- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Wake Robin (Smilaceae) Haemorrhage: copious, both active and passive, usually bright red; from nose, lungs, kidneys and uterus (Ipec., Mill.). Tendency to puterescence of fluids. Epistaxis; profuse, passive, bright red. Bleeding from cavity after extraction of a tooth (Ham., Kreos.). Menses: profuse, every two weeks…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“White Beth-root A general hæmorrhagic medicine, with great faintness and dizziness . Chronic diarrhœa of bloody mucus. Uterine hæmorrhage. Threatened abortion. Relaxation of pelvic region . Cramp-like pains. Phthisis with purulent and copious expectoration and spitting of blood. Pain in forehead; worse, noise…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DUALITY, in pieces, separated, as if some one else, etc. HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“erectum. Purple Trillium. Bethroot. Birthroot. Lamb's quarter. Rattlesnake root. Wakerobin. Three-leaved nightshade. [According to Millspaugh T. pendulum is the white variety of T. erectum . Treas. of Bot . gives the names as synonymous. The symptoms of H. Minton, the original prover, are given in Allen under T…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(White Beth-Root.) Botanical Description. — Root oblong, tuberous, from which arises a slender stem, from ten to fifteen inches in height. Leaves, three, whorled at the top of the stem, sub-orbicular rhomboidal, abruptly acuminate, from three to five inches in diameter, on petioles about a line in length. Flowers…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: wake robin. Active or passive hæmorrhage (Ferr., Ham., Ipec., Kali-P., Lach.) (D.). Hæmorrhage from the nose, lungs, kidneys, and uterus (Carb-V., Ipec., Lach., Mill., Nit-Ac.) (A.). Blood usually bright red (Acon., Bell., Cact.) (A.). Tendency to putrescence of the fluids (Ars., Bapt., Carb-Ac., Kali-P…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Trillium, from clinical use, seems to be a genuine hæmorrhage remedy. The blood is bright red, whether of the active or passive kind of hæmorrhage. It is especially useful in menses every two weeks, lasting a week and very profuse. Here a choice may have to be made between it and Calcarea ost. and Nux vomica. It…”
