CONVALLARIA MAJALIS

Lily of the Valley


  • A heart remedy. 
  • Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular. 
  • Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. 
  • Dyspnea, dropsy, anuric tendency. 
  • Anasarca.

Mind and Head

  • Dull intellect. 
  • Grieves easily. 
  • Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking. 
  • Scalp sensitive. 
  • Irritability. 
  • Hysterical manifestations.

Face

  • Hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore. 
  • Epistaxis. 
  • Sees imaginary gray spot about three inches square.

Mouth

  • Grating of teeth in the morning. 
  • Coppery taste. 
  • Tongue feels sore and scalded; broad and thick with heavy, dirty coating.

Throat

  • Raw feeling in back of throat when inspiring.

Abdomen

  • Sensitive. 
  • Clothes feel too tight. 
  • Gurgling and pain on taking deep breath. 
  • Movement in abdomen like fist of a child. 
  • Colicky pains.

Urinary Organs

  • Aching in bladder; feels distended. 
  • Frequent urination; offensive; scanty urine.

Female

  • Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart. 
  • Pain in sacro-iliac joints, running down leg. 
  • Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.

Respiratory

  • Pulmonary congestion. 
  • Orthopnea. 
  • Dyspnea while walking. 
  • Hot feeling in throat.

Heart

  • Feeling as if heart beat throughout the chest. 
  • Endocarditis, with extreme orthopnea. 
  • Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly. 
  • Palpitation from the least exertion. 
  • Tobacco heart, especially when due to cigarettes. 
  • Angina pectoris. 
  • Extremely rapid and irregular pulse.

Back and Extremities

  • Pain and aching in lumbar region; aching of legs; in big toe. 
  • Trembling of hands. 
  • Aching in wrists and ankles.

Fever

  • Chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat. 
  • Thirst and headache during chill. 
  • Dyspnea during fever.

Relationship

  • Compare: Digit; Crataeg; Lilium; Adonis (feeble heart action due only to functional disturbance).

Modalities

  • Better, in open air. 
  • Worse, in warm room.

Dose

  • Third attenuation, 
  • and for symptoms of heart failure, tincture, one to fifteen drops.