Tonsillitis

Phytolacca [Phyt]

Chills alternating with fever, great weakness; tonsils large bluish, ulcerated intense dryness of throat; rough, burning, smarting fauces; pain in throat extends to ears when swallowing; aching in back, neck, head and limbs; ulceration on tonsils and fauces; with grayish-white sloughs and little or not foetor; cannot drink hot fluids; great prostration.

Plumbum [Plb]

Tonsils inflamed, covered with small, painful abscesses, angina comes back into the mouth.

Psorinum [Psor]

Tonsillitis, submaxillary glands swollen, foetid otorrhoea; throat burns feels scalded pain when swallowing saliva; ulcers on right side, with deep-seated pain and burning in fauces.

Ranunculus-scel [Ran-s]

Swelling of tonsils, with shooting stitches in them; scraping or burning in throat.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

ERYSIPELATOUS SWELLING OF THROAT; tonsils (right) covered with yellow membrane; intense pain on swallowing; constant aching and bruised feeling; sticking or stinging pain on tonsils,(<) when beginning to swallowing and at night.

Silicea [Sil]

Deep ulcers even gangrene; tonsils swollen each effort to swallow distorts face; tonsillitis when the suppurating gland

will not heal; pricking in throat, as from a pain causing cough; left side.

Sinapis-nigra [Sin-n]

Sore hot pains, with sensation of extreme dryness of throat and tongue, the latter thickly coated, fissured in median line; voice nasal; hardly any thirst.

Stannum [Stann]

Cutting pains like knives in throat on swelling food or saliva; taciturn, does not wish to talk and gives short answers.

Sulphur [Sulph]

When after the bursting of the abscess the parts still remain irritated and the patient is only slowly recovering.

Syphilinum [Syph]

Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, a symptoms of hereditary syphilis.

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.