Lilium Tigrinum

The Tiger Lily, which was introduced into the West from China and Japan,

• ▸was first suggested as a remedy by W.
• ▸E.
• ▸Payne.
• ▸Carroll Dunham urged Payne to have it well

proved. This Payne did, and Dunham himself assisted by having it proved on a woman under his

own supervision. The account of this case of Lilium tigrinum disease, with others, is given in

• ▸Dunham's lucid style in his Science of Therapeutics.
• ▸Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸was given in the 30th and 3rd

attenuations, which were taken during ten days. The symptoms began early but were somewhat

slow in developing, and, after recovery, recurred with other symptoms. The third series recurred

in the ninth week after taking the drug, and this was the most severe of all. So intense were the

sufferings mental and bodily that Dunham felt bound to antidote them with Plat. 200, which was

speedily effective. The symptoms developed in this order: (/) Increased activity; things went

more easily. (2) Increased sexual instinct. (3) Sweetish nausea without inclination to vomit.

Abnormal fulness < after eating ever so little. (4) Il|-humour; drowsiness; sleep but with

unpleasant dreams. (5) Bloating more pronounced and chiefly across hips in uterine region;

darting pains in head and lower abdomen from ovaries down thighs; pressure in vagina; pain at

top of sacrum extending to hips. (6) Crazy feeling with thoughts of suicide; head grows wild

after being quiet for a short time; increased depressing weight over parting; < evening. Knees

ache. From this point, ten days after the first dose, no more medicine was taken, but the Lil. tig.

disease continued to develop and increase in intensity for eight weeks longer, when it was so bad

that it had to be put an end to by an antidote. Of these symptoms the most prominent were a

"downward dragging" from shoulders, from thorax, from left breast, from epigastrium down to

pelvis, and out at the vagina as if everything would be forced through. (In some other provers

who were examined actual displacement was found, especially anteversion.) Late in the proving

a thin brown leucorrhcea appeared, leaving a brown stain. This was intermittent. The downward

pressure involved the rectum and bladder, and loins. There was consciousness of the ovaries as

distinct painful and burning spots with pains radiating from them down the thighs. Menses came

at regular times but flowed only as long as she kept moving. Much hurried and driven, she

knows not why. Heart symptoms came on at this time, about a month after commencing the

proving: Sudden fluttering sensation, less felt if she can busy herself very much. Faintness

accompanied the fluttering, as though she could make no exertion but must sit still. Sharp pain in

apex of heart. After a cessation of symptoms for about a week there was a recurrence of the

same, including leucorrheea, burning pain from groin to groin, with new mental symptoms,

including obscene thoughts and disposition to strike and swear. Menses recurred after only two

weeks' interval, leucorrhcea having ceased two days before. After another brief interval the

second recurrence occurred, which was put an end to by Platinum. In male provers there was a

good deal of pelvic distress, affecting bladder, rectum, and back, and a very decided increase in

sexual instinct, but nothing approaching the intensity of the action on the female organs. The

heart, in the males, appears to have borne the chief impact of the drug's action. The outward

forcing in which the down-dragging symptoms of the female provers culminated was manifested

in other symptoms. One man had this: The heart's action was intermittent, every intermission

followed by a violent throb, causing an involuntary catching of the breath; at the same time the

blood rushed up through the carotids to the head, producing great heat and a crowded feeling of

head and face. Another prover, woman, 53, who had ceased to menstruate, took a drop of 30th.

She had: A feeling of exhaustion as if the blood were pushed outward; and later a blinding

headache "as if all the blood were pressing outward through every aperture." S Lilienthal had

among his symptoms: "A sensation as if a rubber band were stretched tightly from temple to

temple"; "as if a skullcap were crushing the head"; "as if the brain was being pushed through

eyes and ears." "Outward forcing" is plainly a keynote of this remedy; and the contractive pains

at the heart as if grasped with a hand are all of a piece with this. The characteristic feature in the

heart-grip is an intermittent pressure—there is alternate spasm and relaxation as if a hand

squeezed the heart and then let go and squeezed again. Another leading indication is when there

is pain and numbness in the right arm along with the heart pain; and again when there is

• ▸alternation between heart pains and uterine or ovarian pains.
• ▸The pains of Lil/.
• ▸tig.
• ▸are wandering,

flying, shooting, squeezing and relaxing, opening and shutting, burning and radiating. They

radiate from ovary to heart to left breast, down legs (especially left), across to opposite ovary;

through left breast to back; from ilium to iltum; across sacrum. In contradistinction to the down-

dragging is a "pulling-up" sensation from the tip of the coccyx. A patient to whom I gave Lil. tig.

