Spleen


Are you suffering from Spleen? Dr. Tyler tells us the BEST homeopathic medicines for the treatment of Spleen….


Ceanothus americanus [Cean]

      “Where the spleen is affected from any cause, with enlargement, deep sticking pains, worse by motion, but unable to lie on left side, case will yield generally quickly to Ceano.”

“Pernicious anaemia, with spleen pains.”

Quoted by Burnett, Diseases of Spleen.

China [Chin]

      Enlarged spleen.

Aching, stitching pains in spleen when walking slowly. Pains extend in long axis of spleen.

Swelling and hardness of spleen: region of spleen hard and tender. (Intermittent.)

China is worse from slightest touch: better from hard pressure. Worse draught of air: worse every other day.

Has excessive flatulence and distension.

China has painless, very debilitating diarrhoea, with undigested food.

One remembers a striking case, when a student. A woman with an enormous spleen, etc., greatly benefited by a prescription of Quinine and Arsenic. One looked up the drugs and there was no question as to which was the curative agent, since quinine is well known as a spleen poison and a contributing cause of ague- cake.

Urtica urens [Urt-u]

      With the tincture of Urtica Burnett cured brilliantly a case of ague-cake in a young officer invalided from Burma with malarial fever and enlarged spleen. He says: “The stinging nettle is a splenic of very high order. He gave it in O, ten drops in water night and morning.

Ignatia [Ign]

      Swelling and induration of spleen.

Painful pressure, spleen and pit of stomach.

Pain, left hypochondrium: worse pressure.

Ignatia is emotional: worse grief, worry.

Lies better on painful side.

“Remedy for contradictions”: worse for what should relieve: better for what Should aggravate. “The sighing remedy.”.

Diadem aranea [Aran]

      Swelling of spleen after checked intermittent with quinine. (Compare Nat. mur.)

Worse wet weather. Worse damp walls.

Enlarged spleen, in man subject to ague: constantly chilly, worse when it rained.

Langour and lassitude.

Worse every other day at same hour ( China).

Natrum muriaticum [Nat-m]

      Stitches and pressure, region of spleen: spleen swollen.

Much pain and soreness in left hypochondrium, going through to lower border of right scapula; worse lying left side.

Liver and spleen swollen (Intermittent).

Worse 10 or 11 a.m.: at seaside: heat of sun and stove: mental exertion: lying down.

Better: air; cold bathing; “going without regular meals”. (Allen’s Keynotes.)

A great remedy after much malaria and quinine. (Intermittents.)

Irritable: gets into a passion about trifles: especially if consoled with.

Arnica [Arn]

      Pressing in region of the left ribs below heart, day and night.

Splenitis in intermittents ( Apis, etc.).

Stitches, splenic region: sore on pressure.

Stitches under left false ribs, interrupting breathing when standing.

Keynote of Arnica As if bruised or beaten. Bed too hard: moves for new position, which is not better; restless.

Another Keynote says, “There is nothing the matter, ” when desperately ill.

Bryonia [Bry]

      Frequent stitches in liver, and spleen.

Stitching pains in spleen during chill (intermittents).

Hard swelling of spleen.

Keynote of Bryonia Worse from the slightest motion, or emotion; better, rest, mind and body.

Usually better lying on painful side, to keep.

Aconite [Acon]

      Splenitis with inflammatory fever.

Aconite is restless: great fear and anxiety.

Face expresses fear: “disease will prove fatal.”

“Anguish of mind and body: restlessness: disquiet not to be allayed.”

Worse from dry, cold winds. Generally, sudden onset.

Citrus [Cit-l]

      Affections of spleen; painful enlargement.

Stiffness in joints, especially fingers; as if bruised, feet.

Dyspnoea, gasping, in splenitis.

Apis [Apis]

      Inflammation of spleen.

Considerable swelling of spleen.

Pain left abdomen, under short ribs.

Soreness and bruised feeling, most about last ribs left side.

Severe burning pain under short ribs, both sides, most severe on left; deprives her of sleep.

