Cubeba [Cub]
Inflammation and swelling of ovaries, with pulsating and lancinating pains, extending into the loins and groins; drawing pains in ovaries, as if something were pulling them down; lancinations and pulsations in ovaries and uterus with heat and dryness in throat and twitchings in the breast.
Eupion [Eupi]
Burning pain in left ovary, from overexertion; mental anguish from disappointed hope.
Ferrum-iod [Ferr-i]
COLDNESS IN LEFT OVARY and bladder after micturition, coldness extending down limbs, with bearing down from back, especially during menses.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Ovarian tumor, right side, with continuous grinding, worrying pain and sense of weight; INCREASED NECESSITY TO WALK ABOUT, to exercise the muscles, without fatigue, regardless of heat in summer or cold in winter; too frequent catamenia.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Ovarian irritation, with pain in forehead, vertex, enlarged feeling of head, blurred vision; spasmodic neuralgic pains with faintness and cramps in legs.
Gossypium [Goss]
Stinging, burning pain in left ovary, with swelling; prolapsus uteri and headache over eyes; ovarian pains down left limb before, during and after menses; CANNOT LIE ON BACK, it feels as if broken, has to lie mostly on stomach.
Graphites [Graph]
The left indurated ovary swells up and becomes very hard; violent pains on touch, on inspiration, or hawking, when the most violent stitches shoot in it, with profuse general sweat and continued loss of sleep; tumor in right and left iliac fossa, hard, round slightly movable, or the size of an orange, not painful to pressure; swelling and hardness of ovaries after menses; inflammation worse from cold or from getting feet wet; tearing, grinding, twisting pains in the right ovary, as if it would burst, followed by discharge of bloody pus, before or during menses; morning sickness during menses; constipation; blotches on skin; menses scanty or amenorrhoea; great aversion to coitus; women inclined to obesity; constipation, stools hard and knotty.
Guaiacum [Guai]
Chronic ovaritis, especially in rheumatic women; ovaries painful to pressure; dysmenorrhoea; atony of uterine organs.
Hamamelis [Ham]
Congestion, inflammation and neuralgia of ovaries, with cutting, tearing pain in swollen and tender ovary, (<) at menses, with retention of urine; after a blow, ovary swollen, diffuse, agonizing soreness over whole abdomen; menses irregular, painful; ovaritis following miscarriage, subacute ovaritis, incident to menstruation and pregnancy; vicarious menstruation from ovarian irritation; gonorrhoea ovaritis; pain commences in right ovary and passes down broad ligaments to uterus.
Helonias [Helon]
Soreness and severe pains in ovaries and uterus, frequently with fluor albus or metrorrhagia; soreness and heaviness in hypogastrium; atony of sexual organs and loss of all sexual desire with or without sterility.
Hepar [Hep]
Frequent crawls in ovaries, with tendency to suppurate, also in ovarian tumors.
Iodum [Iod]
Chronic congestion, usually with leucorrhoea; ovarian cysts and dropsy, with great bearing-down pain, induration and enlargement (Lachesis); induration and swelling, with tendency to cancerous degeneration; pain commencing in right ovary, passing down the broad ligaments to uterus (Hamamelis); pressing, dull, wedgelike pain from right ovary to uterus and through sexual organs (with or without menses); pain in ovaries and back during menses; great sensitiveness of right ovarian region during or after menses; atrophy with sterility (Conium); yellow corrosive leucorrhoea; sallow, tawny like.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Neuralgia of ovaries; pain, swelling, tenderness of left ovary; diminution of sexual desire; ovarian tumors.
Kali-carbonicum [Kali-c]
Both groins are painful and bloated. Stitching pains about the uterus and ovarian region.
Kali-iodatum [Kali-i]
Severe burning, tearing and twitching pains in the ovarian region, especially right side. Sensation of congestion and swelling of the ovaries, with pain as from a corrosive tumor there. Affections connected with syphilis.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Ovaralgia in hysterical nervous women, who are lachrymose, sensitive and irritable.
