Aconite [Acon]
Vertigo on rising from a recumbent position; she dreads too much activity about her, fears to go into a crowd; complaints much of her head; amenorrhoea during puberty; sharp, shooting pains in sexual organs, abdomen very sensitive.
Agnus-castus [Agn]
HYSTERIA WITH MANIACAL LASCIVIOUSNESS: despairing sadness, peevish, inclined to be angry, sometimes on account of her sterility; nervous weakness; lethargy, frenzy; sleeplessness or staring up frightened in her sleep.
Aletris-far [Alet]
Vertigo with vomiting; weariness of body and mind; sterility, amenorrhoea or delayed menses from UTERINE ATONY, abdomen distended, bearing down.
Ambra-gris [Ambr]
Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles; choking and vomiting when hawking up phlegm; frequent micturition of pale, watery urine; sexual excitation and irritation of genitals; TENDENCY TO sanguineous FLOW ON THE LEAST PROVOCATION during menstrual intervals; SENSATION OF COLDNESS IN ABDOMEN (AEth., Cist., Petroleum); frequent tenesmus, whatever be the character of the stool; nymphomania, often with discharge of bluish-white mucus; spasms and twitches in muscular parts; (<) evening and night, with anxious flushes of heat.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Great excitement of sexual organs; CHOLERA-LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE BEGINNING OF CATAMENIA; acrid leucorrhoea, with sensation of excoriation and ulceration in vulva; swelling, itching and burning of pudenda; listless and lethargy, talking affects her; headache as if head would burst; vehement palpitation of heart and great praecordial distress, followed by fainting, inclination to stretch limbs; hysteria with symptoms simulating organic affections.
Anacardium [Anac]
Restlessness, MUST BE IN CONSTANT MOTION, use of profane language; feels as if she had to wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids; great forgetfulness, itching and soreness of pudenda; constant desire to urinate, urine as clear as water.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Fidgetiness, restlessness, excitability, ill-timed laughing, fickleness at work; girls are awkward, dropping things and then laughing in a silly way at their clumsiness; sexual desire increased and given to jealousy (Hyosc.) pains in ovaries, (<) during coition. At the age of puberty HYSTERIA DURING AMENORRHOEA, they are nervous and awkward from incoordination of muscles; flushed in face.
Arsenicum [Ars]
HYSTERICAL ASTHMA at every little excitement; screaming from pains, (<) after midnight; she cannot lie down for fear of suffocation, wants some water every few minutes; sudden arrest of breathing when walking against the wind.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Hysteria, the DIRECT SEQUEL OF THE CHECKING OF HABITUAL DISCHARGES, after abuse of mercury, after the stoppage of an habitual expectoration with oppression of the chest (Ammonium); globus hystericus, flatus accumulates in abdomen and pressing up against the lung causes oppression of chest; reverse peristaltic action in oesophagus and intestines with sensation as if a ball started in stomach and rose into throat, provoked by over-eating, motion or by anything which excites the nerves; belching of wind of strong rancid taste; food when partially swallowed returns by the mouth; greasy taste in mouth with dryness and burning; FLATUS PASSES UPWARD, NONE DOWNWARD; nervous palpitation, pulse small, breathing hardly affected: (>) in fresh air.
Asterias-rubens [Aster]
HYSTERO-EPILEPSY, full of hallucinations; very emotional, cannot bear contradictions, pale face; great epigastric tenderness; debility; convulsive motions of limbs, froth at mouth, shocks through extremities great excitement of venereal appetite; fear of impending misfortune; relief from tears.
Aurum [Aur]
Remarkable changeability of mind; impulsive, rash, merry; sad and anxious, longing for death after a merry laugh; pressing in eyes as from acrid dust; fine eruptions on lips, face, forehead; palpitations; afraid to open a window.
Belladonna [Bell]
Hysteria with melancholic mood, starts in affright at the approach of others; weeping, irritable mood; excessive nervous excitability, with exalted sensibility, the least noise, the least light is annoying; headache with dizziness, (<) when stooping, when leaning forward (>) when bending backward; nymphomania, mania puerperalis; aversion to work, cannot stay long in one position, too restless.
Bromium [Brom]
Constriction of chest; anxious feeling about heart; aversion to work, even to reading; does not feel or act like herself; great despondency; fulness in head and chest, with difficult respiration and a queer feeling all over, which makes her despondent.
