Books · Homoeopathic Therapeutics

TONGUE, AFFECTIONS OF

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Absinthium Absin

Thick, protruding can hardly talk; trembling bites it.

Aconite Acon

Dry, numb coated yellow-white; feels as if swollen, tingling, biting piercing, feeling of dryness and roughness in middle, without thirst; paralysis especially at tip.

Aesculus hip Aesc

Tip sore, as if ulcerated; uncontrollable, cannot form words properly.

Ailanthus glan Ail

Dry, parched, cracked; brown in centre, tip and edges livid.

Alumen Alumn

Scirrhus of tongue, dry, burning in evening; stitches worse at the tip.

Alumina Alum

Dry on waking, followed by increased of salvia; tingling, itching, must scratch it; sore as if burned.

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Milky-white as if whitewashed, border red and sore.

Antimonium tart Ant-t

Pasty, thick, white; very red and dry in centre.

Apis mell Apis

Red at tip, swollen, dry, glossy; cracked, sore, ulcerated or covered with vesicles be protruded, hinders talking; stinging blisters and edges (Caps.).

Argentum nit Arg-n

Dry, hard as a chip and black like the teeth; red streak down centre.

Arnica Arn

Bruised feeling; dry, with a brown streak down centre.

Arsenicum Ars

Thickly furred, edges red, dry and morbidly red, with raised papillae at tip; swollen at root; violent burning gangrene.

Arum triph Arum-t

Cracked, red, papillae prominent, burning, sore.

Baptisia Bapt

Very dry, yellowish-brown in centre, with red shining edges; cracked, sore ulcerated; feels swollen, thick.

Baryta carb Bar-c

Paralysis of tongue cannot talk, but seems conscious; burning sense of excoriation on tip; tongue cracked, feels very sore.

Belladonna Bell

Strawberry tongue, tip and edges bright-red, white centre; feeling of coldness and dryness in forepart; paralytic weakness.

Benzoic acid Benz-ac

Ulcerated, with deeply-chapped, fungoid surfaces.

Bryonia Bry

Dry tongue, white coating along middle, or very much furred.

Calcarea carb Calc

Dry at night and morning on awaking.

Cantharis Canth

Trembling (Lach., when protruded); thickly furred, but red at edges; swollen; excoriated and full of blisters at the base; suppurating.

Capsicum Caps

Flat, sensitive spreading ulcers, with a lardaceous centre; pimples with stinging pains when touched.

Carbo an Carb-an

Knotty indurations dry, immovable; burning blisters on tip and edges.

Carbo veg Carb-v

Lead-colored; blue, sticky, moist; dry parched, fissured, turns black.

Causticum Caust

White on edges, red in middle; sensation as if tongue were adhering to palate; paralysis of tongue; painful vesicles on tip of tongue.

Chamomilla Cham

White tongue, with islands in it; red, cracked; dry, with thirst.

Chelidonium Chel

Thick, yellow with red margin, showing imprint of teeth.

Cicuta Cic

White, painful, burning ulcers.

Cimicifuga Cimic

Clean, but pointed and trembling; swollen, coated light-brown in centre; cannot utter a word, though she tries it.

Cina Cina

Ulcers on edges and dorsum of the tongue.

Cocculus Cocc

Paralysis, pain at base when protruded.

Colchicum Colch

Bright-red, heavy, stiff and numb; projected with difficulty.

Conium Con

Swollen, painful, stiff; paralysis.

Dulcamara Dulc

Inarticulate speech from a swollen tongue, but talks incessantly; breathing impeded.

Gelsemium Gels

Yellowish-white; thick, brown; margins red; trembling, can hardly put out tongue; partial paralysis; tongue feels thick can hardly speak or swallow.

Graphites Graph

Burning vesicles on lower surface and tip; painful tubercles and vesicles on back part; sensitive.

Hamamelis Ham

Canker spots on tips; blisters on sides; scalding sensation.

Hydrastis Hydr

White or with a yellow strip; swollen marks of teeth.

Ignatia Ign

Bites tongue when chewing or talking; anterior half of tongue feels numb when talking , feels burnt and sore when eating.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

Broad or with scalloped edges; thick, yellow, edges red and full small painful ulcers; sensation as of a hair on back part and velum, not (>) by eating or drinking (Natr.m.).

