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CHILBLAINS

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Abrotanum Abrot

Frost-bitten limbs, chilblain itches; pricking and coldness of the finger-tips; numbness and coldness of the fingers and feet.

Agaricus Agar

Burning and itching on both hands, as if frozen; parts hot, swollen, red; pain and inflammation of frost-bitten toes; shooting in fingers and toes; redness, burning itching of ears, as if they had been frozen; frost-bitten nose itches; chronic inflammation of external nose.

Arnica Arn

The inflammation of the chilblain is caused by pressure, friction, etc.

Arsenicum Ars

The vesicles appear to become blackish, with tendency to humid gangrene.

Kali carb Kali-c

Aching-cutting pains; swelling and redness of the soles.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

Nothing, with swelling and pain, especially in very cold weather; they inflame from a slight degree of cold; skin cracked.

Nux moschata Nux-m

Chilblains return every winter; hands feel cold as if frozen, with tingling under nails, when entering a warm room.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Superficial inflammation, with bright-red swelling, with burning itching, or when the tumefied parts crack and bleed easily.

Petroleum Petr

Chilblains, itching and burning like fire; heel painfully swollen and red; feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture, especially when inflammation sets in with very cold weather; bleeding rhagades.

Pulsatilla Puls

Swelling, bluish, hot, attended with throbbing pains and intense itching, especially in soles of feet, after getting warm in bed.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Burning itching in the chilblains during afternoon and evening; when not scratching there is a pricking in them, obliging him to stomach; blotches after scratching; itching, especially at night, intolerable.

Sulphur Sulph

Redness and swelling of chilblain, with tendency to suppuration; chilblain thick and red, with cracks on joints; itching (<) in warm bed.

Zincum Zinc

Chilblains on hand, itching and swelling violently.

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.

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