Lyssinum
The great hydrophobia remedy. Fear of water — sight, sound, or thought of water aggravates. Hypersensitivity to all stimuli. Convulsions from dazzling light or running water. Ailments from bites of animals. Excessive salivation with inability to swallow.
Source
Prepared from the saliva of a rabid dog, sterilised and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Fear of water (hydrophobia) — the sight, sound, or thought of water causes convulsive symptoms. Hypersensitivity to all stimuli — light, noise, touch, air currents. Profuse thick, ropy saliva that cannot be swallowed. Convulsive spasms from slight stimulation. Ailments from animal bites, dog bites. Snarling, snapping impulses. Tormented by desires they consider wrong.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Tormented by desires they consider wrong or immoral — constant fight between impulse and conscience. Irritable, snapping, snarling. Hyperactive. Fear of dogs, being alone, shining objects, water, insanity. Compulsive urge to bite. Sensation of being two persons.
General Symptoms
Hypersensitivity to all stimuli. Worse from sight/sound of water, bright/dazzling objects, heat of sun, draft of air, bending head backward. Better from gentle rubbing, bending forward.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache from sunlight, dog bites. Convulsions.
Throat
Spasm on attempting to swallow, especially liquids. Sore, constricted. Profuse, thick, ropy saliva. Constant desire to swallow but cannot.
Stomach
Nausea from sight of water. Vomiting. Intense thirst but cannot drink.
Female Genitalia
Uterine prolapse with hypersensitivity. Vaginal hypersensitivity.
Male Genitalia
Priapism. Excessive sexual desire.
Extremities
Spasms. Convulsions. Numbness of bitten limb.
Modalities
Better From
Gentle rubbing, bending forward
Worse From
Sight/sound/thought of water, bright objects, heat of sun, draft of air, emotional excitement, bending head backward
Constitutional Type
Not constitutional. Used for: hydrophobia-like states, effects of animal bites, moral conflict states, hypersensitivity syndromes.
Clinical Indications
Hydrophobia, effects of dog/animal bites, convulsions from stimulation, hypersensitivity, moral torment, excessive salivation, Tourette-like symptoms
Comparative Materia Medica
Stramonium also fears water and shining objects but with more terror and violence. Belladonna has spasms from light and shining objects. Cantharis has urinary symptoms with aversion to water but from burning.
Safety Information
Belladonna, Stramonium, Hyoscyamus.
Nosode — no material substance above 12C. Always used 200C+. Safe in potentised form.
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