Lilium tigrinum:Indifference about everything being done for her.

Lilium tigrinum

- VERMEULEN Frans,
Lil-t.
Within the garden's peaceful scene
Appeared two lovely foes,
Aspiring to the rank of Queen,
The Lily and the Rose ...
Your's is she said, the noblest hue,
And yours the statelier mien,
And till a third surpasses you
Let each be deemed a Queen.
[William Cowper]
Signs
Lilium tigrinum. Lilium lancifolium. Tiger Lily. N.O. Liliaceae.
CLASSIFICATION Botanists differ as to the taxonomic composition of this very diverse family. Different authorities have recognized between 12 and 28 tribes within the family.
HOMOEOPATHY Some systems include in the Liliaceae the following species used in homoeopathy: Agraphis, Aletris, Aloe, Colchicum, Helonias, Lilium, Ornithogalum, Paris, Phormium, Polygonatum, Smilax [Sarsaparilla], Trillium, Urginea [Squilla], and Xerophyllum. Other systems [e.g. the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew] place the above species in nine separate families: Aloaceae [Aloe], Colchicaceae [Colchicum], Convallariaceae [Convallaria and Polygonatum], Hyacinthaceae [Ornithogalum and Squilla], Liliaceae [Lilium and Tulipa], Melanthiaceae [Aletris, Helonias, Sabadilla, Veratrum, and Xerophyllum], Phormiaceae [Phormium], Smilaceae [Sarsaparilla], and Trilliaceae [Paris and Trillium].
FEATURES Comprising some 250-280 genera and about 3,500-4,000 species [depending on the taxonomic system!], the Liliaceae are mostly perennial herbs from starchy rhizomes, corms, or bulbs. The leaves are alternate or less often opposite or whorled. The flowers are often showy; many of the genera are of stately beauty, hence their general use as ornamentals in horticultural display. The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic. [Actinomorphy is a characteristic of relatively primitive plant families, such as Ranunculaceae and Liliaceae. It refers to radial symmetry in the flowers: any cut taken through the centre divides the structure in similar halves.] The flowers are all colour with blue being rare. The perianth usually consists of six segments in two whorls of three [three sepals, three petals; sepals and petals are either distinct or adnate to each other]. There are six distinct and free stamens. The ovary, of three fused carpels, has usually three locules [compartments]. The fruit is either dry and cracking at maturity or fleshy in certain species - it is divided into three segments.
PROPAGATION Most members of the Liliaceae they have vegetative means of reproduction. As the leaf-bases of underground lily bulbs mature, buds arise at their base to become bulblets. As the parent leaf-bases disintegrate, these bulblets grow into new individuals. Similar offsets and buds on creeping rhizomes gives rise to new plants in many lilies. In addition lilies are insect-pollinated and produce seeds. Grown from seed lilies take from two to six years to produce flowers. Bulblets sprouting from buds in a flower cluster, called vivipary, occur in the related family of the Alliaceae, in some species of which it almost totally substitutes the regular florets in the inflorescence. Lilium lancifolium also employs this manner of propagation.
SURVIVAL Organs for moisture and food storage have been evolved to permit lilies to survive unfavourable periods when growth is inhibited by dry or cold weather. Yet, lilies require plenty of moisture; once drought-stricken or in any way seriously checked in growth so as to produce debility, they rarely recover their health.
ECONOMIC USES The main use is in horticultural display [daffodils, tulips, lilies, hostas, daylilies, etc.]. Important food sources in the family include onions, garlic, leek, chives, and asparagus. Some serve as a source of commercial fibres [e.g. Agave and Phormium]. Medicinally, Liliales are a source of many steroidal compounds [steroid saponins] and of cardiac glycosides.