Obliged to bend forward from contractive feeling in hypochondria:? with ascites.

Apis is intolerant of heat: usually thirstless.

Worse: from sleep; warm and heated rooms; from getting wet; but better washing or moistening part in cold water.

Better open air; cold water and cold bathing.

Worse jealousy, fright, vexation.

Its pains burn and sting.

Asafoetida [Asaf]

      Heat in spleen and abdomen.

Asafoetida, is oversensitive. Has much flatulence and noisy, rancid or explosive belching.

Everything presses towards throat.

Better motion: open air. Worse night: sitting; warm wraps.

Fits of violent, hard throbbing ( Ranunc. bulb.).

One of the remedies of hysteria.

Helianthus [Helia]

      Spleen enlarged and painful.

Burnett regards Helian. as a great spleen remedy. (Used in Russia as a remedy for malaria).

Arsenicum [Ars]

      Tensive, pressive pain in spleen. (Intermittent.)

Drawing, stitching pain under left hypochondrium.

Burning in stomach, followed by vomiting blood.

Stitches in spleen precede vomiting of blood; dark, partly coagulated. (Haematemesis.)

Induration and enlargement of spleen.

Liver and spleen swollen: dropsy. Soreness to touch spleen- region: worse during heat. (Intermittent)

Spleen is expanded, tumefied.

Arsenicum is worse: after midnight: 2a.m. and 2 p.m; from cold; cold drinks and food; lying on affected side; better from heat; burning pains relieved by heat.

Great characteristics: great prostration: restless: anxious.

“The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death.”.

Anthracinum [Anthr]

      Enlargement of spleen: especially a spleen remedy.

“Epidemic spleen disease, the main seat of anthrax.”

Pains of Anthrac. are “horrible, burning pains”.

Sudden prostration with great abdominal soreness, worse epigastrium, with vomiting, and cold limbs.

Great restlessness: trembling : spasms.

Cyanosis: ecchymoses.

Headache is described “as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through head.”

A great remedy for septic conditions-very like Arsenicum, but more so.

Iodum [Iod]

      Left hypochondrium hard and acutely painful to pressure: enlarged spleen after intermittent.

Characteristics: Profound debility with great emaciation: ravenous hunger, eats well: better when eating: yet loses flesh all the time.

Excessive nervousness.

Nitric acid. [Nit-ac]

      Spleen large after yellow fever.

Liver enormously enlarged: liver-cake of ague.

Kent gives it as one of the notable spleen remedies.

Longs for fats, herring, chalk, lime, earth. But fat food causes acidity and nausea.

Aversion to meat: bread. Worse milk.

Curious symptom : Urine strong-smelling, like horses’ urine; cold when it passes.

“Splinter-sensation” in suffering part.

Nux vomica [Nux-v]

      Pain region of spleen: very perceptible enlargement of spleen.

(But a great liver medicine, with bilious attacks: jaundice.)

Nux is worse, at 4 a.m.: from mental exertion; over-eating; touch; noise; anger, alcohol; dry, cool.

Better damp, wet weather.

Nux is particular, careful, irascible.

Oversensitive physically and mentally.

Quarrelsome: every harmless word offends.

Nux moschata. [Nux-m]

      Stitches in spleen: must bend double.

Enlarged spleen, loose bowels.

Colic after eating and drinking, with dry mouth and thirstlessness.

Diaphragmitis.

Drowsy: sleepy: inclined to faint. Great indifference to everything.

Worse cold: wet: wind: changes of weather. Cold food: driving in carriage.

Better: warm, dry weather, room. Wrapping up.

Secale [Sec]

      Burning in spleen: thrombosis of abdominal vessels.

“Similar to Arsenicum But cold and heat are opposite.”

Skin feels cold to touch, yet cannot tolerate coverings.

In all diseases, worse from heat.

Better cold air: getting cold: uncovering.

Swelling of spleen after checked intermittent fever with quinine. Worse damp weather.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.