Aconite [Acon]
Prodromal stage; after checked perspiration; abdomen burning hot, tense, tympanitic, sensitive to the least touch; cutting pain, fever, restlessness, anguish.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Map or yellow tongue, fulness of stomach which is sore to pressure; abdomen very much distended with rumbling in it; cutting in bowels, with watery diarrhoea.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Excessive pain and tenderness of stomachic region and epigastrium; soreness and burning under ribs and in abdomen; severe griping pains in bowels, tender to least pressure, even to pressure of bedclothes; tendency to diarrhoea; excessive mucous secretions; intestinal catarrh with slimy diarrhoea and muttering delirium.
Arnica [Arn]
Profound stupor with blowing respiration, dry tongue, brown down the middle, distended abdomen, involuntary faeces and urine; ecchymosis; bruised aching, including restlessness, (>) by smoothing down the patients clothing and changing his position.
Arsenicum [Ars]
BURNING THIRST WITH INTENSE AGONY;surface of body cold, burning up insides; stools brownish, blackish, horribly offensive, bringing no relief; great prostration, (<) about midnight; diarrhoea in consequence of severe external burns; or when caused by sudden chilling of stomach with ice-water or ice-cream, excess of alcoholic drinks, certain poisons, as sausage-meat that has spoiled, rancid fat, spoiled butter, and lobster salad at certain seasons of the year.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Constant burning distress in epigastrium severe, colicky pains in region of navel and hypogastrium; rumbling in bowels; desire to vomit; but without nausea;feeling in stomach as of a hard substance; pain in abdomen on pressure, with dull aching in lumbar region; mushy stools;aphthous diarrhoea.
Belladonna [Bell]
Pressive pains extending to the chest and shoulders; swelling of the pit of the stomach; abdomen distended below the navel; painful breathing; anguish, with congestion to the head and dimness of vision; faintness; great thirst, restlessness and sleeplessness.
Berberis [Berb]
Stickling pains under border of false ribs on the right side; rumbling in bowels;burning pain in and under skin of abdomen; frequent ineffectual urging to stool; violent burning in anus, m as if the surrounding parts were sore; urinary troubles; prostration.
Bryonia [Bry]
When weather suddenly changes from cold to warm, or from warm to cold; in the summer season; after eating fruit or sauer-kraut; after vexation or anger; severe pains and high fever from a drink of cold water when perspiring; every motion aggravates the pain and diarrhoea; pains shooting from abdomen into chest.
China [Chin]
Frothy diarrhoea, mostly painless;after sour beer, with much fermentation in bowels; prostrating the patient; yellowish complexion; pains mostly on left side; (<) after eating and in the might; periodicity, especially tertian type.
Colchicum [Colch]
BURNING IN STOMACH AND ABDOMEN OR ICY COLDNESS, with great pain and debility; distention of gas under short ribs, as after eating too much, especially to many eggs; surface of abdomen hotter than rest of body and extremely sensitive to touch, cold extremities; thready pulse; of raised head falls back and jaw drops; extremely painful stools with offensive flatus, finally involuntary defaecation; abdomen not so sensitive below the epigastrium.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Nervous colic, dependent on irritation of the nervous system; griping pains, forcing patient to bend double for relief; profuse watery stools and frequent urination.
Cornus-circ [Corn]
Dark and bilious stools, with griping and tenesmus; general debility and nervous excitability; chilliness, s followed by flushes of heat and sweat.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Stupor, with incoherent speech; the patient is unconscious of he severity of his case; typhoid symptoms; yellow, watery, involuntary stools.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Severe pains in abdomen, radiating to all sides; swelling of the stomach; flatulent clutching colic; nausea and vomiting diarrhoea, with pain and excessive restlessness.
Iris-vers [Iris]
Pains in the hepatic region and above the crest of the ilium; intermittent colicky pains about the navel;mushy, pappy stools, with foetid flatus or bloody mucus, with great straining and burning in anus and rectum after stool.
Lachesis [Lach]
Pressive pains in the umbilical region; violent gripes, with contracted abdomen, or abdomen hard and tympanic fetid stools.
Mercurius-sol [Merc]
The patient cannot lie on right side; bitter taste; more thirst and hunger; continual chilliness; yellow color of the skin and eyes fulness and tenderness across the epigastrium and hypochondria; on walking bowels shake as if loose; slimy, bloody stools, preceded by anxiety, trembling, faintness.
Mercurius-cor [Merc-c]
The patient cannot lie on right side; bitter taste; more thirst and hunger; continual chilliness; yellow color of the skin and eyes fulness and tenderness across the epigastrium and hypochondria; on walking bowels shake as if loose; slimy, bloody stools, preceded by anxiety, trembling, faintness.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Acute, pains, so that he patient cannot bear the least touch, nor the pressure of his clothing; bitter taste, nausea and vomiting; respiration shot and oppressed; headache.
Oxalic-acid [Ox-ac]
Stomach sensitive, slightest touch causes excoriating pains; colic about the navel, as if bruised, with stitches and difficult emission of flatulence, (<) on moving, (>) when at rest; constant involuntary stools; stools of mucus and blood.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Enteritis affecting the jejunum and ilium; fulness in right hypochondrium, with flatulence, pain and soreness; frequent but transient abdominal pains, with sensation of heat there; alternate constipation and diarrhoea.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Drowsiness, high or increasing fever; restlessness; tongue dry, parched, brown with red triangular tip; slimy, watery or putrid diarrhoea, involuntary during sleep, often accompanied by tearing down the thighs; traumatic cases.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen; cold sweat; cold extremities; pinched face;l nausea with sensation of fainting, with violent thirst; painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting also burning as from hot coals in abdomen, which is very sensitive; intestinal catarrh, vomiting on suddenly at night, in summer, stools watery, greenish, mixed with flakes.
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.