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GLOSSITIS; INFLAMMATION OF TONGUE

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Phlegmonous glossitis, with high fever, hot and dry skin, headache, delirium, restlessness; piercing and tingling pains in tongue, with burning and swelling; salivation with stitches in tongue; face swollen red and hot, with quick pulse; choking, with inability to swallow; constipation; scanty, high-colored urine.

Apis mell Apis

Sensation of rawness on tongue, it feels as if it had been scalded; rawness, burning and blisters along the edge of tongue; swelling of tongue, is scarcely able to talk; absence of thirst or great thirst, but can only drink a little at a time or inability to swallow; tongue red, swollen, even to suffocation.

Arnica Arn

Tongue coated and swollen; foetid, putrid smell from mouth; general sinking of vital power.

Arsenicum Ars

Glossitis, with constant thirst, drinking but a little at a time; gangrene of tongue, SPOTS ON TONGUE, BURNING LIKE FIRE; gangrene of tongue, SPOTS ON TONGUE, BURNING LIKE FIRE; gangrenous ulcers of mouth and fauces; malignant aphthae of children.

Belladonna Bell

Tongue hot and dry, with red edges; painful, especially to the touch; papillae of a deep-red color, inflamed and much swollen; feeling in tip of tongue as if vesicle were on it, with burning pain when touched; red inflammatory swelling of mouth and fauces; suppression of stool and urine.

Benzoic acid Benz-ac

Soreness and inflammation of back part of tongue, felt most while swallowing; EXTENSIVE ULCERATIONS ON TONGUE, with deeply chapped or fungoid surfaces; ulcers on left side of mouth, behind left last molar (the constant irritation of a rough, broken tooth is a frequent cause of ulcerating glossitis.)

Calcarea carb Calc

Tongue sore on tip, sides and back, preventing eating; violent burning of tongue and mouth; little blisters on tongue, with burning pain and heat in mouth.

Cantharis Canth

Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of tongue; sore, burning and smarting vesicles in mouth; aversion to drink as it increases the pain; dryness of mouth, extending into posterior nares; FIERY RED TONGUE AND SUBLINGUAL GLANDS SWOLLEN AND RED; burning pains in mouth, throat and stomach; salivation.

Causticum Caust

Painful vesicles on tip of tongue; tongue white on sides, red in centre; pain and swelling at the root of tongue; salivation and flat taste in mouth.

Conium Con

Soreness of tongue, especially about the root; stiff, swollen painful tongue, with dryness of mouth and impeded deglutition; tongue and lips dry and sticky.

Lachesis Lach

CANCER OF TONGUE; blisters on inflamed tongue, which change into ulcers, threatening suffocation; gangrene of tongue, which change into ulcers, threatening suffocation; gangrene of tongue, on both edges; glossitis with titillation inducing cough; disposition to empty swallowing, (<) evenings with dryness of throat (Crotal., Naja Vip.).

Manganum acet Mang

Burning vesicles on left side of tongue; nodosities on tongue; (<) at night, (>) in fresh air.

Mercurius Merc

Inflammatory hard swelling of tongue, with ulcerated edges, which become indented by the impressions of the teeth; hollow, ulcerated tongue (carious teeth), with prickings; foul breath; profuse salivation; stiffness of jaws; difficult deglutition. (Merc. cyn.).

Petroleum Petr

Inflamed tongue with foetid salivation.

Silicea Sil

Tongue dry or coated with a slimy mucus, swollen and numb; difficult swallowing; rigors and suppuration; anxiety and despondency.

Sulphuric acid Sul-ac

Ulcers on inflamed tongue; talking difficult, as from want of elasticity in those parts.

What is in this library

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.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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