30 said it caused a sensation in the abdomen as if the contents were "tied up in knots." C.

• ▸Sigmund Rage has observed (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸482) excellent results from Li/.
• ▸¢.
• ▸3x and 30 in cases of

uterine fibroid presenting the characteristic symptoms of the remedy. The 2x and 3x caused

severe aggravations—backache; fever and sweat during the night; fear of dying. Among other

peculiar sensations are: With nausea, a lump in centre of chest which could be moved down by

empty swallowing. As if an electric current in fingers and hands. As if cool wind blowing on

lower extremities. The eyes were the seat of many marked symptoms, and one prover who was

astigmatic, after much suffering in the eyes during the proving, found her astigmatism gone

when the proving was over.—The left side was most markedly affected. Intense restlessness,

nervous system irritable, weak, trembling; aimless hurry; walks to and fro. Convulsive

contractions of almost all muscles of body, and feeling as if she would be crazy if she did not

• ▸hold tightly upon herself.
• ▸Feeling as if she must scream.
• ▸"Cannot walk on uneven ground" (H.
• ▸C.

Allen). Burning palms and soles accompany other complaints. The symptoms are > lying on left

side, when lying down at all is tolerated. Rest in general <. (Berridge cured a lady, 50, of heart

pain, as if grasped with hand, with cold feeling from apex of heart to under left scapula; excited

by worry; < lying on right side; > lying on left side and when busy at work.) Hasty, busy

movement >. Pressure and support >: Must cross legs to relieve bearing down; must put hands to

vulva to prevent contents escaping. Movement < uterine symptoms: unable to move for fear her

• ▸womb would drop from her.
• ▸Stooping < heart pain.
• ▸Standing < downward dragging.
• ▸< Afternoon

• ▸and night from 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Diarrhoea < early morning.
• ▸> In open air.
• ▸< In warm room; is

faint. Touch < (on epigastrium = desire to vomit); < heemorrhoids. Pressure of bedclothes is

• ▸intolerable on abdomen and uterine region.
• ▸Rubbing and pressure > heart spasm.
• ▸Jarring <.
• ▸—I

• ▸never obtained good results from Lil.
• ▸tig.
• ▸until I gave it in the 30th attenuation.
• ▸I have tried

higher, but the aggravations from these were so severe that I have kept to the 30th.

• ▸Tormented about her salvation.
• ▸Consolation aggravates.
• ▸Profound depression of spirits.
• ▸Constant inclination to weep.
• ▸Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease.
• ▸Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things.
• ▸Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy.

Depression of spirits; inclination to weep, timidity, apprehensiveness; of some terrible

internal disease—Tormented about tier salvation (with uterine complaints).—Constant hurried

feeling, as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them (during sexual

excitement).—Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things; as these mental states

came, uterine irritation abated.—Does not wish to be alone, prefers society; very low-spirited;

weeping with feeling of dread.—Crazy, wild feeling on top of head; thoughts of

suicide.—Mistakes in speaking; uses wrong words; forgetful—Desire for fine things; dissatisfied

with tier own, envious of others.

Weak, trembling, nervous.—Faintness, < in a warm room, or after being on

feet a long time.—< Walking, yet pains so much worse after ceasing to walk that he must walk

again.—Pains in small spots; shifting pains.—Throbbing pulsations, as though the blood would

burst through the veins.—Restlessness.—Hysteria.

Hot, dull, heavy. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in head.

Headache, esp. if depending on uterine disorders.—Dull pain in forehead (and fulness)

• ▸over the eyes.
• ▸—Hot pain; blinding pain, in forehead and temples.
• ▸—Pressure outward.
• ▸—Headache:

on waking; < in open air, > at sunset, with heaviness as if too full of blood, blowing blood from

• ▸nose, desire to support head with hands.
• ▸—Neuralgia over |.
• ▸eye to vertex.
• ▸—Neuralgia in temples,

• ▸alternately |.
• ▸and r.
• ▸—Pressure and crazy feeling in vertex.
• ▸—Pain in occiput and over eyes.

• ▸Hyperaesthesia of retina.
• ▸Pain, extending back into head; lachrymation; and impaired vision.
• ▸Myopic astigmia.
• ▸Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscle (Arg nit).

