AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Sensation as if tongue were too long and pressing against teeth; profuse salivation or dryness of mouth; taste bitter; diarrhoea or constipation; infant vomits the milk or substance resembling milk; aphthae are applied; child cries as if from colic; undigested food in stools.
Alumen [Alumn]
Gums swollen and inflamed, spongy, covered with a dirty, gray coating; teeth surrounded by proud flesh; spreading ulcers in mouth; profuse, offensive ptyalism, mercurial or otherwise.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Buccal cavity filled with vesicles and ulcerated depressions; tongue swollen stiff; burning on tongue; tonsils large, bluish; nose stopped up, arousing the child at night; great prostration; hollow cough; sensitive to cold air and drinks.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Rosy-red mouth and fauces; mucous surface swollen; tongue swollen and studded with small blisters, also in clusters on tongue and also its border; mouth and margin of tongue feel scalded; slight thirst.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Malignant ulceration in mouth; edges of tongue, ulcerated; aphthae with violent burning pains; ulcers and blisters turn livid and black; swollen and readily-bleeding gums; looseness of teeth; ptyalism; restlessness and great exhaustion.
Arum-triph [Arum-t]
Great swelling of lining membrane and tongue, will not or cannot open mouth; mouth raw, burning, bleeding; putrid odor; lips as if scalded; lips and nose chapped and bleeding, picks nose and lips; burning-biting sensation in mouth and throat; mercurial or idiopathic salivation; acute stomatitis.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Soreness of teeth and gums, which ooze blood and look dark- purplish; thick and swollen tongue, yellow or brown down centre, with red, shining edges; numb, pricking sensation of tongue, foul breath and bad taste in mouth; sore, ulcerated mouth; CHRONIC MERCURIAL sore mouth; gums loose, flabby, dark-purplish, and intolerable foetor; STOMATITIS MATERNA; CANCRUM ORIS, with profuse salivation, breath foul, offensive stools, feeble state and great prostration; patient can only swallow fluids, even a small lump of thickened milk will cause gagging; chronic ulcers in mouth, extending down alimentary canal, with profuse, watery, foul stools, sore mouth of babies and APHTHAE OR PERSONS IN LAST STAGE OF CONSUMPTION.
Benzoic-acid [Benz-ac]
Extensive ulceration of tongue and inside of cheeks; heat around mouth; tongue is spongy on surface, with deep cracks and spreading ulcers; heat in oesophagus, as from acid eructations; white, foetid, liquid stools; urine deep-red and of very strong odor.
Borax [Bor]
GANGRENOUS STOMATITIS; rapidly-forming ulcers in mouth, tongue and inside of cheeks; bleeding when touched; aphthae with salivation, red blisters on tongue, mucous surface of palate shrivelled; child cries when nursing, lets go the nipple on account of pain; dreads downward motion, is fretful, cries night and day; tenacious mucus in throat; hot urine, with pungent smell; obstinate green stools.
Bryonia [Bry]
MOUTH SO DRY THAT THE CHILD CANNOT NURSE TILL IT IS MOISTENED; dry lips, rough and cracking, with thirst; aphthae, with infantile diarrhoea and open fontanelles, tongue furred, especially in middle; loose stools, painful and undigested.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
DRY MOUTH ALTERNATING WITH SALIVATION; difficult dentition; tongue pains as if ulcerated; painful blisters on tongue and palate; heat in mouth, with hot breath; sore mouth of children, canker-sores, especially during teething; leucophlegmasia.
Cantharis [Canth]
Burning or smarting vesicles and canker of mouth; great dryness of mouth; constant desire to urinate, passing only a few drops at a time: constipation or diarrhoea; aversion to all kinds of food.
Capsicum [Caps]
Suitable to fat, but flabby, sluggish children; or to phlegmatic, plethoric persons, who lead a sedentary life; teeth dirty and painful; gums hot, burning, swollen, inflamed and sensitive, gums spongy, retracted from teeth; tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers; with a lardaceous centre; odor foetid, unbearable, like carrion, saliva viscid, offensive, copious.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Mouth very hot, tongue almost immovable, with escape of bloody saliva; throat falser as if dried with blotting paper; gums recede and bleed easily, oozing of blood, edges of gums yellow, indented, teeth loose and bad smell of ulcers.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
STOMATITIS MATERNA; aphthae sensation of dryness and heat in mouth; distress in fauces, with frequent inclination to swallow; teeth feel sore, elongated; canine hunger, with white-coated tongue; tremulous weakness felt over entire body; great atony.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Excessive fretfulness; child wants to be carried about all the time; gums red and tender during dentition, heat in mouth; thirst for cold water and acid; griping, tearing colic; painful, thin, green stools, like chopped eggs, smelling sour.
