Kali-ars [Kali-ar]
Scolding, morose, retired, quarrelsome and discontented; jealous indifferent to everything, scarcely answers questions or replies in a peevish tone; eyes have a fixed look; face frightened and anxious.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
ANTHROPOPHOBIA; weakness, aversion to business, indifference, fretfulness, irritability, anxiety arising from chest; distress in stomach; averse to motion, inclination to lie down.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Imagines he is especially singled out as an object of Divine vengeance, thinks all her friends have deserted her, is full of religious delusions and a feeling of moral deficiency; nervous restlessness, cannot sit still must move about or otherwise occupy himself; insomnia; frequent shedding of tears; low- spirited, childish, giving way to her feelings; indifference and almost tired of life; profound anaemia.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Alternating mood, at one time good and quite at another excited and angry at trifles; constantly in antagonism with herself, frequently despondent; frets about everything, peevish, impatient, contented with nothing great aversion to being alone.
Kali-hydr [Kali-i]
Very great irritability and unwanted harshness of demeanor; his children, to whom he is devotedly attached, become burdensome to him; very passionate and spiteful temper; inclined to sadness and weeping with constant apprehension of impending evil.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Religious melancholia with fear of hell; refuses food and drink and tears everything; hyperaesthesia of senses with anaemic weakness and failure of strength as after mental overstrain, depressing emotions, or from exhausting drainings affecting nerve-centres of cord; hysteria with globus.
Lac-caninum [Lac-c]
Thinks she is looked down upon by everybody, that she is of no importance (Pallad.) doubts her own ability and success, weeps easily, exceedingly nervous and irritable.
Lac-defloratum [Lac-d]
Depression of spirits, does not want to live and does not want to see or to talk to any one; no fear of death, but is sure to die.
Lachesis [Lach]
Quite sorrowful lowness of spirits relieved by sighing; repugnance to society and dislike to talk; solicitude about the future, with disgust of life; INCLINATION TO DOUBT EVERYTHING; mistrusts and misconstrues everything in the worst way; indolence, with aversion to every kind of labor and motion; INSANE JEALOUSY.
Laurocerasus [Laur]
Indolence and indisposition to either physical or intellectual labor, so that patient becomes disgusted and tired of his life; fear and anxiety about imaginary evils; disposition to sleep; titillation in face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over face; want of energy of vital powers, no reaction, a paralytic weakness.
Leptandra [Lept]
HEPATIC DERANGEMENT.- Languid tired feeling with great prostration, gloomy; desponding drowsy; physically and mentally depressed.
Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]
Indecision of character, and depends entirely upon others; dislikes being alone, but has no dread of being so; OPPOSITE MENTAL STATES, feels nervous, irritable, scolding and still in a pleasant humor; constant inclination to weep; has to keep very busy to repress sexual desires; great bearing down in pelvic regions, as if everything from the chest down would fall out; the heart feels as if it were full of blood; with depression of spirits and apprehension of impending evil; blurred vision.
Lithium-carb [Lith-c]
Disposition to weep about his lonesome condition; difficulty in remembering names;sensation of entire helplessness, especially at night.
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Fear of death from difficulty of respiration; restless sleep, with anxious and sad dreams; excessive weakness of the stomach, extending into the chest, with oppression of chest; sudden shocks through the head.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
WANT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE; fear of phantoms in the evening, with anguish, pusillanimous, nervous. irritable and peevish; seeks disputes, which is followed by supreme indifference; hypochondriasis; confusion of thoughts and forgetfulness, using wrong words, supposing himself to be at two places at once; fear of going to bed in the evening, is sure to heart somebody in the room; satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed, dread of men, wants to be alone or dread of solitude with irritability; MISANTHROPY WITH MISERLY DISPOSITION, flies even from his own children; abdominal and mental torpor.
