(Cuttlefish Ink)
Acts specially on the portal system, with venous
congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery.
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women,
upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pain extend down to
back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with
weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy fainting.
"Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brunettes. All pains
are from below up. One of the most important uterine remedies. Tubercular
patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. Feels
cold even in warm room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum. | ||
| Mind.
Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to
family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. Very
sad. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening;
indolent. | ||
| Head. Vertigo,
with sensation of something rolling round in head. Prodromal symptoms of
apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in
forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful
side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache
in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls
out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near
hair. | ||
| Nose. Thick,
greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts. Yellowish saddle across
nose. Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain
at root of nose. Chronic nasal catarrh, especially postnasal, dropping of
heavy, lumpy discharges; must be hawked through the mouth. | ||
| Eyes. Muscular
asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and
in connection with uterine trouble. Aggravation of eye troubles morning and
evening. Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of
the fundus. | ||
| Ears. Herpes
behind ears on nape of neck. Pain as if from subcutaneous ulceration.
Swelling and eruption of external ear. | ||
| Face. Yellow
blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth. Rosacea; saddle-like brownish
distribution on nose and cheeks. | ||
| Mouth. Tongue
white. Taste salty, putrid. Tongue foul, but clears during menses. Swelling
and cracking of lower lip. Pain in teeth from 6 p.m. until midnight; worse
on lying. | ||
| Stomach.
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating. [Carbo-an.] Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea
worse lying on side. Tobacco dyspepsia. Everything tastes too salty.
[Carbo-v.; Chin.] Band of pain
about four inches wide encircling hypochondria. Nausea in morning before
eating. Disposition to vomit after eating. Burning in pit of stomach.
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles. Worse, after milk,
especially when boiled. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour
eructations. Loathes fat. | ||
| Abdomen.
Flatulent, with headache. Liver sore and painful; relieved by
lying on right side. Many brown spots on abdomen. Feeling of relaxation
and bearing-down in abdomen. | ||
| Rectum.
Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum. Constipation; large, hard stools;
feeling of a ball in rectum; cannot strain; with great tenesmus and
pains shooting upward. Dark brown, round balls glued together with
mucus. Soft stool, difficult. Prolapsus ani. [Podo.]
Almost constant oozing from anus. Infantile diarrhea, worse from
boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion. Pains shoot up in rectum and
vagina. | ||
| Urine. Red,
adhesive, sand in urine. Involuntary urination, during first
sleep. Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation
above pubis. | ||
| Male. Organs
cold. Offensive perspiration. Gleet; discharge from urethra only during
night; no pain. Condylomata surround head of penis. Complaints from
coition. | ||
| Female. Pelvic
organs relaxed. Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape
through vulva [Bell.; Nat-c.; Podo.]; must cross limbs
to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhea yellow, greenish:
with much itching. Menses too late and scanty, irregular; early
and profuse; sharp clutching pains. Violent stitches upward in the
vagina, from uterus to umbilicus. Prolapse of uterus and vagina.
Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition. | ||
| Respiratory.
Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach. Rotten egg taste with
coughing. Oppression of chest morning and evening. Dyspnea; worse, after
sleep; better, rapid motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration,
tasting salty. [Phos.] Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping
cough that drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or
chest. | ||
| Heart. Violent,
intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with
flushes. | ||
| Back.
Weakness in small of back. Pains extend into back. Coldness between
shoulders. | ||
| Extremities.
Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if too short. Heaviness and
bruised feeling. Restlessness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings
night and day. Pain in heel. Coldness of legs and feet. | ||
| Fever. Frequent
flushes of heat; sweat from least motion. General lack of warmth of body.
Feet cold and wet. Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards
evening. | ||
| Skin. Herpes
circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in
bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth
and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open
air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet,
worse on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with
offensive odor of skin. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, forenoons and evenings; washing, laundry work, dampness, left
side, after sweat; cold air, before thunderstorm. Better, by
exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot applications, drawing limbs
up, cold bathing, after sleep. | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Nat-m.; Phos.
Nux Vomica intensifies action. Inimical: Lach.; Puls. Compare: Sil.; Sulph. | ||
| Dose. Twelfth,
thirtieth and two hundredth potency. Should not be used too low or be
repeated too frequently. On the other hand Dr. Jousset's unique experience
is that it should be continued for some time in strong doses. 1X twice a day. |