Tense hard and tympanitic abdomen, with rumbling eructations and flatulency; difficult expulsion of even a soft stool on account of general and intestinal debility; frequent, watery, painless, but debilitating diarrhoea, (<) from eating and drinking; lienteria; ravenous hunger at night, with desire for dainties; VIOLENT THIRST FOR COLD WATER WHICH INCREASES DIARRHOEA; general atrophy, especially of lower extremities; dry and flaccid skin; sleepy in day time, sleepless at night with bulimy; indifference and apathy, aversion to company; face pallid dejected, cold; nose sharp-pointed, eyes lustreless.
Cina [Cina]
Bloated abdomen, with disagreeable heat through it; involuntary, yellowish diarrhoea containing worms; itching in the anus; wetting the bed; canine hunger for bread, which child prefers to breast milk; great hunger at night, though the stomach is full; THE GREATER THE EMACIATION THE GREATER THE HUNGER; child picks nose, is restless, cross and unamiable; painful sensitiveness of the whole body to motion and touch; inability to hold anything in the hands, wants to be rocked all the time; nothing pleases it.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Hot gray-yellow, spurting stools, (<) after fruit from midnight to noon; glands, especially cervical, swollen or suppurating; tetter on and around ears; caries; (<) in wet weather; indicated in thin, scrawny children of a scrofulous diathesis.
Clematis [Clem]
Enlargement and induration of the mesenteric glands, with lancinating pains in them; bloated abdomen, with feeling of constriction when walking; abdomen hard and sore to touch; at first constipation, followed by frequent, painless liquid stools; no appetite, thirst for ice water; nausea and somnolency after eating; great emaciation, with pallor; debility and languor after eating and in afternoon; repugnance to motion and to bathing; moroseness, indifference and aversion to talking; pustular and scaly eruptions, with itching; (<) by heat of bed and during night.
Conium [Con]
Tumefaction of mesenteric glands, with hardness and bloating of abdomen, with borborygmus and emission of GAS WHICH FEELS COLD; hard faecal stool, with burning heat in the anus; after stool weakness, palpitation and trembling; anorexia, with desire for coffee, acids and salted articles; intense thirst in daytime; extreme debility and washing, compelling the child to lie down, legs are heavy and knees tremble; sleepy in daytime, restless at night; great sadness, weakness of memory; sweat on the hands and cold feet; yellow sclerotica and finger-nails.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Frequent vomiting as soon as food is taken, after breakfast, and pain in stomach ceases after vomiting; abdomen hard, distended, but not with flatulence; painless and involuntary diarrhoea of undigested food; itching at the anus at night from worms; irritability from prostration; child is pale and delicate.
Graphites [Graph]
Moist blotches on the skin, exuding a transparent, offensive, glutinous fluid; chafing back of the ears; diarrhoea painless, sour smelling thin, scalding, or constipation; all discharges offensive, breath, stool, urine, sweat; child is impertinent and laughs at reprimands; harsh, rough skin, disposed to chafing; groins become sore, and the inguinal glands swollen; emaciation. Suitable to fair, plump children with well marked symptoms.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Though apparently the child looks plump, the flesh is flabby, the muscles withered, digestion weak; child intolerant of pressure about stomach after eating; food temporarily (>) the debility; stools green, watery, undigested, or white, SOUR SMELLING and painless, (<) during the day; THE WHOLE CHILD SMELLS SOUR (Rheum); little tendency to cerebral symptoms; glands swollen, and child subject to catarrhs from least draught of cold air, eczema, (<) mornings, when it itches, burns and smarts.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Excoriation in groins; eczema of forehead at the border of the hair, oozing after washing; thick mucous discharges; marasmus; great debility; faintness at the stomach; aphthae of weakly children; tongue swollen, shows marks of the teeth, or appears raw, dark red, with raised papillae; stool light-colored, soft, acrid; foetid flatus.
Iodum [Iod]
Swelling and induration of mesenteric glands; suffering from hunger, MUST EAT EVERY TWO HOURS, YET LOSES FLESH ALL THE TIME; constant and tormenting thirst with canine hunger; large, tumid, doughy abdomen; wasting and prostration, with low spirits, hectic fever, night-sweats, diarrhoea; skin dry and of a dirty yellow color; oedema pedum, TABES MESENTERICA (Kali iod.)
