Agnus-castus [Agn]
Strains from overlifting; sprains and luxations of joints.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Sprains attended with fatigue and weakness in limbs, as if bruised; drawing and tension in joints; contraction of limbs, as if tendons were too short.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs.
Anacardium [Anac]
Cramplike pain at the metacarpo-phalangeal articulations; cramplike twitches or numbness of fingers.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Dissecting wound on hand, throbbing pain extending up the arm; erysipelas after wounds or operations; punctured wounds; stings of insects; skin extremely sensitive to touch, with debility and exhaustion.
Argentum-met [Arg-m]
Involuntary contractions of fingers partial paralysis of forearm.
Arnica [Arn]
Bad effects from sprains, strains falls bruises concussions, contusions without laceration, and all mechanical injuries; stings of bees and wasps, compound fractures and their profuse suppuration (Calcareaars., and Calcarea carb., follow well; its early application holds suppuration in check.)
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Injuries of tarsus and carpus;neuralgias or stump after amputation of thigh (Allium cep., Ammonium m.).
Badiaga [Bad]
Lesions, pains and suggillations after concussion o contusion, brown and blue spots on skin, which is sore to touch.
Bovista [Bov]
OEdematous swelling of foot years after the sprain.
Bufo [Bufo]
Tendency of wounds to suppurate, with throbbing and lancinating pains, lymphatics affected and swollen, SMALL WOUNDS SUPPURATE MUCH.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Wounds fail to heal by first intention from impaired nutrition; in fractures it promotes formation of callus; the place on an old injury becomes the seat of new affections.
Calendula [Calend]
Incised and lacerated wounds; bloody and serous infiltrations of cellular tissue in open wounds and ulcers; suggillations. It limits suppuration and assists in securing primary union along incised surfaces; great tendency to start and twitch nervousness, suitable in case with loss of soft parts, which cannot to be united by adhesive strapping.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Neuralgia after injuries when Arnica irritates.
Cicuta [Cic]
Concussion of brain or spinal cord; flushed face, headache, restless sleep later face pale, trismus, teeth pressing firmly against one another, bites his tongue; TETANUS, followed by prostration, lassitude and sleepiness.
Conium [Con]
Induration the result of contusions or bruises (Acid Sulphuricum, follows well); glands become of stony hardness.
Glonoinum [Glon]
Pains and other abnormal sensation, following late after local injuries, the pains or feels sore, or an old scar breaks open again.
Hamamelis [Ham]
Incised, lacerated or contuses wounds, dissecting wounds; burns. It checks haemorrhages, removes pain and soreness, and promotes healing.
Helleborus [Hell]
After cerebral concussion pupils dilated, speech slow, legs dragging.
Hypericum [Hyper]
Convulsions after every slight hurt or concussion; wounds from crushing as mashed fingers, especially tips, EXTREME SENSITIVENESS OF PUNCTURED WOUNDS; open painful wounds with general prostration from loss of blood and great nervous depression; SPINAL CONCUSSION (railway spine), cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch;violent pains and inability to walk or to stoop after a fall upon coccyx; laceration, where the intolerable pains show the nervous system severely involved; it is said to prevent trismus and tetanus.
Iodum [Iod]
Cellular inflammation often following a punctured or incised and slight wound.
Lachesis [Lach]
Small wounds bleed profusely, the blood does not coagulate.
Ledum [Led]
Mosquito-bites; discoloration of skin from bruises, wounds inflicted with sharp instruments. PUNCTURED WOUNDS WHICH FEEL COLD TO TOUCH, AND TO THE PATIENT; intense coldness during fever; affections of hip-joints; sprains of ankles and feet.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Disposition to sprains from any little exertion; old sprains.
Petroleum [Petr]
Slightest wounds ulcerate and spread; sprains of joints in old rheumatic patients.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Small wounds bleed profusely, but the blood coagulates after leaving the body ( Lachesis, no coagulation; Bufo, small wounds suppurate profusely).
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Erysipelas following wounds (Apis); traumatic lesions attacking the cellular, fibrous or articular tissues; bad effects from straining or lifting, particularly from stretching arms high up to reach things; consequences attending the forced extension of membranous tissues, especially the ligaments of joints.
Ruta [Ruta]
Sprains, pains (<) during rest, by motion; violent strain or rupture of tendons wounds of joints with inflammatory action, synovitis, the result of injury; injuries of periosteum and fibrous tissues; mechanical injuries of tarsal and carpal joints and in rheumatic paralysis of the parts. It aids in forming callus after fractures, when where is much pain in injured part.
Silicea [Sil]
Bad effects from needles or other foreign bodies in the flesh.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; clean, incised wound, discharge from wound of a greenish color.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Contusions and suggillations, pains increased gradually and then cease suddenly in different parts of the body;excoriated surfaces with threatening suppuration; crampy paralytic pains and shocks in arms and fingers when writing.
Symphytum [Symph]
Sequelae of severe strains; pressure, contusion and fracture of bones, when it aids in forming callus; irritability of the bone at the point of fracture; irritable stump after amputation.
Valeriana [Valer]
Spasms after slight injuries.
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.