Mercurius-protoiod [Merc-i-f]
Thick plugs of nasal secretion, with severe frontal headache, some fever and prostration, especially in old people and children.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Rough and hollow cough, with mucous rales and thick expectoration; violent headache as if the brain were bruised; heaviness of head, vertigo, pains in loins, constipation, loss of appetite, nausea and desire to vomit; sleeplessness or restless sleep, with anxious dreams; stitches and pain in chest as if raw; fluent coryza by day, but dry at night.
Phellandrium [Phel]
Hoarseness with roughness in throat., dry cough, with shortness of breath, stitches in chest and oppression; great thirst, loss of appetite, sleepless on account of cough; small black spots like petechiae disappearing without desquamation; urging to urinate, with scanty emission and violent burning after micturition; urine pale and watery, almost greenish.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Intense bronchial and laryngeal affection, affecting the voice and rendering speech almost impossible; dry, tickling cough, with tightness across the chest; worse evening and before midnight; coryza alternately fluent or dry, with frequent sneezing; goneness and faintness in region of stomach; painless diarrhoea.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Influenza with derangement of the digestive organs; thin watery discharge from the nose, which increased until the nose became stuffed; inability to breath through the nostrils, difficulty of swallowing; dry, hacking cough, with hawking excited by tickling in larynx and dryness of pharynx; heart’s action weak.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Fluid or dry coryza, loss of taste and smell; sore nostrils, wings raw; later yellow-green discharge; cough day and night, especially when lying with distress in bowels and mucous diarrhoea.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Copious coryza with REDNESS AND OEDEMA OF THE THROAT, sneezing and coughing; oedema glottidis; puffed, translucent uvula; pharynx and larynx feel intolerably raw and rough, full of vesicles; dry cough, (<) from evening till midnight and from uncovering the body; severe aching of all bones; tearing pains down thighs during stools; general debility.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
VIOLENT SPASMODIC SNEEZING AND LACHRYMATION ON GOING IN TO OPEN AIR; fluent coryza, dulness of head; gray, dingy color of skin; dull cough, with vomiting and spitting of blood, especially when lying down; swelling of tonsils going from left to right side, (<) on empty swallowing; throat feels as if constricted by a string; (<) in cold weather, towards noon and evening, red spots in face and on chest.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Intense irritation of the nasal mucous membrane; smell in nose like roasted onion; fluid coryza, with frequent sneezing; raw throat; pain in chest; wheezing, whistling cough and finally DIARRHOEA WHICH RELIEVES THE COUGH.
Senega [Seneg]
Constant tickling and burning in larynx and throat-with danger of suffocation when lying down; walls of chest sensitive or painful when touched or when he sneeze; copious expectoration of tough mucus; relief from out-door exercise, but (<) on walking fast.
Silphium-lac [Silphu]
Scraping, tickling irritation of fauces and throat, nausea, faint feeling sense, of soreness in epigastrium; constant hawking and scraping to throw off thin viscid mucus; constant sneezing,
followed by discharge of limpid acrid mucus from the nose with constriction and pressure in supraorbital region; rough cough, with expectoration of yellow mucus.
Spigelia [Spig]
Influenza accompanied by facial neuralgia; fluent coryza, with dry heat and no thirst; headache, with hoarseness and anxiety about the heart; dry hard cough at night; with dyspnoea, worse when bending forward.
Stannum [Stann]
Cough dry at first, then moist with copious expectoration so
that the influenza threatens to assume a consumptive character.
Sticta-pulm [Stict]
Excessive dryness of the nasal mucous membrane, painful, with inability to breath through the nose, worse in the afternoon and better in the fresh air, the morning hours being nearly free from distress; dull heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose; soft palate feels like dried leather, with difficult deglutition; incessant cough the whole night, dry and hacking from tickling in larynx, with oppression of chest; incessant sneezing, with feeling of fulness in right side of forehead down to the root of the nose, with tingling in right nostril; constantly blowing nose, but no secretion takes place.
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.