Gelsemium [Gels]
At the very onset of the disease severe chill followed by congestion of the brain and spinal cord, livid cheeks, dilated pupils, little or no thirst, Perfect loss of strength and great exhaustion, staggering gait, dullness of speech, icy coldness of hands and feet, pulse very weak or hardly perceptible; laborious and weak respiration, nausea, vomiting, eyelids close involuntarily in spite of all he can do; itching of head, face and neck, SWEATING RELIEVES. Mental faculties retain their activity, though their power over the muscles is lessened or impaired; he cannot direct thee movements of the limbs with precision; coma.
Glonoinum [Glon]
Violent congestion of head, with sense of expansion; pains ascend from chest and neck to occiput; blindness, with faintness and nausea, pale face, pain in whole length of spine; congestion of chest, with labored action of heart.
Helleborus [Hell]
PATIENT TOO STUPID O BE ROUSED, staring and unconscious, but still screaming out; neck rigid and head held far back; pupils dilated and insensible to light; vacant countenance and eyes wide open; forehead wrinkled, constant grinding of teeth; RETENTION OF URINE; emaciation; moves one arm and one foot unconsciously; great prostration. After Apis.
Hydrocyanic-acid [Hydr-ac]
Sudden and desperate cases; insensibility with protruded half- open eyes; dilated immovable pupils, with blindness; roaring and deafness in ears, distorted, bloated and bluish face; tongue paralyzed and protruded; loss of speech; retention of or involuntary urine and stool; rattling slow respiration; irregular feeble pulse and beating of heart; general coldness, with heat in head.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Heaviness of head and violent pains, alternating with pains in nape of neck; constricting stupefying headache; undulating sensation in brain, as if from throbbing in the arteries; pressure in vertex and drawing in nape of neck, when turning the head; sensation as if the brain were shaken and loose; dimness of eyes, fearful grinding of teeth, LOCKJAW; palsy of tongue, vomiting; involuntary stool and urine; or retention; spasms of chest; with arrest of breathing; stiffness of cervical muscles, with tension as if too short, on bending back; twisting of neck to one side; stiffness of arms and legs, jerking of hands and feet, epileptiform spasms, hyperaesthesia of skin; brown spots, large pustules; gangrenous vesicles on body; pulse small; intermitting quick.
Hypericum [Hyper]
TRAUMATIC CEREBRO – SPINAL MENINGITIS; EFFECTS OF NERVOUS SHOCK, concussion of spine; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch, great dread of motion; desire for warm drinks; numbness in limbs; nervous disorders arising from falls of hurts.
Ignatia [Ign]
Hysterical complications or rapid alternation of symptoms.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Dread of solitude; active, irritable and melancholy mind; stupefying HEADACHE, EXTENDING DOWN THE NECK, with great weakness, acute hearing; with roaring in ears; acute smell; tongue swollen; bloating of abdomen, with tension as of a hoop, same in chest; much flatus; urine loaded with lithates; burning pains between shoulders; numbness and twitching through body and limbs. Impending cerebral paralysis; somnolence, staring eyes, dropped jaw.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Pain in back of neck like the gnawing of a dog, or SCREAMING WITH THE PAIN IN OCCIPUT AND NECK; tearing pains in limbs; vomiting of bile; mental irritability and delirium; pain at the base of brain as if crushed by a vise; tetanus of left side; retarded stools; prostration (Kent considers it a grand remedy in this disease).
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
SHOCKS, starting suddenly from one portion of brain, with numbness and paralytic drawing in the limbs;sensation as from a bruise in back part of head; scalp sensitive to touch; strong reverberation of sounds in ear; oversensitive to odors; neck stiff;with heaviness;stitches through the body in jerks, feels sore all over, OPISTHOTONOS, WITH CONSCIOUSNESS; convulsions renewed by the last touch; fear of sleep; frightful dreams, irritable humour and hypochondriasis.
