Aconite [Acon]
Violent palpitation of heart, congestion of blood to head, buzzing in ears; FAINTING AS SOON AS PATIENT RAISES HIMSELF FROM RECUMBENT POSITION, with chills and deathly paleness of face, which was red previously.
Camphora [Camph]
Icy surface, sudden sinking, filiform pulse; face may be red while lying but if raised up, turns pale and patient faints; although icy cold, he throws off clothing as soon as he is strong enough to move, even if still unconscious.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Fainting after sleeping, while yet in the bed or after rising in the morning.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Fainting with dizziness, darkness of sight, hard hearing, sensation of qualmishness and flatness in pit of stomach, etc.
Coffea [Coff]
Suitable to sensitive persons, and if the symptoms caused by fright; fail to yield to acon.
Digitalis [Dig]
VERTIGO AND DIM VISION PRECEDE THE FAINT; pulse very slow; nausea and deathly weakness in epigastrium.
Elaps [Elaps]
Disposition to faint, especially on stooping or vomiting mucus; sensation as if all the blood collected in head, with cold hands.
Hepar [Hep]
Paroxysm sets in during evening, preceded by vertigo.
Hydrocyanic-acid [Hydr-ac]
Long-lasting faints (See Laurocerasus)
Lac-defloratum [Lac-d]
Faintness and nausea when stepping upon the floor in the morning; extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep at night, depression with crying and palpitations.
Lachesis [Lach]
Tendency to faint in women; apparent death, neither pulse nor breathing perceptible after a pain in heart, from fright or grief; asthma, vertigo, pale face, nausea vomiting pains and stitches in cardiac region, cold sweat spasms, trismus, stiffness and swelling of body, etc.
Laurocerasus [Laur]
(Hydrocyanic acid). – LONG-LASTING FAINTS, NO RE-ACTIVE POWER; face pale-blue;surface cold;fluids forced down the throat, roll audibly into the stomach; if the syncope is attendant upon some poison in the system, the symptoms are similar, the eruption being livid, and, when pressed m regains its color very slowly; fainting from cardiac weakness.
Moschus [Mosch]
The paroxysms set in at night, or in the open air, with PULMONARY SPASMS, or SUCCEEDED BY HEADACHE.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
The paroxysms set in principally in the morning, or AFTER A MEAL; also suitable to pregnant females or persons worn out by mental labor or addicted to the use of spirits; and generally when nausea, pale face, scintillations before the eyes or obscuration of sight, pains in the stomach, anguish, trembling and congestion of blood to the head or chest are present; followed buy great debility to restless.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
The paroxysms set in after meal, Nux v. being insufficient.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Faintness about noon (11 A.M.) she cannot wait for her meal.
Tabacum [Tab]
Weak and faint spells, deathly paleness, cold perspiration; sometimes dilated pupils and trembling of limbs; confusion of mind, vertigo or falling down; (>) in fresh air; pulse small, weak and soft.
Veratrum [Verat]
The paroxysms set in after the last motion, or are preceded by great ANGUISH or despondency; or attended by spasms, lockjaw, convulsive motion of the eyes and eyelids, etc.
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.