Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Yellowish, sallow complexion, bloated face; obstinate constipation; large, difficult stools, or alternate constipation and diarrhoea; large abdomen, with flatulence; no appetite or great hunger; desire to eat, with frequent vomiting of the ingesta; constant desire to lie down; sleeplessness towards morning; aversion to open air; nervousness; ill-humor.
Oleander [Olnd]
The food passes off unchanged in a remarkable degree, and very easily and almost unconsciously.
Oleum-jec-ase [Ol-j]
Child emaciated, with hot hands and head; constant tendency to catarrhs; bones affected, rachitis; fever at night, with sweat, mostly on head, neck and hands; CANNOT TAKE MILK; vivid dreams; restless and feverish at night.
Opium [Op]
Child wrinkled, looks like a little dried-up old man; stupor.
Ozone [Ozone]
Where the symptoms clearly indicate Sulph., but that remedy fails, ozonized water cures (symptoms nearly identical).
Pepsin [Pep]
Emaciation, prostration and weakness of the digestive powers after cholera infantum.
Petroleum [Petr]
Painful bloating of abdomen, (<) after eating and drinking, from lying down, with sensation of coldness in abdomen; diarrhoea during day, but none at night. Bulimy easily satisfied, with repugnance to meats, fats, cooked or hot aliments, and desire for dainties; breath and faeces have marked odor of garlic; weakness and emaciation, with aversion to fresh air; sleepy in daytime, but never sleeps longer than a few minutes during the night, which makes it irritable and angry, colic during sleep, (<) by bending double; eczema, excoriations; cracked, bleeding rhagades.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Emaciation combined with nervous debility; brain and spine suffered severely; child over tall, but slender, emaciated but dig-belied; face pale, almost waxen. Delicate eyelashes, soft hair, rapid breathing hint to sequelae; even thus early diarrhoea associated with dry cough, hence suitable to young girls with blonde hair, blue eyes, delicate skin slender stature, with cachectic cough, diarrhoea; frequent exhausting sweats; great debility, with orgasm of the blood; palpitation of the heart or oppression of the chest after exercise. COPIOUS STOOLS, POURING AWAY LIKE WATER FROM A HYDRANT, WITH GREAT EXHAUSTION; glandular swellings, suppuration and caries (Silicea); appetite good; HE CRAVES COLD FOOD, ICE CREAM; often awakens at night, hot and restless, and will drop off to sleep if fed; child irascible, vehement, susceptible to external impressions and to electric changes in atmosphere.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Yellowish and very offensive stools; THE CHILD IS VERY LISTLESS, WANTS NOTHING AND CARES FOR NOTHING; abdomen swollen, much fermentation in bowels, with the diarrhoea, which though long lasting, does not proportionately weaken.
Psorinum [Psor]
Pale, sickly, delicate children; THEY HAVE A FILTHY SMELL, EVEN AFTER A BATH; stools, fluid, worse at night; great debility and sweat from any exertion; crusta lactea on face and scalp, especially over either ear and cheeks, exfoliating numerous scabs, or cracks and discharges a yellow foetid humor; dirty- looking boils on scalp, emitting an offensive odor; intolerable itching at night, (<) in bed; child (<) when the weather changes.
Rheum [Rheum]
Sour, slimy, frothy stools with groping colic and twitching of the face and fingers during sleep.
Sanicula [Sanic]
(Minera; Spring, III.).-Child wants to nurse all the time, never feels satisfied, but all comes up again with a gush and child goes off into a stupid sleep; awakes to repeat same process; child seems to have no power to expel the stool, which consists of large lumps of undigested casein, or looks like the scum of a frog pond; great emaciation of neck and extremities, abdomen distended and hard; back gives out and feels cold; restless sleep.
Sarsaparilla [Sars]
Great emaciation; the skin lies in folds; the face is shrivelled; aphthae on tongue and roof of mouth; neck emaciated; FULLY DEVELOPED MARASMUS; eruptions are prone to appear in the spring, their bases inflamed, the crusts detach readily out of doors and the adjoining skin becomes chapped; on forehead the crusta lactea is thick, becoming moist when scratched; herpes and offensive sweat about genitals; child restless and uneasy before passing water, afterwards the diaper is found covered with a white sand; stool with much flatus, often followed by fainting.
