Lobelia-coerulea [Lob-s]
Ethmoidal and post-nasal disturbance, involving Eustachian tubes; dull aching pain over the root of the nose in cancer of forehead; frequent sneezing with copious discharge of thick mucus from both nostrils; inhalation of air into the nose is painful and causes sneezing.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Much sneezing through the day, at night nose completely stopped, with dryness of nose and burning headache; nose swollen, patient cannot breathe through it, has to keep his mouth open; the burning headache forces him to shut his eyes; after a few days inflammation extends down bronchi; cough, with loose expectoration, and the coryza then becomes somewhat fluent; persistent dryness high up in the nose, with periodical expulsion of elastic plugs.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Burning of both nostrils, as if sore; nose sore internally and to touch; scurfs in both nostrils, painful to touch, with loss of smell, oppressed, stuffed feeling in nose; severe coryza, now stopped, now fluent, with confusion of head and complete loss of smell and taste; discharge of offensive, purulent, matter; must sit up in bed a long time; evenings cannot lie down for want of air.
Mercurius-iod-flav [Merc-i-f]
Septum nares sore, sharp pains; much mucus descends into throat, causing hawking, constant inclination to swallow; sensation of a lump in throat; chronic catarrh of posterior nares and follicular pharyngitis; extension of chronic catarrh into lachrymal duct; induration and swelling of tonsils and other glands; torpid liver; enlarged spleen.
Mezereum [Mez]
Mercurialized patients; scraping, burning, rawness, posteriorly; thin, yellow, bloody discharge, with excruciating pains in forehead and face.
Natrum-ars [Nat-ar]
Pain in forehead and root of nose; dry, bloody crusts in nose; dropping of tough mucus from posterior nares; hawking up of mucus from larynx, worse from dust, smoke and cold; fauces feel dry on inspiration and deglutition.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Stoppage of nose or discharge of thin mucus, changing after a time to thick green mucus, or becoming yellowish-green and offensive, with discharge from time to time of hard foetid clinkers; violent sneezing with rush of blood to the head; chilliness over whole body; worse from least current of air; dropping from posterior nares into throat. Peeling of dorsum and tip, which is painful to touch; pains in bones of face; worse in open air; sensation in left nostril as if a hard body stuck there, which is not brought away by blowing the nose; ulceration of upper portion of nostrils; much nasal mucus passes through mouth; much eruption on nose and mouth.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Burning pains in nasal bones especially at root of nose and in malar region; redness, heat and swelling of left side of nose, with sore pain, especially on blowing nose; burning in nose, internal soreness; soreness and swelling of inside of nasal wings, which are full of pimples; loss of sensibility, with feeling of deadness of inner parts of nose; many small burning pimples under septum, with sensation as if acrid matter flowed from nose; severe fluent coryza, with complete loss of smell and taste.
Natrum-phos [Nat-p]
Golden-yellow thick exudation on tongue, palate and tonsils; dry cough, with expectoration of tough mucus; nose as if full of mucus, with slight discharge; great fulness at root at nose and in ears; offensive odor before nose in the morning; acidity of stomach; greenish diarrhoea.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Malar bones are sore and painful, stitches in nose as of a splinter on touching it; soreness and bleeding of inner nose; nostrils ulcerated, blood and bloody matter are blown from them; unpleasant smell evenings on lying down; on eating, pieces of food get into choanae producing a sickening sensation, they are afterwards drawn out covered with mucus; nasal mucus goes down throat, with inflamed and swollen alae; acrid matter or dirty, bloody mucus from nose at night; blows yellow matter of a sickening smell from nose; discharge of thick nasal mucus, corroding nostrils; severe catarrh, with swelling of upper lip and especially night cough; stuffed catarrh, with dryness in throat on empty swallowing; great sensitiveness to open air; emaciation; syphilitic complications.
Osmium [Osm]
Coryza, sneezing as from snuff; nose and larynx sensitive to the air; small lumps of phlegm are easily loosened from posterior nares and larynx; severe pain in larynx. (<) when coughing or talking.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Chronic inflammation of the nasal membrane, with suppressed or on oversensitive smell; profuse discharge of green or yellow mucus from the nose, without coryza, flowing down into fauces; swelling of nose, with frequent discharge of blood from it; polypi nasi, when they bleed easily; rawness and scraping in pharynx, (<) evenings, hawking in morning.
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.
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