Coca [Coca]
Nervous depression, result of overwork, exhausting diseases, mental worry, sexual excesses or abuse of tobacco, hardly able to make any exertion; inclination to sleep and constant weariness, which does not induce refreshing sleep; feeling of anguish, increased with failure of every effort to strive against the weariness; brain muddled, loss of all energy.
Cocculus [Cocc]
ILL EFFECTS OF LOSS OF SLEEP AND MENTAL EXCITEMENT; weakness with trembling, feels too weak to talk loud, faintness from slightest exertion; prostration and exhausting sweat over whole body from slightest exertion; (>) lying down (anaemia), on rising vertigo and dizziness.
Coffea [Coff]
Fainting from sudden emotions; greatest mental and physical exhaustion, lassitude and general debility, overexcitement of entire nervous system; sleeplessness during convalescence; extreme sensitiveness to pain.
Colchicum [Colch]
Debility following LOSS OF SLEEP, awakes in the morning tired and languid, followed by loss of appetite and bad taste in mouth, dislike even to the smell of food; any little thing annoys him.
Conium [Con]
Great prostration of muscular and nervous system, (<) from excitement; weakness and lassitude with desire to sit or lie down; feels exhausted and faint after a short walk; complete sleeplessness and exhaustion, can hardly speak a few words; debility from old age or masturbation; after zymotic diseases.
Curare [Cur]
Nervous debility from over-lactation and from exhausting illness causing functional paretic states; debility of the aged, great failure of strength; no cough, pain or disordered digestion.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Anaemic debility from faulty nutrition and assimilation (Calcarea); relaxation and weakness of entire muscular system with emaciation; muscles feeble and easily exhausted from light exertion; pseudo-plethora, even tendency to get fat; fainting spells with subsequent weakness; falls asleep when sewing or studying, from weariness and debility; when falling asleep sweat breaks out, which awakens him and keeps him awake till morning; depression of spirits.
Helonias [Helon]
Atonic anaemia, especially after the failure of Ferrum; profound debility as after severe acute diseases, (>) upon exercising, when doing something, when the mind is engaged; uterine and hysterical sufferings.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Weakness following LABOR OR ABORTION; weak, lame feeling in small of back, which makes walking very difficult; cough and frequent sweating at night; discharge of blood from uterus; excess of urates in urine showing great waste of tissue.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Great debility without previous exhaustion from disease, but instead original inertia and phlegmatic state; aversion to society and to exertion; head feels stupefied, if he tries to exert himself; weakness of ankles and liability to fall.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Great debility from oversensitiveness of all the senses; sudden failing of strength, wants to sit or lie down; tendency to faint from odors, in the morning or after eating; ailments from continuous mental labor from abuse of wines, liquors, narcotics and physics.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Nervous debility from loss of animal fluids; after protracted nursing, from exhausting illness, from excessive venery, accompanied by symptoms of great nervous exhaustion, shown by tingling and formication; dizziness as if he would fall down, and on lying down feels as if the feet were going higher up than the head; back and legs weak, so that he totters in walking; burning in spine; (<) at night; failure of memory.
Phosphorus [Phos]
SUDDEN PROSTRATION WHEN nervous system is exhausted from a sudden shock or blow, as after severe zymosis.
Picric-acid [Pic-ac]
Asthenia from diminished nutrition; weakness of muscles; furunculosis; lame and tired sensation all over the body; (>) in open air and when at rest.
Psorinum [Psor]
Weakness, especially without structural diseased changes; debility after acute diseases, with despair of recovery; thinks he is very ill, when he is not; appetite will not return; sweats from least exertion; sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry; body has a filthy smell, even after a bath.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Nervous debility, with amenorrhoea; tired, worn-out feeling, as from fatigue, but not better resting; chlorotic debility, especially after large doses of iron.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Lassitude, torpor, languor, not disposed to move or to make any mental exertion, (<) damp weather; limbs weak while walking in open air; drowsiness, causing mental and bodily indolence; languid circulation, limbs cold, skin pallid, sensitive to atmospheric changes.
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.