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TONSILLITIS, QUINSY, SORE THROAT

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Alumen Alumn

Predisposition to tonsillitis, catarrh of fauces and throat; throat sore and dry when talking or swallowing fluid; prickling sensation in both side of throat and great dryness with constant desire to drink.

Ammonium carb Am-c

Burning in throat; tendency to gangrenous ulceration of the tonsils, discharging offensive mucus,(<) night and morning.

Ammonium mur Am-m

Both tonsils much swollen, can neither swallow, talk, nor open mouth; after taking cold; THROBBING IN TONSILS; mouth and throat filled with a viscid phlegm, expelled with great difficulty.

Amygdala persica Amyg-p

Dark-red injections of fauces, uvula and tonsils, with sharp pains causing some difficulty in swallowing; marked general prostration.

Apis mell Apis

Stinging-burning pain when swallowing; dryness in mouth and throat; red and highly inflamed tonsils; deep ulcers on tonsils and palate, with erysipelatous or oedematous appearance around ulcers; oedema glottidis, tenacious mucus in throat; (<) heat or hot drinks, (>) from cold or cool drinks.

Baryta carb Bar-c

Liability to quinsy after cold or suppressed sweat of feet; tonsils tend to suppurate, especially the right; throat feels worse from empty swallowing; pricking sensation when swallowing; general malaise; palate swollen , chronic induration of tonsils; sensation as of a plug in throat , worse when swallowing solids; paresis of muscular structure of throat; scrofulosis, enlargement of glands in neck, under jaws and behind ears.

Baryta mur Bar-m

Chronic hoarseness from enlarged tonsils, which may also be indurated; difficulty of swallowing , mercurial odor from mouth, unnoticed by himself, whole mouth full of vesicles especially inside of mouth; great salivation; elongation of uvula with hyperaemia and blennorrhoea; catarrh extends over tonsils; epiglottis, into tubes; disposition to tonsillitis with suppuration each time, after every cold or checking foot-sweat.

Baryta iod Bar-i

Hypertrophy of tonsils, chronic enlargement and induration of tonsils, swelling of lymphatic glands, it often prevents suppuration.

Belladonna Bell

Tonsillitis, worse right side, parts bright-red; worse swallowing liquids; during deglutition sensation as if throat were too narrow and as if nothing would pass properly; rapidly forming aphthous ulcers on tonsils; intense congestion , throbbing of carotids, swelling of neck; externally painful to touch and motion.

Benzoic acid Benz-ac

Angina faucium et tonsillaris, with the characteristic high-colored strong urine.

Bromium Brom

Tonsils deep-red and swollen, covered with a net work of dilated blood vessels, accompanied by hard swelling of the external glands; feeling of rawness in throat and pain when swallowing (forerunner of tuberculosis).

Calcarea carb Calc

Inflammatory swelling of palate, uvulas and tonsils, with sensation as if throat were contracted when swallowing; pain in throat extending to ears, whitish-yellow on tonsils.

Calcarea iod Calc-i

Chronic tonsillitis with disposition to laryngeal catarrhs; enlarged tonsils filled with little crypts or pockets.

Calcarea phos Calc-p

Chronic tonsillitis, with inflammation of middle ear, throat hurts more when swallowing saliva than from food or warm drinks.

Cantharis Canth

Aphthous ulcers on right tonsil and at back part of fauces, covered with a whitish, adherent crust; throat inflamed, with intense burning and covered with plastic lymph; swallowing very difficult, (<) at night, when drinking,(>) when lying down.

Capsicum Caps

Tonsillitis, with smarting burning pain,(>) between acts of deglutition; burning soreness, with ulcers in fauces; catarrhal deafness.

Colchicum Colch

Tonsils inflamed and swollen, here and there spots covered with pus; difficult swallowing; throat dry with flow of watery saliva; nausea and discomfort in abdomen.

Conium Con

Enlarged tonsils without any tendency to suppurate.

Cuprum met Cupr

Tonsils, palate and fauces red and inflamed, dull, piercing pain in left tonsils, (<) from external touch.

Drosera Dros

Dry, but not shining (Phos., shining), mucous membrane; muscles of pharynx swollen; deglutition painful; incessant cough, sometimes ending in vomiting; color of throat of a dark coppery red.

Elaps coral Elaps

Tonsils swollen so that no passage is visible, deglutition impossible, throat sensitive to touch.

Ferrum phos Ferr-p

Tonsils swollen and raw, great pain in swallowing; high fever.

Graphites Graph

Swelling of tonsils, food with not go down, with feeling of a lump which prevents swallowing.

Guaiacum Guai

Threatened tonsillitis violent burning in throat, formation of abscesses; PUS HAS A HORRID TASTE AND SEEMS TO FASTEN ON PHARYNX.

Hepar sulph Hep

Chronic tonsillitis, especially when accompanied by hardness of hearing with sensation like splinter or fishbone in throat when swallowing; sharp lancinating pains , throbbing rigors and chills, with stitches in throat, extending to ears, worse when swallowing; cannot bear cold air.

Ignatia Ign

Indurated tonsils, but not much inflamed, sometimes ulcerated; throat worse when not swallowing and when swallowing liquids, better from swallowing food; follicular tonsillitis; stitching pain when not swallowing.

