June 9, 2025 • 25 mins
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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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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 somefan mail and this person writes
from Lubbock, texas, and he orshe says I listened to brush
(00:28):
floss.
So this is the one aboutbrushing and flossing and dental
things.
But my question is about rootcanals and or broken teeth.
Would you just have the toothpulled or would you do the root
canal, and what to do with thebroken tooth?
So my, what I would do formyself is not have a root canal,
(00:57):
I would get the tooth pulled.
I would get the tooth pulledand, um, if that's you know, if
you can't fix it or crown it orcap it um, sorry, my device is
trying to ask me questions Um, Iwould have it pulled.
(01:18):
And then, um, so I have.
I know several people who hadit pulled but didn't put
anything in its place years ago,years ago, and the dentist was
like you can't do that, you haveto have something in its place.
And these people that I know inreal life have had zero trouble
(01:41):
.
So I'm not saying, you know,that's true for everyone.
There may be people out therethat didn't put something in its
place and something terriblehappened.
I don't know, you know put.
I don't know what, what youwould.
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You know a bridge or a an implant, something that
goes there yeah, implant soundsright, but I don't know.
A flipper Is that a flipper?
Is that a beautiful flipper?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
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 (02:17):
it why?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
does it need to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
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 aretainer with it, I don't know.
Okay, all right, it doesn'tmatter that thing.
Whatever the options are, yeahif.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But if you put an m, if you implant something and
you're putting metal in there, Imean 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 thetooth is.
You know, if it's way back here, I'm putting nothing in its
place, just going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know if it's up here and with the broken tooth.
So what do you do if it's?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
broken?
If it's broken and you're justworried about the way it looks,
I don't know Like I mean.
Dennis, you know I'm definitelynot a dentist, so I don't know
what the options are.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Um, what?
What I do know is that I wouldnot have a root canal.
Yeah, agreed, there's.
So I mean you could literallylook up for days information on
that.
So do that.
I would not do that.
If you are having lots ofdental problems, then listen to
that podcast.
You should be taking cell salts.
There's lots of things you cando Remineralizing stuff, tooth
putties.
Your diet plays a huge role, soif you're having recurring
(03:42):
problems, you should dosomething about that.
And then your tooth pain comboif there's pain in the meantime
hypericum, arnica and pyrogenium.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
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 podcastif you haven't heard it yet.
That's my answer.
So thanks, lubbock, texas, forposting the question.
If you want to send in aquestion like that for us to
(04:16):
answer on a future episode,there is a link somewhere in the
podcast, wherever you'relistening right now, and it says
if you want to ask Melissa aquestion, you know, send her a
text, and so just click the link.
All right, so lycopodiumLycopodium is a polycrest remedy
(04:37):
.
Polycrest remedies are just thetop main remedies that are most
often used.
That's what that is.
So lycopodium is very oftenused.
I like to use lycopodium in a200C most often, but you decide
(04:58):
on the potency and how oftenbased on the condition and the
person and you all the things soum, keynotes for like a podium
are indigestion so it's got alot of gut stuff bloating, gas,
um, heartburn, constipation,constipation, um, and gurgling.
(05:29):
Just looking down the list ofdigestive and liver issues with
gas and bloating, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Um food intolerances too.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
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
(06:02):
unnatural bravado.
So they are really bold.
You know, an unnatural bravadois that just that boldness with
the intent to impress peopleright or intimidate people.
They can be self-conscious,they can feel helpless or
(06:23):
overwhelmed.
They can have tears onadmonition, fear of the dark and
fear of being alone.
Lycopodium is great for men andwomen Low confidence, bossy and
domineering or submissive.
Anticipatory anxiety,especially about new things.
So they might ask a millionquestions where are we going?
(06:46):
What time are we going to bethere?
What is going to happen when weget there?
Where, how are we going to getthere?
What are we going to take?
What's going to happen?
You know they just there's.
It's like, oh my gosh, you knowso.
A million questions because ofthe anticipatory anxiety.
Um, they don't feel good aboutthemselves, so they put other
people down to feel better aboutthemselves.
(07:06):
They seem to be arrogant andoverconfident because they put
on that show.
They can be fearful and shy,timid.
They don't want to bequestioned because they don't
want their lack of knowledge orlack of confidence to be exposed
, their lack of knowledge orlack of confidence to be exposed
.
