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Sepia Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🩺 Homeopathic
  • Miasm: Psoric Miasm
  • Temperament: ❄️ Chilly
  • Aggravation: 🌇 Morning

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲ GENERAL
  • Source: Derived from the ink sac of the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, a marine cephalopod mollusk,.
  • prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
  • Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for gynecological, psychological,.
  • dermatological, and gastrointestinal disorders , particularly those involving menstrual irregularities, emotional indifference, and skin discoloration.
  • It is noted for symptoms such as hormonal imbalances, irritability, and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from cold, often worsened by cold weather,.
  • hormonal changes, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by warmth, vigorous exercise, or solitude.
  • Modern Context: Indicated for gynecological conditions (e.g., premenstrual syndrome,.
  • menopausal syndrome), psychological conditions (e.g., major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), dermatological conditions (e.g., melasma, eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches.), and gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome, nausea).
  • It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by menstrual irregularities, emotional indifference, skin discoloration,.
  • digestive complaints, or cold sensitivity, typically exacerbated by cold weather, hormonal changes, emotional stress, or confinement, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, exhausted constitutions.
  • The remedy is particularly relevant for those with gynecological or psychological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like premenstrual irritability or apathy, commonly observed in patients with premenstrual syndrome, menopausal syndrome, or major depressive disorder triggered by hormonal shifts, cold, or emotional stress
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), hormonal changes (menstruation, menopause,.
  • pregnancy), stress, confinement, morning, standing, rich foods, crowds, emotional demands,.
  • touch, dampness
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidoted by: Smelling Nit-s-d., by vegetable acids, Aeon., Ant-c., Ant-t., Rhus-t. It antidotes:
Calc., Chin., Merc., Nat-m., Nat-p., Phos., Sars., Sulph. Compare: (l)Nat-m., Bell-p., Lil-t., Murx., Sil., Sulph.
(2) Vesicular eruptions and ulcers about joints, Bor., Mez. (3) Indif ferent to his occupation, Fl -ac., Ph-ac. (4)
Sensation of ball in inner parts, Lach. (5) Ringworm in isolated spots, Bac., Calc., Tell. (6) Psoriasis, Ars., Ars-
i. (7) Chloasma, Lyc., Nux -v., Sulph., Cur. (8) Constipation during pregnancy, Alum. (9) Pain in rectum long
after stool, Nit-ac., Sulph. (10) Empty feeling better eating, Chel., Lyc., Phos. (11) Bedwetting almost as soon
as child goes to sleep, Kreos. (12) Bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis, Agar., Bell. Lil-t.,
Murx., Sanie. (13) Sight or thought of food sickens, Nux -v. Smell of cooking food nauseates, Ars., Colch.
Complementary: Nat-m., Phos. Nux -v. intensifies action. Guaiacum is o ften beneficial after Sep. Followed
well by: Nit-ac. Inimical: Lach., Puls.

▲ MIND
  • Mentally and physically worn-out patients.
  • Industrious.
  • Indisposed to mental labor.
  • Repugnance to customary business, disgust of life.
  • Makes mistakes while writing or reading.
  • Poor memor y.
  • Confused, wants to run away.
  • Confusion of mind when spoken to Irresolution.
  • Anxious fear, over trifles.
  • Anxiety during heat flushes.
  • Constantly worries, frets and cries about her real or imaginary illness.
  • Despair about recovery.
  • Cries when telling her symptoms.
  • Fear of poverty.
  • Fear of thun- derstorms.
  • Nervous, so that she wants to hold on to something or she should scream.
  • Sense of helplessness.
  • Feels unfortunate without cause.
  • Weeping, worse from con solation.
  • Breaks down in spells of weeping.
  • Miserly.
  • Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
  • Self-pity.
  • Complaints and grievances.
  • Sad and gloomy moods.
  • Sad over her health and domestic affairs.
  • Tendency to burst into tears.
  • They have too much work to do.
  • People are not kind to them.
  • No one realizes how much suffering they have or with what difficulties they have to contend.
  • Depression, suicidal.
  • Depression on awaking in morning.
  • Depression related to pregnancy, menses or menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
  • Unhappy married life.
  • Great sadness during pregnancy or lactation.
  • Post-partum depression.
  • Emotional stillness.
  • Sexually shut down, no libido.
  • Low sex drive since childbirth, hysterectomy, menopause.
  • Aversion to the opposite sex.
