Aconite [Acon]
Coldness along vertebral column; creeping as of insects over back, arms and thighs, painful stiffness in back and hip-joint, numb sensation extending into legs; tensive, pressive pains in lumbar and sacral regions, on stepping; numbness in arms and hands, with formication, prickling and tingling; numbness, icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet.
AEsculus [Aesc]
Paralytic weakness; numbness, prickling, sacro-lumbar pain; paralytic weakness of the symphyses, making locomotion difficult or impossible; catarrh of mucous membranes; gastric irritation, haemorrhoids.
Agaricus [Agar]
SPINAL COLUMN SENSITIVE TO TOUCH; aching along back and limbs; violent, electric-like shocks, emanating from lumbar vertebrae shooting through lower part of body; extremities go to sleep easily; she feels as if her limbs do not belong to her; formication in all extremities; frequent erections, great sexual desire with relaxed penis; every embrace followed by night sweats, great weariness and lassitude; twitching of eyelids and eyeballs; palpitation of heart in old people; pulse slow, feeble, intermittent, painful stitches in cardiac region; coldness of glutei muscles, and below scapulae, as if touched by a piece of ice; sensation as if a cool current of air were passing from spine all over the body; gastralgic and spasmodic form of angina pectoris; (<) mornings.
Aletris-far [Alet]
ABDOMINAL NEURASTHENIA, women with uterine troubles and leucorrhoea, constipation; accumulation of frothy saliva; food distresses the stomach and lies heavily upon it.
Alumina [Alum]
Pain through LOWER VERTEBRAE AS FROM THRUST OF A HOT IRON; bruised pain; legs heavy; can scarcely drag them; nates go to sleep while sitting; tension in legs; numbness of heel when stepping upon the foot; rectum inactive; as if paralyzed, urine passes when urging to stool; patient tired, drowsy, with unconquerable disposition to lie down; IMPAIRED COORDINATION; loss of contractile power of the bowel, with lack of secretion and tendency to rupture of the haemorrhoidal vessels, weak bladder, sudden jerks and starts from sleep, awaking with palpitation of heart.
Ambra [Ambr]
NERVOUSNESS FOLLOWING TYPHOID STATES; spasms and twitches in muscular parts; great lassitude, especially mornings in bed; weakness of whole body, of the knees as if they would give way; of feet, with loss of sensation; in the stomach, so that she must lie down;when walking in open air; uneasiness in the blood and more rapid circulation, with greater weakness of body; conversation fatigues; heaviness of head; cannot sleep, must getup,; irritability.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
ICY COLDNESS IN BACK BETWEEN SHOULDERS; violent headache at night, often awakening her from sleep, at ease in no position; pains in back tensive; stiff, as if bruised or beaten,(<) when sitting and at night, (>) from motion and in open air; catarrh of mucous membranes, with discharge of glairy mucus like the white of an egg; stools soft, glairy or hard, crumbling as they pass verge of anus, and always covered with mucus.
Anacardium [Anac]
Sadness, weakness of memory, sensation of band around head, driving pains in different muscles; incomplete palsy of muscles subject to volition; wants to lie or sit continually trembling from every motion; sensitive to draught, liable to catch cold; headache, dry throat, dyspepsia and other symptoms disappear during dinner, but return after a few hours; great and urgent desire to stool, but with the effort the desire passes away, the rectum seems powerless, with sensation as if plugged up; ANXIETY WHEN WALKING, AS IF SOME ONE WERE PURSUING HIM, FULL OF SUSPICION.
Angustura [Ang]
Pressive pain in muscles of neck and back; chilliness and wandering pains in back; pressure and cramp in chest; violent palpitation of heart when lying on left side, (>) by sitting up, when sitting or stooping painful sensation as if heart were contracted, aversion to meat and irresistible longing for coffee.
Aranea-diad [Aran]
Languor and lassitude, must lie down, feels as if she would drop; neuralgia along spinal nerves keeps her from sleep; restless sleep, on awaking hands and forearms feel as if greatly swollen, and so heavy that she cannot lift them; anorexia; deep melancholy; HYDROGENOID CONSTITUTION.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Backache, (<) when first rising from a seat, (>) from moving about, with trembling weakness of limbs, fear of projecting corners, etc.; legs feel weak, as after a long journey; legs jerk during sleep, lumbar region feels rigid, as if put on the stretch; symphyses weak, loose as if they would give way; inco-ordination from dizziness;faint feeling in praecordia and irregular beating of heart; great prostration and restlessness; patient looks old.