The questions make themuncomfortable because they don't
(07:29):
want you to know.
They don't really know whatthey're talking about Anger on
not being respected.
Overvalue the masculine andundervalue the feminine Jealousy
(07:50):
of older siblings who get tostay up later and do more things
.
They'll stay in a situation thatthey'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 stomachachebefore presentations or new
activities.
They have fears of failureundertaking new things and of
(08:11):
not reaching their destination.
They feel small, weak anddefenseless, but they want to be
big and strong.
He feels like nobody.
He feels like a nobody butwants to be a somebody.
He's working hard to reach hisdestination, even though his
(08:33):
confidence is low and hisanxiety is high.
His fear of not amounting toanything in life makes him
anxious enough to keep going.
They can be clever.
They can refuse to take on apromotion because it means more
responsibility.
That is such a foreign conceptto me because I'm like I've
(08:56):
always been like promotion.
That's me, let's go Right.
He'd rather be a big fish in asmall pond than a small fish in
a big pond.
Um, taking on changes and newresponsibilities is hard.
They are creatures of habit.
They need things to stay thesame.
(09:16):
They fear the responsibility ofmarriage 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 nextword is grumpy Grumpy.
(09:39):
Grumpy like a podium likes tobe on their own in a room, but
with somebody in the house inanother room.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I know people like this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yes, me too.
Get away from me, don't talk tome, don't come near me, but as
long as you're in, I don't wantto be in this house by myself.
Don't leave me here alone.
Yeah, I know that you're inthat room so I feel better.
This is a big remedy fordyslexia.
I've had great success withlycopodium and dyslexia.
They make mistakes in reading,writing, spelling.
(10:09):
Lycopodium might help to softendyslexia and help the brain to
function better, and this childor person may have gone through
a period, before being diagnosedwith dyslexia, of being told or
(10:29):
made to feel that they'restupid.
So their confidence went reallydown, went way down.
So then their confidence is lowand then Lecapodium helps that.
This is great for victims ofall types of abuse ailments from
punishment, sexual abuse anddomination.
They were unable to defendthemselves.
(10:51):
It could have been a bully, andyou know they might become a
bully because they were bullied,so they pass it on down the
line.
They tend to love sugar andcrave sugar and sweet things.
They like filling foods likebread, pasta, pastries, heavy
(11:12):
things that fill them up.
They get hungry, often full ofgas and bloating.
They dislike rich and creamyfoods because it upsets their
digestion.
Lycopodium is a big liver remedy.
The symptoms tend to beright-sided, the liver is on the
right side.
(11:33):
They like warm and hot drinks,not cold drinks.
Unless it's an alcoholic drink,then they want it cold.
They might have really goodenergy until 4 pm.
Then they have very low energyfrom 4 to 8 pm.
They can have menstrualproblems due to the liver issues
(11:54):
like PMS.
They want more sugar and thenthey get very bloated and tender
breasts.
They might get IBS due tostress, pain in the belly on the
right side, migraines on theright side that are debilitating
and come on as a result ofanticipation.
(12:16):
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 onthe right lung causing pneumonia
, lung cancer, lots of coughs,bronchitis, pneumonia worse on
waking in the morning and worsein the afternoon.
(12:38):
Feels better with a hot drink.
This is good for impotence.
It's a big skin remedy, bigpsoriasis remedy when it comes
on the outside of the joints,psoriasis in the scalp and ears,
eczema, and especially good forpromphalics promphalics eczema.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
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 (13:09):
Pompflex?
Great question, I don't knowhow to say it.
Pompflex Okay, pompflex meansbubble, and this eczema shows up
on the hands and sides offingers with little bubbles
filled with clear fluid that popup when and then the skin peels
and it's itchy.
It can be on the feet too, andthis could be a fungal issue.
That's exactly what used tohappen to me when I had the
(13:30):
gluten intolerance the bubbleson the insides of the fingers.
It was terrible, so itchy.
That is a good one.
Is there anything else in theMateria Medica I also have here?
They may have had a domineeringparent that puts, puts them
down, shatters their confidence,or a teacher that's mean to
(13:51):
them and they lose theirself-image, and so then, like, a
podium can help them um, I didsee some other things that I
thought maybe are like notthings you would normally think
of like a podium for.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, so if maybe you know more, these were things I
didn't expect, so I'll read someof those.
