Pityriasis

Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]

Brownish-red spots, like small, hepatic spots, here and there.

Cantharis [Canth]

Most suitable when the disease appears in children.

Cocculus [Cocc]

Red, irregularly shaped spots on the skin, over the whole chest and on the sides of the neck, behind the ears, WITHOUT HEAT OR ITCHING.

Conium [Con]

Frequently recurring red, somewhat itching, spots on the body.

Graphites [Graph]

Pityriasis capitis.

Lachesis [Lach]

Small reddish spots on face, neck and chest, increase in number, become scurfy and then disappear.

Ledum [Led]

Bluish spots on body like petechiae.

Mezereum [Mez]

Brownish, miliary rash on chest, arms and thighs; phlegmatic temperaments; light hair; (<) at night with itching and burning of skin or rubbing.

Phosphorus [Phos]

Brown, bluish-red, or yellow blotches on abdomen and chest.

Sepia [Sep]

Brown-red hepatic spots on the skin.

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.