Kreosotum [Kreos]
GASTROMALACIA; belching and hiccough when sitting up; vomiting of undigested food, with dimness of vision; painful sensation of coldness in abdomen; icy coldness in epigastrium; white or gray stools, chopped, very foetid, cadaverous-smelling; rapid emaciation, especially on neck and face; skin remarkably pale; cold face and hands; constant whining; restless, sleepless night; TABES MESENTERICA, with hypertrophied glands in fleshy, flabby subjects.
Lithium [Lith-c]
(Gettysburg).-Rough, harsh skin; crusta lactea ringworm, itching violently; nose swollen, internally sore and dry, with shining crust in nostrils; light yellow diarrhoea, faecal in the morning, offensive at night: (<) after fruit.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Abdomen bloated, while limbs are wasted; face earthy, with blue rings around eyes wrinkles in face; milk-crust thick, cracks and bleeds and emits a mousy smell; tendency to capillary bronchitis; inordinate appetite, but food soon satiates; abdomen distended, with much rumbling of wind, especially in left hypochondrium; gastric region distended and intolerant of any pressure, especially after nursing; urine has a red sediment or is suppressed; sleep disturbed by frequent awaking; child weak, with well-developed head, but puny, sickly body, is irritable, nervous and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross and pushes every one away angrily.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
Defective digestion; emaciation, swelling of glands, abdomen heavy and bloated; griping pain, followed by green, watery, sour diarrhoea, or the stool, when standing, forms a green scum like that of a frog pond; great emaciation, aphthae.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Ozaena, discharge acrid, and nose obstructed at night; scurfs in nostrils, alae and tip being red and swollen; stomach bloated; stools in large, hard lumps, or crumble as they pass the anus; child puny, rachitic; enlarged liver; glands swollen; sweat on head and feet.
Marum-ver [Teucr]
Emaciation, with jerking hiccough after nursing, and belching anything up; child cries a great deal with the diarrhoea; increased discharge of pale urine; chilliness from want of animal heat.
Mercurius [Merc]
Emaciation; skin dry, rough, dirty yellow or clammy, especially
that of the thighs; icy cold sweat of forehead, sour or oily sweat on scalp; pustular or suppurating herpes; glands swollen and suppurating; skin chaps easily, becomes raw and sore; frequent attacks of jaundice; abdomen, especially right hypochondrium, swollen and sore to pressure; stool green, sour, watery, with emaciation; diarrhoea bloody, slimy, green, with tenesmus often continuing after stool; genitals sore and excoriated, urine causes pain; child pulls at penis; child pale, weak, and obtuse, or precocious and restless; fontanelles open., the head large and covered with offensive sweat; gums soft and bleed easily; sour night-sweats; blepharophthalmia SUPPURATIVA.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Child too listless to move or to take notice; aphthae in mouth; child exhausted from frequent vomiting and diarrhoea, and the stomach so weak that it will no longer tolerate or digest food, most marked in forenoon; tongue shrivelled and dry as leather, or covered with deep bluish ulcers, having black bases; breath foetid; salivary glands tender, swollen; stool involuntary when passing urine; prolapsus and during urination; MUSCULAR DEBILITY FROM ABUSE OF SOOTHING SYRUPS.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Rapid emaciation notwithstanding good appetite, especially of THROAT AND NECK OF CHILDREN, who are very slow to learn to walk; mapped tongue and herpes labialis; weak ankles, child stumbles or feet turn under him; dry and ill-colored skin; bulimy with quick satiety, marked repugnance to bread, (<) after greasy food and milk; sadness and dulness with anorexia and profuse sweating; palpitations; constipation, with stool only after considerable effort; watery, sanguinolent or involuntary diarrhoea.
Natrum-phos [Nat-p]
Marasmus of children who are bottle-fed; abdomen swollen, liver large; colic after eating; stools containing undigested food.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Inherited sycotic constitution; abdomen bloated, with much rumbling of wind; stools watery, yellow, gushing coming on as soon as the child begins to move in the morning.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Weakly children, after abuse of calomel, or who inherited syphilis; child is wasted, sallow, weak; upper arms and thighs particularly emaciated; aphthae with putrid breath; ulcers or blisters about mouth, rawness and soreness about arms; stools of green mucus, sometimes foetid and undigested, (<) in the morning; stools followed by great exhaustion; glands enlarged.
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.