Ignatia [Ign]
Amenorrhoea from suppressed grief, much involuntary sighing and sobbing; weak, empty feeling at the pit of the stomach.
Iodum [Iod]
Entirely out of breath on going up stairs; paleness, alternating with redness of face; frequent palpitations; food does not
strengthen her.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Menstruation too late, a long interval elapsing between periods; menses too scanty, menstrual blood acrid; menses suppressed; at every menstrual effort sour eructations and swelling of the cheeks; shooting pains all over abdomen; organic diseases of the heart; erysipelatous eruptions; disposition to phlebitis; swelling over eyelids. VERY EFFICACIOUS DURING PUBERTY.
Lac-defloratum [Lac-d]
Amenorrhoea from washing in cold water with pains all over, especially in the head; sensation of weight and dragging in left ovarian region; nausea and vertigo.
Lachesis [Lach]
Amenorrhoea, with headache, vertigo epistaxis, cardialgia, eructations and oppression of the chest; prostration when exercising or lifting; mental depression; leucorrhoea thick, yellow, stiffening the linen yellow.
Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]
Amenorrhoea, accompanied with cardiac distress or with ovarian pains of a burning or stinging character. Amenia complicated with prolapsus or anteverted womb. Thin, acrid leucorrhoea, which
leaves a brown stain on the linen. Partial amenia, the menses returning occasionally, and then remain off again; sharp pain extending from left nipple through to the back.
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Violent pain in sacrum, with fever supervening upon suppression of the menses during the flow; sense of great weight in genitals; IN CONSUMPTIVE PERSONS.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Amenia from fright; chlorotic symptoms; disposition to sadness, melancholy and weeping; hysteric headache, fainting fits; sour taste; sour eructations and sour vomiting; great desire for sweet things; the smallest quantity of food distress her; borborygmus
particularly in the left hypochondrial region; sense of dryness in the vagina; WIND FROM THE VAGINA.
Manganum (Kali permang) [Mang]
Pressure in genital organs; headaches; pressure under sternum; menses absent or too early and too scanty; fretful and depressed in mind; eructations with pressive, constrictive pain in stomach; frequent urination; tenderness of bones in general with great weariness; (<) from least exertion; menstrual flow black and thick after much bearing-down pain.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
Scanty and delaying menses of dark color and pitchy consistence; EVERY EFFORT TO MENSTRUATE IS ATTENDED BY A SORE THROAT which only subsides with the other symptoms or on the appearance of the menstrual flow.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
She becomes greatly excited at every menstrual nisus, with pressing down in the iliac region; hysterical mood; sleeplessness; constipation.
Mercurius [Merc]
Prolapsus of the vagina at every menstrual nisus; rush of blood to the head; dry heat; leucorrhoea; pale face and sickly complexions; oedematous swelling of hands, feet and face; pain in mammae, as if they would ulcerate, at every menstrual period. Sad, peevish and whimsical.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
DEFICIENT MENSTRUATION IN THE ADULT FEMALE; pressing in the abdomen toward the genitals as if everything would protrude and as if menses would appear.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
At every menstrual nisus she feels anxious, melancholy and qualmish early in the morning for a few hours, with sweet risings from the stomach and spitting of blood with the saliva; awakens every morning with long-lasting headache; skin dry and harsh; sallow, pale face, or livid constipation and fissura ani, with vertigo and headache; itching pimples on mons veneris and vulva; melancholy or vindictive disposition.
Nux-mosch [Nux-m]
Suppression of the menses, with spasms and other hysteric affection; disposition to sleep and faint away, with great nervousness; debility; complete exhaustion after the least exertion; bloating of the abdomen after every meal; frequent waterbrash; amenia from getting wet, with rheumatic pains.
Opium [Op]
Suppression, with congestion of blood to the head, which feels heavy, redness and heat of the face; sopor and convulsions; amenorrhoea from fright, with irresistible drowsiness.
Oxalic-acid [Ox-ac]
Amenorrhoea a from cold, with great dyspnoea, constriction of throat and chest, blood spitting dull, heavy, lumbar pains,(<) on standing, (>) by lying down.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Particularly in tall, slender, phthisical patients. Spitting and vomiting of blood at the menstrual nisus; menses too late or not appearing; tight feeling in the chest, with dry, tight cough; profuse haemoptysis or haemorrhage from the anus or urethra; great sense of weakness across the abdomen; cold legs and feet, sometimes paralyzed, stitches in mammae; eyelids puffed.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Amenorrhoea complicated with ovarian irritation or diseases; chronic rheumatism; constipation.
