Lilium Tigrinum lil-t.

VENOUS CIRCULATION: FEMALE ORGANS. Uterus. Ovaries. HEART (R). Rectum. Bladder. Left side. Nerves.

WARMTH; of room. Motion. Miscarriages. Walking. Standing. Consolation.

Cool, fresh air. When busy. Lying on left side. Sunset (Coca. Med. Sele.). Pressure. Crossing legs.

FULL, HEAVY or forced out feeling; uterus; heart; eyelids; ovary (l). Utero - ovarian sagging. Marked nervo-hysterical reflexes (Con.), especially mental or cardiac. Nervous tremor; in hypogastrium, in spine, knees, etc. Pulsation, ebullition, gurglings and burnings. Backward pains; about eyes; to occiput; from nipples through chest; from heart to l. scapula. Venous congestion. Acrid discharges.

Hurried, nervous, snappish and erotic or depressed. Fruitless activity. Wild, crazy feeling. Dread; of insanity; being incurable, etc. Desires finery. Burning headache, < before and after menses; ache over (l), eye; with vertigo and visual effects. Eyes, feel sprained; bite and burn, < reading. Yellowish, patchy tongue. Sweet taste -back of mouth. Craves meat. Hunger, as if from spine. Stiff, tense abdomen. Can't bear weight of covers. Sharp pains, < doubling up. Early, morning diarrhœa; frequent, small stools; with tenesmus; < after rising. Heavy dragging or outward urging in pelvis; must hold parts (Sanic.); with dysuria. Ovarian pain, (l); into limb; with pain below (l) breast. Menses free, while moving only. Thin, brown, leucorrhœa; acrid. Oppressive load on chest; air hunger; takes long breaths. As of a rivet or ball under (l) mamma. HEART, feels clutched, overful, cold, weak, hangs by a thread, etc.; pains into (l) arm; < stooping; < lying on (r) side; nervous. Palpitation. Neckache, < tire. Broken feeling between scapulæ. Pain from hip to hip. Can't walk on uneven ground. Chilly, > open air. Burning palms and soles.

Related: Alo. Plat. Pul. Spi.

Affects principally the left side of the body (Lach., Thuja). Tormented about her salvation (Lyc., Sulph., Ver.), with ovarian or uterine complaints; consolation <. Wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas. Profound depression of spirits; can hardly avoid weeping; is very timid, fearful and weeps much; indifferent about what is being done for her. Anxious: about the disease; fears the symptoms indicate an organic affection; marked in both sexes. Disposed to curse, strike, to think obscene things (Anac., Lac c.); alternates with uterine irritation. Listless, yet cannot sit still; restless, yet does not want to walk; must keep busy to repress sexual desire. Desire to do something, hurried manner, yet has no ambition; aimless, hurried motion (Arg. n.). Fears: being alone, insanity, heart disease; fears she is incurable; some impending calamity or disease. Headaches and mental ailments depending on uterine irritation or displacement. Menstrual irregularities and irritable heart. Cannot walk on uneven ground; Pains in small spots; constantly shifting (Kali bi.). Frequent urging to urinate; if desire is not attended to, sensation of congestion in chest. Bearing-down sensation; in abdomen and pelvis, as though all organs would escape (Lac. c., Murex, Sep.); < supporting vulval with hand; with palpitation. Menses: early, scanty, dark, offensive; flow only when moving about; cease to flow when she ceases to walk (Caust. - on lying down, Kreos., Mag. c.). Sensation as if heart was grasped in a vise (Cac.); as if blood had all gone to the heart; feels full to bursting; inability to walk erect. Pulsations over whole body, and full, distented feeling as if blood would burst through the vessel (Aesc.). Palpitation, fluttering; faint, hurried, anxious sensation about apex; sharp pain in left chest awakens at night; irregular pulse; extremities cold and covered with cold sweat; < after eating, lying on either side (on left side, Lach.). Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute. Constant desire to defecate and urinate (with prolapsus), from pressure in rectum. Weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus and pelvic tissues, resulting in anteversion, retroversion, sub-involution (Helon., Sep.); slow recovery after labor; nearly always with constipation, from inactivity.

