The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Trillium Pendulum tril.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

General

Wake Robin ; White Beth-root. Smilaceæ.
Grows in Middle and Western States in rich soils, in damp, rocky, shady woods.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh root, which is oblong, tuberous.
No provings.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Prolapsus uteri , Gorton, Hah. Mo., vol. 7, p. 514 ; Metrorrhagia , Fackler, A. H. O., vol. 6, p. 228 ; Hawley, A. H. O., Oct., 1875, p. 333 ; Menorrhagia , Gilchrist, Med. Inv., vol. 7, p. 1.

Smell and nose

Profuse epistaxis, passive.

Teeth and gums

Bleeding from cavity after extraction of tooth.
Hemorrhage from gums and mouth.

Inner mouth

Cancrum oris.

Palate and throat

Putrid sore throat.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sinking in stomach. θ Hemorrhage.
Heat and burning in stomach ; rising up in œsophagus.
Hematemesis, with erosion of mucous coat of stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Constipation ; hard, dry stool.

Stools and rectum

Dysentery, passages almost pure blood.
Chronic diarrhœa of bloody mucus.

Urinary organs

Hæmaturia, passive.
Chronic catarrh of bladder.
Diabetes.

Female sexual organs

Displaced uterus with consequent menorrhagia ; profuse flow.
Gushing of bright-red blood from uterus, at least movement, later blood pale from anemia ; at times dark clots ; frequent desire to urinate.
Great bearing-down feeling in pelvis when walking and standing ; backache ; sore pains in vaginal and uterine regions ; copious discharge of yellowish, stringy leucorrhœa ; constipation ; menstruation inclined to menorrhagia ; monthly flow lingers several days longer than usual.
Sallow face with white lips and tongue ; tossing in bed from evening until after midnight, with a feeling as if hips and small of back were falling in pieces and a desire to bind them up tightly. θ Metrorrhagia.
Excessive flooding with fainting ; face pale and anxious ; extremities cold ; no pain ; flabby subjects.
Passive internal uterine hemorrhages, with occasional clots and much fetor.
Flooding with fainting.
Profuse uterine hemorrhage, at climacteric period, with prostration, vertigo, dimness of sight, palpitation and painful sinking at pit of stomach.
Hemorrhage in abortion at third month.
Ante-partum hemorrhage ; os uteri dilated to size of half dollar ; no pains ; flooding excessive.
Menses come on after overexertion, too long a ride, etc., profuse flow.
Profuse flow every two weeks, lasting a week or longer ; yellow and thick leucorrhœa between periods.
Leucorrhœa : bloody, with great prostration ; yellow, creamy, profuse, between menses.
Climaxis with weak sight, anxious look ; pale ; faint ; flow returns every two weeks.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Threatened abortion ; profuse hemorrhage.
Lochia too profuse ; lasts too long.
Post-partum hemorrhage.

Cough

Cough troublesome, copious purulent sputa ; hectic ; hæmoptysis.
Catarrhal cough ; chronic bronchitis or laryngitis.

Inner chest and lungs

Incipient stage of phthisis with bloody sputa, or in advanced stages with copious purulent expectoration, hectic fever and troublesome cough.
Pains through chest.

Neck and back

Pain in back, with uterine hemorrhages.
Sacro-iliac synchondroses feel as if falling apart, wants to be bound tightly. θ Hemorrhage.

Lower limbs

Legs cold with hemorrhages.

Limbs in general

Feels as if bones were broken ; with hemorrhages.

Rest. position. motion

Standing : bearing down in pelvis.
Motion : hemorrhages <.
Walking : bearing down in pelvis.

Attacks, periodicity

Every two weeks : profuse menses.
Third month : hemorrhage in abortion.
Between menstrual periods : leucorrhœa.
Climacteric period : uterine hemorrhage ; weak sight ; pale ; faint ; flow every two weeks.

Sensations

As if hips and small of back were falling to pieces ; as if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling apart ; as if bones were broken.
Pain : through chest ; in back.
Burning : in stomach, rising into œsophagus.
Sore pain : in vaginal and uterine region.
Bearing down : in pelvis.
Sinking : in stomach, with hemorrhage.
Heat : in stomach, rising into œsophagus.

Tissues

Copious hemorrhages, especially of nose, kidneys and uterus ; active and passive, usually bright-red, profuse.
Tendency to putrescence of fluids ; fetor of critical discharges.

Stage of life, constitution

Mrs. ---, æt. 45, nervosanguine temperament, suffering a year and a half ; menorrhagia.
Miss A. J., æt. 21, bilious temperament ; prolapsus uteri.

Relations

Compare : Cinchon., Bellad., Kali carb., Sepia, Laches .