Mephitis [Meph]
Erysipelas of ear, with itching heat, redness and blisters; foetid discharge from ears.
Mercurius-dulc [Merc-d]
Otitis secondary to exanthemata, and in scrofulous and syphilitic patients; pain in ear, extending to face and teeth, worse by the heat of bed; excoriation and ulceration of meatus; sensitive to cold; abundant secretion of cerumen or flow of pus and blood; sweating, without relief, occurring form cold, when there are hypertrophied tonsils or disease parotids; pulsative roaring in the affected part; ulceration of the membrana tympani, which bleeds from the slightest touch; constant cold sensation in the ears; ulceration of concha; fungous growth in meatus; swelling of parotid; deafness relieved by blowing the nose.
Mercurius-sol [Merc]
Otitis secondary to exanthemata, and in scrofulous and syphilitic patients; pain in ear, extending to face and teeth, worse by the heat of bed; excoriation and ulceration of meatus; sensitive to cold; abundant secretion of cerumen or flow of pus and blood; sweating, without relief, occurring form cold, when there are hypertrophied tonsils or disease parotids; pulsative roaring in the affected part; ulceration of the membrana tympani, which bleeds from the slightest touch; constant cold sensation in the ears; ulceration of concha; fungous growth in meatus; swelling of parotid; deafness relieved by blowing the nose.
Mercurius-iod-flav [Merc-i-f]
Thickness of tissues of fauces, lobulated tonsils with deep intra spaces; sudden sharp pains in (right) ear; throbbing, boring from within outward.
Mercurius-iod-rub [Merc-i-r]
Left Eustachian tube affected; hearing dull, (>) evenings; ears close for a few moments at a time; coryza, affection of posterior nares with raw sensation; cerumen increased; swelling of parotid and other glands.
Mezereum [Mez]
Chronic diffuse otitis; ears feel as if too open, and as if air were pouring in them, or as if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air, with desire to boring with finger in it; itching behind ears, after scratching the spots feel sore.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Otalgia, with pressing pain; tingling, creeping, cold pain running from ears up to top of head, sharp boring in temporal regions; hardness of hearing, dryness, no cerumen; want of feeling in internal meatus.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears; ears feel as if closed up, otitis media, noise like a bubble bursting in ear; on swallowing feeling as if something moved in ear.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Piercing pain in right ear inward, worse going from cold air into warm room; earache, as if something were forcing its way out; heat in ears, nose stopped up.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
CARIES OF MASTOID PROCESS; terribly offensive, purulent otorrhoea (syphilitic); Eustachian tube obstructed; hardness of hearing from induration and swelling of tonsils; cracking in ears when masticating; beating humming in ears; one’s speech echoes in ears.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Itching and tickling in the course of the Eustachian tube, inducing a desire to swallow; stitches, pressure and shocks in the ear, often violent; hissing and whistling in ear, a whirring and noise like that of a mill.
Opium [Op]
HAEMATORRHOEA, congestion of ears; acuteness of hearing, clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake.
Petroleum [Petr]
Eczema of ears, serous or purulent discharge of foetid odor, abundant desquamation, swollen maxillary glands, feebleness and headache; polypus, wax increased thick or thin; Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing roaring, with hardness of hearing; dryness or disagreeable sensation of dryness in ears.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Otalgia, stitches in ears, and drawing pain in cheeks and teeth, worse only from music; every sound re-echoes loudly in ears; shrill sound in ears on blowing nose.
Phosphorus [Phos]
DRY TYMPANUM; DEAFNESS ESPECIALLY FOR HUMAN VOICE, noises and musical sounds are more easily recognized reverberate in ears; shooting through ears, especially at night; polypi in ears.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Otalgia, shooting pain in ears, worse on right side; irritation of Eustachian tubes; rushing sound in left ear, with sensation as if it were obstructed, while at the same time it is sensitive to the most minute sound; increased sense of hearing; with pains in forehead; shooting pains when swallowing.
Picric-acid [Pic-ac]
Otitis externa circumscripta, furuncle in the ear; burning sensation in external ear; pain behind the right ear running down right side of neck.
