Dyspepsia

Plantago [Plan]

Frequent empty eructations, sometimes with the taste of heaviness of stomach even after a light meal; sensation of heat in the praecordia, with fulness in abdomen after eating; loud and copious flatulency diarrhoea with loose frequent stools and flatulence; haemorrhoids.

Plumbum [Plb]

Lead dyspepsia in persons suffering already with numbness of the extremities; intolerable pain in stomach pressing, burning, stitching, tearing, sour, greenish, blackish vomiting mass, like the white of an egg; hot and foetid eructations; tongue yellow, coated, or dry, brown and fissured; lips excoriated; total loss of appetite alternating with bulimy, even after taking a meal; beating and burning in stomach; pains of constriction in stomach, which meet around he navel; abdominal walls hard, contracted; umbilicus sunken in; stubborn constipation, with constant desire to go to stool without any result; stools voluminous, hard, expelled only with constant desire to go to stool without any result; stools voluminous hard,, expelled only with great force, commonly environed with mucus, or sanguinolent, yellow diarrhoea, of very bad odor; emaciation.

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.