CONVALLARIA MAJALIS

  
CONVALLARIA MAJALIS
Lily of the Valley

A heart remedy. Increases energy of hearts’ action, renders it more
regular. Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there
is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. Dyspnœa,
dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.

Mind and Head.–

Dull intellect. Grieves easily. Dull headache;
worse, ascending, hawking. Scalp sensitive. Irritability. Hysterical manifestations.

Face.–

Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. Epistaxis. Sees
imaginary gray spot about three inches square.

Mouth.–

Grating of teeth in the morning. Coppery taste. Tongue
feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.

Throat.–

Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.

Abdomen.–

Sensitive. Clothes feel too tight. Gurgling and pain
on taking deep breath. Movement in abdomen like fist of a child. Colicky pains.

Urinary Organs.–

Aching in bladder; feels distended. Frequent
urination; offensive; scanty urine.

Female.–

Great soreness in uterine
region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart. Pain in sacro-iliac joints,
running down leg. Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.

Respiratory.–

Pulmonary congestion. Orthopnea. Dyspnœa while walking. Hot feeling in throat.

Heart.–

Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest.
Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnea. Sensation as if heart ceased
beating, then starting very suddenly. Palpitation from the least exertion.
Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes. Angina pectoris. Extremely rapid and
irregular pulse.

Back and Extremities.–

Pain and aching in lumbar region;
aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists and ankles.

Fever.–

Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever,
little sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspnœa during fever.

Relationship.–

Compare: Digit;
Crataeg; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional disturbance).

Modalities.–

Better, in
open air. Worse, in warm room.

Dose.–

Third attenuation, and for symptoms of heart failure,
tincture, one to fifteen drops.