Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Coryza with dulness of head and loss of smell and taste; discharge of yellow foetid mucus; discharge of acrid, corrosive water from nose, which is obstructed at night? pimples and blotches on face and forehead.
Manganum-acet [Mang]
Dry coryza, with complete obstruction of nostrils; crampy pain at the root of the nose, (>) in wet, cold weather; nose sore to touch, (<) hoarseness and weakness of voice.
Mercurius [Merc]
Ordinary catarrh, whether epidemic or not; frequent sneezing, copious discharge of watery saliva; swelling, redness and rough, scraping soreness of the nose, with itching and pain in the nasal bones on pressing upon them; foetid smell of the nasal mucus; painful heaviness of the forehead; night-sweats, chills and feverish heat; great thirst; pain in the limbs, aggravated by warmth or cold, by dampness.
Mercurius-biniod [Merc-i-r]
Coryza and dull hearing, better getting warm by walking; right side of nose hot, swollen with coryza; much sneezing, with running from nose; whitish-yellow or bloody discharge; crusty eruptions on wings of nose.
Mercurius-protoiod [Merc-i-f]
Thick plugs on nasal secretion, with severe frontal headache, some fever and prostration, especially in old people and children; septum nares sore; sharp pains; much descends into the throat, causing hawking; spots in nose feel sore; constant inclination to swallow; swelling of the glands of the neck.
Mezereum [Mez]
Excruciating pain in the forehead and face, from extension of the frontal and maxillary sinuses; ineffectual irritation to sneeze, or sneezing, with coryza and soreness of the chest; fluent coryza, with excoriation of the nose and lip.
Natrum-ars [Nat-ar]
Dull supraorbital headache; feeling of fulness of head and face; eyes heavy and at times soreness of balls; burning of eyes and congestion of conjunctiva; watery discharge from one or both nostrils, or stoppage of nose; dryness of fauces; dry cough; (<) mornings; must breathe with mouth open at night.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
VIOLENT SNEEZING, profuse discharge of rather thin white mucus, (<) from least exposure to air or when removing an article of clothing; loss of smell and taste; nose stopped up at night; (<) on alternate days; (>) after sweat (Mercurius (<) after sweat); REMOVES DISPOSITION TO CATCH COLD.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Catarrh of frontal sinuses with neuralgic pains, involving the sinus and eye, often extending down to the cheek-bone, with puffiness of the eye, (<) when moving the eye, especially when looking downward; squirming in right nostril as of a small worm; sneezing worse when undressing at night or when rising in the morning (Rumex); loss of smell and taste; great liability to catch cold; discharge of clear mucus alternating with stoppage of nose, with hoarseness and tickling cough; nose sore and interior of it swollen; fever-blisters.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Coryza, especially when associated with some malignant disease, as scarlatina or DIPHTHERIA; discharge watery, offensive, excoriating every part it touches; foetor in throat, with sensation of a splinter there; intermittent pulse (Arum).
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
During the first stage, dryness and obstruction of the nose, with heaviness in the forehead and impatient mood; catarrh fluent in the morning and dry in the evening and at night, with dryness of the mouth without much thirst; (<) in warm air, (>) in cold air; sneezing early in bed; scraping in nose and throat; chills and heat alternate in the evening, with great heat of the face and head; acrid discharge from the obstructed nose; stoppage of the nose, particularly out-doors, but fluent indoors; (<) from exposure to dry, cold air, sitting on cold stones, etc.
Osmium [Osm]
Coryza, sneezing as if from snuff, larynx sensitive to air; small lumps of phlegm loosen from posterior nares and larynx; severe pains in larynx, (<) when talking or coughing.
Penthorum-sedoides [Pen]
Incipient coryza with soreness in nose and throat, constant wet feeling in nose, but without coryza, later formation of thick, purulent discharge.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Coryza fluent; dulness of head; sleepiness, especially during the day and after meals; blowing blood from the nose; alternating fluent and dry, with frequent sneezing; dry, forming crusts, adhering firmly; profuse discharge, flowing down into fauces; neck swollen; eyes staring; cold begins in chest and runs up nose (Arsenicum, nose first, runs down chest).
