Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
Rheumatic pain in the shoulders (at night), with tingling down to the fingers, preventing the least movement of the arm; rheumatic pain in the limbs; always worse after long walks, worse in cold weather, better in warm air, but worse from warmth of bed.
Manganum [Mang]
Rheumatism shifts from joint to joint, generally crosswise; red
shining swellings; worse from touch or motion and at night; drawing as from shortening of tendons; stiffness of nape of neck; rheumatic pains extending from shoulder to fingers; rheumatism in feet, cannot bear weight on heel; every part of body feels extremely sore when touched, and painful spots dark, almost bluish, (<) in hot foggy weather.
Marum-verum [Teucr]
Painful rheumatism in bones and joints, (<) evenings, (>) mornings, limbs go to sleep, with tingling, when sitting.
Menyanthes [Meny]
Painful spasmodic jerking of lower extremities, from hip down; stitching pains in gouty persons, with calcareous deposits in joints.
Mercurius [Merc]
Rheumatic and arthritic pains, tearing, stinging; (<) at night in warm bed, with profuse sweat, which gives no relief; oedema of affected parts, especially of feet and ankles; joints swollen, pale and slightly red; (<) in fall with warm days and damp, cold nights, especially in cases of syphilitic origin or complication affecting the joints, bones and periosteum.
Mercurius-biniod [Merc-i-r]
Rheumatic pains, now here, now there, MOSTLY MUSCULAR, alternately in arms and hands, legs and feet; violent pain, like otalgia, in left ear; rheumatic pains in shoulder-joints; soreness and stiffness in arms, (<) by motion; insupportable pain and aching in legs towards evening, (>) on moving; violent tearing in soles; feet swollen, sore to touch, (<) around ankles; PAINS ONLY DURING REST AT NIGHT IN BED OR LYING DOWN IN DAYTIME, NEVER DURING ACTIVE MOTION.
Mezereum [Mez]
Rheumatic pains like sciatica, with jerking of right leg; pains begin in the evening, last all night and pass off at daybreak (Syphilinum); rheumatic pains in scapular muscles, which feel tense and swollen, preventing motion; pain in shoulder-joint, as if it would be torn asunder; pain in periosteum of long bones, chiefly tibiae, (<) at night in bed and damp weather, least touch unbearable; joints feel bruised and weary as if they would give way; emaciation of diseased parts; (<) in winter.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Chronic articular rheumatism, based on some dyscrasia (malaria); symptoms (<) forenoon; intermittent, irregular heart’s action and pulse; COPIOUS SWEAT WITH GREAT RELIEF; pains fixed (Sepia, wandering and no thirst); sleeplessness; peevishness (>) towards evening; paralytic-like weakness of legs; tingling in limbs especially on tips of fingers and toes, emaciation even while living well.
Natrum-phos [Nat-p]
Acute articular rheumatism, especially of joints of fingers, pains suddenly go to the heart; weak feeling in back and limbs, legs give way while walking; crick in neck, trembling and palpitation; moist, creamy or golden-yellow coating at back of tongue and roof of mouth; sour-smelling, profuse sweat.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Acute and chronic podagra; burning in soles and extends to knees; bruised pain in small of back and sacrum; soreness up and down spine and neck; no relief in any position; gastric symptoms and excessive irritability.
Nitrum [Kali-n]
Rheumatism, with stitching pains at night; rheumatism of shoulder, worse at night; hand and fingers feel as if swollen; RHEUMATIC PARALYSIS; numbness and tingling disappear and articular pains set in.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]
Muscular rheumatism, from protracted exposure to cold and damp; fugitive drawing pains, worse in repose, from cold, damp air and cold and wet clothes, better from warmth; RHEUMATISM OF LEFT SHOULDER AND RIGHT HIP.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
RHEUMATISM OF LARGE MUSCLES OF TRUNK, CHEST AND BACK, and of the large joints; pale, tensive swellings, numbness or twitching, worse from least jar or from cold; oversensitiveness to pain; heat mixed with chilliness, especially when moving; perspiration relieves; aversion to open air and great sensitiveness to cold; gastric symptoms; constipation; lumbago, unable to turn over in bed without first sitting up.
Palladium [Pall]
Rheumatic pains in right lower limb; wandering or darting pains from the toes to the hips, or from trochanter to the hollow of the knee.