CONSTITUENTS Steroid saponins, e.g. diosgenin, characterize Liliales to a remarkable degree. The steroid portion of diosgenin is used in the preparation of hormones, i.e. progesterone and birth control pills. Diosgenin has various biological activities, such as anti-fatigue, anti-inflammatory, antistress, and oestrogenic; in addition it lowers cholesterol levels in blood and decreases mastopathy. This phytohormonal substance is present in such Liliales as Dioscorea, Trillium, Paris, Agave, Aletris, Asparagus and Smilax. Some Liliales contain poisonous compounds, mainly cardiac glycosides, i.e. Veratrum, Sabadilla, Lilium, Galanthus, Convallaria, Colchicum, Squilla, and Ornithogalum. [Cardiac glycosides, however, are not exclusive for Liliales; they occur in many plants, most notably in Digitalis, Selenicereus grandiflorus - Cactus grandiflorus -, Apocynum, Nerium oleander, Strophanthus, Helleborus, and Adonis vernalis. The venom of the toad, Bufo, also contains cardiac glycosides.] Veratrum album, Veratrum viride, Sabadilla, Allium sativum, and other members of the Liliales contain potent hypotensive agents. In terms of affinities Liliales therefore seem to affect chiefly hormonal processes and the cardiovascular system.
GENUS The genus Lilium consists of about 100 known species, which occur in all parts of the Northern Hemisphere; numerous hybrids are grown as ornamentals to 'bring height, fragrance, and dramatic beauty to your summer garden,' as one horticulturist put it.
NAME Lilium is the Latin form of the Greek name leirion, which was used for the Madonna Lily [Lilium candidum]. The specific name lancifolium refers to the leaves and means 'lance- or sword-shaped'. Common names for L. lancifolium include Tiger Lily, and Devil Lily. It is called Tiger Lily because the spotted flowers resemble the skin of the tiger.
MEDICINE The Roman naturalist Pliny recorded that salves and oils were prepared from the leaves and flowers of the Madonna Lily or Lilium candidum ['candidum' means 'dazzling white']. Dioscorides indicated that lily leaves were placed on burns, injuries and snakebites. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that a woman would always preserve her youthful beauty if she washed in lily juice. The use of Lilium candidum as a medicinal plant continued until the 18th century. Lily oil was an aid in childbirth and was used for the softening of hard lumps in the breast. Distilled lily extract was used as a remedy for neck ailments and leprosy. Bruised bulbs could cool infections. It was considered a diuretic and prescribed as a remedy for fluctuating fevers. Fresh or dried bulbs of the Madonna lily were made into a hair tonic in the 17th century. "Madonna Lily was well-known to old herbalists as a cleanser of the female genital tract. The remedy will cleanse waste material from the organs which sustain the foetus. Many times Easter Lily has also effected change in attitude, bringing about a reconciliation between the ideal and reality in life, particularly in sexual matters. Just as Easter Lily cleans the organs of physical generation, it cleans the corresponding organs of spiritual generation ... If we look at the petals of the Madonna or Easter Lily we will see that the union of opposites is portrayed in the structure of the plant itself. The petals are a beautiful, luminous, milky white, embodying the ideal of purity. At the same time the sexual parts of the flower protrude beyond the ends of the petals in an obvious and unabashed fashion. The male parts, the anthers, are coated with an abundant, heavy golden pollen. The female part, the stigma, drips with a white exudate. Madonna Lily presents a picture of what would normally be considered opposites: purity and sexuality."1
MADONNA LILY "It [L. candidum] was a flower to lift the heart and to stir the imagination of even barbarous men. The lily played a part in the Minoan religion of ancient Crete. It was a special attribute of the Great Minoan Goddess. This goddess, Britomartis [sweet maiden] had her origin in Neolithic times. She maintained unchallenged supremacy in Crete until, after the mysterious cataclysm that befell Minoan civilisation in the middle of the sixteenth century BC, her cult was gradually assimilated into the religion of the Greeks, and she became the precursor of the Greek Artemis. The Minoan religion was monotheistic. In Greek mythology the lily was clearly attributed to the chief Greek goddess, Hera. From Greece it was passed on as a symbol to Hera's Roman prototype, Juno. In the Christian era, however, it has become associated with the Virgin Mary, from whom it gets its modern name, Madonna Lily. So for literally thousands of years the lily has figured in human history as a religious symbol, typifying with its white and gold all that man could imagine of goodness and purity. The frequency of lilies on the arms of educational institutions recalls the time when all schools and colleges were under the jurisdiction of the Church and the Virgin's lily seemed a natural symbol for institutions devoted to youth. According to mythology, the sight of its whiteness set such a lively jealousy in Aphrodite, who had herself issued from the whiteness of sea foam, that out of pure spite she had a huge pistil set in the centre of the flower."2
