Lilium Tigrinum

COMMON NAME:

      TIGER LILY.

Symptoms

      Faint in warm room (Aconite, Ipecac., Kreosotum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Spigelia, Tabacum) (Br.).

Sensation of constriction in the heart with uterine troubles (N.)

Cold feeling about the heart (Natrum muriaticum, Petroleum) (Br.)

Feeling as if the heart contained too much blood, which might be relieved by throwing it up (N.).

Palpitation (Kali-P., Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla (A.).

Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute (A.)

Faint, hurried, anxious sensation abut the apex (A.)

Continual pressure upon the bladder; wants to urinate all the time (N.)

Urine scanty, milky and hot (Br.)

Irregular pulse (Digitalis, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Veratrum) (A.)

Frequent desire for stool and urine with uterine displacements; tenesmus (N.)

Severe pain in the rectum and anus (Aesculus, Aloe, Ignatia, Lachesis, Acid nitricum) (Py.).

Constant pressure on the bladder (G.)

Great depression of spirits, with constant inclination to weep (Ignatia, Pulsatilla, Stann.) (Bt.).

Confused ideas (Gloninum) (A.)

Constant hurried feeling, as if of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them (N.)

Tormented about her salvation (Aurum, Pulsatilla, Veratrum) (N.)

Consolation aggravates (Natrum muriaticum) (Br.)

Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease (Br.)

Melancholia (Aurum, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum) (Bl.)

Listless, yet does not want to sit still; restless, yet does not want to walk; hurried manner, desire to do something, yet no ambition (N.)

Indifferent about anything being done for her (N.)

Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things (Hyoscyamus, Stramonium) (Br.)

Desires finger (B.)

Prolapsus uteri, with bearing down sensation, accompanied with palpitation of the heart (Natrum muriaticum, Sepia) (Bt.).

BEARING DOWN IN THE LOWER PART OF THE ABDOMEN; WORSE WHEN STANDING, WITH PRESSURE UPON THE PERINAEUM, RELIEVED BY PRESSING WITH THE HAND AGAINST THE UVULA (Py.).

Soreness in the pelvic region (Apis., Belladonna, Lachesis) (D)

Menses flow only when moving about, cease when she ceases to walk (N.)

Weak and atonic condition of the ovaries, uterus and pelvic tissues, resulting in anteversion, retroversion, and sub-involution (Helonias, Sepia) (A.)

Slow recovery after labour (Carbo vegetabilis, China, Ferrum, Sepia)

Wild, crazy feeling on the vertex (A.)

Sensation of a lump in the stomach (Br.)

Aversion to food (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cyclamen, Ferrum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (N.)

Abdomen feels as if it must be supported, as if it must be held up with both hands (G.)

Affects principally the left side of the body (Lachesis, Thuja; the right side (Apis, Lycopodium) (A.)

Morning diarrhoea in cases with prolapsus of uterus (G.)

Frequent small stools, with tenesmus (B.)

Menses early, scanty, dark and offensive (Sepia) (A.)

Must keep busy, to repress sexual desire (A.)

Voluptuous itching in the vagina (C).

Air hunger (Carbo vegetabilis); takes long breaths (B).

Sharp pains in the ovarian region (Belladonna) (C.)

Sensation as if the heart was grasped in a vise (Cact.); as if blood has all gone to the heart; feels full to bursting (A.)

Sharp Pain in the left chest (Lachesis) (A.)

Pains in small spots (Ignatia); constantly shifting (Belladonna, Kali bichromicum, Kali-S.) (A.)

Pains in the ovaries, extending down into the inside of the thighs (G.)

Leucorrhoea: Thin, acrid; excoriating; staining the linen brown after the menses (G.)

Blurred vision, with heat in the eyes and lids (C.)

Hollow, empty sensation in the stomach and bowels (C.)

Pulsations over the whole body (Ferrum, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia, Sulph-Ac.) (A.).

Dull pain in the sacrum (Aesculus) (C.)

Cannot walk on uneven ground (A.)

Inability to walk erect (Belladonna) (A.)

Burning palms and soles (Lachesis) (Br.).

Extremities cold and covered with cold sweat (Carbo vegetabilis, Secale, Veratrum) (A.)

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; at night; from standing; in a warm room; from consolation; after menses; and when moving about.

AMELIORATION:

      During the day; from sitting down; from pressure with the hand; from fresh air; and from keeping busy.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Actea racemosa, Agaricus, Belladonna, Cact., Digitalis, Helonias, Kali-P., Lachesis, Murx., Natrum muriaticum, Pallad., Platina, Pulsatilla, Sepia, tarent., and Veratrum

ANTIDOTES: Helonias and Nux vomica

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)