Lachesis [Lach]
Induration and enlargement (Iodium), worse from moral emotions or great exertions (right). Pains, boring or burning, increased more and more, until RELIEVED BY A DISCHARGE OF BLOOD FROM THE VAGINA. Shooting pains extending from the left to the right ovarian region (Lilium). Shooting pains extending from the left to the right ovarian region (Lilium). Neuralgic pains (left) with tenderness to pressure of the clothing. Stitching, pressing, tensive pain with swelling of the left ovary. Suppuration, after pus has been formed, it will promote its discharge. Pain in the right ovary extending towards the uterus. Pain in the right ovarian region of long standing, extending to the genital organs, or upward to the liver and chest; ovarian tumors, even when suppuration has taken place (after Mercurius or Hepar) when adynamia prevails.
Lac-caninum [Lac-c]
Heat in the ovarian and uterine region (with menses). Inflammatory and congestive condition of the ovaries before menses, especially of the right ovary, with extreme soreness and sensitiveness, which makes every motion and position, even breath, painful; WANTS TO LIE WITH HER KNEES TO HER CHIN; burning in hand and feet, which she tries to cool; pains come and leave quickly.
Lilium [Lil-t]
Stinging, darting, cutting, sometimes grasping and especially bearing-down pains in left ovary, with sensation of swelling and tenderness to firm pressure, slightly relieved by moderate pressure and gentle rubbing, worse evenings and at night; burning from groin to groin with morning stool; cutting; stinging pain in left mamma, or a feeling of constriction and heaviness breast, extending to base of scapula, worse by lying on left side; BEARING-DOWN IN UTERINE REGION, worse walking, better holding up the abdomen with hands; tenderness over ovary; early morning diarrhoea; stinging burning from ovary up to abdomen; shooting across the pubes from left ovary, with voluptuous itching in vagina, feeling of fulness in the parts, smarting of urine; offensive leucorrhoea; great weakness during menses.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Burning, stitching pains in ovaries; relieved by urinating; sharp, shooting pain, extending from right to left ovarian region (Lachesis and Lilium tigrinum, the opposite); borborygmi, particularly in left hypochondrium; pain in back before urinating, with relief when urine flows; dropsy.
Mercurius [Merc]
Feeling of rawness in left ovarian region; shooting pains from ovaries to hips; stitching pain in left ovary; suppuration; affections from syphilis or gonorrhoea; STINGING, TEARING PAINS, WITH GENERAL SWEAT, (<) AT NIGHT, AND CHILLINESS AS SOON AS SHE UNCOVERS.
Naja-tripudians [Naja]
Obscure ovarian pains; violent cramping pains in region of left ovary; SENSATION AS IF HEART AND OVARY WERE DRAWN TOGETHER; pain simultaneously in heart and left ovary; pains sharp and cutting about a week before menses, growing worse until flow begins, then easier until next month.
Onosmodium-virg [Onos]
Pains begin in one ovary and then pass over to the other, leaving a soreness till pains return, (<) by pressure; itching of vulva, (<) by scratching and contact; nervous trembling with desire to more around, but (>) by lying down and sleeping.
Palladium [Pall]
Induration and swelling of the right ovary, with soreness and shooting pains from the navel to the pelvis. Heaviness and weight in the pelvis, worse from exertion or while standing, better when lying on the left side; drawing down and forward in the right ovary, relieved by rubbing; swelling and tenderness to touch of the right ovary, with bearing-down pain; pain in the right ovary, aggravated from mental agitation, from being in society, from music, conversation or motion; great urgency to urinate, with scanty emission; sallow complexion, blue half-circles under eyes; eructations which do not relieve; acrid eructations, with spasmodic pains in chest, back and abdomen; derangement of stomach; heavy weight in pelvis, relieved by lying on left side, (<) on standing and on motion; egotism, cares much for the good opinion of others and thus feels easily offended;; sharp, knifelike pains in uterus, (>) after stool.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Pain in left ovarian region down the inner side of thigh; pain in ovaries, abdomen and back, during menses; sterility from excessive voluptuousness; leucorrhoea with chlorosis.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Ovarian disease with rheumatic affections; painful menses in barren women; ovaritis with amenorrhoea.
Platina [Plat]
Sexual passion altogether too strong (Murex); pinching, pressing down in the overlain region or groins, or in the pudenda, or alternating between the two; paroxysmal burning pains in ovary, attended with stitches in forehead and excessive sexual excitements; suppuration after pus has been discharged under the influence of Lachesis, pains burning, with violent bearing down; menses profuse and dark.
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.