Compare: Act., Agar., Cac., Helon.,

Does not wish to be alone, prefers society; very low-spirited; weeping with feeling of dread. Crazy feeling on top of head.

Female:--Anteversion; retroversion; prolapsus. Menses continue only when moving about, and cease when sitting or lying down. Neuralgic pains in the uterus; pains in the ovaries, extending down into the inside of the thighs. Amenorrhœa, 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, to again remain absent for some time. Leucorrhœa thin, acrid; excoriating; staining the linen brown; after the menses. Bearing down in lower part of abdomen as though everything were coming into the world through the vagina; 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.

Constant pressure on rectum, causing desire as if must go to stool immediately. Morning diarrhœa in cases with prolapsus of uterus.

Constant pressure on the bladder, producing desire to urinate all the time; scanty flow, followed by much smarting and tenesmus.

Constant hurried feeling as of imperative duties, and utter inability to perform them. Bearing down, with a sensation of a heavy weight and pressure in uterine region, as if the whole contents would press out through the vagina; relieved by pressure of hand against vulva. Dull, pressive pain in region of heart, or sharp, quick pain with fluttering of the heart. Heart feels as if squeezed in a vice, or alternately grasped and relaxed. Nervous affections of the heart dependent upon, uterine and ovarian diseases.

Tiger-lily

Manifests powerful influence over the pelvic organs, and is adapted to many reflex states dependent on some pathological condition of uterus and ovaries. More often indicated in unmarried women. The action of the heart is very marked. Pain in small spots (Oxal ac). Rheumatic arthritis.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Frequent urging. Urine milky, scanty, hot.

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.

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.

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 leucorrhœa; smarting in labia. Sexual instinct awakened. Bloated feeling in uterine region. Sub-involution. Pruritus pudendi.

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.

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

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

Worse consolation, warm room. Better, fresh air.

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.

Great bearing down, as if pelvic contents would press out through the vagina; > by pressing up with the hand or sitting down (Sepia crosses the legs.)

Sensation of constriction in heart with uterine troubles.

Frequent desire for stool and urine with uterine displacements, tenesmus.

Tormented about her salvation.

Listless, yet does not want to sit still; restless, yet does not want to walk; hurried manner, desire to do something, yet no ambition; imperative duties, inability to perform them.

Depression of spirits: disposition to weep; aversion to food; indifferent about anything being done for her.

Lilium tigrinum is one of the remedies that closely resembles Sepia in its action on the uterine organs. This symptom, for instance, "weight, with feeling as if the pelvic contents would pass out through the vagina if not prevented by pressure with the hand (pressing up against the vulva, Lilium tig.), or by sitting down." There is no remedy that is more efficacious for uterine displacement than Lilium. The persistent bearing-down feeling in the uterine region of Lilium is attended with a feeling as if the pelvic viscera, indeed the whole abdominal contents, were being dragged downward, even from the chest and shoulders, towards the vagina.

The choice between Lilium and Sepia might not always be easy. The Sepia case is more likely to be a chronic one. On the other hand, the Lilium case is more intense, painful and distressing. The Sepia cachexia, of course, would decide easily in its favour, if it is markedly present. There is more urinary irritation, or frequent desire to urinate, with Lilium; indeed this is sometimes so severe as to make one think of Cantharis. Again, rectal irritation and distress in often found in conjunction with the urinary, in this respect reminding one of Merc. cor., Capsicum or Nux vomica.

With the uterine we often have quite an array of very severe heart symptoms. There are sharp quick pains, and much fluttering of the heart. This remedy also has in a marked degree the great characteristic symptom of Cactus grandiflorus, "sensation as if the heart were constricted or held by an iron band." This symptom, associated with the many other heart symptoms, has sometimes led to a prescription of Cactus, when Lilium was the remedy and vice versa. The uterine symptoms are sometimes masked so as to be over-looked for the time by the violence of the heart symptoms. All these heart, urinary, and rectal symptoms seem to be mainly reflex, while the real trouble is centered in the uterus and its appendages.