Lyssin [Lyss]
(Hydrophobinum). – Cannot rid himself of the tormenting idea that something terrible was going to happen to him; fits of abstraction, he takes hold of wrong things;does not know what he wanted; uses words which have but a remote similarity of sound; two distinct trains of thoughts seem to be operating at the same time; imagines to be abused by others and tries to defend himself.
Melilotus [Meli]
Religious melancholia with weeping and indolence; reluctant to rise in morning, sits and does nothing; FACE ALWAYS HOT AND FLUSHED, throbbing of carotids; constipation; (>) by nosebleed or any other haemorrhage.
Mercurius [Merc]
Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended, worse at night, with praecordial anguish; sweat of the hands and heat of the face; disgusted with himself, has no enough courage to live; constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy.
Murex [Murx]
Great depression of spirit, she considers herself hopelessly ill; goes to bed and remains there; great debility of the muscles; sinking of stomach; sensation of dryness of constriction of uterus.
Mygale [Mygal]
Constant talk about business, restless at night; despondent with anxious features; tremulousness of whole body in the evening; nausea, with strong palpitation of heart; dimness of sight; general weakness and fear of death.
Naja-tripudians [Naja]
Suicidal insanity, broods constantly over imaginary troubles; sleep full of frightful dreams, and wakes with dull pain in the head, and fluttering of the heart, uneasy dryness of the fauces; grasping of throat, with sensation of choking, and lividity of the face.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
AVERSION TO MAIN AND SOCIETY; sadness, depression of spirits, head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself; avarice (Lycopodium, Calcarea fluor.); restless, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunderstorm, playing piano for a short time painful anxiety in chest, trembling of body and weariness; must lie down; phlegmatic indolent disposition, with repugnance to speaking to work or any occupation.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Crowding of gloomy thoughts which recall insults long since suffered with want of self-reliance and palpitation of heart; great inclination to weep, and consoling only makes things worse; timid inquietude about the future, with inclination to remain for hours buried in thought; indifference from hopelessness and mental languor, wishes only to remain quiet and to sleep; sallow complexion;excessive sadness during menses, with palpitation and morning headache; he loses flesh though living well.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
MUSIC UNBEARABLE, MAKES HIM MELANCHOLIC, even of a lively kind makes him weep; suicidal tendency, must exercise restraint, attended with wildness and irritability, due to gastric, bilious conditions, (<) in wet weather and damp dwelling, and (>) in warm, dry weather.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Dread of contentions, quarrels and lawsuits; frequent sorrowful though of past events; fearful and easily frightened; disgust of life, with longing for death, which however, is dreaded; reserved and does not wish to talk.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Mental recklessness, desperation and jot, irritable temper; wants to kill those she loves best; nervous excitement and mental worry; inability for mental work; taciturn. desire for solitude; afraid he might not have enough to live on and great propensity to end his existence; abdominal plethora and constipation.
Oleander [Olnd]
Absentmindedness and slowness of perception; UTTER INDOLENCE AND AVERSION TO DO ANYTHING, will not dress or eat; cannot bear the slightest handling and becomes greatly enraged if touched by any one; breathing oppressed and heavy; head hanging down; itching of scalp with constant tendency to scratch the head; rumbling and flatulence of bowels, with hard difficult stool; urine brown, normal in quality.
Opium [Op]
Hallucinations of specters and animals with great fear; imagines parts of body very large; imbecility of will, as if annihilated.
Palladium [Pall]
MORTIFICATION AFTER WOUNDED PRIDE, not getting thee praise of others which she expected, great inclination to weep and to be sulky; mental exhaustion, everything is too much exertion.
Petroleum [Petr]
Fear of death; great irresoluteness, no desire for work and dissatisfied with everything; SENSATION AS IF THERE WERE A COLD STONE IN THE HEART; emaciation; profuse night- sweats; mucous diarrhoea.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Chronic and long-lasting effects of grief, with night-sweats from sheer exhaustion, heavy pressure on top of head, as if a great load lay there; indifference and unwillingness to speak; HOMESICKNESS, with inclination to weep; hysteria during climaxis.
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.