Platina [Plat]
PARTICULARLY IN EMIGRANTS. Painful pressing down, as if the menses would appear, with desire for stool and pains in the small of the back; constipation, with scanty, difficult stool.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
THE SEXUAL SPHERE IS PRIMARILY AFFECTED IN AN ATONIC DIRECTIONS, AND THERE ARE NO CHLOROTIC SYMPTOMS PRESENT. Amenorrhoea in consequence of getting feet wet, with frequent paroxysms of hemicrania and stitching pains in face and teeth; uterine colic; constant chilliness, even in summer when warmly clad; pain and swelling of the mammae; soreness of the apices of the lungs; morning sickness and bad taste in the morning; vicarious epistaxis. Menses pale and watery, alternating with black blood mixed with mucus; freckles on face.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
Every menstrual nisus is attended with fever and headache; (<) during rough and windy weather and before a thunderstorm.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Amenia from living in a foggy locality and cold,. damp atmosphere after getting wet in a rainstorm.
Ruta [Ruta]
Corrosive leucorrhoea in consequence of the suppression.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
The menses are suppressed immediately on their appearance, when they reappear, sooner or later, but are again suppressed, and so on.
Sabina [Sabin]
The menses, usually flowing profusely, cease, or are suddenly suppressed, followed by a thick, foetid leucorrhoea.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Amenorrhoea, in consequence of pulmonary disease; hectic flush of the face; noisy escape of flatus from the vagina; in women who are subject to sick-headache, with stiffness of the neck.
Secale [Sec]
Amenorrhoea in thin, scrawny married woman who suffer much at the menstrual nisus, with a continual, long lasting, forcing pain in uterus.
Senecio [Senec]
Useful to nervous, restless, SLEEPLESS WOMEN, who always complain of nausea, debility of the whole system; menstrual nisus, but still the period does not appear; sensation of a ball rising from the stomach in to the throat; gastric derangement and inappetency. Amenorrhoea, with bloated abdomen, little or no urinary discharge, paleness of the skin, cold hands and feet, but no pain; tendency to dropsical condition; irritable disposition.
Sepia [Sep]
Insufficient or retarded menstruation in feeble women to all impressions; in some, tendency to cough, to congestion and pain in the apex of one or both lungs; sallow complexion, with yellow saddle across bridge of nose and dingy spots on face; frequent paroxysms of hysteric or nervous headaches; frequent alternation of chilliness and heat; great debility; pain in loins from uterine and other abdominal congestion; sensation as though the vulva were too large; pressure on abdomen at menstrual nisus, then soreness of perineum and swelling of the vulva; acrid leucorrhoea of bad -smelling fluids, accompanied by much itching in genital organs; constipation and sense of weight at the anus; feeling of emptiness at pit of stomach and in abdomen; great disposition to sweat.
Silicea [Sil]
Amenorrhoea with suppressed foot -sweats; instead of the menses smarting, acrid and corrosive leucorrhoea or discharge of a quantity of watery fluid from the uterus; frequent attacks of momentary blindness or obscuration of vision; pressing-down feeling in vagina, parts tender to touch; itching at the genitals; great costiveness at the approach of the menses.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Amenorrhoea in consequences of chagrin, with severe indignation, pain in teeth at times of menstrual molimina; she is extremely sensitive to mental and physical impressions.
Stramonium [Stram]
Extremely loquacious at the menstrual molimina; tears, prayers and earnest supplication. Face puffed up with blood; she is full of fear, and shrinks back in fear when awakening from sleep; desire for light and society.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Often indicated where Pulsatilla failed (C.D.); face pale and sickly; eyes sunken, with blue margins or circumscribed redness of cheeks; freckles, stitching headache; violent pains in uterine region and itching pimples on the chest at every menstrual molimina; haemorrhoids; flashes of heat or vivid redness of face; heat in top of head and coldness of feet, or burning in soles of feet, at night in bed; weak, fainting spells; hungry about noon, cannot wait for her dinner; short naps at night, or heavy deep sleep the whole night.
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.