The mind is also very markedly affected under Lilium. Here it may resemble Pulsatilla for tearfulness; doubts her salvation, like Veratrum album, Sulphur and Lycopodium and a constant hurried feeling, as of imperative duties with utter inability to perform them. (See Argentum nitricum.)

Tiger Lily. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of fresh stalk, leaves, and flowers. (Some of the provings were made with tincture of the pollen alone.)

Angina pectoris . Asthenopia. Astigmatism. Dementia. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eyes, affections of . Fibroma. Heart, affections of; Palpitation of . Hysteria. Ovaries, affections of ; dropsy of. Pruritus vulvæ. Spinal irritation. Urination, too frequent. Uterus, affections of; displacements of; subinvolution of .

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: ( 1 ) 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 ) Ill-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 leucorrhœa 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 leucorrhœa, 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, leucorrhœa 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 ilium; 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 Lil. t . 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. Diarrhœa < early morning. > In open air. < In warm room; is faint. Touch < (on epigastrium = desire to vomit); < hæmorrhoids. 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.

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Obtuseness of intellect with inability to find right words in expressing thoughts ; forgets what he is about to say.
Ideas not clear, they become more so if he exerts his will, makes mistakes in writing and speaking ; cannot apply mind steadily.
Depression, dulness of intellect and thirst precede severe symptoms.
Believes her disease to be incurable ; that she has some organic disease that nobody understands.
Tormented about her salvation. θ Uterine complaints.
Crazy feeling on top of head ; wild feeling in head, with confusion of ideas.
Dementia produced by business discouragements and sexual excesses.
Disposition to weep, with pain in back ; has to keep very busy to repress sexual desire.
Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things ; as these mental states came, uterine irritation abated.
Aversion to being alone, and yet no dread felt.
Loss of appetite, headache, with distress of head and indisposition to labor ; dread of business ; indisposition to any exertion of mind or body.
Listless, inert, yet does not want to sit still ; restless, yet does not want to walk ; hurried manner, desire to do something, yet feels no ambition ; feeling as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them ; sexual excitement.
Depression of spirits ; profound ; can hardly keep from crying ; disposition to weep, with nausea and pain in back ; aversion to food ; weeps much and is very timid ; indifferent about anything being done for her.
Anxiety ; fearful that the symptoms indicate an internal organic disease ; very marked in both male and female.
Apprehensive, as from impending disease or calamity ; fears insanity ; fears heart disease ; fears she is incurable ; often with moderate or subacute uterine or ovarian inflammation.
Doubts her salvation ; thinks she is doomed to expiate her sins and those of her family ; tears her hair ; walks floor night and day ; seeks to escape ; consolation aggravates. θ Uterine
dementia.

Vertigo, especially when walking ; feeling as if intoxicated ; staggering forward ; forgetful ; head confused and heavy.
Faint feeling ; fear of falling, < in close warm room, > in fresh air, though he is then chilly.
Faint in a warm room and when standing, with cold sweat on hands and feet. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Dull frontal headache ; < over left eye, or alternating from side to side.
Pain in forehead. θ Photophobia. θ Blepharitis. θ Astigmatism.
Blinding pain in forehead, < in evening ; extending into back of head and down neck, with strange muddled feeling in head, general weakness and desire to lie down ; stinging burning pain in forehead, with sensation as of rubber band stretched over it, with
confusion of mind ; > by effort of will ; pains in forehead and temples, with vertigo, depression of spirits, bearing down pain in region of womb and anus, strangury and ineffectual urging to stool ; shooting in right temple passing to left, with a dull heavy sensation in
whole front of head ; dim sight ; pains in eyes extending to head ; dull pressive aching from left temple to occiput ; paroxysmal.
Drawing hot pain through head and eyes, > by frequent sneezing.
Fulness of head, with pressure outward as if contents would be forced through every aperture ; feeling as if blood would issue through nose when blowing it ; > by supporting head with hands, and at sunset ; < when walking in open air.
Heavy feeling in head, with morning diarrhœa.
Peculiar pressive headache with tremulousness and increased micturition.
Heavy feeling in head, at times slightly confused, then almost crazed feeling in head, rushing, like some fluid, through head, generally from right to left.
Wild feeling in head as though she would be crazy, with pain in right iliac region.
Terrible tearing, crazing headache ; feels as if she would lose her reason ; crazy feeling seems to run up back of head and feels as if whole head would be torn to pieces, with great fulness pressing out, with confused feeling ; pain utterly unbearable, makes her wish for
death ; pain about heart, running through to left scapula ; pains and weakness in limbs ; feels she has heart disease and cannot recover, or that she will lose her soul. θ Headache.

