Gastric catarrh



and twisting pains in the hepatic region; bilious stools.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Whitish mucous coating on the tongue; flat, pappy or bitter taste, especially after swallowing; eructations tasting of the food which one had just eaten, or bitter eructations; aversion to food, especially to fat and meat, with desire for sour or spirituous drinks; waterbrash; regurgitation of the ingesta; nausea, great desire to vomit; vomiting of slimy and whitish, bitter and greenish substances, or sour substances; vomiting of undigested food; pressure in the pit of stomach, with difficult breathing; constipation or diarrhoeic, white, slimy, or bilious or greenish stools, or stools resembling stirred eggs; hemicrania; frequent chills, with absence of thirst; or dry heat and thirst, alternate pale and red face, or one cheek is red and other is pale; sad mood, with whining, moaning and restlessness. (Compare Chamomilla, Ipecac. and Nux v.)

Sulphur [Sulph]

Continuous remittent fever, after failure of well-indicated drugs; patient begins to be drowsy with the fever; tongue dry, red at edges and tip; feels like burning up with the fever, is slow in answering questions; nausea mornings and after each meal; sour regurgitation of food and drink; painful sensitiveness of stomach and abdomen to touch; constipation or diarrhoea of mucous, sour-smelling stools.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Great debility after stool, with fainting and cold sweat; yellow skin; dry tongue, coated yellowish or brown; craves cold drinks and juicy fruits, averse to anything warm, which causes hiccough and vomiting; collapse.

Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]

Fever, with vomiting and muscular pains; oppressed and accelerated pulse; pain in head, back and limbs, with or without delirium; strong action of heart.

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.