LAMIUM ALBUMLiquid

Lamium album is a valuable and important homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh flowering and seeding plant of Lamium album, a member of the Labiatæ (Lamiaceae) family. Known for its profound action on the female reproductive system, gastrointestinal tract, and nervous system, Lamium is especially suited for cases involving early and scanty menstruation, leucorrhœa, abdominal heaviness, and emotional disturbances. The medicine is characterized by dragging pelvic sensations, rawness in mucous membranes, emotional agitation, and restlessness, making it highly beneficial in both acute and chronic gynecological and psychosomatic conditions. It is also notable for its effects on the central nervous system, urinary tract, and skin, offering relief in nervous menstrual states, ulcerations, and mental dullness.

Common Name

English: White Dead Nettle

SBL’s Lamium album can be helpful in the following conditions:

Female Reproductive Complaints

• Beneficial in cases of early and insufficient menstruation, especially when it recurs 10–12 days early.
• Relieves dragging pain in the lower abdomen and left pelvic region, as if a hernia would protrude.
• Assists in profuse, white, painless leucorrhœa, sometimes accompanied by biting or raw sensations in the genitals.
• Useful in nervous agitation and heaviness in the abdomen during premenstrual phases.

Mental and Emotional Hypersensitivity

• Lamium album is indicated in melancholy, sadness with a weeping disposition, and feelings of abandonment.
• Helps manage anxiety and mental restlessness that prevents sleep or relaxation.
• Addresses trembling of limbs and emotional hypersensitivity linked to digestive & hormonal ailments.

Headache and Cephalagia

• Alleviates tight, compressive headaches in the center of the brain, worse on rising from a stooped posture.
• Improves head tightness, especially near the coronal suture, and dullness of hearing and sight.
• Head mobility issues with sensations of brain being pressed from all directions.

Digestive and Abdominal Complaints

• Useful in burning sensations in the chest and esophagus after eating or drinking.
• Manages nausea with vomiting of food, coupled with lassitude, heat and blurred vision. Great despondency with indigestion.
• Eases flatulent distension and pinching pain from trapped gas not relieved by expulsion.
• Relieves abdominal agitation with sensations mimicking onset of menstruation. Relieves discharge of thick mucus from the bottom of esophagus.

Stool and Rectal Conditions

• Helps in soft, pap-like stools that may be accompanied by blood.
• Alleviates rectal pressure, and bleeding following hard bowel movements.

Urinary Tract Disturbances

• Assists frequent and urgent urination with very scanty output.
• Helps in discharge of serum from the urethra.

Dyspnea and Chest Discomfort

• Supports in weak, faltering voice caused by mental strain or agitation.
• Relieves shortness of breath while speaking and anxiety-linked chest tightness.
• Alleviates nausea linked with chest discomfort and breathlessness.

Back and Limb Ailments

• Manages bruised sensations in the small of the back, especially during or before menses.
• Helps with numbness and crawling sensations in hands and thumbs, worsened by touch.
• Reduces tearing and drawing pains in fingers, thighs, and lower limbs while sitting.
• Assists ulcers or blisters on the heel that form from minimal rubbing and develop into painful sores. Painful sensation of rawness in the parts.

Skin Eruptions and Ulcerations

• Useful in ulcerations with biting, smarting, and redness swelling around it, aggravated at night or upon lying.
• Alleviates skin irritations that feel excoriated and shooting sensation, particularly in the morning while still in bed.

General Weakness and Fever

• Helpful in general trembling, limb weakness, and restlessness of both body and mind.
• Lamium album assists fever with alternating chills and burning, especially in the cheeks without thirst.
• Manages constant thirst, except during shivering stages of fever.