HAMAMELIS [Ham]
NEURALGIA OF TESTICLES with nausea, (<) at night; dull aching, or severe, excruciating pains in testicles, extending from groin; frequent paroxysms of pain in left ovary, passing down uterus, with anaemia; vicarious menstruation from ovarian irritation.
Hepar [Hep]
Neuralgia, right side of face, after abuse of mercury and after the unsuccessful is of Belladonna, particularly after exposure to dry cold winds; bruised sensation, as from subcutaneous ulceration, (<) by contact, mental irritability; HASTY SPEECH AND HASTY DRINKING; fainting towards evening from least aggravation; (<) from heat.
Ignatia [Ign]
Tearing pains, or pressing from inside outward, with paleness of face, watery urine, slight relief from changing position, worse after meals, after lying down at night, or in the morning after getting up changeable humor, with disposition to start, or taciturn and mournful sweet, sensitive nature.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
PERIODICAL WANDERING PAINS (Apis, Cimicif., Pulsatilla); weariness in limbs as the pains subside; (<) from morn till noon.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Lancinating nightly pains from small of back to feet, (<) from warmth of bed, must rise and sit in chair for relief.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Neuralgic pains with ill-humour, sensitiveness to light and noise, (>) and NOT EVEN FELT DURING PLEASANT EXCITEMENT (Piper meth.); Pains(>) with gentle motion, (<) on rising, felt most when quiet and alone; exhaustion after paroxysm, depression, failure of strength;nearly unable to remain up, yet pain is felt less when standing or walking about.
Kalmia [Kalm]
BURNING PAINS in supraorbital region, (<) right side; occipital neuralgia of a stupefying, rending character, with more or less cutaneous sensibility, (<) by heat and in summer(>) by cold.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Neuralgia of face, with burning pains, (<) by motion and talking. especially in nervous irritable persons whose teeth decay rapidly; great restlessness and excitation of whole body, (<) in repose than during motion, (<) in open air, from washing or bathing with cold water, from growing cold and in cold weather.
Ledum [Led]
Intercostal neuralgia, especially in axillary region, painful pressure in left of both shoulder-joints, (<) from motion; affected limb cooler than rest of body; constant chilliness; patient morose, discontented, much interested in his troubles.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Neuralgia, (>) by lying on affected side; jerking, sticking pains in upper and lower extremities, which leave them weary and powerless; involuntary jerking., now here, now there, affecting him greatly; formication of affected limbs; depression of nearly all functions.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
NEURALGIA EVERY NIGHT, WELL DURING THE DAY. Acute pains, coming periodically, excruciating, spasmodic, extending to the ends of nerve- fibres. Intercostal neuralgia of a drawing, constrictive kind; facial neuralgia, especially right side; crampy, shooting, darting pains, (<) by touch and after going to bed; also neuralgia of stomach and abdomen.
Melilotus [Meli]
VIOLENT CONGESTION OF HEAD, profuse and frequent epistaxis; dry cough; palpitations; extreme nervousness, loss of memory, confusion of thoughts; goneness in pit of stomach; gastralgia from irritation of solar plexus, radiating all over abdomen, caused by overexertion or excitement.
Mercurius [Merc]
Rheumatic patients with night-sweats, tearing-lancinating pains, sensation of cold in the affected parts, aggravation at night, great weakness, hot flushes from the least exertion, pale face or evanescent redness on cheeks.
Mezereum [Mez]
Neuralgia in the cheek-bone of over left eye; pains leave numbness, (<) from warmth; herpes zoster or when there have been herpetic eruptions after the abuse of mercury; neuralgic pains at night in the teeth.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
CILIARY NEURALGIA FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET,(<) about noon; darting, shooting orbital neuralgia with flow of saliva or involuntary tears; faceache with constipation, (<) mornings, from reading, writing and talking, (>) at the seaside.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Stitches through the body in jerks, feels sore all over, worse mornings; great weakness, with hyperaesthesia of all the senses; tendency to faint; worse morning, after eating, in fresh and cold air, from mental exertion.
Paris-quad [Par]
Feeling of great weight on the nape of the neck and shoulders; violent pains on both sides of neck, extending down to fingers, especially on left side, worse by mental exertion.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Uterine neuralgia in sensitive women, induced either by protracted lactation, excessive sexual passion, or from mental or local causes; intercostal neuralgia, (>) lying down, after sleep, neuralgia from anaemia, especially during convalescence from severe exhausting diseases.
