Books · Homoeopathic Therapeutics

OEDEMA

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Ammonium carb Am-c

Somnolence, poisoning of the blood by carbon, difficult breathing, causing short cough; relief from fresh air, and when sitting quiet.

Apis mell Apis

OEdema glottidis, difficulty of swallowing not caused by the swelling of the throat, but by the irritation of the epiglottis, every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him.

Arsenicum Ars

Great anxiety, restlessness, always worse towards midnight or soon after; after; must incline the chest forward to breathe; loss of breath immediately on lying down, expectorates frothy saliva.

Bovista Bov

Slight oedema from the sluggish passage of blood through the veins; pressure on any part of the body causes indentation.

Carbo veg Carb-v

Collapsed state; hoarse mucous rales all over chest; rattling of large bubbles, face pale, skin cold; slow, intermittent pulse, wants to be fanned.

Ipecacuanha Ip

Spasmodic cough, sickness of stomach; fine rattling noises in chest; dyspnoea, with threatening suffocation; the chest seems loaded and still very little expectoration; face rather pale.

Kali hydr Kali-i

OEdema pulmonum, with sputa like green soapsuds.

Kali phos Kali-p

Oedema pulmonum acutum, dyspnoea, spasmodic cough, with expectoration of frothy serous masses; lassitude and prostration.

Lachesis Lach

Suffocative fits, worse after sleep, dark, almost black, urine; offensive stools, expectoration scanty, difficult, watery, saltish, must be swallowed again.

Phosphorus Phos

Dyspnoea, worse before midnight, with tightness of chest; noisy painting breathing; chest feels full and heavy, with tension; expectorates cold mucus, tasting sour, salty or sweat.

Tartarus emet Ant-t

Large bubbling rattling; chest appears full of phlegm, without capability of relieving itself; relief from copious expectoration.

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.

Back to Tools or the repertory.