Corydalis-form [Cory]
Scrofulous cutaneous disease, accompanied by feeble digestion and poverty of blood, scrofulo-syphilitic diseases.
Cornus-circin [Corn]
Scrofulous ophthalmia, herpes of eyelids; ulcerations of tongue, gums and mouth, chronic diarrhoea.
Graphites [Graph]
Swelling and induration of glands, eczema capitis of entire scalp, forming massive dirty crusts, which mat the hair together; eczema beginning as a moisture behind left ear, and spreading over cheeks and neck, thick, yellowish, foetid discharge from nose; dry scabs in nose with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils, painful nodules on lower jaw; chronic catarrhs of stomach and bowels; glandular swelling in groins; fissures and rhagades, turbid urine, menses scanty, pale, late; unpainful swollen glands on nape of neck.
Hecla-lava [Hecla]
Scrofulous ostitis or periostitis, resting on a syphilitic basis and especially affecting the bones of face and of antrum highmori; difficult dentition; rachitis; hip disease; white swelling; disease of alveolar process; induration and infiltration of cervical glands, studding the neck like a row of pearls; toothache from swelling about the jaws; abscess of gums from decayed teeth; difficult dentition in scrofulous or rachitic children.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Glands inflame, swell and suppurate, pus has odor of rotten cheese; hard burning nodosities, unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate, stinging burning of edges of ulcers, discharging bloody pus, humid eruption of foetid odor, feeling sore, itching violently, nodosities on head relieved by covering the head warmly and from sweat; discharge of foetid pus from ears; boils on face, lips and chin, cancerous ulcers; disposition to phlegmonous sore throat, catarrh, or bronchitis, atrophy, extremely sensitive to all impressions, any pain may cause faintness, sweating all night or only about head; sour, pungent sweat.
Hydrastis-can [Hydr]
Chronic catarrhs of mucous membranes whereever situated, constipation from weakened and congestive state of the lower bowel; cancerous cachexia, cancers hard, adherent; skin mottled, puckered, with lancinating cutting pains atony of muscles.
Iodum [Iod]
Torpid and sluggish painless induration of glands which are large and hard; atrophy of glands, mammae waste away and testicles dwindle; emaciation rapid despite ravenous appetite, children want to eat every few hours feel better while eating in open air and (<) from confinement in warm room, TABES MESENTERICA with excessive mental irritability with a whitish diarrhoea from affection of pancreas; rachitis, inflammation of eyes and eyelids, otitis and otorrhoea; frequent catarrhs.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Scrofulous ulcers and skin disease; discharge from mucous membranes tough, stringy, sticking to the parts, caries of the bones of the nose, strumous ophthalmia, pustular disease of the skin, secreting a watery fluid when broken or drying up into a yellow, tough mass, fat chubby children; fat, light-haired persons.
Kali-hydr [Kali-i]
It distends all tissues by interstinal infiltration enlarged glands ophi, exostosis, swelling of bones necrosis all worse at night bronchial and submaxillary glands swollen, ulcerating, atrophied, goitre papules on face, shouldres, back, small boils on face, head neck back and chest, leaving scars, pustules on cornea, without photophobia, redness or pain.
Lapis-albus [Lap-a]
(Silico-fluoride of Calcium) Scrofulous affections, abscesss and sores, enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical glandular tumors, where physiologically no glands are usually found, goitre; cretinism.
Lithium-carb [Lith-c]
Skin rough as a grater, harsh, dry, Dry itching ring-worm, milk- crust, whole body, bones joints muscles sore as if beaten, scrofulous ulcers about joints, discharging offensive pus, diarrhoea.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Swelling and suppuration of glands; disposition to catarrhs, inflammation, curative and other affections of bones, herpes and ulcers; humid suppurating eruptions, full of deep rhagades, breeding lice, itching violently, intrigo, raw places readily bleeding boils which do not mature, but remain blue, scabs on hairy scalp; ophthalmia, otitis, purulent ichorous, otorrhoea, scrurf in nose chronic enlargement of tonsils; flatulency; constipation, softening of bones, emaciation and debility; upper parts wasted lower limbs swollen.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Enlarged liver of children who are puny in growth and rachitic, herpetic eruptions, tinea ciliaris, hair falls out, pimples on face, acrid ozaena with swelling, redness and scaliness of nose, palpitation of heart, (<) when quiet, (>) moving about sweaty feet.
