Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]
Liver complaint, headache with great irritability; horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing; confused dull aching over forehead, weak sight; vomiting after every kind of food; violent pains in scrobiculum, cannot bear the least pressure; tetter-like eruptions; constipation; sleeplessness.
Aconite [Acon]
Violent inflammatory fever, with stitches in the region of the liver; pressure and constriction in hepatic region, with oppression of breathing; intolerable pains; jaundice present or to; moaning, tossing about, anguish and dread of death.
AEsculus-hip [Aesc]
Tenderness in right hypochondrium, with pinching pain and colic; pain through to the back on inspiring; burning distress, soreness and aching at the navel; congestion of liver and portal system; constant dull aching distress in right lower lobe of liver and region of gall-bladder; constant aching pain from the pit of the stomach to the right lobe of the liver; pains often extend up between shoulders or under scapulae, (<) by walking or riding; chronic constipation, rectum dry and itching, feels as if full of small sticks; feels miserably cross.
Agaricus [Agar]
(Amanita). Congested, enlarged liver; sensation of pain and drawing in right hypochondrium, as if the liver had increased in weight and dragged at its ligaments; sharp stitches as from needles in the hepatic region; dull stitches during breathing; pain in stomach and liver, burning from acidity.
Aloe [Aloe]
Pressure and tension in hepatic region, a sensation of heat and single, not severe, stitches, bitter taste, sickly expression of face, jaundice, no fever; uneasiness and dull pain in liver, (<) on standing, so that he bends forward; stitches from the liver into the chest, obstructing respiration, cannot take a long breath.
Alumina [Alum]
Liver pains as if bruised, when stooping; stitches when rising again; tearing from the liver to the hip; stitches in both hypochondria, (<) from motion.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Burning pain in liver; boring stitches in liver in evening while sitting; numbness in right hypochondrium.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Liver complaint; gall-stones; burning and stitching in scrobiculum, from thence drawing to the right axilla and in the upper arm; stitching and burning in right hypochondrium, afternoon when walking; stitches in right groin, and coming out behind the hip, when sitting; mental depression and stools coated
with mucus.
Anantherum-mur [Anan]
Inflammation and swelling of the liver as if caused by abscesses; cramps in hepatic region, with sensation as if it were full of painful tuberosities; pulsative burning and digging pains in region of liver; sensation as of a hard tumor starting from the pylorus, extending to the liver.
Anisum-stell [Anis]
Enlarged liver, pain at the third right costal cartilage.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
CIRRHOSIS FROM MALARIAL CACHEXIA; stitches in liver; coming on as with a jerk; peculiar fulness in liver, painful, with occasional drawing and stinging, especially when walking, sometimes reaching into the chest; periodical dull stitches in the anterior surface of the liver; hepatic affection, ending as fatal dropsy; pigmentary degeneration, the fever may be stopped but the degeneration remains.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Painful bloatedness in right hypochondrium, with burning pain; pain in hepatic region increased on pressure; stitches in right hypochondrium, extending to gastric region, ending as violent pressure over whole abdomen; vomiting of black menses, black stools; burning heat of the skin; very quick pulse; anxiousness and restlessness; perforation into the stomach or intestines.
Aurum-met [Aur]
HEPATIC CONGESTION CONSECUTIVE TO CARDIAC DISEASE, with burning and cutting in right hypochondrium, ending in cirrhosis and fatty degeneration with dropsy. Chronic hepatitis with suicidal melancholy, averse to motion; feels stupid; jaundice with pain in liver and pit of stomach; greenish-brown urine; foul breath and putrid taste, constipation or stools of a grayish or ashy-white
color.
Aurum-mur [Aur-m]
SYPHILITIC LIVER WITH ASCITES; waxy liver; burning heat and pressure in right hypochondrium.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Pain in liver, from right lateral ligament to gall-bladder, can scarcely walk, as it increases the pain, but must stir about, though motion is painful; right iliac region sensitive.
Belladonna [Bell]
Acute pain in hepatic region, worse from pressure, breathing, coughing and lying upon the right side, extending upward towards shoulder and neck; congestion of the head; getting dark before eyes; fainting and giddiness; bloatedness of pit of stomach; tension across epigastrium; agonizing, tossing about; sleeplessness, or wanting to sleep, with inability to do so.
