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Club Moss
MENTAL / EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS:
- Lack of self confidence.
- Fear of responsibility, Cowardice.
- FEARS DARK, GHOSTS, BEING ALONE IN THE HOUSE.
- "One night stands", doesn't want to take responsibility.
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS:
- DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN from gas; flatulence, eructations.
- Liver affections.
- Promiscuity.
- Impotency due to sexual excesses.
- Premature ejaculation or loss of erection during coition.
- Fan like motion of nostrils.
- One foot hot, the other cold; heels are cracked.
- Emaciation of upper part of body.
GENERALITIES:
- Right sided remedy.
- Ailments go from right side to left.
- SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE FROM 4 - 8 p.m.
- Hungry at night, appetite increases while eating, or ravenous appetite with easy satiety after eating a mouthful.
- Sleeps on right side.
- Desires sweets, warm drinks.
- Aversion to cold drinks.
- Unrefreshed sleep, wants to sleep more; worse in the morning on waking.
MODALITIES:
- Amelioration: Eructations and flatus.
- Aggravation: 4 - 8 p.m., mornings on waking.
G.V.: How is the anxiety or the panic states of Lycopodium? Lycopodium is a remedy that is a low key remedy for panic attacks and anxiety states. That means, in Lycopodium you will never see the intensity we have been describing in the other remedies. Lycopodiums panics are coming because of fear of facing responsibility and a lack of courage to face a situation.
Anxiety about health
Lycopodium can become terrified by almost anything being alone, the dark, ghosts, even strange dogs. There is a great fear of suffering of any kind; thus the Lycopodium patient can become anxious about his health to the point of hypochondriasis. The fear and anxieties affect mostly the gastrointestinal tract.
Lycopodium will go into a panic state if their boss at their work tells them that they have not done a good job, done a lousy job etc., when they are reprimanded. They may receive some hints that their job may be in danger if their performance does not improve.
Then Lycopodium will go into a panic state, and the inclination will be to just run away from the situation. They simply want to leave the place, go away, they cannot face it, they don't have the courage to face the situation. And that brings about a state of anxiety, of fear.
A fear even of people, of coming into contact with other individuals. They want to be alone, and at the same time they feel weak. And that is why they say Lycopodium likes to be alone in the house, but wants somebody around to feel that somebody is there (in the next room, in the garden, ...), but it doesn't want to be bothered by that person. The anxiety of Lycopodium develops the moment he feels he is alone, he has no support.