TRINITY From the earliest ages, the concept of the Great Goddess was a trinity and the model for all subsequent trinities, female, male, or mixed. Anatolian villages in the 7th millennium BC worshipped a Goddess in three aspects - as a young woman, a birth-giving matron, and an old woman. This typical Virgin-Mother-Crone combination was Parvati-Durga-Uma [Kali] in India, Ana-Babd-Macha [the Morrigan] in Ireland, or in Greece Hebe-Hera-Hecate, the three Moirae, the three Gorgons, the three Graces, the three Horae, etc. Among the Vikings, the threefold Goddess appeared as the Norns; among the Romans, as the Fates or Fortunae; among the druids, as Diana Triformis. ... The Middle East has many trinities, most originally female. As time went on, one or two members of the triad turned male. The usual pattern was Father-Mother-Son, the Son figure envisioned as a Saviour. ... The lily often represented the virgin aspect of the Triple Goddess, while the rose represented her maternal aspect. The lily was the flower of Lilith and was also sacred to Astarte, who was also Lilith; northern Europeans called her Ostara or Eostre, the Goddess of 'Easter' lilies. Because of its pagan associations with virgin motherhood, the lily was used to symbolize impregnation of the virgin Mary. Some authors claimed the lily in Gabriel's hand filtered God's semen which entered Mary's body through her ear. Mary's cult also inherited the lily of the Blessed Virgin Juno, who conceived her saviour-son Mars with the help of the minor goddess Flora by the mere touch of a lily. This myth reflected an early belief in the self-fertilizing power of the yoni [vulva], which the lily symbolized and Juno personified. Her name descended from the pre-Roman Uni, a Triple Goddess represented by the three-lobed lily. ... Celtic and Gallo-Roman tribes called the virgin mother Lily Maid. 3
LILITH The Sumerian-Babylonean Lilitu was absorbed into Judaic folklore and scriptural commentary as Lilith, the essence of depraved sexuality, created either as the female half of Adam or from 'filth and impure sediment instead of dust or earth.' She claimed [sexual] equality with Adam, since both were created from dust, and refused to accept that she was his inferior. This led to a quarrel and Lilith flew away to make her home by the Red Sea and to begin her mission of she-devil. God sent angels to fetch Lilith back, but she cursed them and ignored God's command. In her new existence she became the mistress of the sea demon Ashmodai and produced hundreds of children by him each day. God had to produce Eve as Lilith's more docile replacement. Promoting adultery and extramarital relationships, Lilith was to become the foe of Eve. Lilith's daughters, the lilim, haunted men for over a thousand years. They crept into men's beds and caused them to ejaculate in their sleep, wasting their semen. Celibate monks tried to fend them off by sleeping with their hands crossed over their genitals, clutching a crucifix. It was said that every time a pious Christian had a wet dream, Lilith laughed. Another common name for the daughters of Lilith was Night-Mare [from Old English maere, an evil spirit that terrifies the sleeping person]. Lilith exemplifies the unruly type of woman. 4,5
HERA The hieros gamos - sacred marriage - of Zeus and Hera was defined by Homer as the blueprint for the human marriage ceremony. Hera's role became confined to the sacrament of marriage, and her fiery, intolerant attitude to her husband's sexual liaisons was attributed to her doctrine of fidelity. Psychologically, Hera personifies the archetype that represents the traditional role of a woman as the wife, the married woman. Together with Demeter - the archetype of the mother - and Persephone - the archetype of the daughter - Hera represents the relationship-oriented goddesses, whose identity and well-being depend on having a significant relationship. "In their mythologies, these three goddesses were raped, abducted, dominated, or humiliated by male gods. Each suffered when an attachment was broken or dishonoured. Each experienced powerlessness. And each responded characteristically - Hera with rage and jealousy, Demeter and Persephone with depression. ... Women identified with these goddesses are attentive and receptive to others. They are motivated by the rewards of relationship - approval, love, attention, and by the need of the archetype to mate [Hera], to nurture [Demeter], or to be dependent [Persephone]. For these women, fulfilling traditional women's roles can be personally meaningful. ... Marriage