Trillium pendulum

by Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

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., Kreos., Lach.) (A.).

Epistaxis, profuse, passive, or bright red (Carb-V., Lach., Phos.) (A.).

Uterine hæmorrhage, after over-exertion or too long a ride (A.).

IS ESPECIALLY USEFUL IN MENSES EVERY TWO WEEKS, LASTING A WEEK AND VERY PROFUSE (Calc., Nux-V.) (N.).

FLOODING, WITH FAINTING, FAINT, DIM SIGHT, PALPITATION, OBSTRUCTION AND NOISES IN THE EARS (Chin.) (N.).

Menorrhagia from displaced uterus or at the climacteric; blood dark and clotted (A.).

Threatened abortion (Caul., Sep.), with a gush of blood on each movement, with a sensation as if the hips and back were falling apart; relieved by bandaging the hips tightly (D.).

Post-partum hæmorrhage (Chin., Ferr-P., Ham., Ipec., Sec.) (N.).

Profuse yellow, creamy or bloody leucorrhœa, which renders the patient anæmic (Bl.).

Tendency to uterine prolapsus (Bell., Nat-M., Sep., Thuj.) (Bl.).

Hæmorrhages from uterine fibroids (Calc., Nit-Ac., Thuj.) (Bl.).

Varices of pregnancy (Puls., Sep.) (B.).

Profuse, long-lasting lochial discharges (Calc., Sec., Sep). (C.).

Bleeding from the tooth-cavity after extraction of a tooth (Ham., Kreos.) (A.).

Painful sinking at the pit of the stomach (Sep., Sulph., Zinc.) (A.).

Incipient phthisis, with bloody sputa; in advanced stages with copious, purulent expectoration and troublesome cough (A.).

Diarrhœa: Thin, watery, tinged with blood; often painless (Podo.) (C.).

AGGRAVATION: After over-exertion; from too long a ride; from least motion; every two weeks; during the climacteric; after eating; and from sitting erect.

AMELIORATION: From bending forward; from exercise in the open air; and from tight bandage.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Arn., Bell., Cact., Calc., Calc-P., Chin., Ferr-P., Ipec., Kali-C., Kali-P., Lach., Mill., Nat-M., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sulph., Thlas. and Ust.

Complementary to: Calc-P. (in menstrual and hæmorrhagic affections).

Trillium pendulum across the other classic books

Trillium pendulum appears in 9 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

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”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. Motion. Climaxis. Exertion in open air. Tight bandage. Bending forward. Hæmorrhage ; gushing. .................... As if eyes would fall out, the bones of hips, back or thighs be forced apart, etc.; with faintness and sinking at stomach. Menses every two weeks. Bleeding fibroids. Menorrhagia…”
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…”
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…”

Trillium pendulum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Trillium pendulum in 95 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (34), GENERALITIES (11), MIND (7), EXTREMITIES (5), HEAD (5).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - dragging,bearing down - walking - agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting - loss of fluids,from
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - cream-like
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - exertion,after
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - climacteric period
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - bright red
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - bloody
ABDOMEN - PAIN - dragging,bearing down
GENERALITIES - HAEMORRHAGE
GENERALITIES - PRESSURE - amel.
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - frequent,too early,too soon
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent
NOSE - EPISTAXIS
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - return after having ceased,the periods - overtaxation
MALE GENITALIA - ITCHING - scratching - agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - exertion brings on the flow
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Fingers - writing,while
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - thick blood

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