Nursing – sore & bleeding nipples


Homeopathy treatment for Nursing – sore & bleeding nipples from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Nursing – sore & bleeding nipples…


Agaricus [Agar]

Nipples itch and burn, look red.

Arnica [Arn]

During first days of nursing nipples feels sore and bruised.

Borax [Bor]

APHTHOUS NIPPLES; contractive pain in left breast when child nurses the right; disagreeable sensation of emptiness in mammae after nursing, obliging her to compress the breast with her hand.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

Ulcerated nipple, discharging pus; mammary glands pain as if they were suppurating, especially on touch.

Castor-equorum [Cast-eq]

CRACKED, SORE NIPPLES in nursing women, excessively tender, cannot bear touch of clothing, even in neglected cases where the nipple is nearly ulcerated off and only hangs by small strings; areolae and nipples turn red as in erysipelas, very painful on left breast.

Chamomilla [Cham]

Nipples, inflamed and tender, can hardly endure the pain of nursing; milk cheesy, thickened, mixed with pus.

Colchicum [Colch]

Nipples dark, brownish-red, protruding; unbearable pain by slightest touch from child; breast full, skin hot, pulse strong.

Croton-tigl [Croto-t]

Inflamed, hard, swollen breasts, threatening to gather; PAIN FROM NIPPLE THROUGH TO BACK, nipple very sore to touch, excruciating pain running from nipple through to scapula of same side when the child nurses.

Graphites [Graph]

Soreness of nipples, with small corrosive blisters or ulcers, oozing a limpid serum, or a thick glutinous fluid, which forms a crust that is removed by nursing, when the same formication again occurs, and so on. Disposition to fissures and cracks.

Hamamelis [Ham]

Sore nipples, where Arnica, fails; bleeding nipples; great prostration from nursing.

Helonias [Helon]

Nipples very sensitive, cannot bear clothing to touch.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

Nipples sore, fissured and covered with scurf, the child draws so much blood from the nipples that when it vomits it seems to be vomiting blood; milk thin and blue or thick and cheesy, child does not thrive on it.

Mercurius [Merc]

Nipple very raw and sore; sensitive gums, sore teeth, enlarged cervical glands, and other mercurial symptoms.

Phosphorus [Phos]

Nipples hot and sore; goneness in stomach; much heat in lower part of back across the renal regions.

Phytolacca [Phyt]

Nipples sore and fissured, with intense suffering on putting child to breast; pain seems to start from nipple and radiates over whole body.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Mother weeps as often as she has to nurse; the pain extends into chest, up into the neck, down the back, changes from place to place.

Sepia [Sep]

Nipples crack very much across the crown in various places, cracks very deep and sore.

Silicea [Sil]

Nipples ulcerate very easily, are sore and tender; pain in small of back while child nurses.

Sulphur [Sulph]

After nursing the nipple smarts and burns, it chaps badly about the base and bleeds.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.