Scabies


Homeopathy treatment for Scabies from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Scabies…


Arsenicum [Ars]

Inveterate cases; eruption in the bends of the knees; pustular eruption, burning and itching; better from external warmth.

Carbo-veg [Carb-v]

Eruption dry and fine, almost over the whole body, worst on extremities; itching worse after undressing; dyspeptic symptoms, belching of wind and passing flatus; after abuse of mercurial salves.

Causticum [Caust]

After suppression of the itch by sulphur or mercury; yellowish color of face, warts on the face; involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing or walking; sensitive to cold air.

Croton-tigl [Croto-t]

Itching and painful burning, with redness of skin; formation of vesicles and pustules; desiccation, desquamation and falling off

of the pustules (Teste).

Hepar [Hep]

Fat, pustular and crusty itch; also after previous use of Mercurius

Lobelia [Lob]

Pricking itching of skin all over body. (Teste).

Lycopodium [Lyc]

Humid suppurating eruption, full of deep fissures; itching violently when becoming warm during the day.

Mercurius [Merc]

Fat itch, especially in the bends of elbows, if some of the vesicles become pustular; itching all over, (<) at night when in bed; insomnia from itching; diarrhoea; pustules and eczematous eruptions complicate the case.

Psorinum [Psor]

Inveterate cases, with symptoms of tuberculosis; also in recent cases, with eruptions in the bend of elbows and around the wrists; repeated outbreak of single pustules or boils after the main eruption seems all gone, or when suppressed, it is an excellent remedy to bring it out again.

Sepia [Sep]

After previous abuse of sulphur; itching (<) evenings, especially in females; large pustules develop into an impetigo.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Main remedy; voluptuous tingling itching in the bends of joints and between fingers, as soon as he gets warm in bed, with burning and soreness after scratching; skin rough and scaly, with formation of little vesicles and pustules; glandular swellings.

Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]

When itchiness of skin and single pustules appear every spring; after imperfectly cured itch.

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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.