Sepia officinalis

 Generalities

 – Inky juice of cuttle fish, known as a Indian ink, is supposed to be pre-eminently a woman’s remedy, though the first symptoms were found by Dr. Hahnemann proved accidently by a male artist.

 – It affects the venous circulation esp. of the Female pelvic Organs; of portal system and of digestive tract.

 – Venous stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera is a marked feature.

 – It is suited to young persons of both sexes, of nervous and delicate constitution, who are disposed to sexual excitement or worn out by sexual excess.

 – Children who take cold easily when the weather changes.

 – Relaxed, plethoric females.

 – Weak, pot-bellied mothers with yellow complextion.

 – Affections in pregnant women.

 – Females dragged down by over work, loss of vital fluids, excess of sexual indulgence, who are subject to prolapses, uterine troubles.

 – Symptoms settle in back, in ileo-coecal region, ovaries etc.; upward in head; bearing down in pelvic region.

 – Shuddering from pain.

 – Sudden prostration.

 – Weak empty hollow feeling in epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees etc.; or sensation of fulness.

 – As of a lump or something rolling over internally.

 – Violent ebullitions of blood with pulsation throughout the body.

 – Fits of uneasiness and hysterical spasms.

 – Spasms, clonic, tonic, cataleptic.

 – Short walk fatigues much.

 – Jerking in muscles.

 – Burning pains in different parts of the body.

 – Bleedings.

 – Milky secretions.

 – Fainting fits.

 – Fidgety.

 – Tendency to abortion; from 5 – 7th month.

 – Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes.

 – Feels cold even in a warm room.

 – Ill effects of anger and vexation; blows; injury; overlifting; falls; jar; getting wet; laundry work; boiled milk; fat; pork; tobacco.

 – Faints while kneeling in the church.

 – Diseased conditions which drag on, linger.

 – Warty growths.

 – Atrophy of children, face like old man, big belly, dry flabby skin.

 – Rheumatism, chronic cases or obstinate remains of acute.

 Worse

 – Cold; AIR; north wind; snowy air; snowfall, wet.

 – Sexual excess.

 – Before menses.

 – Pregnancy.

 – Abortion.

 – Morning and evening.

 – After first sleep.

 – Falling to sleep.

 – Sitting standing.

 – Kneeling.

 – Jarring.

 – Stooping.

 – Coitus.

 – Before thunderstroms.

 – Touch.

 – Ascending.

 – Rubbing.

 – Lifting.

 – Scratching.

 – Washing clothes.

 Better

 – Violent Motion.

 – Warmth; of bed.

 – Pressure.

 – Hot application.

 – Crossing or drawing limbs up.

 – After sleep.

 – Cold drinks; cold bath; open air.

 Mind

 – Angry; sensitive; irritable; easily offended, and miserable.

 – Wants to commit suicide.

 – Nervous, so that she wants to hold on to something or she should scream.

 – She says and does strange things.

 – Nobody knows what she will do next.

 – Anxious fear; over trifles.

 – Aversion; to family, to those loved best; to sympathy; to company; yet dreads to be alone.

 – Repugnance to customary business; disgust of life.

 – Stiffled affections.

 – Poor memory.

 – Makes mistakes while writing or reading.

 – Sad.

 – Irritability, alternating with indifference or sulkiness.

 – Sad over her health and domestic affairs.

 – Constantly worries, frets and cries about her real or imaginary illness.

 – Sexually minded.

 – Weeps when telling her symptoms.

 – Miserly.

 – Stupid, wants to go away.

 – Indifference.

 – Takes pleasure in teasing others.

 – Feels unfortunate without cause.

 – Sits quietly and answers either with yes or no.

 – Women hate men and men hate women.

 – Breaks down in spells of weeping.

 Head

 – Fits of vertigo agg. walking in open air, least movement of arms; or with a sensation as if something rolling round the head.

 – Headache; shooting, stinging pain; within out or upwards; over left eye; heavy on vertex, alternating sides of occiput; agg. lying on painful side, indoors; with nausea and vomiting.

 – Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual time; with scanty flow; with desire for coition.

 – Jerking of head backwards and forwards; involuntary; with open fontanelles in children; hysterical or from pain.

 – Hair falls out; after chronic headache, at climaxis.

 – Root of hair sensitive to combing.

 – Pimples on forehead along the margins of hair.

 – Vertex cold, and heavy.

 – Hemicarnia.

 – Jaundice, with headache.

 – Screams with pain.

 – Headache agg. shopping, mental labour, amel. meals.

