Labor – Convulsions during



OEnanthe [Oena]

URAEMIC CONVULSIONS; extreme restless and anxiety before and followed by deep coma after the fit; rapid, convulsive twitching of facial muscles; face livid and turgid; hurried, labored breathing.

Opium [Op]

Sopor with stertorous respiration, incoherent wandering and convulsive rigidity of body, with redness, swelling and heat of face; often hot sweat over body;STUPOR BETWEEN SPASMS.

Platina [Plat]

Spasms during labor from nervous excitement, preceded or followed by constriction of oesophagus and respiratory embarrassment, sometimes sudden arrest of breathing; spasms alternating between convulsions actions and opisthotonos.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Convulsions following sluggish or irregular labor; countenance cold, clammy and pale; unconsciousness and loss of motion; stertorous breathing and full pulse; constant desire for fresh air when conscious.

Secale [Sec]

Convulsions with opisthotonos, hands stretched out, cramps in calves of legs; pains irregular, weak; fainting fits, labor ceases; retained placenta.

Stramonium [Stram]

Frightened appearance before and after the convulsions commence; sardonic grin; stammering or loss of speech;loss of consciousness and sensibility; frightful visions; laughter, singing; attempts to escape; the fits are renewed by the sight of brilliant objects and sometimes by contact.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Labor-pains exhaust her, fainting on least motion; cold sweat on forehead, pallor, collapse; anaemia or the reverse; violent cerebral congestion, bluish, bloated face, shrieks, tearing the clothes, puerperal mania.

Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]

Eclampsia from emotional causes or albuminuria; profound cerebral congestion, between convulsions she remains unconscious and lies in a deep sleep, face red, eyes injected;pulse full, hard, bounding, cannot be obliterated by pressure of finger; constant burning distress in cardiac region; heart’s action powerful; convulsions and mania, the later keeping on after convulsions ceased.

Zincum [Zinc]

After disappeared of cold eruptions; convulsions from cerebral exhaustion; loss of sensation over the whole body; mania from mental excitement; somnambulism (Zincum met.

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.