Podophyllum [Podo]
Food turns sour after eating; belching of hot flatus, which is very sour, great thirst, vomiting; the stomach contracts so hard and rapidly in the efforts to vomit that the wrenching pain causes the patient to utter sharp screams; vomiting of bilious matter mixed with blood; distressing nausea.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Pain in pit of stomach during inspiration and on pressure; stitching pain, worse when walking or making a misstep; perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach; tension from stomach to chest; gastric catarrh from ice-cream, fruit and pastry.
Rumex [Rumx]
Shootings from the pit of the stomach into the chest in various directions; aching pain in the pit of the stomach, and aching and shooting above it in the chest; fulness and pressure in the pit of the stomach, ascending to the throat-pit; it descends towards the stomach upon every deglutition, but immediately returns; flatulence, eructations; pressing and distension of stomach after meals.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Nausea, with headache, chill and heat; vomiting, with severe painful burning in the stomach and intense thirst; red tongue, red and dry lips, hot and dry throat, tickling cough.
Sepia [Sep]
Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch; bloatedness of the abdomen; congestions and heat of the head; headache; tongue coated, without lustre, often sore and covered with little blisters on the edges and tip; sour smell from the mouth, and likewise of the urine, which is clear, like water, or pale yellowish; constant drowsiness; anxious dreams and great fever heat, especially in children, from taking cold when the weather changes.
Titanium [Titan]
Excessively severe pain and distress, only relieved by vomiting; great weakness and emaciation; during pains constant eructations of foetid gas from the stomach; bowels much distended, constipation.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Violent vomiting, with continuous nausea and great prostration, hippocratic face, icy coldness of extremities, anguish in pit of stomach; pains radiating from stomach upward and to both sides, reaching the back between lowest points of scapulae, becomes agonizing and then gradually subsides; haematemesis, with slow pulse, coldness, fainting fits, cold sweat; nausea when rising or moving.
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.