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LACTUCA VIROSA
Started by: Jayashree at November 22 2006
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LACTUCA VIROSA
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By:
Jayashree
Calcutta, India
 
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November 22 2006
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LACTUCA VIROSA
Acrid Lettuce
This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest. Seems to be a true galactogogue. Marked action on extremities.
Mind.--Stupefaction of sense. Great restlessness.
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; borborygmi; abundant emission of wind. Colic in early morning, abdomen tense, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind.
Chest.--Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from dropsy 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 (Asafoet).
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.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Acet ac; Coff.
Compare: Nabalus-Prenanthes Serpentaria-Rattlesnake root-White lettuce, similar to Lactuca, (chronic diarrhœa, worse after eating, nights and towards morning. Pain in abdomen and rectum; emaciation. Constipation and somnolence; susceptible to aura of others. Dyspepsia, with acid burning eructation. Craving for acid food. Leucorrhœa with throbbing in uterus); Lach; Kali carb; Spiranthes (galactagogue).
Dose.--Tincture.
Jayashree Kanoi
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This plant is a real pest for the lawns and agriculture all over the world. Thanks God it is good for something.
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