may not be fulfilling to a Hera woman when it is not very important to her husband. ... With being married as the main goal in life, she has not much maternal instinct. She may be a full-time wife and mother and physically very much present in the lives of the children, but they will feel a lack of closeness and will sense some emotional abandonment. The loyalty is with the husband and less so with the children." Hera has two aspects: she was worshipped as a powerful goddess of marriage, and she was denigrated by Homer as a vindictive, quarrelsome, jealous bitch. During her marriage with Zeus, Hera was many times betrayed by the unfaithful Zeus. Hera's rage invariably was directed at 'the other woman', at children conceived by Zeus, or at innocent bystanders, but she never expressed anger at Zeus himself. Hera women react to loss and pain with rage and activity [rather than with depression]. Many Hera women project an image of an idealized husband onto a man and then become critical and angry when he does not live up to expectations. 6
PURITY In Christian art the [white] lily takes precedence over all other flowers. It is depicted in many of the great religious paintings, e.g. Botticelli, Titian, Memling. In Christian legend the lily allegedly sprang from the repentant tears of Eve as she left the Garden of Eden. Above all it represents the Virgin Mary; its straight stalk is her godly mind, its pendant leaves her humility, its fragrance is divinity, its whiteness her purity. The lily among thorns depicts the Immaculate Conception as purity in the midst of sins of the world. In art a lily on one side and a sword on the other depict innocence and guilt. And yet the lily is the most ambiguous of all flower symbols - identified with Christian piety, purity and innocence, but having associations with fecundity and erotic love in older traditions through its phallic pistil and fragrance. The lily was fabled to have sprung from the milk of the Greek goddess Hera and was linked with fecundity. 7,8 The same symbolism of purity is found in the use of white lilies at funerals. It is a flower of death, since it was believed that its purity helped the deceased to enter after-life cleansed, washed free of earthly sins.
PASSION "A lily was what Apollo's catamite, Hyacinthus, was changed into and in this context the flower evokes unlawful passion, although the flower concerned is the martagon or red lily. Persephone was gathering lilies, or narcissi, when Hades, who had fallen in love with her, carried her down to his Underworld kingdom through a chasm which he had opened in the ground. Lilies might therefore symbolize temptation or the Gates of Hell. In his plant mythology, Angelo de Gubernatis considers that lilies are undoubtedly attributes of Venus and the satyrs, because of their phallic pistils, and that, in consequence, lilies are symbols of procreation. This, the author feels, is why they were chosen by the Kings of France as symbols of the prosperity of their line. Ignoring the phallic aspect, in his novel, The Cathedral, Huysmans denounces their spicy-sweet scent as being akin to Levantine and Oriental aphrodisiacs, the very opposite of the odour of chastity. To the poet Mallarmé, lily symbols had lunar, female and even aquatic overtones. The lily thus became the flower of love and of a love which, although intense, might in its ambiguity be unfulfilled and either repressed or sublimated. When sublimated, lilies are flowers of glory. This notion is not foreign to the equivalency which can be established between the lily and the lotus, which springs up from the muddy unformed waters. It then becomes a symbol of the potential of the individual to realize the antitheses of his or her being."9
TIGER LILY Lilium tigrinum [now Lilium lancifolium] has orange-red flowers with reflexed and pointed petals and dotted with deep purple. The plant prefers free-draining humus-rich loamy soil with its roots in the shade and its head in the sun. It has been grown for centuries in China, Korea and Japan for its edible bulbs. [Mice also highly appreciate the bulbs.] The raw or cooked flowers were used fresh or dried in salads, soups, and rice dishes. Brought from China to Europe by William Kerr in 1804, it was the first Asian lily to reach America as an ornamental. A very hardy species, its descendants still thrive at abandoned farmsteads in Southern states. The pollen is said to be poisonous, producing vomiting, drowsiness and purging. The plant produces little purplish bulbils in the axils of the leaves, which form a ready means of increase. In China dried fleshy scale leaves of the plant are used as a medicine in ailments such as chronic cough and bloody sputum, palpitation, insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep, and nervousness. The medicine is considered to 'nourish yin' and to tranquillise the mind. In the language of flowers, tiger lily means wealth and pride.