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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 dragging down from the region of the stomach, and even sometimes from the throat.

A bearing down, as if all the interior organs were dragging down. 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 word 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 is inverted. It is impossible to please her. Now these states are present with a state of irritability of the sexual organs, nymphomania; violent sexual 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:

"It 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 dyspnoea 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 are 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 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 diarrhoea, driving out of bed in the morning; he must make great baste. You may get this confused with Sulphur, because Lilium tig. has great heat in the head, emptiness in the stomach, 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 liliputian, 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. Sit a long time with much urging, and after long straining no stool.

Frequent urging, with a sensation as if a ball were in the rectum. When the fundus of the uterus is turned back to the rectum it gives a sensation as if the rectum were full of faeces; it brings on urging to stool and the patient will sit and strain, and the tenesmus of the bladder and rectum is unbearable. Constant urging to stool, and no stool in the rectum. You will be astonished to know that the remedy that is indicated with such symptoms will relieve the patient of all distress in a short time.

But you ask, will this remedy put the uterus right again? Well, the patient will get relief of her sufferings and will not feel this uncomfortable state after the administration of the remedy. The bowels become regular, the disturbance of micturition is relieved and the patient gradually returns to health and later the uterus will be found in place.

"Pressure in the rectum, with almost constant desire to go to stool."

Lilium tigrinum has cured the most inveterate protruding hemorrhoids with burning.

"Haemorrhoids after delivery, sore to touch, bearing down after stool as if all would protrude from the vagina."

It does not mean that we shall apply that simply to hemorrhoids that come after delivery, but it has cured hemorrhoids in such a constitution, and not only hemorrhoids, but relaxed uterus and vagina.

A paralytic relaxation is present in all the abdominal tissues. I have mentioned the uterine symptoms incidentally in connection with other parts.

"Menses scanty, flow only when moving about."

This will make you think of Puls., the menses being so scanty, and because the Puls. patient is of similar nervous temperament. Puls. has scanty menstruation and relief in the open air. It has also much dragging down in the pelvis, though not so extreme as a rule as in this medicine. But there is much in this medicine quite different from Puls.

The come the heart symptoms.

"Seems as if the heart were grasped or squeezed in a vise, hard, as if violently grasped."

"Constrictive pain in the heart." "In fresh air, chilly, but vertigo is >."

Pain in the back and down the spine; irritable and sensitive spine with trembling. It competes very closely with Platina.

Ideas not clear, they become more so if he exerts his will; makes mistakes in speaking and writing; can not apply the mind steadily.
Depression, dulness of intellect and thirst always precede the severe symptoms.
Crazy feeling on top of the head; wild feeling in head, with confusion of ideas.
Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things, as these mental states came, uterine irritation abated.
Hurried manner; desire to do something and yet feels no ambition.
Listless, inert, yet don't want to sit still; restless, yet don't want to walk.
Low-spirited, can hardly keep from crying.
Tormented about her salvation. θ With uterine complaints.
Apprehensive: as from impending disease or calamity; fears he has heart-disease; she fears she is incurable; often with moderate or subacute uterine or ovarian inflammation.
Fear of insanity.
Irritable, impatient.

Vertigo, especially when walking; feeling as if intoxicated; staggering forward; forgetful.
Faint feeling, fear of falling; worse in close warm room, better in fresh air, though he is then chilly.
Faint in a warm room and when standing, with cold sweat on back of hands and on feet. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Dull frontal headache: worse over left eye, or alternating from side to side.
Wild feeling in head as though she would be crazy, with pain in right iliac region.
Heavy feeling in the head, with morning diarrhœa.
Drawing hot pain through head and eyes, relieved by frequent sneezing, 10 P.M.
Fulness of the head, with pressure outward as if contents would be forced through every aperture.
Shooting in right temples passing over to the left, with a dull, heavy sensation in whole front of head; dim sight; pain in eyes, extending to head.
Dull, pressive aching, from the left temple to occiput; paroxysmal.