  • Women who dislike men and men who dislike women.
  • Loss of sex drive and sexual disorders.
  • Nausea, disgust at the thought of sex.
  • Anxiety after sex.
  • Dullness of mind after sex.
  • Aversion to those loved best, to family.
  • Aversion to sympathy and company, yet dreads to be alone.
  • Averse to occupation, house work.
  • Indolent.
  • Desires solitude, lies wit h closed eyes.
  • Sits quietly and answers either with yes or no.
  • Irritable and easily offended.
  • Irritability, alternating with indifference or sulks.
  • Bad - tempered.
  • Resents criticism of any kind.
  • Spiteful.
  • Lack of sympathy.
  • Angry, sensitive, easily offended and miserable.
  • Anger about past events.
  • Anger from contradic -.
  • tion.
  • Anger related to pregnancy, menses or menopause.
  • Anger in morning.
  • Censorious.
  • Takes pleasure in teasing others.
  • Never seems happy unless annoying someone.
  • Says and does strange things.
  • Mania before menses.
  • Sensitive to least noise.odors.
  • Excited during thunderstorms.
  • Cheerful when it thunders and with lightning.
  • Loves to dance.
  • Miserly.
  • Self-pity.
  • Indolent.
  • Spiteful.
  • tion.
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Fits of vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., worse walking in open air, least movement of arms.
  • Vertigo with a sensation as if something rolling around the head.
  • Vertigo as if intoxicated.
  • Vertigo as if every object were in motion.
  • Vertigo as if suspended in air.
  • Vision - Black spots, points, before the eyes.
  • Amaurosis, with contracted pupils.
  • He - miopia.
  • Vision was dimmed from sexual excess, masturbation or uterine diseases.
  • Vanishing of sight during menses, better lying.
  • Flashes of light when closing eyes.
  • Sparks, veil, streaks before the eyes.
  • Intolerance of reflected light from bright objects.
  • COMMENTS - Historically, physicians used the flesh, the eggs or even the only bone that constitutes the skeleton of this animal, for “leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., gonor rhea, catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. of the blad der, gravelSmall sand-like deposits in urineSmall, sandy or stony deposits passed in the urine, causing painful urination or colic., spasms of the bladder, baldness, freckles and certain kinds of tetters which is sufficiently remarkable in the light of the provings.” Sep acts on the vital forces as well as on organic tissues.
  • The sphincters and al l non-striated muscles are weakened.
  • Sep disturbs the circulation, causing flushes and other irregularities, throbbings all over, hot hands and cold feet or vice versa.
  • The flushes run upward and end in sweat with a faint, weak feeling.
  • Nosebleed may occur from a blow, from being in a warm room, or from suppressed menses.
  • Low thyroid with hormonal components.
  • Grimmer stated “This remedy has cured cancer of rectum and uterus, it acts strongly on the sexual organs of both sexes and a great many symptoms and conditions are manifested in this sphere.
  • Young people of both sexes frequently have ailments calling for this medicine, women during the pregnant state after childbirth, men who have been addicted to drinking and sexual excesses are often helped by this r emedy.
  • Sex aggravates it in both sexes.” Difficulty with hormonal changes, associated with headaches, constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. and irritability.
  • Never well since pubertyAdolescent sexual maturity phaseThe stage of physical growth and hormonal changes when a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction. (Puls.), childbirth, miscar riage, abortion, menopause.
  • Ailments from the birth cont rol pill, hormonal creams or patches.
  • Premenstrual syndrome, with irritabil ity, headache, generally fastidious before menses.
  • Irregular menses, painful, may have a heavy flow.
  • Low energy, bloating, irritability and sensitivity before period.
  • May crave chocolate.
  • Somewhat offensive, yellowish-green leucorrhea.
  • Prolapse or indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of uterus and cervix.
  • Engorgement of the uterus going on to induration.
  • Prolapse or retroversion.
  • Bearing -down pains of great intensity, in the abdomen, back, extending into thi ghs, and sometimes even seem to interfere with breathing.
  • Bearing down worse standing or walking.
  • Constant sense of pressing into vagina, compelling the patient to cross the limbs to prevent prolapse.
  • Uterine symptoms with hysteria, weakness, palpitation, orgasm of blood, faintness.
  • Loss of sex drive.
  • Aversion to sex, to affection, or being touched and held since hormonal change.
  • Aversion to the smells of their partner.
