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Lycopus virginicus (Lycps‑v.)

Lycopus virginicus (Lycps‑v.) appears in 58 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 4 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 6 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Mental activity, Thoughts, Sighing and Ideas. The picture that emerges is of a mind that does not come to rest in the evening and in the early morning hours.

The restless mind

The activity of the mind is the dominant theme; it is the most frequently represented main rubric. A single-remedy rubric records restless mental activity in the evening, small rubrics name it in the morning and at five o'clock at night, and the desire for mental exertion returns around the same hour. The day is thus set in motion at both ends. Opposed to this is a lack of ideas during the menses, and beside abundance of thoughts there are dullness and dizziness.

Sighing and compulsion

Sighing is bound to the evening, in a single-remedy rubric even to a time of day: "Sighing – evening – 7 p.m." A second single-remedy rubric describes a compulsion to which the person believes herself subject: "Delusions – touch – compelled to touch everything, she/he is". A small rubric, finally, names irritability in diabetes.

Summary

The few specific rubrics fit together into an evening and morning picture: the mind works when it should rest, and expresses itself in sighing and in the urge to touch things.

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