Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Exceedingly violent capillary bronchitis; fever with evening exacerbations; dyspnoea; pressive pain under sternum; violent coryza; purulent or muco-purulent expectoration; COUGH WITH HAWKING OF MUCUS IN LITTLE BALLS; cough in overgrown youths.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Dry cough, with considerable tickling in the pit of the throat, a crawling sensation extending downward beneath the sternum. Severe cough, causing considerable pain beneath the upper part of the sternum, without expectoration. Teasing, dry, hacking cough, with dryness of the air-passages. Sensation of constriction, with inclination to take a deep breath, which only increases the constriction and causes a tearing pain through the chest, particularly the right one; chest sore and painful to the touch (myalgic pains); painful sighing respiration.
Scilla-marit [Squil]
Extreme prostration; chronic catarrh, with profuse expectoration of a whitish and viscid mucus; tickling, worrying and constantly harassing cough of greater or less severity, day and night; sometimes loose; at other times dry; watery, mucous expectoration, sometimes tinged red; profuse urination; drinking of cold water always brings on a severe cough. Bronchitis of old, feeble people with dyspnoea, heavy mucous rales; scanty action of kidneys, with some irritation of bladder.
Senega [Seneg]
Accumulation of masses of thick mucus in the bronchi, which can only be expectorated with difficulty, with irritation of the bowels and a tendency to diarrhoea; COUGH OF OLD PEOPLE, who expectorate large quantities of watery mucus; small, hardly perceptible pulse; great debility; somnolence; sensitiveness of the walls of the chest when moving the arms, especially the left one; burning pain in the heart; pressure on chest as if the lungs were pushed back upon the spine; cough with painful shocks through the head; suits fat people with lax fibre.
Sepia [Sep]
Dry, hard, short, spasmodic cough, preventing sleep; in the morning expectoration of foul-smelling, yellowish-green sputa. During the night in bed especially before midnight, spasmodic cough, increasing till he expectorates. Constant hawking in order to detach the adherent mucosities; after the cough oppression; nausea during and after the cough, even vomiting. He cannot lie on left side. Sour perspiration in the morning; loss of appetite; general lassitude, Aggravation by cold, damp whether.
Silicea [Sil]
Bronchial affections of rachitic children; obstinate; cough, provoked by cold drinks, with copious, transparent, or PURULENT expectoration; pains, soreness and weakness of the chest, relieved by inhaling moist, warm air; laryngeal morning cough, commencing immediately on rising, with tough, gelatinous and very tenacious expectoration; loss of breath when lying on the back or stooping; cough provoked by cold drinks; expectoration of pus, which when thrown into water falls to the bottom and spreads like a heavy sediment.
Stannum [Stann]
Bronchial dilatation and profuse purulent expectoration; weak feeling in chest after expectorating or talking; excessive muco- purulent expectoration, greenish, with a sweetish taste, more rarely salty.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Inveterate bronchitis, with arterial and venous vascular irritability; great impressionability of the skin, which suffers from the slightest atmospheric variations, with exacerbation of all pectoral symptoms; chronic catarrhs of long standing, with secretion of large quantities of tenacious mucus (thickening of the lining membrane). Suffocation with palpitation; pain in chest during cough, aggravated by the horizontal position; cough, with nausea and vomiting; heaviness of head and dim vision; sensation as of ice in chest, whenever chilled, or perspiration is checked.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Bronchial catarrh of the aged, with copious mucopurulent expectoration.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Chronic bronchitis of the aged; constant rattling of mucus without being able to expectorate; prostration; frequent irregular pulse; cold, sticky perspiration of the head; (<) morning and till midnight; going into warm room or in bed, etc.; threatening paralysis of heart.
Yerba-santa [Erio]
(Eriodictyon) Constant irritating cough with great soreness of chest; a feeling of excoriation, rawness, and sensation of great hyperaesthesia of the thickened mucous surfaces; after a while a great weakness of voice, profuse muco-purulent expectoration, soreness and cramp in chest; loss of appetite; emaciation; especially affecting right bronchi; night-sweats; asthmatic breathing from accumulation of mucus.
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.