  • Aloofness, disgust for sex.
  • May fake orgasms, have sex out of a feeling of duty, obligation.
  • Anorgasmie or may take a long time to orgasm.
  • Ailments from rape, with emotional and sexual shutdown (Staph, has anger).
  • Drainedof love and affection for all loved ones.
  • Empty, sinking feeling.
  • Morning sickness with aversion to sight, smell, thought o f foods.
  • Vomiting of food, bile and milky fluid, in the morning.
  • Strains so that blood comes up.
  • “The thought of food sickens her with sense of a great weight in anus.” Hypersensitive to odors, delusions of odors.
  • Disgusted feeling.
  • May want to back out of pregnancy.
  • May have a history of many childbirths or miscarriages.
  • Miscarriage from sex, causes contractions.
  • Tendency to miscarriage.
  • Her ing is reported to have said “All women prone to miscarriage should take Sep or Zinc.” Physical affects from abortions (Nat-m for emotional trauma).
  • Difficulty making decisions, confusion, anger during pregnancy.
  • Sinking sensation in pregnancy.
  • Premature delivery or false labor pains associated with low energy or depression.
  • Traumatic, loss of blood and energy.
  • Long and exhausting labor.
  • Postpartum depression.
  • Emotionally shutdown after childbirth.
  • Loss of mother ing instincts.
  • Aversion to breastfeeding.
  • Ill effects of breastfeeding.
  • Weight gain since pregnancy (Calc.).
  • Depression with meno - Sepia succus pause.
  • Hot flashes, low sex drive, depression after a hysterectomy.
  • Indifference to loved ones.
  • Aloof and detached, insensitive.
  • Critical, cold hearted, tendency to nag and complain, especially with hormonal changes.
  • Easily upset, frus trated (Ign.), from hormonal imba lance.
  • Ailments from grief (Nat-m.).
  • Impulse to do violence.
  • Fits of weeping, without knowing why.
  • Fear of not understanding their emotions.
  • Worse from consolation, desires to be left alone.
  • Lack of mental thought, of emotional feeling.
  • Mind becomes dull, struggle to thing.
  • Weak, dragged feeling.
  • Venous stasis, weak veins.
  • Slowed cir culation, better from vigorous exercise.
  • Raynaud’s disease.
  • Tendency to bruise easily.
  • Cold hands and feet.
  • Varicose veins (Phos.), during or since pregnancy.
  • Weakened uterine tissues, bearing down feeling.
  • Lack of tone and weakness leading to congestion, then to bearing down pain.
  • Hemorrhoids, ever since childbirth.
  • Hemorrhoids with menses.
  • Prolapsed rectum in cases of hemorrhoids.
  • Sensation of emptiness, sometimes con nected with the pelvic bearing down.
  • Empty sensation in the epigastrium and throughout the abdomen.
  • Lump sensation in the throat and rectum.
  • “Ball” sensation in inner parts, most notably in rectum, not relieved by stool.
  • Clarke has cured both constipation and diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. when that symptom was present.
  • Upward stitches in rectum and vagina.
  • Portal stasis.
  • Fullness, soreness and stitches in liver region, as well as stitches in left hypochondrium.
  • Diabetes with a hormonal component.
  • Low blood sugar.
  • DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., from inju ry, by over -lifting.
  • Severe constipa tion (Alum., Calc.), or constipation during pregnancy.
  • Craves chocolate, bitter, sour and tart foods, particularly during pregnancy.
  • Tendency to stimulate their taste buds.
  • Strong aversion to fat.
  • Irritation of the urinary tract.
  • Catarrh of bladder and urethra.
  • Frequent strong urg ing to urinate.
  • Stitches along the urethra.
  • Relaxed sphincters.
  • Bedwetting, “The bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep, always during the first sleep.” Discharge of urine may be difficult even with urgent desire.
  • Gonorrhea after the acute stage has subsided.
  • Gleet and gonorrheal warts.
  • Delicate skin, the least injury tends to ulceration.
  • Itching, which often changes to burning when scratched.
  • Soreness of skin, humid places on bend s of knees.
  • Painful eruption on tip of nose.
  • Herpetic eruption on lips and about mouth.
  • Skin condition relating to hormonal changes.
  • Tendency to dry skin from low estrogen.
  • Severe dryness of the vagina (Nat-m.).
  • Chloasma.
  • Liver spots, brown spots.
  • Hair fal ls out after childbirth or with menopause.
