Aconite [Acon]
Burning heat, especially in head and face with burning dryness of skin, excessive thirst; redness of eyes and cheeks; restlessness, anxiety, fear of death; nausea, vertigo and headache, (<) by warmth;at first the heart works harder, then loses in forces and gains in rapidity; especially where patient was exposed to the immediate heat.
Agaricus [Agar]
Vertigo in bright strong light; sunstroke when occasioned by exercise in the sun; muscular trembling spine sensitive to touch; great weariness and prostration.
Amyl-nitrite [Aml-n]
CONGESTIVE STAGE OF SUNSTROKE; anxiety;longing for fresh air; dull confusion of head, giddy, intoxicated feeling; head feels full to bursting variable pulsations in temples; sensation of blood rushing upward;eyes protruded, staring conjunctiva bloodshot; red face; crampy epigastric pain;burning and pressure in stomach; dyspnoea and constriction in chest and heart; tumultuous beating of heart; tremulousness of hands; tottering gait; tired feeling in legs;weak relaxed feeling.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
One is unable to bear the heat of the sun, or is exhausted by doing the least work in the sun, with night-sweat; constant desire to sleep;gastric symptoms, etc.
Arnica [Arn]
EXHAUSTION AND TORPOR FROM THE CONTINUED EFFECT OF SLEEP; violent attacks of anguish; dull stupefying headache and vertigo, especially when walking everything appears to burn around; burning in the brain, the remainder of the body cool, or at least not hot; contraction of pupils; nausea and vomiting; pain in cardiac region, as if got a violent shock or as if the heart were squeezed together; pressure as if a stone were lying on stomach; involuntary defaecation and urination; short panting breath; dyspnoea; general sinking of strength he can hardly move a limb.
Belladonna [Bell]
Headache, with feeling of fulness and sensations as if everything would issue through the forehead;worse when stooping, moving, or by the least emotion; great fearfulness, tendency to start and dread of the things around or near one; disposition to weep and scream. FIRST STAGE OF SUNSTROKE.
Bryonia [Bry]
Painful feeling of fulness in head; inappetency or loathing; vomiting and diarrhoea; vehement disposition; fits of anger, perhaps during sequelae.
Cactus [Cact]
Vertigo from sanguineous congestion to the head; excessive pain in the head, with great prostration and weariness; pressing pain in the head; as if a great weight lay on vertex, increased ny talking sand noise; dimness of sight; pulsations in ears; difficulty of breathing; continued oppression and uneasiness as if the chest were constricted with an iron band; inspiring fresh air is very reviving.
Camphora [Camph]
Severe headache, congestion of brain, fainting, delirium, convulsions skin icy- cold, covered with cold sweat; sinking of vital force; embarrassed respiration and circulation, with coldness of surface and extremities tremors and cramps in muscles, cold sweat especially about head and neck..
Gelsemium [Gels]
Depressed from heat, not from the immediate effects of the sun; vertigo dilatation of pupils, dimness of sight; dull confused headache spreading from occiput over whole head; no thirst no appetite.
Glonoinum [Glon]
Losing the senses and sinking down unconscious, precedes by vertigo, nausea violent headache flushed and body cold; conjunctiva reddened; mist black spots, or visions of light before eyes, countenance pale and agitated; thirst; pain and throbbing in pit of stomach, with sensations of sinking; oppressed breathing, sighing ‘jaws firmly clenched; constriction sopor and great prostration; no sweat; deathly faint feeling in pit of stomach.
Lachesis [Lach]
CHRONIC SEQUELAE: talkative delirium; feeling of horror; weak memory; vertigo; headache over the eyes and in occiput; pain extending into neck; glimmering before eyes; nosebleed; face sunken, or bloated and red; tongue paralytic, trembles when protruded, constriction of throat; difficult deglutition; offensive stools;blowing expiration, cannot bear the neck touched; constriction of throat, constriction of chest; palpitation; heart feels constricted, can bear no pressure; pulse variable, muscular spasms; trembling epileptiform convulsions; moaning during coma, pulse variable.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
SEQUELAE. Inability to think; head feels stupefied and aches when in the sun; dazzling flashes or black spots before the eyes; dimness of sight; palpitation; trembling of hands; debility from
the least exertion; restless, unrefreshing sleep; profuse sweat from every exertion.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Hot weather fatigues, makes him languid, dizzy and faint; no desire for work; feels dull and sleepy; head dull and befogged; unsteadiness of vision; pale or sallow features.
Opium [Op]
Coma, with perfect unconsciousness; eye glassy; half closed; face pale; tetanic rigidity; obscuration of sight; contracted or dilated pupils; involuntary urination and defaecation; irregular and unequal pulse.
Silicea [Sil]
The heat causes nausea and the gastric ailments; feeling as if intoxicated; gloominess and vertigo; unsteady and confused in his actions;groaning; shaking of brain when stepping firmly; disagreeable feeling, as if the head were teaming with living things whirling around in it.
Theridion [Ther]
SUNSTROKE, first and second stage; headache most unbearable, with nausea and vomiting, like seasickness, and with shaking chills, aggravated by the least noise; throbbing from forehead to occiput; sick stomach; worse on rising from lying; hard heavy, dull pressure behind the eyes.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Thermic fever, with great heart of skin; fulness in head,
throbbing arteries; increased sensitiveness to sound; buzzing in ears; double or partial vision, dilated pupils;tongue yellow, with red streak in centre; vomiting, persistent diarrhoea; violent dyspnoea from pulmonary engorgement, with rapid respiration and dull burning in cardiac region;faintness and blindness from sudden motion when rising from lying; convulsions and paralysis; cold sweat on face, hands and feet.
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.