Lilium tigrinum



Lower Limbs

Staggering gait, extreme difficulty in walking straight. Stitching pains from ilium to ilium or from pubes to sacrum. Pain in right hip extending down thigh. Sensation as though cool wind blowing on lower limbs. Trembling of knees, abdomen, back, and hands. Legs ache, cannot keep them still. Joints seem to lack synovial fluid. Cramps in both legs and feet after stool in morning. Cramp in toes. Burning beginning in soles and palms, thence over body, worse in bed, constant desire to find a cool place. Pains severe, fleeting, quick, sharp, or circumscribed, coldness or cold perspiration, left leg more affected.

Generalities

Weak, trembling, nervous. Faintness, worse in a warm room, or after being on feet a long time. Worse Walking, yet pains so much worse after ceasing to walk that he must walk again. Pains in small spots, shifting pains. Throbbing pulsations, as though the blood would burst through the veins. Restlessness. Hysteria.

Skin

Irritation of upper chest and arms and a fine rash about forehead and around borders of the hair, with much itching. Skin of abdomen feels stiff and stretched. Tingling, formication, burning itching of various parts.

Sleep

Yawning, stretching, drowsy. Slept soundly, but suddenly waked by desire to evacuate bladder. Inability to sleep, worse before midnight. Restless sleep, wild feeling in head, everything seems too hot, dull headache, palpitation, mammary pain. Dreams: frightful and laboured, unpleasant, voluptuous, half-awaking, intervals seem very long (of dead people).

Fever

Chills run downwards, violent beating of heart, congestion to chest and burning heat all over, constriction about heart. Chills from face downwards, chilly when in cool open air, yet otherwise better. Great heat and lassitude in afternoon. Throbbing all over.

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