Blurred vision: after seminal emission; with prolapsed uterus.
Hypermetropia.
Presbyopia.
Muscæ volitantes.
Eyes full of water; face flushed and hot, pricking in skin of forehead.
Eyes painful; sensitive to light.
Intense pain in eyes, extending back into head; dim sight.
Sharp pains over the eyes.

Rushing sound in both ear.

Frequent sneezing, 10 A.M., relieving a severe, burning headache and pain in eyes.

Pain in right side of face, right nostril stopped.
Heat and bloated feeling of face and head.
Chilly feeling and face in the forenoon; afternoon fever, congestion to chest; face and forehead flushed and hot; pricking in the forehead.

Taste of blood; congestion to chest.

Loss of appetite.
Aversion: to bread; to coffee.
Craving for meat.
Voracious hunger, seemingly along the spine and up to occiput, not appeased by eating.
Thirst, drinks often and much.
Thirst recurring before severe symptoms.

Nausea: constant, with sensation of a lump in stomach, moving at every deglutition; when thinking of coffee; with morning diarrhœa; with pressure in vagina and pain at top of sacrum.

Fulness, disturbed feeling, upward pressure, after eating.
Stomach distended, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus per annum.
Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels.

Dragging down of whole abdominal contents, extending to even organs of chest; must support the abdomen.
Bloated abdomen after a meal, continuing after a diarrhœic discharge.
Abdomen distended with moving of flatulence, better from passing wind up and down.
Abdomen sensitive to pressure or jarring.
Abdominal walls sore, previous to stool.
Sensation as if diarrhœa would come on, passing off by urinating.
Bloated feeling in region of uterus extending to hips.
Abdomen distended and sore after menses cease.
Empty feeling of abdomen and stomach.
Weak, tremulous feeling extending to anus.
Skin of abdomen feels stretched and stiff.

Morning diarrhœa, stools loose, bilious; dark, offensive, very urgent, can't wait a moment.
Stool preceded by gripping pains or great urging, with pressure on the rectum; followed by smarting, burning of anus.
Tenesmus and great desire for stool, but every effort resulted only in voiding a little urine.
Escape of flatus, with great distention of stomach and frequent eructations.
Hemorrhoids after delivery, sore to touch, itching; bearing down at stool as if all would protrude through vagina.

Frequent urination through the day; with dull headache moving from sinciput to occiput, finally settling in left temple.
Frequent urging, with acrid smarting after every discharge; urging worse towards morning.
Continuous pressure in region of bladder, constant desire to urinate with scanty discharge; smarting in urethra and tenesmus.
If desire is not attended to, feeling of congestion of chest.
Urine: milky, scanty; increased and dark; hot, like boiling oil.

Desire increased.
Lascivious dreams and emissions, followed by; irritability, difficulty in fixing one's mind, selecting wrong words.

Sexual desire increased; obscene.
Ovaries: Burning, stinging, cutting, grasping in ovaries (left); pains extend across hypogastrium, to groin, down leg; bearing down when standing; sensitive to pressure; ovary swollen to nearly size of child's head.
Bearing down in uterus, pains in left ovary and left mamma.
Menses: scanty, flow only when moving abut; dark, thick, smelling like the lochia; on second day after time to menstruate, cutting in bowels, limbs clammy; followed by profuse, bright yellow leucorrhœa, excoriating the perineum.
Severe neuralgic pains in uterus, could not bear touch, not even weigh of bedclothes or slightest jar; anteversion.
Aching over the pubes, with pain in knees.
Bearing down in uterine region as if everything would be pressed out; relieved by pressure with hand against vulva.
Bloated feeling in region of uterus; pelvic organs feel swollen; aching apparently around, not in, the uterus.
Intermittent sharp pain across lower bowels.
Burning from groin to groin, with morning stool.
Intermittent labor-like pains in lower part of back, with a thin, acrid, excoriating leucorrhœa, leaving a brown stain; worse afternoon until 12 P.M.
Pressure on anterior wall of rectum.
Voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fulness of parts; stinging in left ovarian region.
With the bearing down: low-spirited, weeping, apprehensive; irritable; opposite and contradictory mental states; urgent desire for stool; anorexia; faint in close room and when standing; frequent, scanty, burning urine; pain in sacrum; bloated feeling in abdomen; limbs cold, clammy.

