Books · Homoeopathic Therapeutics

DIAPHRAGM, DISEASES OF

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Hard, feverish pulse; thirst; anxious impatience; restless tossing about; painful cough; difficulty in breathing; pain and heat in upper region of abdomen.

Apis mell Apis

Diaphragmitis; severe burning pains under short ribs on both sides; pains from below ribs spreading upward; must bend forward from contractive pain in hypochondria.

Belladonna Bell

Affection of the muscles of the crura; in plethoric persons with sympathetic affection or inflammation of the liver; in inflammatory or colicky pains from incarcerated concrements in liver or kidneys; in pylephlebitis; in puerperal affections with painful headache from active hyperaemia (Atrop.).

Bryonia Bry

Acute rheumatism of diaphragm; stitching pain in region of diaphragm, (<) from motion, coughing, etc.; white, dry tongue without thirst, or great thirst with drinking large quantities of water (Hep. follows well).

Cactus grand Cact

Acute rheumatism of diaphragm with jerking breathing, numbness of limbs; coldness; feeling as of a cord around hypochondria; rush of blood to chest; shooting pains through the back and up each side of the chest; cannot lie down; dry, tickling cough as from dust in throat.

Chamomilla Cham

Throbbing, burning pain in region of short ribs and pit of the stomach, (<) from pressure; short and anxious breathing; short, dry cough; vomiting, belching; great restlessness and tossing about, loud complaining.

Cicuta vir Cic

Swelling of stomach as from violent spasms of diaphragm; violent thirst during spasms; IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO EAT COAL; violent hiccough and vomiting.

Cimicifuga Cimic

Sharp pains following the direction of the muscular fibres towards the central tendon, with cramp-like pains around attachments of diaphragm, (>) by deep inspiration, coughing and lying down. Pains may begin in pit of stomach, follow the ribs around each way and sometimes go through to the back.

Colchicum Colch

Similar to Bry.; gouty diathesis; albuminosis; uneasiness at epigastrium, extremely sensitive to touch and pressure; pain in epigastrium as if pierced with a knife; violent vomiting accompanied by intense straining and loud, hollow belching, (>) by bending himself up and lying quiet; limbs cold, hands and feet cold.

Cuprum Cupr

Spasm of diaphragm, the whole surface of the body has a bluish color or bluish-red face with eyelids closed; hiccough extreme and long-continued, cold extremities and great mental anxiety. Diaphragmitis.

Digitalis Dig

In persons who suffered from inflammation of serous membranes, especially from pleuritis, and in consequence of it became anaemic (Calc. ars.). Grasping pain from inflammation of crura; vomiturition or vomiting; oppression in centre of chest; difficult breathing, more frequent than normal; pulse at first suppressed, quick; nails blue; face cold and elongated; notwithstanding the anaemia PATIENT CANNOT BEAR HEAT, even during reaction; (>) by sitting than by lying.

Dulcamara Dulc

Diaphragmitis with simultaneous rheumatic affection of the spinal cord.

Hepar Hep

After Bry, in fibrinosis, promotes absorption.

Lycopodium Lyc

Sense of constriction from the right side all around short ribs; cannot stretch himself or lie on his back or stand upright; tension in hypochondria as from a hoop; hiccough and frequent belching without relief.

Nux moschata Nux-m

Diaphragmitis; oppression of chest, like a pressing load, dry cough, loss of breath, from getting wet, (<) from inhalation; weight in upper part of abdomen, lower part tense; hiccough, nausea and waterbrash; inclination to sleep.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Muscular pain of a grasping, rooting nature, with nausea and vomiting.

Ranunculus bulb Ran-b

Spasmodic hiccough; sharp shooting pains or stabbing from hypochondria and epigastrium through to the back; (<) from any change of weather or change of temperature.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Disposition to move though it increases the pain, commencing on the left side and going to the right.

Stramonium Stram

Mixture of hyperaemia and spasm, of affection of the spinal cord and of the diaphragm; singultus, sympathetic affection of glottis, etc.

Sulphur Sulph

To promote absorption in fibrinosis.

Tabacum Tab

Excessive painfulness of the muscular part of the crura from renal calculi, especially when incarcerated in the ureter. (Bell. contracts circular fibres, Tab. the longitudinal ones.).

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.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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