Haemoptysis



Phosphorus [Phos]

BLOOD-SPITTING WITH DRY, TIGHT FATIGUING COUGH, intermixed with expectoration of mucus. Profuse haemorrhages, pouring out freely, then ceasing for some time, or the SCANTY DISCHARGE ALTERNATES WITH THE PROFUSE ONE, causing anaemia and great debility; oppression, weight, fulness and tension in chest; palpitation; intrascapular cramp night-sweats; cough and fever (<) from evening till midnight, with great weakness and sleep Tubercular diathesis; vicarious menstruation.

Plumbum [Plb]

Phthisical disposition, when bloody and purulent sputa alternate one with another; internal chill with external heat, thirst, anxiety, redness of face, sleepiness, constipation or diarrhoea, sciatic pains.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Suppression mensium followed by obstinate cases of haemorrhage, blood dark, coagulated, coughed out in pieces, (<) at night, with pain in lower part of chest; chilly even in a warm room; loose stool; sick and empty feeling in stomach; very nervous during night.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

After straining, lifting, blowing wind instruments or stretching arms high to reach things; cough dry, from tickling under sternum, it seems as if it would tear something out of the chest; heat and weakness in chest with dyspnoea, (>) by moving about; blood bright-red or viscid, slimy, thick, EXPECTORATION OF BLOOD BECOMES NEARLY A HABIT, causing steadily increasing anaemia.

Sanguinaria [Sang]

Haemoptoe during incipient phthisis, especially in women suffering from amenorrhoea or during and after climaxis; burning and stitches in chest from right side to shoulder; night-sweats and extreme dyspnoea.

Senecio [Senec]

Bleeding of incipient phthisis, with troublesome cough, first dry and then loose, with copious expectoration of yellow mucus streaked with blood and sensation of rawness and soreness in chest; haemoptysis in suppressed menstruation.

Sepia [Sep]

HAEMOPTOE OF MILLERS FROM INHALING FLOUR-DUST; harsh night cough and bleeding (<) while lying down; salty taste; stitches and soreness in mid-chest; oppression and dyspnoea.

Stannum [Stann]

Haemoptoe with tendency to copious expectoration; empty sore feeling in chest, which feels so weak that he cannot talk; pulse frequent and small; sweat taste; copious sweating.

Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]

Blood dark and profuse from lungs, especially in consumptives and broken-down constitution, during or after adynamic diseases, from scorbutic or alcoholic affections; dry cough with soreness between scapulae and morning expectoration of dark blood; thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, tasting sour; spitting of blood in climaxis; TUBERCULOSIS WITH ULCERATIONS IN LUNGS.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Chronic cases; blood is raised after every little hacking;stitches through chest; soreness and pressure in chest with dyspnoea; palpitations; salty or sweetish taste, blood and mucus intermixed or dry, tickling cough, with expectoration of dark, bloody sputa.

Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]

Great vascular excitement; burning and pricking sensation in cardiac region; rapid breathing; faintness, nausea; (>) lying quietly (<) from sudden motions.

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.