Trillium

Trillium rectum. Purple Trillium. Bethroot. Birthroot. Lamb's Siarter. Rattlesnake root Wakerobin. Three-leaved nightmare. According to Millspaugh T. pendulum is the white variety of T. rectum, Treas. ofBoL gives the names as synonymous. The symptoms of H. Minton, the original prover, are given in Allen under 7. cemuum, Minton obtained the tincture om a botanic physician and did not himself verify the plant His symptoms are marked (M) in the Schema. Millspaugh considers T. rectum as the proper source of the homoeopathic tincture.] N. O. Smilaceae (or Trilliaceae) of the Liliaoeae. Tincture of the fresh root.

Clinical

Bladder, catarrh of. Climaxis. Diabetes. Dysentery. Fainting, with flooding. Fibroma, haemorrhages from. Haemorrhages ; post-piaftum ; antepartum. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Writer's cramp.

Characteristics

The chief uses of Trill come to us from the eclectics, who learned some of them from the native Indians. The popular name Birth-root sufficiently indicates one part of its reputation. In haemorrhage, ante-partum, post-partum, and climacteric, in fibroid tumours, and in haemorrhages of all lands Trill has been found curative. Both the White and the Purple varieties have been used. Minton's proving of T. cemuum (?) crout out the haemorrhagic property in the blood-tinged diarrhoea. One characteristic in connection with the haemorrhages of Trill. is faintness and sinking at the stomach ; also cold extremities and rapid, feeble pulse. " Flooding with fainting" is a keynote. Minton's proving brought out a symptom bearing on this : "Sensation of goneness in abdomen." He had also extreme debility; palpitation, and anxiety. Trill, has been used as a local haemostatic in epistaxis and for bleeding after tooth extraction. Peculiar Sensations are : As if eyes too large (M). As if a crumb were in larynx (M). As if the chest was tightly bound and could not be expanded. As if hips and small of back were falling to pieces. As if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling apart ; wants to be bound tightly. As if bones were broken. Left side most affected. Restless, tossing agitation, fear of being sick, great anguish were experienced by Minton. The restlessness and exhaustion from haemorrhages are typified in this. Blue vision ; and craving for ice-water are other noteworthy symptoms. There is tendency to putrescence of fluids. The haemorrhagesjof Trill are copious ; either active or passive ; usually bright red and profuse. Trill is suited to women who flood after every labour; abby subjects. The symptoms of Minton's proving were : > Bending forward ; < sitting erect. < By motion. < After eating. > By exercise in open air. Standing or walking =: bearing down in pelvis. Motion < haemorrhages.

Relations

Complementary : Calc. p. (menstrual and haemorrhagic affections). Compare : Anguish, restless tossing about, Aco. Haemorrhages, Chi., Calc, Ham.,.Secal., Ust, Sang. Bright-red blood, Ipec Mill. Bleeding after tooth extraction, Ham., Kre. Menses profuse, every two weeks and lasting a week or longer, Calc. p. Flow profuse, gushing, light red, < least movement, Sabi. Flow dark, clotted, Ust., Thlasp. As if bones of pelvis broken, JEsc. h.

Mind p. 1453

Melancholy with sadness (M).— Repugnance to conversation (M). — Irritable (M). — Anguish; agitation and tossing about, impossible to keep still (M).

Head p. 1453

Vertigo, chiefly, on rising in morning (M). — Dull pain 1. temple < least noise (M). — Pain in forehead > bending forward, < returning to erect position (M). — Headache < by least noise ; walking ; coughing (M). — Head and face feel hot (M).

Eyes p. 1453

Pain in eyeballs, feel too large and as if would fall from their sockets (M). — Burning in inner canthus with profuse flow of tears (M). — Vision blurred ; everything looks blue (M).

Nose p. 1453

Profuse nose-bleed.

Mouth p. 1453

Bleeding from gums or after extraction of tooth. — Greasy feeling on tongue and gums (M). — Very offensive taste, esp. on rising in morning (M). — Profuse flow of saliva (M).

Stomach p. 1453

Disgust for everything except cold water (M). — Desire for ice-water (M). — Sickness ; excessive pain ; cramp of stomach (M). — Sinking in stomach with heat. — Haematemesis. — Stomach symptoms < after meals and in morning (M).

Abdomen p. 1453

Swelling of abdomen as in ascites, with sensation as if abdominal contents drawn back against vertebral column (M). — Flabbiness of parietes with sensation of goneness, a want of support in front, with at intervals of a few moments short, sharp, lancinating pains from before backward, compelling him to bend forward (M). — Much flatulence and grumbling.

Stool and Anus p. 1453

Dysentery, when passages are almost pure blood. — Diarrhoea thin, watery, tinged with blood ; painless (M). — Constipation succeeded by thin, watery, very offensive diarrhoea (M). — Chronic diarrhoeas of bloody mucus.

Urinary Organs p. 1453

Haematuria, passive. — Chronic catarrh of bladder. — Diabetes. — Sharp, cutting pain in urethra when urinating (M). — Urine copious, of strong disagreeable odour (M).

Male Sexual Organs p. 1453

Itching of genitals < by scratching.

Female Sexual Organs p. 1453

Haemorrhage from uterus ; with sensation as though hips and back were falling to pieces, > from a tight bandage. — Bearing down in pelvis when standing or walking; copious, yellowish, stringy leucorrhoea; period lingers several days beyond usual time. — Excessive flooding with fainting. — Metrorrhagia at climacteric ; pale ; faint ; flow returns every two weeks. — Climaxis with weak sight ; anxious look. — Displaced uterus, with consequent menorrhagia. — Menses come on after

Fever p. 1453

exertion. — Gushing of bright-red blood from uterus at least movement ; later, blood pale from anaemia. — Haemorrhages from fibroid tumours. — Threatened abortion ; profuse haemorrhages. — Pain in back and cold limbs, with haemorrhages. — Too profuse menstrual flow after exhaustion by exercise. — Profuse, exhausting leucorrhoea. — Haemorrhage in abortion of third month — Ante-partum haemorrhage ; os uteri dilated to size of half a dollar ; no pains ; flooding excessive. — Post-partum haemorrhage. — Profuse, long-lasting lochial discharges.

Respiratory Organs p. 1454

Sensation of crumb in larynx, keeps up continual coughing (M). — Cough, with purulent or bloody sputum.— Haemoptysis.

Chest p. 1454

Difficult breathing ; feels as if chest bound up preventing it expanding (M).

Heart p. 1454

Palpitation with great anxiety (M).

Limbs p. 1454

Cramping pains in muscles of arms and calves (M).

Upper Limbs p. 1454

Pain in l. shoulder extending down arm to hand (M). — Cramping pains in fingers when writing (M).

Generalities p. 1454

Haemorrhages usually bright red, profuse ; also when sacro-iliac synchondroses fed as if falling apart ; wants to be bound tightly. — Feels as if bones were broken, with haemorrhages. — Crawling sensation in veins, like a tightening up of parts ; < in legs and ankles. — Great debility (M).

Skin p. 1454

Skin hot and dry, with itching and burning, < by scratching (M).

Sleep p. 1454

Sleepless ; rolling and tossing on bed (M). — Sleep disturbed by frequent dreams (M). — Dreams of festivities, slcigh-ride, &c. (M).

Fever p. 1454

Feverish during pain in abdomen, on the subsidence of which a profuse perspiration broke out (M).