  • Acne, mole growth, freckles related to hormonal change, including puberty, childbirth, or birth control pills.
  • Brittle nails.
  • Addison’s disease.
  • PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp., skin funguses (Thuj.), ringworm (Thuj., Bac., Tell.).
  • Ringworm-like eruptions, pityriasis, every spring on different parts of body.
  • Herpes circinatus.
  • Round, yellow spots.
  • Nettle rash, appears on going into open air, better in warm room.
  • Desperate itching, especially when it affects the genitals and anus.
  • Bursitis from kneeling and scrubbing the floors, overwork.
  • Patient is worn out from domestic duties.
  • ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age., worse cold, wet (Calc.), packache (Bry., Nat -m.).
  • Stiff ness of limbs worse after sleep.
  • Stiffness of uterine region.
  • “Involuntary jerking of head b ackward and forward, especially at forenoon when sitting.” Jerking in hysteria.
  • Open fontanelles in children.
  • Vertigo with sensation of something “rolling round” in the head.
  • “Faints easily,” after getting wet, from extremes of heat and cold, riding in a carriage, kneeling at church.
  • Chronic nasal catarrh.
  • Inflamed tonsils from colds, tending to suppuration.
  • Nash had a case in which the discharge was thick, bland and copious.
  • Puls, relieved the catarrh but increased the menstrual flow too much.
  • Sep cured both.
  • Whooping cough when it has lasted eight weeks or longer and the paroxysms, though reduced in number and virulence, do not disappear and occur especially before mid night.
  • The patients are reduced in strength, dyspeptic, irritable, tearful, easily angered or apathetic.
  • Symptoms are generally left-sided.
  • Worse standing, kneeling, on the left.
  • Very chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., sensitive to cold.
  • Better deep pressure but worse light touch.
  • Irritable in the mornings from toxicity in the liver (Nux-v.).
  • Need movement, but worse from exertion.
  • Cheerful with thunderstorms.
  • Kunkel reported a case of pulmonary affection in a boy, 14, who had been under treatment five weeks for cough and hoarseness was worse evening, cough with purulent sputa during the day.
  • Slept well but dreamed when he lay on left side.
  • Emaciated.
  • Phos lOx produced little change.
  • There was remarkable tightness of the chest on breathing with inclination to take a deep breath, this was better in open air, on motion, while at work, worse while in the h ouse and at rest.
  • Though the weather was bad he had a constant desire to be out of doors.
  • Sep lOx made a rapid cure.
  • Boenninghausen recommended Sep in cases of cough, either with or without ex pectoration with blood - streaked, purulent, yellow greenish or stinking sputa, and especially in tuberculosis.
  • Nash mentioned a case of cholera infantum that he cured with Sep on the indication “always worse after taking milk.” He compared it with Ant-c for moisture oozing from the anus, which has the first place.
  • Bahr said Sep afforded considerable help in a certain condition of the system that had only been noticed in females.
  • After the exacerbation of a chronic gastric catarrh has lasted a few days with intolerable burning pains, the kidney region becomes painful, more particularly the left side.
  • Violent burning pain in the kidney region and a quantity of saturated, highly-colored urine is discharged.
  • Urine deposits copious quantities of urates, or else a clear urine with copious sandy sediment, coated with uric acid.
  • After the discharge, the pains generally abate and only return if the stomach has not been restored to its normal condition.
  • Hering noted its usefulness for “condylomata completely surrounding head of penis.” Clarke cured a crop of small, velvety w arts completely encircling the mouth of the prepuce.
  • Thuja had failed.
  • Clarke also cured with Sep.
  • 3x a large horn-like wart on the abdomen of a woman.
  • It was as large as a crown- piece but shaped like a bean and raised a quarter of an inch from the surface .
  • Clarke confirmed the experience of Dr.
  • Swallow, who found the fresh preparation of Sep to possess a wider range than the ordinary preparation and to act as an “organ remedy” in a great variety of uterine disorders not definitely indicated by the pathogenesis.
  • Clarke used it in potencies from the 5c to 30c
▲ HEAD
  • Headache alternating sides of occiput.
  • Headache worse lying on painful side, indoors.
  • Headache better after meals.
  • Headache with terrible shocks at menstrual time, with scanty flow, or before menses.
  • Weekly or monthly headaches.
  • Headache worse from shopping, mental labor, better after meals.
  • Headache with nausea and vomiting.
