on 1/16/06 7:31 PM, Robert & Shannon Nelson at
shannonnelson@tds.net wrote:
Tilias are the Basswoods/Lindens - in Europe known as "Lime Trees".
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Tilea americana (Basswood; Linden)
(herbal)
General - Anodyne, anti-spasmodic, narcotic intoxication, diaphoretic.
Head - Headache.
Nervous - Anti-epileptic.
Respiratory - Spasmodic cough, lung trouble.
Gastrointestinal - Mouth - sores in children's mouth.
Indigestion.
Female - Amenorrhoea.
Mind - Hysteria, nervous vomiting and palpitation.
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Tilea cordata (Small-leaved Lime)
(part of a case from Links 99)
In June, I felt very tired. I was sick to my stomach while travelling, and
a doctor diagnosed pregnancy. Our daughter Johana was born on 20th March,
1984, and as a, 'dowry', she brought athopic eczema all over her body. When
she was three, she had a general infection. Her skin was covered by ulcerous
blisters, she had a fever and a total breakdown. Doctors treated her with
antibiotics, corticoids, etc. Our daughter was failing in health.
Her disease was returning cyclically and increasing. Psychical problems
came on also, because she could not sleep because of the terrible itching.
She was totally breaking down and she was sad because the children and
a teacher in her kindergarten refused her.
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Tilia europa. (Lime Tree, Linden) (vermuelen 2)
REGION
Muscles. Female organs. Urinary organs. * Left side.
LEADING SYMPTOMS
M Lovesick.
"All his thoughts centred upon an ideal woman; in this reverie he
was possessed by a sweet melancholy, which it was impossible to describe;
every earthly sense seemed far away." [Allen]
M Irritable and quarrelsome; in the morning.
"Irritable, critical mood, inclined to quarrel and get angry, even from
the slightest difference of opinion." [Allen]
M "My analysis of the proving is that the most important feeling of
the remedy is that of hopelessness, helplessness and resignation. They feel
they are in a situation which is dangerous and threatening and that they
have no power and influence over the situation and they are at a loss what
to do. What happens as a result of this is that they go into a non-reactive
mode. They stop feeling danger, they dissociate from the situation and from
feeling in general. This leads to feelings of being separated, cut off, of
there being a barrier between themselves and others. They feel forsaken and
isolated in a sort of dead world. The other response to basic feeling of
hopelessness and resignation is to go to the opposite extreme of finding
everything funny. Hilarity and euphoria and uncontrollable laughter or black
humour, laughing at death, injury and suffering." [Bannan]
c compare: "Very vivid, dreams, with excessive fear of personal
danger." [Allen]
M Dreams.
"In five dreams the colour yellow is very prominent: Intense
yellow as of daffodils. Also blue spots or stripes on the yellow, creating
the colour green." [Bannan]
G Particularly suitable for women after parturition, and for children
during dentition.
G Heavy dragging sensation in urethra, uterus and rectum.
"As if everything would fall out of pelvis."
"Pressure on rectum which seems to press out anus."
"Constant painful pressure on bladder and urethra."
& Redness, soreness and burning of external genitals.
G Sensitive to cold.
Head extremely sensitive to draught of air.
"I have a feeling of being cold all day but my palms are hot and I
have a cold sweat and I'm shaking as if I have the flu." [Bannan]
c Interestingly enough, the increased heat of the palms of the
hands is also to be found in the proving of Tilia europaea.
G Worse Warmth [room; bed].
Better Walking in open air.
"He cannot remain in the house on account of a sensation of
apprehension and anxiety; the room seems too close, he is obliged to go into
the open air, in the evening, when he feels better." [Allen]
"Orgasm and boiling of blood, so that the warmth of the room seemed
intolerable." [Allen]
"Orgasm of blood; rising of heat from the chest to the face and head,
with heat and redness of the face, esp. of the cheeks." [Allen]
Chilliness, with sudden heat all over. [Bannan]
G PROFUSE SWEAT; without relief.
THE MORE HE SWEATS THE GREATER THE PAIN.
Profuse perspiration at night.
Profuse perspiration during climaxis.
"The Tilia perspiration is WARM, differing from the perspiration
of Mercurius, which is either cold [forehead] or clammy and oily, and
failing to relieve pain."
