Chininum-sulph [Chin-s]
Tinnitus aurium and impairment of hearing from paralysis of the vessels, with congestion and exudation, especially of labyrinth and tympanum.
Cicuta [Cic]
Burning suppurating eruption on and around the ears; ears very hot, at other times very cold; hardness of hearing in old people; HAEMORRHAGE FROM THE EAR.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Watery bad-smelling pus discharged from ears; inner swelling of ears; tetters on and around the ears, extending into the external meatus; swelling beginning at the ear and extending half way up the cheek.
Conium [Con]
Mixture of pus and cerumen in the canal; hard, dark cerumen, which forms in the canal so as to prevent the escape of pus; tendency to too rapid secretion of wax; parotid and other glands stony hard and very tender; tumors and boils behind the ears; ears feel as if stopped up, when blowing nose; sharp from within outward felt when swallowing, with piercing pains; painful
tension behind ears and piercing pains in mastoid process; sense of hearing painfully acute; rushing, roaring and ringing noises in ear with throbbing as of the pulse, or diminution of hearing, (>) by pulling auricle, with throbbing as of the pulse, or diminution of hearing, (>) by pulling auricle, as this straightens the canal and makes a passage for the sound-waves beside the cerumen.
Crot. [Crot-h]
Stuffed feeling in the ears, (<) right one, with feeling as if hot earwax were tricking out.
Curare [Cur]
Lancinating nervous pains, staring from the ears and reaching down the legs, so that he is obliged to lie down; different noises in ears, as of whistling, crying of animals; unbearable earache, so that he looses consciousness; internal otitis, driving one crazy; purulent discharge.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Earache, worse at night, during rest, with nausea; dull pain, humming in ears, obtuse hearing; extreme sensitiveness to cold damp air; earache on slightest exposure or wetting the feet; shooting and twinging pain in and around ear, (<) by moving jaw, especially damp, cold, foggy weather.
Elaps-coral [Elaps]
Greenish-yellow and watery or bloody discharge, much itching in ears; nostrils plugged up with lumps of dry mucus, so that he sleeps with mouth open; CATARRH WITH BLACK CERUMEN; tinnitus aurium and otorrhoea.
Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]
Dull, heavy, full feeling in head from dilatation of blood vessels; every pulsation felt in head and ears with humming sound or dull roar, face flushed, feels swollen; thirst not marked; FIRST STAGE OF INFLAMMATION or even only hyperaemia of membrana tympani and redness of meatus; at a later stage rupture of blood vessels and haemorrhage; food causes pressure and distention, respiration often labored; (>) by quiet and recumbent position, (<) by sudden or continued motion, especially the beating and hammering.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Otitis interna exudativa serosa, depressed condition; patient chilly with absence of thirst, head tense and sore and the heart’s impulse felt in head; swallowing causes shooting in ear. Acute necrosis in mastoid process; complicating acute suppuration; CATARRHAL DEAFNESS, WITH PAIN FROM THROAT INTO MIDDLE EAR; Sudden transient loss of hearing; rushing and roaring in ears; digging in right ear; stitches behind ear.
Glonoinum [Glon]
Throbbing, piercing pain from within outward, throbbing above ears, from OCCIPUT TO EARS; sensation of fulness in and around ear; deafness followed by blurred vision.
Graphites [Graph]
Eczema of auricle or region immediately about it; deep cracks form behind and below auricle; dryness and cracking of the tissue of meatus and auricle, particularly behind the latter, or deep fissures; pus thick and forms crusts easily, with itching and soreness; swelling of both ears, with moist eruptions behind ears, spreading over cheeks and neck. Membrana tympani opaque and thick, or transparent and very thin, adherent to ossicula or promontory or perhaps mobile; Eustachian tube dilatable, but hearing not improved by inflation; HEARING IMPROVED IN A NOISE; violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times, (<) during full Iron.
Guaiacum [Guai]
CONSTANTLY RECURRING OTALGIA, (<) daytime, (>) by warmth, painful dragging and tearing in (left) ear, ending in otorrhoea, from adenoid growth in post-nasal region.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
EXTREME SENSITIVENESS TO CONTACT; dread of contact, out of proportion to the actual pain; canal filled with white, cheesy, bloody pus, and surrounding skin scurfy and irritated; little pustules in the meatus and auricle, wherever the pus touched; haemorrhage from the slightest touch; relief from hot applications, cannot bear anything cold; cracking in ears when blowing nose; obstinate purulent and offensive discharge.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Otorrhoea, with thick, mucous discharge; dropping down of mucus from the posterior nares into the throat; roaring in ears, as from machinery; polypi in middle ear; chronic dry catarrh of the middle ear.
