Nettlerash


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


Aconite [Acon]

Great heat, thirst, frequent pulse, sleeplessness; spots like flea-bites, itching unchanged by scratching; agonizing anxiety and heat of body.

Anacardium [Anac]

URTICARIA TUBEROSA, with itching, burning and swelling ending in desquamation; intense redness of skin, with eruption of little blisters and unbearable itching, (<) evenings and when in bed.

Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]

Urticaria with INTENSE GASTRIC CATARRH, (<) by acids and heat; while lumps with red areolae and itching.

Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]

Skin hot and dry; biting itching on whole body in evening, desquamation of cuticle; ERUPTION COMES AND GOES, makes him irritable, very hot and thirsty, (<) after meat.

Apium-grav [Ap-g]

Stinging itching nettlerash, accompanied by shuddering and changing location when allayed by scratching, left side mostly affected, at night, by undressing.

Antipyrin [Antipyrin]

Nettlerash, especially in women, intense itching of thighs, extending up abdomen, tears herself with her nails, feet icy cold, recent cases.

Apis-mell [Apis]

Hard, red, somewhat conical swellings, occurring usually open lower extremities below the knees, sometimes on the arms, rarely on other parts of body; heat, redness, extreme soreness, burning, smarting, stinging pains, DYSPNOEA WITH THE NETTLERASH, result of cold or during intermittent fever; uterine catarrh; more acute than chronic cases; (<) from heat and covering.

Arsenicum [Ars]

Caused by EATING SHELLFISH, wheals attended with burning, itching and restlessness; bad effects, like croup, from repercussion of nettlerash or hives.

Astacus-fluviat [Astac]

NETTLERASH, WITH LIVER COMPLAINT, over whole body; fulness and pressure in stomach, burning in epigastrium; violent fever with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air; hepatic region painful; chill over whole body, particularly sensitive in armpits.

Bovista [Bov]

Urticaria nearly covering the whole body, with rheumatic lameness; ill-humor and irritability; absence of mind and difficult of fixing his attention;scurvy; inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination; lips cracked in some places crusty; DISPOSITION TO DIARRHOEA, especially mornings, stools followed by tenesmus and burning.

Bryonia [Bry]

Atmospheric influences, with simultaneous rheumatic articular pains, nightly exacerbations and sleeplessness,(<) from motion.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

Chronic nettlerash, which always disappears in the fresh air, (Sepia, (<)in fresh air); elevated red strips on tibia, with severe itching and burning after rubbing.

Causticum [Caust]

Chronic nettlerash, coming out more fully in fresh air, with decided aggravation and itching from the heat of the bed.

Chloral [Chlol]

Eruption on arms and legs, exactly like nettlerash, in large, raised wheals, with intense, irritating itching, oedematous swelling of face, cheeks, eyelids and ears, coming from a chill, not from heat.

Cimicifuga [Cimic]

Urticaria from menstrual or rheumatic disorders.

Conium [Con]

Nettlerash from violent bodily exercise, erratic itching of all parts of body, as from fleas, (<) from scratching.

Copaiva [Cop]

Violent chills, headache and general malaise; red, hot skin, nettlerash all over body, delirium, drowsiness; scanty urine which is dark with brickdust sediment; often from eating some offending article of diet.

Dolichos-pruriens [Dol]

Intolerable itching all over body, especially in PREGNANT WOMEN, (>) at night, preventing sleep (<) from scratching, with no perceptible eruption on skin.

Dulcamara [Dulc]

Hives come on at night; especially when the nights are cool, with heavy dew, after a hot day or when weather changes from warm to cool and damp; urticaria with violent cough and oedema of glands; feverish nettlerash, obliging one of scratch, and burning after scratching, every eruption being preceded by sensation of pricking over whole body; eruption of white, irregular blotches raised upon the skin, surrounded with red areola, appearing in warmth and disappearing in cold, on extremities, face, chest and back, violently itching and burning after scratching; headache, want of appetite, nausea, bitter taste, vomiting, intense aching in pit of stomach and praecordial region, restlessness and sleeplessness, night – sweats turbid, dark urine, diarrhoea, pins in limbs. URTICARIA FROM GASTRIC DISORDERS.

Hepar [Hep]

Nettlerash, with violent itching and stinging, disappears as heat begins; itching nettlerash precedes intermittents.

Hydrastis [Hydr]

Nettlerash from head to foot, burning, itching,, at night, rash disappears for a long time under pressure.

Kali-brom [Kali-br]

Nettlerash during nervous affections; slightly elevated, smooth red and patches, with hardened bases, itching at night in bed and in a high temperature; (<) in winter.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

Nettlerash about joints, with great itching, especially ankles; wheals itch; smart and burn, particularly in INTERMITTENT FEVER OR AFTER EXPOSURE TO COLD, DAMP OR SEASIDE AIR, (<) from exercise. Complementary to apis.

Petroleum [Petr]

Urticaria with foetid sweat in axilla, or when chronic, with miliary eruption; hyperaesthesia of the skin all over body.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

HIVES OF GASTRIC OR UTERINE ORIGIN; urticaria with diarrhoea, itching, (<) at night; chilly all the time, even in a warm room.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

Vesicular nettlerash from getting wet, during rheumatism, with chills and fever, (<) in cold air; itching all over; (<) on hairy parts, burning after scratching.

Rumex [Rumx]

Itching in various parts, (<) on lower limbs, while undressing; vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air.

Sarsaparilla [Sars]

Rash when going from warm room into open air.

Sepia [Sep]

Chronic nettlerash (<) as soon as he goes into the cool air,(>) in warm room; eruption in the form of wheals, similar to those produced by a blow with a whip or a small rod.

Urtica-urens [Urt-u]

Itching and burning of the skin, as if scorched; raised red blotches; fine stinging points; pale rash requiring constant rubbing; consequences of suppressed nettlerash; eruption and itching disappear as soon as she lies down and reappear immediately after rising; oedema of face, chest and limbs without inflammation (Medusa).

Ustilago [Ust]

Terrible itching at night, menstrual irregularities from ovarian irritation.

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.