A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL
MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
Presented by MÚdi-T «Trillium.
Trillium erectum. Purple Trillium. Bethroot. Birthroot. Lamb’s quarter.
Rattlesnake root. Wakerobin. Three-leaved nightshade. [According to Millspaugh T.
pendulum is the white variety of T. erectum. Treas. of Bot. gives the
names as synonymous. The symptoms of H. Minton, the original prover, are given in Allen
under T. cernuum. Minton obtained the tincture from a botanic physician and did not
himself verify the plant. His symptoms are marked (M) in the schema. Millspaugh considers T.
erectum as the proper source of the hom£opathic tincture.] N. O. Smilaceµ (or
Trilliaceµ) of the Liliaceµ. Tincture of the fresh root.Clinical.─
Bladder, catarrh of. Climaxis.
Diabetes. Dysentery. Fainting, with flooding. Fibroma, hµmorrhages from. Hµmorrhages;
post-partum; ante-partum. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Writer’s cramp.
Characteristics.─
The chief uses of Trill. come to us from the eclectics, who learned some of them
from the native Indians. The popular name Birth-root sufficiently indicates one part of its
reputation. In hµmorrhage, ante-partum, post-partum, and climacteric, in fibroid tumours,
and in hµmorrhages of all kinds Trill. has been found
curative. Both the White and the Purple varieties have been used. Minton’s proving of T. cernuum (?) brought out the hµmorrhagic property in the
blood-tinged diarrh£a. One characteristic in connection with the hµmorrhages of Trill. is faintness and
sinking at the stomach; also cold extremities and rapid, feeble pulse. “Flooding with
fainting” is a keynote. Minton’s proving brought out a symptom bearing on this
“Sensation of goneness in abdomen.” He had also extreme debility palpitation, and
anxiety. Trill. has been used as a local hµmostatic in
epistaxis and for bleeding after tooth extraction. Peculiar
Sensations are: As if eyes too large (M). As if a crumb were in larynx (M). As if
the chest was tightly bound and could not be expanded. As if hips and small of back were
falling to pieces. As if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling apart; wants to he bound
tightly. As if bones were broken. Left side most affected. Restless, tossing agitation, fear
of being sick, great anguish were experienced by Minton. The restlessness and exhaustion
from hµmorrhages are typified in this. Blue vision; and craving for ice-water are other
noteworthy symptoms. There is tendency to putrescence of fluids. The hµmorrhages of Trill. are copious; either active or passive; usually bright red
and profuse. Trill. is suited
to women who flood after every labour; flabby subjects. The symptoms of Minton’s
proving were: > Bending forward; < sitting erect. < By
motion. < After eating. >
By exercise in open air. Standing or walking = bearing
down in pelvis. Motion < hµmorrhages.
Relations.─
Complementary:
Calc. p. (menstrual and hµmorrhagic affections). Compare:
Anguish, restless tossing about, Aco. Hµmorrhages, Chi., Calc., Ham., Secal., Ust., Sang.
Bright-red blood, Ipec. Mill. Bleeding after tooth extraction, Ham., Kre. Menses profuse,
every two weeks and lasting a week or longer, Calc. p. Flow profuse, gushing, light red, < least movement, Sabi. Flow dark, clotted, Ust., Thlasp. As
if bones of pelvis broken, ãsc. h.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Melancholy with sadness (M).─Repugnance
to conversation (M).─Irritable (M).─Anguish;
agitation and tossing about, impossible to keep still (M).
2. Head.─
Vertigo, chiefly, on rising in morning
(M).─Dull pain l. temple < least
noise (M).─Pain in forehead >
bending forward, < returning to erect position (M).─Headache
< by least noise; walking; coughing (M).─Head
and face feel hot (M).
3. Eyes.─
Pain in eyeballs, feel too large and as
if would fall from their sockets (M).─Burning in inner canthus with
profuse flow of tears (M).─Vision blurred; everything looks blue (M).
5. Nose.─
Profuse nose-bleed.
8. Mouth.─
Bleeding from gums or after extraction
of tooth.─Greasy feeling on tongue and gums (M).─Very
offensive taste, esp. on rising in morning (M).─Profuse flow of saliva
(M).
11. Stomach.─
Disgust for everything except cold
water (M).─Desire for ice-water (M).─Sickness;
excessive pain; cramp of stomach (M).─Sinking in stomach with heat.─Hematemesis.─Stomach
symptoms < after meals and in morning (M).
12. Abdomen.─
Swelling of abdomen as in ascites,
with sensation as if abdominal contents drawn back against vertebral column (M).─Flabbiness
of parietes with sensation of goneness, a want of support in front, with at intervals of a
few moments short, sharp, lancinating pains from before backward, compelling him to bend
forward (M).─Much flatulence and grumbling.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Dysentery, when passages are
almost pure blood.─Diarrh£a thin, watery, tinged with blood; painless
(M).─Constipation succeeded by thin, watery, very offensive diarrh£a
(M).─Chronic diarrh£as of bloody mucus.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Hµmaturia, passive.─Chronic
catarrh of bladder.─Diabetes.─Sharp, cutting pain in
urethra when urinating (M).─Urine copious, of strong disagreeable odour
(M).
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Itching of genitals < by scratching.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Hµmorrhage from
uterus; with sensation as though hips and back were falling to pieces, > from a tight bandage.─Bearing down in
pelvis when standing or walking; copious, yellowish, stringy leucorrh£a; period lingers
several days beyond usual time.─Excessive flooding with fainting.─Metrorrhagia
at climacteric; pale; faint; flow returns every two weeks.─Climaxis with
weak sight; anxious look.─Displaced uterus, with consequent menorrhagia.─Menses
come on after over-exertion.─Gushing of bright-red blood from uterus at
least movement; later, blood pale from anµmia.─Hµmorrhages from
fibroid tumours.─Threatened abortion; profuse hµmorrhages.─Pain
in back and cold limbs, with hµmorrhages.─Too profuse menstrual flow
alter exhaustion by exercise.─Profuse, exhausting leucorrh£a.─Hµmorrhage
in abortion of third month.─Ante-partum hµmorrhage; os uteri dilated to
size of half a dollar; no pains; flooding excessive.─Post-partum
hµmorrhage.─Profuse, long-lasting lochial discharges.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Sensation of crumb in
larynx, keeps up continual coughing (M).─Cough, with purulent or bloody
sputum.─Hµmoptysis.
18. Chest.─
Difficult breathing; feels as if chest
bound up preventing it expanding (M).
19. Heart.─
Palpitation with great anxiety (M).
21. Limbs.─
Cramping pains in muscles of arms and
calves (M).
22. Upper Limbs.─
Pain in l. shoulder extending
down arm to hand (M).─Cramping pains in fingers when writing (M).
24. Generalities.─
Hµmorrhages usually bright
red, profuse; also when sacro-iliac synchondroses feel as if falling apart; wants to be
bound tightly.─Feels as if bones were broken, with hµmorrhages.─Crawling
sensation in veins, like a tightening up of parts; <
in legs and ankles.─Great debility (M).
25. Skin.─
Skin hot and dry, with itching and
burning, < by scratching (M).
26. Sleep.─
Sleepless; rolling and tossing on bed
(M).─Sleep disturbed by frequent dreams (M).─Dreams
of festivities, sleigh-ride, &c. (M).
27. Fever.─
Feverish during pain in abdomen, on
the subsidence of which a profuse perspiration broke out (M).
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