LILIUM TIGRINUM



Lower Limbs

      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.

Limbs in General

      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.

Position etc.

      Worse walking, yet pains so much worse after ceasing to walk

that he must walk again.

Changing place : Walking : Stepping :. Changing position : Standing : Sitting still: Lying :.

Nerves

      Weak, trembling, nervous.

Nervous system irritable.

Aimless hurry and motion; walks to and fro; cannot be amused by thinking or reading.

Sleep

      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.

Time

      Morning:, Forenoon: Afternoon: till midnight: Night:; till morning: Before midnight: 4 A.M.: 8 A.M.: Day:.

Temperature and Weather

      Close warm room: In bed: Open air: Desire for cool place:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      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.

Sides

      Right: l Left: Right to left: Left to right: In out: Front backward: Below upward:. Above downwards: To and fro:.

Sensations

      Pains in small spots.

Shifting pains.

Pressing out, as if blood would burst through the vessels.

Throbbing, as if in all blood-vessels.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch: Pressure:,. Jarring:, Cannot walk on uneven ground.

Relationship

      Antidotes Helonias (anteversion); Nux vomica (colic.).

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.