Yeah, it can be a good coughremedy.
You touched on all of these,but more detailed on like a
podium cough.
I think you actually told methis this winter.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, that you've used like a podium for coughs.
Well, it's not, no, it's notone that I think of very often.
I probably have, but onlybecause I found it, you know, in
the material medical.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's not ever the first thought, but it has a deep
, hollow tickling cough.
Worse with eating and drinkingcold things, loose cough in the
daytime and suffocated fits atnight, nighttime cough tickling
as from sulfur fumes.
So I think we found it when youwere looking for tickly coughs,
(14:53):
because if you've been aroundin the winter of 2024 to 2025,
everybody and their mother has atickly cough that won't go away
and we were looking at everyoption of remedies to try.
I think that's what made us youfound like a podium.
I had to write that down.
(15:13):
Yeah Well, and we talked a lotabout other tickly coughs, but
that one was a good one thatwe've seen work a couple of
times recently.
And then recurrent styes.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I thought that was an interesting one.
It's bold too.
Um inflammatory affection ofeyes, recurring styes,
malnutrition, um excessivehunger I have heard people say
that where their kids always saythey're starving, but they're
like bloated, but they're alwaysstarving.
Hypoglycemia, Headache when noteating regularly, Desire for
(15:55):
sweets, food allergies,especially wheat.
Let me see what else.
Right-sided headaches Painbegins 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.
(16:15):
When you don't eat, they get aheadache, which I never thought
of a remedy because I'm like duhyou know, like eat food, so eat
first and then maybe that's agood.
if you have a headache, maybethat would help your headache.
Go away and eat food.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Mm-hmm, but also it's just part of the whole picture.
So you know, when we're takinga whole case, that's a piece of
the puzzle that, oh, they getheadaches.
You know, if all, if they havea lot of the low lycopodium
symptoms and then also they getheadaches if they don't eat
Right.
So not necessarily that we haveto take like a podium when you
get that, but that is part ofthe picture, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Good, good point, thank you.
Um, just trying to think.
You want me to read somemodalities.
Yeah, better with motion,better belching, urinating,
better warm food and drink,which you mentioned that worse
on the right side typically, orright to left.
Worse in the warm room, warmbed, warm applications Except.
(17:16):
So this is interesting it'sworse with warm drinks.
So throat and stomach, warmdrinks and food.
But the environment is no sorryother way around Better warmth
and your throat and food, butnot better for a warm
environment Interesting, yeah,like they warm environment
(17:37):
Interesting, yeah, like theywant to be uncovered.
Yeah, um, worse from pressureof clothes.
So that's actually a good one.
If you're like bloated andyou'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 (17:54):
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 theday, with, starting in sleep,
vivid dreams of accidents well,that's pretty specific yeah,
(18:17):
yeah, because there's lots ofdifferent like um, you know
narcolepsy remedies, but so thedifferential of like like a
podium is that um also like apodium is good for c diff um,
that's a good one to know tooyeah, where weakness of
(18:38):
digestion occurs immediatelyafter a meal, the abdomen feels
distended and bloated.
There's a constant sensation offermentation in the abdomen.
There is such there's muchtightness and pressure in the
abdomen, like a podium.
People prefer sweets and hotfood and drinks, so so yeah,
that's in within C-Diff whenyou're helping someone with that
(18:59):
condition.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I love.
Okay, this might not be greatto say, but I always think it's
funny when it says incarceratedflatulence.
What a way to say that I loveit.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Mom, my flatulence is incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Incarcerated.
That's just so specific.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's love it Yep Addiction coffee addiction.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh, polyuria during the night polyuria during the
night.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Mmm SIBO, Sore throat .
You just talked about rightMm-hmm Infertility.
All right, I'm almost to thebottom of my notes.
Let's see what else oh don't.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So what Kidney stones , gallstones.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That gravel like symptom.
Um, um, oversensitive to pain,ooh, asthma.
When it's the, when asthma isworse, from four to 8 PM.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I just read when you said that the modality keynote
worse four to 8.
Pm.
That is funny that you saidthat at the same time.
Psoriasis, that you think yousaid that already stage fright.
Ooh, essential tremor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So where, so like a podium for essential tremor is
where the involuntary, causelessshaking of the head is
accompanied by dizziness.