  • Smell of food repulsive during headache.
  • JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. with headache.
  • Hair falls out after chronic headache.
  • Shooting pains.
  • Screams with pain.
  • Stinging pain within out or upwards.
  • Stinging pain over left eye.
  • Heavy feeling on vertex.
  • Cold sensation on vertex.
  • Involuntary jerking of head backwards and forwards, with open fontanelles in children.
  • Prodromal symptoms of a stroke.
  • Hemicrania.
  • Hair falls out at menopause.
  • Root of hair sensitive to combing.
  • Pimples on forehead along the margins of hair.
▲ EYES
  • Eyes feel tired and look injected.
  • Conjunctivitis.
  • Muscular asthenopia.
  • As thenic inflammations with uterine trouble.
  • Burning in eyes with lachrymation.
  • Ach ing at back of eyeballs.
  • Eyes feel sore as if bruised.
  • Falling out feeling in eyes during headache.
  • Pressure as from sand in eyes.
  • Arrests cataract in women.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Cannot tolerate reflected light.
  • Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening.
  • Agglutination of eyelids.
  • Epithelioma of eyelids red, itching.
  • Styes.
  • Ptosis.
  • Drooping eyelids as if too heavy to open.
  • Venous congestion of the fundus.
  • Tarsal tumors.
  • Tarsi, red, itching cancer
▲ EARS
  • Chronic otalgia.
  • Discharge, thick yellow pus offensive.
  • Discharge of thin matter.
  • Itching in affected ear.
  • Pain as if from sub -cutaneous ulceration.
  • Drag ging or stitching pain in ears.
  • Swelling of and eruptions on external ear.
  • Herpes, behind ears, on lobe of ears, on nape of neck.
  • Tetter on lob es of ear and behind ears.
  • Oversensitive to noise, especially music.
  • Loud sounds and humming in ears.
  • Sudden deafness, as if caused by the plug in ears
▲ FACE
  • Old, wrinkled skin with spots.
  • Black pores.
  • Face changes color.
  • Chloasma.
  • Dark circles under eyes.
  • Yellowish -brown saddle across nose.
  • Yellow-brownish discoloration on nose and cheeks.
  • Yellow blotches, pale or sallow, yellow about mouth.
  • Rosacea.
  • Acne, worse before menses.
  • Warts.
  • Swollen, cracked lower lip.
  • Cancer of the lips, epithelioma.
  • Swell ing of submaxillary glands.
  • Numbness of malar bones.
  • Jerking of facial muscles while talking.
  • Facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. during pregnancy
▲ MOUTH
  • Swelling and cracking of lower lip.
  • Mouth and tongue feel as if scalded.
  • Of fensive or sour smell from mouth.
  • Profuse flow of salty saliva.
  • Taste of rotten eggs on coughing.
  • Taste salty, putrid, cheesy, fishy.
  • Taste bitter, sour, putrid, offensive.
  • Everything tastes too salty.
  • Hawks foul or cheesy grains in the morning.
  • Nose - Yellowish-brown saddle across nose.
  • Dry feeling in nose.
  • Pressive pain in root of nose.
  • Tip of nose inflamed and swollen.
  • Nostrils ulcerated.
  • Chronic nasal catarrh.
  • Post -nasal catarrh, dripping of heavy, lumpy discharge, must be hawked through the mouth.
  • Thick greenish discharge, foul, plugs and crusts.
  • Ozaena.
  • Ascending throat colds.
  • Frequent sneezing without coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Fluent coryza.
  • Nosebleed, when the nose has been struck by anything, even lightly, during menses or pregnancy, with hemorrhoids.
  • Great sensitiveness to odors are repulsive to the smell of cooking food.
  • Fetid smell before nose.
  • Perspiration - Hot sweats, worse meno pause.
  • Easy, offensive sweat, with orgasms, on genitals, in axilla or back, between menses.
  • Hands sweaty, purple.
  • Sweats from le ast motion.
  • Sweat on feet, worse on toes, intolerable odor.
  • Cold sweats at night, on chest, back and thighs.
  • Continuous, debilitating sweats.
  • Sweet - smelling sweat
▲ THROAT
  • Dryness and soreness.
  • Rough ness and soreness of larynx and throat.
  • Roughness and burning in fauces, worse hawking.
  • Raw pain when swallowing.
  • Pressure in the throat, feels neck cloth tight.