Plantago [Plan]
NEURALGIC EARACHE, ASSOCIATED WITH TOOTHACHE; darting, twinging, sharp, stabbing pains in the inferior maxillary branch of trifacial nerve.
Platina [Plat]
Otalgia, with cramp, pain and rumbling in ears; sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to the cheeks and lips.
Psorinum [Psor]
Peevish, unhealthy-looking children, who have a disagreeable odor about them aside from that which comes from the ear; watery stinking diarrhoea; offensive purulent otorrhoea, pustules on and behind concha; herpes from temples over ears to cheeks, throwing off innumerable scales, or causing painful rhagades, with yellow foetid discharge, forming crusts and itching intolerably.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Otitis externa; heat, redness, lancinating pains and sensation as if something were crawling out of the ear; remissions followed by exacerbations of intense pain, noises and buzzing in ears; sensation of a plug in ear and defective hearing; otorrhoea, with redness and pain, pressure through ear, with ear, with free formation of crusts in meatus; otalgia, with darting tearing pain and pulsating at night, with bland, nearly inoffensive, greenish discharge of mucus and pus; better out-doors and during day; scabs on tragus; otorrhoea alternating with difficult hearing; after measles.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
Otalgia, more right ear, with violent twitching pain; sensation in ear as from a worm; buzzing in ears; aggravated when swallowing.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Red herpetic eruption wherever it comes in contact with skin; bloody pus from ears; otalgia, with pulsation in ear at night.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Burning of ears, with redness of the cheeks, earache, with headache; singing in ears, with headache; painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds; nervous vibratory sensation through body, with desire to be held.
Silicea [Sil]
Caries of mastoid cells; offensive, watery curdy otorrhoea, with soreness of inner nose and crusts on upper lip; itching in Eustachian tube and in ears; the child bores into its ears when asleep, causing a discharge of blood and pus; sudden stopped feeling in ears, passing off when yawning or swallowing; ulceration of the tympanum, with itching and sharp stinging pains; the child seems to enjoy having the ears cleansed with the cotton probe; sounds in ears like the ringing of bells; otalgia from within outward; slow painless swelling and suppurating of parotid.
Spigelia [Spig]
Neuralgia of ear, sudden stitch extending to the eye, zygoma, jaw, tooth, throat; pinching, drawing, itching pain in external ear, pressure as from a plug deep in meatus, extending to zygoma and molars; loud noises painful, when speaking the sound of one’s voice resounds like a bell through the brain.
Stramonium [Stram]
Otalgia, left side, violent pains, remitting somewhat at night, better when covering head warmly; sensation of wind rushing out of ear.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Much itching in ears, changing to pain when attempting to scratch them; dirty, offensive, sometimes sour-smelling pus flowing from ears; children averse to having them washed; wabbling as if water were in the ears; acrid, burning, offensive discharge, with excessive burning after syringing ears, (<) left ear.
Taraxacum [Tarax]
Tearing drawing pain in outer ear, sharp pressure behind the ramus of the lower jaws; stitches behind ear, with tearing pains down the side of the neck.
Tellurium [Tell]
OTITIS MEDIA WITH RUPTURE OF TYMPANUM, pouring out pus which at first maybe fair, but afterwards becomes offensive, smelling like fish brine; membrana tympani irregular, thickened in parts, thin in other portions; vesicular eruption on membrane, then suppuration and perforation; whatever discharge touches becomes excoriated and little vesicles appear on excoriated surface; ear bluish-red, as if oedematous; hearing impaired; sensation as if something suddenly closed up the ear, as if air whistled through left Eustachian tube, when snuffing or belching; throat dry and sore,(>) by eating and drinking.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Otitis, combined with enlarged tonsils; granular condition of the naso-pharyngeal cavity; during dentition signs of cerebral and abdominal irritation; otalgia of children old enough to express their sufferings; eczema in front of the ear (Graphites, behind the ear), tending to affect the eyelids.
Theridion [Ther]
Worse from least noise, every sound penetrates her whole body, especially teeth, with vertigo; rushing in both ears, like a waterfall; itching behind ears, she would like to scratch them off.
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.