Convallaria Majalis
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General
Convallaria.
Convallaria majalis. Lily of the Valley. N. O. Liliaceae.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Heart, affections of. Herpes. Pruritus vulvae. Vomiting (of pregnancy).
Characteristics
Convallaria is a popular remedy in Russia for heart affections, and it has been introduced into old-school medicine principally as a heart remedy. It compares closely in its action with Lilium tigrinum, and also resembles its other botanical relatives, Aloe, Allium cepa, and Allium sativum. It is strongly purgative and causes morning vomiting. It has been proved, and the symptoms produced snow that its nearest analogue is Lilium tigrinum.
Nash has used it in 30th with very satisfactory results in women complaining of great soreness in uterine region with sympathetic palpitation of the heart. He has also removed cardiac dropsy when this uterine soreness has been present as well. Berridge credits it with this symptom: "Movement in the abdomen as from the fist of a child," like sul., Thuj., Croc. In the case of Conval. the symptom occurs "when lying on the back." Sleepiness accompanies many symptoms.
> In open air, < in warm room (like Cepa).
Mind
Depression
Mind wanders from subject when reading
Dull, can hardly think
Irritable when asked a question.
Head
Dull, heavy pains at vertex > open air.—Headache with fever, < jarring, > rest.
Eyes
Sees imaginary grey spots about 3 in. square in different parts of the room on coming in from a walk
When reading sees small words (as "the," "it," "too,") before beginning of sentence, when they are not there
P is substituted for other letters
About every fifteen minutes, dull pains from r. eye over top of head and down r. side of neck
Eyelids heavy.
Face
Face and lips sore, crop of small hydroa, feel raw.
Mouth
Fine red points on tip of tongue
Intense redness and soreness of tongue, looks like raw beef; granular and quite clean, with tenderness of stomach
Coppery taste in mouth
Water tastes bitter.
Stomach
Morning sickness and vomiting.
Abdomen
Severe colic; pains come quickly and pass off slowly
Dull aching pain and sore feeling in hypogastrium, < when coughing
Labour-like pains
Movement in abdomen like the fist of a child.
Stool And Anus
Tenesmus
Slightly thin stool, brown, offensive with tenesmus and heat at anus after stool
Sensation in rectum as if full of gas, not > by passing flatus.
Female Sexual Organs
Labour-like pains in sacro-iliac joints, worse r. side, running down leg intermittently
Sensation as if a large cord extended from sacro-iliac synchondrosis to inguinal region, and this cord was pulled down by pelvic organs (< r. side); sensation as if uterus descended and retroverted, pressing on rectum and anus, pain continuous and unbearable
Soreness in uterine region with palpitation of the heart
Itching at urinary meatus and orifice of vagina.
Heart
When exercising, fluttering at heart, lasting about a minute, then face would get red, with sensation as if heart stopped beating and would start again very suddenly, with faint, sick feeling
Pulse full, compressible, intermittent
Symptoms > after lying down.
Back
Bruised aching in back
Pain in back and wrists, gradually passing off
Chills run along back at every movement.
Limbs
Aching in wrists and ankles.
Skin
Blotches like mosquito-bites, itching violently, on undressing scratches till the skin comes off.