Apoplexy



Strontia [Stront]

Violent congestion to head, with hot and red face from every exertion, as walking, smothered feeling about heart, allowing no rest; cannot bear the most draught of air, wants head warmly wrapped up (Magn., Silicea).

Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]

Congestion apoplexy. Intensely congestive headaches; he becomes stupid, has ringing in the ears, bloodshot eyes, thickness of speech, hot head; slow, full pulse and hard as iron; convulsions from intense congestion of the capillary vessels of the brain; dimness of vision, with nausea and vomiting.

Remedies for subsequent chronic changes (Raue):

Anacardium [Anac]

Loss of memory, general paralysis.

Causticum [Caust]

Inability to select proper words; paralysis of face and extremities, complicated with muscular contractions.

Cuprum [Cupr]

Paralysis of tongue, stuttering, deficient speech; the paralyzed limbs grow thinner, but preserve sensation; often complicated with unyielding contractions or chorea-like paroxysms.

Plumbum [Plb]

Consciousness blunted, memory deficient; speech is impeded, single syllables are omitted or syllables cannot be combined into words; mimic spasms of face when speaking; trembling of tongue when it is put out; violent snoring; torpor and insensibility of the organs of sense, drooping eyelids, dilated pupils; pulse slow; motor and sensory paralysis, with violent pain in paralyzed parts and contraction of extensor muscles; in incomplete paralysis patient’s gait unsteady, with tendency to fall forward.

Zincum [Zinc]

Senses remain disturbed after the attack.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.