Cocculus [Cocc]
Sensitiveness of vertebrae to touch but cannot locate the pain; spasmodic contraction through whole length of spine; constant pain in back, shooting through body to both sides and along spine to occiput and even to temples, (<) walking and stooping, knees sink under him from paralytic weakness; soles of feet go to sleep while he sits; with sticking as from pins; frequent giddiness; palpitations; from mental excitement, it is an exertion to stand firmly or to talk, Convulsive irritability with paralytic weakness caused by loss of sleep, any drain on the mental powers, or any loss of fluids; thus, though nervous and weak, he cannot calm his brain, and though very tired, he is too restless to keep still.
Coffea [Coff]
Persistent sleeplessness; pain in head, with depression of spirits due to indigestion, from weakness of nervous system produced by overexertion; palpitations from irritable heart; pulse quick, but force lessened; trembling; chilliness.
Curare [Cur]
Debility of the aged, great failure of strength, no cough, pain or disordered digestion.
Cyclamen [Cycl]
Torpor of mind and body with debility and languor, (>) when aroused to exercise; in the morning great languor, but when once at work goes on tolerably well till evening, flatus causes colic at night, (>) when walking about and in-doors, dulness of senses with flickering before eyes.
Epiphegus [Epip]
Neurasthenic anaemic headache, every little exertion, as visiting, shopping, causes pain all over head, blurred vision nausea and vomiting; almost constant desire to bring up the viscid, sticky mucus; (>) after a good sleep.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Dull pain in lumbar and sacral regions;l weak back; loss of muscular control; ending in complete motor paralysis; every little exertion causes fatigue of the legs, with muscular soreness; patient languid, listless, drowsy, sleeplessness from nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, a bodily tired-out sensation, with unwanted laziness, temporarily relieved by stimulants, CONGESTION OF SPINE, mUSCLES FEEL BRUISED AND WILL NOT OBEY THE WILL; pains from spine to head and shoulders; myalgic pains; excessive irritability of mind and body; drooping of eyelids; bowels loose; tenesmus of bladder; constrictive pain in lower part of chest; distention of stomach with pain and nausea; diarrhoea after sudden emotions, grief, fright, bad news, anticipation of any unusual ordeal; nervous chills; chilliness along spine.
Graphites [Graph]
Impotence in men; profuse leucorrhoea, weak back, scanty menses in fat anaemic women; limbs go to sleep readily; walking difficult, from muscular weakness; sudden sinking of strength; throbbing of blood-vessels; rush of blood to chest and head; but not from true plethora; LEUKAEMIA; vertigo to falling and faintness in the morning; spinal anaemia with pain, mostly noticed in cervical region, also in lumbar region; patient cold from want to animal heat; flatulency; herpetic, rough, rhagadic skin; eruptions oozing a sticky moisture.
Helonias [Helon]
Lumbo- sacral region is weak and pulse tired; burning aching, warm numbness in legs; numb feet while sitting; feels tired all over, but (>) from motion or when mind is occupied.
Ignatia [Ign]
Stiffness or pain in nape of neck, with tendency to spasmodic closure of the jaws and walking the patient from sleep, pain as if beaten, a t night, when lying upon either side, in neck, back, shoulders, only disappearing when lying upon back, constant sighing from suppressed grief; vertigo, accompanied by weak, faint feelings in pit of stomach; nervous headaches, (<) from listening, (>) by profuse flow of clear, limpid urine, constipation; stitches from anus deep into rectum, numb feeling in arms at night, with sensation as if something living were running in the arms; cold hands and feet, starting of limbs when going to sleep; hysterical debility and fainting fits.
Kali-ars [Kali-ar]
From pit of stomach to spine an anxious feeling, accompanied by palpitation; empty feeling in stomach; pulse small, filiform; constricted feeling in head,(<) by pressure, started look with protruding brilliant eyes, pale face and sunken cheeks, sensation of a ball rising from stomach to larynx, (<) by belching.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Brain-fag from overwork; weak sight from exhaustion of optic nerve, deafness or noises in ears from nervous exhaustion;spinal anaemia from exhausting diseases.
