Syphilis & sycosis



Medorrhinum [Med]

SYCOSIS; soreness in bottom of feet periodical headaches, pains from sunrise to sunset (syphilis has pains at night); asthma from suppressed gonorrhoea. Sycotic children suffering from cholera infantum, marasmus etc.

Mercurius-dulc [Merc-d]

Broad, moist burning condylomata around female external genitals, perineum and anus of extreme foetor; copper-colored eruption in spots over whole body, with dry papules in centre, from which skin exfoliates from centre to periphery.

Mercurius-cor [Merc-c]

Excessive pain, swelling and inflammation; regular indurated Hunterian chancre with lardaceous bottom; swelling and redness of nose, ozaena; margins of soft chancre dark-red, painful and easily bleeding, neighboring parts oedematous, hot and painful; chancres on inner surface of praeputium or corona glandis; chancres with ichor adhering to the bottom of ulcers so firmly that it cannot be removed by washing; ulcers with thin pus, leaving stains upon the linen as from melted tallow; phagedenic ulcers in mouth, gums and throat with foetid breath; tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers; bubo and swelling of glands generally.

Mercurius-iod-rub [Merc-i-r]

HUNTERIAN HARD CHANCRES; threatened gangrene of glans in paraphimosis; soreness of bones of face; sharp shooting stitches in the end of penis through the glans, old buboes, discharging for years.

Mercurius-sol [Merc]

(Or vivus) Red chancre on prepuce;spreading and deeply penetrating ulcer on glans and prepuce; pale-red vesicles, forming small ulcers after breaking on glans and prepuce; painful bleeding chancres, with yellowish, foetid discharge; small chancres with a cheesy bottom and inverted red edges; ulcers of glans and prepuce, with cheesy, lardaceous bottom and hard edges.

Mercurius-nitr [Merc-n]

Rapidly spreading ulcerations, (<) at night with splinter-like; mucous patches in mouth and tongue.

Mezereum [Mez]

Syphilitic periostitis constant headache from tophi of skill; pains through whole body, with nightly pains in the bones, least touch unbearable, brought on by syphilis, mercury, or both combines; bones inflamed, swollen, especially shafts of cylindrical bones; fainting sort of vertigo; weary of life.

Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]

SYCOSIS; severe headache, frontal or occipital as if the skull were too full, with vertigo and ejection of sour froth; offensive odor from nose; red and blotched face, moist, creamy or golden- yellow coating on back part of tongue.

Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]

ULCERS INCLINED TO SPREAD MORE IN CIRCUMFERENCE THAN IN DEPTH; foul smell of sweat, of urine, faeces and breath; disposition to dark haemorrhages; bone-pains at night, (<) from change of weather, mostly in bones of head and shins; PHAGEDAENIC CHANCRES; ulcers in urethra, with purulent or bloody mucous discharge;ulcers bleed when touched, with exuberant but pale and flabby granulations, irregular edges; moist condylomata like cauliflower, or on thin pedicles; ulcers in vagina, looking as if covered with yellow pus, with burning pain or itching; copper- colored spots on the anus; syphilitic ulcers in the mouth; syphilitic epilepsy and melancholia.

Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]

Chancres with raised edges; chancres like an indolent ulcer, edges thick rounded and prominent; granulations pale and flabby, or absent, corroding, itching herpes praeputialis; blisters and condylomata on glans; sycotic excrescences, chronic with heat, burning and soreness, when sitting or walking; figwarts, complicated with chancre; painless swelling of glands; interesting ostitis of mercurio-syphilitic origin, with nocturnal pains, as if bones were scraped with a knife.

Phytolacca [Phyt]

Secondary syphilis; ulcers in throat and genitals; syphilitic rheumatism and syphilitic eruptions; pains shift; joints swollen, red periosteum affected;pains in middle of long bones, or attachments of muscles, worse at night and in damp weather; glands inflamed, swollen; ulcers with appearance as if punched out, lardaceous bottom. weakness and prostration, but no paralytic symptoms.

Sepia [Sep]

INDOLENT CHANCRES; burning itching, humid or scurfy herpes praeputialis; chappy herpes with a circular desquamation of skin, eruptions on glans and labia; itching and dry eruptions on genitals, condylomata; chancres on glans and prepuce; wandering rheumatism,(>) warmth.

Silicea [Sil]

Chancres with raised edges; inflamed, painful;irritable chancres with discolored, thin and bloody discharge granulations indistinct or absent; painful eruptions on mons veneris;itching, moist or dry eruptions of red pimples or spots on genitals.

Staphisagria [Staph]

Soft, humid excrescences on and behind corona glandis; dry pediculated figwarts; excrescences and nodosities of gums; female sexual organs painfully sensitive, especially when sitting; mercurialism; syphilitic exostoses, swelling of the bones of face and feet with great debility and hypochondriasis; condylomata; mucous tubercles.

Stillingia [Still]

Secondary syphilis; coryza and ozaena; nodes on head and legs; extreme torture from bone-pains, (<) at night and in damp weather; hereditary infantile syphilis.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Inflammation and swelling of sexual organs, with deep rhagades; burning redness of prepuce; deep suppurating ulcers on glans and prepuce, with puffed edges; phimosis with discharge of foetid pus; glandular swelling, indurated or suppurating.

Thuja [Thuj]

Chancres with pain as from a splinter sticking sycotic moist excrescences on prepuce and glans; moist mucous tubercles; itching ulcers with unclean bottoms, or whitish chancres with hard edges.

Viola-tric [Viol-t]

Chancroid ulcer on posterior surface of fauces and soft palate; painful pustules on the labia and mammae, in axillae, syphilitic hoarseness.

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.