Silicea [Sil]
Teeth feel long and loose, throbbing-stinging toothache, preventing sleep; periodontitis; discharge of offensive matter from openings near root of tooth, or from gums; tedious boring- tearing pains day and night, worse during night, spreading over whole4 cheek also into the bones of face;carious teeth; pains worse at night and on inhaling cold air; gums sore and inflamed; gumboils; erysipelatous swelling on gums and roof of mouth after extraction of teeth;pains affecting the jaw as much as the teeth.
Spigelia [Spig]
Throbbing in decayed teeth, pressing outward teeth feel cold; better while eating, worse after eating, after smoking, from cold water and at night, driving out of bed; burning, jerking, tearing pains in malar bones; frequent desire to urinate PALPITATIONS, chilliness, restlessness.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Black, crumbling carious teeth, gnawing tearing in decayed teeth, shooting into ears, throbbing in temples, worse from cold drinks and touch, but not from biting on them; fistula dentalis; gum pale, white, ulcerated swollen and painful, readily bleeding, with tubercles and excrescences; swelling of cheek and submaxillary glands; aching tearing and drawing pains in gums, in the carious, and in the roots of the sound teeth, worse after eating, by exposure to cold air, at night, or early in the morning; toothache during menses.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Great sensitiveness of teeth; painful feeling of looseness of teeth, which feel too long; tearing, boring, pulsating toothache, worse from heat; toothache in open air, from the least draught, at night in bed, or from washing with cold water, accompanied by confection to head and stitches in ear, redness of eyes and nose; swelling and bleeding of gums, receding from teeth, with beating pains.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Teeth lose their polish, become white and brittle; pains gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing (<) from biting on any hard substance and from cold, (>) from warmth, especially lower jaw.
Thuja [Thuj]
Sycotic decay of teeth commences close to gums; eating gnawing pain in decayed teeth, (<) by cold from drinking tea, in bed; (>) from excitement and pressure of hands; gums swollen inflamed, dark-red, in streaks; DECAY OF THE ROOT OF THE TEETH, THE CROWN REMAINING SOUND.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Violent throbbing toothache, driving to madness; face swollen; cold sweat on forehead, teeth feel heavy, as if filled with lead; tearing in cheeks, temples and eyes, with heat and redness, driving to madness, worse in damp weather; right side, or left to right, in anaemic persons.
Zincum [Zinc]
Drawing, smarting, stinging in roots of (upper) front teeth, and in hard palate; teeth feel long and loose, with swelling of submaxillary glands; gums painful while eating, ulcerated, white, bleed easily; burning, jerking stitching in infraorbital nerve; worse from least touch, and in evening; caries of lower teeth.
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.