Opium [Op]
Stupefaction, with or without pain, delirium, mania, heaviness, with great congestion to head, OCCIPUT FEELS AS HEAVY AS LEAD, the head failing back constantly; eyes fixed and half closed, pupils contracted or dilated, insensible to light, staring and glassy look; face bloated, muscles relaxed, with twitching of lips and flapping of checks; lockjaw; strangulation; intense thirst; vomiting. with colic and convulsions; abdomen hard and bloated; constipation or diarrhoea, urine scanty; snoring rattling, slow respiration; suffocative attacks;, dyspnoea, opisthotonos followed finally by painless paralysis; spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs, pulse variable; heat with sweat, WORSE WHILE PERSPIRING (Gelsemium, better )
Phosphorus [Phos]
EXTENSIVE PETECHIAE OR HAEMORRHAGES AT EARLY STAGE; congestion to head; burnings stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput; contracted pupils; difficult hearing; PNEUMONIC COMPLICATIONS; dyspnoea, with inability to exert herself; back pains as if broken; formication and tearing in limbs; frequent fainting.
Plumbum [Plb]
PARALYTIC SYMPTOMS AT AN EARLY STAGE: heaviness of head,
especially in cerebellum; the palsied parts soon fall away in flesh, the limbs become painfully contracted; frequent spells of colic, with retraction of abdomen, somnolency.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Anxiety, restlessness, stupefaction, vertigo, fulness and bruised pain in head extending to ears, bleeding of ears and nose; dry cough, with perhaps bloody sputa, pain in back as if sprained; tearing tensive pains, with stiffness of muscles and joints; vivid dreams, various eruptions.
Solanum [Sol-n]
Delirious raving, rage, imbecility; horrible headache, as if the head would split, with heavy, staggering, uncertain gait, slow pulse, contracted pupils and weakness in lower limbs, bruised feeling in back and limbs; neck feels stiff and sore, as if bruised; stiffness and convulsions, excited by the least touch; tetanic rigidity of whole body; tremor; violent subsultus tendinum; convulsions with moaning and coma.
Tarentula [Tarent]
Severe headache, aggravated by touch, with sensation as if COLD WATER WERE POURED UPON HEAD, with great noise internally, deep intense headache, with restlessness, anguish and malaise, the pain files to forehead and occiput, with photophobia; pain in occiput as if striking it with a hammer, extending to temples; burning, scorching, heat in occiput, extending all over posterior part of head; great pricking and itching over whole body;convulsive trembling of body; convulsions, paralysis, complete retention of urine and faeces.
Tartarus-emet [Ant-t]
Great drowsiness, stupefying headache, nausea, cold sweat, blindness, convulsive twitchings, pain with sweat, cough, with suffocative attacks, pulse full, hard, quick and trembling.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Violent headache, with delirium or unconsciousness; copious vomiting, pale, cold and cadaverous face; stiffness of neck; choking in throat;feeling as if head would burst; rolling head violently from side to side, with short screams, bores head in pillows; CONVULSIVE SHOCKS AND VOMITING AS SOON AS HEAD IS RAISED; clonic and tonic spasms, with loss of sense and motion; cramps in limbs; tingling and coldness in limbs; choleric collapse simultaneously with intense congestion.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Vertigo and headache with loss of sight, dilated pupils and vomiting; trismus, opisthotonos, constant severe pain in neck and shoulders, so that he cannot keep his head erect, distortion of muscles, especially of face, neck fingers and toes, convulsive twitchings, as form electric shocks; sudden spasms, with nausea, vomiting; trembling as if the child were frightened and on the verge of spasms. The pains begins in forehead and run back to occiput and spine.
Zincum [Zinc]
Convalescence retarded; WEAK MEMORY, with stinging pains in head, blindness, itching, biting, watery eyes; soreness and constriction in throat, ravenous hunger, flatulent colic, constipation; dysuria, priapism, amorous frenzy (Cantharis, in first stage), spasms and pain in chest, numbness, trembling, twitching, in hands and feet, flushes of heat in head and face, coldness of body; profuse and easy sweat; exhaustion of nerve-force.
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.