Meningitis Spinalis


Homeopathy treatment for Meningitis Spinalis from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Meningitis Spinalis…


Leptomeningitis

Aconite [Acon]

After a sudden check of perspiration or internal injury, high fever; crawling in spine, as of beetles; cutting pain, extending into the lower limbs, arms hang down powerless, as if paralyzed by blows, numbness, icy insensibility of hands and feet; despair and dread of death.

Belladonna [Bell]

(Atropinum). Burning and throbbing pain in spine; convulsions; drowsiness; with inability to sleep; frequent startings, as if electric shocks were running through limbs.

Bryonia [Bry]

Stitchlike pains from slightest motion; rheumatic stiffness and tension in nape of neck and back; stitches from;left scapula through to heart; pain through thorax extending to lower portion of sternum. pain in small of back, which makes walking and turning difficult, ass if buried, when lying upon it.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

Rheumatic pain in upper cervical vertebrae, with stiffness of neck; OVERSTRAIN FROM LIFTING MAKES NECK STUFF AND RIGID, with headache, swelling and incurvation of vertebrae of neck and back; rheumatism of lumbar vertebrae, with boring, tearing, burning pains, extending downward, with inclination to move.

Cicuta [Cic]

Frequent jerks in upper portion of body, through the dorsal vertebrae and arms; occasional jerks of the head.

Cocculus [Cocc]

Unwieldiness of lower extremities, legs cannot be lifted in walking, but are dragged along, hands pithy, lose their sensibility.

Cuprum [Cupr]

Clonic spasms, commencing in fingers and toes and spreading upward; preceded by painful jerkings in hands and fingers are different parts of body; left side more.

Hypericum [Hyper]

After a fall, slightest motions of arms and neck extort cries; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch; desire for warm drinks, headache; asthmatic spells of short, hacking cough,

Mercurius [Merc]

Paralysis of lower extremities, of bladder or rectum, with occasional jerks in paralyzed parts; violent pains in spine, (<) from motion; insomnia and restlessness; (<) at night in bed; insensibility of skin.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Lumbar pains (<) when trying to move whilst lying on back and mornings; stiffness of lower limbs; stomach and liver sensitive to pressure; constipation.

Plumbum [Plb]

 

Chronic cases; atrophy of affected parts and contractions.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

Spinal membranes inflamed from getting wet or sleeping on damp ground, pains (>) from lying upon something hard, swelling and stiffness of joints from sprains, overlifting, etc.

Secale-corn [Sec]

Tenderness of lower cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae, with stiffness of neck, tingling in back, extending to fingers and toes; pressure upon affected parts causes pain there and through chest, (<) from every exertion or strain upon spine.

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.