Aconite [Acon]
Laryngitis with inflammatory fever; larynx sensitive to touch and to inspired air; as if denuded; voice husky, can scarcely speak, wants to cough, but cannot; inhalation difficult and noisy.
AEsculus-hip [Aesc]
Catarrhal laryngitis; larynx feels dry and sore; dry, short cough, (<) by swallowing and deep breathing; hoarseness; probably from hepatic troubles.
Agaricus [Agar]
Laryngo-phthisis; frequent tickling irritation in windpipe; short breath in walking, has to stand to get his breath; frequent hemming and bringing up small, firm lumps of phlegm, without cough.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
LARYNGITIS OF SINGERS, voices, scarcely able to utter a single word, (>) from getting overheated, in a warm room, (<) after rest; violent spasms in larynx and pharynx, as if throat were filled with a plug, which gets alternately thicker or thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness; phthisis laryngea with dry cough.
Antimonium [Ant-t]
Painless of larynx to touch; great rattling in larynx, extending down to trachea, neither cough nor vomiting brings up the phlegm; catarrhal croup of adults.
Apis-mell [Apis]
OEdematous swelling of the submucous cellular tissue of larynx; with painful, suffocative cough and great dyspnoea; salivation, laryngeal symptoms accompanying erysipelas, oedema of throat, glottis or larynx or suppression of eruptions, rapid, painful and spasmodic respiration, (<) by lying down and by warmth, (>) after loosening a small portion of mucus or when a small quantity of transparent, frothy or bloody mucus is expectorated. Often indicated where Belladonna fails.
Argentum-met [Arg-m]
Phthisis laryngea, with hectic fever, sweats easily on chest and abdomen; cough with easy expectoration of white, thick, starch-like mucus, without taste or smell; COUGH EXCITED BY LAUGHING ( Stann.)
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS OF SINGER; raising the voice causes cough; inflammation and swelling of the posterior wall and lining of the larynx, attended by a sensation of a clog in the vocal organs, with hoarseness and loss of voice; continual and vain efforts to swallow, with pain and soreness in deglutition; much hawking; considerable muco-purulent expectoration or titillation in larynx, with dry, spasmodic cough.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Burning pain in larynx, increased by deglutition, which is difficult, as if impeded by a lump at the root of the tongue; short, dry, hoarse cough in rapid paroxysms, mostly in daytime, less at night in warm bed; prostration from nausea and difficult swallowing; laryngeal membrane presents an anaemia stained with dirty-looking spots and marked by velvety projections; predicting ulceration; COUGH ABSENT OR OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE PROGRESSIVE EMACIATION; after extensive ulceration has taken place an acrid, sero-purulent discharge comes from the ulcers.
Arum-triph [Arum-t]
Inflammation of larynx and pharynx; constant pain and internal swelling of throat; accumulation of mucus in trachea; voice hoarse, deep and weak or aphonia.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Syphilitic ulcerations of nasal bones and of laryngeal cartilages; voice nasal, husky, as if he had a cold; phlegm deep in larynx, not easily hawked up; cough for want of breath at night.
Belladonna [Bell]
(Atrop.) ACUTE LARYNGITIS VOCAL CORDS BRIGHT-RED; feeling of fulness and soreness in DRY LARYNGITIS, rendering deglutition painful and difficult,; feeble, low voice or perfect aphonia, sometimes appearing suddenly; swollen tonsils; dry cough, often with spells of suffocation; aversion to all drinks; pain in larynx when talking; spasmodic constriction of throat.
Bromium [Brom]
Inflammatory cough, affecting larynx and trachea, with danger of SUFFOCATION FROM ACCUMULATION OF MUCUS IN LARYNX and no expectoration; husky, hoarse voice, cannot speak clearly; voice weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat, constriction in larynx which is painful to touch; scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS, great irritation of the air-tubes; dry, tormenting cough, chiefly at night, raising only after long and great efforts; scanty, white, frothy, gluey, or dirty-looking putrid sputa; cold and chilliness; emaciation; gastro-intestinal catarrhs; rachitis; ulceration of larynx and lungs, especially in stone-cutters; necrosis of cartilages of the larynx.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Cough, with greenish expectoration and pneumonia of right lung, degenerating into suppuration, while at the same time larynx is chronically inflamed.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Long-standing catarrhs of elderly people or in persons whose vitality is reduced to the lowest ebb by insufficient nourishment rather than by disease, with venous capillary dilation of the pharyngo-laryngeal larynx, with scraping and titillation; putrid sputa.
