Aconite [Acon]
Dry, hot skin, sleeplessness or restless sleep; the child cries much, bites its fists and suffers from green or watery diarrhoea.
AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Colic and crying accompanied by violent vomiting of curdled milk, as soon as taken, with drowsiness.
Alumina [Alum]
Rapid trembling of chin during every of fit colic; distension of stomach, (<) after meals; even soft stools expelled with difficulty.
Arsenicum [Ars]
The food passes undigested, the stools are offensive; much crying during and after nursing, or as soon as the child begins to take food; emaciation; anguish and restlessness.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Useful in colic of dwarfish children, who do not grow; the child feels hungry but does not eat; repletion after a little food, as if the food causes a load on the stomach.
Belladonna [Bell]
The child cries out suddenly, and after a while it ceases crying as suddenly as it began, and appears as if nothing had been the matter; starting, with jerking of muscles; the child cries and moans a great deal, and BENDS BACKWARD DURING COLICKY PAINS; abdomen full of wind.
Borax [Bor]
Child cannot bear a downward motion, even during sleep, which awakens it and cries; hiccough of infants; flatulent distension after every meal; painless stools containing undigested food and mucus.
Bryonia [Bry]
The child has to be kept very still in order to relieve its colic and other sufferings; the stools are dark, dry and hard, as if burnt.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
White chalklike stools; long-continued crying; inguinal hernia; repugnance meat, which passes undigested.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Tardy dentition of thin, fretful children, who want to nurse all the time and yet don’t at every attempt to eat, bellyache; sometimes they refuse to feed, because the milk is too salty.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Sour breath; pinching pains; flushed cheeks, hot face, hot perspiration; tongue deeply covered with a thick, moist, yellowish-white coating, often with indented edges; distress after nursing; stools smell like rotten eggs, are green, chopped, and consist of while or yellow mucus; often from violent emotions of nurse.
China [Chin]
Colic comes on at a certain hour every afternoon.
Cina [Cina]
The principal seat of the pain is a fixed point above the navel; pulse normal, sometimes a little frequent; pale and pinched face; colic relieved by pressure (Podophyllum); the child is seldom quiet or good-natured, whether sleeping or awake; does not want to be touched; wants to be rapidly rocked, will sleep only while being rocked.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
The child writhes in every possible direction, doubles itself up, and seems in great distress; painful crying; colic; BETTER BY CARRYING CHILD ON ITS STOMACH; stools during or right after nursing and undigested; stools small, bilious, frothy, frequent, preceded by severe colicky pains, coming on in paroxysms.
Coffea [Coff]
Gastric derangements of infants; cramps in stomach; terrible colic, with horripilations and violent tossing of limbs during paroxysms; diarrhoea of liquid, faecal, offensive stools from sudden joy of nurse or when infant took cold in open air.
Croton-tigl [Croto-t]
Colic and diarrhoea (<) after nursing or eating; stools profuse, watery, coming out in a gush.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
When the child gets worse at every cool change of the weather; griping, nausea, followed by diarrhoea; during dentition.
Ignatia [Ign]
Colic after taking the breast of the mother or nurse, who suffers from grief.
Illicium-anisatum [Anis]
Three months colic, especially when it occurs at irregular hours; violent wind colic.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Convulsions from overindulgence in sweets, fruits, etc.; sickness of stomach and fermented stools; excessive nausea and gagging.
Iris-vers [Iris]
Protracted nausea and painful vomiting of an extremely sour fluid, especially about an hour after a meal; belching up of wind from stomach with considerable force, or profuse emission of flatulence; colic, and diarrhoea of bilious stools; abdominal complaints in spring and autumn.
Jalapa [Jal]
The child is good all day, but screams the whole night.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
The child always screams before urinating, and is relieved immediately afterwards; much rumbling and rattling in abdomen.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
The colic is always relieved, whether by day or by night by a green liquid stool; poorly nourished children with mouth full of aphthae.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Wind colic of small children, with drawing up of legs, with or without diarrhoea; flatus neither passes up nor down; (>) by warmth and bending double; nutrition not interfered with though crying day and night.
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.