Cactus [Cact]
Hysteralgia, sadness, crying without reason, consolation aggravates; love of solitude; fear of death; CONSTRICTION OF UTERUS; WHOLE BODY FEELS AS IF CAGED IN WIRES; pains everywhere, darting, springing like chain-lightning terminating with a sharp, viselike grip only to commence again a moment afterwards with restlessness and groaning; menses with most horrible pains, causing her to cry aloud and weep; constrictive sensation around heart and uterine region, (<) from least; pulsating pains in uterus and ovaries.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Many spasms during the day; depression and melancholy, with anguish and palpitation, (<) as evening approaches icy coldness in and on head, one-sided; stupefying headache; twitching and trembling of body; cold, damp feet, cannot go to sleep, her mind turning on the same thought all the time; hysterical spasms from nervous excitement, sudden arrest of breathing when walking against the wind; NYMPHOMANIA, VIOLENT ITCHING AND SORENESS OF PUDENDA; sterility.
Cantharis [Canth]
Soreness in throat on walking, with relief after expectoration of a little reddish mucus; previous to the hysterical attack partial or total suppression of urine, followed afterwards by copious micturition urine deficient in urates; more or less troublesome irritation of the mucous membrane of the genitals; burning in soles of feet.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
MENSTRUAL AND UTERINE EPILEPSY; HYSTERICAL CONVULSIONS DURING DYSMENORRHOEA; severe pain, by spells in the temples as if they would be crushed together; spasmodic intermittent pains in bladder, stomach,. broad ligaments (groins) even chest and limbs; profuse slimy whites; most spots on forehead; anaemia, general debility; exhaustion.
Causticum [Caust]
Cannot keep here upper eyelids up; thinking of her troubles aggravates them, especially the piles which are made almost intolerable by walking; enuresis nocturna; intolerable uneasiness in the limbs in the evening; cannot get a quite position at night, or lie still as minute ‘ jerking mostly on right side of body.
Cedron [Cedr]
FIRST ON REGULARLY TWICE DAY, morning and evening at the same hours; intense pain in forehead, bloated face with pupil much dilated; giddiness and falling down in convulsions, difficult breathing, irregular pulse and heart’s action; fit lasts six to eight minutes, on recovering consciousness feels very weak and discharges a large quantity of watery urine; MENSTRUAL EPILEPTOID CONVULSIONS, CHOREIC ATTACK AFTER COITION.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Peevish disposition, nothing please; full of anxiety with great uneasiness; agonizing tossing about with tearing in abdomen; jerking and twitching in sleep; profuse menses smell offensive, with laborlike pains before and during the flow.
Chloralum [Chlol]
Violent hysterical fits, lies in a state resembling CATALEPSY; extraordinary depression of nervous system; heart’s action feeble, pulse weak; sense of sinking and oppression at pit of stomach spasmodic pains in and about uterus.
Chloroformum [Chlf]
NEUROSIS OF SEXUAL ORGANS, hysterical condition depend on irritability and spasms of the cervix; sudden jerking and trembling of every muscle of the body without waking him from sleep.
Cicuta [Cic]
Hysterical spasms, SHE FEELS A BLOW DEEP IN EPIGASTRIUM, WHICH PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING UP THE BACK and forces her to throw herself backward in the midst of most tormenting pains; during intervals head falls back if she attempts to rise herself, with violent spasmodic pains, body and extremities hard as wood; great weakness and prostration after fit; complete sleeplessness or while asleep jerking, starting and biting tongue; periodical ecstasy; coccygodynia during menses.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
After going to bed jerking, commencing on side on which she is lying, compelling change of position, nervous shuddering and chills, feels as if top head would fly off(Theridion, as if she could lift it off); delirium with jumping from subject to subject, sees strange objects; great apprehensiveness; pains darting into the eyeballs, through to occiput; sleepless and restless fear of death; uterine neuralgia, menses irregular, delayed or suppressed.
Cinnamomum [Cinnam]
Anxiety and oppression in cardiac region causing constriction of chest; head severely affected with great stupor, (<) when talking; each attack subsides with eructations or vomiting, but soon returns; profound sleep and insensibility with each hysterical attack, ANAEMIA AND CHLOROSIS FROM CHRONIC UTERINE HAEMORRHAGES.
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.