Lycopodioideae: Lycopodium, Diphasiastrum, Spinulum.
IntroductionLycopodiaceae is in the new version off the
Plant theory split up in 3 monophyletic groups:
Lycopodielloideae,
Lycopodioideae and
Diphasioideae.
The information from
Lycopodiaceae is shifted to
Lycopodioideae, which contains the mostly only known genus in this family Lycopodium.
HistoryLycopodium is historically one of the greatest remedies in homeopathy, a real polycrest. Its Materia Medica is so vast that it is impossible to memorise. The Swiss homeopath Kunzli prescribed Lycopodium very frequently. I got the impression that he gave it to almost anyone. But I did not have such good results with Lycopodium when I tried to do the same.
In studying the
Pteridophyta, the ferns, I left Lycopodium in the first period. Comparing and studying Lycopodium with other ferns would have overwhelmed all other information. The second reason was that there was no clear essence of Lycopodium, as if that was hidden in a mountain of information.
After a year, the theme of the ferns began to become clearer. At that moment the picture of Lycopodium also became clearer, an essence emerged in correspondence with the other ferns.
A colleague, I have forgotten who it was, has told me his picture of Lycopodium. I didn't write it down at that time, but what I remember is something as following. It is for a child who has to survive on his own in a world of adults, traveling from place to place. This fits very well with the picture in this book. And it is good expression of the remedy code 3-422.12.06.
4 means
Iron series: he lives in a village. 2 means he is child and that is there two times, so he is really feeling like a child, powerless to stand up against adults. But he has to,
Stage 6: he has to prove he is able to so. Meanwhile he feels weak, the
Phase 2; he feels he does not really belong to a group, although he is tolerated.