Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
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Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Lycopodium: The Power Player of Homeopathy
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Dive deep into the fascinating world of Lycopodium, one of homeopathy's most versatile and frequently prescribed remedies. Melissa and Bri explore this powerful polycrest that addresses everything from stubborn digestive issues to complex psychological patterns.
The hallmark of Lycopodium is its remarkable dual nature. People needing this remedy often display contradictory traits – appearing confident while harboring deep insecurity, wanting to be alone yet fearing solitude, feeling full after eating very little yet still experiencing hunger. This remedy shines particularly bright when addressing right-sided symptoms, liver complaints, and that uncomfortable bloated feeling that persists despite dietary changes.
Beyond the physical, Lycopodium reveals a distinctive personality profile. These individuals often mask insecurity with bravado, putting others down to feel better about themselves. They experience crippling anticipatory anxiety, asking endless questions before new situations. They're the "big fish in small pond" types who may decline promotions to avoid additional responsibility. Their energy typically crashes between 4-8 PM, and they find relief from warm drinks and foods.
What makes Lycopodium truly special is its versatility. From addressing dyslexia in children whose confidence has suffered to helping with the distinctive "pompflex" eczema (those itchy fluid-filled bubbles on fingers), this remedy has earned its top-tier status. It works wonders for those peculiar tickly coughs, assists with kidney and liver function, and even helps those who wake feeling like they haven't slept at all.
Whether you're new to homeopathy or a seasoned practitioner, understanding Lycopodium enriches your healing toolkit. Listen now to discover if this remedy might be the missing piece in addressing your health challenges, both physical and emotional.
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Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2:Hey Brie, I'm excited to do another Materia Medica Monday. Yeah, talk about lycopodium. So lycopodium is a huge remedy. But first I want to read some fan mail and this person writes from Lubbock, texas, and he or she says I listened to brush floss. So this is the one about brushing and flossing and dental things.
Speaker 2:But my question is about root canals and or broken teeth. Would you just have the tooth pulled or would you do the root canal, and what to do with the broken tooth? So my, what I would do for myself is not have a root canal, I would get the tooth pulled. I would get the tooth pulled and, um, if that's you know, if you can't fix it or crown it or cap it um, sorry, my device is trying to ask me questions Um, I would have it pulled. And then, um, so I have. I know several people who had it pulled but didn't put anything in its place years ago, years ago, and the dentist was like you can't do that, you have to have something in its place. And these people that I know in real life have had zero trouble. So I'm not saying, you know, that's true for everyone. There may be people out there that didn't put something in its place and something terrible happened. I don't know, you know put. I don't know what, what you would. I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 1:You know a bridge or a an implant, something that goes there yeah, implant sounds right, but I don't know. A flipper Is that a flipper? Is that a beautiful flipper?
Speaker 2:no, it's the tooth like it just flips out. So it's not like a flipper. What let's how, why would?
Speaker 1:it why?
Speaker 2:does it need to do that.
Speaker 1:You can take it in and out easily, so it's not like implanted up in there okay, right, I didn't know a friend with that, but it's like a retainer with it, I don't know. Okay, all right, it doesn't matter that thing. Whatever the options are, yeah if.
Speaker 2:But if you put an m, if you implant something and you're putting metal in there, I mean that's not right, much better. So understand. I think I understand. The question is like okay, well, if you get it pulled, then what do you put in its place? I think it depends on where the tooth is. You know, if it's way back here, I'm putting nothing in its place, just going to be there.
Speaker 1:You know if it's up here and with the broken tooth. So what do you do if it's?
Speaker 2:broken? If it's broken and you're just worried about the way it looks, I don't know Like I mean. Dennis, you know I'm definitely not a dentist, so I don't know what the options are.
Speaker 1:Um, what? What I do know is that I would not have a root canal. Yeah, agreed, there's. So I mean you could literally look up for days information on that. So do that. I would not do that. If you are having lots of dental problems, then listen to that podcast. You should be taking cell salts. There's lots of things you can do Remineralizing stuff, tooth putties. Your diet plays a huge role, so if you're having recurring problems, you should do something about that. And then your tooth pain combo if there's pain in the meantime hypericum, arnica and pyrogenium.
