Acidum-mur [Mur-ac]
Stinging itching and painful ulcers, with foetid odor, though covered with a crust; putrid ulcers, with burning pain or heat or heat on edges, jerking pains; pus foetid and scanty.
Acidum-nitr [Nit-ac]
Ulcer is sensitive and of an offensive odor;burning pain and heat in edges, shooting and pricking pains; superficial or mercurial ulcers, worse from touch or bathing in cold water easily bleeding deep ulcers; fistulous ulcers difficult to heat; pricking in ulcers; pus copious, bloody, corroding, ichorous; rapid destruction of parts.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Putrid flat ulcers with pungent sensation, pain relieved by keeping limb elevated and from outward pressure; pus white and putrid.
Angustura-vera [Ang]
Flat ulcers, eating into the ones; abscess of ankle joint; bones of arms affected; spinal caries, (<) after rubbing and in bed.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Fistulous, deep and flat ulcers; spongy ulcers, with itching or pricking; granulations exuberant, worse from bathing or getting heated near the fire; pus scanty.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Deeply penetrating, malignant ulcers; broad and deep sloughing ulcers; gangrenous ulcers with hectic fever; ulcers surrounded with black pustules, which break down into deep ulcers; no pus, merely oozing of foetid humor.
Arnica [Arn]
Ulcers of a bluish color, bleeding easily, attended by a bruised sensation in contiguous; results of contusions.
Arsenicum-iod [Ars-i]
Ulcers resulting from cutaneous irritation; discharges thin, offensive, with rapid loss of tissue, corroding every part over which it passes.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Burning in interior of ulcer, felt also while sleeping. mortifying putrid ulcers, with high edges and shining redness of surrounding skin; base of ulcer of blackish color, or lardaceous foetid ichor and proud flesh in the ulcer; thin scruff on the surface; bleeding slightly when bandaging; flat, gangrenous, or inflamed ulcers surroundings skin of a dusky-red, with borders exquisitely sensitive; pus copious, bloody, ichorous, or corrosive putrid, thin and watery; ulceration extending in breadth (Silicea, in depth); (>) from warmth (Secale, (<) from warmth)
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Ulcers with intermittent pricking pain, high hard edges, SENSITIVE TO TOUCH, easily bleeding; shooting pains around ulcer; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous; ulcers turn black. Ulcers, particularly when affecting the bones, discharging ichorous, thin and foetid pus; ulcerations from burns and salts, with great sensitiveness to suffering; intolerable soreness around ulcer.
Asterias-rubens [Aster]
Sycosis, flabby, lymphatic constitutional; scrofulous ulcers with sensitive edges and foetid discharge; skin destitute of pliability and elasticity; tetters.
Aurum [Aur]
Deep ulcers affecting the bones; cancerous ulcers; mercurial ulcers; bluish-red, deep, fistulous, swollen and painful; itching, shooting and burning pus yellow and foetid.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Fistulous ulcers in glands, especially in those of neck, with feeling of tension; gnawing pain, or as if burnt; scabby, crusty ulcers, painless underrated ulcers, difficult to heat; pus scanty and gelatinous, or totally absent; glands of neck hard and suppurating; parotis enormously swollen.
Belladonna [Bell]
Ulcers with irritable granulations, exquisitely sensitive; surface of bright-red color;throbbing, pulsating pain; parts swollen, (<) by touching and handing.
Borax [Bor]
Ulcers from about joints, particularly about joints of fingers (Mez., Sepia)
Bromium [Brom]
Ulcers with a carrion-like odor and threatening gangrene; skin surrounding it has a greenish-yellow look.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Unhealthy, ulcerative skin, even small wounds suppurate; scrofulous ulcers; fistulous ulcers with redness, hardness and swelling of the surround skin; carious ulcers; inflamed or putrid ulcers; high and feeble granulations;eating ulcers; inflamed or putrid ulcers;high and feeble granulations; tearing and throbbing in ulcers, which are white or and yellow pus scanty and albuminous (Nitr.ac. follows well).
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Carious ulcers in sensitive, easily excited persons who complain greatly of the warmth of the room; ulcers burning and itching.
Calendula-off [Calend]
Inflamed ulcers, painful as if beaten; excessive secretion of pus, surrounding parts red, with stinging pains in ulcer;phagedenic ulcers spreading in depth and width; weak; indolent, sloughing, varicose or haemorrhagic ulcers, (<) at night.
