Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]
Scirrhus of pylorus; cancer of stomach, ulcerative gnawing at one spot in stomach, with agony and depression, preventing sleep, INTENSE AND CONSTANT THIRST; severe burning pain in stomach and abdomen; vomiting after every meal of yellow, yeastlike matter, or blood; pale, waxen skin; tongue pale and flabby; marked debility; copious pale urine.
Alcohol [Alco]
High potency, run up with pure water, speedily relieves the pain of cancer (McFarlan).
Apis-mell [Apis]
Ovarian affections with drawn-in nipples of mamma; scirrhus or open cancer of the breast, with stinging, burning pains, following old cases of mastitis; faint sensation in epigastrium, with loss of appetite; morbid irritability of urinary organs.
Arsenicum-alb [Ars]
EPITHELIOMA of face; rapidly progressing ulceration; thin, bloody, offensive discharge; sharp, burning pains and extreme sensitiveness to cold air. CANCER OF STOMACH, with burning pain and excessive thirst, desire for acids. (<) from cold drinks and cold diet, (>) from hot drinks; vomiting of all he takes; terrible sensation of weakness and exhaustion with anxiety in region of stomach. UTERINE CANCER, with burning pain in uterine region and shooting, stinging pains in upper part of abdomen, thirst and dryness of mouth and throat, (<) by motion; acrid, corroding, burning discharges, often very offensive, light or dark-colored;
rapid emaciation, parchment-like dryness of skin (Arsenicum iod., Arsenicum brom).
Asterias-rubens [Aster]
CANCER MAMMAE; around nipple, which is sunk in, skin adherent and smooth; livid red spot which ulcerates, discharging very foetid ichor; edges pale, hard, everted; sternal skin swollen and painful; axillary glands swollen, hard and knotted; nocturnal lancinating pains in tumor.
Aurum-met [Aur]
CANCER OF NOSE AND LIP; TONGUE swollen with scirrhus like hardness; ulcers on tongue, with foul breath; prolapsus and INDURATION OF UTERUS; pains like those of a bruise, with shooting and drawing; the mind constantly dwelling on suicide; pus greenish, ichorous, putrid (Aurum ars).
Belladonna [Bell]
Scirrhus indurations; cancerous ulcers, burning when touched; black crusts of blood at the bottom of the ulcer; scanty pus. Beginning of uterine cancer, with fulness and bearing down in parts, pain in back and discharge of bloody ichor; engorgement of glands.
Bismuth [Bism]
CANCER OF STOMACH, with burning, stinging, crampy pains; stomach hangs down to the crest of the ilium; hard lumps between navel and edges of lower ribs, side; vomits only at intervals of days when food has filled the stomach, then vomits large quantities of food during the whole day; vomits all fluids.
Bromium [Brom]
SCIRRHUS MAMMAE, great depression of spirits, suppression of menses; stitches from mamma to axilla, cannot bear pressure; hard, uneven tumor in right mamma, firmly adhering to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, (<) from pressure and at night; gray, earthy complexion, oldish look, emaciation; swelling and induration of glands.
Bufo [Bufo]
CARCINOMA, MAMMAE; CANCER OF UTERUS, distending, burning pains or cramps in uterus; sharp, dagger-like pains, (<) on walking or sitting too long; redness and swelling along course of lymphatics; offensive purulent leucorrhoea; OPEN OR OCCULT CANCER.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Cachexia fully developed. scirrhus cancer on the FOREHEAD; sudden and short aching from colloid cancer in the pit of the stomach, on taking a deep inspiration, clawing and griping in stomach; violent pressing in loins, small of black and thighs during menses, with chilliness and yawning; weak, empty feeling in the pit of the stomach; it checks the putrid taste, the waterbrash, and contracting, spasmodic burning; SCIRRHUS MAMMAE with dirty bluish, loose skin or red spots on skin, burning and drawing towards axilla; axillary glands indurated.
Causticum [Caust]
Patient cannot bear the pressure of the clothes on the stomach; the lightest food or even the smallest quantity causes a violent lancinating pain in the stomach; scirrhus of the LIPS, with itching and soreness, which when ulcerated has a violent burning pain; pus bloody, or greenish, or corroding, or thin, watery and yellow.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Old, spreading, putrid, carcinomatous ulcers; the pain in the stomach is of a gnawing or digging character; nausea, with sensation of heat in the stomach burning in stomach.
Chimaphila-umb [Chim]
SCIRRHUS MAMMAE, nipple drawn in, sharp pins in tumor and in axilla, or open cancer with ragged, everted edges, sloughing and discharging foetid pus; painful tumor of mammae in young unmarried girls.
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.