Understanding Lilium tigrinum

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.) et al.

 

Nobody cares about her.

Who will find her body after she kills herself?

She wants company.

Doubts her salvation; thinks she is doomed to expiate her sins and those of her family; tears her hair; walks floor night and day; seeks to escape; consolation aggravates. θ Uterine dementia. 

She is afraid to say anything to anybody, afraid of saying wrong things.

There are aany contradictory mental states:

Listless, inert, yet does not want to sit still; restless, yet does not want to walk; hurried manner, desire to do something, yet feels no ambition; feeling as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them; sexual excitement. 

Worse on going to bed; can't go to sleep; wild feeling in the head as though I should go crazy and no one would take care of me; thoughts of suicide; how much Opium would put me to sleep forever, and who would find my body, and who would care; a new train of thought for her.

Feel like sitting quietly in chair, without speaking or being spoken to, or compelled to think; I can see around me any number of things I must do, but cannot force myself to do anything.

She dreads saying anything to anybody, lest she should say something wrong, and yet she wants to talk 

Symptoms came down on her like a sudden cloud, when she was feeling quite well (thirty-sixth day); she lost vigor and snap, and could sit down and cry, or be impatient with herself and tear about, but feels hurried; could walk or run aimlessly for an indefinite time; with all this depression comes a desire for fine things of all kinds; she is dissatisfied with what she had and is envious of others.. 

Constant hurried feeling as of imperative duties and utter inability to perform them; during the sexual excitement,]. 

as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it.

Her contradictory mental state is so up to the point when she feels as if they were two distinctive individuals.

She wants something and at the same moment she doesn’t and those two distinct attitudes will pervade many different aspects of her desires and aversions, up to the point when she cannot recognize herself anymore.

Excitement, weeping, feeling as if she were two persons, at night.

Perceptive and reflective faculties seem benumbed, whereas at first she was overactive and seemed to be.

She is a very difficult temperament to deal with. She is very irritable.

Tormented by fanatical religious ideas.

Cross, having no patience with anything or anybody (thirty-third to forty-fourth day), [7]. 

While attending a lecture, desire to hit the lecture, and in the evening desirous of swearing and damning the fire and things generally, and to think and speak obscene things; disposed to strike and hit persons; as these feelings came, the uterine pains passed away (forty-third day), [7].

She has wrong ideas concerning everything.

This state is mingled with sexual excitement, nymphomania.

She believes she has an incurable disease. She has a terrible internal disease, mostly in her womb.

She is going mad.

Depression of spirits; constant inclination to weep, with fearfulness, and apprehension of suffering from some terrible internal disease, already seated (very marked symptom observed by two provers), 

Apprehension of some calamity or serious disease very much increased, 

A sense as if "she were going to be crazy, if she did not hand on to herself, and hold tight,". 

Is there present a conflict between one’s primitive aspects and the civilized advances of mankind?

In Lilium tigrinum it seems that the primitive man is taken aback what had been taken from him during the internal subconscious wars between the far more superior mental layers of development and the impulses that were present in humanity long time ago.

Losing this quest, initiated in our deepest mental structures millions of years ago, is what Lilium trigrinum feels.

She knows deep inside herself that man’s evolutionary way to evolution is in conflict deep inside. And she is paying the emerging defeat with her life.

She feels that the animal life predominates, and as though her life were going away

Although our primitive ancestors life should be regarded as a former “healthy” aspect in our Homo sapiens forefathers, in Lilium tigrinum it overcomes our so much fought after evolutionary achievements, bringing down to earth almost everything that we once were proud of; our patient is becoming insane, mentally and physically ill.

Eating (to preserving one’s life) and procreating (to preserve our species continuation) the two basic surviving instinctive aspects of all living creatures on Earth, are both strongly represented in Lilium tigrinum. 

His primitive appetites and fears are on the move. He is afraid to starve and he has not the modern supermarket assurances of a continuous stock of goods and food.

As his primitive state in taking charge, Lilium tigrinum has a strong craving for meat. He eats it as it was his last supper on Earth. Provers got fat during the proving from that strong intake of meat.

Great hunger as it were in the back and extending up to the occiput and over the vertex; she ate enormously, yet felt as though she should starve to death.

Appetite tremendous, especially for meat. 

During the proving she has grown fat, gaining eight pound.

Procreation (and mating) follows the same path, sharing the same fears and unbound impulses.

Kent suggests that Lilium tigrinum is mostly a female remedy. Women are held responsible for keeping humanity in its growing process. They become pregnant, and it’s on their lap the charge of feeding and nourishing our children. In an unbalanced world it would justifies the actual strong sexual desire of Lilium tigrinum. An unbalanced craving for meat is proportional of an unbalanced craving for sex, the ultimate resource for a woman to bear her children.

From that hypothesis, Lilium tigrinum is not looking for the fun of sex or for the pleasure of eating. She is “saving for a rainy day” when she eats too much and she is protecting our kind by giving birth to as many children as she can. But in the remedy it’s all unbalanced. There will be too much eating and far too much sexual excitement.

It must have a starting point. At any given moment, that particular woman felt as if she was threatened, and she felt as she could not have children. She couldn’t preserve mankind. Where is it?

The internal conflict, between her civilized and her primeval being, had to start later.

First there must be fear.

She is sick in her womb!

She has to hold her womb otherwise everything is coming down!

She can’t be sick if it’s in her ovaries or womb. She is afraid of get mad.

She wants somebody to talk to her and entertain her (a feeling quite unusual with her); feels quite nervous; wants to cry from a feeling of irritation and of something wrong in the abdomen and pelvic organs; feels hurried and yet incapable, as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it 

Anxiety; fearful that the symptoms indicate an internal organic disease; very marked in both male and female.

She is the one chosen to expiate her family sins. She herself is to be damned, if she is not able to bear children.

Doubts her salvation; thinks she is doomed to expiate her sins and those of her family; tears her hair; walks floor night and day; seeks to escape; consolation aggravates. θ Uterine dementia. 

Tormented about her salvation. θ Uterine complaints. 

What had happened to Lilium tig, what had caused her that strong decision? She felt the burn of change her habitual way and had decided to change. She felt herself responsible for mankind;’ 

And of course she feels that there is too much lack of comprehension from the others.