Helminthiasis
Aconite [Acon]
Pain in bowels; umbilical region hard; whole abdomen bloated; urging to stool without discharge, or slime only; nausea;accumulation of water in mouth; restlessness at night on account of intolerable itching and tingling at the anus, throwing the child into fever.
Apocynum-andr [Apoc-a]
Severe sneezing, with great itching and irritation in nostrils; excessive nausea and vomiting; tickling sensation at end of penis; ascarides.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Periodical pain in hepatic region and around the navel, with
sickness at stomach, retching, vomiting of tough mucus; menses irregular, but always discharge of thick, black, coagulated blood, grayish-yellow color of face.
Artemisia [Art-v]
Convulsions from the irritation of worms, passes faeces and urine with the spasm; obstinate spasmodic strangury; hunger, but cannot get the food down; often (<) at night.
Asclepias-syr [Asc-c]
White tongue, excessive nausea with violent headache, diuresis and inclination to stool, and still increased appetite; tickling sensation at end of penis; ascarides.
Baryta-mur [Bar-m]
Worm affections; foetid breath; pain in region of navel, (<) morning; dry cough; great appetite, slimy, coated tongue, bloated abdomen; periodical attacks of convulsions, which shake the whole body; chronic, painless diarrhoea, yellow, slimy stools, vomiting exhaustion.
Belladonna [Bell]
Drowsiness, starting inn sleep, grating of teeth; involuntary micturition and defaecation or dysuria; squinting.
Caladium [Calad]
Worms in little girls travel over perineum into vagina, great irritation and even masturbation.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Headache, dark rings around the eyes, pale, bloated face; thirst; thick, bloated belly; aching about the navel; diarrhoea; easy perspiration from motion, scrofulosis,; tapeworm after Graph; ascarides, with hard stool; crawling in rectum, as from worms, itching at anus, as from pinworms.
Chenopodium [Chen-a]
Worm affections; constipation, ineffectual urging with pressure on bladder and rectum; frequent cutting pains in abdomen, especially at night; with flatulency and urging to stool; pale or yellowish color of face; scraping and burning in throat; secretion of frothy mucus from mouth and throat; dulness in head.
China [Chin]
Pain in abdomen after eating, (<) at night; fulness of abdomen, pyrosis; pressure in stomach and retching; tremulous weakness all over.
Cicuta [Cic]
Sudden rigidity with jerks, followed by great relaxation and weakness; convulsions and contortions of upper part of body and limbs; frequent hiccough and crying; pain in neck; vertigo and headache, dilated pupils; spasmodic drawing the head backward; tremor of hands; constriction of oesophagus; tonic contractions alternating with intermitting clonic spasms.
Cina [Cina]
Restless sleep, with rolling of eyes, dark rings around eyes; squinting; enlarged pupils; constant rubbing the nose; epistaxis grinding and gnashing of teeth; face ale and cold, or red and hot; loathing of food, or great hunger; nausea, vomiting; pain in umbilical region; abdomen hard and distend; constipation; dry, hacking cough at night; feverishness; convulsive motions of head and limbs; itching of anus from pinworms.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Periodical headache often alternating with abdominal spasms and pulsations, constipation; passage of lumbrici with relief.
Dolichos-pruriens [Dol]
Bloated, swollen abdomen, with constipation, cough most troublesome about bedtime, and for a while after going to bed; intolerable itching all over body.
Euphorbia [Euph]
Loss of appetite or voraciousness at times; furred tongue; feverishness; foetid breath;bloated stomach; constipation or diarrhoea; emaciation, peevishness, wakefulness.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Pale, wretched complexion, easily flushing, itching at anus from pinworms, at night; involuntary micturition.
Filix-mas [Fil]
Gnawing and boring in bowels, aggravated by eating sweet things; constipation; loss of appetite; furred tongue, pale face, blue rings around eyes, itching of nose; irritable and cross.
Ignatia [Ign]
Itching at anus from pin worms; convulsions, with loss of consciousness, and temporary inability to speak.
Ind. [Indg]
Convulsions resulting from worms; pain in umbilical region; cutting pain (<) by retracting the walls of the abdomen and by pressure; frequent urging to urinate,(<) at night, diarrhoea without injury to appetite or digestion.
Kousso [Kou]
Indigestion; loathing; sleeplessness; weakness, with fainting; profuse and cold perspiration; emaciation; dull pain in bowels; bloatedness; constipation.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Arthritic pain and stiffness; chronic eruptions; wretched, dirty, pale earthy complexion; flatulence, bloating the stomach and abdomen; sensation of something crawling and moving in bowels and stomach; up and down; constipation.
Mercurius [Merc]
Continuous greediness for eating, and still becomes steadily weaker; foetid breath; itching of anus; inflammation of vulva; seat and round worms.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Dartings and shootings in rectum, causing children to cry out, they put their hands to the seat or wriggle about, and they appear to have worms.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Rolling of head in children; reflex irritation of the brain from disorders of bowels; grinding of teeth at night; copious salivation; offensive odor from mouth; tongue full and broad; with a pasty coat in centre; sour regurgitation of food; bloated abdomen, painful diarrhoea with screaming and grinding of teeth; prolapsus ani.
Punica-granatum [Gran]
Vertigo, wavering before eyes, enlarged pupils, yellow complexion; grating of teeth; accumulation of water in mouth; changing appetite; gulping of watery fluid; vomiting;sensation of something moving in stomach; bloated bowels, colic, palpitation of heart; spasms; syncope; night colic.
Ratanhia [Rat]
Ascarides with intolerable pruritus ani.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
Vomiting of round worms, or nausea and retching, with sensation of worm in pharynx; or in case of taenia, burning boring and whirling in umbilical region; accumulation of water in mouth; chilliness and sensitiveness to cold; sensation as if abdomen were sunken in; nervous symptoms from worms.
Spigelia [Spig]
Nausea every morning before breakfast always better after breakfast, dilated pupils, squinting; pale face; smarting in nose; sensation of a worm rising in throat; BETTER AFTER EATING; or vomiting of all she takes, with sour rising like vinegar from stomach; pain in bowels; dry, hard cough at night, palpitation of heart.
Silicea [Sil]
Worm colic, with constipation or difficult stool, yellow hands, blue nails or with reddish, bloody stools; flatulence, much rumbling.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Creeping in nose, creeping and biting in rectum, passage of lumbrici ascarides and taenia; nausea before meals and faintness after dinner; restlessness at night.
Stannum [Stann]
Dull mind, pale face, sunken eyes; flushes of heat in face from movement; foetid breath; hunger, cannot eat enough, except in the evening, nausea after eating; gone feeling in epigastrium even after eating; profuse and pale urine, restlessness; the child moans during sleep or supplicates in a timid manner, (>) by living on stomach.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Burning and tingling at the anus, with sensation as if ascarides were crawling about; passes segments of tapeworm; burning in rectum lessened by applying cold water; irritability and weakness of bowels; sharp appetite and thirst; has to take something at once; strange appetite after a square meal; foul breath; choking sensation; dry hacking cough;spasms and convulsions wakeful at night; screaming as if frightened; staring look, clenching of fingers; twitching in different parts of the body.
Teucrium [Teucr]
Terrible itching in anus from pinworms.
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.