Tilia europaea
Tilia × europaea · Plant · Malvaceae
Tilia europaea suits women especially after parturition and children during dentition. The constitutional picture features intense soreness of the pelvic organs with bearing-down pains and profuse warm sweating that brings no relief—a keynote combination. The left side is most affected, and there is marked sensitivity to cold draughts.
Key symptoms
- Intense sore feeling about uterus and abdomen with profuse warm sweat giving no relief
- Bearing-down sensation in genito-urinary and rectal regions
- Soreness and redness of external genitals; puerperal metritis
- Profuse warm sweat soon after falling asleep; more sweating increases pain
- Intense facial neuralgia, right then left side, with veil before eyes
- Urticaria; violent itching and burning like fire after scratching
- Epistaxis of thin, pale blood coagulating quickly
- Sleeplessness with restlessness; bed feels too hard
- Great sensitiveness to draughts of air
Worse (aggravation)
- Afternoon and evening
- In warm room; heat of bed (skin symptoms)
- During motion (rheumatic symptoms)
- Talking
- Walking
- Sneezing; stooping
- Cold water (toothache)
Better (amelioration)
- In cool room
- Walking about in open air
- Closing eyes (headache)
- By coffee
Linden (TILIA EUROPA)
Of value in muscular weakness of the eye; hæmorrhage o thin, pale blood. Puerperal metritis. Diseases of the antrum (Kali hyd; Chelid).
Head
Neuralgia (first right, then left side), with veil before eyes. Confusion, with dimness of vision. Much sneezing, with fluent coryza. Bleeding from nose.
Eyes
Sensation as of gauze before eyes (Calc; Caust; Nat m). Binocular vision imperfect.
Female
Intense sore feeling about uterus; bearing-down, with hot sweat, but without relief. Much slimy leucorrhœa when walking (Bov; Carb an; Graph). Soreness and redness of external genitals (Thuj; Sulph). Pelvic inflammation, tympanites, abdominal tenderness and hot sweat which does not relieve.
Skin
Urticaria. Violent itching, and burning like fire after scratching. Eruption of small, red itching pimples. Sweat warm and profuse soon after falling asleep. Sweat increases as rheumatic pains increase.
Modalities
Worse, in afternoon and evening; in warm room, heat of bed. Better, cool room, motion.
Relationship
Compare: Lilium; Bellad.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency.
Tilia Europœa. The common Lime or Linden. N. O. Tiliaceæ. Tincture of fresh blossoms.
Clinical
Dentition. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Neuralgia. Peritonitis. Rheumatism. Toothache. Urticaria. Uterus, bearing down in; prolapse of; inflammation of.
Characteristics
The sap of the Lime contains sugar, and the flowers an abundance of honey, which makes the tree particularly attractive to bees. A tincture of the fresh blossoms was proved by the Austrian Society. The most striking characteristic is "an intense sore feeling about the abdomen and profuse warm sweat which gives no relief." This has led to its successful use in cases of peritonitis. In addition to this are marked bearing-down symptoms in the whole genito-urinary and rectal regions, especially in the uterus, and these combined with the others have indicated Til. in puerperal metritis and other disorders of the female generative sphere. An intense facial neuralgia was developed in the proving; and also a very aggravated condition of skin …
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