Leukaemia in adults


Homeopathy treatment for Leukaemia in adults from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Leukaemia in adults…


Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]

Low-spirited; weak and weary limbs; great thirst in dropsy; diarrhoea, with oedema of legs and feet; skin pale, waxen; sour belching; hurried and laborious breathing; hectic fever, with cough; dyspnoea, night-sweats, oedema and emaciation; haemorrhage from nose, lungs, stomach, bowels uterus; general anasarca and dropsy of abdomen and legs, with great thirst.

Carbo-veg [Carb-v]

Face pale, waxy, or face marbled with a fine network of capillaries; ACNE IN FACE OF YOUNG PEOPLE; foul taste and offensive odor from mouth; inordinate appetite and thirst, with aversion to meat and fat, milk causes flatulence or even the plainest food disagrees; constant dull, heavy feeling in liver;pressing, pinching in region of spleen, flatulence, faeces escape with flatus; anuria, threatening cardiac paralysis; bronchial catarrhs, lassitude, heaviness and numbness in extremities.

China [Chin]

Dislike to mental and physical exertion; nervous irritability, with fainting loss of vision, ringing in ears; intense throbbing headache; periodical neuralgia; loss of appetite in foggy weather, at other times voracious hunger; slow digestion, food remains long in stomach; pain in hepatic region, as from ulceration; swollen, hard liver; enlarged spleen; aching, stitching pain in spleen when walking slowly, pain extends in direction of long axis of spleen; asthma, (<) fall and wet weather; oppression of chest from fulness of stomach; pain in limbs (<) from slightest touch and gradually increasing; pain in every joints, bones and periosteum as if strained with lameness and weakness of affected parts. muscular relaxation;dropsy from liver and spleen disease.

Chininum-sulph [Chin-s]

Tenderness and pain in vertebrae, especially in dorsal regions; pain and tension at stomach; highly lateritious state of urine which on cooling deposits urates and purpurate of ammonia.

Crot. [Crot-h]

Sudden and great prostration of vital forces; general excessive adynamia; IDIOPATHIC PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA from mental shock or in constitutions broken down by gonorrhoea, syphilis, alcohol, etc., petechiae; haemorrhagic tendency.

Diadema-aranea [Aran]

LEUKAEMIA MEDULLARIS; violent, dull, burrowing pains, especially in humerus and forearm, tibia and os calcis, (<) in the morning in bed and periodically returning during the day; general malaise, tired sensation; papular eruption on skin, here and there; restless sleep, with frequent waking and sensation of swelling and heaviness in upper extremities; CHILLS PREVAIL DURING FEBRILE ATTACKS; headache, with burning in eyes and heat in face; abdominal ailments;menses too early, too copious and too long (calc. carb.) nervous palpitations; haemoptoe.

Ipecacuanha [Ip]

(Grauvogl gives Nux v., night and morning and Ipecac. during the day.) Vertigo when walking or turning; pale face, eyes sunken, with blue borders; aversion to food and drink; empty belching, nausea and vomiting; pain in left hypochondrium; yellow, painless, fermented stools; pulse large, soft accelerated, but weak; cold hands and feet; oversensitive to heat and cold,(<) in warm, moist wind; catarrh, asthma; pains as if all the bones were being torn to pieces, with vomiting an pain in bowels.

Kali-mur [Kali-m]

Dyspepsia with a whitish-gray tongue, sick feeling after taking fat, pain and heavy feeling on right side under shoulder;indigestion, with vomiting of white opaque mucus; pain in stomach, with constipation, vomiting of thick, white phlegm or dark, clotted, viscid blood; torpor of liver, pale-yellow stools, constipation, and furred tongue, pin-worms; menses late or suppressed; bronchial asthma. chronic rheumatism and swelling, pains felt only during motion or increased by it; sycosis.

Kali-phos [Kali-p]

BRAIN-FAG FROM OVERWORK; CROSSNESS AND ILL-TEMPER IN CHILDREN; vertigo from nervous exhaustion and weakness; asthenia; pale, sickly and sallow features;gone sensation in pit of stomach; splenic troubles; flatulence with distress about heart or left side of stomach; foul, putrid diarrhoea; enuresis in larger children, amenorrhoea with depression of spirits, lassitude and general debility; asthma from least food; faint spells from weakness of heart; rachitis; LEUKAEMIA LIENALIS, TYPHUS ( more than typhoid); putrid states.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

SPLENDID AND LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA; hypochondriasis and weakness; bursting headache, caused by getting wet; liability to take cold in the head,(<) in open air; loss of smell and taste;secretion of clear mucus from nose in catarrh; yellow, pale livid, swollen face; skin of face shining as if greasy; alopecia; teeth sensitive to air and touch; gums sensitive to warm and cold things; excessive hunger with weak body and depressed mind; bad effects from acid food, bread, fat and wine; stitches and pressure in the region of the swollen spleen; stitches in liver; abdomen bloated; alternate constipation and papescent diarrhoea; fluttering of heart with a weak, faint feeling, (<) lying down (Psorinum lying down ); sensation of lameness and of a sprain in shoulder-joint and hip; limbs feel weak and bruised; periodicity.

Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]

SPLENIC AND LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA: sycosis, depression of mind and irritability; vertigo after dinner (from the swollen spleen); pressure in forehead, (<) after meals; hot feeling on the top of head; scalp sensitive hair is painful on combing it; weak eyes; large blisters like granulations; ozaena sycotica; pale, wan face; slimy-coated tongue with an unpleasant taste; burning in gums, mouth palate inappetency and great desire for ice or ice- water; pain in left hypochondrium or above false ribs; pains as of a weight going through from abdomen to back; diarrhoea, (<) in wet weather, in cold evening air, knotty, wart-like eruptions on anus and between thighs; flour albus with hoarseness; great dyspnoea, desire to take deep breath during damp, cloudy weather; swelling of ribs near the sternum; sycotic pneumonia, inexpressible agony, slowly coagulating blood; piercing pains in extremities, (<) from uncovering, wet weather, damp place, cold open air; prostration and exhaustion.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Hypochondriasis, stupefaction; congestion to head, and red bloated face; scalp sensitive to touch and to wind, from being warmly covered; gastrosis.

Picric-acid [Pic-ac]

PERVERSION OF NUTRITION; great chilliness, followed by cold, clammy sweat; LACK OF WILL-POWER TO UNDERTAKE ANYTHING (Silicea, the reverse); dull heavy pains in head and neck, very hungry or no appetite, but thirst for every cold water, oppressive feeling in epigastrium; can get the breath only half way down; weakness and heaviness in limbs, especially left, legs feel as if made of lead; the least exertion exhausts; cold, clammy sweat on hands and feet, in daytime.

Thuja [Thuj]

LEUKAEMIA MEDULLARIS. Headache (<) from sexual excess; scalp sensitive to touch or pressure of pillow, (>) when rubbed, watery; purulent otorrhoea, smelling like putrid meat; ozaena sycotica (Kali bichromicum); face red and hot, netted with veins; roots of teeth decay; craving alternates with anorexia; rancid eructations; indurations of stomach;stitches in hypochondria; short-breathed from fulness and constriction in hypochondria and upper abdomen; bone disease; sensation of numbness in intestinal parts; oedema around joints; emaciation or swelling of diseased parts (hyperplasia, atrophy, fatty degeneration).

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.