Aethiops-ant [Aethi-a]
Scrofulous glandular and skin disease, blepharitis, conjunctivitis and keratitis scrofulosa, even with a malignant tendency, boils and furuncles.
Aethusa-cyn [Aeth]
Swelling of cervical and axillary glands, otorrhoea; blepharitis and ophthalmia scrofulosa with pustules or specks on cornea; eczema impetiginodes, chronic inflammation of the edges of eyelids, swelling of Meibomian glands; adhesion of eyelids in the morning, yellow discharge from right ear with stitching pains and sensation as if something hot were streaming from it; herpetic eruptions, itching and burning during heat.
Alnus-rubra [Aln]
Enlargement of submaxillary glands, strumous enlargement of tonsils; obstinate impetigo and porrigo, chronic diarrhoea; scrofulous, disease of hip-joint; diseases of mucous membranes which arise from or alternate with eruptions of the skin.
Arsenicum-iod [Ars-i]
Diseases of mucous membranes characterized by a peculiar and persistently irritating corrosive character of the discharges; constant susceptibility to take cold, excoriated nostrils and lips, swollen and covered with scabs.
Arsenicum-met [Ars-met]
Great emaciation, clay-coloured face, blue margin around the eyes; great weakness of all the limbs; want of disposition to do anything, and constant inclination to rest; lax muscles; swelling of cervical glands; distended abdomen; diarrhoea, scurfy eruptions and ulcers; ophthalmia, carcinoma.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Glands hard, swollen hot and throbbing, with shooting jerking pains, soft enlargement of bones, with curvature; ulcers with high hard edges; sensitive to touch, easily bleeding pus profuse greenish, thin offensive, even ichorous, psoitis when suppuration threatens, osteitis and caries; scrofulous ozaena, hardness of hearing, with thin purulent discharge of offensive odor; scrofulous bloated clumsy children, with phlegmatic temperament.
Asclepias-tub [Asc-t]
Strong tendency to tubercular development; sharp pains in different parts of the body, with muscular soreness, changing from one part to another, impaired strength, rather feeble digestion and assimilation; glandular enlargement about neck, vesicles; pimples and pustules all over the body.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Scrofula ruddy complexion, light-haired, sanguine temperament glands painfully swollen; ozaena, with caries of nasal bones; foetid otorrhoea from caries of mastoid process; caries of cheek- bones; tearing, boring, burning stitches in zygoma, red and swollen tonsils, profound ulcerations in throat, atrophy of testes in pining maudlin boys.
Aurum-mur-natr [Aur-m-n]
SCROFULOUS MALIGNANT OPHTHALMIA, even cancerous; at the same time nose scurfy; destruction of nasal bones, ozaena with ichorous, bloody, foetid discharge, epithelioma, cynanche cellularis; uterine and ovarian enlargement, indurations and chronic suppuration of glands and bones (Aur-ars.)
Badiaga [Bad]
Dandruff or dry, tetterlike appearance of scalp, with slight itching, scrofulous, ophthalmia, with hardening of the Meibomian glands; tonsils red and inflamed, indurated inguinal glands, glandular swellings on left side of face, throat and neck, some hard, some suppurating, small hard lumps along tibia, flesh feels sore as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or friction of clothes.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Physical and mental debility, atrophy great weakness face red and abdomen bloated, glands swollen, indurated, fatty or encysted tumors, coryza, nose and upper lip swollen, scrufs under the nose, chronic induration to tonsils, sensation as of a plug in throat, worse swallowing solids, crawling in rectum, expulsion of ascarides; cannot retain the urine scanty menses; leucorrhoea, chronic cough, with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils, worse after slightest cold, with soreness in chest when coughing, chronic torticollis, pimples ringworm, humid sores; suits the extremes of life, infancy and old age, emaciation.
Baryta-mur [Bar-m]
Painful glandular swellings and indurations of scrofulous
people; affections of lymphatic vessels and glands, increased irritability of nerves, child shuns light, lies constantly on its face, eyeballs much inflamed; otorrhoea after repeated otitis; discharge of an odor like rotten cheese; abdomen much swollen and distended; tinea capitis, with foul discharge.
Belladonna [Bell]
Hard, swollen and ulcerated glands, muscular debility with difficulty of learning to walk, photophobia, inflammation of eyes and eyelids, cough, with mucous rales, otorrhoea, emaciation and atrophy; ulcers, inflammatory swelling of nose and lips, frequent epistaxis; frequent sore throat, with swelling, distended and hard abdomen, enuresis diurna et nocturna, premature development of mind, blue eyes and blonde hair.