Arnica [Arn]
SPINE FEELS AS IF IT WERE UNABLE TO CARRY THE BODY; crawling in vertebral column; pain in sacrum as after a violent blow or fall; vertigo and nausea with obscuration of sight, (>) lying down; head hot, rest of body cool; hot, burning spots on top of head; intercostal neuralgia with bruised soreness of the muscles; gastrodynia (<) during eating, nauseous repletion as soon as food is taken; myalgia, bed feels too hard; every part of the body feels sore, and fear of being touched.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Aching pain in muscles as if bruised, distressing general weakness, disproportionately severe; drawing from sacrum to nape of the neck, causing trunk to bend backward; loss of all strength in small of back; face pale, sallow, anaemic, with puffiness around eyes; vital powers exhausted by the slightest tax; peevish, fretful, fear of death and of being alone; extreme nervousness when trying to do a thing with tremor of hands and general cold sweat.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Hysterical irritability and fickleness of mind; globus hystericus; AGONIZING TIGHTNESS OF CHEST,AS IF PATIENT COULD NOT BREATHE; gastralgia with great accumulation of gas, pressing upward, none downward, (<) while sitting,(>) from motion, in open air.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
GREAT EXHAUSTION IN THE MORNING, unable to go upstairs; patient starts well enough, but soon desists from difficulty to breathing; while he may feel well, every exertion or excitement produces exhaustion; muscular debility; trembling of body; feels sore and stiff on beginning to move; parts feel subjectively cold; weak feeling in back,(<) from mental annoyance, from talking, can hardly rise; softening of spine, with contraction of limbs, from damp, cold air, from washing (Calcarea picrat).
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Indisposition to work, mental or physical; weakness and weariness, (<) going up-stairs, lower limbs, abdomen and sacrum asleep, cannot get up from seat; constant stretching and yawning; cannot get awake in the morning; soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if separated; lumbago and coccygodynia; pains flying about in all parts of trunk and limbs after getting wet in rain; after meals headache, drowsiness, weariness, itching dull pain in stomach, with soreness when pressing on it; heartburn and other gastric symptoms; palpitations with anxiety, followed by trembling weakness, particularly of calves.
China [Chin]
Weak back from loss of animal fluids, especially from rapid or excessive loss; oversensitiveness; excessive tenderness of surface, making least touch unbearable; senses morbidly acute; restless and fidgety despite the tiredness and exhaustion; weak heart, no perception of its beating.
Chininum-ars [Chin-ar]
Pressure in solar plexus extending to back, where it changes to a pinching sensation; spine painfully sensitive to touch at that point; painful weariness in upper and lower extremities, which often feel icy-cold, desire to sit or lie in one place; awakes from a good sleep exhausted and bathed in sweat; greatest anxiety and unquenchable thirst.
Chininum-sulph [Chin-s]
Despondency; aversion to mental labor; mental confusion; lustreless eyes; dim vision, sensitive to the glare of light; noises in ears; sickly expression; oppression of epigastrium from flatus; abdomen distended; difficult stool from inertia; sexual depression; urine contains phosphates; oppression of chest with tenderness of third dorsal vertebra; sticking in apex of heart; sensitiveness of last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae, (>) during chill; limbs weak, feel bruised, numb and trembling from least exertion; emaciation; sleep unrefreshing; heat of face.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Upper and lower cervical vertebrae sore to touch, often reflex from uterine irritation; dull pain in region of lower dorsal and upper lumbar vertebrae;weight and pain in lumbar and sacral region, sometimes extend all around body; sensation of muscular cramp and of dull, heavy, aching pain radiating from lower vertebrae outward and downward; nausea and retching on pressure upon spine between fourth and fifth dorsal vertebrae; frequent fainting; palpitations on least movement; nervous shuddering; tremor all over body; obstinate insomnia or unrefreshing restless sleep.
Coca [Coca]
Nervous depression, result from overwork, mental anxiety, sexual excesses or abuse of tobacco; feeling of excessive weariness, impossible to make any exertion, lassitude with desire to remain constantly in bed; inclination to sleep, but cannot find any rest; feeling of anguish, increased with failure of every effort to strive against this weariness; exhaustion of heart, with irregular action; painful oppression of chest and continued need of deep breathing; flatulence; constipation from inactivity of rectum.
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.