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LUMBAGO

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Kink in back, hindering deep inspiration; synochal fever and restlessness.

Aloe Aloe

Lumbago alternating with headache; pressing and heaviness in sacral region, (<) on sitting, (>) on motion.

Antimonium tart Ant-t

Slightest effort to move causes retching cold, clammy perspiration and excruciating pain in lower part of back.

Arnica Arn

Great soreness and numbness in affected part, (<) on slightest motion and especially when lying and getting warm in bed.

Belladonna Bell

Intensely painful sensation of cramp in lumbo-sacral region and coccyx, can sit only for a short time; and while sitting becomes quite stiff and unable to rise again for a pain; crampy pains with stiffness in hip and ham, especially left side.

Berberis Berb

Aching pain from above crests of ilia downward and inward to sacrum; aching pain in bladder before and after micturition; burning when urinating.

Bryonia Bry

Stitching tearing pain, (<) from slight motion; dull aching in lumbar muscles, stiffness, tearing and tenderness in joints and muscles of lumbar region, preventing motion and stooping; most when standing or sitting, (>) when lying; painful stiffness in small of back, compelling him to walk and sit crookedly.

Calcarea carb Calc

Intolerable backache, can scarcely rise from his seat; rheumatism of lumbar vertebrae, with violent boring tearing burning pain, extending downward, with inclination to move, (<) after over-lifting or feeling as if wrenched.

Calcarea fluor Calc-f

Tired aching of small of backs as after long ride with restlessness, must walk about, can sit in no position to relieve back; from strains when Rhus failed to relieve,; (>) from warmth; (>) on beginning to move, (>) but on continued motion.

Cimicifuga Cimic

Dull, heavy aching in small of back, (>) rest, (<) by motion; pulsating pains in lumbar region; weak trembling pain in lumbar and sacral region, sometimes extending all around body.

Colocynthis Coloc

Pain in back and small of back which finally locates itself in upper part of thigh and buttock, PAIN SEEMS CONFINED TO A SMALL SPOT; making him limp, and finally becomes so severe that he can neither stand nor walk; severe burning along sacrum; stitches in sides with each breath; respiration anxious and oppressed, smothering.

Dulcamara Dulc

Drawing pain from small of back down thighs, during rest; stitches when moving (>) by pressure; pain in small of back as after stooping a long time; lameness in small of back, as from a cold; sacrum feels cold.

Ferrum met Ferr

LUMBAGO ALL NIGHT, GOES OFF WHEN RISING; stitch-like jerks in small of back when walking, extending towards hips, more painful after sitting or standing ( as after straining parts by lifting).

Ferrum phos Ferr-p

Pains in back and loins and over kidneys; rheumatic pains felt only when moving; kink in back.

Kali carb Kali-c

Sharp pains in lumbar region, (<) 3 A. M., compelling him to get up and walk about; pains shoot down the buttocks.

Kali phos Kali-p

Pains which are laming; parts affected feel powerless, gentle motion gradually lessening pain stiffness, yet too much exertion increasing the pain; (<) after rising from a sitting posture and at commencement of motion.

Kali sulph Kali-s

Pains (<) in warm room and evening, (>) in open cool air; pains SHIFT AND CHANGE ABOUT.

Ledum Led

Pain in back, like a feeling of stiffness after sitting still for a long time; crampy pains over hips in the evening; morning feet are stiff and rigid.

Lycopodium Lyc

When Bry., failed; (<) from slighter motion at night, cannot bear covering; dyspepsia, flatulency, constipation, relief from slow motion.

Magnesia phos Mag-p

Pains in back vivid, shooting boring intermitting; (>) by warmth.

Natrum mur Nat-m

Pains in small of back, (>) lying on something hard; pain after prolonged stooping, as if bruised; weak back, (<) morning; great weakness and weariness.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

Pain in back, as if ulcerating; can only lie on right side.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Rheumatism in back, patient unable to turn over in bed without first sitting up; pains (<) at night when lying in bed; the longer he lies in bed in the morning the more does his back ache.

Petroleum Petr

CHIEF REMEDY IN THE BEGINNING OF LUMBAGO, whether patients is better from motion or not; great pains on attempting to rise, stiff neck of rheumatic origin from sitting in a draught, (>) from warmth, (<) from cold, constrictive pains in dorsal muscles; (>) from bending backward.

Ruta Ruta

Lumbago (<) morning, before rising and (>) after rising; bruised feeling in back or coccyx.

Secale Sec

Kink in back; (<) from any exertion or strain upon spine; pain at sacrum, with bearing down, as if parts would be forced out, (<) when moving.

Staphisagria Staph

Lumbar pains compel patient to get up at an unreasonably early hour; pain in small of back as from overlifting, (<) at rest, at night and in morning and when rising from seat.

Sulphur Sulph

Stiffness in lumbar region with sudden loss of power on attempting to move, especially on rising from a seat; stiffness and pain in small of back after heavy lifting and taking cold at the same time.

Valeriana Valer

Strained feeling in lumbar region; violent drawing darting jerking pains; which appear suddenly (Sec.), (<) from sitting and (>) from motion.

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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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