Platina [Plat]
Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of the napkin; voluptuous tingling in vulva and abdomen; profuse discharge of tarry blood; constipation; everything seems strange to her, low-spirited; body, except the face, feels cold.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Overexcitability and tearful disposition, paralytic heaviness of limbs; painfulness of joints; great sensitiveness of abdominal walls and laborlike pains in abdomen; suppressed lochia; watery diarrhoea; strangury or discharge of clear or dark urine in drops; tearing and stinging in abdomen; putrid taste in mouth; giddiness with loss of sight; (<) evenings.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Lochia vitiated and offensive, lasting too long or often returning; metritis with typhoid symptoms; milk vanishes; restless and feverish, she cannot lie still, changes position constantly which affords a few moments’ relief; slow fever, dry tongue, loss of power in lower extremities, (<) after midnight.
Secale-corn [Sec]
STRONG TENDENCY TO PUTRESCENCE; discharge of sanious blood, with tingling of legs and great prostration; lochia dark, very offensive, scanty or profuse; painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing-down pains; retention or suppression of urine; offensive diarrhoea; voice hollow, with difficult breathing, feeble and inaudible; burning fever interrupted by shaking chills; cold limbs; cold sweat over whole body; gangrene.
Sulphur [Sulph]
At the very commencement, patient exhausted from labor causes an adynamic inflammation from the start; weak feeling in genitals; corroding lochia; shortness of breath; restlessness; mental anxiety; (<) at night or towards morning.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Bearing down in uterine region; burning like fire about hypogastrium; burning on urinating, urine cloudy and dark, having a muddy appearance; abdomen tympanitic and sore to touch; headache with thirst; brown, dry tongue, nausea, vomiting; pulse small and frequent; great prostration; tendency to mortification in inflamed parts.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Nausea with vomiting, profuse diarrhoea; coldness of abdomen or more or less burning; cold sweat extending from head downward; dyspnoea with dryness and constriction of chest; lochia suppressed with nymphomania, fainting on least motion.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Early or premonitory stage of puerperal affections; sudden suppression of milk and lochia; intense fever, restlessness; excessive pain and tenesmus; tympany; skin cold and clammy; quick, weak pulse.
Zincum [Zinc]
Nymphomania from suppression of lochia and milk; great sensitiveness of external and internal genitals; can only urinate while sitting bent backward; lameness and deadness of extremities.
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.