Materia Medica

Convallaria Majalis

Lily of the Valley

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. Dyspnoea, dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.

Mind

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

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. Dyspnoea 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.

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. Dyspnoea during fever.

Modalities

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

Relationships

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

Dose

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