Neuralgia



Thuja [Thuj]

Neuralgia affecting the head or face, or both; intense, stabbing, nearly unbearable pains, worse sitting up, when they may cause unconsciousness, beginning about malar bones and eyes and going back towards head. Sycosis. Intermittent neuralgia, evening, insomnia, paretic weakness of extremities.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Pains of such severity as to cause delirium and unconsciousness, fainting, with cold sweat; whole body cold, with thirst, (<) by the heat of the bed at night towards morning; amelioration by moving about.

Zincum-met [Zinc]

Neuralgic pains between skin and muscle in subcutaneous cellular tissue; great weakness of all the limbs; deficiency of vital power.

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.