 Eyes

 – Drooping eyelids.

 – Sees; black spots, veil, points, sparks, flashes, zigzags and streaks of light before eyes; then collpase.

 – Tarsi; red, itching; cancer.

 – Vanishing of sight during menses amel. lying.

 – Tarsal tumours.

 – Vision dimmed; from sexual excess, masturbation and uterine diseases.

 – Can not tolerate reflexed light.

 – Arrests cataract in women.

 – Falling out feeling in eyes.

 – Epithelioma of eyelids.

 – Eyes red with styes.

 Ears

 – Herpes; behind ears; on lobe of ears; on nape of neck.

 – Oversensitive to noise; esp. music.

 – Sudden deafness; as if caused by the plug in ears.

 – Discharge: thick yellow pus; offensive.

 – Swelling of and eruptions on external ear.

 Nose

 – Great sensitiveness to odours; which are repulsive; to the smell of cooking food.

 – Pressing pain at root.

 – Brown; Yellowish; Stripe Across.

 – Thick greenish discharge; thick foul, plugs and crusts.

 – Post-nasal dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges, must be hawked from mouth.

 – Epistaxis; when the nose has been struck by anything even lightly; during menses; during pregnancy; with piles.

 – Ozaena.

 – Ascending throat colds.

 – Pain in occiput with drawing in arms and legs during cold.

 Face

 – Changing colour.

 – Dark circles under eyes.

 – chloasma.

 – Acne agg. before menses.

 – Malar bones numb.

 – Swollen cracked lower lip.

 – Cancer of the lips, epithelioma.

 – Old, wrinkled, with spots.

 – Jerking of facial muscles while talking.

 – Warts on.

 Mouth

 – And tongue feel burnt.

 – Taste; cheesy, fishy, bitter, sour, putrid, offensive.

 – Hawks foul or cheesy grains in the morning.

 – Everything taste too salty.

 – Painful teeth, during pregnancy, menses and during cold, agg. lying.

 – Tongue dirty, becomes clear during menses.

 Throat

 – Sensation of plug.

 – Pain as if it is raw.

 – Ascending throat colds.

 – Pressure in the throat, feels neck cloth tight.

 – Hawks foul mucus or balls, in the morning.

 Stomach

 – Nausea; at thought or smell of food; in A.M. ; thought of coition.

 – Vomiting; of solid food only or of milky fluids; during pregnancy; in the morning; rinsing mouth.

 – Longing; for vinegar, acids and pickles, sweets.

 – Faint Sinking Feeling at Epigastrium: not amel. eating; or a lump in.

 – Burning in pit of stomach.

 – Boiled milk disagrees.

 – Acidity.

 – Dyspepsia from over-lifting; from tobacco.

 – Voracious appetite, or no appetite; sudden craving, sudden satiety.

 – Sense of something twisting about the stomach and rising into the throat.

 – Distress or pain in stomach agg. vomiting.

 – Eructations; milky, sour, bitter, rancid; of tough, foamy mucus.

 Abdomen

 – Pain in the region of liver or gall bladder agg. stooping.

 – Liver sore and painful amel. lying on right side.

 – Falling out or heavy bearing down feeling in hypogastrium amel. by holding it or crossing legs.

 – Pot-belly of mothers.

 – Constipation obstinate, no urging for days.

 – Large hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum.

 – Rectum constricted and powerless, almost constant oozing from anus.

 – Diarrhoea; greenish, infantile; from boiled milk, with rapid exhaustion.

 – Piles; prolapsing; agg. walking, bleed while walking, with sticking pain; of pregnancy.

 – Stools, then gelatinous mucus.

 – Pains shoot up in rectum.

 – Brown spots on abdomen.

 – Stools are passed after prolonged straining, followed by cupful of jelly-like yellow-while, very offensive mucus.

 – Prolapse of rectum after smoking.

 – Sense of weight or ball in anus not amel. by stool.

 Urination

 – Involuntary urination during first sleep; agg. coughing, sneezing; laughing; hearing sudden noise, fright or inattention esp. in women, etc.

 – Slow urination, with bearing down sensation above pubis.

 – Urine Thick, Foul; white gritty or Adherent Red Sandy Sediment.

 – Urine feeble, slow.

 – Cutting pain in bladder before urination.

 – Urine; bloody, milky.

 – Shuddering when urging for urine is not attended to.

 Male

 – Sexual desire increased.

 – Complaints after coition.

 – Offensive perspiration on scrotum.