Iodum [Iod]
Adhesions in the middle ear; painful glandular enlargement in front of the tragus, with indolent ulcers of the membrana tympani and a pinched, dried-up look of face.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Otitis media; ulceration of membrana tympani; discharge of thick, yellow, foetid pus; itching deep in ear, with stinging pains; sharp stitching pains dart from the ear to throat; ulcers upon tympanum, which are dry but not painful, excepting the sharp stitches; naso-pharyngeal catarrh; ulceration; of interior nares, with a discharge of tough, ropy mucus; indolent ulcers; glands swollen, neck painful to touch, after scarlatina.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Stitches in ears from within outward; redness, heat and itching of ears; discharge of liquid cerumen or pus; headache and noises in ear after a cold drink.
Kali-hydroiod [Kali-i]
Irritable offensive discharge, accompanied by boring tearing pains in the temporal bone; during day, a dull, tense, numb feeling in affected side of head, which during night becomes intolerable; sudden shocks of pain.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Chronic catarrhal inflammation (proliferous) at middle ear;
mucous membrane pale and thin, secreting while, tough, mucus, and a similar secretion is exuded from posterior nares; stuffy sensation in ears and nares; deafness and hardness of hearing from swelling and catarrh of Eustachian tube and middle ear. (Kali phos., dark, foetid pus; Kali sulph., yellow, sticky.).
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Ulceration of membrana tympani with or without perforation, suppuration of middle ear; pus watery, dirty, brownish, foetid; ulceration angry, bleeding easily and showing little tendency to granulate or secrete laudable pus.
Kali-sulph [Kali-s]
Muco-purulent, yellow, sticky discharge from inflamed ear; deafness from catarrh and swelling of Eustachian tube and middle ear; polypoid excrescences close the meatus near the opening.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Heat, burning, swelling and redness of left outer ear, from a pimple in the concha, with stiffness and pain in left side of neck, shoulder and arms; humid tetter on ears, with swelling of cervical glands and livid gray complexion. Hereditary syphilis.
Lachesis [Lach]
Roaring and singing in ears, tinnitus aurium, (<) BY PUTTING FINGER IN EAR AND WORKING IT; earwax pasty and offensive; catarrh
of ear and swelling between ear and mastoid process, with throbbing pain and stiffness; left-sided deafness, with dryness of affected ear and want of earwax; dry, scurfy nostrils.
Lachnanthes [Lachn]
Stinging before left ear; tearing and tingling in both ears; cracking in right ear, followed by a motion as if it would discharge something; crawling in ear, relieved by boring, but immediately returning, it feels as if something had closed the ear; sensation of coldness in external ear.
Ledum [Led]
RHEUMATIC OTITIS; roaring in ears, as if from wind ringing and whizzing in ears; hard of hearing, as if the ears were obstructed by cotton; confusion and giddiness of head on affected side; sensation of torpor of the integuments, especially after suppressed discharge from ears, eyes, and nose.
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Constantly recurring earaches or deafness due to suppressed otorrhoea or to a suppression of an eczema of the meatus of the ear; tinnitus aurium from same cause.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Eczema of ears, with thick crust and fissures in the skin; purulent ichorous otorrhoea, with impaired hearing; polypus of ears; sensation as if hot blood rushed into the ears; oversensitiveness of hearing, music and sounds affect hearing painfully; after scarlatina.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Itching of old herpes behind the ears (times ciliaris, pimples on face), hardness of hearing, as if something were before the ear.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Proliferous form of middle ear disease; weakness of auditory nerve-fibres causing deafness. Purely nervous otalgia.
Manganum [Mang]
External ear painful to touch; pain in right ear from sound teeth; burning of ears, as if standing near stove; pains (<) mornings and in open air; earache from laughing; ear so sore that he cannot lie on that side.
Marum-verum [Teucr]
Otalgia, with lancinating pains; dry herpes; with white scales, on and behind the ears; fine ringing in right ear, when blowing nose, squeaking, as if air were forced through mucus; nasal polypus.
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.