in any form — sight, sound, or thought. The constitutional type is characterised by violent temper, fear of madness, rude and abusive behaviour, rapid speech, and strange notions during pregnancy. Mental emotions and bad news invariably worsen the condition.
Key symptoms
- All complaints aggravated by sight or sound of running or pouring water
- Convulsions and spasms from dazzling light or even thinking of fluids
- Saliva tough, ropy, viscid, frothy with constant spitting
- Sore throat with constant desire to swallow, gagging when swallowing water
- Fear of becoming mad (lyssophobia); hypersensitiveness of all senses
- Desire for stool or urination on seeing or hearing running water
- Complaints from abnormal sexual desire; priapism with frequent emissions
- Sensitiveness of vagina rendering coition painful; uterine prolapse
Worse (aggravation)
- Sight or sound of running or pouring water
- Bright dazzling or reflected light
- Heat of sun
- Stooping
- Bad news; mental emotions
- Thinking of fluids
- Carriage riding
Better (amelioration)
- Bending backwards (neck pain)
- Gentle rubbing
- Steam or hot water bathing
Lyssin-Saliva of Rabid Dog (HYDROPHOBINUM)
Affects principally the nervous system; aching in bones. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire. Convulsions brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water.
Head
Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Emotion and bad news aggravate; also, thinking of fluids. Hypersensitiveness of all senses. Chronic headache. Boring pain in forehead.
Mouth
Constant spitting; saliva tough, viscid. Sore throat; constant desire to swallow, which is difficult; gagging when swallowing water. Froths at mouth.
Male
Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions. No emission during coition. Atrophy of testicles. Complaints from abnormal sexual desire.
Female
Uterine sensitiveness; conscious of womb (Helon). Feels prolapsed. Vagina sensitive, rendering coition painful (Berberis). Uterine displacements.
Respiratory
Voice altered in tone. Breathing held for a time. Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles.
Stool
Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water. Profuse, watery stools, with pain in bowels; worse, evening. Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water.
Modalities
Worse, sight or sound of running water or pouring water, or even thinking of fluids; dazzling or reflected light; heat of sun; stooping.
Relationship
Compare: Xanthium spinosum-Cockle--(said to be specific for hydrophobia and is recommended for chronic cystitis in women). Canth; Bell; Stram; Lach; Nat mur.
Dose
Thirtieth potency.
The Saliva of a Rabid Dog. (A Nosode.)
Ziemsen suggested Lyssin as a substitute for Hydrophobinum, Encyclopaedia, vol. iii, p 472. The sight or sound of running water or pouring water aggravates all complaints. Lyssophobia; fear of becoming mad. Bluish discoloration of wounds (Lach.). Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire (from abstinence, Con.). Mental emotion or mortifying news always makes him worse. Cannot bear heat of sun (Gels., Glon., Lach., Nat.). Convulsions: from dazzling or reflected light from water or mirror (Stram.); from even thinking of fluids of any kind; from slightest touch or current of air. Headache: from bites of dogs, whether rabid or not; chronic, from mental emotion or exertion; < by noise of running water or bright light. Salive; tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and throat, with constant spitting (Hydr.). Sore throat, constant desire to swallow (Lac. c., Mer.). Difficulty in swallowing, even spasm of oesophagus from swallowing liquids; gagging when swallowing …
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