The motion of the head andpatience requiring, like a
podium, can either be from sideto side, like you know, no, no,
no movement, or backward andforward, like a yes movement.
(20:55):
Ooh, warts, let's see, yep,lycopodium.
I think this says lycopodium isfor warts on the palm of the
hands, palms of the hands.
Ooh, sleep, let's see what itsays about sleep, lycopodium.
People who need this remedyoften have no memory of dreams
(21:15):
and often doubt that they haveslept at all.
Haven't you talked to?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
people like that.
Yes, yeah, One of my kids.
He'll wake up.
I didn't sleep at all and I'mlike I know you did.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, cannot tolerate any tight clothing.
Drowsy during the day, awakesterrified, anxious dreams of
fatal accidents.
Child sleeps all day and criesall night.
Laughs or cries in their sleeprestless sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'm here to wakes at night feeling hungry.
On waking the child starts,becomes cross, kicks, scolds or
holds his mother unrefreshed inthe morning.
That sounds like myfour-year-old right now waking
up like that, such a grump.
Maybe you need some like apodium.
Yeah, of eating ever so littlecreates fullness.
(22:10):
Did I say that?
one of us did okay, okay, thatis I mean really, if you look in
the materia medica, like apodium club adam, club moss.
It's one, two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight, nine,
(22:31):
almost nine full pages.
That's crazy.
It's a huge remedy, it's reallybig, huge remedy so I mean, I
feel like we touched on a lot ofthe big aspects and, as you, I
mean if you hit a bunch of thoseand as you read more, you fit
more of those small, weirder,more unique.
(22:51):
Um I'm trying to say symptoms.
It could be great.
I feel like sulfur probablyfits everyone at some point,
whether it's chronic or acute.
I use it more acutely.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, oh you said sulfur did I say sulfur?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
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 (23:21):
Um, I've used it acutely many times I mean that's
, that's the only way I use itnow I mean if I get, if I eat
something, you know that,whatever I don't know I mean.
Then if I get bloated oruncomfortable, then, yep, I'll
just go take one dose of like apodium 200.
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, such a good remedy.
We like a podium.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Really great.
All right Materia Medica Mondaylike a podium.
Excellent.
Thanks for being here, friends.
We'll see you next time.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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 somefan mail and this person writes
from Lubbock, texas, and he orshe says I listened to brush
(00:28):
floss.
So this is the one aboutbrushing and flossing and dental
things.
But my question is about rootcanals and or broken teeth.
Would you just have the toothpulled or would you do the root
canal, and what to do with thebroken tooth?
So my, what I would do formyself is not have a root canal,
(00:57):
I would get the tooth pulled.
I would get the tooth pulledand, um, if that's you know, if
you can't fix it or crown it orcap it um, sorry, my device is
trying to ask me questions Um, Iwould have it pulled.
(01:18):
And then, um, so I have.
I know several people who hadit pulled but didn't put
anything in its place years ago,years ago, and the dentist was
like you can't do that, you haveto have something in its place.
And these people that I know inreal life have had zero trouble
(01:41):
.
So I'm not saying, you know,that's true for everyone.
There may be people out therethat didn't put something in its
place and something terriblehappened.
I don't know, you know put.
I don't know what, what youwould.
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You know a bridge or a an implant, something that
goes there yeah, implant soundsright, but I don't know.
A flipper Is that a flipper?
Is that a beautiful flipper?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
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 (02:17):
it why?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
does it need to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
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 aretainer with it, I don't know.
Okay, all right, it doesn'tmatter that thing.
Whatever the options are, yeahif.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But if you put an m, if you implant something and
you're putting metal in there, Imean 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 thetooth is.
You know, if it's way back here, I'm putting nothing in its
place, just going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know if it's up here and with the broken tooth.
So what do you do if it's?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
broken?
If it's broken and you're justworried about the way it looks,
I don't know Like I mean.
Dennis, you know I'm definitelynot a dentist, so I don't know
what the options are.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Um, what?
What I do know is that I wouldnot have a root canal.
Yeah, agreed, there's.
So I mean you could literallylook up for days information on
that.
So do that.
I would not do that.
If you are having lots ofdental problems, then listen to
that podcast.
You should be taking cell salts.
There's lots of things you cando Remineralizing stuff, tooth
putties.
Your diet plays a huge role, soif you're having recurring
(03:42):
problems, you should dosomething about that.
