Materia Medica
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. Dyspncea, dropsy, aeuric ten- dency. Mind and Head.-- Dull intellect. Grieves easily. Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking. Scalp sen- sitive. 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 in- spiring.
Abdomen
Sensitive. Clothes feel too tight. Gur- ling and pain on taking deep breath. Movement in abdomen like fist of a child. Colicky pains. Urinary Organs.-- Aching in bladder; feels dis- tended. Frequent urination; offensive.
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.( Orthopncea. Dyspuca while walking. Hot feeling in throat.
Chest
Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnca. Sensa- tion as if heart cease beating, then starting very sud- denly. Palpitation from the least exertion. Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes. Angina pec- toris. Extremely rapid and irregular pulse. Back and Extremities.-- Pain and aching in lum- bar region; aching of legs; in big toe. Trembling of hands. Aching in wrists and ankles.
Heart
Feeling as if 'heart beat throughout the
Fever
Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat. Thirst and headache during chill. Dyspncea during fever.
Modalities
Better. in open air. Worse, in warm room.
Relationships
Compare: Digit.; Cratcg.: Lilium ; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional dis- turbance).
Dose
Third attenuation, and for symptotis of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.