Lac-caninum [Lac-c]
Excessive nervous exhaustion feels as if she would lose the use of her limbs; restless sleep, often wakes with migraine, commencing at nape of neck, spinal pains; feels unable to exert herself; exhausting sweats after sleep.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Tearing, aching pains in extremities, (<) during repose and at night; limbs go to sleep easily; use of wrong words; failure to collect and command the thoughts from overwork, hepatic derangement or from metastasis of ulcers suddenly healed.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Small of back feels paralyzed, especially in the morning, when rising;back feels as if broken, legs weak, trembling, (<) morning; feet heavy as lead; bladder weak, troublesome dribbling or urine after a normal stool; skin dry, harsh and sallow; mucous membranes dry, cracked and glazed, with smarting and rawness or scanty, corroding discharges; mouth dry with sticky saliva; asthenia and anaemia with emaciation.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Prostration, tried, weary feeling, especially about knees, trembling of whole body; twitching of hands and feet during sleep, heavy, anxious dreams, awakes at night with asthma; always (<) in damp, wet weather, (>) in dry, warm weather.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Numbness of limbs; vertigo, constant pain in small of back; increased sensitiveness to external impressions, disposition irritable and impatient, stiffness of legs with tottering gait; trembling of limbs with sudden sensation of loss of power; convulsive jerks of the legs, ineffectual urging to micturate or to defaecate, not from atony; but from irregular, inco-ordinate action or from spasmodic constriction; sleepy evenings, but wakes early in the morning, (>) when lying down, heart feels tired with tendency to faint; (<) in dry generally (>) in damp weather.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Cerebro- spinal exhaustion from overwork, the least attempt to study causes heaviness not only in the head, but also in limb.
Phosphorus [Phos]
NERVOUS SENSITIVENESS WITH WEAKNESS, most severe in lower portion of spine, in region of last lumbar vertebrae and in sacrum; every trifling fatigue causes pain in back, pain at union of sacrum and last vertebrae, (<) while standing, with numbness of feet when pressing on last lumbar vertebra; small of back weak, feels as if broken; burning in small spots, (>) by rubbing; awkward, stumbling gait from weakness; involuntary urination and defaecation from weakness of sphincters; palpitation of heart, (<) from any emotion, joyful or depressing; sleepless from excessive heat or horribly excited dreams; diminished resistance to external stimulants.
Physostigma [Phys]
Burning and twinging in spinal column with numbness of feet, hands and other parts of body; crampy pains in hands; sudden jerkings of the limbs on dropping off to sleep, muscles of back become rigid; asthenopia.
Picric-acid [Pic-ac]
Brain-fag, dull headache,(<) from the slightest attempt to use the brain, frontal or occipital, and then extending, down the spine; constantly tired and heavy; burning along spine; great weakness of back and legs with soreness of the muscles and joints; tired from least exertion; involuntary micturition; morning erections; will-power all gone.
Plumbum-acet [Plb-acet]
Paresis and paralysis of cervical muscles; weakness and neuralgic pains in back, dorsal region of spine tender to pressure, tarring, burning, sticking pains;;loss of memory; vertigo, with trembling of head, (<) on stooping or looking upward; paresis of eyelids; sallow, pale complexion, foetid breath; cardialgia and colic, constipation, etc.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Sensation in back as if it were tightly bandaged; general fatigue with heavy, tired feeling, knot, (>) by rest; weary in the morning; neck and whole body feel as stiff as a board; pains in sacral region,(<) on sitting and when bending backward,(>) by sleep, general relaxation with poor blood, defective animal heat and diminished mobility; relaxation of veins with engorgement and varicosities.
Selenium [Sel]
NEURASTHENIA FROM SEXUAL EXCESSES with dribbling of prostatic fluid at stool and of semen during sleep.
Sepia [Sep]
Depressed, anxious and fearful state of mind, with a sense of helplessness; frequent attacks of weeping and despair of life; inability to think and weakness of memory; frequent micturition at night; palpitations from emotions or when walking up; great weakness in small of back; icy-cold feet, EXCESSIVE SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN; twitching of limbs during sleep, atony of rectum and bladder, urging even for papescent stool; urine is tardy in beginning to flow; sense of subcutaneous ulceration.
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.