AEsculus-hip [Aesc]
Bronchitis complicated with gouty diathesis and a tendency to piles with constipation; rapid, labored breathing with pain in right lung.
Allium-sativum [All-s]
Herpetic constitution; the poison attacks the respiratory and digestive mucous membranes; chronic, pulmonary catarrh; dry cough, from scraping in the larynx; afterwards glutinous, bloody or purulent sputa of foul odor. Dyspnoea, as if the anterior chest were compressed; pains in chest, so that he cannot expand it; stitches in shoulder-blades and pectoral muscles, increased by cough and deep inspiration; (<) by fresh, cold air, by atmospheric changes, after rest and from washing the head, general chilliness with redness of face; sour, foetid sweat in the afternoon; general lassitude.
Alumen [Alumn]
Coughs a long time every morning, with scratching in the middle of the sternum, on and after getting up, (<) during, (>) after breakfast; chronic morning cough of old people; sputa ropy and scanty; dry cough in the evening after lying down.
Alumina [Alum]
(Argilla).- Dry, hacking cough soon after waking in the morning, ending in difficult raising of a little white mucus; cough with tearing pains and involuntary urination in old or withered looking people; (<) in the cold season and lasting till the warm season sets in again, cough (>) by lying flat on the face; sputum difficult and of a putrid taste.
Ambra [Ambr]
Paroxysms of cough coming from deep in chest, excited by violent tickling in throat, evening without, morning with expectoration, generally of grayish-white, seldom of yellow mucus, of salty or sour taste, excited by exertion and music; violent spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations and hoarseness; aged people; old cough.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
BRONCHITIS OF THE AGED. Copious bronchial secretion, with great difficulty of expectoration and bronchial dilatation. Numerous coarse rattles land yet he experiences no necessity to clear his chest. Cough in the morning or at night, disturbing sleep, with spasmodic oppression, incessant cough, excited by a sensation as if down in the larynx; (<) after eating, talking, in the open air, and on lying down, followed by exhaustion. Low VITALITY; AND ATONY OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES, favoring emphysema. Catarrh of old people, beginning with the setting in of winter and continuing till summer heat prevails, (<) 3 to 4 A.M.
Ammonium-iod [Am-i]
Chronic bronchitis, with swelling and induration of the glands; furuncles.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Pulmonary catarrh, with constant hacking and scraping as if a foreign body were in the throat, but he only brings up small pieces of white mucus. Dry cough; (<) evenings and at night, when lying on his back or on right side; (<) after rest, after a cold drink, or when taking a deep inspiration; stitches in the chest and hypochondria; oppression when moving the upper extremities; burning in the chest, and coarse, rattling murmurs; heat at night; followed by sweat; icy coldness between shoulders, which
nothing warms; bronchiectasis, emphysema.
Ammonium-phos [Am-p]
BRONCHITIS CHRONICA ARTHRITICA. When patients suffering from gout or rheumatoid arthritis are attacked with bronchial catarrhs or bronchitis.
Ammoniacum [Ammc]
Asthenic pulmonary complaints; large accumulation of purulent or viscid matter, with feeble or difficult expectoration; aged people suffer in cold weather from bronchial affections.
Antimonium-sulph-aurat [Ant-s]
Chronic nasal and bronchial catarrhs; greenish-yellow offensive discharge from the head; frequent inclination to hawk and spit, followed by copious expectoration of mucus.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
(Tartarus emet.)- Bronchitis of infants and old people; profuse mucus with feeble expulsive power; rattling of phlegm in chest, with increased irritability to cough; sudden and alarming symptoms of suffocation, with oppression and orthopnoea, so that he has to sit up; fits of suffocation mornings and evenings in bed; cough after midnight so that he throws up his supper;l adynamia of old people; stupor from bloodpoisoning; tendency to diarrhoea; hopeless and desponding.
Arsenicum [Ars]
CHRONIC BRONCHITIS OF THE AGED. Dry catarrh, not of recent origin; dyspnoea, from more or less extensive emphysema and consecutive pulmonary congestions. Difficulty of breathing continues during the intervals upon coughing, and returns periodically, especially at night; bronchial secretion scanty with a sensation of dryness in the respiratory lining; titillation in the trachea and under the sternum, chiefly at night, provoking a dry, wheezing, often very violent cough, followed after a while by expectoration of a white, frothy, sometimes after eating and in the afternoon; emaciation; (<) about and after midnight, from lying down, from drinking cold water, from mental excitement.
