Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]
membranous dysmenorrhoea; laborlike in the womb, has to bend double, but no relief in any position; vagina dry, hot, sensitive, sharp shooting pains, more to the right of fundus uteri; abdomen very sensitive.
Aconite [Acon]
Menses profuse, long-lasting, especially in plethoric women who lead a sedentary life, or menses too late diminished or protracted; profuse with nosebleed; suppressed by fright with vexation; dysmenorrhoea from thickening of the peritoneum over ovaries; pains force her to bend double.
AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Lancinating pains in sexual organs; pimples on external parts, itching exceedingly when she gets warm, CATAMENIA VERY WATERY; swelling of mammary gland, with heat, redness and lancinating pains.
Agnus-castus [Agn]
Before menses; vertigo, headache, dim sight; during: pain in pelvis and loins; menses exceedingly profuse; dysmenorrhoea with ovarian neuralgia; COITUS PAINFUL AND ABHORRENT; looks thin and haggard; indifference to persons and things; hates to go out; mind stupid and dead to all excitement.
Agaricus-musc [Agar]
At beginning: nightly restlessness on account of rigors; toothache and wakefulness;during headache, toothache, pain and itching in left ear, (>) by boring; labor-pains in belly and back; itching about genitals, rigors, menses too profuse, with tearing, pressing pains in back and abdomen; after; pain as from exhaustion; prolapsus; palpitations and interrupted sleep with anxiety.
Aletris-far [Alet]
Premature and profuse; discharge dark with coagula; fulness and weight in uterine region, colicky pains in hypogastrium; debility, defective nutrition and assimilation, drowsiness, vertigo, fainting; extreme constipation and prolapsus uteri from muscular atony.
Aloe [Aloe]
Early and profuse, and last too long, with dragging pains in rectum and backache, (<) when standing; uterine haemorrhage about climaxis; haemorrhoids protrude in bunches,(>) by cold water; urgency a to stool, with sensation a of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and coccyx.
Alumina [Alum]
Menses too early, short and scanty, of pale blood; before, many dreams, on awaking face hot, headache and palpitation, abundant mucous discharge; during, corroding urine and diarrhoea, bloatedness; after; exhaustion of mind and body.
Ambra-gris [Ambr]
Atony of uterus. DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN THE PERIODS, at every little accident, a t every hard stool, or after a walk a little longer than usual; burning in genitals with discharge of a few drops of blood; menses too early by a week and profuse; during menses left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices; soreness and itching of pudenda, with swelling of labia, must rub the parts; insomnia with aggravation of bodily sufferings in bed; nervous weakness with irritability; spasmodic dyspnoea, cardiac anguish and palpitations.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Before,; pale face, pain in belly and small of back, no appetite;at COMMENCEMENT CHOLERA-LIKE SYMPTOMS; very sad and fatigued, especially in thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in small of back and chilliness, flow more abundant at night, blackish, in clots, passing off with spasmodic pains in belly and hard stools; menses copious, acrid, it makes the thighs sore and causes a burning pain; too late, scanty and short, always accompanied by frontal headache;very nervous and restless, exhaustion with defective reaction; during menses sleeplessness (Ignatia, Sepia, Natr.m.); diarrhoea before and during; blood from rectum during menses (Ammoniumm.).
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Menses more profuse at night, or when siting or riding, or after a ride in the cold air, with pain in abdomen and small of back, blood dark, tarry, in clots; DURING MENSES DIARRHOEA AND VOMITING, bloody discharge from bowels and neuralgic pains in feet, flow black and clotted.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Menses commenced at an early period, are profuse, then cease, followed by chlorosis; before menses toothache, boring in temples.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Menses too profuse or too scanty; metrorrhagia with red spots, stinging like bee-stings; irregular, lasting but one of two days, accompanied with weakness; copious and lumpy, with great pain in spleen, continuing after it and interfering with every walk, or when talking or coughing; flow delayed or suppressed, sensation as if they were coming on, but they fail to do so, much pain in right ovarian region before or during menses, or when they become suppressed; micturition painful, scanty dark urine;great tenderness over uterine region, with bearing-down pains; sharp stabbing or plunging pain in uterus or in head, sometimes followed by convulsions at every menstrual period, the patient feeling tolerably well during the interval; deep-seated tenderness; stinging and frequent micturition during menses; pale, waxy skin.
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.