Lilium tigrinum



Mind

Depression of spirits, inclination to weep, timidity, apprehensiveness, of some terrible internal disease. Tormented about her salvation (with uterine complaints). Constant hurried feeling, as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them (during sexual excitement). Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things, as these mental states came, uterine irritation abated. Does not wish to be alone, prefers society, very low-spirited, weeping with feeling of dread. Crazy, wild feeling on top of head, thoughts of suicide. Mistakes in speaking, uses wrong words, forgetful Desire for fine things, dissatisfied with her own, envious of others.

Head

Headache, especially if depending on uterine disorders. Dull pain in forehead (and fullness) over the eyes. Hot pain, blinding pain, in forehead and temples. Pressure outward. Headache: on waking, worse in open air, better at sunset, with heaviness as if too full of blood, blowing blood from nose, desire to support head with hands. Neuralgia over left eye to vertex. Neuralgia in temples, alternately left and right Pressure and crazy feeling in vertex. Pain in occiput and over eyes.

Eyes

Wild look. Hypermetropia, presbyopia. Vision dim, and confused, with disposition to cover eyes and press upon them. Pains extending back into head. Burning after reading and writing, with weak feeling. Cured astigmatism in a prover. Blurred vision with heat in eyes and lids. Muscae volitantes.

Ears

Neuralgia in right ear. Rushing sounds in ears after going to bed.

Nose

Rubbed her nose violently. Discharge: thin, clear, yellow mucus. Nose stopped.

Face

Face left flushed, with heat. Pain in right cheek-bone with stoppage of right nostril. Pain in left cheek extending into ear and temple. Pain in right jaw with feeling of elongation in teeth.

Mouth

Darting pain form left teeth to ear. Tongue coated yellowish white in patches. Mouth and throat feel coated on waking in the night. Saliva abundant. Taste: bloody, afternoon, peculiar, foul better eating.

Throat

Enlargement of right tonsil, with exudation. Soreness and dryness. Feeling of lump, with pulsations when lying.

Appetite

Appetite: great, especially for meat, great as if in back, extending to occiput and over vertex. Desire for sour or sweet dainties, alternating with disgust for food. Appetite lost. Aversion to coffee, to bread. Thirst, then stupidity, then the severe symptoms.

Stomach

Eructations. Hiccough. Nausea: worse from tobacco, with inability to vomit, with pain in back, with fullness in abdomen. Nausea, with hawking of mucus. Sensation of a lump in center of chest, moved up and down by empty swallowing. Sensation of a hard body rolling around in stomach, better at night Vomiting of chyme and thin yellow mucus, finally bloody. Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels. Faintness at epigastrium with tasteless eructations.

Abdomen

Distension of abdomen. Rumbling, emission of flatus. Dragging down of whole abdominal contents, extending even to organs of chest, must support the abdomen. Bubbling in right hypochondrium. Lancinations from left hypochondrium to crest of ilium. Dragging downward and backward. Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on, also passing off by urinating. Trembling sensation in pelvis, extending down thighs. Feeling as if menses coming on. Grasping pains across hypogastrium better gentle rubbing with warm hand.

Stool

Pressure on rectum (and bladder) with almost constant desire to go to stool (immediately). Morning diarrhoea in cases with prolapsus of uterus. Morning diarrhoea, stools loose, bilious, dark, offensive, very urgent, can’t wait a moment, stool preceded by griping pains or great urging, with pressure in the rectum, followed by smarting, burning of anus and rectum. Pressure on perineum. Constipation: hard and dark stools, then heat in rectum and anus and pain in abdomen.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urination during day, with smarting in urethra. Continuous pressure in bladder. Constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, burning (tenesmus) and smarting in urethra after. Urine: milky in morning, clear and white, like boiling oil, strong-smelling, phosphatic, copious, sediment white or red.

Male Sexual Organs

Testes: swollen and tender to touch, sore in morning, and heavy, neuralgia in left Desire increased. Prostration from coitus, with irritability from suppression of desire. Emission towards morning.

