: The abdomen,
stool, urinary and sexual organs, furnish us a field for the use of this medicine.
The whole abdominal viscera seem to be dragging down from the stomach.
The patient wants to hold up the abdomen, pendulous abdomen. It seems as if the pelvic
organs would protrude. The patient must lie down, wants to wear a T bandage. Wants
to grasp the abdomen from the sides and lift up for support. It is a sensation of weakness
or bearing down in the pelvis as if everything were coming into the world through the
vagina.
This remedy has a very urgent diarrhoea, driving out of bed in the
morning; he must make great baste. You may get this confused with Sulphur, because Lilium tig. has great heat in the head, emptiness in the stomach, and great burning of
the palms and soles. It has also a dysentery that you will hardly be able to distinguish
from Merc. cor., so marked is the tenesmus, mucus and blood.
The stool is merely mucus mingled with blood, and the tenesmus is as
great and the burning in the anus as marked as in Merc. cor. It is especially suited for those attacks of dysentery
that come on as an occasional chronic manifestation in nervous patients such as I have
described. Now, do not think that because this patient is nervous that she is weak, or
liliputian, or lean; for it is especially suitable for those with full veins; apparently
plethoric, full blooded, fleshy, rotund women who are very nervous, and especially at the
change of life.
Recurrent dysenteric attacks with every cold in those who suffer from
pelvic and abdominal relaxation, mental irritability as described, palpitation and
fluttering of the heart, with nervous constitutions. You do not see Merc. cor. in such a picture.
If it were a dysentery alone I would not be able to tell which it was.
All of these dysenteric manifestations have been left out of the Guiding Symptoms, yet I have seen them verified over and over. Again, it has a most
inveterate and troublesome constipation.
It has also a tenesmus of the bladder and rectum. Teasing to urinate, as
well as urging to stool. Sit a long time with much urging, and after long straining no
stool.
Frequent urging, with a sensation as if a ball were in the rectum. When
the fundus of the uterus is turned back to the rectum it gives a sensation as if the rectum
were full of faeces; it brings on urging to stool and the patient will sit and strain, and
the tenesmus of the bladder and rectum is unbearable. Constant urging to stool, and no stool
in the rectum. You will be astonished to know that the remedy that is indicated with such
symptoms will relieve the patient of all distress in a short time.
But you ask, will this remedy put the uterus right again? Well, the
patient will get relief of her sufferings and will not feel this uncomfortable state after
the administration of the remedy. The bowels become regular, the disturbance of micturition
is relieved and the patient gradually returns to health and later the uterus will be found
in place.
"Pressure in the rectum, with almost constant desire to go to
stool."
Lilium tigrinum has
cured the most inveterate protruding hemorrhoids with burning.
"Haemorrhoids after delivery, sore to touch, bearing down after
stool as if all would protrude from the vagina."
It does not mean that we shall apply that simply to hemorrhoids that come
after delivery, but it has cured hemorrhoids in such a constitution, and not only
hemorrhoids, but relaxed uterus and vagina.
A paralytic relaxation is present in all the abdominal tissues. I have
mentioned the uterine symptoms incidentally in connection with other parts.
"Menses scanty, flow only when moving about."
This will make you think of Puls., the menses being
so scanty, and because the Puls. patient is of similar nervous temperament. Puls.
has scanty menstruation and relief in the open air. It has also much dragging down in the
pelvis, though not so extreme as a rule as in this medicine. But there is much in this
medicine quite different from Puls.
The come the heart symptoms.
"Seems as if the heart were grasped or squeezed in a vise, hard, as
if violently grasped."
"Constrictive pain in the heart." "In fresh air, chilly,
but vertigo is >."
Pain in the back and down the spine; irritable and sensitive spine with
trembling. It competes very closely with Platina.