Indium Ind

Left tonsil, pain and difficulty in swallowing,(>) from eating and drinking COLD water; destructive ulceration of tonsils, uvula and soft palate; stinging soreness in throat.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

TONSILLITIS HERPETICA WITH membranous EXUDATIONS, inflammation of uvula and pharynx , foul, yellow tongue fauces covered with ropy mucus (often mistaken for true diphtheria); Eustachian tubes blocked up; pains shoots from ear down throat.

Kali nitr Kali-n

Tonsillitis in strong plethoric persons; sore throat day and night, with inflamed velum palati uvula foetid odor from mouth; stinging pains during deglutition.

Kali mur Kali-m

Acute and chronic swelling of the tonsils which are covered with a whitish coating; hawking up cheesy lumps having a disgusting odor and taste.

Lac caninum Lac-c

Tonsils inflamed, shining and very sore swollen so as almost to close the throat; suppuration from left to right or changing from side to side, or both tonsils equally affected , whole posterior portion of throat oedematous; tonsils enlarged; pricking cutting pains from empty swallowing great dryness of tonsils at night; throat sensitiveness to touch externally ash-gray exudation.

Lachesis Lach

Throat purplish, patient very nervous; least touch unbearable tonsils swollen, left (<) with tendency to right; inability to swallow, threatening suffocation; liquids escape by the nose when swallowing is attempted and are more difficult to swallow than solids; (<) from hot drinks; on swallowing burning pains shot in left ear; PUS FROM TONSILS UNHEALTHY, WITH TENDENCY TO DEGENERATE INTO ULCERS; excessive dryness, particularly if it appears in spots,(<) by inhaling cold air. It may break up the disease in its conception or promote resolution in later stages.

Lycopodium Lyc

Tonsils enlarged, indurated and studded with many small ulcers, swelling and suppuration of tonsils, going from right to left; chronic enlargement of tonsils; (>) from cold drinks, and smarting in throat from hot drinks.

Mancinella Manc

Great swelling and suppuration of tonsils with danger of suffocation; whistling breathing; yellowish-white ulcers on tonsils, with violent burning pain; great elongation of uvula; offensive breath.

Mercurius Merc

Parenchymatous tonsillitis (after Bell.); throbbing pain, tonsils and fauces yellowish-red ,often with a thin false membrane; tongue pale flabby and indented by the teeth; pain on deglutition and speaking pain on empty swallowing; salivation increased; throat sore externally when pressed upon; tonsils dark-red studded with ulcers; quinsy with stinging pain in fauces when pus has formed it hastens maturation; mercurial breath (Merc. biniod); aphthae profuse nightsweats, bringing no relief.

Mercurius iod flav Merc-i-f

Hypertrophy of tonsils with enlargement of cervical and salivary glands and inflammation of the mucous membrane of mouth and pharynx, which is succulent and freely secreting; ptyalism; foetor oris; swallowing difficult.

Mercurius iod rub Merc-i-r

Scalded feeling in throat, dark-red fauces, left tonsil most affected; extensive implication of submaxillary glands.

Naja Naja

Sharp pains as from needles in throat; short hard cough; larynx tender to touch, with inclination to cough from any pressure, (<) at night.

Natrum phos Nat-p

Catarrh of tonsils with golden, yellow-tinged exudation, from an acid condition of stomach.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

Sycosis; tonsils and uvula inflamed and swollen, with ulceration.

Petroleum Petr

ANGINA GRANULOSA, WITH STITCHES IN EARS DURING swallowing and burning in neck; slimy or putrid taste in mouth, with mucous secretions or dry sore throat.

Phosphorus Phos

Tonsils and uvula much swollen, dry shining, polished, glistening (Lac can.); stinging and raw feeling (<) towards evening and when talking; hawking of heavy mucus morning and forenoon, with a horrible taste, as if had been kept there for some time, often feels quite cold in mouth.

Phytolacca Phyt

Chills alternating with fever, great weakness; tonsils large bluish, ulcerated intense dryness of throat; rough, burning, smarting fauces; pain in throat extends to ears when swallowing; aching in back, neck, head and limbs; ulceration on tonsils and fauces; with grayish-white sloughs and little or not foetor; cannot drink hot fluids; great prostration.

Plumbum Plb

Tonsils inflamed, covered with small, painful abscesses, angina comes back into the mouth.

Psorinum Psor

Tonsillitis, submaxillary glands swollen, foetid otorrhoea; throat burns feels scalded pain when swallowing saliva; ulcers on right side, with deep-seated pain and burning in fauces.

Ranunculus scel Ran-s

Swelling of tonsils, with shooting stitches in them; scraping or burning in throat.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

ERYSIPELATOUS SWELLING OF THROAT; tonsils (right) covered with yellow membrane; intense pain on swallowing; constant aching and bruised feeling; sticking or stinging pain on tonsils,(<) when beginning to swallowing and at night.

Silicea Sil

Deep ulcers even gangrene; tonsils swollen each effort to swallow distorts face; tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal; pricking in throat, as from a pain causing cough; left side.

Sinapis nigra Sin-n

Sore hot pains, with sensation of extreme dryness of throat and tongue, the latter thickly coated, fissured in median line; voice nasal; hardly any thirst.

Stannum Stann

Cutting pains like knives in throat on swelling food or saliva; taciturn, does not wish to talk and gives short answers.

Sulphur Sulph

When after the bursting of the abscess the parts still remain irritated and the patient is only slowly recovering.

Syphilinum Syph

Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, a symptom of hereditary syphilis.

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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.

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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