Sore throat


Homeopathy treatment for Sore throat from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Sore throat…


Acetic-acid [Acet-ac]

Throat inflamed and ulcerated; a white film low down in fauces; false membrane in throat; difficult swallowing; insatiable thirst and drinks large quantities of water; difficult breathing; hurried breathing; barking cough; hollow sound with each inhalation (Aconite, exhalation); prostration and copious urine; nosebleed; pale, sickly children.

Aconite [Acon]

Violent fever, dry heat, burning thirst; fear and anxious restlessness; dark redness of affected parts; troublesome and painful deglutition; burning, choking, creeping and contraction of throat; painful sensitiveness of throat when talking; croup from dry cold air beginning before midnight, child wakes up and grasps throat; painful sensitiveness of throat when talking; croup from dry cold air beginning before midnight, child wakes up and grasps throat; dry cough with a hoarse bark, croupy sound during exhalation from spasm in larynx.

AEsculus-hip [Aesc]

Throat, fauces, tonsils, vulva and back of pharynx swollen and dusky-red; neck swollen and stiff; constricted sensation with disposition to hawk; VIOLENT BURNING in throat, with a raw feeling; stitching pains in fauces; varices in throat; constant desire to swallow, with sensation of dryness and constriction; throat and tongue feel as if scalded; hawks up great quantities of ropy mucus that tastes sweetish; left side mostly affected; sensation of lump in fauces that burns like fire (Phytolacca); pricking, formication, burning, stinging in fauces (Apis); painful swallowing; haemorrhoidal diathesis; catarrhal irritation of gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.

Ailanthus-gland [Ail]

GANGRENOUS SORE THROAT; throat livid, puffed; tonsils covered with ulcers that run into each other, oozing a foetid scanty discharge; neck swollen and mottled, painful to slightest touch; cannot swallow anything; hawks up greenish matter; throat covered with a dark-brown membrane; haemorrhage of dark blood.

Alumina [Alum]

Clergyman’s sore throat; livid redness and sensation of relaxation of throat; feeling as from a lump, with soreness; dryness and stitches in throat when talking, as if something pointed were sticking in it; swallowing causes crepitation in ears; spasmodic constriction, salivation and impossibility to swallow or to open the mouth; (<) evening and at night, by hot drinks or eating; thick, granular, spongy condition of mucous membrane, with husky voice.

Ambra-gris [Ambr]

ANGINA GRANULOSA; secretion of mucus in throat, with roughness and rawness; accumulation of grayish phlegm in throat, difficult to expectorate; choking and vomiting when hawking up phlegm; sensation of rawness in soft palate; stitches from throat into right ear and pains from motion of tongue; sore feeling in throat during empty deglutition and FROM OUTWARD PRESSURE, NOT WHEN SWALLOWING FOOD, with tension of glands of throat as if swollen.

Ammonium-brom [Am-br]

Throat sore, looks mottled as if a diphtheritic deposit were commencing; fauces dark-red, congestion; PREPARING TO SWALLOW IS PAINFUL, the act is not; fauces and tongue feel scalded; stringy or blood-streaked mucus in the throat; more at night; symptoms (>) at night.

Ammonium-carb [Am-c]

Putrid sore throat; GANGRENE OF THROAT (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Ailanth.); diphtheria with nose stopped up; child starts from sleep, cannot get his breath; burning in pharynx, extending down oesophagus; violent pain in the ulcers in throat; lump in throat; enlarged tonsils, congested, covered with membrane; right tonsil most affected; great prostration and dyspnoea; great sensitiveness to cold, a continued shudder alternates at night with heat.

Ammonium-mur [Am-m]

Sore throat with viscid phlegm so tough that it cannot be hawked up; EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SWELLING OF THROAT, with pressing pain when swallowing and with drawing, stitching pains in the swollen submaxillary glands; frequent hawking with expectoration of small lumps of mucus and sensation of rawness in throat, back of uvula; hoarseness, with burning in larynx, can hardly speak; obstinate cases threatening to pass into a chronic state.

Apis-mell [Apis]

No thirst; wants to be uncovered, and sensitive to clothing about neck; INSIDIOUS CASES COMING ON WITHOUT SUFFERING; throat shining as if varnished, puffy with membrane in patches; throat filled with tenacious mucus; oedema of mucous membrane of throat and uvula; throat swollen inside and outside breathing and swallowing difficult; blisters, in clusters, filled with clear lymph on back part of throat; feeling of rawness and scalding all around margin of tongue; stitching pain between acts of swallowing; inability to swallow from the great swelling in throat; pain in thorax extending to ears; fluids come back through nose; sensation of fish-bone in throat (Argentum nitr., Hepar, Nitr. ac.), rose-colored, rough rash upon skin.

