Ruta [Ruta]
RHEUMATISM OF RIGHT WRIST AND BOTH FEET; instep puffy; bruised feeling all over as from a blow, (<) in damp, cold weather, (>) from dry heat; sour sweat; stitches in small of back when sitting, stooping or walking, (>) by pressure and when lying down; pain in bones of feet, cannot step heavily on them (<) during rest and damp weather.
Salicylic-acid [Sal-ac]
Suits best strong, robust persons of sanguineous temperament; ACUTE, INFLAMMATORY ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM attacking one or more joints, especially elbow or knee, with great swelling and redness; high fever and excessive sensitiveness to the least touch or jar, MOTION IMPOSSIBLE.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
ACUTE MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM, pains erratic, sharp, stitching, with great soreness and stiffness of the muscles, especially those of back and neck; rheumatism affecting the right deltoid muscle (like Ferrum; Nux-m., left deltoid); pains intense, (<) in places least covered with flesh, but not in joints, ON TOUCHING PAINFUL PART PAIN VANISHES AND APPEARS IN SOME OTHER PART; lumbago from lifting or myalgia of great muscles of back, pains shift about, (<) when drawing long breath; rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder, (<) at night, on turning in bed, cannot raise arm; aching in ball of right thumb, which is swollen, extending around wrist and back of hand; METASTASIS OF HEART (Kalm.), PAINFUL STITCHES OR PRESSING PAIN IN CARDIAC REGION; irregularity of heart’s action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility; languid circulation, limbs cold, sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Sarsaparilla [Sars]
Rheumatic bone pains after mercury of checked gonorrhoea; (<) at night, in damp weather or after taking cold in water; thinking about his pains causes them to return or grow worse; stitches in back from least motion; stitches in upper and lower limbs, (<) on motion; hands and feet exceedingly weary.
Sepia [Sep]
Pressing, tearing pains from hip downward, with extremely cold feet and with cold, offensive perspiration, so excoriating as to produce rawness between toes; wandering rheumatism, (>) in warmth of bed and by motion; stiffness in back, (>) by walking; coldness between shoulders as from a cold hand; feels as if she could feel every muscle and fibre of her right side from shoulder to feet; arthritic pains in stiff joints; ankles weak and turning easily when walking.
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.