  • Sensation of dryness in larynx.
  • Sen sation of a plug.
  • Sore throat with swelling of cervical glands.
  • Ascending throat colds.
  • Hawks foul or cheesy lumps in morning.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Aphonia.
  • Tongue - Tip of tongue as if scalded.
  • Tongue white and feels burnt.
  • Tongue coated with mucus, dirty yellow, brown with red edges.
  • Tongue pale, flabby and indented.
  • Tongue stiff.
  • Vesicles on tongue dirty, becomes clear during menses
▲ CHEST
  • Oppression of chest, morning and evening.
  • Oppression when walking or from slightest exertion.
  • Pain in sides of chest, when inspiring or coughing.
  • Sensa tion of emptiness in chest symptoms better by pressure of hand.
  • Stitches in chest when coughing.
  • Fungus hematodes in clavicular region, bleeding profusely.
  • Boils in axilla.
  • Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.
  • Humid tetter in axilla.
  • Brown spots on chest.
  • Constitutions - Hering said it was suited to young persons of both sexes of nervous and delicate constitution, who are disposed to sexual excitement or worn out by sexual excess.
  • Women during pregnancy, in childbed, and while nursing.
  • Children who take cold readily when the weather changes.
  • ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. persons.
  • Men who have been addicted to drinking and sexual excesses.
  • Pot-bellied mothers, yellow saddle across nose, irritable, faint from least exertion, leuco-phlegmatic constitutions.
  • Bahr indicated it for sanguine, excitable temperaments inclined to congestions.
  • Coughs - Cough in morning with profuse expectoration, tasting salty (Phos., Ambr.).
  • Rotten -egg taste with coughing.
  • Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest.
  • Cough better eating.
  • Cough with nausea and bitter vomiting.
  • Dry, fatiguing cough with foul sputum, as if coming from stomach, worse rapid change of temperature.
  • Spasmodic cough, evening and at night in bed, preventing sleep.
  • Child cries each time it coughs at night.
  • Whooping cough that drags on Irregular circulation, seems to stagnate.
  • Venous stasis.
  • Congestion of blood vessels.
  • DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. in consequence of valvularinsufficiency.
  • General pulsations.
  • Ebullitions at night.
  • Tremulous feeling with flushes.
  • Beating in all arteries.
  • Vio lent, intermittent palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. with anxiety.
  • Nervous palpitations, better walking fast, worse lying on left side.
  • Visible palpitations, ascend s to occiput.
  • Palpitations before scanty menses.
  • Wakes up with violent beating of heart.
  • An occasional hard thump of the heart.
  • Sensation as if heart stood still.
  • Pulse full and quick during night and then intermitting.
  • Pulse slow during day.
  • Pulse accel erated by motion or being angry.
  • Kidneys - Weak kidneys.
  • Kidney pain and backache.
  • NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
  • Feeble stream, urine is thick, foul, white, milky, bloody.
  • Gritty, red, adhesive, sandy sediment in urine.
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., worse after sleep, better rapid motion.
  • Dyspnea better dancing or walking rapidly.
  • Dyspnea in dry air, fog, east and north wind.
  • Loss of breath, with palpitation, after mental emotions.
  • Suffocation in stormy weather.
  • AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity., wheezing expiration.
  • Spasmodic asthma.
  • Suddenly aroused from a deep sleep by asthma.
  • Neglected pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
  • Pleuritis.
  • Copious, very offensiv e expectoration of blood, after lying down.
  • Yellow, green or grey pus.
  • Expectoration milk -white, tenacious mucus, generally of salty taste, in morning.
  • Can raise sputum if he turns from left to right side
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Gnawing in stomach, better eating.
  • Sinking down feeling and weakness.
  • Faint sinking feeling at epigastrium, not better by eating.
  • Severe cramping pains.
  • Hardness in pyloric region.
  • Burning in pit of stomach.
  • Heartburn.
  • Sensation of a lump in stomach (Ca rb-an.).
  • Sensation of something twisting about in stomach and rising into the throat.
  • Disordered stomach after bread, milk, fat food or acids.
  • Stomach pain and vomiting of mucus after simplest food.
  • Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sourbelchings.
  • Dyspe psia from over-lifting, from smoking.
  • Belchings, milky, sour, bitter, rancid of tough, foamy mucus.
  • Eructations like rotten eggs.
  • Nausea at thought or smell of food.
  • Nausea in morning before eating.