Causticum [Caust]
Laryngeal catarrh of singers; the laryngeal muscles refuse to act, cannot speak a loud word; worse morning and evening, with scraping in throat.
Cepa [All-c]
VIOLENT CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS; hoarse cough seems to split and tear the larynx, causing watering of the eyes; constant inclination to hack in order to relieve the tickling of larynx; oppressed feeling in middle of chest with sensation of weakness; spasmodic croupy cough, (<) on inspiring cool air and in the evening.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Pressure on larynx as if could not pass through, as if swollen, or right side; sensation as if LARYNX WERE PRESSED BACK UPON OESOPHAGUS, impending deglutition.
Conium [Con]
Dry spot in larynx, with crawling and almost constant irritation to cough; larynx sensitive to touch; dry, teasing cough; lisping voice; (<) at night, when lying down, greatly fatiguing.
Crot. [Crot-h]
Laryngitis acuta from scalds, sting of insects, irritating vapors, (<) from contact, dry cold air; aphonia; nervous cough (<) on awaking from sleep.
Drosera [Dros]
Constriction in larynx when talking; sensation as from a feather in larynx, causing cough; faulty approximation of the inferior vocal cords, with atony of constrictors; local congestion of these parts; often precursors of tuberculosis pulmonum.
Ferrum-picric [Ferr-pic]
Chronic catarrhal laryngeal affections, much phlegm in throat in the morning when awaking, throat relaxed; hoarseness; voice falling after exerting it; hearing deficient, cracking in ears; constipation.
Guaiacum [Guai]
Violent and constant stitches in throat from larynx to left clavicle; violent spasmodic inflammation of air-passages, especially larynx, with violent palpitation of heart and fear of suffocation.
Gum-benzoin [Benz-ac]
Acute laryngitis from violent cold, much infiltration; loss of voice, cough with no sound; great soreness and rawness of larynx and trachea on attempting to talk or to cough, but not farther down.
Hepar [Hep]
Sensation as of a clot of mucus or of internal swelling, when swallowing; STITCHES AND PAIN EXTENDING FROM EAR TO EAR when swallowing or turning head; great hoarseness with rough barking cough; scanty, tenacious muco-purulent secretion, difficult to expectorate; aphonia with slight suffocative spasms, (<) morning and within doors; hoarseness remains for some time; clergyman’s sore throat; laryngeal catarrh grafted on a tubercular constitution.
Iodum [Iod]
LARYNGEAL AND TRACHEAL ULCERATION, with plastic exudation; chronic thickening of the ary-epiglottidean and inter-arytenoidal folds from proliferation of the connective tissue elements; voice altered husky; dry, irritating cough, with dyspnoea, hemming and hawking; tightness and constriction about larynx and trachea, with soreness and hoarseness; (<) morning.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS ( not scrofulous: Iodium, scrofulous), with congestion, swelling of the tissue and increased secretion of a glutinous fluids, (<) morning, when the tough mucus nearly strangles him; follicular laryngitis, with ropy and stringy discharge.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Follicular inflammation; laryngeal irritation, dry cough; burning, tickling in throat; secondary or tertiary syphilis, with deposits in throat; green sputa like soapsuds, laryngo-phthisis; oedema of larynx.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Very foetid breath; loss of voice, hoarseness, with white and viscid expectoration.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Cases coming too late under treatment, great weakness, pale bluish face;speech slow. becoming inarticulate, nasal speech; creeping paralysis of any part; palsy of vocal cords.
Lachesis [Lach]
OEdematous form of laryngitis( Apis); hoarseness; rawness and dryness of larynx, which is sensitive to touch; feeling of lump in throat, with sensation of suffocation.
Manganum [Mang]
Laryngeal catarrh in weak, anaemic persons or in such as exhibit tubercular deposits in lungs; hoarse voice mornings, which gradually clears up after expulsion of lumps of hard and tenacious mucus; Eustachian deafness.
Mercurius [Merc]
Syphilitic laryngitis; parts much swollen, dark-colored, with much hawking and coughing up of a viscid, muco-purulent sputum,(<) mornings; larynx and epiglottis pain on swallowing food, (<) when depressing tongue; cutting in throat as from a knife.
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.