Delayed post-partum recovery (subinvolution); lochia lasts too long, is profuse, excoriating; dragging pains; smarting in urethra after urination fears an internal incurable disease.
Cutting in left mamma through to scapula; sighing; short-breath.
Cramp-like pain in left mamma, shoulder and fingers.

Breathing oppressed, with oppression in lower pain of chest; worse 4 A.M.
Short, oppressed breathing; sighing; frequent desire to take a long breath.
Feeling of compression and weight.
Chest feels as if too full of blood; slight relief from sighing; oppressive heat, must go into open air; worse in close room; with taste of blood, faint feeling; weak heart-beat, blurred sight, fear of falling.

Full feeling in chest, with distended abdomen.
Constricted sensation in left side of chest, extending, to right, with sharp pains running up to throat, clavicle, left axilla and scapula; better from changing position.

Heart feels as if squeezed in a vise.
Heart feels as if grasped, with pain and heaviness of left mamma to scapula.
Heart as if violently grasped, then suddenly released; and so on alternately.
Constrictive pain about heart, extending through to scapula.
Heaviness in region of heart.
Palpitation worse from lying no either side.
Fluttering, general faint feeling, hurried and forced feeling about the apex; better sitting still.
Fluttering: awakens her at night; with cold hands and feet covered with cold sweat; with sharp, quick pain in left chest.
Conscious pulsations over whole body, and out-pressing in hands and arms, as if blood would burst through the vessels.

Dull pain in nape of neck, with feeling of constriction.
Pain in back and left scapula, seemingly from left mamma.
Pain in dorsal vertebræ, if the back would break.
Cold feeling in back.
Dull, heavy pain and great weakness in small of back.
Dull pain in lower back and sacrum.
Sensation of pulling upward from tip of coccyx.

Dull pain in left shoulder.
Drawing pain in left shoulder and neck; sitting in left mamma.
Right hand and arm stiff and painful during the night, abating 8 A.M.
Arms and hands stiff and hot, as if parched.
Stiffness of the fingers almost like paralysis; difficult to guide the pencil.
Pricking in fingers almost like paralysis; difficult to guide the pencil.
Pricking in fingers and hands; sensation of an electric current, first in fingers of left, then of right hand.

Pain in right hip, extending down the thigh.
Boring; soreness; stitches; or drawing pain in right hip-joint.
Grasping pain in knees.
Heavy aching in knees.
Trembling of knees, abdomen, back and hands.
Dull, heavy pains from knees to toes, moving suddenly from place to place.
Legs ache; cannot keep them still; worse when giving up control of herself, as when trying to get to sleep.
Burning, beginning in soles and palms, thence over body; worse in bed, constant desire to find a cool place.

Burning in palms and soles.
Limbs cold, clammy, more when excited or nervous.
Whole body feels bruised and sore, even pressure of clothing is painful; hands and feet as if pounded; sole sore, worse when stepping.

Worse walking, yet pains so much worse after ceasing to walk that he must walk again.
Changing place: 33. Walking: 2, 23, 36. Stepping: 34. Changing position: 28. Standing: 2, 23. Sitting still: 29. Lying: 29.

Weak, trembling, nervous.
Nervous system irritable.
Aimless hurry and motion; walks to and fro; cannot be amused by thinking or reading.

Sleepy before bedtime.
Inability to sleep, worse before midnight.
Restless sleep: with wild feeling in head; with frightful, laborious dreams; everything seems too hot; with seminal emissions, dull headache, palpitation; with mammary pain.

