Aconite [Acon]
Premonitory stage, with nausea, sweat and diarrhoea; white stools and red urine; hypogastrium painful and sore to the touch; weakness of bowels from former purgatives; sensation as if a warm liquid came out of the anus; acute congestion of the mucous membranes after eating fruit. When cholera is fully developed, Aconite may be still indicated, for inclination to vomit with violent diarrhoea; vomiting and watery diarrhoea; hippocratic countenance; bluish face, with black lips, anguish or imbecility in the face; cold limbs, with blue nails; collapse, out of proportion to the evacuations, GREAT AND SUDDEN SINKING OF STRENGTH, BUT WITH NO ALARM.
Angustura [Ang]
Spasms and cramps in back, in thighs and calves; eyelids spasmodically opened; intermitting, spasmodic breathing; easily frightened and starts, (<) by touching the parts; diarrhoea preceded by cutting in abdomen and nausea in the morning; copious, thin, white stools, with shivering over face after every stool.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Cholera morbus; violent straining to vomit, with respiration on forehead; vomiting of food with great effort, followed by DEBILITY, CHILLINESS AND SLEEPINESS.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Stomach as much disturbed as the lower bowels; prostration profound; incessant restlessness and change of position; intense thirst, satiated for a few moments by a small quantity of water, but that little aggravates all symptoms, or drinking of large quantities, with vomiting and purging; violent vomiting of watery, bilious, or slimy, green brown or black masses; lips and tongue dry, blackish and cracked; ICY COLDNESS OF THE SKIN, AND CLAMMY SWEAT, WITH SUBJECTIVE HEAT; pains violent, and burning in the epigastrium; NOT RICE-WATER, but frequent, scanty, a dark or yellowish offensive-smelling water; hippocratic countenance; small, feeble, intermittent or tremulous pulse; tonic spasms of the fingers and toes; SUDDEN DEATHLY COLLAPSE, with drowsiness verging on stupefaction and great indifference.
Asarum-europ [Asar]
Nervous and timid persons who constantly feel chilly, or complain of cold hands, feet, knees or abdomen; even the hottest room or the WARMEST COVERING DOES NOT RELIEVE THE CHILLINESS, constant nausea, most disgusting taste in mouth, with loathing of food, without gastric derangement; clean tongue; rumbling and gurgling in abdomen, with nausea; unconquerable longing for alcohol.
Belladonna [Bell]
TYPHOID VARIETY; coma, with half-opened, distorted eyes, grating of the teeth, distortion of the mouth, or great restlessness; desire to escape; stitches in the side, or burning of the abdomen; burning heat and redness of the face, and desire for cold drinks; accelerated pulse, which is more or less full, but not hard.
Bryonia [Bry]
Skin icy-cold, shrivelled; unconscious, cannot speak; great dryness of tongue, mouth and lips; vomiting and purging; pulseless; TYPHOID SYMPTOMS FOLLOWING CHOLERA; vomiting and diarrhoea commence in the morning, preceded by cutting pains in bowels, (<) by motion, even in bed.
Camphora [Camph]
FIRST STAGE ONLY. Sudden and overwhelming prostration, is unable to stand; cramps in calves; COLDNESS OF BODY, dry or in a cold sweat; great burning in oesophagus and stomach; painfulness of stomach to pressure; no thirst, marked nausea, coldness after vomiting or no vomiting, no diarrhoea or scanty stool; face distorted, eyes sunken; face, hands and feet icy cold, cannot beat to have them covered, great anguish as though he would suffocate, groans and moans in a hoarse, husky voice; tingling and numbness in tips of fingers; extremities cold and blue with cramps. DRY CHOLERA REPRESENTING A TERRIBLE SHOCK TO SYMPATHETICUS. Sometimes scanty rice-water stools, incomplete, with marked nausea.
Cantharis [Canth]
The urinary passages involved, with violent burning in the hypogastrium; rumbling in the abdomen; bloody stools with tenesmus; heat in the abdomen; great restlessness; cerebral symptoms. Suppression or retention of urine, even uraemic coma, delirium and convulsions, excessive sensitiveness of abdomen to touch.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
After exposure to great heat of sun or of fire, as for cooks, blacksmiths, masons, etc., even in the premonitory stage. CHOLERA HAEMORRHAGIA, where the red corpuscles pass out with the serum and tinge it red, associated with flatulence; diarrhoea and vomiting, with oppression of chest and coma, or algid state, collapse without stools; nose, cheeks and finger-tips icy cold, lips bluish; cold breath and cold tongue; respiration weak and labored, desires to be fanned; hoarseness or total loss of voice; cramps in legs and thighs; consciousness retained, or coma without vomiting, stool or cramps.
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.