Wild look.—Hypermetropia; presbyopia.—Vision dim; and confused, with disposition

to cover eyes and press upon them.—Pains extending back into head —Burning after reading and

writing, with weak feeling —Cured astigmatism in a prover.—Blurred vision with heat in eyes

and lids.—Musce volitantes.

• ▸Face (1.
• ▸) flushed, with heat.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸cheek-bone, with stoppage of r.
• ▸nostril.
• ▸—Pain in

• ▸1.
• ▸cheek extending into ear and temple.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸jaw with feeling of elongation in teeth.

Darting pain from (1.) teeth to ear—Tongue coated yellowish white in

• ▸patches.
• ▸—Mouth and throat feel coated on waking in the night.
• ▸—Saliva abundant.
• ▸—Taste: bloody,

afternoon; peculiar; foul > eating.

• ▸Enlargement cif r.
• ▸tonsil, with exudation.
• ▸—Soreness and dryness.
• ▸—Feeling of lump,

with pulsations when lying.

Flatulent; nausea, with sensation of lump in stomach. Hungry; longs for meat. Thirsty, drinks often and much, and before severe symptoms.

Appetite: great, esp. for meat; great as if in back, extending to occiput and over

vertex.—Desire for sour or sweet dainties, alternating with disgust for food.—Appetite

lost.—Aversion to coffee; to bread.—Thirst; then stupidity, then the severe symptoms.

Eructations.—Hiccough.—Nausea: < from tobacco; with inability to vomit; with

pain in back; with fulness in abdomen.—Nausea, with hawking of mucus.—Sensation of a lump in

centre of chest; moved up and down by empty swallowing.—Sensation of a hard body rolling

around in stomach, > at night.—Vomiting of chyme and thin yellow mucus; finally

bloody.—Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels.—Faintness at epigastrium with

tasteless eructations.

Abdomen sore, distended; trembling sensation in abdomen. Pressure downwards and backwards against rectum and anus; worse, standing; better, walking in open air. Bearing down in lower part of abdomen.

Distension of abdomen.—Rumbling; emission of flatus—Dragging down of

whole abdominal contents, extending even to organs of chest; must support the

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Bubbling in r.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Lancinations from 1.
• ▸hypochondrium to crest of

ilium.—Dragging downward and backward.—Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on; also

passing off by urinating.—Trembling sensation in pelvis, extending down thighs.—Feeling as if

menses coming on.—Grasping pains across hypogastrium > gentle rubbing with warm hand.

• ▸Constant desire to defecate, from pressure in rectum, worse standing.
• ▸Pressure down the anus.
• ▸Early-morning urgent stool.
• ▸Dysentery; mucus and blood, with tenesmus, especially in plethoric and nervous women at change of life.

Pressure on rectum (and bladder) with almost constant desire to go to stool

(immediately).—Morning diarrhoea in cases with prolapsus of uterus—Morning diarrheea; stools

loose, bilious; dark, offensive, very urgent, can't wait a moment; stool preceded by griping pains

or great urging, with pressure in the rectum; followed by smarting, burning of anus and

rectum.—Pressure on perineeum.—Constipation: hard and dark stools, then heat in rectum and

anus and pain in abdomen.

Frequent urination during day, with smarting in urethra.—Continuous

pressure in bladder.—Constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge; burning (tenesmus) and

smarting in urethra after—Urine: milky in morning; clear and white; like boiling oil; strong-

smelling; phosphatic; copious; sediment white or red.

Frequent urging. Urine milky, scanty, hot.

• ▸Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow only when moving about. Bearing down sensation with urgent desire for stool, as though all organs would escape. Ceases when resting (Sep; Lac c; Bell).
• ▸Congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion.
• ▸Constant desire to support parts externally.
• ▸Pain in ovaries and down thighs.
• ▸Acrid, brown leucorrhoea; smarting in labia.
• ▸Sexual instinct awakened.
• ▸Bloated feeling in uterine region.
• ▸Sub-involution.
• ▸Pruritus pudendi.

Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in

uterine region, as if whole contents would press out through vagina; > by pressure of hand

• ▸against the vulva.
• ▸—Sharp pains in ovarian region.
• ▸—Grasping pain in I.
• ▸ovarian region and groin,

with pain in right hip, extending into thigh—Pains in ovaries extending into inside of

• ▸thighs.
• ▸—Pains in r.
• ▸ovary and back.
• ▸—Ovaries sore on pressure, < r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Aching and burning

pain in ovaries; feeling like live coals; afterwards pain in r. increased till it seemed as if a knife

inserted in ovary and ripped down groin and front of thigh; extending over loins to r.

