Convallaria


Convallaria signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Convallaria is used…


      Convallaria majalis. Lily of the Valley. *N. O. Liliaceae.

Clinical

Diarrhoea. Heart, affections of. Herpes. Pruritus vulvae. Vomiting (of pregnancy).

Characteristics

*Convallaria is a popular remedy in Russia for heart affections, and it has been introduced into old-school medicine principally as a heart remedy. It compares closely in its action with *Lilium *tigrinum, and also resembles its other botanical relatives, *Aloe, *Allium cepa, and *Allium sativum. It is strongly

purgative and causes morning vomiting. It has been proved, and the symptoms produced show that its nearest analogue is *Lilium tigrinum. Nash has used it in 30th with very satisfactory results in women complaining of great soreness in uterine region with sympathetic palpitation of the heart. He has also removed cardiac dropsy when this uterine soreness has been present as well. Berridge credits it with this symptom: “Movement in the abdomen as from the fist of a child,” like *Sul., *Thuja, *Croc. In the case of *Conval. the symptom occurs “*when lying on the back.” Sleepiness accompanies many symptoms. Better in open air, worse in warm room (like *Cepa).

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Depression. Mind wanders from subject when reading. Dull, can hardly think. Irritable when asked a question.

Head

Dull, heavy pain at vertex better open air. Headache with fever, worse jarring, better rest.

Eyes

Sees imaginary grey spots about 3 in. square in different parts of the room on coming in from a walk. When reading sees small words (as “the,” “it,” “too,”) before beginning of sentence, when they are not there. P is substituted for other letters. About every fifteen minutes, dull pains from right eye over top of head and down right side of neck. Eyelids heavy.

Face

Face and lip sore, crop of small hydroa, feel raw.

Mouth

Fine red points on tip of tongue. Intense redness and soreness of tongue, looks like raw beef, granular and quite clean, with tenderness of stomach. Coppery taste in mouth. Water tastes bitter.

Stomach

Morning sickness and vomiting.

Abdomen

Severe colic, pains come quickly and pass off slowly. Dull aching pain and sore feeling in hypogastrium, worse when coughing. labour-like pains. Movement in abdomen like the fist of a child.

Stool and Anus

Tenesmus. Slightly thin stool, brown, offensive with tenesmus and heat at anus after stool. Sensation in rectum as if full of gas, not better by passing flatus.

Female Sexual Organs.

Labour-like pains in sacroiliac joints, worse right side, running down leg intermittently. Sensation as if a large cord

extended from sacroiliac synchondrosis to inguinal region, and this cord was pulled down by pelvic organs ( worse right side), sensation as if uterus descended and retroverted, pressing on rectum and anus, pain continuous and unbearable. Soreness in uterine region with palpitation of the heart. Itching at urinary meatus and orifice of vagina.

Heart

When exercising, fluttering at heart, lasting about a minute, then face would get red, with sensation as if heart stopped beating and would start again very suddenly, with faint, sick feeling. Pulse full, compressible, intermittent. Symptoms better after lying down.

Back.

Bruised aching in back. Pain in back and wrists, gradually passing off. Chills run along back at every movement.

Limbs.

Aching in wrists and ankles.

Skin.

Blotches like mosquito-bites, itching violently, on undressing scratches till the skin comes off.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica