Homeopathy Remedy Convallaria


Convallaria homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Convallaria…


      A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Convallaria Majalis, L.

General Action

      In large doses it causes irregularity if heart’s action, vomiting and collapse; in somewhat smaller doses it diminishes the rate of the pulse and promotes the flow of urine. In small does it acts a cardiac tonic and dissipates dropsical effusions of cardiac origin.

Ally.– Digitalis.

Generalities

      Feeling as if I had taken cold. General sick feeling. Sensation as if she were getting fat internally and filling up. Restlessness. Tired, bruised feeling all over body. Weakness; in morning after rising; in evening; during the laborlike pains, with sleepiness; with staggering; and feeling as if recovering from a long sickness. Faint upon having the gums lightly touched with the point of a knife; faint, dizzy feeling, like morning sickness, on raising head from the pillow in morning, nausea (>) vomiting a clear substance tasting like phlegm. Aggravation from 2 to 5 P.M. Amelioration from eating; after dinner; in open air.

Mind

      Depression. Grieve very easily. Irritable feeling when asked a question. Nervous feeling, with trembling of hand. Do not feel like talking. No desire to get up in the morning. Time passed very slowly. Intellect dull. Wandering from the subject when reading, sees small words before the beginning of sentences, and the latter P is substituted for other letters.

Head

      Aching on ascending stairs; (<) ascending a hill; (<) hawking; (<) stepping heavily or jarring head, gradually passing away after supper; (<) r. temple; with sleepiness; as from too sound sleep, in morning, (>) lying down again, also (<) motion; heavy,. (<)vertex; heavy, after a short walk, (<) motion. Dullness; and heaviness. Feels weak. Vertigo.

Forehead.– pricking as from nettles at times during the day, (<) warmth. Aching in morning on waking, with soreness of eyeballs on motion, dizziness; A. on jarring head; in F. and nape when walking, (<) jar or ascending a hill; headache beginning in F.; in in fronto-temporal region, (<) r. Heavy aching; over eyes, with sleepiness.

Vertex.– Pain; extending to temples at 8 P.M.,(>) walking in open air. Dullness in r. side.

Eyes

      Dark lines under them. Smarting of r. at noon. Pain every fifteen minutes from r. over top head and down r. side of neck; heavy P. in r. eye and temple. Heaviness, wanted to keep the lids closed, but if I closed them while walking I staggered. Dry feeling from walking in morning till 10 A.M., with sensation as if inner part of lids were rough. Upper lids feel heavy on looking up. All letters looked alike when reading. Saw gray spots about three inches square in different parts of the room on entering the house after a walk.

Ears and Nose

      Pulsating pain in l. ear, with heat in it; sharp pulsating pain in r. middle ear, and when swallowing the r. tympanum seemed to bulge, (>) pressing on temporal artery in front of ear. Hydroa on inner edge of l. nostril, with feeling as if the flesh had been torn. Epistaxis at 2 A.M., waking me.

Face

      Pinched; and sallow. Of a smoked color after exercising enough to cause from perspiration. Lips covered with sore hydroa, (<) l. side.

Mouth and Throat

      Grating on teeth in morning on waking. Tongue coated yellow at base, tip and sides dotted re, tip feels sore, as if scalded. Collection of tough, clammy mucus in mouth. Taste coppery. Suffocating sensation in throat; at 6 P.M., with dryness.

Stomach

      Appetite diminished; lost. Could not eat breakfast. Food does not seem clean or fit to eat. Thirst, (<) evening. Frequent drinking of large quantities. Desire for lemonade or something acid. Eructations of fat all the afternoon; of fat after dinner; of gas tasting of food; after supper, tasting of food eaten four hours before; after eating cucumbers, tasting of the cucumbers. Nausea; with cold sweat about waist (Verat); after exercising for about ten minutes immediately after eating, with faint feeling and vomiting twice of mucus which looked and tasted like the slime from oysters. Vomiting. Weak feeling in region after dinner.

