Diabetes Mellitus
Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]
Abundant sugar in urine, increased and light-colored, great thirst, but cold drink lies heavy on stomach; ascites and hydrothorax, oedema pedum; gangrenous ulcers; pale, waxen skin; extreme prostration; decomposition of animal matter.
Argentum-met [Arg-m]
Profuse, turbid, sweetish urine; (<) at night, sometimes like whey, it distresses him at night, has to rise so often; emaciation and great weakness; face pale and sallow, scrotum and feet oedematous and itching; pruritus scroti seu vulvae; foetid taste in mouth; disposition to gangrene.
Arsenicum-brom [Ars-br]
Mineral spring of Ashe Co., N.C. (Liquor Arsenicum brom.). Needs proving, though highly recommended.
Asclepias-vincet [Ascl]
Arthritis, bleeding of gums, insatiable hunger; impotency; emaciation.
Berberis-vulg [Berb]
Constant urging, with pain in neck of bladder, urine very slow to flow, with pain in lumbar and renal region, (>) by rest; after urinating sensation in bladder as if one must go again soon or as if some urine remained behind; pale-yellow urine, with a gelatinous sediment; weakness of sexual organs; pale, sallow face, sunken cheeks; sickly expression; dryness and sticky
feeling in mouth and fauces; sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton; increased thirst and appetite, (>) by eating; pulse slow and weak; paralyzed, bruised sensation in back, (<) from slight exertion; skin sticky and scaling off; INTENSE COLDNESS OF KNEES.
Bovista [Bov]
Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination, with emission of a few drops; urine bright-red or yellowish- green, becomes turbid; bright yellow, with slowly forming cloud; turbid, like loam-water, with violent sediment; general languor and enervation, particularly in joints; visible palpitation after exertion, as if the heart were working in water; backache, with stiffness after stooping; urticaria.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
GLYCOSURIA WHEN LUNGS ARE IMPLICATED, diminishing the quantity of urine and lowering its specific gravity, sore aching in bladder, (<) after urinating, involuntary sighing; chronic cough of consumptives, who suffer with cold feet; profuse sweat in phthisis.
Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]
Short, dry, hacking cough; excessive urination, the urine containing sugar; copious flow of limpid, colorless urine; diarrhoea or torpor of intestines; unusual appetite and thirst for stimulants; languor and profound prostration; cold skin, horripilations; OBESITY OR TENDENCY TO IT.
Cuprum-met [Cupr]
Urine acid, straw-colored, turbid after standing, a reddish, thin sediment adhered to vessel, viscous, offensive, bloody, scanty or suppressed; great and slowly progressing emaciation; suppurating tuberculosis of lungs and evident signs of depression of brain; very great thirst; increased hunger; sweetish taste of mouth; increased urination, especially at night; dry very infrequent stool; decrease of sexual desire.
Curare [Cur]
DIABETES ACTISSIMUS, THREATENING LIFE; clear and frequent urine, with digging, crampy pains in kidneys; shooting in stomach; dry mouth; great thirst, especially evenings and at night; sugar in urine; great emaciation.
Hepar [Hep]
The slightest contradiction makes him break out into the greatest violence, he could kill somebody without hesitation; sight gets dim when reading; heaviness and pressure in stomach after a moderate meal, unusual hunger, much thirst; desire for acids and wine; sexual desire increased, erections feeble; urine acrid, burning, making the inner surface of the prepuce or of the pudenda sore and ulcerated; emission of much pale urine, with pressure on bladder; emission of pale, clear urine, which on standing becomes turbid, thick, and deposits a white sediment.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Emaciation, paleness, skin cold and dry, pulse rapid and feeble, tongue red and tender, gums spongy and bleeding; thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; urine pale, frequent, of great density, and loaded with sugar; liver tumid and tender (Arsenicum brom.).
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Excessive and sugary urine; itching in urethra; stomach and liver deranged; dry and light-colored stools; pain in kidneys; great weakness and somnolence.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Nervous weakness; breath peculiar, of haylike odor; thirst, voracious hunger, emaciation; hepatic troubles.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Perfect depression to the trophic nervous system. Heaviness all over, with drowsiness; depression of spirits; head feels confused and dull; dim-sightedness; flat, bitter taste; appetite, with sensation of fulness; intermittent, hard, dry stool; frequent and copious emission of hot, clear urine; bruised sensation in chest and all along the back; physical exhaustion, worse from rest; great itching of genitals during and after micturition.
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.