Icterus



Phosphorus [Phos]

ACUTE, YELLOW ATROPHY OF LIVER, FATTY LIVER FROM HEART AFFECTION; MALIGNANT JAUNDICE FROM ORGANIC AFFECTIONS; in complication with pneumonia or deep-seated brain disease, during pregnancy, from nervous excitement;painful feeling of weakness across abdomen; stools profuse, watery, light-colored; dry cough and involuntary discharge of urine; constant chilliness, even in a warm room.

Podophyllum [Podo]

JAUNDICE FROM TORPOR OF LIVER, from gall-stones, from hyperaemia of liver with fulness, soreness and pain in hepatic region, (>) by rubbing and stroking hypochondrium with hands; alternate constipation and diarrhoea; stools chalklike, faecal, undigested; pale, hard, dry. clayey; pain running from stomach to gall-bladder, often attended with excessive nausea.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Duodenal catarrh, disordered digestion, diarrhoea.

Ranunculus-bulb [Ran-b]

Jaundice with itching of body, especially of PALMS OF HANDS; stitches in hepatic region, extending up to chest.

Sulphur [Sulph]

In psoric person, with or without hardness and swelling of liver; vomiting of ingesta and blood; pain in pit of stomach or right hypochondrium; abdomen bloated, constipation; sleeplessness; nightly itching of skin; hectic fever.

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.