Ischias sciatica coxalgia


Homeopathy treatment for Ischias sciatica coxalgia from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Ischias sciatica coxalgia…


Aconite [Acon]

Inflammatory irritation of the nerve-sheath; darting, burning, benumbing pain, as if the part were going to sleep, (<)during night and movement, especially in recent affections.

Ammonium-mur [Am-m]

Severe and long-continued sciatica, pain in left side as if the tendons of the hip were too short, he limps on walking and while sitting complains of gnawing pain in bones, slightly (>) while

walking and ENTIRELY RELIEVED WHEN LYING DOWN; sense of contradiction or actual contradiction of the legs; tearing, stitching, ulcerative pains in heels, (>) by rubbing, (<) at night in bed.

Anantherum-mur [Anan]

Sciatic, gouty and rheumatic pains in legs and feet, especially in heels; stiffness, lancinating and crampy pains in sacrum and little bones; offensive foot-sweat.

Angustura [Ang]

Boring, laming pain along the sciatic nerve on posterior part of thing; muscles of thigh as if lame, when moving, a painful tension; when stretching a pressing tension in anterior muscles of thigh.

Argentum-nit [Arg-n]

Ischias antica; periodical drawing, cramp-like pains from hip down to knee; paralytic weakness of limbs, with emaciation; during paroxysms sensation of expansion of the limb: (<) morning, but especially after dinner.

Arnica [Arn]

From overexertion; burning, stinging, tearing pains; numb and bruised feeling in the affected limb; changes position constantly, as everything on which limb lies feels too hard, especially useful in women during confinement.

Arsenicum [Ars]

Typical regularity of the pains, worse at night, and unbearable

towards midnight; burning-tearing pains, with great restlessness, obliging the patient to move the limbs often, in order to obtain relief, but pains are increased by vigorous motion; cannot lie on painful side; great weakness and inclination to lie down; worse from cold applications, temporarily relieved by warmth; from staying in cold, damp house, or from sudden suppression of eruptions.

Belladonna [Bell]

Ischias, with pain in hip-joint, especially at night, so that he has to change position often; sensitive to the touch, even to the clothing to the least concussion, and even to stepping of other persons in the room; worse by the least draught of air; paroxysms in the afternoon, and last till midnight; wants to sleep, but cannot; better from letting the limb hang down, from warmth, after perspiring, and when in an erect posture.

Bryonia [Bry]

Pain in lumbar region, extending to the thigh, worse by sitting up, by moving and late in the evening; lies best on painful side, often relieved by cold water; atrophy and emaciation of the affected limbs.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

SCIATIC PAINS CAUSED BY WORKING IN WATER, pain (<) from limb hanging down and from elevating knees; pain extends down into limbs and keeps them in consent uneasiness; coxalgia with drawing stitches, tearing, cutting pains.

Causticum [Caust]

Stitching, shooting pain, with sensation of lameness in affected leg; drawing and tearing in things and legs, knees and feet, (<) in open air,(>) by warmth of bed; tendons of knees seem too short; intolerable uneasiness in limbs. (<) evening.

Chamomilla [Cham]

LEFT SIDE, drawing pain from the hip to knee, and from tubero ischii to soles of feet; numb feeling in affected parts after motion; drawing, tearing, excruciating pain, which become intolerable at night; worse at night in bed and from the least motion; excessive sensibility and irritability of fibre; the patient acts as if out of his mind.

Cimicifuga [Cimic]

Pain in lumbar region, sacrum, in the whole left leg; the left shoulder and groin pain also, or the pain changes from extremities to abdomen, producing diarrhoea and sometimes retention of urine; hysterical tendency; complication with ovarian or uterine troubles.

Coffea [Coff]

Neuralgia of the crural nerve, worse by walking, better by present (except at the point of exit of the nerve); pains in paroxysms, tearing, stitching, worse afternoon and at night; great restlessness and sleeplessness; all senses very acute, easily affected, even to tears, by the pain.

Colocynthis [Coloc]

ISCHIAS ON RIGHT SIDE; sharp, shooting pains in sacral region, so that he must keep perfectly quite, as every motion aggravates; stitching-cutting pains from hip to knee, or like lightning from os sacrum to heel, worse evening and at night, with thirst for cold water; pain sets in suddenly is constant in character, becoming intolerable in paroxysms; severe pains causing him to limb, and a paretic, numb feeling after the pain; worse from touch, cold, motion, anger and indignation, better while at perfect rest and from warm external applications; tendency to shortening of the tendons.