Speaker 2:Pyrogenium if there's infection. Yep, yeah, so there you go, there you go, I will also. Well, it's in that podcast. Yeah, go listen to the podcast if you haven't heard it yet. That's my answer. So thanks, lubbock, texas, for posting the question. If you want to send in a question like that for us to answer on a future episode, there is a link somewhere in the podcast, wherever you're listening right now, and it says if you want to ask Melissa a question, you know, send her a text, and so just click the link.
Speaker 2:All right, so lycopodium Lycopodium is a polycrest remedy. Polycrest remedies are just the top main remedies that are most often used. That's what that is. So lycopodium is very often used. I like to use lycopodium in a 200C most often, but you decide on the potency and how often based on the condition and the person and you all the things so um, keynotes for like a podium are indigestion so it's got a lot of gut stuff bloating, gas, um, heartburn, constipation, constipation, um, and gurgling. Just looking down the list of digestive and liver issues with gas and bloating, yeah.
Speaker 1:Um food intolerances too.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure it sure does food intolerances and, um, it also has a lot of mental, emotional, um aspects to it. So it is the person who needs. Like a podium might be insecure, um, they might have an unnatural bravado. So they are really bold. You know, an unnatural bravado is that just that boldness with the intent to impress people right or intimidate people. They can be self-conscious, they can feel helpless or overwhelmed. They can have tears on admonition, fear of the dark and fear of being alone.
Speaker 2:Lycopodium is great for men and women Low confidence, bossy and domineering or submissive. Anticipatory anxiety, especially about new things. So they might ask a million questions where are we going? What time are we going to be there? What is going to happen when we get there? Where, how are we going to get there? What are we going to take? What's going to happen? You know they just there's. It's like, oh my gosh, you know so. A million questions because of the anticipatory anxiety.
Speaker 2:Um, they don't feel good about themselves, so they put other people down to feel better about themselves. They seem to be arrogant and overconfident because they put on that show. They can be fearful and shy, timid. They don't want to be questioned because they don't want their lack of knowledge or lack of confidence to be exposed, their lack of knowledge or lack of confidence to be exposed. The questions make them uncomfortable because they don't want you to know. They don't really know what they're talking about Anger on not being respected. Overvalue the masculine and undervalue the feminine Jealousy of older siblings who get to stay up later and do more things.
Speaker 2:They'll stay in a situation that they've outgrown out of fear for moving on to something new. They get in their own way. They hate public speaking. They might get a stomachache before presentations or new activities. They have fears of failure undertaking new things and of not reaching their destination. They feel small, weak and defenseless, but they want to be big and strong. He feels like nobody. He feels like a nobody but wants to be a somebody. He's working hard to reach his destination, even though his confidence is low and his anxiety is high. His fear of not amounting to anything in life makes him anxious enough to keep going.
Speaker 2:They can be clever. They can refuse to take on a promotion because it means more responsibility. That is such a foreign concept to me because I'm like I've always been like promotion. That's me, let's go Right. He'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond. Um, taking on changes and new responsibilities is hard. They are creatures of habit. They need things to stay the same. They fear the responsibility of marriage and family. They fear the future. Lots of fearfulness in them, anxiety about their health, fear of ghosts and being alone. They like comfy. They like company. I said that because the next word is grumpy Grumpy. Grumpy like a podium likes to be on their own in a room, but with somebody in the house in another room.
Speaker 1:I know people like this.
Speaker 2:Yes, me too. Get away from me, don't talk to me, don't come near me, but as long as you're in, I don't want to be in this house by myself. Don't leave me here alone. Yeah, I know that you're in that room so I feel better. This is a big remedy for dyslexia.
Speaker 2:I've had great success with lycopodium and dyslexia. They make mistakes in reading, writing, spelling. Lycopodium might help to soften dyslexia and help the brain to function better, and this child or person may have gone through a period, before being diagnosed with dyslexia, of being told or made to feel that they're stupid. So their confidence went really down, went way down. So then their confidence is low and then Lecapodium helps that. This is great for victims of all types of abuse ailments from punishment, sexual abuse and domination. They were unable to defend themselves. It could have been a bully, and you know they might become a bully because they were bullied, so they pass it on down the line. They tend to love sugar and crave sugar and sweet things. They like filling foods like bread, pasta, pastries, heavy things that fill them up. They get hungry, often full of gas and bloating. They dislike rich and creamy foods because it upsets their digestion.
