Drunkards diseases



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Natrum-carb [Nat-c]

Bad effects from drinking wine, which causes dizziness, head feels too large; bloated face; yellow blotches on forehead and upper lip.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

Delirium tremens; vomiting of transparent mucus or water; tongue coated with clear mucus; constipation; cholera in drunkards.

Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]

Debility and dyspepsia of drunkards:SATIETY OF LIFE, must use all self-control to prevent shooting himself;dullness and muddled feeling in head; squeamishness in stomach and constant uneasiness in bowels.

Nux-moschata [Nux-m]

Tendency to faint, and intense nervous excitement after continued drinking; delirium tremens; slowness of senses; imaginary fancies; awakens and knows not where he is; laughter, with stupid expression; reeling in the open air; limbs numb and weak; skin cool and dry; takes cold easily and wants to stay in the house.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Delirium tremens, with oversensitiveness; nervous excitability and malicious vehemence; every little nose frightens;anxious and beside himself, stupefaction as from highly revelling; intoxication from drunkenness of the precious day, with vanishing of slight and hearing; worse after dinner and in the sun; hemicrania after intoxication, with sensation as if a nail had been driven into the brain; gastric derangement; constipation or diarrhoea; tremor of the limbs;debility; convulsions from indigestion; at night springs up delirious; has frightful visions.

Opium [Op]

Mania a potu, with dulness of senses, and at intervals sopor,

with snoring, sees animals; affrighted expression of the face; delirious talking; eyes, wide open; face red, puffed up. fear; desire to escape,. or dreams from which the patient wakes as soon as he is spoken to in a loud voice; dry tickling, paroxysm of lungs and blue face when drinking, troublesome breathing; general sweat; EPILEPTIC CONVULSIONS; trembling of the extremities; lockjaw; twitching of the muscles of the face and mouth;l staring look; want of vital reaction in old sinners whose many excesses destroyed their constitution.

Phosphorous [Phos]

Irritable, nervous weakness, caused by intemperance; alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

Ranunculus-bulb [Ran-b]

ONE OF OUR MOST EFFECTIVE AGENTS FOR THE REMOVAL OF BAD EFFECTS FROM THE ABUSE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; at the beginning of delirium tremens, with talkative mania; unusual exertion and powerful efforts to escape from to escape from the bed; convulsions of the facial and cervical muscles; risus sardonicus; stitches in the liver; long -lasting gastralgia; burning, changing to a dull pressure, with nausea; vertigo, with danger of falling when going from warn into the open air; confusion of the head as if intoxicated.

Selenium [Sel]

IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE FOR ARDENT DRINKS, has to get beastly drunk, and feels afterwards morally and physically distressed, most pronounced at the menstrual period, catamenia copious and dark irresistible desire to lie down and sleep, as if all strength were gone; symptoms(<) after sleep.

Stramonium [Stram]

SUITABLE TO HABITUAL DRUNKARDS; delirium tremens, with frightful hallucinations; sees and imagines animals are jumping sideways out of he ground or running at him;shy, hides himself, tries to escape; talks incessantly, absurdly; laughs, alternately merry or dejected; epileptic convulsions,; red, hot and bloated face; eyes wide open and staring; lockjaw after convulsions; COUGH OF DRUNKARDS; convulsive motions to upper extremities, the arms reaching forward and upward with an uncertain, tremulous motion, while the lower extremities feel nearly paralyzed.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Dropsy and other affections of drunkards, especially when they indulge in the abuse of coffee; longing for alcoholic drinks; dulness in stomach after eating or drinking ever so little; cannot digest milk and vomits it up immediately, mixed with halt- detested, sour food.

Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]

Pyrosis, morning vomiting, inappetency, trembling, especially mornings. Drunkard on his last legs looks pale, shrivelled and cold, stomach will not tolerate any food, he cannot even take a sip of water unless it contains whiskey, liver enlarge, d with dry stomach-cough; haemorrhoids; offensive watery diarrhoea cross and irritable.

Zincum-sulph [Zinc-s]

Abuse of alcohol with chronic diarrhoea.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.