Spegelia LM Potency Homeopathy Dilution

For Chronic catarrh, helminthiasis, neuralgia, sore throat, joint pain, glandular swellings , urinary diseases

Indications for Spegelia LM Potency Homeopathy Dilution:

Spigelia, often referred to as Pinkroot, is a significant remedy in the treatment of pericarditis and various heart diseases. The efficacy of Spigelia has been validated through thorough provings, ensuring that both objective and subjective symptoms are accurately represented and confirmed repeatedly (C. Hering).

Key Characteristics and Benefits

Elective Affinity

Spigelia exhibits a marked elective affinity for:

• Eye: Known for addressing rheumatic ophthalmia, ciliary neuralgia, and severe pain extending deep into the eye sockets.
• Heart: Effective in managing violent palpitations, pericarditis, angina pectoris, and rheumatic carditis. It alleviates symptoms such as præcordial pain, dyspnœa, and weak, irregular pulse.
• Nervous System: Particularly beneficial for neuralgia, especially of the fifth cranial nerve, and for treating symptoms related to nervous disorders.

Neuralgia and Sensitivity

• Neuralgia: Spigelia is highly effective for neuralgic pains, including facial neuralgia (prosopalgia) involving the eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth, and temple. Pain is often aggravated by stooping, touch, and movement.
• Sensitivity: The remedy is suitable for individuals who are highly sensitive to touch and feel chilly, with shudders running through their frame upon being touched.

Detailed Symptomatology

Mind

• Fear of Sharp Objects: Patients may exhibit a fear of sharp, pointed things like pins and needles.

Head

• Head Pain: Pain often presents beneath the frontal eminence and temples, extending to the eyes. It can be semi-lateral, violent, and throbbing, exacerbated by movements such as making a false step.
• Vertigo: Accompanied by heightened auditory perception.

Eyes

• Eye Sensations: Patients often feel as though their eyes are too large, with pressive pain upon turning them. Symptoms include dilated pupils, photophobia, and severe pain around the eyes.

Nose

• Nasal Issues: Chronic catarrh with post-nasal dropping of bland mucus and a consistently dry forepart of the nose.

Mouth

• Oral Symptoms: The tongue may be fissured and painful, with tearing toothache worsened by eating and cold. Foul odor and offensive taste in the mouth are common.

Face

• Facial Pain: Prosopalgia involving the eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth, and temple, worsening with stooping and touch, particularly from morning until sunset.

Heart

• Cardiac Symptoms: Includes violent palpitations, præcordial pain, and frequent attacks of palpitation with foul mouth odor. It effectively treats pericarditis, angina pectoris, and rheumatic carditis.

Rectum

• Rectal Issues: Symptoms include itching, crawling, and frequent ineffectual urging to stool, often related to the presence of ascarides (worms).

Fever

• Chilliness: Patients experience chills upon the slightest motion.

Modalities

• Worse: Symptoms worsen with touch, motion, noise, turning, washing, and concussion.
• Better: Improvement is noted when lying on the right side with the head elevated and during inspiration.

Comparative Remedies

• Similar Remedies: Spigelia Marylandica, Aconite, Cactus, Cimicifuga, Arnica (Spigelia is considered a chronic Arnica), Cinnabaris, Naja, Spongia, Sabadilla, Teucrium, and Cina for worm symptoms.

Antidote

• Pulsatilla: Acts as an antidote to Spigelia.

Dosage

• Neuralgic Symptoms: Sixth to thirtieth potency.
• Inflammatory Symptoms: Second to third potency.

About LM potency homeopathy medicines

In the sixth edition of ‘Organon,’ Dr. Hahnemann introduced a new system of dilution and potentization and called it “renewed dynamisation” with a diluting ratio of 1:50,000. It was named 50 millesimal potency or LM potency by Dr. Pierre Schmidt. In some parts of the world, it is also called Q potency. It soon got professional acceptance. To date, it is recognized by different homoeopathic pharmacopoeias including American and Indian.

What are they and how are they denoted?

These homoeopathic potencies are prepared in the diluting scale of 1:50,000 and denoted as 0/1, 0/2, 0/3…..etc. They are generally used up to 0/30.

Perceived advantages

• Highest development of power at each potency level.
• Mildest reaction – no medicinal aggravation.
• Frequent repetition is permitted; every hour or often in urgent cases.
• Quick cure in chronic cases where it can be given daily or often.
• 0/3 is more subtle than 30C or 200C and the 0/30 is sharper than CM as believed by many classical homoeopaths.

LM potency dosage: Generally LM potencies are administered as follows:

1. Take a 4oz (120ml) to 6oz (180ml) clean glass bottle. Fill it 3/4th with water. Take 1 or 2 globules of the desired potency (often starting at LM 0/1) and place it into the bottle.
2. Succuss the bottle just before ingestion 1 to 12 times depending on the sensitivity of the patient. This slightly raises the potency and activates the remedy.
3. Take 1, or more teaspoons of the medicinal solution and place it into 8 to 10 tablespoons of water in a dilution glass and stir it. Most cases are started with 1 teaspoon and the amount is increased only if necessary. In children, the amount should be 1/2 teaspoon. Infants may only need 1/4 of a teaspoon.

The dosage of the medicinal solution can be carefully adjusted to suit the sensitivity of the individual’s constitution

Note: We dispense SBL LM potency medicines in 1/2, 1 & 2 dram plastic containers, image for illustrative purposes only.