Cactus [Cact]
Constriction of throat, exciting a constant desire to swallow; constriction of oesophagus, must drink large quantities of water to force the fluid into stomach.
Cahinca [Cahin]
ABUNDANT SALIVATION; swelling of uvula and palate with a grating sensation; constant contraction in throat alternating with drawing; difficult swallowing and hollow, hoarse voice; sneezing; dry cough; difficult breathing at night; swelling and paleness of face.
Caladium [Calad]
Bright redness of dry throat, (>) from warm drinks; sweetish- smelling perspiration; swelling of submaxillary glands; mouth, lips and tongue swollen; no thirst.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Chronic sore throat; patulous induration of soft palate; old ulcers in throat; hardened, enlarged tonsils; aphthous or ulcerated tonsils; smarting in throat when eating, extending into ears; swallowing difficult from lump in throat; (<) when weather changes; constitutional coldness.
Cantharis [Canth]
THROAT FEELS ON FIRE, INFLAMED AND COVERED WITH PLASTIC LYMPH, with bloody expectoration; symptoms come on with great rapidity; gangrene of throat; water drunk returns by the nose; swallowing very difficult, shooting pains on swallowing, especially liquids, from constriction and intense pain at back of throat; dysuria; extreme prostration; (<) afternoon, night, while drinking.
Capsicum [Caps]
STITCHES IN THROAT WHEN NOT SWALLOWING, exciting dry convulsive cough; contraction in the curtain of the palate during deglutition and agonizing pains in ganglions of neck in paroxysms; uvula elongated, feels as if pressing on something hard; tickling in throat with sneezing and sensation of roughness;;burning soreness with ulcers in fauces; whitish spots in throat; dry hacking cough with expectoration of copious mucus from trachea; thirst for cold water, with shuddering when drinking; constant desire to lie down and sleep, with dread of the open air and cold, especially in red-faced, sluggish, homesick girls; SORE THROATS COMPLICATED WITH GASTRIC AND RHEUMATIC AILMENTS, especially of spirit-drinkers and smokers, with morning retching, relaxed uvula, dryness and smarting in throat.
Causticum [Caust]
Soreness, redness and scraping in throat, with burning pains, (<) at night; dryness of fauces; sensation as if throat were too narrow; continual swallowing; hawking of mucus, with pain in throat-pit; food and drink go up the nose; hoarseness, (<) morning and evening; aphonia from paralysis of organs of speech; cough, with involuntary discharge of urine.
Cedron [Cedr]
Enlarged tonsils, with redness of velum palati and constant swallowing; burning fauces, throat and stomach; constriction of throat; difficulty of swallowing; profuse salivation; foetid breath; great thirst.
Cepa [All-c]
Sore throat, with coryza; coryza with bland lachrymation and acrid nasal flow; mucus in pharynx viscid, sweetish and tough; soreness and dryness; lump in throat; COLD SENSATION IN THROAT, cough as if hooks were digging in larynx at every cough; sneezing and coughing.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Catarrhal sore throats, or in complication with gastric and bilious fever; extreme sensitiveness to pain with the characteristic crossness; swelling of parotid or submaxillary glands; tonsillitis, threatening suffocation, with pain extending to right ear, (>) by heat; throbbing, stinging, burning pains in throat; dark redness of affected parts; inability to swallow solids, especially when lying; tickling in larynx; hoarseness, dry cough and difficult respiration.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Red fauces, uvula and tonsils swollen; shooting in tonsils; burning and scraping in throat; dryness in throat; difficult swallowing; tongue red on tip and edges; yellow tongue, bitter taste, craves hot milk.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Dry spot in throat, causing cough; dryness of pharynx and inclination to swallow during the night; soreness of throat when swallowing; sensation of swelling and pressure in tonsils; dryness and burning heat in throat, as if hot air were passing over it; sensitiveness of throat to cold air and cold drinks; contraction in throat on swallowing solid food; UNPLEASANT FULNESS IN THROAT; stiff neck.
Cinnabaris [Cinnb]
Syphilitic ulceration of tonsils and pharynx; constant desire to swallow; pains (<) at night; every cold causes white ulcers in throat.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Sore throat from INHALING THE LEAST COLD AIR, NOT FROM WARM AIR; fauces inflamed and dry; cold feeling on tongue, larynx and trachea; sleepless from dryness of throat; must swallow saliva to relieve the unbearable dryness; (<) after sleeping, (>) after eating or drinking.
