Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Delirium; jerking of limbs; watery diarrhoea; red face; wild, staring look; throbbing of the carotids; indistinct speech; picking at the bedcovers; distorted eyes; with diplopia; convulsions;frothing at the mouth.
Iodum [Iod]
Violent aching along base of brain; persistent headache as if a foreign substance were inside of brain, wants to support head; dilatation of pupils, with constant motion of eyeballs; staring with wide-open eyes; constipation alternating with diarrhoea; bulimy alternating with inappetency; great weakness; cold hands and feet, emaciation.
Iodoform [Iodof]
Violent aching along base of brain; persistent headache as if a foreign substance were inside of brain, wants to support head; dilatation of pupils, with constant motion of eyeballs; staring with wide-open eyes; constipation alternating with diarrhoea; bulimy alternating with inappetency; great weakness; cold hands and feet, emaciation.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Hydrocephalus with strabismus, labored respiration, convulsions or paralysis of right side; dilated immovable pupils; eyes staring; watery; blindness; limbs on left side in constant
tremulous motion hand often drawn to head with an undulatory automatic movement; crying out; vomiting; almost full insensibility.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
In delicate, anaemic children; heaviness and obtuseness of head; stupefaction; convulsive motions of the head; face and extremities; hemiopia or amblyopia;coldness of face or of the whole body; indistinct speech and heaviness of the tongue, sleepiness; screaming out in sleep, delirious words; suppression of urine; frequently indicated after Calcarea, When the erethic symptoms are followed by deep coma. In complication with eruptive fevers and pneumonia.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
Great desire for animal food; anxious and warm through whole body, especially in head, while eating warm food; black motes before eyes; pale, earthy face.
Mercurius-sol [Merc]
Scorbutic condition of the gums; salivation; glandular enlargement;slimy or clay- colored stools; cold and clammy sweat upon thighs and legs; especially during night; moist tongue, with great thirst; child very sensitive to pressure on lower abdomen and epigastrium; grayish ulcers on mucous lining of cheeks, lips, gums, tongue and palate. Some consider it capable excite absorption.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Child irritable, wished to be alone; passes hand over face as if trying to brush something off; spasms renewed when feet are touched; child sleeps badly; wakeful towards morning.
Opium [Op]
Soporous condition with half-open eyes; snoring; iris insensible to light; extremely acute hearing; child seems to bee afraid of something and starts as if frightened; congested face; urine suppressed; constipation, or stools of small black balls.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Child dull and inclined to sleep all the time; vomits drinks as soon as they become warm in the stomach; coldness of feet and legs.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
METASTASIS, FROM MEASLES; is unable to raise the head or to carry it erect; obscuration of sight, with inclination to vomit, and paleness of face; alternate redness and paleness of face; nervousness;easily startled;children worry, fret and cry, and cannot sleep, the child seems sometimes improving and then worse again; craving for fresh air; suppressed otorrhoea.
Silicea [Sil]
The child grasps at its gums continually as if they were painful; profuse sweat about the head at night; scrofulosis.
Spongia [Spong]
Congestion of blood to head with pressing, knocking and pulsating pains in forehead; redness of face with anxious mind, (>) when lying in a horizontal position; heat in head; bending head backward with tension in neck; eyes staring, lids wide open, diplopia;face pale and cold with the heat of or alternately red and pale; twitchings of muscles; frequent waking with a start; tossing about; stupid slumber; scrofulosis and tuberculosis.
Squilla [Squil]
Rubs face and especially eyes a great deal, as if to relieve itching (after measles); changeable expression and color of face;
moaning, with open mouth; convulsive twitchings and motions of limbs, (<) morning and evening, and during motion; stiffness of neck; restless sleep with much tossing about.
Stramonium [Stram]
Child bites those who hold it; pronounces incoherent words now and then; HEAD IS THRUST FORWARD INSTEAD OF BACKWARD; loud screams, frequent and deafening; puts its hands up to head, which it strikes now and then; trismus with great difficulty in swallowing even liquids; frequent torsion of the trunk, attempts to let herself hang over the side of the bed; burning skin with sweat on head and forehead; desire for light, or bright light and glistening things cause spasms; furious delirium with intervals of prostration;vomiting if she only raises head from pillow; urine suppressed; finally stupor during which child notices nothing.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Suppression of a chronic skin disease, or of an otorrhoea, caused the gradual appearance of the disease; a psoric diathesis prevents the little patient’s recovery;head falls backward, prefers to lie with his head low; face pale or red; qualmishness when raising head; sour breath; sour breath; urine as if mixed with flour; swollen gums; blisters in mouth, with burning pains; pain in swallowing with redness and swelling of tonsils and uvula; pain in nose, which is swollen and ulcerated, with discharge of yellow sticky fluid; flushes of heat and sinking spells about the middle of the day; great hunger, redness and excoriation around the anus; constant sleepiness, but only sleep in short naps.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Great inequality in the division of heat; skin cold and clammy; vomiting and aggravation of all symptoms when rising himself up, and comparatively well-feeling in horizontal position; the least motion produces nausea and vomiting; loss of all strength in extremities; stiff neck, great tendency to convulsions; great thirst for ice-water or ice; disfigured pale face, or redness of one cheek; great prostration after stool.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Fulness and heaviness of head; vertigo, severe headache, unconsciousness; oversensitiveness of hearing with surring in ears; strabismus; visual disturbance; nausea, vomiting; loss of memory; convulsions, the child bends its body far backward, amounting to opisthotonos, during a spasm; very quick pulse; skin shrivelled; cold sweat on face hands and feet; paralysis.
Zincum [Zinc]
Child has not vitality enough to develop the eruption, or it was checked in its appearance; feet are in constant motion; distention of abdomen; constipation with hard and dry faces; eyes sensitive to light; nose dry; appetite voracious, with gagging and vomiting; on awaking child shows signs of fear and rolls its head from side to side; cries out, starts and jumps during sleep.
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.