Indication / Benefits
Lycopodium clavatum, also known as club moss, is utilized in cases where anticipatory anxiety is prominent, often accompanied by a hidden lack of confidence masked by arrogance or sarcasm. It helps in treating aneurysms, constipation, fevers, chronic lung and bronchial issues, gastric inflammation, and chronic kidney disorders. Common physical symptoms include digestive issues like bloating and excessive gas.
Common names:
Hindi: Bendarli
English: Club moss
SBL’s Lycopodium clavatum can be helpful in the following conditions:
- Abscesses and Boils:
- Abscesses beneath the skin.
- Worsened by warm applications and warmth.
- Abdominal Problems:
- Bloating, easy satiety, gas affecting the lower abdomen.
- Worse in the evening, better with belching and passing flatus.
- Allergy:
- Allergic to oysters.
- Dislike for cooked food.
- Appetite:
- Easily satisfied but feels hungry even at night and eats at odd hours.
- Appetite decreases after a few mouthfuls of food.
- Arthritis:
- Presence of red sand in urine in gouty patients.
- Bed Wetting:
- Involuntary urination during sleep, fear of being alone, apprehensive.
- Blindness:
- Night blindness, partial vision of objects.
- Corns:
- Corns with soreness and tearing pain.
- Cough:
- Cough worse while going down in comparison to going up, worse 4-8 p.m.
- Dandruff:
- Dandruff with scalp itching and headache worse by bathing with hot water.
- Diarrhoea:
- Chilliness in the rectum before passing stools, aggravated from 4-8 p.m.
- Eczema:
- Eczema associated with digestive, liver, or urinary disorders, thickened and indurated skin.
- Filariasis:
- Chilly patient, desire for warm food and sweets, flatulent dyspepsia, always in a hurry; worsened by heat.
- Hair:
- Premature greying of hair in individuals under constant mental stress.
- Blood Pressure:
- Gastric origin, flatulence, craving for sweets, and warm food worsened from 4-8 p.m.
- Craving for sweets, flatulence in the lower abdomen, uric acid diathesis.
- Malaria:
- Chill followed by sweat. Icy coldness, one feet cold and the other hot. Thirst for warm drinks during the heat stage of fever (vomits after taking cold drinks), worse 4 to 8 p.m.
- Pruritus:
- Biting, itching when becoming warm, painful eruptions at the anus, itching of the inner surface of the prepuce.
- Renal Calculi:
- Difficulty in passing urine, feeble urine flow, presence of red sand in urine, burning, cutting pain before and during passing urine in the back part of the kidney, better after passing urine, worse on the right side.