CATS Lilium lancifolium, as well as some other lily species, are particularly toxic to cats. Even small amounts can cause severe poisoning. Within only a few hours of ingestion of the lily plant material, the cat may vomit, become lethargic, or develop a lack of appetite. These symptoms continue and worsen as kidney damage progresses, resulting in death from kidney failure in approximately 36 to 72 hours. 10
PROVINGS Introduced into homoeopathy by Payne, who published collected provings in 1867, 1868, 1870, 1886, and 1888.
•• [1] Payne - 5 provers [3 females, 2 males], 1867-69; method: repeated doses of 6-12 drops of tincture; 5-30 drops of tincture for 24 days, with medicine-free intervals at days 15-17 and 19-23; 300th dil., four doses with irregular intervals, followed by 5c, one dose every alternate day for 8 days; ounce of tincture in a few days and 1/2 ounce on fifth day; repeated and increasing doses of 1x for 6 days.
•• [2] Graves - self-experimentation, 1867; method: two doses of 5 drops of 3x.
•• [3] Savage - self-experimentation, 1867; method: 30 drops of tincture, three times on first day, twice on second day, once on fourth day.
•• [4] Dunham - 6 [female] provers, 1869-70; method: repeated daily doses of tincture, 3x, and 30x for periods ranging from 2 to 7 days.
•• [5] Payne - 5 provers [1 female, 4 males], 1886; method: repeated daily doses of 10-75 drops of 1x for 13 days; two doses of 10 grains of 1x, and one dose of crude drug; 5-10 grains of crude drug; 10 grains of 2x; 10 grains of 1x; observation periods ranging from 1 to 14 days.
•• [6] Payne - 6 [male] provers, 1888; method: single dose of 5 or 10 grains of crude drug; 3 provers noticed no effects.
[1] Wood, Seven Herbs: Plants as Teachers. [2] Hollingsworth, Flower Chronicles. [3-4] Walker, The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. [5] Husain, The Goddess. [6] Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman. [7] Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols. [8] Tresidder, Dictionary of Symbols. [9] Chevalier and Gheerbrant, Dictionary of Symbols. [10] National Animal Poison Control Center [USA]; website.
Affinity
VENOUS CIRCULATION [FEMALE ORGANS; uterus; ovaries; HEART [right]; rectum; bladder]. Nerves. * Left side. Right side.
Modalities
Worse: WARMTH; of room. Motion. Miscarriages. Consolation. Walking. Standing. Evening. Night. After menses. Lying on right side.
Better: Cool, fresh air. When busy. Lying on left side. Sunset. Pressure, with the hand. Crossing legs. Sitting down.
Main symptoms
M EXAGGERATES OWN IMPORTANCE AND EXCELLENCE.
Haughty and ungrateful.
• "Indifference about everything being done for her." [Kent]
• "Consciousness of an unnatural state of mind and feeling, which at last develops into an exalted condition in which the prover is disposed to find fault with persons and things, to exaggerate her own importance and excellence, and look down upon others; conjoined with this is an exaltation of the sexual instinct." [Dunham]
• "They are most exacting; they want everything to centre round themselves, and if it does not fly into a rage." [Borland]
• "A patient, Miss L., aged about 30, was convinced she had heart disease. She had grasping pains with a feeling of all her blood rushing to her heart and causing palpitation. In spite of completely negative tests she retired to bed. Her relations persuaded me to get in a psychiatrist as their life was impossible. She lay in bed in a fever of planning and they had to do her bidding all day long. The psychiatrist didn't help at all, so I asked Dr. Borland to come and see her and I listened spellbound. She told him with rage what we had done. He replied most sympathetically that he could quite understand her feelings, he'd have felt exactly the same if a psychiatrist had been brought to see him. From then on she scarcely paused to draw breath. She was sure he'd understand - no one else did - that she, she, who had always managed the affairs of the family - they couldn't do a thing without her advice - even while she lay in bed feeling so ill, she still had to plan everything - how monstrous that she should be asked to see a psychiatrist. Would she be lying in bed month after month wasting time when she had such a promising career before her if there weren't something wrong with her, and so on. The facts were that she had been trained for a career and had been an utter failure. By retiring to bed and being the centre of the house with her future and success dimly on the horizon, she was able to get some of the kick that she had hoped for on the stage. I didn't recognize her drug, but Dr. Borland said as he went out - typical Lilium tigrinum."1
Delusion being doomed to expiate her sins and those of her family.
