Agave-amer [Agav-a]
Countenance pale and dejected gums swollen and bleeding; left leg from ankle to groin, covered with dark-purple blotches; leg swollen, painful, of hardness, pulse small and feeble, no appetite, constipation.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Hectic fever, vast haemorrhages from intestines, nose and gums; teeth fall out; muscles soft and flabby, emaciation.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Gums bleed readily; foetid smell from mouth; offensive diarrhoea, excessive debility; stiffness and immobility of knees and feet, with violent, tearing pains, worse about midnight, better from external warmth; great thirst, but small quantities suffice; despondency and restlessness.
Cantharis [Canth]
Pain in gums; coagulated blood, early in morning in bed, eructations and vomiting of sour, frothy mucus, tinged bright-red slimy and bloody stools, bloody urine, uterine haemorrhage, with great irritation in neck of bladder; weakness and trembling.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Swelling, receding and bleeding of gums, readily bleeding ulcers; frequent and easy epistaxis; several times daily for week, face pale before or after attack; haemorrhage from nose and mouth, vomiting of sour bilious or bloody masses, urine (from bladder); menorrhagia passive flow, breath cold, skin cold, with haemoptysis, sepsis, attacks of sudden weakness, like fainting, excessive prostration.
China [Chin]
Inertia, excessive debility; haemorrhage from mouth, nose and intestines, diarrhoea; great desire for sour things, ringing in ears; face pale, fainting humid gangrene, parts turn black; emaciation.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth, easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting, tongue sore; surface as if raw; desire for acid food for acid fruits, but pain and diarrhoea follow after eating them; small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly, across shoulders and on breast.
Hamamelis [Ham]
Epistaxis, flow passive, non coagulable; gums sore, painful,
swollen, easily bleeding, haematemesis, blood, with sensation of trembling in stomach, or fulness and gurgling in abdomen, piles bleeding profusely; metrorrhagia; passive flow, haemoptysis; tired feeling in arms and legs.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Physical prostration; faintish, weak feeling; sensation of goneness in stomach; ulcers on legs.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Scurvy, especially after merc, gums inflamed, bright-red, easily bleeding; foul breath, burning, stinging blisters on tongue and in mouth follicular ulcers; glands enlarged and tender.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
Septic bleeding, strench from mouth and stomach; discharges smelling like carrion; putrid gangrene; prostration.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Scorbutic, spongy, ulcerated gums, bleeding easily; blood dark, quickly coagulating, epistaxis; putrid odor from mouth; cadaverous smelling stools, metrorrhagia, dark and offensive, in large clots with fainting and loss of pulse; putrid, acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea; lassitude, heaviness, tired, sleepiness; disposition sad, irritable.
Mercurius [Merc]
Spongy, bleeding gums, of a sickly appearance, white along upper border and receding from teeth; bluish color of inner cheeks foetid breath; foetid ulcers on legs, which become speedily putrid, spongy bluish, readily bleeding ulcers, sinking with excessive malaise of body and mind, obliging him to lie down.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Scorbutic swelling of gums; long lasting nosebleed taste acrid and putrid, like rotten eggs, with ptyalism, morbid longing for alcoholic drinks, putrid ulcers on glands, on legs, on lower limbs, with sensitiveness and general weakness, and burning (lower legs) at their circumference, blood boils, pricking when touched.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Nosebleed when stooping or coughing; decayed teeth feel loose, burn, sting and pulsate, gums sensitive to warm or cold things, swollen, bleed easily, are putrid, blood-blisters on inside of upper lip bloody saliva; bloody stool; urine dark like coffee; difficulty of talking as if organs of speech were weak; debility and sensation as if limbs were gone to sleep, emaciation, even white living well.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Epistaxis, blood black, clotted, teeth feel elongated and loose; swelling and bleeding of the gums; bloody saliva, ulceration of tongue; liver enormously enlarged, also spleen; profuse brown, offensive discharge between the irregular menses; great weakness and trembling putrid decomposition blood boils carbuncles.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Putrid bleeding, swelling of gums, putrid ulcers in mouth, cadaverous smell from mouth saliva spitting of blackish, coagulated blood, and blowing blood from nose, ecchymosis and boils, pains in limbs, great weariness and languor.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Gums bleed easily and stand off from teeth; small wounds bleed much; ecchymosis; haemorrhages from internal organs; fungus haematodes; frequent fainting, pale and cold.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Bleeding, swollen gums, teeth yellow and feel dull, nosebleed, diarrhoea from acids, trembling and faintishness, with desire to lie down; external parts turn black; haemorrhages; blood dark; emaciation.
Sepia [Sep]
Swelling of gums, dark-red, apinful bleeding from the slightest touch, early decay of teeth, which fall out; offensive breath; bad effects from loss of fluids.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Black, crumbling, carious teeth; gums white, swollen, ulcerating, spongy, bleeding when touched, scorbutic ulcers; after abuse of mercury.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Swelling of gums, with throbbing pain in them, bleeding gums; foetid breath; foul taste; violent thirst for beer; longing for brandy aversion to meat; ecchymosis from slight bruises; ulcers which bleed easily and discharge foetid pus; constant sleeplessness.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Nosebleed, oozing of dark, thin blood, aphthous mouth and gums, yellowish and painful, desire for fresh fruit, for brandy, spleen enlarged, hard and painful diarrhoea with great debility great exhaustion; Haemorrhages of black blood from all outlets of the body.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Scorbutic affections, with haematuria, earthy color of face, sunken features, exhaustion and debility.
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.