Asafoetida [Asaf]
Old sores break open and turn black, especially on stump of amputated limb, with neuralgic pains.
Borax [Bor]
Old wounds and ulcers reopen and ulcerate.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Stinging in scars, ichorous suppuration after breaking open.
Causticum [Caust]
Superficial wounds, which have healed, open again, due to anxiety or nervous exhaustion.
Crot. [Crot-h]
Sepsis causes old scars to reopen, with oozing of dark blood.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Old scars becomes red around edges, covered or surrounded by itching vesicles, especially near joints or bones.
Graphites [Graph]
Burning in old scars, especially after mammary abscess or ulcers, removing cicatrical hardness whenever present.
Hypericum [Hyper]
When cicatrices are located in parts rich in sentient nerves as fingers and toes, with much pain; after amputations, when ends of nerves are involved.
Iodium [Iod]
Scars itch, break open or pimples break out on them.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Cicatrical tissue of ulcers remains depressed or deep stinging scars on hand, after palmar abscess.
Lachesis [Lach]
Scars redden, becomes painful, break open and bleed, often surrounded by purple areola or many small pimples.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Scars blood-red, blue and painful.
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.