Petroleum [Petr]
Stiff neck; great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx, especially evening; rheumatic stiffness of joints, with cracking when moved; limbs go to sleep and become stiff; (<) before or during a thunderstorm; stiffness of knees with sharp sticking pains; roughness of muscular fibres.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Rheumatic stiffness with morning aggravation, especially when coming on in old age; back pains as if broken, impeding all motion; stiffness of knees down to feet; feet icy-cold.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Rheumatic affections of the shoulders and arms, especially in syphilitic patients; the pains fly from one part like electric shocks to another part, worse at night and in damp weather; PAINS IN MIDDLE OF LONG BONES, or attachment of muscles; pains down from hip to knee; heavy dragging; all worse on outer part of thighs; nightly pains in periosteum of tibia; severe pains through ankles and feet and on dorsa of feet; soles burn; feet puffed; enlargement of the glands of the neck and axilla.
Platina [Plat]
Incipient stage of endo- and pericarditis rheumatica, with immense anxiety and great palpitation of heart; numbness of upper portion of head; weakness in nape of neck, head sinks forward; pain in back and sacrum as if broken; tightness of thighs as if too tightly wrapped; pain in great toe as if too tightly bandaged; pain in ankle as if sprained.
Plumbum [Plb]
An acute fascicular myelitis of the anterior cornea may simulate all the symptoms of articular rheumatism; tension in neck when moving head; pain in neck, walls of chest, back and loins; oedematous swelling of extremities; stiffness and painfulness of limbs; numbness of arms and legs; violent pains in extremities, beginning in joints and extending to limbs, (<) by motion and pressure, in evening and at night; total want of sweat; sensation of constriction and spasm in internal organs.
Propylamin [Prop]
COPIOUS DIARRHOEA WITH RHEUMATIC PAINS in ankle-joints; needle held in finger gets so heavy she cannot sew; thirst for large quantities of water.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS PROMINENT; rheumatism caused by getting wet, especially the feet, from protected wet weather; drawing, tearing pains, often SHIFTING FROM ONE PART TO ANOTHER, or attacking only one side, with redness and swelling and extreme sensitiveness to jars, touch or pressure; pain in small of back as if sprained; arm is painful, even while at rest, as if humerus were beaten in middle; hip-joint painful, as if dislocated; bruised, beaten feeling in lower extremities; feels he must move about, though it does not relieve the pain, (<) at night, in bed, in the evening, when rising after sitting long, when lying on painless side; (>) from slow motion, in open air, while lying on painful side; pale face and chilliness increasing with the pains.
Ranunculus-bulb [Ran-b]
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM, particularly in muscles about trunk, with much soreness to touch; muscles have a bruised feeling as if they had been pounded; INTERCOSTAL NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM; stitches about chest with every change of weather; pain across chest and in region of diaphragm, extending to back; pain along inner side of left scapula, often extending below its inferior angle or through the lower half of left side of thorax; spasmodic rheumatic pains in arms; drawing pains in thighs, extending downward, especially in women of sedentary habit; all pains, even headache, (<) in damp weather, particularly from a change of weather or change of temperature.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM AFFECTING THE SMALLER JOINTS; podagra, when there is a fibrous deposit in the great toe-joint; great susceptibility to changes in the weather, particularly to changes in cold winter weather and to electric changes in the atmosphere, especially during hot season; (<) at night towards morning, before rain, at rest (>) by motion; pains move from above downward, even to fingers and toes; acts best on right side.
Rhus-rad [Rhus-r]
Drawing tearing pains in legs, rheumatic pains in back of head; pleurodynia or false pleurisy when pains go to shoulders; pain following the course of the ulnar nerve.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Attacks the fibrous tissues, the sheaths of muscles (Bryonia, the muscular tissue); rheumatism after exposure to wet, especially when one is overheated and perspiring, (<) during damp weather and from dwelling in damp places; rheumatic diathesis with numbness and tingling in limbs; joints weak, stiff or red, shining oedematous swelling of joints, with stitching pains when touched; COLD FRESH AIR INTOLERABLE, IT SEEMS TO MAKE THE SKIN PAINFUL and attacks periosteum wherever there are prominent projections of bones, as in cheek-bones; limbs feel stiff on rising from a sitting position, but improve by continued motion; sweat copious and does not relieve; (<) during rest in bed, mornings when beginning to move, (>) by warm applications and continued motion; LUMBAGO, whether pains are better from motion or not, having a SPECIAL AFFINITY FOR THE DEEP MUSCLES OF THE BACK; restlessness; adynamia.
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.