• ▸hypochondrium, > by pressure on ovary.
• ▸—Gnawing dragging in r.
• ▸ovary < walking.
• ▸—Severe

neuralgic pain in uterus; could not bear touch; not even the weight of bedclothes or slightest jar;

anteversion; retroversion; prolapsus.—Fundus of uterus low down, tilted against bladder, the os

• ▸pressing upon rectum.
• ▸—Bearing down in uterus, with pains in 1.
• ▸ovary and mamma.
• ▸—Voluptuous

itching in vagina, with feeling of fulness of parts; stinging in |. ovarian region.—Sexual desire

increased; ending in orgasm; with hurried feeling; > during physical effort; disposition to use

obscene language.—Leucorrheea; bright yellow, acrid, excoriating; leaving a brown stain; after

menses.—Menses continue only when moving about, and cease when sitting or lying

down.—Amenorrhcea: accompanied with cardiac distress, or with ovarian pains of a burning or

stinging character; if complicated with prolapsed or anteverted uterus; partial, the menses

returning occasionally, or again remain absent for some time.—Menses freer than usual, relieving

headache.—Sensation of dragging down from the shoulders and chest, feeling as if she wants to

be held up; abdomen feels as if it must be supported; as if it must be held up with both hands.

Testes: swollen and tender to touch; sore in morning, and heavy;

neuralgia in 1—Desire increased.—Prostration from coitus, with irritability from suppression of

desire.—Emission towards morning.

Voice could not be controlled.—Dry, hacking cough, evening, > in

open air.—Oppression.—Desire to take a long breath; frequent sighing; seems to come from lower

part of abdomen.—Inhales forcibly in order to pull up thorax and clear the pelvis.

• ▸Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise (Cact).
• ▸Feels full to bursting.
• ▸Pulsations over whole body.
• ▸Palpitation; irregular pulse; very rapid.
• ▸Pain in cardiac region, with feeling of a load on chest.
• ▸Cold feeling about heart.
• ▸Suffocating feeling in a crowded and warm room.
• ▸Angina pectoris with pain in right arm.

Tightness of chest —Hot, congested feeling —Ebullition, must go into open

• ▸air.
• ▸—Constriction: a hand-breadth below 1.
• ▸breast; extending to r.
• ▸side, > change of position, with

sharp pain running to throat, clavicle, and axilla——Sharp pains through r. lung < in open

air.—Fine pains in r. chest, sometimes gnawing, with lameness and soreness of muscles and

desire to stretch the parts; the lameness extending through to r. scapula.—Pain under sternum

towards middle lobe of r. lung.—Feeling of congestion of chest if desire to urinate is not attended

to.—Pains sharp, sticking, cramping in or below 1. breast, extending to scapula and side, < lying

down and on 1. side.

Dull, pressive pain in region of heart.—Pain in heart < when lying down at

• ▸night—Constant feeling of a load or weight in 1.
• ▸chest.
• ▸—Sharp and quick pain in |.
• ▸side of chest,

with fluttering of heart.—Heart feels as if squeezed in a vice; or alternately grasped and

relaxed.—Fluttering or palpitation of heart; > rubbing and pressure.—Intermittent; after every

intermission, violent throbbing, causing involuntary catching of breath and a rush of blood to

head and crowded feeling in face.—Pain in heart is < by exercise; stooping; lying down at night;

> in morning.—Sharp pain at apex of heart > by rest.—Pulse: rapid; small and weak; irregular, <

by slight motion; compressible.

Pain in nape with constriction.—Soreness in cervical and occipital muscles,

< by thirst.—Pain: between scapulz; sore in region of scapula; in lower dorsal vertebrz as if back

• ▸would break.
• ▸—Spine sore, with stiffness < in loins.
• ▸—Shooting across loins.
• ▸—Pain in sacrum, <

standing, with pressure downward in hypogastrium; between hips, not much > lying, with

pressure downward at anus.—Dull pain in sacrum.—Sensation of pulling upward from tip of

Coccyx.

