Tiger Lily. W. PAYNE Liliaceae.
Mind
Ideas not clear, they become more so if he exerts his will; makes mistakes in speaking and writing; can not apply the mind steadily.
Depression, dulness of intellect and thirst always precede the severe symptoms.
Crazy feeling on top of the head; wild feeling in head, with confusion of ideas.
Disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things, as these mental states came, uterine irritation abated.
Hurried manner; desire to do something and yet feels no ambition.
Listless, inert, yet don’t want to sit still : restless, yet don’t want to walk.
Low-spirited, can hardly keep from crying.
Tormented about her salvation. With uterine complaints.
Apprehensive : as from impending disease or calamity; fears he has heart-disease; she fears she is incurable; often with moderate or subacute uterine or ovarian inflammation.
Fear of insanity.
Irritable, impatient.
Sensorium
Vertigo, especially when walking; feeling as if intoxicated; staggering forward; forgetful.
Faint feeling, fear of falling; worse in close warm room, better in fresh air, though he is then chilly.
Faint in a warm room and when standing, with cold sweat on back of hands and on feet. Prolapsus uteri.
Inner Head
Dull frontal headache : worse over left eye, or alternating from side to side.
Wild feeling in head as though she would be crazy, with pain in right iliac region.
Heavy feeling in the head, with morning diarrhoea.
Drawing hot pain through head and eyes, relieved by frequent sneezing, 10 P.M.
Fulness of the head, with pressure outward as if contents would be forced through every aperture.
Shooting in right temples passing over to the left, with a dull, heavy sensation in whole front of head; dim sight; pain in eyes, extending to head.
Dull, pressive aching, from the left temple to occiput; paroxysmal.
Eyes
Blurred vision : after seminal emission; with prolapsed uterus.
Hypermetropia. Presbyopia.
Muscae volitantes.
Eyes full of water; face flushed and hot, pricking in skin of forehead.
Eyes painful; sensitive to light.
Intense pain in eyes, extending back into head; dim sight.
Sharp pains over the eyes.
Ears
Rushing sound in both ear.
Nose
Frequent sneezing, 10 A.M., relieving a severe, burning headache and pain in eyes.
Face
Pain in right side of face, right nostril stopped.
Heat and bloated feeling of face and head.
Chilly feeling and face in the forenoon; afternoon fever, congestion to chest; face and forehead flushed and hot; pricking in the forehead.
Tongue etc.
Taste of blood; congestion to chest.
Desires Aversions
Loss of appetite.
Aversion : to bread; to coffee.
Craving for meat.
Voracious hunger, seemingly along the spine and up to occiput, not appeased by eating.
Thirst, drinks often and much.
Thirst recurring before severe symptoms.
Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea : constant, with sensation of a lump in stomach, moving at every deglutition; when thinking of coffee; with morning diarrhoea; with pressure in vagina and pain at top of sacrum.
Stomach
Fulness, disturbed feeling, upward pressure, after eating.
Stomach distended, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus per annum.
Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels.
Abdomen
Dragging down of whole abdominal contents, extending to even organs of chest; must support the abdomen.
Bloated abdomen after a meal, continuing after a diarrhoeic discharge.
Abdomen distended with moving of flatulence, better from passing wind up and down.
Abdomen sensitive to pressure or jarring.
Abdominal walls sore, previous to stool.
Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on, passing off by urinating.
Bloated feeling in region of uterus extending to hips.
Abdomen distended and sore after menses cease.
Empty feeling of abdomen and stomach.
Weak, tremulous feeling extending to anus.
Skin of abdomen feels stretched and stiff.
Stool etc.
Morning diarrhoea, stools loose, bilious; dark, offensive, very urgent, can’t wait a moment. Stool preceded by gripping pains or great urging, with pressure on the rectum; followed by smarting, burning of anus.
Tenesmus and great desire for stool, but every effort resulted only in voiding a little urine.
Escape of flatus, with great distention of stomach and frequent eructations.
Hemorrhoids after delivery, sore to touch, itching; bearing down at stool as if all would protrude through vagina.
Urine
Frequent urination through the day; with dull headache moving from sinciput to occiput, finally settling in left temple.
Frequent urging, with acrid smarting after every discharge; urging worse towards morning.
