Mercurius-iod-rub [Merc-i-r]
Swallowing painful, both of solids and fluids, patches mostly on LEFT TONSIL, velum elongated; must hawk and swallow from the collection of saliva of mucus or from feeling of a lump in throat; livid patches; exudation limited, transparent, easily detached discharge thin and offensive; enlarged glands; wants his food well salted, but drinks little.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Grayish-white membrane on fauces, with choking on swallowing; parts appear dark-bluish, are raw and smart; dark foetid nasal discharge: weak, empty reeling in stomach with loss of appetite; nosebleed; weak, drowsy pulse intermittent; TYPHOID CONDITION WITH MOST INTENSE PROSTRATION; involuntary stool and urine; mouth studded with ulcers having a dark or black base and dipping deep in with tendency to perforate; blood dark and putrid.
Naja-tripudians [Naja]
SUFFOCATING SPELLS ON LYING DOWN, particularly when lying in bed; suffocative spells of cough after every sleep. however short; the cough is deep, hoarse; respiration wheezing, rasping, very tight and difficult, (>) from daylight till noon retention of urine; yellow, watery stools IMPENDING PARALYSIS OF HEART, patient able or pale, awakens from sleep gasping, pulse filiform intermittent.
Natrum-ars [Nat-ar]
NOT MUCH PAIN DESPITE THE DARK PURPLISH HUE of the throat, the great swelling and the great prostration. Uvula hands down like a sack of water; fauces and pharynx look red and glassy; throat painful on empty swallowing, but no soreness on swallowing food or drink; tough, yellowish mucus in posterior nares and upper part of pharynx, with considerable hawking to free the throat; neck feels stiff (Lachn) and sore, troubled sleep, cold, clammy sweat heart oppressed from least exertion: pulse irregular, variable, slower than usual.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Swelling of submaxillary glands and lymphatics; map tongue; burning in throat;l after cauterization with lunar caustic;post- diphtheritic paralysis of the muscles of throat. Craves salt.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
NASAL DIPHTHERIA; discharge from nose watery and very offensive, excoriating every part it touches (Arum), with white deposits in nares; ulcers in mouth with stinging in them as if from splinters (Lac.can) difficult and painful deglutition; excessive salivation; fauces and glands swollen; foetor oris; chilliness and still aversion to heat; nosebleed; distress and uneasiness in stomach with total rejection of all food; great uneasiness; excessive prostration; deep-seated local affection;l; intermittent pulse.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Patient feels better after a little sleep.
Opium [Op]
SUFFOCATIVE ATTACKS DURING SLEEP; cough, with dyspnoea and blue fade; profuse perspiration over whole body (Lachesis after sleep, Naja when lying down) painful attacks of coughing and strangling.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Creeping chills and backache in the beginning; THROAT FEELS AS IF IT WERE A LARGE EMPTY CAVERN; feeling as if a hot ball were lodged in fauces, and sensation as after swallowing choke-pears PAINS IN HEAD, BACK AND LIMBS, (<) on least touch of neck; pains shoot into ears when swallowing; great prostration and restlessness livid exudation upon tonsils and fauces; tonsils, soft palate and fauces highly inflamed and swollen, sore and sensitive, (<) on taking hot fluids; breath offensive; cannot stand, when rising up in bed faint and dizzy; high fever and albuminuria.
Plumbum-met [Plb]
Gangrenous destruction of mucous membrane; scabs with foul- smelling ichor, most horrid tendency to sloughing; paralytic weakness of extremities; hands and feet cold; excessive prostration.
Plumbum-iod [Plb-i]
Gangrenous destruction of mucous membrane; scabs with foul- smelling ichor, most horrid tendency to sloughing; paralytic weakness of extremities; hands and feet cold; excessive prostration.
Psorinum [Psor]
Excessive debility after diphtheria, patient hopeless despairs of recovery (>) lying down, (<) from slightest exertion, in the evening and before midnight; profuse sweats, especially in palms of hands and face.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Child restless, wants to be carried about, wakes up new and then complaining of its throat; bloody saliva runs out of its mouth during sleep, sticking pain in tonsils; right tonsil covered with yellow exudation, (<) when beginning to swallow; parotid swollen; transparent, jellylike stools,; typhoid symptoms.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Ulcerated sore throat; intense heat and dryness of throat, amounting to burning, choking feeling when swallowing, (>) inspiring cold air, pearly coating of fauces and tonsils, (<) right side.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Large, yellow deposits all around the posterior wall of the of the pharynx, which the is ulcerated and sloughing, with very little swelling, more painful than that of liquids; dryness of throat;l flushes of heat, frequent sinking spells; constant desire to urinate; fever with sharply circumscribed redness of cheeks; burning of feet, puts them out of bed; eruption, when present itches when becoming warm; slowly progressing cases in psoric patients.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Ulceration of throat with large exudations; thick, grayish or lemon-colored, sticky and tenacious; tonsils bright red; swallowing difficult;; liquids run out of the nose; speech and breathing difficult from accumulated exudation in fauces; excessive salivation; foul breath; apathy; excessive paleness; much debility with sensation of trembling all over body without real trembling.
Tarentula-cubana [Tarent-c]
Entire fauces red, tonsils covered by membrane, foul breath; high fever, pungent heat of the skin; drowsy with starting in sleep, head hot, face fiery red; tendency to gangrene and sepsis.
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.