Fever Hectic


Homeopathy treatment for Fever Hectic from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Fever Hectic…


Arsenicum [Ars]

Great emaciation with debility and palpitations; night-sweats, with hot and dry skin in daytime; thirst, obliging one to drink often, but only a little at a time; restless, unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by sudden starting; constant desire to lie down; irritable and strange mood; loss of appetite with weak digestion, etc.

Baptisia [Bapt]

Pulse frequent, full and soft; chilly sensation over back and lower limbs; thirst and flushes of heat over the face; feverishness with feeling all over as if bruised; great languor; difficult breathing, cannot get a full breath from want of power in breathing organs; sharp pains in chest when taking a long breath; restless sleep before midnight.

Calcarea [Calc]

Constant heat, with little thirst, or frequent paroxysms of flushes of heat, with anguish and palpitation of the heart, or constant shuddering, especially in the evening, with red cheeks; withering dry skin; emaciation, debility with listlessness; loss of appetite; paroxysms of anguish, in the evening; dry and short cough; great desire to be magnetized; great prostration after talking; sweat breaking out easily; great apprehensions about one’s health; slow, weak digestion, night-sweats, etc.

Carbo-veg [Carb-v]

Hectic fever, especially from chronic exhausting suppurations; thirst during chill; body icy-cold, especially from the knees down; want of all reaction.

China [Chin]

Long-lasting suppurative fevers; cheeks red; patient excessively nervous, not in proportion to his wasting strength, can scarcely raise his head from pillow; diarrhoea, night- sweats. Suppuration of lungs; particularly in drunkards, with foetid breath; skin dry, flaccid, loss of appetite, with desire for dainties or bulimy in spite of weak digestion and flatulency after eating: sleeplessness or restless, unrefreshing sleep, with anxious dreams.

Hepar [Hep]

Hectic fever with intermitting paroxysms; sweats easily by every slight motion or mental exertion; profuse, sour smelling at night.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

Hectic fever with suppuration of lungs, particularly when right lung is worse than the left; coldness of one foot while the other is warm or even hot; great fermentation in intestines; chill and fever from 4 to 8 P.M.

Phosphorus [Phos]

Dry cough, with short and oppressed breathing; chilliness towards evening followed by dry heat; DEBILITATING DIARRHOEA; exhausting CLAMMY NIGHT-SWEATS; emaciation, debility, etc.

Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]

Sad oppressed mood; taciturn, listless; the hair turns gray; febrile heat in the evening, with anguish and accelerated pulse; debilitating sweats in the morning, etc.

Sanguinaria [Sang]

Hectic fever from 2 to 4 P. M., cheeks have a bright, circumscribed flush, burning and fulness in upper part of chest; dyspnoea; heart weak and irregular in its action; salivation.

Silicea [Sil]

Pale, livid complexion; dry, short coughs; emaciation; shortness of breath; boils and furunculosis from constant malassimilation; discharges thin and offensive; phthisis mucosa of old people; weariness and aching all over, especially in joints.

Stannum [Stann]

Chill of hectic fever begins at 10 A. M.; patient sad and lachrymose, nervous exhaustion, (<) when going down stairs; towards evening patient is flushed and hot, (<) from least exertion; profuse night-sweat, (<) towards morning.

Staphisagria [Staph]

Unsound constitution with rapid decay of teeth; scurvy, etc.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Febrile heat, especially towards evening, with sharply circumscribed redness of cheeks (especially left cheek); dry skin, with thirst; thin, pale face; dry or diarrhoeic and slimy stools; short suppressed breathing; palpitations; sweats towards morning; debility; tired feeling in limbs, with heaviness, dry cough, etc.

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.