• ▸Tearing from 1.
• ▸shoulder to hand.
• ▸—Cramping pain in |.
• ▸shoulder and

• ▸mamma.
• ▸—Trembling of 1.
• ▸arm with weakness.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸arm and wrist (with heart

• ▸complaints).
• ▸—Hand and arms, stiff, hot; painful.
• ▸—Trembling of hands.
• ▸—Paralytic pricking in

fingers and hands.—Cramp in fingers.—Stiffness of fingers almost like paralysis; difficult to

guide pencil; pricking in (tips of) fingers and hands; sensation of electric current, first in fingers

• ▸of 1.
• ▸hand then of r.
• ▸; running up arms.
• ▸—Cold hands; cold perspiration on back of hands.

Staggering gait; extreme difficulty in walking straight.—Stitching pains from

• ▸ilium to iltum or from pubes to sacrum.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸hip extending down thigh.
• ▸—Sensation as

though cool wind blowing on lower limbs.—Trembling of knees, abdomen, back, and

hands.—Legs ache, cannot keep them still —Joints seem to lack synovial fluid.—Cramps in both

legs and feet after stool in morning.—Cramp in toes.—Burning beginning in soles and palms,

thence over body; < in bed, constant desire to find a cool place.—Pains severe, fleeting, quick,

sharp, or circumscribed; coldness or cold perspiration; |. leg more affected.

• ▸Cannot walk on uneven ground.
• ▸Pain in back and spine, with trembling, but oftener in front of a pressing-down character.
• ▸Pricking in fingers.
• ▸Pain in right arm and hip.
• ▸Legs ache; cannot keep them still.
• ▸Pain in ankle joint.
• ▸Burning palms and soles.

Irritation of upper chest and arms and a fine rash about forehead and around borders

of the hair, with much itching.—Skin of abdomen feels stiff and stretched.—Tingling,

formication, burning itching of various parts.

Unrefreshing, with disagreeable dreams. Unable to sleep, with wild feeling in head.

Yawning, stretching, drowsy.—Slept soundly, but suddenly waked by desire to

evacuate bladder.—Inability to sleep, < before midnight.—Restless sleep; wild feeling in head;

everything seems too hot; dull headache, palpitation, mammary pain —Dreams: frightful and

laboured; unpleasant; voluptuous; half-awaking; intervals seem very long (of dead people).

Great heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing throughout body.

Chills run downwards; violent beating of heart; congestion to chest and burning heat

all over; constriction about heart.—Chills from face downwards; chilly when in cool open air, yet

otherwise >.—Great heat and lassitude in afternoon.—Throbbing all over.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Asthenopia.
• ▸Astigmatism.
• ▸Dementia.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Eyes,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Fibroma.
• ▸Heart, affections of; Palpitation of.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Ovaries, affections of;

• ▸dropsy of.
• ▸Pruritus vulve.
• ▸Spinal irritation.
• ▸Urination, too frequent.
• ▸Uterus, affections of;

displacements of; subinvolution of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Platina; Helon.
• ▸(anteversion); Nux (colic); Puls.
• ▸Compare: Sep.
• ▸(very

like in most respects, but Lil. > by diverting mind and busying about; Sep. > by violent exertion;

• ▸leucorrhoea of Lil.
• ▸is more excoriating); Lil.
• ▸< afternoon; Sep.
• ▸> afternoon; Lil.
• ▸pressure in anus,

Sep. weight like a heavy ball); Puls. (< in warm room; venous stasis with taste of blood in

• ▸mouth—also Ham.
• ▸; weeping mood—Puls.
• ▸quiet weeping, Lil.
• ▸spasmodic, flashing; Puls.
• ▸has not

the tendency to prolapse; is not > by support); Nat. m. (heart; uterus; coldness about heart);

Helon. (profound melancholy with consciousness of womb; Lil. hurry with incapacity and

distress based on apprehension of serious malady); Alo. (fulness in rectum; like a plug wedged

between pubes and coccyx); Cact. (heart constricted by iron band; constriction continuous, Lil.

• ▸intermittent; uterine and ovarian pains); Anac.
• ▸and Ver.
• ▸(profanity); Bell.
• ▸(< by jar; bearing

• ▸down; Bell.
• ▸< by motion, Lil.
• ▸>); Sul.
• ▸(early morning diarrhoea, burning palms and soles); Zinc.

