Lupulus, or Hop, is a homoeopathic medicine prepared from the resinous parts of the Humulus lupulus plant belonging from Cannabinaceæ family.. It primarily acts on the central nervous system, offering significant relief in conditions marked by extreme drowsiness, mental sluggishness, delirium, and paralytic weakness. Known for its sedative properties, it is useful in managing sleep disturbances, digestive issues like nausea and abdominal discomfort, and urinary irritation. Lupulus is especially helpful in states of nervous exhaustion, where the patient appears dull, heavy, and mentally foggy. It supports recovery in both acute and lingering conditions involving neuromuscular fatigue, confusion, and toxic states affecting the brain and gut.
Common Name
English: Hop
SBL’s Lupulus can be helpful in the following conditions:
Neurological & Muscular Weakness
- Aids in the management of paralytic weakness, particularly of the lower limbs.
- Useful in twitching of tendons, especially in the arms and hands, with jerking muscular movements.
- Supports rheumatic pains that shift location frequently and are worse between the shoulders.
- Helpful in general unsteadiness of movements that persist for months.
- Addresses drawing pain in muscles—brief paroxysms of muscular tightness or spasms.
Mental & Emotional Disturbance
- Beneficial for mental dullness, indolence, and cognitive sluggishness, particularly after fever or illness.
- Helps with violent delirium during sleep, with difficulty rousing and quick relapse into stupor.
- Reduces emotional sensitivity to odors, which can trigger dizziness and faintness.
- Manages mental exhaustion, soporific states, and long-lasting mental torpor.
Headache, Vertigo, and Sensory Disturbances
- Supports relief from vertigo with confusion and heat in the head and face.
- Useful in dull and drawing headaches with temporal pulsations and pressure.
- Helps in pupil dilation, which may persist post-illness for months.
Gastrointestinal and Digestive Support
- Assists in loss of appetite with strong thirst and nausea. Dyspepsia.
- Relieves nauseating eructations, often tasting of hops with heat in stomach.
- Supports cases of vomiting, fermentation in abdomen, and griping dull colicky pains, especially in the lower abdomen.
- Useful in stool irregularities, including urgent soft stool or delayed evacuation.
Urinary Discomfort & Gonorrhoea
- Aids in urinary discomfort, including burning in the urethra during micturition.
- Helps manage retarded urination, with dark brown, clear urine.
- Supports increased diuresis as part of a detoxifying process.
- Decreases sexual desire, useful in cases of sexual overexcitement or gonorrhoea.
Respiratory and Circulatory Effects
- Assists in deep, stertorous respiration, often seen in stuporous states.
- Lupulus manages slow, intermittent pulse, especially when associated with fever or narcotic-like stupor.
- Alleviates carotid pulsation and congestion in the upper body as rush of blood to head and eyes.
Skin Erythema and Fever Conditions
- Helpful in scarlatina-like erythema, especially on the face, with pustular eruptions.
- Manages profuse, greasy sweat, particularly with high temperature or internal heat.Reduces cold, clammy perspiration in febrile states with slow pulse.
Sleepiness and Stupor
- Excellent in profound drowsiness, mental fog, and soporific states.
- Useful in sleep disorders marked by heaviness and inability to stay awake, especially with accompanying delirium.