Sepia

1. COMMON NAME- C uttle fish FAMILY- Mollusca This is one of the important contribution in homoeopathy by MASTER HAHNEMANN Preparation: from ink bag of the cuttle fish Acts especially on the portal system,with venous congestion & on the female genital organs SEPIA OFFICINALI S PRESENTED BY: PARUL, 54/10, IV BHMS,NHMC.

2. •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

3. 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

4. Faints easily: while kneeling at church; from extremes of heat or cold

5. Chilly patient: sensitive to cold air Desires : Aversions :

6. MENTAL GENERALS Indifferent DREAD OF BEING ALONE GREAT SADNESS & WEEPING MISERLY GREEDY GREAT ANXIETY (To those whom she loves best) Think about imaginary evils

7. Headache in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus,with scanty flow Great falling of the hair < stooping,mental labour > By external pressure HEAD COMPLAINTS

8. A YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS UPPER PART OF THE CHEEKS AND NOSE YELLOWNESS of FACE and CONJUNCTIVA A “TELL TALE FACE” of uterine ailments FACE AND MOUTH

9. • 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.

10. • 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

11. •GLEET • Painless, yellowish, staining linen • Meatus glued together in the morning • Sexual organs week & exhausted MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

12. •Prolapse of uterus & vagina Pressure & 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

13. • DYSPNEA < sitting, after sleep, in room >dancing or walking rapidly RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

14. • 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

15. MODALITIES AGGRAVATION : 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

16. 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