Know Your Remedies: Laurocerasus (Laur.)

Common Names: Common laurel; cherry laurel; English laurel.

General Information

Laurocerasus (Laur.) is a remedy for weakness or collapse with lack or reaction and coldness – symptoms typically associated with cardiac (heart) and respiratory disorders.

These disorders may include congestive heart failure and congenital heart diseases such as septal defects (hole in the heart) and transposition (incorrect entry points into the heart for major heart vessels).

The person (or infant) will be cold, sleepy, and hard to rouse. The feeling of coldness is not improved by heat.

Head and Face

  • Face pale with blueness of lips.
  • Perspiration on the nose.

Heart and Circulation

  • Palpitations with a rapid weak pulse.
  • Debility and weakness from congenital heart problems such as septal defects and transposition.
  • Collapse and coldness associated with cardiac problems.

Respiratory

  • Respiratory disorders with collapse and coldness.
  • Breathlessness on slight exertion.
  • Short, dry spasmodic coughs, especially with cardiac disorders.
  • Lingering pneumonia, bronchitis or influenza.
  • Cyanosis (blueness) of newborns.

Sleep

  • Episodes of deep or prolonged sleep with stertorous breathing (loud, deep snoring).

Where do I find it?

Laurocerasus (Laur.) is available from our online store as a single remedy in either pills or liquid.

Home Treatment Guidelines

Acute, Self-Limiting Conditions

Conditions like colds or minor injuries, which are short-term and typically improve on their own, can be managed at home with homeopathy. However, in emergencies or if symptoms worsen, contact your healthcare provider.

Chronic Conditions

These home treatment instructions do not apply for ongoing issues, whether mentioned above or not, like persistent allergies or chronic pain. You should consult a qualified homeopath for a personalized treatment plan to achieve the best results with homeopathy for chronic conditions.

How to Take the Remedy for Acute Conditions

  • Take one pill or five drops of the remedy. The frequency depends on symptom severity. As examples:
    • For life-threatening symptoms, take every 1 minute and seek emergency help immediately.
    • For mild symptoms, take every 4 hours.
  • Stop taking the remedy once you feel better. Resume if symptoms return.
  • If no improvement after four doses, choose a different remedy or consult a professional homeopath.
  • For more details on dosing, refer to: How Often to Dose with a 30C Homeopathic remedy.
  • For information on the different potencies, read: Guidelines on which potency to use

Additional Notes From Past Masters

Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of medicine.

Early homeopaths recorded detailed notes on how remedies worked, including initial tests, remedy relationships, and their experiences. These writings were shared to improve homeopathic practice and now offer fascinating insights into past uses of homeopathy.

Here’s an example, edited and modernised for clarity, from Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics (1898) by E. B. NASH M.D.:

Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics by E. B. NASH M.D.

Laurocerasus

Suffocative spells about the heart, < sitting up, > lying down; cardiac cough; gasping, twitching and jerks.

Lack of re-active power, low vitality, with blueness or cyanoses, especially in heart troubles.

Drink rolls audibly down through the esophagus and intestines; very low pulse.

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“Want of energy, of vital power; want of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections.”

And there is another characteristic symptom under this remedy in heart troubles: “The cyanosis, dyspnea, etc., are worse when sitting up.” Only one other remedy has this aggravation, and that is Psorinum.

“Want of nervous reaction; the well-chosen remedy does not act.”

“Capsicum, lack of reaction in persons of lax fibre.”

Opium, in patients where there is no pain; stupidity and drowsiness.

Valerian and Ambra in nervous affections, well chosen remedies fail.

Carbo vegetabilis, collapse, coldness of knees, breath; perfect indifference.

Sulphur and Psorinum, where Psora complicates and hinders reaction.

Each one of these remedies may he called for in defective reaction, and there may be many more, and in each case, as with all remedies elsewhere, symptoms must decide which one.