Speaker 2:Lycopodium is a big liver remedy. The symptoms tend to be right-sided, the liver is on the right side. They like warm and hot drinks, not cold drinks. Unless it's an alcoholic drink, then they want it cold. They might have really good energy until 4 pm. Then they have very low energy from 4 to 8 pm. They can have menstrual problems due to the liver issues like PMS. They want more sugar and then they get very bloated and tender breasts. They might get IBS due to stress, pain in the belly on the right side, migraines on the right side that are debilitating and come on as a result of anticipation.
Speaker 2:This is also a big kidney remedy. Can help kidney function. It's a big lung remedy, especially the right lung. The liver swells and pushes on the right lung causing pneumonia, lung cancer, lots of coughs, bronchitis, pneumonia worse on waking in the morning and worse in the afternoon. Feels better with a hot drink. This is good for impotence. It's a big skin remedy, big psoriasis remedy when it comes on the outside of the joints, psoriasis in the scalp and ears, eczema, and especially good for promphalics promphalics eczema.
Speaker 1:What is that? I think it keep reading. Am I saying it right? I think it keep reading. Am I saying it right?
Speaker 2:Pompflex? Great question, I don't know how to say it. Pompflex Okay, pompflex means bubble, and this eczema shows up on the hands and sides of fingers with little bubbles filled with clear fluid that pop up when and then the skin peels and it's itchy. It can be on the feet too, and this could be a fungal issue. That's exactly what used to happen to me when I had the gluten intolerance the bubbles on the insides of the fingers. It was terrible, so itchy. That is a good one. Is there anything else in the Materia Medica I also have here? They may have had a domineering parent that puts, puts them down, shatters their confidence, or a teacher that's mean to them and they lose their self-image, and so then, like, a podium can help them um, I did see some other things that I thought maybe are like not things you would normally think of like a podium for.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if maybe you know more, these were things I didn't expect, so I'll read some of those. Yeah, it can be a good cough remedy. You touched on all of these, but more detailed on like a podium cough. I think you actually told me this this winter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that you've used like a podium for coughs. Well, it's not, no, it's not one that I think of very often. I probably have, but only because I found it, you know, in the material medical.
Speaker 1:It's not ever the first thought, but it has a deep, hollow tickling cough. Worse with eating and drinking cold things, loose cough in the daytime and suffocated fits at night, nighttime cough tickling as from sulfur fumes. So I think we found it when you were looking for tickly coughs, because if you've been around in the winter of 2024 to 2025, everybody and their mother has a tickly cough that won't go away and we were looking at every option of remedies to try. I think that's what made us you found like a podium. I had to write that down. Yeah Well, and we talked a lot about other tickly coughs, but that one was a good one that we've seen work a couple of times recently. And then recurrent styes.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I thought that was an interesting one. It's bold too. Um inflammatory affection of eyes, recurring styes, malnutrition, um excessive hunger I have heard people say that where their kids always say they're starving, but they're like bloated, but they're always starving. Hypoglycemia, Headache when not eating regularly, Desire for sweets, food allergies, especially wheat. Let me see what else. Right-sided headaches Pain begins on one side, goes to other, where it's worse, headaches from not eating regularly. That's actually a good one. I feel like I hear that a lot. When you don't eat, they get a headache, which I never thought of a remedy because I'm like duh you know, like eat food, so eat first and then maybe that's a good.
Speaker 1:if you have a headache, maybe that would help your headache. Go away and eat food.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, but also it's just part of the whole picture. So you know, when we're taking a whole case, that's a piece of the puzzle that, oh, they get headaches. You know, if all, if they have a lot of the low lycopodium symptoms and then also they get headaches if they don't eat Right. So not necessarily that we have to take like a podium when you get that, but that is part of the picture, yeah.
