See Boils
Anthracinum [Anthr]
Violent burning pain in carbuncle, not relieved by Arsenicum, cerebral symptoms; sloughing, abundant discharge of ichorous, terribly smelling pus and poisoning of blood by absorption of pus; excessive sensitiveness of parts affected; dusky appearance of parts surrounding the gangrenous spots.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Intense burning in the seat of the carbuncle and some distance around the tumor, or sensation of swelling as though boiling water were running beneath the skin; restlessness thirst, debility; (<) nights, (>) from warmth.
Belladonna [Bell]
Bright redness; throbbing pains; drowsiness with inability to sleep; erysipelatous inflammation around carbuncle; cerebral irritation.
Bufo-sah [Bufo-s]
Carbuncle at the commencement already pestilential, with blueness far around, and red and purplish streaks in neck, back and other parts (Antim crud. and Lachesis, redness and swelling along course of lymphatics); malignant pustule (Malandrinum).
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Dark, blackish appearance with burning pain and discharging offensive matter even after gangrene has set in; blood-poisoning; collapse.
China [Chin]
Asthenic character, with symptoms of putrid fever, where patient is leuco-phlegmatic and much reduced, or where the carbuncle developed itself from malarious causes.
Hepar [Hep]
Carbuncle surrounded by indurated spots; pain intense, sleeplessness; stinging burning of edges of ulcer with corroding discharge.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Carbuncle in nervous or hysterical persons; coma vigil; great restlessness from excessive nervous excitement; shaking of head in all directions; optical illusions; constriction on pharynx, etc.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Violent pulsations in every part of the body; putrid discharge; great debility, numbness and faintness; sleepy but cannot sleep, (<) before midnight.
Lachesis [Lach]
Slow progress, the skin over the dead cellular tissue shows little disposition to ulcerate; dark bluish appearance; after perforation scanty discharge of thin, sometimes bloody sanics; cerebral symptoms; prostration; inability to bear any bandage over the sore.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Carbuncles in scorbutic patients, with ulcers on gums; feeling of emptiness in stomach and abdomen, frequent desire to urinate, with profuse emission of clear urine.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Putrid decomposition with tendency to haemorrhages; excessive debility with copious night-sweats.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Burning, itching around carbuncle, with vertigo stupor, the face; great restlessness; feels somewhat relieved of violent pain as long as he is in motion; more indicated in the beginning, when the pains are intense and the affected parts are dark red. Orbital cellulitis.
Secale [Sec]
Cannot bear external warmth.
Silicea [Sil]
During process of ulceration it clears the wound of its decaying masses and promotes healthy granulation; want of viral warmth; slow progress of the disease; furuncles appearing in drops; carbuncle between the shoulder and nape of the neck; indurations after boils or carbuncle
Tarentula-cubana [Tarent-c]
Erysipelatous redness around the carbuncle; rigors followed by burning fever, great thirst, anxiety, headache, delirium, profuse perspiration and retention of urine; excessive pains in carbuncle.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.