sepia
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COMMON NAME- Cuttle fishFAMILY- Mollusca
This is one of the important contribution in homoeopathy byMASTER HAHNEMANN
Preparation: from ink bag of the cuttle fish Acts especially on the portal system,with venous congestion & on the female genital organs
SEPIA OFFICINALIS
PRESENTED BY: PARUL, 54/10, IV BHMS,NHMC.
•Adapted to the persons of dark hair,rigid fibre,but mild and easy disposition. •womens who has male type pelvis.
CONSTITUTION
•Pot-bellidness of mothers
Physical generals •Washerwoman’s remedy
(complaints aggravated after laundary work)
Pain extend from other parts to the back
Sensation of ball in inner parts
Erythism followed by perspiration over whole body
Faints easily: while kneeling at church; from extremes of heat or cold
Chilly patient: sensitive to cold air Desires:
Aversions:
MENTAL GENERALS
Indifferent
DREAD OF BEING ALONE
GREAT SADNESS & WEEPING
MISERLY
GREEDY
GREAT ANXIETY
(To those whom she loves best)
Think about imaginary evils
Headache in terrific shocks;at menstrual nisus,with scanty flow
Great falling of the hair
< stooping,mental labour> By external pressure
HEAD COMPLAINTS
A YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS UPPER PART OFTHE CHEEKS AND NOSE
YELLOWNESS of FACE and CONJUNCTIVA
A “TELL TALE FACE” of uterine ailments
FACE AND MOUTH
•Sensation of weight or ball in anus , not > by stool
•Painful sensation of emptiness “all-gone feeling” in the epigastrium,relived by eating
•Constipation during pregnancy
GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM
Nausea from the sight or thought of food.
•Involuntary urination, during first sleep.
•Urine is fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room
•Deposits a reddish clay colour sediment
•slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis
URINARY SYSTEM
•GLEET
• Painless, yellowish, staining linen
•Meatus glued together in the morning•Sexual organs week & exhausted
MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
•Prolapse of uterus & vaginaPressure & bearing down as if everything protrude from the pelvis
Must cross limbs tightly or sit close to prevent it
•Irregular menses of nearly every form- early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhea or menorrhagia
•Morning sickness of pregnency
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
• DYSPNEA < sitting, after sleep, in room >dancing or walking rapidly
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
•Herpes circinatus in isolated parts on upper parts of body esp. behind ears on the nape of the neck
•Itching of skin; of various parts
Is not > by scratching and is apt to change to burning
SKIN
MODALITIESAGGRAVATION: In afternoon or evening; sexual excesses; at rest; before a
thunderstorm
AMELIORATION: Warmth of bed; hot application; violent exercise.
MANY SYMPTOMS, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF HEAD, HEART AND PELVIS, ARE BOTH < AND >BY REST AND EXERCISE
RELATION•Complementry: Natrium mur
•Inimical: To Lach., puls.
•Similar: To Lach., Sang., Ust., in climectaric irregularities of the circulation
•Frequently indicated after : Sil., Sulph.
•A SINGLE DOSE OFTEN ACTS CURATIVELY FOR MANY WEEKS.
•IT ANTIDOTES MENTAL EFFECTS OF OVERUSE OF TOBACCO, IN PATIENTS OF SEDENTARY HABITS WHO SUFFER FROM OVER MENTAL EXERTION