"When, in rare cases of rheumatic fever, a perspiration breaks
out, hope is held out that this perspiration is a beneficial crisis; but
instead of this hope being fulfilled, the sufferer complains of an
increasing pain just in proportion as the perspiration increases; motion
becomes more painful, so does the swelling of the extremities and joints,
and the sore feeling of the whole body increases, there is more thirst and a
decided decrease of the urinary secretion. After sleep, specially in the
morning, the warm perspiration becomes very profuse." [Lippe]
"Perspiration of the face, so much at night I had to wipe it." [Bannan]
G Sleepiness; worse during pains.
G Worse Night [heat, pains, skin].
G Sore, bruised feeling; bed feels too hard.
P Head.
Sensation as if the occiput were opening, which better headache.
Sensation of air coming out of occiput.
Sensation as if vertex were lifted up, & dimness of vision.
c Dimness of vision, during headache or vertigo, was a prominent
symptom in the proving of Tilia europaea.
P Epistaxis.
Blood thin and pale, but coagulating quickly.
P Facial neuralgia, first on the right, later on the left side.
& Veil before the eyes.
& Hot sweat [without relief].
P Face pale or flushed; frequent alternations.
Sensation of something alive under skin of face.
P Tension in anterior muscles of both thighs as if too short.
Sensation as if leg tightly bound while walking.
P Skin symptoms worse heat of bed.
Redness of skin, burning like fire after scratching.
RUBRICS
MIND: Anxiety better open air [2]; in house or room [2]. Craving for
attention, forenoon [1/1]. Confusion & dimness of eyes [1/1]. Poetical
dreams [1]. Fear on entering room [1; Valer.]; of society [1; Nat-c.].
Irritability in morning [2].
HEAD: Distension of temporal veins [1]. Fullness in morning on waking
[1]; fullness in forehead in morning while walking [1; Glon.]. Heat at night
on waking [1; Arn.]; in forehead at night [1]. Pain, headache better coffee
[1]; headache after vertigo [1]; cutting pain better closing eyes [1/1];
cutting pain better cold applications [1/1]; cutting pain worse motion [1].
EYE: Heat < [1]. Itching about eyes [1]. Stitching pain at night [1].
Swollen sensation, as of one had been weeping [1].
VISION: Dim, during vertigo [2]; better winking [1]. Inclination to
look with one eye [1; Phos.], when looking with both eyes objects seem
indistinct and wavering [1/1].
FACE: Distortion of face during sleep [1]. Eruptions, pimples, itching
when warm [2; Ant-c.].
MOUTH: Roof of mouth and tongue as if covered with tallow, a fuzzy
feeling, which can't be removed by frequent empty swallowing [1/1].
STOMACH: Hiccough after eructations [1]. Nausea from thought of food
[1]. Cramping pain after salad [1/1].
ABDOMEN: Distension in spots [1; Mag-m.]. Burning pain in umbilical
region during micturition [1/1].
RECTUM: Sudden urging during micturition [1].
URETHRA: Whole course of urethra as if swollen, during micturition [1].
FEMALE: Leucorrhoea worse motion [1]. Bearing-down pain in uterus &
hot perspiration [1/1]; & pressure in anus [1].
CHEST: Pain in mammae extending to back [1].
BACK: Heaviness in dorsal region [1]; in sacral region [1].
EXTREMITIES: Eruption, itching pimples on nates [2]; pimples on thighs,
burning when scratched [2; Staph.]. Heat of hands at night [1]. Heaviness in
upper limbs in bed [1; Staph.]. Rheumatic pain & perspiration [2]; pain in
knees on ascending stairs [1]; on bending [1]; on descending stairs [1];
while lying [1]; while standing [1]. Sensation of paralysis in left arm, at
night in bed [1/1]. Weakness of extremities at night [1; Cham.].
SLEEP: Sensation of short sleep in morning [1].
SKIN: Excoriation after scratching [2]. Itching of skin, bleeding after
scratching [2]; burning itching at night [2]; itching on becoming warm in
bed [2].
FOOD
Aversion: Meat [1]; tobacco [1].
Desire: Refreshing things [1]; tobacco [1; "a very strong desire to
smoke in a number of provers" - Bannan].
Worse: Salads [1].
Better: Coffee [1].