Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
The patient had a strain or wrench, or she slipped and strained to save herself; pains worse latter part of night, must move often to find relief; cramp in calves; metrorrhagia.
Ruta [Ruta]
MISCARRIAGE OF DEAD CHILDREN AT ABOUT SEVENTH MONTH, followed by a long and slow recovery; corrosive leucorrhoea.
Sabina [Sabin]
Abortion during third month, pain commencing in small of back and going around and through pubes; drawing aching pains from sacrum to pubes; bright-red, clotted flow of blood, (<) with every motion, followed by a flow of dark-red clotted blood.
Secale-cor [Sec]
Threatened abortion, more especially about the third month with copious flow of black, liquid blood; after abortus difficult contraction of uterus with thin, black, foul-smelling discharge, tingling all over body, (>) by having the limbs rubbed; SHE HOLDS HER FINGERS SPREAD ASUNDER, which bothers her more than even the haemorrhage; wan, sunken countenance, filiform pulse, fear of death.
Sepia [Sep]
Miscarriage from fifth to seventh month; fulness and pressure of blood to head and chest; feeling of heaviness in abdomen and sense of weight in anus like a heavy ball, piles; flushes of heat, with faintness and momentary attacks of blindness, especially in a warm or close room, MOTIONS OF FOETUS ARE HARDLY TO BE FELT; painful sensation of emptiness in pit of stomach; induration of os and cervix (Aurum, Conium); constipation.
Silicea [Sil]
Spinal affections, constipation or difficult defaecation, as if the rectum had not power enough to expel the faeces; PROMOTES EXPULSION OF MOLES; pressing down feeling in vagina, parts tender to touch.
Stramonium [Stram]
Threatening abortion with UNCEASING LOQUACITY, she talks, prays, sings, constantly uttering something in this line; many hallucinations.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Promotes expulsion of moles or blighted conceptions and CURES THE PREDISPOSITION TO ABORT in future pregnancies.
Trillium [Tril]
Profuse flooding, bright-red, when sacro-iliac synchondroses feel as failing apart, wants to be bound tightly; third month.
Ustilago-mayd [Ust]
Passive haemorrhage from retention of secundines after miscarriage, the blood coming away in lumps; FLOODING FOR DAYS AND WEEKS; uterus enlarged, cervix tumefied or dilated; bearing- down, as if everything would come through.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Abortion threatened; pains with cold sweat, nausea, vomiting; exhausting diarrhoea.
Viburnum-op [Vib]
Threatened miscarriage, pains begin in back, come around either side of the hypogastrium and culminate in intense squeezing, cramping and bearing down, going down into the thighs; FREQUENT AND VERY EARLY MISCARRIAGES, SO THAT THE OVUM IS EXPELLED AT EVERY MENSTRUAL PERIOD, thus causing sterility.
Viburnum-prun [Vib-p]
Uterine pains during gestation with strong bearing down, thus threatening to rupture the membranes and produce miscarriage.
Zincum [Zinc]
Fidgetiness and restlessness of feet and legs attend abortion.
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.