Morning: 3, 7, 16, 20, 21, 23. Forenoon: 8. Afternoon: 8, 23, 40; till midnight: 23. Night: 29; till morning: 32. Before midnight: 3, 37. 4 A.M.: 26. Day: 21.

Close warm room: 2, 23, 26. In bed: 33. Open air: 2, 26, 40. Desire for cool place: 33.

Chills run downwards with violent beating of heart; with congestion to chest and burning heat all over; with constriction about heart.
Chilly when in cool, open air; yet otherwise better.
Greater heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing all over.

Right: 3, 8, 32, 33. Left: 3, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32. Right to left: 3. Left to right: 28, 32. In out: 3. Front backward: 3, 5, 21, 24, 29, 31. Below upward: 14. Above downwards: 33, 40.

Pains in small spots.
Shifting pains.
Pressing out, as if blood would burst through the vessels.
Throbbing, as if in all blood-vessels.

Touch: 20, 23. Pressure: 19, 23, 34. Jarring: 19, 23.
Cannot walk on uneven ground.

Antidotes Helon. (anteversion); Nux vom. (colic).

A tincture of the fresh plant of the "Tiger Lily" is used.

The provings of this drug have developed pressure, heaviness and symptoms of congestion of the pelvic viscera, especially in women. ▶ The ovarian pains are very marked. ▶ With the uterine and ovarian symptoms many reflex sensations are found, fluttering of heart, pain in back and extremities, etc.

Pod., Aloes, Sulph., Pallad., Apis, Ign., Bell.

Emaciation and debility. ▶ Hysterics. ▶ Convulsive contractions of almost all muscles. ▶ Startings. ▶ Tremulousness; in morning on waking, with weakness; nervous, towards evening; trembling of knees, abdomen and lower part of back. ▶ Twitching sensations about head and in pectoral muscles. ▶ Shootings in various parts, agg. chest. ▶ Pain in all the flesh and bones; P. at night, next morning muscles feel bruised and soles so sore that she cannot walk, hands feel as if they had been pounded, every part sore, intolerant of pressure of the clothing; P. in small spots as from pressure with finger-tips.

Restlessness; at 5 P.M., agg. evening and after going to bed; at night; on lying down after being called out in the night, with miserable feeling, feeling as if everything were too hot; with desire to do something, but no ambition; restless desire to keep walking. ▶ Pulsation in all arteries; P. over body in afternoon, with sensation as if blood would burst through veins of hands and arms. ▶ Incapacity for mental or physical exertion. ▶ Muscles respond sluggishly to her will. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Weakness; all day, with vertigo on sudden motion; in forenoon, with irritability; in afternoon with heat; after diarrhœa; with slowness and forgetfulness; with trembling of bowels. ▶ Faintness in afternoon; F. agg. in warm room or after being on the feet a long time; F., with cold sweat on feet and backs of hands. ▶ Numbness in various parts.

Aggravation every evening; at night; from 5 P.M. till 8 A.M., then amelioration till 5 P.M. again; as soon as she gave up active control of herself, that is, tried to sleep; A. of pains after moving. ▶ Amelioration from a free loose stool at 8 A.M.; A. in a warm room; in open air, in spite of chilliness; from sitting, standing or walking; when she is busy.

Delirium, with startings. ▶ Excitement at night, with weeping, and feeling as if she were two persons. ▶ Wild feeling after keeping quiet; W. feeling at night, as if she would go crazy and no one would care for her, thoughts of suicide and sleeplessness. ▶ Everything seems unreal. ▶ Overactive; and feeling as if two individuals, afterwards perceptive and reflective faculties benumbed. ▶ Hurried feeling; as of imperative duties, and inability to perform them, during sexual excitement ; yet cannot do much, feels discouraged; and keeps walking fast as by instinct; aimless hurry and motion, with sleeplessness, desire to have some one talk to her, felt as if she should die and did not care if she did. ▶ Inert; yet does not want to sit quiet, restless, yet does not want to walk, is cross.

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The chief interest in this drug centres in the uterine symptoms, associated with numerous reflex troubles, mental and physical.

Flesh feels sore and bruised, and intolerant of pressure.
Tremulousness, with weakness.
Startings.
Contractions of muscles.
Debility.
Restlessness.
Faintness, < in a warm room.
Pulsations throughout the body.
Aggravation at night after 5 P. M.

