Aconite [Acon]
Fear that menses will not return and terrible consequences follow; laborlike pressing in womb, patient bent double; tendency of blood to the head or chest; vertigo or fainting on rising from recumbent position; amenorrhoea in young plethoric girls who lead a sedentary life; menses stopped from a cold bath, from sudden checking of perspiration, from violent emotions or fright; vagina dry, hot and sensitive.
AEsculus-hip [Aesc]
Amenorrhoea, with general prostration and malaise, back gives out when standing or walking, especially across the hips, constipation, with ineffectual urging to stool; haemorrhoids of purple color and accompanied with much burning.
Agnus-castus [Agn]
Suppressed menses, with violent contracting pain in abdomen and bearing down sensation, feels as if the intestines were sinking down, with inclinations to support the bowels with the hand; transparent leucorrhoea passing imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts; leucorrhoea not copious, but staining her linen yellow; nausea as from eating fat food; hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.
Aletris-far [Alet]
Amenia, or delaying menses, in consequence of atony of the womb or ovaries; weariness of mind and body; fulness and distension of abdomen, with bearing down sensation; night-sweats; constipation from want of muscular action; debility arising from
protracted illness; loss of fluid; defective nutrition.
Alumina [Alum]
Amenia, with abundant leucorrhoea, which flows only in the day time, with weakness; straining to evacuate even a soft stool; restless sleep, awaking with palpitation of the heart.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Colic and pain between scapulae; violent pain in small of back, with great coldness: menses scanty, late, with headache; acrid leucorrhoea.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Menses suppressed by a cold bath, with nausea and vomiting, white tongue, great thirst at night, alternate constipation or diarrhoea; tenderness over ovarian region.
Apis-mel [Apis]
SUPPRESSED MENSES, WITH CONGESTED OR INFLAMED OVARIES menses stop suddenly or cease for two or three days, to begin again, blood black; dysmenorrhoea, with scanty discharge of slimy blood; chlorosis, with puffy, bloated, waxy appearance of the face; oedematous swelling of the eyelids, labia and feet; a peculiar annoying aching pain in the ovaries, especially in the right one, usually shortly before or during menstruation, accompanied by intense, occipital headache and other hysterical symptoms; cardiac distress; during puberty, nervous and awkward from incoordination of muscles.
Apocynum [Apoc]
In young girls, with bloating of the abdomen and extremities.
Arsenicum [Ars]
White waxy paleness of the face and great debility; painful lienteria; cold water lies like a load on her stomach; sleep full of tiresome dreams; constant desire for sour things; coffee or brandy; craving for sexual intercourse; corrosive leucorrhoea; frequent paroxysms of fainting.
Aurum [Aur]
Great depression of spirits, with inclination to commit suicide.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Face pale and puffed; moping disposition, scurfs; nosebleed, toothache and leucorrhoea before menses, which only last one day; weight over pubes; backache; menostasia and chlorosis, especially of scrofulous girls.
Belladonna [Bell]
Suppression of menses followed by hyperaemia, rush of blood to the head, wakefulness and throbbing of carotids and temples; subjective feeling of coldness.
Borax [Bor]
Cannot bear a downward motion; pain in right pectoral region; restless sleep and excessive nervousness; engorgement of uterus, with bearing down-pains; leucorrhoea albuminous.
Bryonia [Bry]
VICARIOUS MENSTRUATION; frequent epistaxis; haemoptysis; dry lips, thirsty for large quantities, hard, dry stools, as if burnt; every motion painful.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Leucophlegmasia, vertigo on ascending; feet cold and damp; bellows or anaemic murmurs around heart and large arteries; great languor, especially in lower limbs; AMENORRHOEA FROM WORKING IN WATER, with anasarca.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Violent itching of old tettery eruptions at the time when the menses should appear.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
Amenia, accompanied by spasmodic action or extreme atony of the uterus; spasmodic bearing down pains, with scanty flow; sympathetic cramps and spasms of neighboring organs, as of the bladder, rectum or bowels.
Causticum [Caust]
Yellowish complexion, weakly, scrofulous, melancholy hysteria; abdominal spasms, and pinching pains in the sacrum; enuresis on walking or coughing.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Amenia from checked perspiration or from a fit of anger; irritable and quarrelsome; one check red, the other pale; pressing towards the genital organs; passing large quantities of colorless urine.
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.