Continuous pressure in region of bladder. constant desire to urinate with scanty discharge; smarting in urethra and tenesmus.
If desire is not attended to, feeling of congestion of chest.
Urine : milky, scanty; increased and dark; hot, like boiling oil.
Male Sexual Organs
Desire increased.
Lascivious dreams and emissions, followed by; irritability, difficulty in fixing one’s mind, selecting wrong words.
Female Sexual Organs
Sexual desire increased; obscene.
Ovaries : Burning, stinging, cutting, grasping in ovaries (left); pains extend across hypogastrium, to groin, down leg; bearing down when standing; sensitive to pressure; ovary swollen to nearly size of child’s head.
Bearing down in uterus, pains in left ovary and left mamma.
Menses : scanty, flow only when moving abut; dark, thick, smelling like the lochia; on second day after time to menstruate, cutting in bowels, limbs clammy; followed by profuse, bright yellow leucorrhoea, excoriating the perineum.
Severe neuralgic pains in uterus, could not bear touch, not even weigh of bedclothes or slightest jar; anteversion.
Aching over the pubes, with pain in knees.
Bearing down in uterine region as if everything would be pressed out; relieved by pressure with hand against vulva.
Bloated feeling in region of uterus; pelvic organs feel swollen; aching apparently around, not in, the uterus.
Intermittent sharp pain across lower bowels.
Burning from groin to groin, with morning stool.
Intermittent labor-like pains in lower part of back, with a thin, acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea, leaving a brown stain; worse afternoon until 12 P.M.
Pressure on anterior wall of rectum.
Voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fulness of parts; stinging in left ovarian region.
With the bearing down : low-spirited, weeping, apprehensive; irritable; opposite and contradictory mental states; urgent desire for stool; anorexia; faint in close room and when standing; frequent, scanty, burning urine; pain in sacrum; bloated feeling in abdomen; limbs cold, clammy.
Pregnancy
Delayed post-partum recovery (subinvolution); lochia lasts too long, is profuse, excoriating; dragging pains; smarting in urethra after urination fears an internal incurable disease.
Cutting in left mamma through to scapula; sighing; short- breath.
Cramp-like pain in left mamma, shoulder and fingers.
Breathing
Breathing oppressed, with oppression in lower pain of chest; worse 4 A.M.
Short, oppressed breathing; sighing; frequent desire to take a long breath.
Feeling of compression and weight.
Chest feels as if too full of blood; slight relief form sighing; oppressive heat, must go into open air; worse in close room; with taste of blood, faint feeling; weak heart-beat, blurred sight, feat of falling.
Lungs
Full feeling in chest, with distended abdomen.
Constricted sensation in left side of chest, extending, to right, with sharp pains running up to throat, clavicle, left axilla and scapula; better form changing position.
Heart Pulse
Heart feels as if squeezed in a vise.
Heart feels as if grasped, with pain and heaviness of left mamma to scapula.
Heart as if violently grasped, then suddenly released; and so on alternately.
Constrictive pain about heart, extending through to scapula.
Heaviness in region of heart.
Palpitation worse from lying no either side.
Fluttering, general faint feeling, hurried and forced feeling about the apex; better sitting still.
Fluttering : awakens her at night; with cold hands and feet covered with cold sweat; with sharp, quick pain in left chest.
Conscious pulsations over whole body, and out-pressing in hands and arms, as if blood would burst through the vessels.
Neck Back
Dull pain in nape of neck, with feeling of constriction.
Pain in back and left scapula, seemingly from left mamma.
Pain in dorsal vertebrae, if the back would break.
Cold feeling in back.
Dull, heavy pain and great weakness in small of back.
Dull pain in lower back and sacrum.
Sensation of pulling upward from tip of coccyx.
Upper Limbs
Dull pain in left shoulder.
Drawing pain in left shoulder and neck; sitting in left mamma.
Right hand and arm stiff and painful during the night, abating 8 A.M.
Arms and hands stiff and hot, as if parched.
Stiffness of the fingers almost like paralysis; difficult to guide the pencil.
Pricking in fingers almost like paralysis; difficult to guide the pencil.
Pricking in fingers and hands; sensation of an electric current, first in fingers of left, then of right hand.
