Jacea [Viol-t]
Burrowing ulcers; ichorous ulcers with violent itching; skin difficult to heal.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Ulcers dry, oval, edges overhanging, bright-red areola; base hard, corroding, becoming deeper;cicatrix remains depressed; ulcers on previously inflamed feet’ ulcers on fingers, with carious affections of the bones; pains burning, stinging unhealthy-looking ulcer, with a tough exudation adhering to the base of the ulcer; lupus; syphilitic ulcer.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Bleeding boring, corroding ulcers; disposition to phlebitis pus copious, bloody, ichorous, thin and watery.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Old, painful, putrid ulcers, spongy; burning ulcers; pus acrid, ichorous foetid, yellow.
Lachesis [Lach]
Irritable ulcer; ULCERATION ABOUT ANKLES IN VARICOSE LEGS itching ulcers, with dark blisters around; flat ulcers, HEAD AT CIRCUMFERENCE AND VERY SENSITIVE with black bottom, discharging verb little Puls but easily bleeding; gangrenous ulcers ones and toes; ulcers sensitive to touch, with ichorous, offensive discharge, many small pimples around them, areola purple, better from warmth; bedsore, s with back edges. the ulcer is large, with tendency to extend rapidly; burning pain only when touching the sore; smooth ulcer, with jagged edges, surrounded by papillae or small ulcers, and of a livid appearance.]
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Old ulcers on legs, with nightly tearing., burning and itching; fissures on heels, with oozing of water, from sore places; fistulous ulcers, with hard, red,. shining and inverted edges; tumid ulcers; with elevated and indurated edges; ulcers bleed and burn when dressed; tearing and itching itching at night, burning when touched; inflammatory swelling of affected parts; pus copious and albuminous, or sanious, gray, yellow and acrid. Ulcer on malleolus.
Mercurius [Merc]
SUPERFICIAL, FLAT, READILY BLEEDING ulcers, with a lardaceous base, worse from heat of bed and hot and cold applications; spreading ulcers, exceedingly painful, and sensitive to slightest touch; unequal elevations and depressions; gnawing and throbbing pains; ulcers of a bluish or livid appearance, with hard, elevated and jagged edges; superficial ulcers of a whitish appearance; pus scanty or copious, but never laudable.
Mezereum [Mez]
Ulcers, with sensitive areolae and easily bleeding, painful at night, pus under scabs, burning vesicles around ulcers; shooting, biting, pricking pains in ulcer, pus scanty or totally suppressed; worse from rubbing or scratching; lint sticks to ulcer, and when torn away it bleeds.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Ulcers with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts; skin dry, rough and chapped, swelling and induration of glands; pricking pricking; pulsating, burning in ulcers; worse when lying down; ulcer on heel (Cepa).
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Varices; superficial ulcer; red, angry-looking, smarting ulcers, surrounds by vesicles, no suppurations.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Ulcers offensive, irregular in outline, and tends to dips deeply, with profuse exuberant granulations, bleeding easily from slightest touch; which pains as if splinters were sticking in affected, parts of burning, (<) from cold water; syphilo- mercurial or scrofulous ulcers.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Raised ulcers, with pale-red edges, burning or jerking pain; prurient itching; sore, sensitive ulcers, with a feeling of tenseness; pus greenish or corroding; worse after menstruation, from touch, in dry, windy weather, better when lying on sound side, in damp weather.
Petroleum [Petr]
Spreading, sloughing ulcerations of legs; ulcers on toes, originating in blisters; feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture; ulcers with stinging pain and proud flesh, often deep ulcers, with raised edges; painful, sensitive, spongy ulcers; they heal with difficulty; pus scanty, acrid, corroding; sanious and watery; worse from cold in winter.
Phosphorous [Phos]
Fistulous ulcers, with callous edges, erysipelatous; gnawing pain;hectic; pus thin, ichorous, foetid, easily secreted; worse from weather changes; LITTLE ULCERS AROUND A LARGE ONE, often accompanied by eczema or psoriasis.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Ulcers like carbuncles on skin, with a coppery circumference, flat, itching and smarting; external parts turn black, with profuse, watery, foul discharge, especially over tibia.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Ulcers, with an appearance as if punched out, lardaceous bottom; pus watery, foetid, ichorous; shooting, lancinating, jerking pains; carcinoma, syphilis.