Feels hurried as if duties were crowding upon her, with inability to perform them, with sexual excitement.
Depression of spirits; inclination to weep as though suffering from some internal disorder.
Aversion to being alone.

Dull pain, > fresh open air.
Sharp neuralgic pains over the eyes, < motion and in the evening.

Pain, with lachrymation, with dim, confused vision, with inclination to press upon the eyes, with heat.
It is valuable for asthenopia.

Dragging sensation, involving even the chest.
Bearing-down in the lower abdomen, < walking, with weight low down.
Pressure downward, with constant desire for stool, with a feeling as if a hard weight pressed against the rectum and evacuation was difficult.
Pulling downward and backward from anterior spines of ilia.
A feeling as if anything were pushing out through the vagina.

Pressure on the rectum and bladder as from a hard substance, with difficulty in evacuating the bowels.
Burning in rectum and anus.
Constipation.

Constant efforts to evacuate bladder, with scanty discharges, always followed by irritation and smarting in urethra.
Frequent micturition (almost every fifteen minutes).

A feeling of weight in the uterus as if it would be pressed out through vagina, > sitting down or pressing with the hand.
Uterus anteverted, pressing against bladder.
Sharp pain in the region of the ovaries and in back.
Aching and burning, or gnawing and dragging pains, worse in region of the right ovary.
Sexual desire increased in women.

Clinical:
Uterine displacements, with distress in rectum, etc.
Ovarian pains (right ovary), with palpitation, mental symptoms, etc.
Leucorrhœa thin and acrid, burning.

Sharp, quick pains in left side of chest, with fluttering of the heart.
Dragging, as if the lung were involved with the pelvic viscera.

Pain, as if the heart were grasped in a vice; wakes suddenly.
Fluttering in the region of the heart; faintness.

Pain in the sacrum, with a pressing downward in pelvis, < morning on rising, not > lying.

Chilly feelings running down the face, head and back, with violent beating of the heart and constriction.

Lil. / (LL.) / Lily.

Lilium,-For thee is room,
In dislacement of the womb.
With a downward, pressing weight,
Constant need to urinate.
Constant pressing on the bowel,
Urgent early morning call.
Hurried feeling of the mind,
Heart to fluttering included.
Nervousness,-Neuralgic pain,
Leucorrhoea-brownish stain-
Threatening, during pregnancy
Of abortion, frequently.
Aggravation in the night,
Better busy, in day light.

Lily,-Has falling of the womb.

Lily Helen Alet, spilled the fine apples from Bess Vibo's lap.

This Lily,-Who is subject to Abortion, -Is at Helen Vibo's, seeking the yellow pony, for Sabina, the crow sqaw maid.

Falling of the womb-Displacement: Lil. t., Helon., Alet., Sul., Pul., Lil. t., Ferr., Nux v., Pod., Bell., Sep., Vib. o., Lappa.

Threatening of Miscarriage-Habit of Abortion: Lil. t., Helon., Vib. o., Sec., Gel., Pul., Nux v., Sabin., Cro., Cimi., Ustil.

Indicated in affections of the pelvic viscera of (unmarried) women (as displacements) and in reflex symptoms caused by them; useful in cardiac disturbances associated with pelvic diseases of women.

Profound mental depression, with a restlessness which makes her move about constantly in an aimless, nervous, hurried manner.

Wild, crazy feeling in the head; on the top of the head.

Heart feels as though grasped in a vise; as though pressed between two hard, flat substances; waves of distress at the heart, as if it would burst; suffocating feeling about the heart; rapid action of the heart.

Weak feeling in the pelvis, as though uterus and ovaries were being dragged down, relieved by upward pressure and support.

Menses early, dark, offensive, scanty; flowing freely only while moving about.

Great sexual desire, which she seeks to control by keeping "on the go."

Acrid, thin leucorrhoea.

Pain through the groin, shooting down the leg.

Constant pressure in the rectum, as though she must do to stool at once.

Worse from expressions of sympathy.

Better in the open air.