Asarum-europ [Asar]
Short respiration, with suffocation, especially at night; pressure over the whole chest; burning in the right side of chest, more outside than inside; dull stitches in the lungs, especially during inspiration, which provoke cough in the larynx; expectoration of mucous sputa; a tendency to vomiting and diarrhoea.
Badiaga [Bad]
Chronic bronchial catarrh with excessive mucous secretion, so that TALKING OR COUGHING CAUSES THE MUCUS TO FLY FROM HIS MOUTH, and gagging and vomiting (Chelidonium).
Balsamum-peru [Bals-p]
Bronchial catarrhs with formation of muco-pus; loud rales with thick, creamy, yellowish-white sputa; hectic fever; night-sweats.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Useful in infancy and in old age; to the former with indurated tonsils and engorged cervical glands; to the latter when enfee- bled by antecedent diseases. Cough all the night, with sensation of excoriation in the chest; mucous expectoration; oppression as from a weight in the chest, with short and sometimes difficult respiration; stitches in the left chest; relieved by hot applications; hoarseness or aphonia; general chilliness in daytime;l heat at night preventing sleep; followed by weakening night-sweats.
Cactus-grand [Cact]
Chronic bronchitis with rattling of mucus; continuous, day and night; oppression of breathing on going of up-stairs and inability to lie horizontally in bed; becoming acute in consequence of catching cold, with great anxiety and oppression; face and limbs cold; heart feels as if clutched.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Chronic bronchitis, complicated with emphysema; bronchial dilatation with the characteristic foetid sputa, or yellow, lumpy and sweetish, when thrown into water a lump is seen shooting to the bottom, with a mucous trail behind, like a falling star; cough dry, violent, even spasmodic, with tickling in throat causing stitching headache, especially; evenings, in bed, or during night when sleeping, raising only after great and long efforts scanty, white, frothy and dirty-looking or foetid sputa; cough induced by piano playing, every note vibrates in her larynx.
Calcarea-iod [Calc-i]
Chronic bronchitis of scrofulous children, when the cervical glands are much swollen, the cough is rather dry, and when there is ground for suspicion of enlargement of the bronchial glands; thin subjects.
Calcarea-sulph [Calc-s]
In children, severe cough, with malaise in the chest; green stools; small warts on fingers and thumbs; herpetic eruptions on the face, ears, chest and hands.
Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]
HUMID ASTHMA, it requires a great effort to take a deep breath, feels as is suffocated and has to be fanned; rough cough with scraping immediately under sternum.
Capsicum [Caps]
Exhalation from lungs DURING COUGHING, and at no other time causes strong, offensive breath; cannot get air deep enough into the lugs; constant dyspnoea; oppression at bifurcation of bronchi; (>) from successful cough, sputa dirty brown.
Carbo-anim [Carb-an]
Cough with hoarseness or night-sweats, very foetid and weakening, with concussion or pain in abdomen; coldness and aching in lumbar region and lower extremities; as well as in the chest (Brom).
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Chronic bronchitis of poor, exhausted constitutions and of aged people, with profuse foetid expectoration or with profuse mucous accumulation, with imperfect power of expectoration; blue nails and cold extremities, up to the knees; collapse; burning excoriating pressure in chest, shoulders and back; great tendency of the chest to perspire; (<) in fresh air or by going from a warm room into a cold one; evening hoarseness; pyrosis in daytime.
Causticum [Caust]
Violent, racking cough, especially at night, pain in the throat and head, but he is obliged to swallow the sputum; it comes up apparently with cough, but it cannot be spat out; greasy taste of the sputa; cough after getting warm in bed, or after recovering the natural heart from a colder state; cough, with pain in hip; COUGH IMMEDIATELY RELIEVED BY A COLD DRINK; spurting of urine with the cough; he cannot cough deep enough to get relief; weakness of lower extremities; morning hoarseness.
China [Chin]
Chronic catarrh, with mucous rales, coarse and loud; cough when the head is low, it must be somewhat raised to feel easier; cough after eating; weakness and loss of strength; anaemia and oedema; tickling cough, (<) from talking or laughing.
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.