Speaker 1:Good, good point, thank you. Um, just trying to think. You want me to read some modalities. Yeah, better with motion, better belching, urinating, better warm food and drink, which you mentioned that worse on the right side typically, or right to left. Worse in the warm room, warm bed, warm applications Except. So this is interesting it's worse with warm drinks. So throat and stomach, warm drinks and food. But the environment is no sorry other way around Better warmth and your throat and food, but not better for a warm environment Interesting, yeah, like they warm environment Interesting, yeah, like they want to be uncovered. Yeah, um, worse from pressure of clothes. So that's actually a good one. If you're like bloated and you're like get my pants, you know what I mean. Like unbuttoning your pants, like that's a good, like a podium. Um, let's see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's most of the good ones um, I have narcolepsy in my notes, okay, so this um like a podium, the like a podium. Narcolepsy is drowsy during the day, with, starting in sleep, vivid dreams of accidents well, that's pretty specific yeah, yeah, because there's lots of different like um, you know narcolepsy remedies, but so the differential of like like a podium is that um also like a podium is good for c diff um, that's a good one to know too yeah, where weakness of digestion occurs immediately after a meal, the abdomen feels distended and bloated.
Speaker 2:There's a constant sensation of fermentation in the abdomen. There is such there's much tightness and pressure in the abdomen, like a podium. People prefer sweets and hot food and drinks, so so yeah, that's in within C-Diff when you're helping someone with that condition.
Speaker 1:I love. Okay, this might not be great to say, but I always think it's funny when it says incarcerated flatulence. What a way to say that I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2:Mom, my flatulence is incarcerated.
Speaker 1:Incarcerated. That's just so specific.
Speaker 2:It's love it Yep Addiction coffee addiction.
Speaker 1:Oh, polyuria during the night polyuria during the night.
Speaker 2:Mmm SIBO, Sore throat. You just talked about right Mm-hmm Infertility. All right, I'm almost to the bottom of my notes. Let's see what else oh don't.
Speaker 1:So what Kidney stones, gallstones.
Speaker 2:That gravel like symptom. Um, um, oversensitive to pain, ooh, asthma. When it's the, when asthma is worse, from four to 8 PM.
Speaker 1:I just read when you said that the modality keynote worse four to 8. Pm. That is funny that you said that at the same time. Psoriasis, that you think you said that already stage fright. Ooh, essential tremor.
Speaker 2:So where, so like a podium for essential tremor is where the involuntary, causeless shaking of the head is accompanied by dizziness. The motion of the head and patience requiring, like a podium, can either be from side to side, like you know, no, no, no movement, or backward and forward, like a yes movement. Ooh, warts, let's see, yep, lycopodium. I think this says lycopodium is for warts on the palm of the hands, palms of the hands. Ooh, sleep, let's see what it says about sleep, lycopodium. People who need this remedy often have no memory of dreams and often doubt that they have slept at all. Haven't you talked to?
Speaker 1:people like that. Yes, yeah, One of my kids. He'll wake up. I didn't sleep at all and I'm like I know you did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, cannot tolerate any tight clothing. Drowsy during the day, awakes terrified, anxious dreams of fatal accidents. Child sleeps all day and cries all night. Laughs or cries in their sleep restless sleep.
Speaker 1:I'm here to wakes at night feeling hungry. On waking the child starts, becomes cross, kicks, scolds or holds his mother unrefreshed in the morning. That sounds like my four-year-old right now waking up like that, such a grump. Maybe you need some like a podium. Yeah, of eating ever so little creates fullness. Did I say that?
Speaker 1:one of us did okay, okay, that is I mean really, if you look in the materia medica, like a podium club adam, club moss. It's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, almost nine full pages. That's crazy. It's a huge remedy, it's really big, huge remedy so I mean, I feel like we touched on a lot of the big aspects and, as you, I mean if you hit a bunch of those and as you read more, you fit more of those small, weirder, more unique. Um I'm trying to say symptoms.
Speaker 1:It could be great. I feel like sulfur probably fits everyone at some point, whether it's chronic or acute. I use it more acutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh you said sulfur did I say sulfur?
Speaker 1:well, you know what? Maybe I meant that one too. But I was thinking like, wow, that is crazy. I meant like podium.
Speaker 2:Um, I've used it acutely many times I mean that's, that's the only way I use it now I mean if I get, if I eat something, you know that, whatever I don't know I mean. Then if I get bloated or uncomfortable, then, yep, I'll just go take one dose of like a podium 200. I'm good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, such a good remedy. We like a podium.
Speaker 2:Really great. All right Materia Medica Monday like a podium. Excellent. Thanks for being here, friends. We'll see you next time.
