Belladonna [Bell]
Great pain in ileo-caecal region, cannot bear the least touch, not even the bedcover nausea and vomiting is forced to lie motionless on back; high fever, pungent that of abdomen.
Bryonia [Bry]
Pain on a limited spot in abdomen, with a throbbing sensation; stinging, burning pain in abdomen which is sore to touch, with constipation, (<) from motion an standing.
Carduus-mar [Card-m]
Obstruction visceralis, constipation; pressing pain on right side between false ribs and hips worse when stretching out the body in the morning when awaking with colicky pains; drawing pains on right inguinal region.
Colchicum [Colch]
Abdomen extremely sensitive to touch and pressure, with flatulent distension; pressing, tearing, cutting, stitching pains; nausea, with great qualmishness, inclination to vomit on assuming the upright posture; aversion to food when looking at it, and nausea when smelling it.
Crot. [Crot-h]
Extreme pain in region of appendix, with frequent paroxysmal aggravations, great tenderness in pressure at a point the size of a small orange with some feeling of hardness; cannot bear right leg straightened, but lies with it bent and supported by a pillow; skin hot and dry, pulse rapid; extreme thirst, no appetite thirst, no appetite; foul tongue with red tip; heat and tenderness of abdomen, can scarcely bar any covering; no stool, or very offensive discharge extreme prostration.
Ginseng [Gins]
Stinging pain, swelling and gurgling noise in ileo-caecal region; dry tongue; heat and delirium when going to sleep.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Deep, circumscribed swelling in ileo-coecal region; lies on back, with right knee drawn up; attacks of nausea, with coldness and paleness; frequent urging to stool and urination.
Lachesis [Lach]
Great sensitiveness to contact in abdomen; painful stiffness from the loins down to the os sacrum and thighs; constipation; scanty urine, with red sediment; can only lie on back with knees drawn up; when turning to left side a all seems to roll over n abdomen particularly after the formation of pus.
Mercurius [Merc]
Painful, hard, hot and red swelling in ileo-coecal region, painful to touch; pale-red or pale and sickly; thirst; red, dry tongue, constipation; tendency to suppuration.
Opium [Op]
Squeezing pains, as if something were forced through a narrow space; rolling up as of a hard body in right hypochondrium; retention of stool, or involuntary, offensive, thin diarrhoea.
Platina [Plat]
Lancinating pains radiating down the leg, with numbness in it; obstinate constipation; nausea and vomiting; frequent erections.
Plumbum [Plb]
Large, hard swelling in ileo-coecal region, painful to touch and least motion; whole abdomen sensitive; navel drawn in frequent sour belching; nausea, retching, constipation laxious countenance; dry tongue, red on edges, brown coating in centre; great thirst; lame feeling in legs.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Hard, painful swelling of nearly the entire right side of abdomen; pain worse on sitting, or when stretching right leg; impossibility of lying on left side, better when lying on back, with knees drawn up, or when gently pressing the selling from below upward; pale, anxious face; burning of palms of hands; profuse sweat at night; small, frequent pulse.
Thuja [Thuj]
Ineffectual; desire for stool, with erections; copious sweat upon genitals, of a honey-like odor;soreness of abdominal walls; parts of body which are uncovered perspire, those covered are hot and dry; fatty vomiting.
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.