Cocculus [Cocc]
Dryness of mouth with sensation of roughness and burning in throat, with salivation; great sensitiveness of neck, pressing pain on tonsils when swallowing, bitter taste, disgust for food; cough (<) at night, threatening suffocation.
Coffea [Coff]
Sore throat, (<) from cold air; swollen, elongated uvula, sensitiveness of affected parts; insomnia; short, dry cough; constant desire to swallow from sensation as of a plug in throat; whining and moaning.
Colchicum [Colch]
Inflammation and redness of palate, fauces and tonsils, with difficult swallowing; greenish, thin mucus in throat, coming involuntarily into the mouth.
Conium [Con]
Dirty-gray exudations; burning in pharynx; violent pains in throat; must swallow constantly; as soon as he closes his eyes he commences to sweat.
Crot. [Crot-h]
Malignant sore throat, which is greatly swollen, with tendency to gangrene; neck swollen; puffy face; violent pain in constricted throat; tongue trembles; prostration; haemorrhages from dissolution of blood; nervous sore throat, pain out of all proportion to visible trouble; fauces dry; great sensitiveness to dry or cold air.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Dull piercing pain in left tonsil, (<) by external tough; constriction when swallowing; spasms of throat; gurgling of drinks when going down oesophagus; frequent desire for warm food drinks.
Dolichos [Dol]
Painful sensation in throat below angle of lower jaw on right side, as if a large splinter were imbedded vertically in that spot, with fulness behind posterior palatine arch., pain (<) on swallowing.
Drosera [Dros]
Dryness and contraction of palate and pharynx; pricking in throat, without deglutition; expectoration of watery saliva; irritation to cough, with darting and pricking pains in larynx, hoarseness, yellow, mucous sputa, difficult breathing; cough (<) on retiring and at night in paroxysms, often followed by vomiting.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Quinsy from every cold change in weather (Baryta carb.).
Elaps-coral [Elaps]
Chronic ulceration of throat; EVERY SPELL OF WET WEATHER CAUSES A RETURN OF THE ULCERS IN THROAT, (>) left side; painful swallowing of solids and liquids; external throat sore to touch; liquids swallowed come out of the nose; discharge from nose like herring- pickle; tonsils and fauces swollen so that nothing can pass; posterior wall of pharynx covered with greenish-yellow membranes, wrinkled and fissured, extending to nose; membrane dry and corrugated; violent thirst and craving for ice, though cold drinks lie like ice in stomach.
Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]
Throat inflamed, red and hot; red face; painful swallowing; acute stage of pharyngitis and laryngitis, with high fever.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Syphilitic ulceration of fauces, uvula and tongue, especially after the abuse of Silicea, throat is extremely sensitive to cold, slightest exposure increases pain and impedes deglutition; soft palate and uvula intensely red and tumefied; foetid breath; voice nasal, articulation indistinct; excessive suffering in swallowing or talking; hawking of phlegm mixed with blood, especially in the morning.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Fauces swollen, dry, burning; unable to swallow or speak; PAIN ON SWALLOWING GOING UP INTO EAR; spasms glottidis; dryness, irritation and soreness of fauces; tonsils swollen, red and burning; scalding coryza; nose stopped up; no thirst; paralytic dysphagia; painful sensation of something having lodged in oesophagus; burning in oesophagus from mouth to stomach; disturbances of vision; heaviness of head and limbs, as if they were paralyzed.
Graphites [Graph]
Chronic sore throat with sensation as of a lump in throat, (>) after empty swallowing; dry cough with much strangling, (<) during inspiration, making the face red and the eyes water; ears dry from lack of natural secretion, with hardness of hearing.
Hamamelis [Ham]
Chronic inflammation of throat, with varicose veins, must drink much water to aid deglutition; dryness and rawness of fauces; right tonsil swollen and varicose; oozing of blood from fauces; (<) in warm moist air; constant thirst for cold water; every inhalation seems to dry up the throat.
Hepar [Hep]
Pricking sensation in throat, as if from PINS OR SPLINTERS STICKING IN THROAT; extending to ears when yawing; smarting, roughness and rawness of fauces, (<) when swallowing solid food; heat and scraping in throat, with constant expectoration of mucus; vomiturition in the morning, with dry and deep cough, (<) in the evening, when it becomes violent and agonizing; pressure in throat as from a plug, with danger of suffocation; great sensitiveness to pain, to atmospheric changes, to cold and the slightest draught, (>) by heat; swelling of tonsils and cervical glands; ulcers in throat cause breath to smell like old cheese.
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.