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Convallaria Majalis

Lily of the Valley
25 sectionsBoericke · 15Clarke · 10

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Anasarca

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Lily of the Valley

  • A heart remedy.
  • Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular.
  • Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked.
  • Dyspnoea, dropsy, aneuric tendency.
  • Anasarca.
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Mentals

Mind and Head
Boericke
  • Dull intellect.
  • Grieves easily.
  • Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking.
  • Scalp sensitive.
  • Irritability.
  • Hysterical manifestations.
Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Depression.—Mind wanders from subject when reading.—Dull, can hardly

think.—Irritable when asked a question.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
in warm room
Better
in open air

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Sees imaginary grey spots about 3 in. square in different parts of the room on coming

in from a walk.—When reading sees small words (as "the," "it," "too,") before beginning of

sentence, when they are not there.—P is substituted for other letters.—About every fifteen

  • minutes, dull pains from r.
  • eye over top of head and down r.
  • side of neck.
  • —Eyelids heavy.

Face

Face
Boericke

Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. Epistaxis. Sees imaginary gray spot about three inches square.

Mouth

Mouth
Boericke

Grating of teeth in the morning. Coppery taste. Tongue feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Fine red points on tip of tongue.—Intense redness and soreness of tongue, looks like

raw beef; granular and quite clean, with tenderness of stomach.—Coppery taste in mouth.—Water

tastes bitter.

Throat

Throat
Boericke

Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.

Abdomen

Abdomen
Boericke
  • Sensitive.
  • Clothes feel too tight.
  • Gurgling and pain on taking deep breath.
  • Movement in abdomen like fist of a child.
  • Colicky pains.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool
Clarke

Soft, semi-fluid evacuation, preceded by flatulence and violent colic.—Stools with

pain.

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Tenesmus.—Slightly thin stool, brown, offensive with tenesmus and heat at

anus after stool.—Sensation in rectum as if full of gas, not > by passing flatus.

Urinary

Urinary Organs
Boericke

Aching in bladder; feels distended. Frequent urination; offensive; scanty urine.

Female

Female
Boericke

Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart. Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg. Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.

Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

Labour-like pains in sacro-iliac joints, worse r. side, running down

leg intermittently.—Sensation as if a large cord extended from sacro-iliac synchondrosis to

inguinal region, and this cord was pulled down by pelvic organs (<r. side); sensation as if uterus

descended and retroverted, pressing on rectum and anus, pain continuous and

unbearable.—Soreness in uterine region with palpitation of the heart.—Itching at urinary meatus

and orifice of vagina.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • Pulmonary congestion.
  • Orthopnea.
  • Dyspnoea while walking.
  • Hot feeling in throat.

Chest

Heart
Boericke
  • Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest.
  • Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnea.
  • Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly.
  • Palpitation from the least exertion.
  • Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes.
  • Angina pectoris.
  • Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.
Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

When exercising, fluttering at heart, lasting about a minute, then face would get red,

with sensation as if heart stopped beating and would start again very suddenly, with faint, sick

feeling.—Pulse full, compressible, intermittent—Symptoms > after lying down.

Neck & Back

Back and Extremities
Boericke

Pain and aching in lumbar region; aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists and ankles.

Symptoms — Back
Clarke

Bruised aching in back.—Pain in back and wrists, gradually passing off—Chills run

along back at every movement.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Blotches like mosquito-bites, itching violently, on undressing scratches till the skin

comes off.

Convolvulus Arvensis.

  • Convolvulus.
  • Bind-weed.
  • N.
  • O.
  • Convolvulacez.
  • Tincture of root.

Fever

Fever
Boericke

Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspnoea during fever.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke

Colic. Diarrhcea.

Characteristics—Very few, experiments have been made with this plant, and in those the

resinoid of the root, and pure Convolvulin were used. The few symptoms recorded are all in the

gastro-intestinal sphere.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Digit; Crataeg; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional disturbance).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Third attenuation, and for symptoms of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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