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Lilium tigrinum (Lil‑t.)

Lilium tigrinum (Lil‑t.) appears in 615 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 38 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 40 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, Fear, Religious affections, Sadness and Sexuality, as well as on Hurry and haste, Brooding and Irritability. The picture is that of a person in conflict between a strict conscience and suppressed desire, who is restlessly occupied so as not to have to come to terms with herself.

Religion and sexuality

The core of the remedy lies in the tension between religious ideals and sexuality. The Repertory gives a single-remedy rubric for this: "Religious affections – occupied with religion too much – sexuality, conflict between religious ideals and". Religious preoccupation alternates with sexual excitement, as does despair of salvation, and the person doubts redemption, torments herself over it and despairs. Fear of moral transgression alternates with sexual excitement. The delusion of being damned, of having to atone for one's own sins and those of the family, is assigned to this remedy alone, as is the idea of being possessed by a demon. The strict conscience and the drive stand opposite each other almost on equal footing.

The suppressed desire

Sexual desire appears in several single-remedy rubrics as the source of conditions: raving from suppressed desire, wild feeling in the head from suppression, anger after sexual excitement, sadness alternating with sexual desire, and lust alternating with remorse or anger. Dementia occurs from sexual excesses, wrong words after emission of semen. The fear of sexual approach stands beside it. One rubric describes that busyness serves precisely to suppress sexual desire: "Busy – must be in busy activity – sexual desire, to suppress the". The remedy thus shows clearly the price of self-control.

Haste and occupation

Hurry and haste appear in two parallel main rubrics. The person goes aimlessly back and forth, neither thinking nor reading gives pleasure, and she acts as if driven by urgent, compelling duties. The restlessness is therefore more flight than purposefulness. To this belong poor concentration when studying with a wild feeling in the head, a forgetfulness that improves with distraction, and a boredom that eases with entertainment. Movements are precise. One rubric describes the desire for beautiful art, poems, verses and rhymes.

Brooding and imagined misfortune

Brooding concerns what is not: imaginary illness and imaginary problems. The person sits and thinks about imaginary misfortune, and the delusion of inconsolable grief over misfortune that does not exist also belongs here. A single-remedy rubric records that she looks for something to cause herself grief, something to grieve over. This is evidently a person who fills inner emptiness with self-made worries. In keeping with this are the fear of undiscovered disease and sadness with fear of disease; consolation aggravates in uterine affections with mental disturbance.

Sensitivity to offense and irritability

Irritability has triggers of its own: it rises when spoken to and with uterine prolapse. Single-remedy rubrics show that the person takes advice as criticism and rejects flattery. In addition come an aggressive attitude and being upset. Sadness shifts the blame onto others. The delusions trace back to belonging: the family would not get along with her, she is forsaken, and no one would care. At the same time stands the delusion that everything depends on her.

Fear and body

Fear is directed at disease, at business, at uterine prolapse, at falling in the room and at moral derailment. Business worries lead to dementia, business failure to insanity. The mental symptoms alternate with heart complaints and with sexual complaints, and a small rubric describes bipolar disorder with hormonal complaints. Beside it stands the desire for luxurious, splendid clothing. The crazy feeling occurs when the person does not pull herself strongly together; the delusion of becoming insane occurs when she does not hold on to herself or cannot get out of her body.

Summary

Lil‑t. shows in the Repertory a person who swings back and forth between piety and excitement, remorse and anger, sadness and desire. The strict conscience demands self-control, the suppressed desire expresses itself in raving, distraction and a wild feeling in the head, the haste serves as diversion, and brooding over imaginary misfortune fills the emptiness. The sensitivity to advice and criticism and the feeling of being forsaken or damned form the social and religious outer side of the same conflict.

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