Trillium Pendulum
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General
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 homoeopathic tincture.] N. O. Smilaceae (or Trilliaceae) of the Liliaceae.
Tincture of the fresh root.
Clinical
Bladder, catarrh of. Climaxis. Diabetes. Dysentery. Fainting, with flooding. Fibroma, haemorrhages from. Haemorrhages; 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 haemorrhage, ante-partum, post-partum, and climacteric, in fibroid tumours, and in haemorrhages 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 haemorrhagic property in the blood-tinged diarrhoea. One characteristic in connection with the haemorrhages 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 haemostatic 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 haemorrhages are typified in this. Blue vision; and craving for ice-water are other noteworthy symptoms. There is tendency to putrescence of fluids.
The haemorrhages 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 < haemorrhages.
Relations
Complementary: Calc. p. (menstrual and haemorrhagic affections). Compare: Anguish, restless tossing about, Aco. Haemorrhages, 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, Aesc. h.
Mind
Melancholy with sadness (M)
Repugnance to conversation (M)
Irritable (M)
Anguish; agitation and tossing about, impossible to keep still (M).
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).
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).
Nose
Profuse nose-bleed.
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).
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).
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.
Stool And Anus
Dysentery, when passages are almost pure blood
Diarrhoea thin, watery, tinged with blood; painless (M)
Constipation succeeded by thin, watery, very offensive diarrhoea (M)
Chronic diarrhoeas of bloody mucus.
Urinary Organs
Haematuria, passive
Chronic catarrh of bladder
Diabetes
Sharp, cutting pain in urethra when urinating (M)
Urine copious, of strong disagreeable odour (M).
Male Sexual Organs
Itching of genitals < by scratching.
Female Sexual Organs
Haemorrhage 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 leucorrhoea; 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 anaemia
Haemorrhages from fibroid tumours
Threatened abortion; profuse haemorrhages
Pain in back and cold limbs, with haemorrhages
Too profuse menstrual flow alter exhaustion by exercise
Profuse, exhausting leucorrhoea
Haemorrhage in abortion of third month
Ante-partum haemorrhage; os uteri dilated to size of half a dollar; no pains; flooding excessive
Post-partum haemorrhage
Profuse, long-lasting lochial discharges.
Respiratory Organs
Sensation of crumb in larynx, keeps up continual coughing (M)
Cough, with purulent or bloody sputum
Haemoptysis.
Chest
Difficult breathing; feels as if chest bound up preventing it expanding (M).
Heart
Palpitation with great anxiety (M).
Limbs
Cramping pains in muscles of arms and calves (M).
Upper Limbs
Pain in l. shoulder extending down arm to hand (M).—Cramping pains in fingers when writing (M).
Generalities
Haemorrhages 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 haemorrhages.—Crawling sensation in veins, like a tightening up of parts; < in legs and ankles.—Great debility (M).
Skin
Skin hot and dry, with itching and burning, < by scratching (M).
Sleep
Sleepless; rolling and tossing on bed (M)
Sleep disturbed by frequent dreams (M)
Dreams of festivities, sleigh-ride, &c.
(M).
Fever
Feverish during pain in abdomen, on the subsidence of which a profuse perspiration broke out (M).