And then your tooth pain comboif there's pain in the meantime
hypericum, arnica and pyrogenium.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
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 podcastif you haven't heard it yet.
That's my answer.
So thanks, lubbock, texas, forposting the question.
If you want to send in aquestion like that for us to
(04:16):
answer on a future episode,there is a link somewhere in the
podcast, wherever you'relistening right now, and it says
if you want to ask Melissa aquestion, you know, send her a
text, and so just click the link.
All right, so lycopodiumLycopodium is a polycrest remedy
(04:37):
.
Polycrest remedies are just thetop main remedies that are most
often used.
That's what that is.
So lycopodium is very oftenused.
I like to use lycopodium in a200C most often, but you decide
(04:58):
on the potency and how oftenbased on the condition and the
person and you all the things soum, keynotes for like a podium
are indigestion so it's got alot of gut stuff bloating, gas,
um, heartburn, constipation,constipation, um, and gurgling.
(05:29):
Just looking down the list ofdigestive and liver issues with
gas and bloating, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Um food intolerances too.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
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
(06:02):
unnatural bravado.
So they are really bold.
You know, an unnatural bravadois that just that boldness with
the intent to impress peopleright or intimidate people.
They can be self-conscious,they can feel helpless or
(06:23):
overwhelmed.
They can have tears onadmonition, fear of the dark and
fear of being alone.
Lycopodium is great for men andwomen Low confidence, bossy and
domineering or submissive.
Anticipatory anxiety,especially about new things.
So they might ask a millionquestions where are we going?
(06:46):
What time are we going to bethere?
What is going to happen when weget there?
Where, how are we going to getthere?
What are we going to take?
What's going to happen?
You know they just there's.
It's like, oh my gosh, you knowso.
A million questions because ofthe anticipatory anxiety.
Um, they don't feel good aboutthemselves, so they put other
people down to feel better aboutthemselves.
(07:06):
They seem to be arrogant andoverconfident because they put
on that show.
They can be fearful and shy,timid.
They don't want to bequestioned because they don't
want their lack of knowledge orlack of confidence to be exposed
, their lack of knowledge orlack of confidence to be exposed
.
The questions make themuncomfortable because they don't
(07:29):
want you to know.
They don't really know whatthey're talking about Anger on
not being respected.
Overvalue the masculine andundervalue the feminine Jealousy
(07:50):
of older siblings who get tostay up later and do more things
.
They'll stay in a situation thatthey'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 stomachachebefore presentations or new
activities.
They have fears of failureundertaking new things and of
(08:11):
not reaching their destination.
They feel small, weak anddefenseless, but they want to be
big and strong.
He feels like nobody.
He feels like a nobody butwants to be a somebody.
He's working hard to reach hisdestination, even though his
(08:33):
confidence is low and hisanxiety is high.
His fear of not amounting toanything in life makes him
anxious enough to keep going.
They can be clever.
They can refuse to take on apromotion because it means more
responsibility.
That is such a foreign conceptto me because I'm like I've
(08:56):
always been like promotion.
That's me, let's go Right.
He'd rather be a big fish in asmall pond than a small fish in
a big pond.
Um, taking on changes and newresponsibilities is hard.
They are creatures of habit.
They need things to stay thesame.
(09:16):
They fear the responsibility ofmarriage 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 nextword is grumpy Grumpy.
(09:39):
Grumpy like a podium likes tobe on their own in a room, but
with somebody in the house inanother room.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I know people like this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yes, me too.
Get away from me, don't talk tome, don't come near me, but as
long as you're in, I don't wantto be in this house by myself.
Don't leave me here alone.
Yeah, I know that you're inthat room so I feel better.
This is a big remedy fordyslexia.
I've had great success withlycopodium and dyslexia.
They make mistakes in reading,writing, spelling.
(10:09):
Lycopodium might help to softendyslexia and help the brain to
function better, and this childor person may have gone through
a period, before being diagnosedwith dyslexia, of being told or
(10:29):
made to feel that they'restupid.
So their confidence went reallydown, went way down.
So then their confidence is lowand then Lecapodium helps that.
This is great for victims ofall types of abuse ailments from
punishment, sexual abuse anddomination.
They were unable to defendthemselves.
(10:51):
It could have been a bully, andyou know they might become a
bully because they were bullied,so they pass it on down the
line.