  • Nausea worse lying on side.
  • Morning sickness, motion sickness.
  • Disposition to vomit after eating.
  • Vomiting of milky fluid during pregnancy.
  • Vomiting of bile and food.
  • Brown spots on abdomen.
  • Cold ness in abdomen.
  • Lax feeling in abdomen.
  • Falling out or heavy, bearing down feeling in hypogastrium, better by holding it or crossing legs.
  • Burning and shooting pains.
  • Violent pain in umbilical region.
  • Bloated abdomen after eating.
  • Loud rumbling in abdomen after eating.
  • FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. with headache.
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and faintness before me nses.
  • Soreness and pain as if menses would appear.
  • Pot -belly of mothers.
  • Voracious appetite or no appetite.
  • Sudden cravings and sudden satiety.
  • Ev erything tastes too salty (Carb-v..
  • Chin.).
  • Desires chocolate, sweets, wine, vinegar, acids and pickles.
  • Great sensitiveness to smell of cooking food.
  • Aversion to all food during headache, to bread and milk during pregnancy.
  • Aversion to fat, meat, milk.
  • Aggravated from acids and fats, loathes fats.
  • Worse from boiled milk.
  • Great nervous irritability from coffee.
  • Water brash after eating or drinking.
  • Thirst during headache
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Offensive perspiration on scrotum.
  • Itching and dry eruption on genitals.
  • Her pes.
  • Prepuce ulcerates and itches.
  • Cracks on foreskin.
  • Condylomata surrounding head of penis.
  • Swelling of scrotum.
  • Cut ting pains in testes.
  • Weak prostate gland.
  • Weakness of genitals cold.
  • Impoten cy.
  • Insufficient erections.
  • Sexual desire increased or decreased.
  • Nightly emissions with sexual dreams.
  • Watery semen.
  • Complaints after sex.
  • Gonorrhea.
  • Gleet, discharge from urethra only during night, no pain.
  • Hormonal disorders.
  • Never well since puberty, childbirth, after weaning or hormone pills.
  • AmenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation..
  • Menses irregular, early and profuse.
  • Menses too late and scanty.
  • Menses cause faintness, chilliness and shuddering.
  • Mania from profuse menses.
  • DysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps. in women with scanty menses.
  • Dryness of vagina and vulva after menses.
  • Leucor rhea, yellow, greenish, milky in large lumps, with much itching, instead of menses.
  • Leucorrhea, foul, gonorrheal with stitches up in vagina from uterus to navel.
  • Leucorrhea in little girls.
  • Pelvic organs relaxed.
  • Weak uterus.
  • Dragging or bearing down sensation as if everything would escape through the vagina (Bell., Lil-t., Nat-c.), must cross limbs to prevent protrusion or press against vulva.
  • Prolapsed uterus or vagina.
  • Sub-involution.
  • Violent stitches upward in the vagina from uterus to umbilicus.
  • Griping, burning or sticking in uterus.
  • Sharp clutching pains.
  • Labia swollen, abscessed.
  • Severe itching in vulva causing abortion.
  • Tendency to miscarriage from the fifth to the seve nth month.
  • Labor -like, during seventh month of pregnancy.
  • Morning sickness.
  • Motion of fetus is intolerable.
  • Retained placenta after abortion.
  • Offensive, excoriating lochia.
  • Infertility.
  • Sterility.
  • Aversion to sex, worse since childbirth.
  • Low sex drive.
  • Nausea and irritability on thought of sex.
  • Sexual parts tender to touch.
  • Sex painful Sepia succus from dryness of vagina.
  • Bleeding after sex.
  • Exhaustion after sex.
  • Sudden flushes of heat with weakness and sweat during menopause.
  • Metrorrhagia at the time of menopause
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Poor circulation.
  • Venous stasis.
  • Heaviness and a bruised feeling.
  • Restlessness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day.
  • Sensation of running, as from a mouse in lower limbs.
  • Tension in limbs as if they were too short.
  • Lower limbs lame and stiff.
  • Short walk fatigues.
  • Limbs go to sleep easily.
  • Coldness of legs, knees, feet, and heels.
  • Coldness of limbs during fever.
  • Hot hands with cold feet or vice versa.
  • Cold hands in warm room.
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains.
  • Stiffness of joints.
  • Weakness of joints, especially the knees.
  • Swelling of veins of affected limbs.
  • SciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back., better during pregnancy, chronic, localizing in heels.
