AEsculus-hip [Aesc]
Dry, uncomfortable feeling in fauces and pharynx, a sense of constriction, with raw, excoriated feeling or a sense of pricking and yet no swelling; frequent desire to swallow, uneasiness in deglutition; troublesome tickling cough, with constant hawking up of mucus which is not tenacious or stringy; fauces, vulva and back of pharynx dusky red, relaxed or swollen; tongue coated, feeling of general malaise and depression; catarrhal irritation of gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, face sallow and digestion slow. ANGINA GRANULOSA IS HERE A MANIFESTATION OF THE HAEMORRHOIDAL DIATHESIS.
Alumina [Alum]
FEELING OF A SPLINTER IN THROAT, stinging on swallowing; great dryness of throat, especially on awaking voice husky; constant hawking and a sensation of a lump in throat; thick mucus dropping from posterior nares; swallowing causes crepitation in ears; throat feels relaxed.
Ambra [Ambr]
Secretion of mucus in throat, with roughness and rawness, choking and vomiting can hardly be avoided when hawking up phlegm from the fauces; sensation of rawness in velum; foul breath.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
CHRONIC ANGINA; uvula and fauces dark-red; thick, tenacious mucus in throat, obliging him to hawk, causing slight hoarseness; sensation as if a splinter had lodged in throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching or moving neck; wartlike excrescences; dryness of throat on beginning to speak; burning and scraping.
Bromium [Brom]
PHARYNGITIS CROUPOSA; small follicles in posterior fauces, the inflammation extending to larynx causes a titillating cough; fauces inflamed, with reticulated redness and denuded patches; husky tone of voice.
Drosera [Dros]
Rough, dry, scraping sensation on soft palate and in fauces, inducing cough; pharyngeal anaemia; pharynx pale, discolored and blanched, often a premonitory symptom of tuberculosis pulmonum.
Hepar [Hep]
Chronic venous congestion of pharyngo-laryngeal mucous membrane; feeling of dulness and constriction in throat, with desire to swallow, but no pain during deglutition; throat dry and raw, with sensation as if splinter pricked it, of of a plug of mucus, which he must swallow or hawk up, mucus sometimes tinged with blood; tickling and harassing cough, dry or coughing up mucus.
Iodum [Iod]
Croupous pharyngitis; sharp burning in pharynx, with rawness extending into the air-passages; feeling of scraping in pharynx; fauces inflamed, with burning and dryness from throat to stomach; swallowing impeded when drinking water, as if throat were constricted, with distressing thirst.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Acute and chronic pharyngitis; CHRONIC CONGESTION OF FAUCES AND PHARYNGEAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE, follicles looking like little tubercles on pharyngeal wall; uneasiness and pain on swallowing; sensation of dryness, burning, rawness, a scraping feeling or sensation of something sticking in throat; accumulation of sticky, tenacious mucus in pharynx, with tendency to hoarseness and tickling cough, difficulty of throwing off the stringy mucus; chronic nasal catarrh; tongue coated with a yellow mucus; bitter taste; tendency to nausea; gastric catarrh.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
CHRONIC PHARYNGITIS, stinging and painful pressure when swallowing or talking; choking sensation as if something had lodged in throat, (>) after hawking up a piece of thick mucus; boring, darting pains in ears.
Kali-mur [Kali-m]
Pharyngitis, GREAT DEAL OF FOETOR IN BREATH, hawks up cheesy lumps of the size of a split pea; throat swollen, spots or pustules appear with gray or whitish exudation; adherent crusts in vault of pharynx; tongue coated grayish-white, slimy or dry; biliousness, dyspepsia, fatty or rich food causes indigestion.
Lachesis [Lach]
Severe pain out of proportion to morbid appearance seen on inspection; feeling of fulness and dryness in throat, with desire to clear throat, patient tries to expectorate, but nothing or next to nothing comes up; cough dry, tickling often spasmodic, (<) on lying down and on atmospheric changes; throat dry, shining, dusky-red, with tickling sensation on pressing larynx at a particular spot, inducing cough, chills and rigors.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Inflammation of fauces with hoarseness and sticking, unable to swallow solids or liquids; mucus in throat with constant hawking and expectoration of pieces of granular mucus or yellow purulent mucus; feeling of rawness in throat, as if mucus were tightly adherent, with tickling in throat, which causes coughing; FEELING OF CONTRACTION IN THROAT, NOTHING GOES DOWN; scraping in throat, taste flat, disgusting or sour; thirst, (<) at night, can only drink a little at a time; heartburn; great fermentation in abdomen.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
FOUL BREATH; bitter, sour taste, tenacious mucus in throat, that draws itself out in long strings, especially mornings; dryness and rawness in throat, with a hoarse voice; stitches in small spot in left side of throat, (>) on swallowing; stool hard, like sheep’s dung; constipation.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Chronic pharyngitis, with thickening of posterior wall of pharynx, with choking on attempting to eat a large bolus than usual; severe spasmodic cough, referred to pit of throat, and lungs sore from strain of coughing.
Mercurius-iod-flav [Merc-i-f]
Fauces and roof of mouth dry, gums and side of mouth moist; posterior wall of pharynx red, irritated, inflamed and dotted, with patches of mucus and small spots which look ulcerated; pricking, burning in right side of pharynx; empty deglutition with frequent attempt to swallow.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Follicular inflammation of pharynx; chronic sore throat in tobacco smokers; mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx pale, dark red; connective tissue infiltrated; small burning ulcers.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Fauces red, with a yellow membrane and with some excoriations; fauces and posterior pharynx red, swallowing difficult; a morsel sticks in pharynx while eating, as if the pharynx were constricted; swallowing possible only for liquids, and part of that regurgitates.
Petroleum [Petr]
Burning in fauces, oesophagus and upper part of thorax; constriction and sensation of rawness in pharynx; crawling in pharynx and nose, as from snuff; cracking in ear from time to time; something prevents hearing while eructating; bronchial catarrhs.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Dry, irritable state of mucous membrane; constant de sire to clear the throat of phlegm, sense of roughness and dryness in pharynx; great dryness of throat at bedtime; sensation of a lump or plug in throat, general soreness of posterior fauces and EXTENSION OF IRRITATION INTO ONE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBES; difficult swallowing because throat feels so dry and rough; every attempt to swallow causes excruciating shooting pains through both ears.
Plumbum [Plb]
Constriction and cutting in pharynx, extending as far down as stomach, swallowing sometimes nearly impossible; angina pituitosa followed by PARALYSIS OF PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Dryness of throat, heat in throat, (>) by inspiration of cold air; sensation as if throat were swollen, (<) on right side and mostly felt when swallowing; burning and dryness of pharynx, not (>) by drinking.
Secale [Sec]
Hawking up of little follicular exudates.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Scraping, roughness and dryness in throat; pressure as if from a plug or tumor in throat; burning sensation and shooting pain in throat, principally during empty deglutition; voice hoarse, low or gone, (<) in cold, damp weather; venous congestion, piles, constipation.
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.