• ▸(heart symptoms > by lying on left side;—Pho.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸< lying on left side); Murex, Vib.
• ▸tin.
• ▸,

• ▸Vib.
• ▸o.
• ▸, Nux m.
• ▸, Gossyp.
• ▸(bearing-down pains); Lach.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸and Ustil.
• ▸(left ovary and left

• ▸inframammary pain); Calc.
• ▸(ovarian pain extending down thigh; Calc.
• ▸, right; Lil.
• ▸, left; Pallad.

• ▸and Plat.
• ▸(irritability, "things don't go right"; Pall.
• ▸over-sensitive, Plat.
• ▸, hauteur); Aur.
• ▸(prolapse;

• ▸Aur.
• ▸from weight of organ, Lil.
• ▸from relaxation of ligaments); Latr.
• ▸mact.
• ▸and Spig.
• ▸(heart), Act.

• ▸r.
• ▸(heart and uterus); Pod.
• ▸(early morning diarrhoea); Cact.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸ph.
• ▸, Tarent.
• ▸, Rhus (pain and

• ▸numbness of left arm with heart disease; Lil.
• ▸more characteristic, right); K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸(radiating pains;

alternating conditions).

Compare: Cact; Helon; Murex; Sep; Plat; Pallad.

Antidote: Helon.

The middle and higher potencies seem to have done best. Its curative action sometimes is slow in developing itself.

So far as proved Lilium tigrinum has shown itself adapted to the

complaints of women. It is especially suited to hysterical women,

who suffer from uterine troubles, cardiac troubles and various nervous

manifestations ; suitable to a woman who is extremely irritable, full

of fanciful notions, insanity, religious melancholy and imaginations,

with cardiac affections and prolapsus. These conditions often alternate ; when the mental symptoms are most marked the physical symptoms are relieved. The “dragging down'* that is associated with prolapsus seems to be a draging down ficm the region of the stomach,

and even sometimes from the throat. A bearing down, as if all the

interior organs w'cre dragging dowm. With this state of extreme relaxation there is great fidgetiness and most marked of all, palpitation.

She can lie only on the back, and is aggravated from lying on either

side. From every emotion the heart flutters, and is irregular and excitable. These mental symptoms and heart symptoms and uterine

symptoms often rotate or alternate, and constitute the principal features.

She can hardly speak a decent w'ord to anybody. She will snap

• ▸even when spoken to kindly.
• ▸She is so irritable that her friends cannot pacify her.
• ▸Even consolation aggravates.
• ▸When spoken to she

is irritable. She lies awake nights, and is tormented either by fanatical religious ideas, or a religious melancholy, and seems inclined to

dwell upon insane ideas concerning religion and modes of life, unreasonable, illogical and fanciful. Has wrong ideas concerning

everything. Receives wrong impressions and everything i4 inverted.

It is impossible to please her. Now these states are present with a

state of irritability of the sexual organs, nymphomania ; violent sex

ual excitement associated with spasms, with palpitation, with sweats,

with periods of exhaustion. She sits alone and broods over imaginary troubles, and when spoken to is crabbed. “Ideas not clear ; they

become more so if she exercises her will." ‘‘Makes mistakes in writing, in speaking, cannot apply the mind steadily ; tormented about her

salvation."

The patient tries to describe an indescribable feeling by saying she

has a “crazy feeling" in the head, as if the ideas scattered, and the

more she attempts to think rationally the more irrational she becomes.

The more she attempts to think of something the less likely she is to

recall it. When putting the mind upon something else it comes back

again. This remedy has all kinds of symptoms from sexual excesses

in overwrought and nervous women, from sexual excitement, causing

confusion of mind with palpitation.

It says in the text: “Listless, inert, yet does not want to sit still/'

This patient will sit still and brood and think over the past, and when

spoken to will jump up and run hastily and excitedly and slam the

door without any cause ; when spoken to kindly by members of the

family, or a friend, it seems that she will go wild. A patient once

under an aggravation from this remedy said to me: “I was spoken to

to-day in a street car, and I was so mad I wanted to fling something

at his head.’" She was thinking over something about herself, and did

not want to be disturbed. It is a violent state of temper, a violent

state of irritability, a loss of balance. She says: ‘Tt seems as if I

must fly when spoken to or disturbed.” When coming in contact with

her friends she has these feelings. The contact seems to arouse her

out of a state of lassitude and quietness. Strange things occur in this

remedy. The sensations described in the text are so vague and so

varied that you can see that it is an effort on the part of the provers

to describe what they feel. The sensations are numerous and indescribable.