Cantharis [Canth]
Chronic, inveterate ulcers, defying all former treatment, limb swollen, of a brown color and discharging thin ichor, ulcer with itching, lacerating, burning and stinging pains in it; pus copious, in odorous, slightly yellow, sometimes, tinged with blood, pains (<) from rubbing or scratching.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Varicose, scorbutic, livid, easily bleeding and foetid cadaverous-smelling and corroding, scanty secretion; folds of skin become raw and ulcerated; burning pains, mottled appearance of skin around ulcer; flat; spreading ulcer of an dynamic type, discharging thin, corrosive, offensive ichor, which is burning; indolent, sluggish ulcers.
Carduus-mar [Card-m]
Varicose ulcer with severe burning and itching; oedema of feet, portal hyperaemia, haemorrhoids, constipation.
Causticum [Caust]
Bleeding ulcers with blisters on the surrounding skin; boring and burning in ulcers; burning on edges; pain as if burnt; sensitive ulcers with pustules as around them; swollen, with a feeling of tenseness in them; pus bloody, corroding, greenish or gay, ichorous, and thin s water; phagedenic ulcers; varicose and fistulous ulcers on hands, fingers and toes, corroding, thin, acrid, watery discharge, with burning pain, (<) in damp weather and from walking; ulcer on ankle.
Cepa [All-c]
ULCER ON HEEL FROM FRICTION; gangraena senilis.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Unhealthy skin, every injury suppurates; burning and smarting pain in ulcer at night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Old, putrid, spreading ulcers; deep, fistulous, spreading, itching ulcers, better from firm pressure red and painful pimples and pustules on various parts.
China [Chin]
Ichorous, sensitive ulcers, having putrid smell; flat; shallow ulcers, with copious discharge; carious ulcers, with profuse seat; wounds become black, gangrenous; painful sensitiveness in ulcer, especially when moving the part; pus bloody; ichorous and foetid malaria.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers, surrounded by hard swelling, on the lower limbs; old ulcers; glands swollen, inflamed, indurated or ulcerated.
Clematis [Clem]
Scabby, deep ulcers; indurated ulcers with high, elevated edges,. difficult to heat; itching in and around ulcer; shooting pain in under when touched;serous, yellow, acrid and ichorous; scanty suffusion or total suppression of pus. Ulcers herpeticum.
Conium [Con]
Blackish ulcers, with bloody, foetid, ichorous discharges, especially after contusion; burning, crusty and deep ulcers painless, hard and fistulous ulcers; nocturnal pains in them prevent sleep; pus foetid, watery and ichorous; concealed cancer of bone.
Condurango [Cund]
Indolent ulcers, with hard, callous edges and foul, ichorous discharge; old ulcers appearing cancerous.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Old ulcer, skin inelastic, doughlike; hard, inflamed ulcers, with jerking pain;sensitive ulcers, with redness around the edges pus scanty and surrounding.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Painful ulcers with scanty discharge, worse from cold or wet, or
from atmospheric changes.
Euphorbium [Euph]
Old, torpid ulcers;ulcers turning black insensible ulcers; lancinating and lacerating pains, (<) morning on getting heated ear fire, (>) from motion and walking.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Pale, oedematous ulcers, skin pale, yellow, swallow, dirty, withered, flabby.
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Painful ulcers, worse from warmth, better from cold, with copious discharge varicose veins and ulcer on legs burning pains on small spots on skin.
Graphites [Graph]
Old ulcers with foetid pus, proud flesh and itching, stinging pains; skin not inclined to heal, cracks and fissures, easily ulcerating; sensitive, sore, spongy ulcers, with a salty discharge; crusty and scabby ulcers; pus bloody, watery, acrid and corroding, smelling like herring brine.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Ulcers discharge bloody pus, smelling like old cheese, edges very sensitive, with a pulsating sensation; stinging burning pain in the edges mercurial ulcers; ulcers with jagged edges and surround by pustules or blisters; pus laudable or foetid, ichorous and corroding.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Inflamed ulcer, the surrounding skin being of a bright vermilion redness; ulcers painful, bleeding, with bruised feeling on moving the parts.
Ignatia [Ign]
Painless ulcers, with scanty discharge, generally worse from sight touch, better from hard pressure; skin chafed an sore.
Iodum [Iod]
Bleeding ulcers, destitute of feeling, with spongy edges; hard spongy and sensitive ulcers, with a feeling of tenseness and soreness; pus copious, bloody and corroding, or chin, watery and yellow.
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.