Lachesis Lach

Enlarged papillae; dry, red, cracked at tip; trembling when protruded or catches behind teeth.

Laurocerasus Laur

Cold tongue; rough and dry, numb as if burnt; left side stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.

Lycopodium Lyc

Red and dry, becomes black and cracked; heavy trembling, tubercles; vesicles on tip, feeling scalded and raw; ulcers on and under tongue.

Magnesia mur Mag-m

Yellow, flabby, large tip; rhagades, with violent burning pain.

Mancinella Manc

Burning dry tongue; white as in aphthae, with sharply defined clean spots; foetid yellow salvia.

Mercurialis peren Merl

Burning and smarting; tongue feels heavy and thick m tastes nothing; burning dryness in mouth and throat; no salvia secreted; increased thirst.

Mercurius Merc

Red, with dark spots and burning; swollen; flabby takes imprint of teeth; moist, with violent thirst or covered with mucus; hollow ulcers, with swelling; painful as if chapped, or feels burn; ranula.

Muriatic acid Mur-ac

Tongue heavy as lead, hinders talking; feels lame, sore: atrophy, thick, dark, almost whole mouth and fauces covered with a grayish-white membrane, painful blisters, with burning carcinoma.

Natrum mur Nat-m

Mapped, heavy; sensation of hair on tongue; feels dry, but is not; vesicles and ulcers; smarting and burning when touched by food.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

White, with sore spots; green coating with ptyalism; sensitive, even milk food causes smarting; deep irregular ulcers on edge with tough, ropy mucus.

Nux vomica Nux-v

First half of tongue clean, sometimes red and shining, back covered with deep brownish fur; black and cracked with bright-red edges.

Phosphorus Phos

Dry, coated white on the middle, swollen at root; aphthae.

Phosphoric acid Ph-ac

Tongue, clammy mucus, tongue swollen and painful when talking, smarts only at night; bites the side involuntarily at night; feeling of dryness, without thirst.

Phytolacca Phyt

Burnt feeling on tongue; hot rough tender and smarting at the tip; ulcers on tongue.

Plumbum Plb

Yellow or green coating; dry, brown, cracked, painful; aphthae; dirty-looking ulcers and purple blotches on tip.

Podophyllum Podo

Tongue takes the imprint of the teeth; furred, white, foul taste.

Pulsatilla Puls

White or yellow and coated with tenacious mucus; feels in middle as if burned, even when moist, night and morning; feels too broad and too large; edges feel sore, as if scalded.

Ranunculus Ran-b

Exfoliated in spots, which are raw; both sides of tongue denuded, like islands the rest thickly coated; tip smarting.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Not coated, but very dry, red cracked; triangular red tip, rest covered with parched brown mucus, taking imprint of teeth.

Sabadilla Sabad

Tip bluish, white in centre; painful even down the throat.

Sempervivum tect Semp

Induration and cancer of tongue.

Sepia Sep

Dry, rough, painful as if sore or scalded, vesicles.

Silicea Sil

Numb sensation as of a hair on forepart of tongue; ulcer on right border eating into it and discharge pus (cancer).

Sulphur Sulph

White with red tips and borders in acute cases; or white, yellow, brown and dry, furred forenoon, but slimy taste during day in chronic cases.

Sulphuric acid Sul-ac

Tongue sticks like glue, dry, inelastic, embarrassing speech.

Thuja Thuj

White without thirst; tip sore to touch; rough, scraping feeling on surface, bites tongue frequently, ranula, surrounded by varicose veins; aphthae.

Veratrum alb Verat

Cold tongue (Hydr.ac.); withered, swollen dry, cracked and too red, white with red tip and edges; yellowish-brown, back part black and heavy.

Veratrum vir Verat-v

Yellow, with red streak down middle, feels scalded.

Yucca filam Yuc

Tongue takes imprint of teeth; greasy-looking, with elevated papillae.

Zincum Zinc

Dry, does not talk, coated at root and dry, swollen on left side and covered with vesicles; painful shooting in tip, with increased flow of salvia and metallic taste; seems too broad.

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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