Silicea [Sil]
PATIENT DREADS ANY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL WORK, BUT IMPROVES WHEN WARMED UP TO IT; spinal weakness, legs tremble, with great nervousness, feeling of loss of power, spasmodic pains in small of back, can hardly rise; on first leaving his bed mornings, can hardly walk, so weak, (>) after some exercise; (<) in dry, stormy,
windy weather or when electric variations are marked, great desire to be magnetized, a draught on back of neck causes pain and nervousness.
Stannum [Stann]
Nervous exhaustion, particularly induced when patient goes downstairs, patient weak, nervous and irritable, every little exertion causes palpitations, after a little walk she fairly drops into a chair, is low-spirited and lachrymose, but crying makes her feel worse; a little talking is too much for her (prolapsus uteri et vaginae)
Sulphur [Sulph]
Paraplegia from spinal congestion; violent bruised pain in small of back, down to coccyx; formication, weakness; legs weak, numb, paralytic; sudden, violent jerks of the limbs as the patient falls off to sleep, abdominal plethora, haemorrhoids.
Sumbul [Sumb]
Nervous headache, (>) by heat; hysterical asthma; palpitations from least exertion; irregular, weak pulse; tendency to faint from least cause; cold, dry, shrunken skin; want of elasticity in blood vessels.
Tarentula-hisp [Tarent]
EXCESSIVE HYPERAESTHESIA, a slight touch on spine causes spasmodic pains in chest and great distress in cardiac region, at time heart feels as if twisted over; intense headache, as if thousands of needles were pricking into brain, (>) by rubbing against pillow; body feels hot.
Theridion [Ther]
Great sensitiveness between scapulae, patient sits sideways on chair to avoid pressure of back against spine; weakness; trembling, coldness, anxiety. Scrofulosis. Tuberculosis.
Vipera [Vip]
Neurasthenia with a bursting feeling in limbs; extreme prostration, unable to move a foot; faintness, sensitive to every change of weather.
Zincum [Zinc]
NEURASTHENIA WITH HYPERAESTHESIA. Stiffness and tension of neck; tearing pains; BURNING BETWEEN SHOULDER- BLADES, along whole spine, (<) sitting, tearing, trembling and lameness in limbs; twisting and frequent jerks in limbs; great weakness, especially of lumbar region and bend of knees; TRANSFER OF PAINS FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER; tendency to convulsions from injuries to spine;(<) from wine and witting, (>) from walking or lying; weakness of legs at noon when patient is hungry (Zincum met. picr.); dry, herpetic eruption.
Zincum-mur [Zinc-m]
Excessive nervous derangement and prostration, INTELLECT CLEAR BY DAY, BUT WANDERING BY NIGHT; headache in frontal and occipital region; fainting; pulse rapid; quick and fluttering, tremor of limbs, extreme emaciation; arms and feet livid and cold; forehead bathed in sweat; clammy perspiration.
Zincum-phos [Zinc-p]
Brain-fag and weariness from too much care; darting pains form forehead backward to occiput, intracranial; vomiting.
Zincum-val [Zinc-val]
Fear in evening when sitting in the dark; disinclination for mental work; darting tearing pains in forehead, with sensation as if piercing the eyes from within outward; tremulousness and general weariness of extremities; twitching and jerking in various parts of body.
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.