Plumbum [Plb]
Decubitus and gangrene; burning in the ulcers; small wounds inflamed and suppurate easily.
Polygonum-hydropiper [Polyg]
Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities; old and indolent ulcers.
Psorinum [Psor]
Ulcers on lower legs with intolerable itching over whole body; oozing blisters on legs, from small pustules, increasing in size, with tearing pains,; eruptions on in step, soon becoming thick, dirty, scaly, suppurating, painful and itching keeping him wake; deeply penetrating, ichorous ulcers; crusty eruptions all over; whole body has a filthy smell.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Easily bleeding ulcer, s with burning, stinging or itching around them, with hard or red areola, surrounded by papillae; opus thick, bland, too profuse; better from cold and on wetting affected part.
Ranunculus-bulb [Ran-b]
Flat, burning, stinging ulcer, with ichorous discharge; pus sanious or acrid; worse from touch or cold.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Small vesicles, turning or putrid, gangrenous and spreading ulcers; tingling and smarting as if from salt in ulcer; ulcers surrounded by papillae; pus acrid and sanious.
Ruta [Ruta]
Fistulous ulcers on lower legs; ulcers and scabs on scalp, with copious discharge; bruised feeling all over, as from a fall or blow; skin becomes easily charted; pus sanious; worse in damp weather; gnawing-jerking pains.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge; dirty granulations; dry, sharp-cut edges; languid circulation; limbs cold; skin pallid;sensitive to weather changes.
Sarsaparilla [Sars]
Herpetic ulcers, extending in a circular form, forming no crusts; red, granulated bases, white border; skin appears as after application of a warm compress; serous, reddish secretions; ulcers after abuse of mercury; rhagades, deep burning scrofulous.
Secale [Sec]
Varicose ulcers and enlarged veins of old people; bleeding ulcers, turning black, feeling as if burnt; gangrene; better from cold, worse from heat; pus putrid.
Selenium [Sel]
Flat ulcers; frequent tingling on small spots of the skin, with great irritation to scratch; spots remain humid; pains worse after sleep.
Sepia [Sep]
Ulcer on hell or ankle; painless ulcers on joints or tips of fingers ulcers, with digging pains; fistulous, hard ulcers, high, elevated edges, hard top heal; jerking, itching pricking pains, proud flesh in them, sensitive, sore, spongy ulcers; pustules around ulcer, with red areola; pus copious, corroding gelatinous, greenish, ichorous or scanty, putrid, viscid, sour- smelling, thin, whitish ichor.
Silicea [Sil]
Ulcers from suppuration of membranous parts, phagedenic, extending in depth; aching pain in ulcer, becoming black at base or edges, and bleeding; boring or burning in edges and sensation of coldness in ulcer; deep or flat, crusty ulcers; hard, fistulous or gangrenous ulcers; proud flesh in ulcer, which is difficult to heal; jerking and itching in and around ulcer; pulsating, putrid ulcers, with red areola;spongy ulcers, edges hard, high and spongy, stinging, burning, itching pains; pus copious, brownish, corroding, gelatinous or grayish, bloody and ichorous; scanty, putrid, thin, watery, yellow; worse in open air, from weather change, lying on painful side, or pressure chronicity and persistency of suppuration; induration of cellular tissue.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Rapidly spreading ulcer with a red areola, yellow putrid discharge and hard edges, mercurial ulcers after failure of Nitr- ac, or Hep scorbutic ulcers, itching and burning in ulcers; gnawing, jerking, tearing or shooting pains, pus excessive acrid, ichorous and foetid, or scanty, worse from touch and pressure.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Ulcers, with raised swollen edges, bleeding easily, surrounded with pimples, with tearing stinging pains, and discharging foetid pus, fistulous ulcers, irregular jagged edges, oedematous swelling and reddish brown discoloration of skin; pus thick; yellow and foetid, or thin and foetid.
Thuja [Thuj]
Flat ulcers, with a bluish-white bottom, ulcers with indurated edges, surrounded by blisters containing pus, deep, burning and fistulous ulcers; itching, pricking and proud flesh in ulcers, spongy on edges, ulcers with serrated edges better from rubbing or scratching.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Bluish ulcers, hard, indurated ulcers, itching, painless but with redness of the areola; pus scanty.
Zincum-met [Zinc]
Herpetic ulcers bleeding and burning ulcers, destitute of feeling, redness of surrounding skin, with sensation of tenseness; pus bloody and corroding.
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.