  • Ulcers on small joints, fingers, toes.
  • Thick crusts on elbows.
  • Hands sweaty, purple.
  • Skin of palms peels off.
  • Crippled nails.
  • Liver - Aching, throbbing, shooting, stitching, pressing in hepatic region.
  • Liver sore and painful, relieved by lying on right side.
  • Pain in the region of liver or gallbladder, worse stooping
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Backache, causes nausea and faint feeling while standing.
  • Sudden pain in back, as if struck by a hammer, worse stooping, kneeling.
  • Back pain, better belching, by pressing back against something hard.
  • Heaviness in back in morning on waking.
  • Burning pressure in spine tender to touch or pressure.
  • Aching and dull pain in lumbar and sacral regions.
  • Aching in inter -scapular or lumbar region, paralytic, wants to be pressed.
  • Weakness in small of back, when walking, from uterine disease.
  • Weakness in lumbar region.
  • Lumbar region as if sprained.
  • Throbbing in lumbar region.
  • Cramps in buttocks when stretching out legs.
  • Coldness between scapula, as from an icy hand.
  • Collar feels tight .
  • Bladder - Chronic cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination..
  • Prolapsed bladder, must cross limbs to prevent protrusion or press against vulva.
  • Bladder weak.
  • Sensation as if bladder falls to side lain on Cutting pain in bladder before urination.
  • Involuntary urination, worse coughing, sneezing, laughing, hearing sudden noise, fright or inattention, especially in women.
  • Slow urination with bearing down sensation above pubis.
  • Bedwetting during first part of sleep.
  • Breasts - Swollen, sensitive breasts before menses.
  • Sensation as if breasts were enlarged.
  • Stitches, tender, burning pains.
  • Induration of breasts.
  • Scirrhus breasts.
  • Burning pain in a fixed spot under right nipple.
  • Nipples cracked across the crown.
  • Nipples bleeding and sore, preceded by itching.
  • Causations - Ill effects of overwork, anger and vexation.
  • Ill effects of blows, injury, over -lifting, falls.
  • Ill effects of getting wet, laundry work, boiled milk, fat, pork, tobacco, alcohol.
  • Snowy air.
  • Puberty, hormone treatment, birth control pills, hysterectomy, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause.
  • Sexual abuse
▲ SKIN
  • Chloasma.
  • Spots on skin.
  • Yellowish - brown spots.
  • Blotched, raw, rough, hard or cracked, worse flexures.
  • Wine colored skin.
  • Delicate skin, least injury tends to ul ceration.
  • Ulcers, on small joints.
  • Herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose.
  • Ringworm in isolated spots.
  • Ringwormlike eruption every spring.
  • Itching, not Sepia succus relieved by scratching, worse in bends of elbows and knees.
  • Itching vesicles.
  • UrticariaHives or itchy raised skin weltsA skin outbreak of red, itchy, swollen bumps triggered by allergic reactions, friction, or stress., worse open air better warm room.
  • Boils in axilla.
  • Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis.
  • Lentigo in young women.
  • Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.
  • Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin pinkish after scratching.
  • Indurations from constant pressure with purple color.
  • Large, hard, seed warts.
  • Small, itching, flat warts on hands and face.
  • Epithelioma, on eyelids, lips
▲ SLEEP
  • Sleeplessness from excitement.
  • In somnia from rush of thoughts.
  • Talks loudly during sleep.
  • Wakes frequently as if he has been called.
  • Frequent starts with fright, screaming.
  • Waking at night from frightful dreams, with screaming out.
  • Dre ams of rape, being pursued, chased with a knife.
  • Dreams of urinating and finds on waking an urgent desire to do so Dreams, worse if he lies on left side.
  • No desire to rise in morning.
  • Very sleepy during day, falls asleep as soon as she sits down
▲ GENERALITIES
  • As if something twisting in stomach and rising to throat.
  • As if viscera turning inside o ut.
  • As if bladder full and contents would fall out over pubes.
  • As if drops came out of bladder.
  • As if bladder and urinary organs would be pressed out.
  • As of everything would fall out through vulva.
  • As if everything would fall out of uterus as if clutched.
  • As if vulva enlarged.
  • As if something heavy would force itself from vagina.
  • As if heart stood still.
  • As of a ball in inner parts.
  • As of hot water poured over body.
  • As if roots of hair were sore, as if cut short near roots

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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