Argentum-nit [Arg-n]

DRYNESS OF THROAT when beginning to speak; dry, burning and scraping sensation in ulcerated sore throat, with feeling as if a splinter had lodged there when swallowing, eructating, stretching or moving throat; constriction of throat with hoarseness; frequent accumulation of thick, tough mucus in throat, producing gagging and hoarseness; uvula and fauces dark-red and tumid; SORE THROAT FOLLOWING SUPPRESSED ULCERS OF UTERUS.

Arnica [Arn]

Whole throat congested; craves large quantities of water, which cause pain in stomach; sore and bruised all over body; stupid, sleepy, curls up in bed and refuses attention, wants to be let alone; hot skin; chilliness, wants to cover up warmly; offensive breath; putrid eructations; stinging in back of throat between the acts of deglutition.

Arsenicum [Ars]

Restlessness, anxiety, prostration; gangrene in throat, burning like hot coals in throat; tonsils swollen, dark-red; vesicles in throat; tongue, throat, oesophagus inflamed; paralysis of pharynx; drinks come out of nose; malignancy (Arsenicum iod.).

Arum-triph [Arum-t]

CLERGYMAN’S SORE THROAT, voice cannot be modulated; rapid swelling of tongue with prickling and burning pains; oedema glottidis; putrid odor from mouth; buccal cavity raw and bleeding, covered with ulcers and diphtheritic deposits; violent burning in throat; constant hawking and profuse secretion from the diseased tissues; swollen or strawberry tongue; refuses food and drink on account of soreness of throat; scanty micturition; increase in the flow of urine shows favorable action of the drug.

Aurum [Aur]

Tonsils red and swollen; painful swelling of submaxillary glands; parotid gland feels sore, as if contused; caries of hard palate; foul breath; voice nasal, husky, as if he had a cold; mercurial or syphilitic history.

Baptisia [Bapt]

Fauces dark red; DARK, PUTRID ULCERS WHICH ARE PAINFUL; burning rawness in throat; salivation, putrid taste in mouth; stupid mental state, low muttering delirium; CAN SWALLOW ONLY LIQUIDS, the least solid food gags; throat sore, feels contracted, even down to stomach; profuse viscid mucus in throat, can neither swallow not hawk it up; much rattling in throat; tongue dry, cracked, bleeding.

Baryta-carb [Bar-c]

Penetrating pains in throat on empty swallowing; pressure and shooting pains on swallowing ailments; obstruction to speech and deglutition; contraction of throat, with labored respiration, after meals; efforts to belch; enlarged and indurated tonsils; offensive breath; on swallowing sensation as if food forces itself over a sore spot and liquids come back through nose; more useful to prevent than to cure the attack of recurring quinsy.

Belladonna [Bell]

Violent fever and burning heat; bright-red, highly inflamed throat, mostly on right side; dryness of mouth and throat, with thirst; mouth feels scalded, and violent burning in throat; shooting pains in throat when swallowing, turning head or breathing; contraction and oppression of throat, impeding deglutition, speech and respiration, enlargement of the cervical glands and stiff neck; must swallow constantly, though very painful; SPASM OF THROAT ON ATTEMPTING TO SWALLOW; dry cough; follicular tonsillitis, tonsils covered with little ulcers.

Benzoic-acid [Benz-ac]

Angina faucium et tonsillaris; swallowing difficult, incomplete, with noise in ears and soreness on back of tongue; sensation of swelling and constriction of throat; (>) by eating; irritable bladder, urine dark and its odor highly intensified.

Borax [Bor]

Tough mucus in throat, difficult to detach; tearing in larynx extending to chest, exciting cough; roughness in throat-pit and drawing stinging pain when coughing or sneezing; aphthae.

Bromium [Brom]

Follicular tonsillitis, lump in throat, elongated uvula; burning from mouth to stomach; tumefaction of mucous membranes of pharynx, (<) left side; stiffness of neck; tonsils swollen, inflamed, constant pain in throat; swallowing difficult, especially of fluids; DIPHTHERIA BEGINNING IN LARYNX AND SPREADING UPWARD, WITH COLDNESS ON INHALATION.

Bryonia [Bry]

Pricking sensation in throat on swallowing and turning head; pressure, swelling and dryness of back of throat, palate and mouth; throat feels dry and raw on empty swallowing, (<) in warm room, (>) for a short time on drinking; painful swallowing as if a hard body were sticking in throat; stitches, soreness and dry feeling in throat, rendering talking difficult; aphthae in throat, mostly on tonsils; membranous formations in throat with exudations in mouth and throat of pus and blood; fever, with or without thirst, or chilliness and feeling of coldness, irritable mood.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.