Asthenia
Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]
Great debility, polyuria and glycosuria, intense thirst; sensation as if an ulcer were in stomach, giving great uneasiness.
Aconite [Acon]
Suitable to young people, especially young girls, when plethoric and leading a sedentary life, or for extreme sensitiveness to pain; sleeplessness, tossing about; extreme sensitiveness of sight and hearing; red cheeks; tendency of blood to head; palpitation of heart, etc.
Aletris-far [Alet]
Weariness of mind and body; dizzy when stooping; sleepiness; least food distresses stomach, flatulency and constipation; debility, especially of women from protracted illness or defective nutrition, no organic disease. Debility after diphtheria.
Alumina [Alum]
Want of bodily irritability; great exhaustion from walking in open air, from talking; slow, tottering gait as after severe illness; great weakness or loss of memory; easily intoxicated, even by weak spirituous drinks.
Ambra [Ambr]
Great prostration after lingering fevers, loss of muscular power, memory impaired; unable to reflect upon anything properly; dull vision, impotence. Suits well old people and nervous children.
Anacardium [Anac]
Nervous debility and prostration following seminal emissions, whether involuntary or not; too rapid loss of memory and mental vigor in old people; prostration from cramming of students, with loss of sleep; weakness of all the senses; loss of appetite and (>) after eating; paretic state of the muscles subject to volition.
Argentum-met [Arg-m]
Arthralgia, bruised feeling in small of back from weakness of spine, has to lie down to obtain rest, knees partially weak; suits nervous hysterical women and males after loss of fluids, especially semen.
Arnica [Arn]
General fatigue, lassitude and sleeplessness; sensation as of being bruised, must lie down, yet bed feels too hard; loss of strength and of all sense of health; confusion of the head and slowness of thinking.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Debility from overtaxing muscular tissue, as from prolonged exertion, climbing mountains, etc.; he is so weary that he cannot sleep, but feels stronger by lying down and rest, (<) by other people’s talking.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Feels weak, tremulous; as if recovering from sickness and incapable of vigorous mental or bodily exertion; no desire to do anything; sleep restless, (<) on awaking, parts rested on feel very painful.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Suits first childhood and senility with mental or physical debility; old people, especially when fat or when they suffered from gout; constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and still feels weak and weary, deficient memory, absentmindedness.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Excess in venery, every embrace causes languor, trembling of extremities, weariness, headache; nervous irritability and nervous debility; relapses after severe acute diseases, one does not continue to convalesence; want of strength, especially in the morning, arising from loss of animal fluids; after exposure to wet and cold; diseases of children during dentition.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Great debility from straining and overlifting; weakness of nursing women.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Debility from defective circulation and imperfect oxidation of the blood; vital forces nearly exhausted; cold surface, especially from knees to feet; breath cool, pulse intermittent, thready; cold sweat on limbs; after a spree.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Oversensitiveness to pain, disposition to faint, when suffering ever so little, disconsolate, tossing about, moaning and lamenting; irritable, quarrelsome mood, great prostrating debility as soon as the neuralgic pains begin; lassitude in morning on awaking; symptoms (<) at night, while lying down.
China [Chin]
Hectic fever; weakness from loss of animal fluids or after severe and exhausting diseases, with coldness of skin and inability to undergo the least fatigue, even (<) while sitting, still more while walking, with excessive irritability and sensibility, in fact the EXCESSIVE DEBILITY IS NOW THE DISEASE ITSELF; torpor and paralytic weakness of the affected parts; numbness of parts on which he lies; sensitiveness to draughts of air; sleeplessness from thoughts crowding upon one’s mind; heavy dreams, causing anxiety even after waking; disposition to sweat; hypochondriasis; malarious affections.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Atony in nervous and muscular system; nervous debility; GREAT DEBILITY BETWEEN MENSES; headache and exhausted feeling of students; sleeplessness from excited brain or when falling asleep, is awakened by electric shocks.
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.