 – Genitals cold.

 – Condylomata surrounding head of penis.

 – Impotency.

 Female

 – WEAK, DRAGGING or BEARING DOWN SENSATION, as it everything would escape from vulva; must cross limbs or hold parts to prevent protrusion.

 – Gripping, burning or sticking in uterus.

 – Coition; painful; from dryness of vagina; bleeding after.

 – Dryness of vagina and vulva; after menses; causing disagreeable sensation when walking.

 – Aversion to coition, or complaints after.

 – Menses; absent; at puberty; after weaning.

 – Menses; too late, and scanty; irregular; early and profuse.

 – Labia swelled; abscessed.

 – Leucorrhoea; yellow, greenish, milky, in large lumps, in little girls; instead of menses, foul; gonorrhoeal; with stitches up in vagina from uterus to navel; during day.

 – Nipples cracked across the crown.

 – Retained placenta; after abortion.

 – Sub-involution.

 – Exhaustion after coition.

 – Nausea and irritability on thought of coition.

 – Amenorrhoea.

 – Metritis with pain in lumbar region and frequent urination.

 – Motion of foetus is intolerable.

 – Metrorrhagia at the time of climaxis.

 – Sudden flushes of heat, wtih weakness and sweat during climaxis.

 – Tendency to abortion; from 5th to 7th month.

 – Severe itching in vulva causing abortion.

 – Sterility.

 – Mania from profuse menses.

 Respiratory

 – Dry, fatiguing cough, as if coming from stomach; agg. rapid change of temperature; with foul sputum.

 – Whooping cough that drags on.

 – Dyspnoea, agg. after sleep amel. rapid motion.

 – Sensation of emptiness in chest.

 – Hypostatic pleuritis.

 – Brown spots on chest.

 – Rotten egg taste with coughing.

 – Asthma.

 – Chest symptoms amel. by pressure of hand.

 – Neglected pneumonia.

 Heart

 – Circulation irregualr; seems to stagnate.

 – Palpitation; visible, ascends to occiput.

 – And occasional hard thump of the heart.

 – General pulsations.

 – Ebullitions at night.

 – Overfull blood vessels.

 – Wakes up with violent beating of heart.

 – Tremulous feeling with flushes.

 – Nervous palpitation amel. walking fast; agg. lying on left side.

 Neck and back

 – Collar feels tight.

 – Aching in inter-scapular or Lumber Region; paralytic; wants to be pressed.

 – Sudden pain in back, as if struck by a hammer agg. stooping; kneeling.

 – Pain in back amel. eructations, by pressing back against something hard.

 – Weakness in small of back when walking; from uterine disease.

 – Everything affects the back.

 – Icy coldness between the scapulae.

 – Cramps in buttocks when stretching out legs.

 Extremities

 – Hands purple.

 – Cold hands in warm room.

 – Tension in limbs as if they were too short.

 – Limbs restless, twitching and jerking day and night.

 – Knees and heels cold.

 – Sciatica amel. during pregnancy; chronic, localizing in heels.

 – Sensation of running, as from a mouse in lower limbs.

 – Hot hands with cold feet or vice versa.

 – A short walk fatigues much.

 – Crippled nails.

 – Hands sweaty.

 – Skin in palms peels off.

 Skin

 – Blotched; raw, rough, hard or cracked; agg. flexures.

 – Boils in axilla.

 – Thick crusts on elbows.

 – Ulcers, on small joints.

 – Epithelioma; on eyelids, lips.

 – Wine coloured skin.

 – Spots on skin.

 – Ringworm agg. every spring.

 – Itching vesicles.

 – Urticaria agg. open air amel. warm room.

 – Thick crusts form upon the joints.

 – Indurations from constant pressure; with purple colour.

 Sleep

 – Talks loudly during sleep.

 – Dreams, agg. if he lies on left side.

 – Wakes frequently or as he has been called.

 Fever

 – Easily chilled.

 – Chilly with air hunger.

 – Cold; in spots; on vertex; between scapulae; feet, in bed.

 – Anxious hot flushes preceded by sudden weakness.

 – Sweat; easy; offensive, with orgasms; on genitals, in axillae; or back between menses.

 – Irregular fevers.

 – Heat ascending or as if hot water were poured over him.

 Complementary

 – Nat-m; Nux-v; Pho; Psor; Pul; Sabad; Sul.

 Related

 – Calc-c; Caus; Con; Gel; Lil-t; Lyc; Mur-x; Nat-c; Nat-m; Pul.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica