LYSSINUM

PREPARATION:

• Trituration of sugar of milk saturated with the saliva of a rabid dog.

• It is a nosode of rabies
• PROVER DR.HERING
• FIRST PROVED IN 1833
HOW DOES RABIES OCCUR:

• Rabies is an acute infection of the CNS

• At the site of rabid dog bite virus from the infected saliva enters the wound
• Virus multiplies in muscle and connective tissue at the site of bite
• And then enters the peripheral nerves
• Virus ascends the spinal chord and reaches the brain
• And then spreads to other organs through the nerves
CLINICAL:

• Convulsions
• Diarrhoea
• Dysentery
• Headache
• Hydrophobia
• Leucorrhoea
• Lysophobia
SPHERE OF ACTION:

• Affects principally on the CNS , THROAT & SEXUAL ORGANS

PATHO - PHYSIOLOGY :
• Acting upon the nervous system it produces the following
• Convulsions
• Hypersensitiveness
• Landry’s paralysis
• Nervousness
• Lysophobia
• Mania
• Neuralgia
• Satyriasis
• Tetanus
CONT.

• The sentient nerves of the mouth and pharynx are especially and peculiarly affected, also the
salivary glands.
• There is great congestion and inflammation of the brain, medulla oblongata, spinal cord,
tongue, throat, glottis, fauces, larynx, oesophagus, stomach, and especially kidneys
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS:

• Want water but cannot drink it

• The sight or sound of running water even thinking of it aggravates all complaints
• Hypersensitiveness of all senses
• Profuse salivation-saliva is tough, ropy, frothy, viscid with frequent spitting
• Constant desire to urinate & to pass stool on seeing running water
• Convulsions, spasms brought on by dazzling light or sight of running water
CONT:

• Complaints from abnormal sexual desire

• Cannot bear heat of sun(gels., glom., Lach.,nat. mur)
• Sleep persistent insomnia
• Ill effects of dog bite
• Dysphagia, spasm of oesophagus from swallowing liquids
• Bluish discolouration of wounds
AILMENTS FROM:

1. Dog bite
2. Excessive sexual desire
3. Mental exertion
MIND:

• Lyssophobia – intense fear of becoming mad

• Highly impulsive, violent temper, impatient
• Great apprehension as if something terrible is going to happen
• Rapid speech
• Emotion and bad news aggravate; also thinking of fluids
HEAD:

• Chronic headache from mental exertion, from dog bite

• Boring pain in forehead
EYES:

• Sensitive to light
• Swelling of eyelids after dog bite
• Sight of water aggitation
MOUTH & THROAT:

• Constant spitting
• Saliva tough, ropy, frothy
• Sore throat; constant desire to swallow, which is difficult
• Gagging when swallowing water
• Rapid speech
STOMACH:

• Desire for salt

• Aversion to fat food
• Voracious appetite
• Great oppression in stomach has to open her clothes
STOOL:

• Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water

• Profuse watery stool with pain in bowels
MALE:

• Lascivious, priapism, with frequent emissions

• No emission during coition
• Atrophy of testicles
• Complaints from abnormal sexual desire
FEMALE:

• Uterine sensitiveness, & displacements

• Sensitiveness of vagina,Rendering coition painful
• Conscious of womb
• Feels prolapsed
• Severe leucorrhoea with pains in back and lower part of bowel
RESPIRATORY:

• Spasmodic contraction of respiratory muscles

• Voice altered in tone
• Breathing held for a time
• Epiglottis crisp & dry
CONVULSIONS:

• From dazzling or reflected light, from water or mirror, from even thinking of fluids of any kind
• Landry’s paralysis-acute ascending paralysis
• Severe nervous twitching in whole body all day
• Twitching of tendons with tendency to convulsions
• Twitching every few minutes: sometimes more violently most marked in abdominal walls
MODALITIES:

• Aggravation: site or sound of running water, dazzling or reflected light, heat of sun, bad news,
thinking of fluids, mental exertion
• Amelioration: bending backwards, gentle rubbing
RELATIONSHIP:

• It follows well tab. , arg. nit , stram.

• Followed well by nat mur.
• Compare: bell., stram., hyoscyaminum
COMPARISONS IN RELATED TO
LYSSINUM:
• BELLADONNA:
1. violent mania; delirium; frightful images
2. Sudden flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions
3. Cramp, spasm and convulsive movements with violent contortion of the limbs
4. Convulsive fits and loss of consciousness
5. Renewal of symptoms by the least contact or from glare of light
6. Hydrophobia
CONT.:

• STRAMONIUM:
1. Religious mania
2. Cannot bear solitude
3. Always desires light and company; yet cannot tolerate dazzling or reflected light
4. Convulsions with consciousness(nux.); renewed by sight of bright light
5. During delirium and convulsion twitching of single or group of muscles especially upper part
of body
6. Hydrophobia; aversion to liquids
CONT.

• HYOSCYAMUS:
1. Lascivious mania; desire to uncover the body
2. Constant carpholagia
3. Great restlessness; every muscle twitches
4. Fear of being poisoned, being alone, of being bitten
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