Sepia [Sep]
Child wastes rapidly, want of bodily heat, is restless; fidgety; ANKLES ARE WEAK AND TURN EASILY WHEN WALKING; diarrhoea, jellylike stools; with colic and tenesmus; of green mucus; sour- smelling, debilitating, (<) after drinking milk, especially if boiled; moist scabs on scalp; forehead rough; child awakens often, especially wakeful after 3 A.M.
Silicea [Sil]
WHOLE BODY WASTED, WHILE THE HEAD IS EXCEEDINGLY LARGE; child nervous, irritable, susceptible and timid; head perspires easily and forehead becomes cold, (>) by wrapping up the head warmly; great debility, especially in the joints, slow in learning to walk alone; from debility and inertia child is not able to lie on his side and turns faint when attempting it; insomnia after midnight; face emaciated, with decrepit look and pale, earthy color anorexia with repugnance to meat and hot or cooked food; with desire for cold and raw food; or canine hunger, and after eating weight on the stomach with nausea and vomiting of the undigested food; AVERSION TO THE MOTHER’S MILK, which, if taken, is at once vomited; stools watery, offensive, sometimes bloody, or else costiveness; atmosphere changes cause great prostration.
Stannum [Stann]
The child is always relieved in its abdominal sufferings by pressing hard upon the abdomen, leaning upon something; sickly face; weakness of the nape of the neck; dry, concussive cough; helminthiasis.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Large abdomen; voracious and canine hunger; swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands; frequent and constant attacks of catarrh; unhealthy and readily ulcerating skin; frequent boils; the teeth, as they appear, turn dark or crumble; mouth aphthous, the gums appearing pale, spongy, and bleeding when touched; nostrils sore from catarrh, eyelids and corners of mouth ulcerated; foetid night-sweats; abdomen swollen; colic after least food or drink; stools hot, smelling like rotten eggs, or dysenteric; irritability.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Emaciation; skin dry harsh and wrinkled, giving the child an “old man” look; offensive odor of body, not removable by washing; eczema (capitis) dry, easily bleeding, itching more at night, scratching relieves but cases bleeding; intertrigo, especially at anus; glands swollen, particularly cervical, axillary and inguinal; appetite voracious, child grasps at everything within reach, and thrusts it into its mouth, or drinks much and eats little when the violent thirst is on; abdomen distended and hard; constipation or diarrhoea slimy, green, watery, changeable, (>) at night; sudden urging awakens him in the morning, followed by copious watery stools; restlessness at night, awakens screaming or on going to sleep is annoyed by sudden jerking of the limbs; child cross, obstinate, CANNOT BEAR TO BE WASHED OR BATHED; dentition slow, bones and muscles develop tardily; easily fatigued; face pale and sunken, with deep, hollow eyes; hunger at 11 A.M.; heat on top of head and cold feet; ravenous desire for sweets which make him sick.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Marasmus in restless, nervous, weakly children; THEY DO EVERYTHING HURRIEDLY BUT WITHOUT WILL; bright-yellow mucous stools, which are stringy or chopped; aphthous sore mouth, yellow and painful, eruption like sulphur.
Theridion [Ther]
Infantile atrophy, caries of bones, scrofulous enlargement of glands; constant desire for food and drink, but he does not know what; faintness after every exertion; weak, limbs tremble.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
HECTIC FEVER WITH COLLIQUATIVE DIARRHOEA. general emaciation with hippocratic face; cold and damp feeling in extremities, notwithstanding all the coverings of the bed; insomnia with low and anxious voice; voracious hunger and vomiting and stool after eating; aversion to warm food and desire for acid and cold things; abdomen bloated, hard, hot, and painful constipation of hard, large stools, or watery, greenish or white diarrhoea, painless and involuntary, with cold sweat on forehead, and anguish.
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.