Dioscorea [Dios]

Pain in right leg, (<) by walking, moving the limb or sitting up, (>) by rest; dull tearing pain in right hip, inhibiting walking; cramping pains in posterior parts, of legs, (<) above knees, at buttocks and at heels; entire relief when lying still; frequent, sharp, darting pains, especially from abdomen to lower parts.

Elaterium [Elat]

Tearing and gnawing pains in hips and thighs, deeply seated, extending down the inset and ends of toes; great pains in limbs, daring down into fingers and toes.

Eupatorium-purp [Eup-pur]

ISCHIAS SINISTRA. Severe shooting pains in the course of the left sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion; neuralgia of the right shoulder, or of the right knee, passing over to the left side; neuralgic pains from below upward, mostly on left side of back and hip; gnawing in hip- bone, legs feel weak, left leg more.

Euphorbium [Euph]

Tearing, stinging, pressing pains, BETTER BY MOTION, worse during rest; paralytic sensation with difficulty of rising from his seat; weariness and faintness; whole body relaxed and tired; burning pains in hip and thigh at night.

Ferrum [Ferr]

Violent pains in hip-joint, (<) evening till midnight, has to get out of bed and walk about; can hardly put his feet on the ground, but WHILE WALKING THE PAIN LESSENS; remitting pains; pain in left shoulder; painful drawing in legs, with stiffness and heaviness, swelling of feet, attended with drawing pains when commencing to walk; face pale, emaciated, but flushed easily.

Gelsemium [Gels]

Obstinate sciatica, pains (<) at rest and particularly when being to walk; burning pains, (<) at night, compelling her to lie awake; shooting pains in paroxysms; (>) when in a sweat;;pains in sole of foot when walking.

Gnaphalium [Gnaph]

Intense dull, darting, cutting or burning pain along the posterior sciatic (no action in crural neuralgia) nerve, following its larger ramifications; feeling of numbness may take the place of the sciatic pains, rendering exercise very fatiguing; (<) lying down, from motion, stepping; (>) sitting in chair; affected right side more.

Hepar [Hep]

Pains (<) on motion, touch and exposure to air, (>) from rest and heat.

Hypericum [Hyper]

Violent pains and inability to walk or to stoop after a fall on the coccyx; the feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.

Ignatia [Ign]

CHRONIC INTERMITTENT ISCHIAS better in summer, worse in winter; hammering pain, as if the hip-joint would break to pieces; chilliness with thirst, followed by heat, especially in the face, without thirst; intermittent pains of an incisive or throbbing character, at first tertian, later quotidian; patients of a mild, melancholic temperament.

Ind. [Indg]

Pains (<) right side, running from right hip down leg; Stiffness and dull aching all over (<) after every meal and when beginning to move after resting; (>) rising and walking about, though motion is also painful.

Iris-vers [Iris]

Shooting, burning, laming pains, affecting the posterior femoral muscles. shooting along left sciatic nerve to foot, (<) by even moderate motion; shooting, burning pain in right shoulder, complicated at times with gastralgia or colic.

Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]

Males (puls., females); sciatica of left leg, (>) by walking and flexing hip to knee; pressure on nerve causes a shooting pain along the whole leg; wandering pains of great variety, pains come on quickly and subside soon; jerking, aching pain in hip,(<) in hot weather (Ignatia (>)).

Kali-carb [Kali-c]

Pain in hip-joint at if bruised; drawing pain in left thigh; numbness of limb; in cases where quinine has been used to excess.

Kali-iod [Kali-i]

Gnawing pain in hip-bones; severe lacerating pain in thigh and legs; nightly lacerating in both knees; twitching in RIGHT knee, tearing and darting in posterior surface of right thigh; tearing above the bend of the knee, and immediately after, also below, worse at night from lying on affected side; or in the evening, especially when getting into bed, BETTER BY MOTION; spasmodic contraction of muscles; frequently caused by mercury.

Kali-phos [Kali-p]

Sciatica; dragging pain down back of thigh to knee, torpor, stiffness; great restlessness and exhaustion; PARALYZING DRAWING PAIN IN SOLE OF FOOT.

Lac-can [Lac-c]

Rheumatic pains in left hip and along sciatic nerve; unbearable pains across suprasacral region, extending down sciatic nerve; preventing sleep and rest; wandering rheumatism.

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.