Paralysis



speech; muscles will not obey the will; frequent twitching, sudden jerks through the body; caused by mental emotions, from sexual excesses, lead poison.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Arsenical tremors; PALSIES RESTING ON A MATERIAL BASIS, as repercussion of eruptions or following cases of diphtheria, typhoid, etc.; paralysis from cold; palsy of lower extremities, with total retention of urine and numbness extending up to navel; urine, when drawn by the catheter, is turbid and highly offensive; general weakness of spine, which is tender to pressure, so that he walks stooping, chest feels empty and weak, it tires him to talk; goneness in epigastrium in forenoon; tearing in limbs, muscles and joints.

Tarentula [Tarent]

Paralysis; general formication, beginning with a strong pain in occiput, followed by numbness of trunk and limbs and complete loss of motory power.

Terebinthina [Ter]

Paralysis of right arm and left leg; affection of kidneys, (<) from living in damp places; sequels of uraemic poisoning.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Paralysis from cholera, after debilitating losses; painful paralytic weakness in upper and lower extremities, difficult walking, first right, then left hip-joint feels paralytic; tingling fingers, causing anxiety and painful jerks in limbs; arm trembles when anything is grasped; bruised and painful jerks in limbs; arm trembles when anything is grasped; bruised feeling in arms; hands and feet icy cold, blue.

Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]

Cerebral hyperaemia, causing paralysis and tingling in limbs; paralysis of lower limbs; coldness, blueness and dampness of hands, feet and limbs, with cramps of extremities.

Zincum [Zinc]

Paralysis from softening of brain, following suppressed foot- sweat, with vertigo, of brain, following suppressed foot-sweat, with vertigo, trembling, numbness and formication, (>) by friction, (<) by wine; ptosis; amblyopia accompanied by severe headache, contracted pupils; great weakness of all limbs, especially in lumbar region and bends of knees, when walking in open air; weakness, numbness and tremor of hands when writing.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.