They tend to love sugar andcrave sugar and sweet things.
They like filling foods likebread, pasta, pastries, heavy
(11:12):
things that fill them up.
They get hungry, often full ofgas and bloating.
They dislike rich and creamyfoods because it upsets their
digestion.
Lycopodium is a big liver remedy.
The symptoms tend to beright-sided, the liver is on the
right side.
(11:33):
They like warm and hot drinks,not cold drinks.
Unless it's an alcoholic drink,then they want it cold.
They might have really goodenergy until 4 pm.
Then they have very low energyfrom 4 to 8 pm.
They can have menstrualproblems due to the liver issues
(11:54):
like PMS.
They want more sugar and thenthey get very bloated and tender
breasts.
They might get IBS due tostress, pain in the belly on the
right side, migraines on theright side that are debilitating
and come on as a result ofanticipation.
(12:16):
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 onthe right lung causing pneumonia
, lung cancer, lots of coughs,bronchitis, pneumonia worse on
waking in the morning and worsein the afternoon.
(12:38):
Feels better with a hot drink.
This is good for impotence.
It's a big skin remedy, bigpsoriasis remedy when it comes
on the outside of the joints,psoriasis in the scalp and ears,
eczema, and especially good forpromphalics promphalics eczema.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
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 (13:09):
Pompflex?
Great question, I don't knowhow to say it.
Pompflex Okay, pompflex meansbubble, and this eczema shows up
on the hands and sides offingers with little bubbles
filled with clear fluid that popup when and then the skin peels
and it's itchy.
It can be on the feet too, andthis could be a fungal issue.
That's exactly what used tohappen to me when I had the
(13:30):
gluten intolerance the bubbleson the insides of the fingers.
It was terrible, so itchy.
That is a good one.
Is there anything else in theMateria Medica I also have here?
They may have had a domineeringparent that puts, puts them
down, shatters their confidence,or a teacher that's mean to
(13:51):
them and they lose theirself-image, and so then, like, a
podium can help them um, I didsee some other things that I
thought maybe are like notthings you would normally think
of like a podium for.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, so if maybe you know more, these were things I
didn't expect, so I'll read someof those.
Yeah, it can be a good coughremedy.
You touched on all of these,but more detailed on like a
podium cough.
I think you actually told methis this winter.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, that you've used like a podium for coughs.
Well, it's not, no, it's notone that I think of very often.
I probably have, but onlybecause I found it, you know, in
the material medical.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's not ever the first thought, but it has a deep
, hollow tickling cough.
Worse with eating and drinkingcold things, loose cough in the
daytime and suffocated fits atnight, nighttime cough tickling
as from sulfur fumes.
So I think we found it when youwere looking for tickly coughs,
(14:53):
because if you've been aroundin the winter of 2024 to 2025,
everybody and their mother has atickly cough that won't go away
and we were looking at everyoption of remedies to try.
I think that's what made us youfound like a podium.
I had to write that down.
(15:13):
Yeah Well, and we talked a lotabout other tickly coughs, but
that one was a good one thatwe've seen work a couple of
times recently.
And then recurrent styes.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I thought that was an interesting one.
It's bold too.
Um inflammatory affection ofeyes, recurring styes,
malnutrition, um excessivehunger I have heard people say
that where their kids always saythey're starving, but they're
like bloated, but they're alwaysstarving.
Hypoglycemia, Headache when noteating regularly, Desire for
(15:55):
sweets, food allergies,especially wheat.
Let me see what else.
Right-sided headaches Painbegins 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.
(16:15):
When you don't eat, they get aheadache, which I never thought
of a remedy because I'm like duhyou know, like eat food, so eat
first and then maybe that's agood.
if you have a headache, maybethat would help your headache.
Go away and eat food.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Mm-hmm, but also it's just part of the whole picture.
So you know, when we're takinga whole case, that's a piece of
the puzzle that, oh, they getheadaches.
You know, if all, if they havea lot of the low lycopodium
symptoms and then also they getheadaches if they don't eat
Right.
So not necessarily that we haveto take like a podium when you
get that, but that is part ofthe picture, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Good, good point, thank you.
Um, just trying to think.
You want me to read somemodalities.
Yeah, better with motion,better belching, urinating,
better warm food and drink,which you mentioned that worse
on the right side typically, orright to left.
