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Convallaria Majalis

Q / 30CConvallaria

Lily of the Valley · "The Palpitation Tonic Remedy"

conv.PlantUncommonPsoric

🎯 A heart remedy that increases the strength and regularity of the heartbeat, particularly when the heart is overdistended or failing.

📖 Boericke writes:

A heart remedy. Increases energy of hearts' action, renders it more regular. Of use when the ventricles are overdistended and dilatation begins, and when there is an absence of compensatory hypertrophy, and when venous stasis is marked. Dyspnoea, dropsy, aneuric tendency. Anasarca.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are prone to heart weakness, often with a tendency toward fluid retention (dropsy) and a sensitive, irritable temperament.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Anasarca.

introduction

Great soreness in uterine region, with sympathetic palpitation of heart.

female

Sensation as if heart ceased beating, then starting very suddenly.

heart

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠MIND AND HEAD

Used for mental dullness and headaches that worsen with physical exertion or throat clearing.

Dull intellect.

Grieves easily.

Dull headache; worse, ascending, hawking.

Scalp sensitive.

Irritability.

Hysterical manifestations.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Decimal

📝Third attenuation

1-15 drops

Mother Tincture

📝For symptoms of heart failure

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Digitalis Purpurea →Crataegus Oxyacantha →Lilium Tigrinum →Adonis Vernalis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Convallaria Majalis is listed in 73 rubrics across 13 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 17 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Circulatory System26 Urinary System15 Fever9 Generalities4 Locomotor System4 Respiratory System4 Female Sexual System3 Head2 Modalities2 Eyes1 Nose1 Abdomen1 Nervous System1

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