Female Sexual Organs.

Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in uterine region, as if whole contents would press out through vagina, better by pressure of hand against the vulva. Sharp pains in ovarian region. Grasping pain in left ovarian region and groin, with pain in right hip, extending into thigh. Pains in ovaries extending into inside of thighs. Pains in right ovary and back. Ovaries sore on pressure, worse right side. Aching and burning pain in ovaries, feeling like live coals, afterwards pain in right increased till it seemed as if a knife inserted in ovary and ripped down groin and front of thigh, extending over loins to right hypochondrium, better by pressure on ovary. Gnawing dragging in right ovary worse walking. Severe neuralgic pain in uterus, could not bear touch, not even the weight of bedclothes or slightest jar, anteversion, retroversion, prolapsus. Fundus of uterus low down, tilted against bladder, the os pressing upon rectum. Bearing down in uterus, with pains in left ovary and mamma. Voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fullness of parts, stinging in left ovarian region. Sexual desire increased, ending in orgasm, with hurried feeling, better during physical effort, disposition to use obscene language. Leucorrhoea, bright yellow, acrid, excoriating, leaving a brown stain, after menses. Menses continue only when moving about, and cease when sitting or lying down. Amenorrhoea: 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, or again remain absent for some time. Menses freer than usual, relieving headache. 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.

Respiratory Organs

Voice could not be controlled. Dry, hacking cough, evening, better in open air. Oppression. Desire to take a long breath, frequent sighing, seems to come from lower part of abdomen. Inhales forcibly in order to pull up thorax and clear the pelvis.

Chest

Tightness of chest. Hot, congested feeling. Ebullition, must go into open air. Constriction: a hand-breadth below left breast, extending to right side, better change of position, with sharp pain running to throat, clavicle, and axilla. Sharp pain through right lung worse in open air. Fine pains in right chest, sometimes gnawing, with lameness and soreness of muscles and desire to stretch the parts, the lameness extending through to right scapula. Pain under sternum towards middle lobe of right lung. Feeling of congestion of chest if desire to urinate is not attended to. Pains sharp, sticking, cramping in or below left breast, extending to scapula and side, worse lying down and on left side.

Heart

Dull, pressive pain in region of heart. Pain in heart worse when lying down at night. Constant feeling of a load or weight in left chest. Sharp and quick pain in left side of chest, with fluttering of heart. Heart feels as if squeezed in a vice, or alternately grasped and relaxed. Fluttering or palpitation of heart, better rubbing and pressure. Intermittent, after every intermission, violent throbbing, causing involuntary catching of breath and a rush of blood to head and crowded feeling in face. Pain in heart is worse by exercise, stooping, lying down at night, better in morning. Sharp pain at apex of heart better by rest. Pulse: rapid, small and weak, irregular, worse by slight motion, compressible.

Back and neck

Pain in nape with constriction. Soreness in cervical and occipital muscles, worse by thirst. Pain: between scapula, sore in region of scapula, in lower dorsal vertebra as if back would break. Spine sore, with stiffness worse in loins. Shooting across loins. Pain in sacrum, worse standing, with pressure downward in hypogastrium, between hips, not much better lying, with pressure downward at anus. Dull pain in sacrum. Sensation of pulling upward from tip of coccyx.

Limbs

Limbs cold, clammy, more when excited or nervous. Burning in palms and soles all night, constant desire to find a cool place for them. Out-pressing sensation in hands, arms, feet, and legs in early part of night.

Upper Limbs

Tearing from left shoulder to hand. Cramping pain in left shoulder and mamma. Trembling of left arm with weakness. Pain in right arm and wrist (with heart complaints). Hand and arms, stiff, hot, painful. Trembling of hands. Paralytic pricking in fingers and hands. Cramp in fingers. Stiffness of fingers almost like paralysis, difficult to guide pencil, pricking in (tips of) fingers and hands, sensation of electric current, first in fingers of left hand then of right, running up arms. Cold hands, cold perspiration on back of hands.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica