Chilblains


Homeopathy treatment for Chilblains from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Chilblains…


Abrotanum [Abrot]

Frost-bitten limbs, chilblain itches; pricking and coldness of the finger-tips; numbness and coldness of the fingers and feet.

Agaricus [Agar]

Burning and itching on both hands, as if frozen; parts hot, swollen, red; pain and inflammation of frost-bitten toes; shooting in fingers and toes; redness, burning itching of ears, as if they had been frozen; frost-bitten nose itches; chronic inflammation of external nose.

Arnica [Arn]

The inflammation of the chilblain is caused by pressure, friction, etc.

Arsenicum [Ars]

The vesicles appear to become blackish, with tendency to humid gangrene.

Kali-carb [Kali-c]

Aching-cutting pains; swelling and redness of the soles.

Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]

Nothing, with swelling and pain, especially in very cold weather; they inflame from a slight degree of cold; skin cracked.

Nux-moschata [Nux-m]

Chilblains return every winter; hands feel cold as if frozen, with tingling under nails, when entering a warm room.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Superficial inflammation, with bright-red swelling, with burning itching, or when the tumefied parts crack and bleed easily.

Petroleum [Petr]

Chilblains, itching and burning like fire; heel painfully

swollen and red; feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture, especially when inflammation sets in with very cold weather; bleeding rhagades.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Swelling, bluish, hot, attended with throbbing pains and intense itching, especially in soles of feet, after getting warm in bed.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

Burning itching in the chilblains during afternoon and evening; when not scratching there is a pricking in them, obliging him to stomach; blotches after scratching; itching, especially at night, intolerable.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Redness and swelling of chilblain, with tendency to suppuration; chilblain thick and red, with cracks on joints; itching (<) in warm bed.

Zincum [Zinc]

Chilblains on hand, itching and swelling violently.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.