Trillium

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. cernuum . Minton obtained the tincture from a botanic physician and did not himself verify the plant. His symptoms are marked (M) in the schema. Millspaugh considers T. erectum as the proper source of the homœopathic tincture.] N. O. Smilaceæ (or Trilliaceæ) of the Liliaceæ. Tincture of the fresh root.

Clinical

Bladder, catarrh of / Climaxis / Diabetes / Dysentery / Fainting, with flooding / Fibroma, hæmorrhages from / Hæmorrhages / post-partum; ante-partum / 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 hæmorrhage, ante-partum, post-partum, and climacteric, in fibroid tumours, and in hæmorrhages of all kinds Trill. has been found curative. Both the White and the Purple varieties have been used. Minton's proving of T. cernuum (?) brought out the hæmorrhagic property in the blood-tinged diarrhœa. One characteristic in connection with the hæmorrhages 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 hæmostatic 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 he 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 hæmorrhages are typified in this. Blue vision; and craving for ice-water are other noteworthy symptoms. There is tendency to putrescence of fluids. The hæmorrhages of Trill. are copious; either active or passive; usually bright red and profuse. Trill. is suited to women who flood after every labour; flabby subjects. The symptoms of Minton's proving were: > Bending forward; < sitting erect. < motion. < After eating. > By exercise in open air. Standing or walking = bearing down in pelvis. Motion < hæmorrhages.

Relations

Complementary: Calc. p. (menstrual and hæmorrhagic affections). Compare: Anguish, restless tossing about, Aco. Hæmorrhages, 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, Æsc. h.

1. Mind

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

2. Head

Vertigo, chiefly, on rising in morning (M). Dull pain l. 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).

3. Eyes

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).

5. Nose

Profuse nose-bleed.

8. Mouth

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).

11. Stomach

Disgust for everything except cold water (M). Desire for ice-water (M). Sickness; excessive pain; cramp of stomach (M). Sinking in stomach with heat. Hematemesis. Stomach

< after meals and in morning (M).

12. Abdomen

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.

13. Stool and Anus

Dysentery, when passages are almost pure blood. Diarrhœa thin, watery, tinged with blood; painless (M). Constipation succeeded by thin, watery, very offensive diarrhœa (M). Chronic diarrhœas of bloody mucus.

14. Urinary Organs

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

15. Male Sexual Organs

Itching of genitals < by scratching.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Hæmorrhage 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 leucorrhœa; 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 over-exertion. Gushing of bright-red blood from uterus at least movement; later, blood pale from anæmia. Hæmorrhages from fibroid tumours. Threatened abortion; profuse hæmorrhages. Pain in back and cold limbs, with hæmorrhages. Too profuse menstrual flow alter exhaustion by exercise. Profuse, exhausting leucorrhœa. Hæmorrhage in abortion of third month. Ante-partum hæmorrhage; os uteri dilated to size of half a dollar; no pains; flooding excessive. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Profuse, long-lasting lochial discharges.

17. Respiratory Organs

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

18. Chest

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

19. Heart

Palpitation with great anxiety (M).

21. Limbs

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

22. Upper Limbs

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

24. Generalities

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

25. Skin

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

26. Sleep

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

27. Fever

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