Convallaria majalis

Convallaria majalis
(lily of the valley)
* A heart remedy.
* Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular.
* Of use when the ventricles are overdistended anddilatation begins, and when there is an
absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked.
* Dyspnoea, dropsy, anuric tendency.
* Anasarca.
Mind and head
- Dull intellect.
- Grieves easily.
- Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking.
- Scalp sensitive.
- Irritability.
- Hysterical manifestations.
Face
- Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore.
- Epistaxis.
- Sees imaginary gray spot about three inches square.
Mouth
- Grating of teeth in the morning.
- Coppery taste.
- Tongue feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.
Throat
- Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.
Abdomen
- Sensitive.
- Clothes feel too tight.
- Gurgling and pain on taking deep breath.
- Movement in abdomen like fist of a child.
- Colicky pains.
Urinary organs
- Aching in bladder; feels distended.
- Frequent urination; offensive; scanty urine.
Female
- Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart.
- Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg.
- Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.
Respiratory
- Pulmonary congestion.
- Orthopnoea.
- Dyspnoea while walking.
- Hot feeling in throat.
Heart
- Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest.
- Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnoea.
- Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly.
- Palpitation from the least exertion.
- Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes.
- Angina pectoris.
- Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.
Back and extremities
- Pain and aching in lumbar region; aching of legs; in big toe.
- Trembling of hands.
- Aching in wrists and ankles.
Fever
- Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat.
- Thirst and headache during chill.
- Dyspnoea during fever.
Relationship
- Compare : Digit.; Crataeg.; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional
disturbance).
Modalities
- Better, in open air.
- Worse, in warm room.
Dose
- Third attenuation, and for symptoms of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.