This patient very commonly is a warm-blooded patient. She is like

the Pulsatilla patient ; warm-blooded, wants a cool room, likes to walk

in the open air, except at times when the prolapsus is aggravated by

walking. The head is generally relieved by moving about in the open

air, > when walking in the open air. The headache and most of the

complaints are relieved from cold, or from a cool room, and aggravated from a warm room. The dyspnma comes on in a warm room.

The patient suffocates in a crowded room, in the theatre, in church,

like Apis, Iodine, Kali i,, Lyc, and Puls.

A crazy feeling comes up from the back of the head to the top of

• ▸the head.
• ▸What that is only one that feels it can describe.
• ▸It is described sometimes as a tingling, or an electric sensation.
• ▸A slight

tingling comes up the back of the head and goes to the top, and is

associated with vertigo. When you come to sift that thought it really

brings nothing to mind. Very often you have to get those things

clinically, and think about them to get at the idea. The pains in the

forehead arc very marked, and they are associated with great disturbance of vision, a loss of vision, the room looks dark, or the eyes are

unable to focus. Nervous disturbance of vision, photophobia, twitching of the lids, jerking about the eyeballs, and inflammation of the

mucous membrane of the eyes, of the lids and balls, conjunctivitis.

Very often with the complaints of the head the eyes are turned in, a

convergent strabismus, or there is threatened syncope, with the pain

in the forehead. By all these things mentioned it may be known what

an over-sensitive, extremely nervous, hysterical person the Lilium tig.

patient must be. These things are commonly associated with patients

who are extremely nervous, who have fluttering of the heart, who

have pain down the spine, and more or less prolapsus, with a great

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sense of dragging down. When one condition is present, the other

is commonly absent ; they alternate, or they may exist all together.

‘‘Wild feeling in the head, as tho' she would go crazy, with pain in

the right iliac region.’' These provers seemed to like the expression,

“crazy feeling in the head, as if she would go crazy.” That crazy

feeling is a confusion of mind, as if the mind were quite unable to

concentrate itself. That is what is interpreted by this crazy feeling

the patients have. It is sometimes like a vertigo, as if things were

going round, or as if she would lose her mind. Then it comes again

as a terrible, tearing headache, described as a crazy headache in the

forehead. Headache in which there is confusion of the mind, or as

if the mind would go crazy.

The abdomen, stool, urinary and sexual organs, furnish us a field

for the use of this medicine. The whole abdominal viscera seem to

be dragging down from the stomach. The patient wants to hold up

the abdomen, pendulous abdomen. It seems as if the pelvic organs

would protrude. The patient must lie down, wants to wear a T bandage. Wants to grasp the abdomen from the sides and lift up for

support. It is a sensation of weakness or bearing down in the pelvis

as if everything were coming into the world through the vagina.

This remedy has a very urgent diarrhcea, driving out of bed in the

morning ; he must make great haste. You may get this confused with

Sulphur, because Lilium tig. has great heat in the head, emptiness in

the stoniach, and great burning of the palms and soles. It has also

a dysentery that you will hardly be able to distinguish from Merc,

• ▸cor.
• ▸, so marked is the tenesmus, mucus and blood.
• ▸The .
• ▸stool is merely

mucus mingled with blood, and the tenesmus is as great and the burning in the anus as marked as in Merc. cor. It is especially suited for

those attacks of dysentery that come on as an occasional chronic manifestation in nervous patients such as I have described. Now, do not

think that because this patient is nervous that she is weak, or lilipudan, or lean ; for it is especially suitable for those with full veins ;

apparently plethoric, full blooded, fleshy, rotund women who are very

nervous, and especially at the change of life. Recurrent dysenteric

attacks with every cold in those who suffer from pelvic and abdominal relaxation, mental irritability as described, palpitation and fluttering of the heart, with nervous constitutions. You do not see Merc,

cor. in such a picture. If it were a dysentery alone I would not be

able to tell which it was. All of these dysenteric manifestations have

been left out of the Guiding Symptoms, yet I have seen them verified

over and over. Again, it has a most inveterate and troublesome constipation.

It has also a tenesmus of the bladder and rectum. Teasing to urinate, as well as urging to stool. Sits a long time with much urging.

Limbs cold, clammy; more when excited or nervous.—Burning in palms and soles

all night, constant desire to find a cool place for them.—Out-pressing sensation in hands, arms,

feet, and legs in early part of night.