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Total obstruction of the nose, when riding, so that he has to breathe through the mouth, not relieved by blowing the nose; flow of mucus from one nostril, while the other is stopped; thin watery discharge from the nostril, increasing till the nose is stopped up; mucus discharged with difficulty; constant hawking.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Coryza, fluid or dry, loss of taste and smell, nostrils sore; wings raw; later yellow-green discharge, (<) in-doors; chilliness, face pale, head confused, frontal headache; chronic, thick, yellow, bland discharge or later yellow, green and offensive.
Quillaya-saponaria [Quill]
INCIPIENCY OF A COLD; dry or fluent coryza; frequent sneezing; dull pain in head; dull, heavy pain in both temples; scraping sensation in pharynx; dull pain at root of nose; THROAT VERY SORE, especially on swallowing; tonsils swollen; dull pain through thorax; weary feeling in limbs; lassitude; colds contracted in warm; damp, relaxing weather.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Copious coryza with redness oedema of throat; severe aching in bones; sneezing; dry cough, (<) from evening till midnight (Mez.,) and from uncovering body.
Rumex [Rumx]
Dull headache, worse by motion; sore feeling in eye, without any external sign of inflammation; fluent coryza; with painful irritation in nostrils and sneezing; epistaxis; violent and rapid sneezing; feeling of dryness in posterior nares; cough excited by tickling in throat-pit and worse by least current of air; hoarseness.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
Hay fever; coryza, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids, violent sneezing, and copious watery discharge from nose and eyes.
Salicylic-acid [Sal-ac]
INCIPIENT CATARRH; the patients, especially children, sneeze the whole day.
Sambucus [Samb]
Suitable to infants; nose obstructed by a tenacious, thick mucus, with sudden starting from sleep, as if suffocating, snuffles of children; nose seems perfectly obstructed, dryness of throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Coryza, particularly of right nostril, accompanied by much sneezing, with dull, heavy pains over root of nose and stinging sensation in nose; copious, acrid, burning, watery discharge from nose, causing an indescribable rawness of the Schneiderian membrane, with loss of sense of smell; conjunctiva often similarity affected; hay fever and subsequent asthma, sick and faint from perfume of flowers; polypi.
Sepia [Sep]
Dry coryza, especially of left nostril; fluent coryza, with sneezing, early morning; blowing of large lumps of yellow-green mucus, or yellow-green crusts, with blood from the nose, or from posterior nares.
Silicea [Sil]
Alternately dry and fluent coryza; with every fresh cold stoppage and acrid discharge from nose; frequent but ineffectual sneezing; makes inner nose sore and bloody; dryness of throat, rough cough, itching in Eustachian tube; dryness and stoppage after checked foot-sweat; nose obstructed mornings; fluent during day; loss of smell and taste; frequent sneezing, especially in cold air; frequent chilliness, even while taking exercise; cold nose.
Sinapis-alba [Sin-a]
Dryness of anterior and posterior nares, of pharynx; lumpy secretion from nares.
Sinapis-nigra [Sin-n]
Thin, acrid nasal discharge with excoriation, (<) at the alae nasi; sneezing hacking cough, (>) by lying down and eating; lachrymation and smarting of eyes; dull frontal headache, not interfering with mental work.
Spigelia [Spig]
Fluent coryza with dry heat, not thirst; eyes water; headaches, with hoarseness and anxiety about the heart; copious offensive mucus flows through posterior nares, causing choking at night, tickling and itching in nose.
Squilla [Squil]
Nasal discharge fluent and corrosive; absence of sweat; internal chilliness with external heat, or intense heat followed by chilliness as soon as patient uncovers; painful stitches in different parts of chest; loose morning cough more fatiguing than dry evening cough.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Violent coryza, one nostril is stuffed up, much sneezing and lachrymation, with nasal voice; dull feeling in head, with inability to perform any mental labor.
Sticta-pulm [Stict]
Premonitory symptoms of catarrh; excessive dryness of the nasal mucous membrane, which becomes painful; secretions dry rapidly, forming scabs difficult to dislodge; deglutition painful, from dryness in the throat, aggravated at night; incessant sneezing, burning in the eyes; dull frontal headache, with feeling of fulness at the root of nose; hard, dry, barking cough.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Profuse catarrhal discharge of burning water; fluent burning coryza out-doors; nose stopped up in-doors; frequent sneezing; discharge of blood from the nose on blowing it; loss of smell; soreness and ulceration of nostrils.
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.