Alumen [Alumn]
Uvula inflamed and enlarged; elongated and relaxed after catarrh; veins about fauces distended, much hawking; throat chronically affected, troublesome cough.
Alumina [Alum]
Tiresome cough, accompanying elongated uvula, excited by the contact of the tip of the uvula with the parts at the top of the larynx, temporarily (>) by astringents.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Uvula hangs down like a bag of water; oedematous; puffy appearance of the mucous membrane of fauces.
Aralia-rac [Aral]
Paroxysmal cough waking the patient out of first sleep from relaxed uvula.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Uvula and fauces dark-red; thick, tenacious mucus in throat, obliging him to hawk; sensation as if he had a stick in throat Hawk when swallowing.
Aurum-fol [Aur]
Hard hearing from elongation of uvula, with difficulty of speech.
Baryta-mur [Bar-m]
Elongated uvula, with hyperaemia and blennorrhoea; varicose veins in throat; scrofulous children with constant tendency to tonsillar and glandular affections.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Uvula swollen, dark-red, covered with little blisters; aphthae on roof of mouth; tickling in throat as from a feather; swallowing of saliva.
Capsicum [Caps]
Elongated, flabby uvula, enlarged and painful cervical glands; lack of reactive force; mouth pasty, gums flabby, foetid breath; haemorrhoids and fissura ani.
Coccinella [Cocci-s]
Sensation in throat as if uvula were too long, causing coughing up a ropy sputum.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Cough from elongated uvula which rests on root of tongue, causing irritation and cough, (<) when lying down at night, from drinking, talking; (>) when sitting up.
Ignatia [Ign]
Dry cough with sensation of tickling in throat from uvula, and the more he coughs the more he wants to cough; spasmodic cough in nervous, sensitive persons.
Indium [Ind]
Uvula greatly enlarged; back part of pharynx covered with thick, yellow mucus, very hard to dislodge; destructive ulceration of uvula, soft palate and tonsils.
Iodum [Iod]
Swelling and elongated of uvula; glands in mouth intensely painful, salivation and foul odor from mouth.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
OEdematous uvula; deep, excavated sore, with a reddish areola, containing yellow, tenacious matter, on uvula; fauces and palate erythematous, bright or dark-red, coppery; irritation down fauces
into larynx and back to posterior nares; cough, with expectoration of tough, stringy mucus, and hot, burning sensation in chest.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Uvula swollen and elongated, mucous membrane as if oedematous; awakens with choking, can scarcely breathe; rough feeling in trachea, compelling hawking.
Kali-mangan [Kali-ma]
Uvula, soft palate and fauces mottled, of dark-red color, with livid spots; oedematous and elongated; painful urging to swallow, with cough, or to hawk up something, which is ineffectual.
Lachesis [Lach]
Relaxed uvula, with a purplish hue about fauces; tonsils swollen; windpipe tender to touch, and causes cough, which is worse after sleeping and on change of temperature.
Mancinella [Manc]
Great elongation of uvula; heat in pharynx and down oesophagus, without thirst; stitches in throat.
Mercurius-iod [Merc-i-r]
Loose cough, back of throat and nose inflamed, glands of throat ulcerated; enlarged tonsils, he breathes with his mouth open, and snores at night; expectoration yellowish-greenish, or viscid or purulent (Mercurius cor.).
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Loose cough, worse in warmth, at bedtime, and when rising; tendency to small ulcers in back of throat; sluggish liver, with occasional attacks of diarrhoea.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Dry and tickling cough, worse after midnight and early in morning, after eating, from cold air, muscular exertion, on first waking; cough makes head and stomach ache.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Tonsils and uvula much swollen, much elongated, with dry and burning sensation; mucus in throat, removed with difficulty, is quite cold as it comes into the mouth; mucus white, nearly transparent, in lumps.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
OEdematous condition of the soft parts of fauces and pharynx, even threatening oedema glottidis; curtain of palate puffed and pink; uvula elongated, puffed, translucent, its end often nearly spherical, looking like a great drop of fluid or jelly just ready to fall off; vesicles on pharynx; intolerable rawness and roughness of larynx and pharynx.
Silicea [Sil]
Uvula sore, pale-yellow in color, swollen; throat very dry; ulcers with seem to perforate the parts; hawks though phlegm or thick, green, foetid mucus; picking in throat, as from a pin; difficult swallowing.
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.