Mercurius [Merc]
Scrofulous in children with unusually large heads and open fontanelles particularly anterior ones, child is slow in learning to walk, teeth form imperfectly and slowly, and a damp, clammy feeling about him, offensive, oily perspiration on head, enlarged glands, with or without suppuration, cachexia and emaciation, exostosis, curvature, caries and other affections of bones, eruptions and corrosive herpes with crusts, tinea capitis, crusts in the face, ophthalmia, otitis, otorrhoea, coryza, slimy diarrhoea suppuration, especially if too profuse grayish ulcers on mouth and fauces ulceration of tonsils, false membranes grayish. thick, with shredlike borders, adherent or free, but of marked consistence.
Mezereum [Mezereum]
Herpetic dyscrasia favus, ptyriasis, tinea capitis, excoriations in throat and nose joints feel bruised weary, as if they would give way, engorged glands, abscesses of fibrous parts or of tendons bones inflamed swollen, especially shafts of cylindrical bones, which may feel distended.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Swelling and induration of glands, emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils, dark urine; skin dry, rough and chapped, suppurating herpes, with yellow rings, goitre, swollen, cervical glands, humid herpetic eruption and ulcers on nose, lips and around mouth, burning fissured on lower lip.
Natrum-phos [Nat-p]
ACID CHILDREN; scrofulous ophthalmia granular conjunctivitis with granulations looking like small blisters, picking at nose associated with acidity and worms, blotched face, moist creamy or golden yellow coating at back part of tongue, grinding of teeth during sleep, colic with vomiting of curdled milk and green, sour smelling stools, phthisis florida in young people, nervous tired, feeling, goneness in pit of stomach crusta lactea, secretions yellow, like honey, and cause soreness of skin, itching all over body, like insect-bites.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Torpid scrofulosis (follows well after calc) Phlyctaenae of cornea, ulcers threaten to perforate and destroy cornea, purulent otorrhoea, herpetic eruptions, caries of skull-bones in children, chronic diarrhoea etc, scrofulosis from hereditary syphilis.
Oleum-jec-as [Ol-j]
Only indicated in patients of a slender and lean figure thin, transparent skin, with a frequent pulse, great excitability of the nervous system, and high specific gravity of the urine – All signs of an accelerated metamorphosis.
Petroleum [Petr]
Swelling and induration of glands; increased secretion of the mucous membranes; unhealthy skin, small wounds ulcerate and spread; chronic excoriating eczema (<) on occiput, polypi; salt rheum on arms and hands red, raw, burning moist or covered with crusts, herpes on knees and ankles.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Tinea capitis, worse washing it when he is warm, granular lids, obstruction of Eustachian tubes, acrid, excoriating discharge
from nostrils, excoriating lip, swollen tonsils, indurated glands and bones inflamed and swollen.
Psorinum [Psor]
Pale, sickly, delicate children, whose bodies always have a filthy smell even after a bath, deeply penetrating, ichorous ulcers, skin dirty, greasy looking, with yellow blotches here and there at times itching scratching gives temporary relief, hair dry, lustreless, tangles, easily, pustules and boils on heads, scalp looks dirty and emits an offensive odor, wants to have the head covered even in hot weather; blepharitis and photophobia purulent, offensive otorrhoea, eczema behind ears; submaxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch, distended abdomen, chronic diarrhoea, involuntary micturition.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Swelling of glands, herpes in the face and other eruptions discharging pus or forming crusts; emaciation; hard and distended abdomen, frequent catarrhs, ophthalmia, otorrhoea, diarrhoea.
Saccharum-offic [Sac-alb]
(Cane sugar) CHILD DAINTY AND CAPRICIOUS, cares nothing for substantial food, but wants always sweets or nicknacks, cross and whining, indolent everything seems too much for him; large-limbed fat and bloated children, with tendency to dropsy; scrofulous ophthalmia with opacity of cornea.
Silicea [Sil]
(Silico-sulpho-calcite of Alumina needs a proving) – DECIDED WANT OF VITAL HEAT EVEN WHEN TAKING EXERCISE, imperfect nutrition, not from want of food, but from imperfect assimilation, canine hunger in nervous, irritable people, desires only cold things, swelling and induration of parotid and cervical glands, difficult dentition; offensive smelling sweat of feet and head; headache (>) by wrapping head up warmly (Magn-mur) rachitis, ozaena, swelling and soreness in old cicatrical tissues about neck and throat; curvature of bones; caries of vertebral column with lateral curvature; disposition of skin to ulcerate; tendency to boils, which leave indurations; carbuncles; malignant pustule; eczema, impetigo, herpes; blepharitis, otorrhoea, face pale and bloated, abdomen large and hard diarrhoea with thin, offensive stools, containing, partially digested food, (Calc-fluor, follows well after sil).
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.