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Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Yellowish or brownish scabs on face; apt to occur on fat people; he air which he inhales feels cold to the nose bitter taste; longing for acids, inappetency; (<) from bathing;(>) in open air.

Antimonium tart Ant-t

Pustules with red areola, which leave large scars behind; brown crusts; eruption very painful; drowsiness with nausea; longing for acids, with aversion to milk; eructations taste like sulphur; does not like to be touched; (<) evenings, by sitting, standing, bending forward;(<) open air.

Arsenicum Ars

Pustules red with intense burning;' severe ulceration; painful black pustules, gnawing, burning, itching; black eruption on scalp; (>) from cold; (>) from warmth.

Belladonna Bell

Pustules surrounded by a whitish areola, with an erysipelatous inflammation of the skin; burning and itching with sensitiveness even to slight touch.

Cicuta Cic

Burning suppurating eruption about the face, with yellowish crusts.

Croton tigl Croto-t

Confluent, oozing pustules, forming grayish-brown crusts, especially on abdomen; burning all over the surface of the body, (<) from eating, drinking, after sleep.

Juglans ciner Jug-c

Eruption general and almost confluent; pustules large thickly set, those upon face dry up, while those upon body and extremities become worse; can neither sit nor lie with any comfort; painful itching with irresistible desire to tear off the crusts.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

Pustules all over body, in the early stage having a small brown scab on the summit; pustules at the roots or nails, spreading over the hands; pustules resembling small-pox, with a hair in the centre comes on especially IN SUMMER; in light-haired persons; pustules leaving after the scabs come off a small dry ulcer, which heals in a fortnight, leaving a colorless depressed., cicatrix.

Kreosotum Kreos

Large, fat, greasy pustules, with violent itching towards humor, or which remain sore, become hollow and afterwards raised and cicatrized; pustules bleed easily and are painful to the touch.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

When touching the pustules they feel as if a splinter were sticking in them.

Petroleum Petr

Itching and burning pustules; with great weakness on exertion; great lassitude; (<) fresh air, (>) from warmth and warm air.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Pustules upon a red nausea; black pustules, forming hard scabs, with burning and itching; (<) in cold weather.

Secale corn Sec

Cachectic females with rough skin; black pustules with tendency to gangrene; (<) in warmth, (>) in cold weather.

Silica Sil

Pustules all over body, especially on back part of head, sensitive to contact; burning and soreness after scratching; aversion to warm food; (<) in cold;(>) from warmth.

Sulphur Sulph

Dry, thick, yellowish scabs all over body, especially on scalp, with great itching and tenderness to touch; aversion to washing; (<) from warmth of bed.

Thuja Thuj

Suppurating pustules, especially on lower extremities, (>) by gentle rubbing. Hardly amenable to medical treatment but in the beginning we may try: .

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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