Convallaria
Majalis.
By Cyrus Maxwell Boger, M. D.
Presented by Sylvain CazaletThe lily of the valley
belongs to the natural order from which we derive Aloe,
Asparagus, Cepa, Colchicum, Helonias, Lilium tig, Paris quad, Sabadilla.
Sarsaparilla. Scillia and Trillium pend. Some
authors also place Veratrum in
this order, others put in the related Melanthacea.
All of these have symptomological points of contact with Convallaria ;
its nearest congener is Lilium tig.
In common with it affects the heart and female genital sphere
conjointly ; in the case of the latter, however, the primary
impression is on sexual organs, the heart and other symptoms being
generally regarded as reflex. In the former the action is first manifest
on the heart muscle, the general muscular system quickly following with
analogous symptoms, its homœopathicity to rheumatic myocarditis is
undoubted, but seems to have been over-looked ; it has the same
muscular enfeeblement of the heart and hæmorrhagic tendency, as well as
the general sense of muscular soreness ; its use in dropsies shows
it to be the true similar where due to myocardial weakness, as in the
case cured by Nash, using the 20th potency. It must, however, not be
supposed that a curative action can be obtained where this muscle
weakness is the result of leaky or stenosed valves. This remedy pictures
relaxation in its every phase, with mental depression and tendency to
chilliness, especially from drafts ; eating -and rest ameliorate
many symptoms, is evidently poorly nourished and the stimulation of food
therefore helps.Labor-like pains better
when standing is a very valuable hint and differentiates it from
numerous other remedies.The comparisons embrace the botanically
related remedies, also Cactus
and Digitalis, like
Cactus, its picture
embraces a combination of heart and hæmorrhagic symptoms, its action on
the heart it most similar to Digitalis ;
it is similar to the Veratrum
and Colchicum in the
gastro-intestinal, sphere.C. M. Boger
Parkersburg, W. Va.Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2001
