LAPPA MAJORLiquid

Lappa major is an important and versatile homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh root of Arctium Lappa, commonly known as Burdock and belonging to the Compositæ (Asteraceae) family. It is renowned for its powerful action on the skin, glands, urinary and reproductive systems, and is particularly beneficial in conditions involving chronic eruptions, glandular swellings, digestive troubles, and rheumatic or gouty complaints. Noted for its cleansing and eliminative properties, Arctium Lappa is especially helpful in scrofulous constitutions, where skin and joint affections often accompany glandular disorders. Its influence on the female reproductive system, particularly in uterine prolapse, has earned it the name "uterine magnet."

Common Name

English: Burdock

SBL’s Lappa major can be helpful in the following conditions:

Skin Eruptions and Glandular Affections

• Lappa major is indicated in inveterate acne and chronic herpetic eruptions, especially on the face and nasal wings.
• Helps manage spreading vesicular eruptions with tearing and intense itching.
• Used in eczema serpiginosa (elastic fiber elimination), moist and offensive skin eruptions, and greyish-white crusting, particularly when glands are swollen.
• Supports assisting of boils, old sores, and ulcers, especially those occurring around joints.
• Assists in suppuration of axillary glands and dropsical swellings.

Digestive and Gastrointestinal Symptoms

• Beneficial in flatulent dyspepsia with frequent belching of inodorous gas.
• Manages frequent yellow stools occurring in the forenoon, often accompanied by nausea.
• Beneficial in cases where diarrhœa alternates with rheumatic symptoms, suggesting a systemic eliminative process.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

• Helpful in milky phosphatic urine, commonly linked to metabolic or glandular dysfunction.
• Indicated in loss of sexual desire and cutting or squeezing pain along the urethra, with scalding during urination.
• Supports in ringworm-like eruptions on the inner thigh and groin area, with rawness and irritation.
• Useful in prolapse of the uterus with significant bearing-down sensations, justifying its traditional use as a uterine tonic.
• Alleviates leucorrhœa associated with pelvic relaxation and glandular imbalance.

Head and Eye Complaints

• Indicated in pain in the head, specifically in the area of veneration.
• Helpful in eczema of the scalp and stye formation, suggesting a strong affinity for sebaceous and glandular disturbances.

Respiratory and Cardiovascular System

• Relieves tickling sensation in the rima glottidis, triggering a loose-sounding cough with no expectoration.
• Indicated in acute, cutting, and tingling pains beneath the sternum radiating across the chest.
• Helpful in shortness of breath on exertion and chest discomfort with pain.
• Used for rapid pulse with frequent intermissions and an indescribable sensation under the sternum.

Musculoskeletal and Joint Pain

• Beneficial in rheumatic and gouty pains, especially when accompanied by general soreness of muscles and dull pains worse from motion.
• Supports in joint pains, bunion, and sharp, darting pains in tendons resembling Dupuytren’s contraction.
• Beneficial in back pain localized around the eighth dorsal vertebra.
• Relieves rheumatic pain completely upon the onset of diarrhœa, indicating an eliminative mechanism.

Oedema

• Lappa major acts deeply on scrofulous constitutions, great weariness and sleepiness coexist.
• Indicated in œdema and dropsical conditions, especially when linked to sluggish lymphatic drainage and chronic inflammation.