Lilium tigrinum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
FULL, HEAVY or forced out feeling; uterus; heart; eyelids; ovary (l). Utero-ovarian sagging. Marked nervo-hysterical reflexes (Con.), especially mental or cardiac. Nervous tremor; in hypogastrium, in spine, knees, etc. Pulsation, ebullition, gurglings and burnings. Backward pains; about eyes; to occiput; from nipples through chest; from heart to l. scapula. Venous congestion. Acrid discharges. .................... Hurried, nervous, snappish and erotic or depressed. Fruitless activity. Wild, crazy feeling. Dread; of insanity; being incurable, etc. Desires finery. Burning headache, < before and after menses; ache over (l), eye; with vertigo and visual effects. Eyes, feel sprained; bite and burn, < reading. Yellowish, patchy tongue. Sweet taste -back of mouth. Craves meat. Hunger, as if from spine. Stiff, tense abdomen. Can't bear weight of covers. Sharp pains, < doubling up. Early, morning diarrhœa; frequent, small stools; with tenesmus; < after rising. Heavy dragging or outward urging in pelvis; must hold parts (Sanic.); with dysuria. Ovarian pain, (l); into limb; with pain below (l) breast. Menses free, while moving only. Thin, brown, leucorrhœa; acrid. Oppressive load on chest; air hunger; takes long breaths. As of a rivet or ball under (l) mamma. HEART, feels clutched, overful, cold, weak, hangs by a thread, etc.; pains into (l) arm; < stooping; < lying on (r) side; nervous. Palpitation. Neckache, < tire. Broken feeling between scapulæ. Pain from hip to hip. Can't walk on uneven ground. Chilly, > open air. Burning palms and soles.
Worse
WARMTH; of room. Motion. Miscarriages. Walking. Standing. Consolation.
Better
Cool, fresh air. When busy. Lying on left side. Sunset (Coca. Med. Sele.). Pressure. Crossing legs.
Region
VENOUS CIRCULATION: FEMALE ORGANS. Uterus. Ovaries. HEART (R). Rectum. Bladder. Left side. Nerves.
Relationships
Related: Alo. Plat. Pul. Spi.
What the other books say about Lilium tigrinum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Lilium tigrinum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Lilium tigrinum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Lilium tigrinum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Lilium tigrinum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/lilium-tigrinum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.