Alumina [Alum]
Panaritium with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the finger-tips; gnawing beneath the finger-nails, with crawling along the arm as far as clavicle; nails brittle or thick, spots on nails.
Anthracinum [Anthr]
Violent burning pain in panaritium; absorption of pus into the blood; gangrenous destruction; cerebral symptoms.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Deficient growth of nails; split nails, growing cracked and thick (split hoof in horses); thick, horny callosities of skin. Alumina,
Apis-mell [Apis]
Burning, stinging, throbbing panaritium, which is hard and has a white, sickly, bleached-out appearance, characteristic of the bee-sting; very sensitive to touch; the finger swells rapidly; with tense glossy red surface, extending up to forearm.
Arnica [Arn]
Ulceration around the roots of the nails, with painful soreness of the ends of the fingers.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Whitlow, with violent nightly pains and threatening necrosis of phalanx.
Berberis [Berb]
Pain under finger-nails, with coldness of feet, extending up ankles and swelling of some of the finger-joints.
Bryonia [Bry]
Tight, compressed feeling with pressing-out sensation, as if the finger needed more room, dark, congested part, chilly feelings at times, but dry heat and burning tearing, shooting pains more prominent; at first cold applications pleasant, later moist hot poultices more agreeable; dry mouth without thirst of great thirst; bitter taste, dry stool, dry skin, pulse fast, frequent and strong.
Bufo [Bufo]
Bluish-black swelling around nail, followed by suppuration: PAINS RUN IN STREAKS UP THE ARM TO AXILLA; after slight contusion, tearing pain, with redness along whole arm, following lymphatic vessels into armpit, causing there painful glandular swellings.
Dioscorea [Dios]
DISPOSITION TO FELONS; frequent sharp pains in bones of fingers, one finger at a time, sensation as of a brier in the middle finger of each hand with throbbing, darting, stinging pain next to thee bone and very tender to pressure; nails brittle; jumping, darting pains in corns.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Felon, particularly BONE FELONS, with offensive discharge, (<) from cold applications; phalanges swollen far above their natural size; on dorsum of finger an opening discharges ichorous pus; panaritium, also simple onychia, with ulceration; sharp sticking pain at root of right thumb-nail. Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them; soreness between toes; soreness of all the corns. It promotes expulsion of necrotic bones.
Graphites [Graph]
Ingrowing toe-nail; sides and roots of the finger and toe-nails become sore, ulcerate and swell, they are exceedingly painful, violently burning and throbbing, then suppuration and proud flesh. Given at the beginning it absorbs the ailment in a few hours; hypertrophy of nails.
Hepar [Hep]
Superficial erysipelatous onychia around the root of the nail; BEFORE SUPPURATION; Hepar, AFTER IT Lach,; thumb lived, violent throbbing, cutting burning pain, lymphatics inflamed, lump in axilla; patient sensitive to touch and cold; subject to it every winter; decided yellow color of the skin; pulse can bee plainly felt, and the patient cannot bear the weight or pressure of a poultice, though (>) by warmth generally.
Hypericum [Hyper]
Panaritium, injuries of parts rich in sentient nerves, particularly fingers and toes and matrices of nails; pains severe and of long duration; mechanical injuries by splinters or needles under nails; squeezing or hammering of toes and fingers.
Lachesis [Lach]
Maltreated cases of some standing, when gangrene is threatening or has already set in, emitting an intolerance odor (Arsenicum): pricking in the ends of fingers,
Ledum [Led]
Consequences of injuries, but only in first stage, as by pulling off abruptly a hangnail, during sewing; nightly itching of feet.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Inflammation extending over whole hand; dark-red swelling; belching, bloated abdomen, emptiness in stomach, with yawning.
Mercurius [Merc]
Inflammation in the cellular tissue beneath the cutis, in the sinews, their fasciae, and their phalangeal joints; pains not violent, more throbbing than shooting; patent extremely sensitive to heat and cold.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Living in damp dwelling or workshops, pale appearance, lassitude and dull headache in the morning, chilly and feverish in the evening. A blister on the linguilar phalanx, followed by deep-red swelling; festering at root of nail; great pans, more bearable outdoors than in thee room.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Suppuration in palmar surface of finger or thumb with throbbing or burning pain, (<) by warmth and by letting the hand hang down, in the evening after sun down; more comfortable in bed.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Slow local development, frequent remission; dark-red erysipelatous, with little blister or oedema; pain running up the armpit.
Sepia [Sep]
Itching with throbbing, shooting and burning at intervals or alternately; part dark-red and pus visible.
Silicea [Sil]
Affection of periosteum; moderate redness or heat; deep-seated inflammation, violent shooting pain deep in the finger, worse in the warm bed, sleepless at night, pain being unbearable, with great restlessness, irritability, even into convulsive jerks; opening with a surrounding wall of proud flesh, pus malignant, discolored; it promotes expulsion of necrotic bones; ingrowing toe-nail; tearing pains as if the bones would be actually torn out, preventing all sleep; FREQUENT CROPS OF BOILS; chronic foetid foot-sweats; slightest draught unbearable.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Hangnails; complementary to Apis in panaritium.
Thuja [Thuj]
Finger-nails distorted, crumbling, soft, discolored (Graphites, Nitr.ac., Silicea); toe-nails brittle and distorted; ingrowing toe- nails.
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.