Pulmonary phthisis



Trillium [Tril]

Incipient stage, with bloody sputa, or in advanced stages, with copious purulent expectoration, hectic fever and troublesome cough.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Consuming diarrhoea of phthisical patients; dry, tickling cough, but nothing loosens; deep, hollow, ringing cough, excited by tickling in lowest branches of bronchi, expectoration of yellow, tough, tenacious mucus of bitter, saltish, sour or putrid taste; constant rattling of mucus, but cannot expectorate; great debility and exhaustion.

Verbascum [Verb]

Hoarseness in reading aloud; benumbing, cutting, stitching pain in left chest; oppressive, benumbing stitch in region of first or second costal cartilage, taking away the breath; painful catarrh of the frontal sinuses with hot, profuse lachrymation; cough deep, hollow, trumpet-like, caused by tickling in larynx and chest, (>) when taking a deep breath.

Yerba-santa [Erio]

Bronchial phthisis; night sweats and emaciation; great intolerance of food; hectic fever; asthmatic breathing from accumulation of mucus.

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.