Lilium tigrinum

Lilium tigrinum
(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.
Mind
- 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.
Head
- Hot, dull, heavy.
- Faint in warm room.
- Wild feeling in head.
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.]
Stomach
- Flatulent; nausea, with sensation of lump in stomach.
- Hungry; longs for meat.
- Thirsty, drinks often and much, and before severe symptoms.
Abdomen
- 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.
Urinary
- Frequent urging.
- Urine milky, scanty, hot.
Stool
- 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.
Heart
- 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.
Female
- 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.
Extremities
- 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.
Sleep
- Unrefreshing, with disagreeable dreams.
- Unable to sleep, with wild feeling in head.
Fever
- Great heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing throughout body.
Modalities
- Worse. consolation, warm room.
- Better, fresh air.
Relationship
- Compare : Cact.; Helon.; Murex; Sep.; Plat.; Pallad.
- Antidote : Helon.
Dose
- The middle and higher potencies seem to have done best.
- Its curative action sometimes is slow in developing itself.