LILIUM TIGRINUM ---Habitat---China and Japan.
---Description---The plant flowers in July and August; the bloom is orange colour and spotted. The upper leaves cordate and oval. It does not ripen seed in this country, but is propagated from the bulbils produced in the axils of the leaves which should yield flowering bulbs in three years from the time of planting.
---Medicinal Action and Uses---A tincture is made from the fresh plant and has proved of great value in uterine-neuralgia, congestion and irritation, also in the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
It relieves the bearing down pain accompanying uterine prolapse.
It is an important remedy in ovarian neuralgia. Poisoning by the pollen of the plant has produced vomiting, drowsiness and purging.
HOMEOPATHIC PICTURE LILIUM TIGRINUM
Tiger-lily
Manifests powerful influence over the pelvic organs, and is adapted to many reflex states dependent on some pathological condition of uterus and ovaries. More often indicated in unmarried women. The action of the heart is very marked. Pain in small spots (Oxal ac). Rheumatic arthritis.
Mind.--Tormented about her salvation. Consolation aggravates. Profound depression of spirits. Constant inclination to weep. Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease. Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things. Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy.
Head.--Hot, dull, heavy. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in head.
Eyes.--Hyperæsthesia of retina. Pain, extending back into head; lachrymation; and impaired vision.
Myopic astigmia. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscle (Arg nit). Stomach.--Flatulent; nausea, with sensation of lump in stomach. Hungry; longs for meat. Thirsty.
drinks often and much, and before severe symptoms.
Abdomen.--Abdomen sore, distended; trembling sensation in abdomen. Pressure downwards and backwards against rectum and anus; worse, standing; better, walking in open air. Bearing down in lower part of abdomen.
Urinary.--Frequent urging. Urine milky, scanty, hot.
Stool.--Constant desire to defecate, from pressure in rectum, worse standing. Pressure down the anus. Early-morning urgent stool. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with tenesmus, especially in plethoric and nervous women at change of life.
Heart.--Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise (Cact). Feels full to bursting. Pulsations over whole body. Palpitation; irregular pulse; very rapid. Pain in cardiac region, with feeling of a load on chest. Cold feeling about heart. Suffocating feeling in a crowded and warm room. Angina pectoris with pain in right arm.
Female.--Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow only when moving about. Bearing down sensation with urgent desire for stool, as though all organs would escape. Ceases when resting (Sep; Lac c; Bell). Congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion. Constant desire to support parts externally. Pain in ovaries and down thighs. Acrid, brown leucorrhœa; smarting in labia. Sexual instinct awakened. Bloated feeling in uterine region. Sub-involution. Pruritus pudendi.
Extremities.--Cannot walk on uneven ground. Pain in back and spine, with trembling, but oftener in front of a pressing-down character. Pricking in fingers. Pain in right arm and hip. Legs ache; cannot keep them still. Pain in ankle joint. Burning palms and soles.
Sleep.--Unrefreshing, with disagreeable dreams. Unable to sleep, with wild feeling in head. Fever.--Great heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing throughout body. Modalities.--Worse consolation, warm room. Better, fresh air.
Relationship.--Compare: Cact; Helon; Murex; Sep; Plat; Pallad.
Antidote: Helon. PARIS
Botanical: Paris quadrifolia (LINN.)
---Synonyms---Herba Paris. Solanum quadrifolium. Aconitum pardalianches. True Love. One Berry.
(French) Parisette. (German) Einbeere.
---Part Used---The entire plant, just coming into bloom.
---Habitat---Europe, Russian Asia, and fairly abundant in Britain, but confined to certain places.
---Description---This singular plant gets its generic name of Paris from par (paris), equal on account of the regularity of its leaves. In olden times it was much esteemed and used in medicine, but to-day its use is almost confined to homoeopathy. It is a herbaceous perennial plant found in moist places and damp shady woods. It has a creeping fleshy rootstock, a simple smooth upright stem about 1 foot high, crowned near its top with four pointed leaves, from the centre of which rises a solitary greeny-white flower, blooming May and June with a foetid odour; the petals and sepals remain till the purply- blackberry (fruit) is ripe, which eventually splits to discharge its seeds.
---Constituents---A glucoside called Paradin.
---Medicinal Action and Uses---Narcotic, in large doses producing nausea, vomiting, vertigo, delirium convulsions, profuse sweating and dry throat. The drug should be used with great caution; overdoses have proved fatal to children and poultry. In small doses it has been found of benefit in bronchitis; spasmodic coughs, rheumatism; relieves cramp, colic, and palpitation of the heart; the juice of the berries cures inflammation of the eyes. A cooling ointment is made from the seeds and the juice of the leaves for green wounds and for outward application for tumours and inflammations. The powdered root boiled in wine is given for colic. One or 2 scruples acts as an emetic in place of Ipecacuanha.
It has been used as an aphrodisiac - the seeds and berries have something of the nature of opium. The leaves in Russia are prescribed for madness. The leaves and berries are more actively poisonous than the root.
Herb Paris is useful as an antidote against mercurial sublimate and arsenic. A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.
---Other Species---Paris polyphylla, which grows in Nepaul.