Berberis-vulg [Berb]
Pressure and stitches in hepatic region; COLIC FROM GALL-STONES; colic-like pains, especially about the navel; rumbling in bowels; suppression of haemorrhoids; jaundice. Sharp, pinching pains in liver, which come suddenly and with great severity, at times causing him to hold his breath, bend over, with redness of face; frequent urging to urinate and to defaecate; violent burning in anus, as if surrounding parts were sore; faeces black or very dark and very adhesive; scanty faeces, requiring an effort to their discharge; pains shoot downward from false ribs to the umbilicus.
Bryonia [Bry]
PERIHEPATITIS with sharp stitches in right hypochondrium, (<) from any motion, (>) when lying on right side, pain under the right shoulder blade, swelling of the liver, bitter taste in mouth, yellow-coated tongue; stools either hard, dry and brown, or papescent and profuse, with colic; stools sometimes have odor of old cheese; intolerance of vegetable food; patient cannot bear heat of sun; (<) in summer; fulness and bloatedness of abdomen with sensation as if a stone or heavy weight were lying clogged in stomach; great thirst. Cases spoiled by Mercurius dulc.
Calcarea-arsen [Calc-ar]
Cirrhosis of liver with albuminuria; colic and looseness of bowels.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Pressure in hepatic region with every step when walking; stitches during and after stooping; ENLARGEMENT AND INDURATION OF LIVER; sensitive to pressure in epigastrium and abdomen, which is distended and hard; cold feet at night in bed.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Aching, almost cutting in hepatic region, even while lying down; pains in liver as from incarcerated flatus, abdomen greatly distended; venous plethora; arthritic stiffness and nodes.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Hepatic region very sensitive and painful to touch; right: lobe of liver painful, stitching, burning pains; clothing unendurable; great flatulency in stomach and abdomen; faeces escape with flatus.
Carduus-mar [Card-m]
CACHEXIA OF MINERS WORKING DEEP UNDER GROUND; portal hyperaemia; gall-stones; catarrh of the biliary ducts; hepatic region sensitive to pressure, stitching, drawing pain in liver, (<) by pressure and lying on left side. Dropsical diseases, depending on organic affections of liver, frequently of long standing; jaundice, with dull headache, bitter taste, tongue white in centre, tips and edges red; nausea with vomiting of an acrid green fluid, stools pasty, clayey, urine golden-yellow. Implication of the lungs, showing itself by haemoptoe; vomiting of blood.
Chamomilla [Cham]
HEPATITIS AFTER VEXATION OR TAKING COLD, with gastric disturbances and icteroid symptoms; dull, aching pains in liver, not (<) by pressure, motion or breathing, patient hot and sweating.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Abdominal plethora from simple congestion to positive inflammation; soreness up to sharp stitching pains, shooting from liver down into the stomach or down into the back from posterior part of liver; MARKED PAIN UNDER THE ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA, even going through the chest like a rivet; abdomen distended and sensitive to pressure; rigors in the evening, awakes in the morning perspiring with many unremembered dreams or sleepless from headache, either continuous sharp frontal or neuralgic, in right temple and eyebrow, painful throbbing in occiput; anxiety, tightness and pains in right side during inhalation, as if constricted by a girdle and cannot be expanded; attacks of rigor in the evening; irregular palpitation of heart; pain in hepatic region, (>) by eating; diarrhoea and constipation alternating, stools clay-colored or yellowish, great weariness and anorexia; desire for milk or acids.
China [Chin]
Pain in hepatic region, as from subcutaneous ulceration, (<) from touch and very sensitive to pressure; swollen, hard liver, tympanitic abdomen, wants to belch, eructations afford no relief; gastro-duodenal catarrh; headache, bitter taste, yellow skin, (<) at night and after eating; bleeding piles, burning and itching, with grat debility; constipation, stool difficult, even when soft or profuse, painless black, green, often offensive diarrhoea.
Chionanthus [Chion]
HYPERTROPHY OF LIVER; constipation, stools clay-colored, skin and urine jaundiced, great emaciation; soreness in region of liver, quick, weak pulse. Chronic jaundice, recurring every summer, urine almost black; after abuse of mercurials.
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.