China [Chin]
Burning as form pepper on top of tongue, followed by salivation; mouth very moist from an unusual flow of saliva; tongue dotted here and there with yellowish vesicles, some of them broken and looking sore; fauces very red; child in bad humor, hungry, but could not take the breast; salivation, day and night, with great weakness, especially of stomach; looseness of teeth, bad breath; great debility.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Dryness and heat of mouth, swollen and bleeding gums, looseness of teeth, especially adapted to scrofulosis.
Conium [Con]
Gangrene, gray-ashy hue of ulcers; lips and teeth covered with black crusts; drawing pains and fine stitches in gums and teeth.; gums swollen, bluish-red and bleed easily; frequent diarrhoea and copious urination.
Cornus-cir [Corn]
STOMATITIS MATERNA; aphthous stomatitis of children; ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane from a cold or gastric derangement; scrofulous ulceration of the tongue, gums and mouth.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Rheumatic, also abuse of mercury; with ptyalism and swollen cervical glands, impeding talking, chewing and swallowing; foetid breath; (>) by holding cold water in mouth; CANCRUM ORIS, ulceration trivial, but swelling extreme, with spongy, loose gums and swollen tongue.
Eupatorium-arom [Eup-a]
Great soreness of mouth, especially of tongue, in infants with high color of skin and innumerable red dots or minute papules on face; nervous irritability.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Sore mouth, coincident with febrile and catarrhal states, intermittent or remittent type.
Hamamelis [Ham]
BLEEDING AND SPONGY GUMS; dryness of mouth; burnt sensation on tongue; blisters on the sides of tongue; canker spots near the tip.
Helleborus [Hell]
Canker in mouth, yellowish sores, with raised edges; corners of mouth sore, upper lips cracked; salivation.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
White aphthous pustules on inside of lips and cheeks and on tongue.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
STOMATITIS MATERNA; mercurial sore mouth; aphthae of children; sticky mouth; excessive secretion of tenacious mucus from the mouth, so profuse that it may be REMOVED IN LONG, TENACIOUS SHREDS; peppery taste in the mouth, dryness of tongue, with sensation as if it had been burnt; it felt raw and sore and had a dark-red appearance with raised papillae.
Iris-vers [Iris]
Painful burning in the mouth and fauces; tongue feels as if it had been scalded; constant discharge of saliva; ulcers on the mucous membrane of the cheeks; hunger with inability to eat; constipation, followed by offensive pancreatic diarrhoea.
Iodum [Iod]
Aphthous eruption in the mouth of offensive odor; copious foetid saliva; nasal catarrh thin, excoriating; gums red and swollen, and receding from teeth, bleeding easily, with small, ash-colored and painful ulcers.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
APHTHOUS ULCERS EATING DEEPLY; stringy mucus in mouth and throat; deep ulcer on edges of tongue; tongue coated thick yellow, edges red and full of small painful ulcers; foul tongue; profuse ptyalism; throat swollen and painful; languor; syphilitic affections of mouth and fauces.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Ulcerative condition of gums, tongue and cheeks, attended with swelling, bloody saliva; burning vesicles on tongue; irregular ulcers, looking as if coated with milk; nasal catarrh, especially in nursing women.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Follicular stomatitis, with extreme foetor; gums bleed easily; feeling of coldness on tongue; whole mucous surface red and tumid, and on cheeks and lips numerous gray-based ulcers; profuse secretion of acid saliva; thin, liquid stools; glands enlarged and tender.
Lachesis [Lach]
Bluish ulcers, blood oozing from gums, which look dark-red and purplish; salivation, foetor; tongue dry, red and glistening, especially at the tip, sides and tip covered with blisters; fluids return through nose; can bear no clothing to touch face and neck; offensive stools; urine of a strong odor, with perspiration in axillae.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Sores near the fraenum of tongue, feeling scalded and raw;; ulcers on and under tongue; putrid breath, especially mornings; gums bleed violently when touched; TEETH EXCESSIVELY PAINFUL TO TOUCH AND OF BAD COLOR; faintish at certain hours of the day.
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.