Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.54.04
633.54.04 Convallaria majalis
English: Lily of the Valley.
Names: Polygonatum majalis.
German: Maiblume, Zauke.
French: Muguet.
Culture: Tears of Mary at the Cross of Jezus.
Source: Sense provings; König-Santos.
Introduction
The Stage 4 expression is strong. It shows the strategy of being absent, staying but going out of contact. Inwardly there is more power than they show. They have a strong sense of what is right or not and what they want. They are not very easily overruled in their inner life. They often find support in their family, or at least expect it to be there for them.
Mind
Fear: death; disease; poverty; loss of vitality and love.
Desire the unattainable, an unreturned love, the Holy Grail; yearning.
Discontent, desperation, feeling incomplete.
Young girl in her pre-teenage years, just about to blossom into womanhood, just about to feel her body and her emotions, transform and open to the world of Eros.
Ailments from having to choose between husband and children, sexual abuse.
Too weak to change their old traditional ideas for their new formed ideas.
Irritability.
Hysterical manifestations.
Absent, as in nothingness.
Grieves easily.
Shy, modest, talks carefully.
Rejection of rudeness, sex, violence, rudeness; all is vanity.
Dull intellect.
Anorexia.
Utopic, idealistic. Artistic.
Blood, sweat and tears.
Sweet.
Alcoholism.
Fear: being touched; being dominated; by sex is a whore.
No love, no home, no support.
Ailments from being humiliated, ridiculed, about her breasts growing bigger.
Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences: disappointments.
Indifferent, unfeeling, withdrawal, stupor, benumbing, tired, distant, rigid, depressed, faintness, colours fade away.
Dreams: pain, with indifference; growing old; danger, without fear.
General
Sensation: bubbles, pulling.
Type: acupoints heart 9.
Weather: > warm weather, < inside, < cold air, < draught, < rain; > open air.
Time: < 9 am, < 14-17 pm; < Februari.
Desire: sour, lemonade, acid; thirst.
Food: < fats, < cucumber.
Sleep: sleepy, somnolence, sleepiness, < pains.
Physical: < lying on back.
Body
General: anasarca.
Fever: chilly in back and down spine, followed by fever, little sweat.
Head: dull headache; < ascending, < hawking, < chill; scalp sensitive.
Eyes: vision of grey spot about three inches square.
Face: hydroa in nose and lips; raw and sore; nosebleed.
Mouth: grating of teeth, < morning; tast coppery; tongue sore, scalded, broad, thick, with heavy, dirty coating.
Throat: hot, raw, < inspiring.
Lungs: congestion; orthopnea; dyspnoea < walking, < fever; hyperventilation.
Heart: !!; weak; palpitation, beat throughout the chest, pulse rapid and irregular, < least exertion, < earting, < lying; endocarditis, extreme orthopnea; tobacco heart, < cigarettes; as if heart ceased beating, starting very suddenly; angina pectoris; ventricles overdistended, dilatation, absence of hypertrophy, venous stasis is marked; dropsy, aneuric tendency.
Stomach: nausea and faint, < morning.
Abdomen: sensitive; clothes feel too tight; gurgling, pain, < deep breath; motions like fist of a child; colic.
Urinary: bladder aching, distended; urination frequent; urine offensive, scanty.
Itching at urinary meatus and vaginal orifice.
Female: uterus sore, labour-like pains, bearing down, fullness, with palpitation; pelvis numb, instable.
Back: pain sacro-iliac joints, running down leg; pain and aching in lumbar region.
Limbs: aching of legs, in big toe, wrists and ankles; trembling of hands; knee feeble; softening bones.
Skin: burns, scars.
DD: Adonis, Digitalis, Crataegus Lilium tigrinum.