Abdomen

      Pain; at 6.30 P.M., when eating, causing me to hold my breath, (<) beginning to eat, (<) sitting up straight or leaning back, causes sleepiness; paroxysmal, causing desire for stool, (>) stool, four stools of natural consistency between 2 and 5 P.M.; grumbling, as if bowels would move, sensation as if flatus would surely pass, but can retain it. Soreness, (<) coughing or being in a warm room, (>) open air or exercising; S. on pressure, clothes feel tight. Sensation as if filing up, causing dyspnoea, desire to breathe deeply when sitting down, abdomen distended, but sensation as if larger than it really was. Uneasiness, and on going into open air pain, (<) walking; U., then colic, causing desire for stool, stool scanty, with tenesmus. Weak feeling.

Pain in r. side going to l.; P. in hypochondria on deep inspiration or gaping; in region of gall-bladder on deep breathing or raising arms. Gurgling in umbilical region. Umbilical pain in l. part after a short walk; in r. side, which comes quickly and passes off slowly; extending to l. groin during dinner.

Hypogastrium.– Pain in morning before rising, (>) stool; P. every time he woke all night till after 5.30 A.M.; (<)r. side, with fulness and with desire for stool, the pain continued after the stool; (>) stool, with fulness; (>) stool, with Dullness in head; in l. illiac region, (>) micturition; intermittent, when eating. Sore pain on coughing and breathing deeply; S. pain in middle at 7 P.M., after eating, it came on gradually and passed of suddenly, (<) sitting up straight; causing me to hold me my breath, passing into a dull ache. Soreness all the afternoon, (<) between 5 and 6 P.M.; S. when eating, with intermittent pain. Bruised sensation in r. side on laughing or coughing. uneasiness, with colic, then urging to stool, stool rather thin, light, smelling like decayed meat, relieving the colic, tenesmus after the stool, these symptoms occurred four times in afternoon.

Sacro-iliac Synchondrosis.– Laborlike pains, with bearing down extending across pelvis, (<) at sides, (<) sitting down, especially sitting straight or leaning back, (>) standing or leaning forward while standing, went to sleep between the pains; laborlike pains, (<) r. side, extending down inner side of r. thigh, with sleepiness, as if tired, also pains ran down leg, (<) motion, sitting up straight or leaning back, pain beginning in anterior part of abdomen, on the r. side if was the same as in the second stage of labor, but extended higher up, the pains returned afterwards, (<) sitting, extended up back and caused nausea and faint, sick feeling, with hunger, when lying on back the pains were relieved, but there was a sensation as if a foetus at eight months were kicking, (<) being on the feet. Sensation as if a large cord extended to inguinal region and this cord were pulled down by the pelvic organs, (<) r. side, sensation as if uterus descended and retroverted, the fundus of the uterus pressing on rectum caused pain in anus and rectum, sensation as if rectum were full of gas, not (>) passing flatus.

Clinical In pelvic congestion, with sore aching pain in lower part of abdomen, especially after miscarriage or operations. Feeling as if uterus had descended and pressed upon rectum, causing cutting in rectum and anus, dull aching soreness in lumbar region, great prostration, pain (>) lying on back.

Rectum and Anus

      Sore, burning sensation in anus during stool. Tenesmus during stool, with inactivity of rectum. Ineffectual desire, with soreness of anus as if raw, on straining.

Stool

      Thin; and brown, offensive, with tenesmus and heat at anus after stool; and offensive, twice a day, each one preceded by uneasiness in epigastrium. offensive. Scanty, after prolonged tenesmus, which continues after the stool. Twice a day.

Urinary Organs

      After micturition, aching in bladder as if over-distended,. with aching and lame feeling in back after lying down. Frequent desire, but only a little urine was passed, which seemed scalding hot, but left to smarting. Frequent micturition, urine light brown, after standing over night it smells like fresh fish,. slight mucous sediment. Urine dark; and strong-smelling; and offensive, acid. Copious urine; and light-colored. urine contained an excess of earthy phosphates; and sugar.

Sexual Organs

      Itching at orifice of vagina, extending to meatus of urethra, then gradually all over labia, with hyperaemia, almost unbearable at 8 P.M., slightest motion of legs, (>) cold water.

Respiratory Organs

      Paroxysms of hot suffocating sensation, which general perspiration. Dyspnoea on ascending a hill. Breath short when walking.

Clinical Dyspnoea with pulmonary status and hydrothorax, relieved so that she could lie flat on back; it also caused profuse micturition.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.