Worse in the warm room, warmbed, warm applications Except.
(17:16):
So this is interesting it'sworse with warm drinks.
So throat and stomach, warmdrinks and food.
But the environment is no sorryother way around Better warmth
and your throat and food, butnot better for a warm
environment Interesting, yeah,like they warm environment
(17:37):
Interesting, yeah, like theywant to be uncovered.
Yeah, um, worse from pressureof clothes.
So that's actually a good one.
If you're like bloated andyou'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 (17:54):
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 theday, with, starting in sleep,
vivid dreams of accidents well,that's pretty specific yeah,
(18:17):
yeah, because there's lots ofdifferent like um, you know
narcolepsy remedies, but so thedifferential of like like a
podium is that um also like apodium is good for c diff um,
that's a good one to know tooyeah, where weakness of
(18:38):
digestion occurs immediatelyafter a meal, the abdomen feels
distended and bloated.
There's a constant sensation offermentation in the abdomen.
There is such there's muchtightness and pressure in the
abdomen, like a podium.
People prefer sweets and hotfood and drinks, so so yeah,
that's in within C-Diff whenyou're helping someone with that
(18:59):
condition.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I love.
Okay, this might not be greatto say, but I always think it's
funny when it says incarceratedflatulence.
What a way to say that I loveit.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Mom, my flatulence is incarcerated.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Incarcerated.
That's just so specific.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's love it Yep Addiction coffee addiction.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh, polyuria during the night polyuria during the
night.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Mmm SIBO, Sore throat .
You just talked about rightMm-hmm Infertility.
All right, I'm almost to thebottom of my notes.
Let's see what else oh don't.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So what Kidney stones , gallstones.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That gravel like symptom.
Um, um, oversensitive to pain,ooh, asthma.
When it's the, when asthma isworse, from four to 8 PM.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I just read when you said that the modality keynote
worse four to 8.
Pm.
That is funny that you saidthat at the same time.
Psoriasis, that you think yousaid that already stage fright.
Ooh, essential tremor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So where, so like a podium for essential tremor is
where the involuntary, causelessshaking of the head is
accompanied by dizziness.
The motion of the head andpatience requiring, like a
podium, can either be from sideto side, like you know, no, no,
no movement, or backward andforward, like a yes movement.
(20:55):
Ooh, warts, let's see, yep,lycopodium.
I think this says lycopodium isfor warts on the palm of the
hands, palms of the hands.
Ooh, sleep, let's see what itsays about sleep, lycopodium.
People who need this remedyoften have no memory of dreams
(21:15):
and often doubt that they haveslept at all.
Haven't you talked to?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
people like that.
Yes, yeah, One of my kids.
He'll wake up.
I didn't sleep at all and I'mlike I know you did.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, cannot tolerate any tight clothing.
Drowsy during the day, awakesterrified, anxious dreams of
fatal accidents.
Child sleeps all day and criesall night.
Laughs or cries in their sleeprestless sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'm here to wakes at night feeling hungry.
On waking the child starts,becomes cross, kicks, scolds or
holds his mother unrefreshed inthe morning.
That sounds like myfour-year-old right now waking
up like that, such a grump.
Maybe you need some like apodium.
Yeah, of eating ever so littlecreates fullness.
(22:10):
Did I say that?
one of us did okay, okay, thatis I mean really, if you look in
the materia medica, like apodium club adam, club moss.
It's one, two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight, nine,
(22:31):
almost nine full pages.
That's crazy.
It's a huge remedy, it's reallybig, huge remedy so I mean, I
feel like we touched on a lot ofthe big aspects and, as you, I
mean if you hit a bunch of thoseand as you read more, you fit
more of those small, weirder,more unique.
(22:51):
Um I'm trying to say symptoms.
It could be great.
I feel like sulfur probablyfits everyone at some point,
whether it's chronic or acute.
I use it more acutely.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, oh you said sulfur did I say sulfur?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
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 (23:21):
Um, I've used it acutely many times I mean that's
, that's the only way I use itnow I mean if I get, if I eat
something, you know that,whatever I don't know I mean.
Then if I get bloated oruncomfortable, then, yep, I'll
just go take one dose of like apodium 200.
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, such a good remedy.
We like a podium.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Really great.
All right Materia Medica Mondaylike a podium.
Excellent.
Thanks for being here, friends.
We'll see you next time.
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