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Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Alumina Alum

Panaritium with brittle nails, lancinating pains and tendency to ulceration of the finger-tips; gnawing beneath the finger-nails, with crawling along the arm as far as clavicle; nails brittle or thick, spots on nails.

Anthracinum Anthr

Violent burning pain in panaritium; absorption of pus into the blood; gangrenous destruction; cerebral symptoms.

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Deficient growth of nails; split nails, growing cracked and thick (split hoof in horses); thick, horny callosities of skin. Alum.,

Apis mell Apis

Burning, stinging, throbbing panaritium, which is hard and has a white, sickly, bleached-out appearance, characteristic of the bee-sting; very sensitive to touch; the finger swells rapidly; with tense glossy red surface, extending up to forearm.

Arnica Arn

Ulceration around the roots of the nails, with painful soreness of the ends of the fingers.

Asafoetida Asaf

Whitlow, with violent nightly pains and threatening necrosis of phalanx.

Berberis Berb

Pain under finger-nails, with coldness of feet, extending up ankles and swelling of some of the finger-joints.

Bryonia Bry

Tight, compressed feeling with pressing-out sensation, as if the finger needed more room, dark, congested part, chilly feelings at times, but dry heat and burning tearing, shooting pains more prominent; at first cold applications pleasant, later moist hot poultices more agreeable; dry mouth without thirst of great thirst; bitter taste, dry stool, dry skin, pulse fast, frequent and strong.

Bufo Bufo

Bluish-black swelling around nail, followed by suppuration: PAINS RUN IN STREAKS UP THE ARM TO AXILLA; after slight contusion, tearing pain, with redness along whole arm, following lymphatic vessels into armpit, causing there painful glandular swellings.

Dioscorea Dios

DISPOSITION TO FELONS; frequent sharp pains in bones of fingers, one finger at a time, sensation as of a brier in the middle finger of each hand with throbbing, darting, stinging pain next to the bone and very tender to pressure; nails brittle; jumping , darting pains in corns.

Fluoric acid Fl-ac

Felon, particularly BONE FELONS, with offensive discharge, (<) from cold applications; phalanges swollen far above their natural size; on dorsum of finger an opening discharges ichorous pus; panaritium, also simple onychia, with ulceration; sharp sticking pain at root of right thumb-nail. Nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them; soreness between toes; soreness of all the corns. It promotes expulsion of necrotic bones.

Graphites Graph

Ingrowing toe-nail; sides and roots of the finger and toe-nails become sore, ulcerate and swell, they are exceedingly painful, violently burning and throbbing, then suppuration and proud flesh. Given at the beginning it absorbs the ailment in a few hours; hypertrophy of nails.

Hepar Hep

Superficial erysipelatous onychia around the root of the nail; BEFORE SUPPURATION; Hep., AFTER IT Lach,; thumb lived, violent throbbing, cutting burning pain, lymphatics inflamed, lump in axilla; patient sensitive to touch and cold; subject to it every winter; decided yellow color of the skin; pulse can be plainly felt, and the patient cannot bear the weight or pressure of a poultice, though (>) by warmth generally.

Hypericum Hyper

Panaritium, injuries of parts rich in sentient nerves, particularly fingers and toes and matrices of nails; pains severe and of long duration; mechanical injuries by splinters or needles under nails; squeezing or hammering of toes and fingers.

Lachesis Lach

Maltreated cases of some standing, when gangrene is threatening or has already set in, emitting an intolerance odor (Ars.): pricking in the ends of fingers,

Ledum Led

Consequences of injuries, but only in first stage, as by pulling off abruptly a hangnail, during sewing; nightly itching of feet.

Lycopodium Lyc

Inflammation extending over whole hand; dark-red swelling; belching, bloated abdomen, emptiness in stomach, with yawning.

Mercurius Merc

Inflammation in the cellular tissue beneath the cutis, in the sinews, their fasciae, and their phalangeal joints; pains not violent, more throbbing than shooting; patent extremely sensitive to heat and cold.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

Living in damp dwelling or workshops, pale appearance, lassitude and dull headache in the morning, chilly and feverish in the evening. A blister on the linguilar phalanx, followed by deep-red swelling; festering at root of nail; great pans, more bearable outdoors than in the room.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Suppuration in palmar surface of finger or thumb with throbbing or burning pain, (<) by warmth and by letting the hand hang down, in the evening after sun down; more comfortable in bed.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Slow local development, frequent remission; dark-red erysipelatous, with little blister or oedema; pain running up the armpit.

Sepia Sep

Itching with throbbing, shooting and burning at intervals or alternately; part dark-red and pus visible.

Silicea Sil

Affection of periosteum; moderate redness or heat; deep-seated inflammation, violent shooting pain deep in the finger, worse in the warm bed, sleepless at night, pain being unbearable, with great restlessness, irritability, even into convulsive jerks; opening with a surrounding wall of proud flesh, pus malignant, discolored; it promotes expulsion of necrotic bones; in-growing toe-nail; tearing pains as if the bones would be actually torn out, preventing all sleep; FREQUENT CROPS OF BOILS; chronic foetid foot-sweats; slightest draught unbearable.

Sulphur Sulph

Hangnails; complementary to Apis in panaritium.

Thuja Thuj

Finger-nails distorted, crumbling, soft, discolored (Graph., Nitr.ac., Sil.); toe-nails brittle and distorted; ingrowing toe- nails.

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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