Piper-meth [Pip-m]
Burning neuralgic pains, relieved by diversion of the mind by some new topic, by any excitement or change of position.
Platina [Plat]
ILL EFFECTS OF PREPUBIC MASTURBATION; cramping pains with numbness and tingling in parts affected, frequently in head, increasing and decreasing gradually; spasmodic jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints.
Plumbum [Plb]
NEURALGIA OF RECTUM, constant gnawing drawing pain, (<) towards evening and at night.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Pains, jerking, erratic and paroxysmal, and as they become more and more unbearable; pains in sacral region,(<) on sitting and bending backward, (>) from rest and after sleep; neuralgia mostly only on one side of body; pains coming on while lying on back, are relieved by lying on side and vice versa or by walking about.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
ILIO-SCROTAL NEURALGIA, testicles, especially epididymis, intensely painful to touch; soreness between genitals and thighs.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Tingling, burning or ulcerative pain, (<) from midnight to morning, in fresh air and when resting;(>) by motion and heat; constant restlessness, must change position.
Robinia [Rob]
Jawbone feels as if disarticulated, with intensely sour taste and vomiting.
Saccharum-lactis [Sac-l]
Especially cold NEURALGIC PAINS, as if produced by a very fine icy-cold needle, with tingling, as if frost-bitten; neuralgic pains passing in every direction all over body.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Wandering neuralgic pains, (<) at night and in those places least covered by flesh, not in joints, on touching painful part pain vanishes and appears in some other parts.
Sarsaparilla [Sars]
Lightning-like tensive pains, here and there, in the body and though head, so that patient screams with pain, (<) at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in the water, after mercury or checked gonorrhoea.
Silicea [Sil]
Obstinate neuralgia caused by dissipation, hard work or close confinement; lumbo-abdominal neuralgia,(>) form wrapping up warmly.
Spigelia [Spig]
Neuralgia begins in back of head and comes forward, left prosopalgia, with severe burning, sticking pains, (<) from heat of bed, (>) walking about; neuralgia comes and goes with the sun, reaches its height at noon and decreases towards evening g; sensation as if eyeball were enormously large; neuralgia of head; involving cheeks,(<) from any noise or jarring of body and from stormy weather; ciliary neuralgia; sharp stitching pain in left chest, shooting into arm and neck, (<) from slightest motion of hands and arms; cannot lie down; fear, anxiety, as if something would happen, praecordial anguish.
Stannum [Stann]
Neuralgia, especially in the course of the supraorbital nerves; pains come on gently, increase gradually, and then as gradually diminish in severity; useful in prosopalgia following abuse of
quinine, and intermittent fever.
Staphisagria [Staph]
NEURALGIA OF SHOULDER- JOINT AND ARMS; crural neuralgia; sharp pains during motion, aching of all the limbs with great heaviness during rest; sweat at night, general prostration; sinking feeling in stomach and abdomen; (<) during rest at night.
Strontiana [Stront-c]
Pains increase and decrease gradually; violent tearing pains in all joints of left upper and lower extremities, changing to weakness of the parts; sudden jerks in upper part of body; on falling asleep; (>) in open air.
Sulphur [Sulph]
MALARIAL NEURALGIA, occurring mostly in face and resisting other remedies; intermittent neuralgia, (<) every day at noon or at midnight, gradually increasing to its acme and then as gradually diminishing.
Tabacum [Tab]
Facial neuralgia (curable by Sepia if caused by use of tobacco.); horrid pains, with involuntary contractions of muscles; spasmodic contractions of muscles, followed by relaxation; hands icy cold, body warm.
Tarentula [Tarent]
Excessive hyperaesthesia, a slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pains in chest and distress in cardiac region; intense headache, body burns all over.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Neuralgia brachialis and subscapularis, supraorbital; mostly evenings and during the night in bed till morning; neuralgia vaga; sudden twitchings of the limbs as from electric shocks; intense pain along the larger nerves, numbness of limbs, neuralgic headache; motion difficult, as it starts or increases the pain; sometimes caused by sudden check of perspiration.
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.