M CONFLICT between SEXUALITY and RELIGIOUS IDEALS.
• "Sexual excitement alternating with apprehension of religious ideas." [Kent]
• "In the mental/emotional sphere we will usually see evidence of the contention of idealism with the need to fulfil personal desire. The female patient will often suffer from a 'nun/whore complex.' She may be sexually indiscriminant, feel unclean, or that her partner makes her unclean. On the other hand, she may entertain a puritanical restraint which cuts her off from a healthy relationship. In men, there is a tendency to idealise women or the opposite - this, after all, is how the 'nun/whore complex' originates." [Wood]
• "Obscene thoughts." [Knerr]
M PENANCE.
• "Delusion being doomed to expiate her sins and those of her family."
• "Grief, hunting for something to grieve oneself." [Kent]
• "Desire to pull one's hair." [Kent]
• "With these bad tempers, after a spell where everyone has tried to please them, they go on to a religious phase of remorse." [Borland]
M < Consolation. < Suggestions. • "With Lilium tigrinum patients, the phrasing of the questions and the wording of the advice given must be carefully chosen, as they will take it as criticism of what they have done previously rather than as advice for the future. If there is a possibility of taking anything the wrong way they will always do so." [Borland] M BUSY and HURRIED. • "Constant hurried feeling, as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them. Feels hurried and yet incapable, as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it." [Allen] Desire to do several things at once. Dreams of being busy. • "Always hurried, but on account of the physical relaxation is unable to accomplish anything." [Boger] M > OCCUPATION.
• "Must keep busy to repress sexual desire." [Lippe]
Control.
• "It seems as if the symptoms came on worse as soon as she gave up active control over herself, e.g. when she tried to sleep." [Hughes]
M VIOLENCE.
CURSING and SWEARING.
• "While attending a lecture, desire to hit the lecturer, and in the evening desirous of swearing and damning things generally, and to think and speak obscene things; disposed to strike and hit persons; as these feelings came, the uterine pains passed away." [Allen]
• "In evening mind runs on lewd thoughts; feel very 'ugly'; want to swear one minute and tell a lewd story the next [quite unlike usual disposition]; nervous twitching in l. chest returns. ... Passed a very restless night, dreaming voluptuously all the time; 'to say I feel devilish will express my meaning exactly'." [Hughes]
M Fear of getting CRAZY, from wild feeling in head. Wild look.
• "Desire to pull one's hair." [Kent]
• "Head grows wild after keeping quiet a little while." [Hughes]
• "Feeling as if going crazy if she doesn't hold tightly upon herself." [Knerr]
G Mental as well as physical HEAT.
G Desire for OPEN AIR.
G Great appetite. [in 2 provers]
• "Great hunger, as it were, in the back, and extending up to the occiput and over the vertex; she ate enormously, yet felt as if she should starve to death." [Allen]
Loss of appetite or easy satiety. [in 5 provers]
G Increased thirst, but aversion to coffee and tea.
• "Aversion to coffee, nauseated on thinking of it, though it was habitual and favourite drink in morning." [Hughes]
• "Appetite for bread and coffee did not return for nearly three weeks." [same prover]
G Strong SEXUAL URGE.
• "The sexual desire, dormant hitherto, was so strongly aroused that the prover said, 'I am afraid of myself, I seem possessed of a demon;' this excitement continued almost three weeks, increasing in intensity, until an orgasm beyond the control of the prover would suddenly terminate it." [Allen]
G > Open air.
> Cold air.
G < WARM ROOM. < Room full of people. G < or > PRESSURE.
Bearing-down pain in hypogastrium and uterus, > pressure of hand.
Can't bear weight of covers on abdomen and uterine region.
Touching epigastrium = desire to vomit.
> Rubbing.
G Pains radiate and travel from left to right.