Bromium [Brom]
Swelling and induration of the glands, enlargement of thyroid in children with light hair, blue eyes and fair skin, pimples and pustules, boils on the arms and face; hard swelling of left parotid, suppuration of left parotid, edges of opening smooth, discharge watery and excoriating, swelling remaining hard and unielding, tonsillitis; swallowing of fluids more difficult than of solids; hard uneven tumor in right mamma firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, worse at night; stiffness of neck.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Malassimilation; tardy development of Bony Tissue; large head with open fontanelles, curvature of the back and vertebrae or other rachitic affections; herpes, tinea, crusta lactea; hard or suppurating glandular swellings; ulcers, exostosis or caries, hard and enlarged abdomen, with swelling of mesenteric glands, emaciation and voracious appetite; thirst constant, even after drinking, profuse perspiration of head, sweat breaks out easily on palms and soles, thin and wrinkled face, with dim eyes, dry and flaccid skin, difficulty of learning to walk, difficult dentition blepharophthalmia, otorrhoea, red swelling of nose; bronchocele, swelling of upper lip; frequent bleeding of nose; constipation or diarrhoea feet cold and damp craves eggs.
Calcarea-fluorica [Calc-f]
Scrofulous bone disease affections of mastoid process; ozaena from affection of nasal bones; enamel of teeth rough and deficient; indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick yellow pus.
Calcarea-iod [Calc-i]
Tendency to alternate diarrhoea and constipation, no thirst, pustular eruption, sore and painful, with desire to rub and scratch it, though it makes it worse, abdomen enlarged, breath offensive, cold, sticky perspiration, feet cold and damp, restless, fretful and irritable; pus from abscess thin and ichorous, granular inflammation of membrana tympani scrofulous ophthalmia.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Emaciation, dirty-white or brownish complexion; skull soft, thin crepitating when pressed, especially in occiput, craves bacon, salt meat and potatoes, swelling of the epiphyses, difficult teething, slow closing of the fontanelles, curvature of spine to the left; lumbar vertebrae bent forward; abscess near lumbar vertebrae, incipient mesenteric tabes with much foetid diarrhoea or lienteria. Tendency to tuberculosis.
Causticum [Caust]
Scrofulous, children, though generally emaciated and particularly about feet, have a large and tumefied abdomen, are slow in learning to walk and stumble when they attempt to walk, from defective nutrition of the whole nervous system; scrofulous ophthalmia, scabs about tarsi; conjunctivae injected, cornea inflamed, constant feeling as of sand beneath the eyelids; eruption on scalp and behind ears. making skin raw and excoriated, with scanty, sticky discharge; purulent otorrhoea.
Chimaphila [Chim]
Glandular enlargement, especially of lymphatics, enlargement of mesenteric glands, ulcers of an indolent and flabby character; tumors in mammae.
Cina [Cina]
Child feels uneasy and distressed does not want to be touched, is not pleased or satisfied with anything, leans his head sideways all the time rubs nose constantly, pale sickly-looking face; hunger and thirst soon after eating, with sensation in stomach, abdomen hard and distended, itching at anus; ulcers with scanty discharge, inability to retain urine.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Glands swollen inflammed indurated or ulcerated, drawing tearing pains in all joints, itching all over the body, without eruption; herpetic eruption of various parts, chronic scrofulous ophthalmia, feeling as if something pus discharged from ears; tetters on and around ears; swelling of parotids, eczema of nose, caries of lower jaw, with suppurating glands in neck; cool feeling in stomach and abdomen; cool eructations, chronic diarrhoea, swelling and suppuration of glands of throat, scrofulous ulcers on back, desire for acids and acid fruit, but they cause pain and diarrhoea.
Conium [Con]
Adenomata; glands are of a stony hardness, whether mamma testicle or uterus, either no pain or darting stitches, showing beginning of scirrhus, after contusions or bruises when indurations result; humid, burning corroding crusty herpes, blackish ulcers with bloody, foetid, ichorous discharges, marasmus, with frequent sour belching (<) during night, cancer of stomach with vomiting of blood and a belching (<) during night; cancer of stomach with vomiting of blood and a grayish black substance, made up of decomposed blood and broken-down gangrenous tissue; ophthalmia with excessive photophobia; Blennorrhoea bronchialis, asthma.
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.