Aletris-far [Alet]
Anaemic debility of chlorotic girls and pregnant women, suffering from slow digestion; least food distresses the stomach; fainting attacks with vertigo; flatulent colic, constipation; amenorrhoea or delayed attacks with vertigo; flatulent colic, constipation; amenorrhoea or delayed menses from UTERINE OR OVARIAN ATONY, premature profuse menses, with labor like pains; sterility from uterine atony.
Alumina [Alum]
Feeling of constriction in oesophagus when swallowing; capricious appetite, aversion to meat; desire for chalk, starch, charcoal, clean white rags, clover, acids, ground coffee, dirt, etc.; faintness at stomach, (>) by satisfying the craving; always (<) after potatoes; palpitation of heart with large and small beats intermingled; constant chilliness; dryness of all mucous membranes; dryness and harshness of skin, wit absence of all perspiration; menses scanty, pale and painful, after menses exhausted in mind and body; hysterical jerks and spasmodic laughter; unrefreshing night sleep, weak and faint in the morning till she eats; impelled to suicide when seeing a knife; transparent albuminous leucorrhoea sometimes running down the limbs.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Nymphomania and tenderness over ovarian region after CHECKING MENSES BY A BATH; menses commence at an early period, are profuse and cease afterwards, followed by chlorosis; gastric symptoms predominant, with habitual sensation as if stomach were overloaded, with headache, peevishness; irregular stool, lassitude, excessive depression and exhaustion; unrefreshing sleep at night.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Shortness of breath without lung or heart affection; sallow complexion; heartburn, dyspepsia, irritative flatulent gastralgia; round ulcer of stomach (local malnutrition); menses irregular, copious or scanty, but clotted; bone-pains; symptoms of spinal irritation; fulgurating pains, with paretic motor and sensory symptoms; albuminuria; tendency to diarrhoea.
Arsenicum [Ars]
MENORRHAGIA CHLOROSIS; deglobulization of the blood (pernicious anaemia); great anxiety, coldness and rapid failure of strength; skin dry, cold and bluish, ecchymoses; or burning nocturnal pains, (>) by external heat; burning under skin as if there were boiling water in the veins; weariness of life with fear of death; frequent fainting; burning thirst for cold water, acids and brandy; cardiac disturbances, even during rest; adynamia with excessive irritability; complete gastro-ataxia.
Belladonna [Bell]
Laziness and indisposition to work or stir; great general debility, with weariness and a desire to sleep in the afternoon;
shortness of cheeks and hot forehead; painful menstruation, with rush of blood to head female parts are sensitive, can bear neither touch nor the least jar.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Scrofula; disposition to cold and diarrhoea; great weakness or curvature of the spine; vertigo on going up-stairs; disgust for meat; craving for sour and indigestible things; after eating, swelling of the stomach and palpitation of the heart; menses too often, too profuse, or wanting; leucorrhoea; great shortness of breath; great muscular debility; walking wearies and makes the heart palpitate; sitting causes backache and headache, therefore constant inclination to lie down; hands and feet cold and damp; the fingers appear dead. Imaginary fears about her state of health; hystero-epilepsy; tuberculosis.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Chlorosis; at or near puberty constant headaches with ringing in ears, (<) from artificial light, from atmospheric changes, immediately after eating, (>) when digestion is well under way; frequent urination with sensation of weakness; breathing short, difficult; leucorrhoea like albumen; weariness on ascending, (>) by rest; copious night-sweats; neuralgia; schoolgirls who need fresh air exercise more than book-cramming.
China [Chin]
Great general weakness, with trembling and perspiration, when moving or sleeping; small, weak pulse, with coldness of body and shivering, headache, nausea and vertigo; eructations, with weak digestion and sense of fulness in stomach and abdomen; desire for wine or beer; excessive flatulency; menses suppressed, scanty, pale an d preceded by leucorrhoea; tendency to dropsical effusions and oedematous swellings; often the result to masturbation, loss of vital fluids, as by haemorrhages from nose, lungs, stomach etc.
Cina [Cina]
On drinking wine, she shudders as if it were vinegar; spasmodic yawning; headache; pain in the chest and back, caused by fixing the eyes steadily upon some object, as when sewing; all pains (<) by external pressure; spells of intermittent fever at 4 P.M., with thirst and coldness of the hands and feet; colic and vomiting of ingesta; afterwards heat and sweat, followed by deep sleep.
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.