[ovaries; heart]
G Pains burning or PRESSING [as from a load].
G Backward pains.
[about eyes; to occiput; from nipples through chest; from heart to left scapula].
G Pains in small spots.
• "Pain all seem to occupy small spots, as if produced by hard pressure with ends of fingers on parts." [Hughes]
G Discharges excoriating [stool; urine; leucorrhoea].
G Menses only on motion; cease while lying.
P BEARING DOWN.
• "Downward dragging from shoulders, from thorax, from left breast, from epigastrium down to pelvis." [Clarke]
< During menses; standing; during stool; while walking [esp. on uneven ground, = jar]. > Crossing limbs; pressing hand on vulva.
And Pressure in rectum [= urging for stool, < early morning]; dysuria. Extending to [inner surface of] thighs; down limbs. P HEART [circulatory disturbances; fluttering; palpitation; grasping sensation]. < Bending forward; night; warm room; standing long; lying on right side. > Walking in open air; occupation; lying on left side; rubbing and pressure.
And Pain and numbness in right arm.
And Faintness in warm room; clammy perspiration; aversion to smoking.
And Hurried feeling and irritability. [Voisin]
• "The heart symptoms now became so troublesome that I was obliged to discontinue further use of the drug. The symptoms were always much worse at night, giving me, comparatively, but little trouble in the daytime. 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. These symptoms followed me for more than a month; indeed, so constant were they that I became alarmed, fearing I might have misjudged the case, and, instead of medicinal symptoms, I was really suffering from an organic disease of the heart. But a physical examination of the heart's action, by a brother physician, put my mind at rest on this point." [Savage, cited in Hughes]
P Burning palms and soles.
Heat beginning in palms and soles, thence over body.
< In bed; desire to find a cool place. 1 Blackie, Richard Hughes Memorial Lecture, 1959; BHJ, April 1960. Rubrics Mind Aversion to amusement [1]. Anxiety about business [2]; about salvation [3]. Confusion, muscles refuse to obey the will when attention is turned away [1]. Delusions, divided into two parts [1], he has done wrong [2]. Estranged during climacteric period [2]. Fear of falling [2], of downward motion [1], lest he should say something wrong [2]. Grief, hunting for something to grieve oneself [[1/1]. Hurry, yet feels no ambition [2*], as by imperative duties [3/1]. Indifference, apathy, about anything being done for her [3/1]; yet does not want to sit still [2*]. Irritability when spoken to [2]. Offended easily, takes advice as criticism [1/1]. Self-torture [2]. Wants somebody to talk to her and entertain her [1*]. Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing [3]. Head Heat rising up from chest [2]; > sneezing [1/1]. Pain, forehead above eyes, alternating sides [2]. Wild, crazy feeling at vertex [1/1].
Eye
Astigmatism [3]. Pain, extending back into head, < at night [1*]. Vision Blurred, and heat in eyelids and eyes [2*]. Dim, can only see objects when looking at them sideways [1]. Stomach Appetite insatiable [2]. Nausea when thinking of coffee [1*]. Rectum Sensation of a lump < standing [2/1]. Bladder Constant urging and prolapsus of uterus [3]. Urine Copious urine during headache [2]. Female Bearing down pain in ovaries while standing [3/1]. Violent sexual desire with involuntary orgasms [2]. Chest Congestion if desire to urinate is not obeyed [3/1]. Constant feeling of heaviness in left side, in region of heart [1*]. Oppression > sighing [1*]. Pain, bursting, sensation of heart being too full [2*]; pain as if heart were violently grasped, > rubbing and pressure [1*]. Palpitation of heart > while lying on back [2].
Back
Skin of lumbar region sensitive [2].
Limbs
Coldness of hands from excitement [1/1].
Perspiration
Perspiration during sexual excitement [1/1].
Sleep
Position, lies on back with knees and thighs flexed, from pain in ovaries [1*].
Skin
Numbness from pressure [1*].
Generals
Motion in open air > [2].
* Repertory additions [Hughes].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Bread; coffee [nausea from thought of coffee]; tea.
Desire: [2]: Meat. [1]: Sour; sweets.
Worse: [1]: Chocolate; tobacco.