SEPIA OFFICINALIS COMMON NAME : CUTTLEFISH PROVER : SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
MOLLUSCA MOLLUSCA DERIVED FROM LATIN WORD MOLLUSCUS WHICH MEANS SOFT SOFT BODY INVERTEBRATES “NEED SOMETHING HARD TO PROTECT”
INTRODUCTION ALSO KNOWN AS WASHERWOMAN REMEDY KINGDOM – ANIMAL KINGDOM PHYLUM - MOLLUSCA CLASS - CEPHALOPOD
IT IS MADE FROM THE INK OF CUTTLE FISH MAIN FEELING – SHE IS FORCED TO UNDERTAKE THINK OPPOSED TO HER INTENTION HER BODY IS DISFIGURED AND UNATTRACTIVE
HOMOEOPATHIC PARAMETERS COMPLEXION- UNHEALTHY YELLOW OR PALE BROWN COLOR TEMPERAMENT – NERVOUS THERMAL – CHILLY MIASM- SYCO –SYPHILITIC
FEATURES OF SEPIA GOOD INTELLECT AND SHARP MINDED (LARGE BODY:BRAIN) CHAMELEON OF SEA – ABILITY TO CHANGE COLOUR TO ATTACK AND FOR PROTECTION PRODUCE INK TO CONFUSE PREY INK CONTAIN PURE MELANIN(CHLOASMA AND HYPERPIGMENTATION SEXUALITY HIGH (1F:10 M) NO CARE FROM PARENTS, VISION DEVELOPED IN EGG ITSELF, BORN ORPHAN
PROVING THE IDEA OF PROVING SEPIA DAWNED ON HAHNEMANN WHEN HE FOUND COMPLEX LOT OF SYMPTOM IN A FRIEND OF HIS, AN ARTIST WHO WAS IN THE HABIT OF WETTING HIS BRUSH 🖌️ HAHNEMANN PUBLISHED PATHOGENESIS OF SEPIA IN FIRST EDITION OF CHRONIC DISEASE (1828) .
DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
Colour CHAMELEON OF SEA (GREATER POWER OF CHANGING COLOR THAN ANY OTHER CEPHALOPODS) MOODS ARE TYPICAL OF SEPIA SUBJECT TEARS MAY ALTERNATE WITH FITS OF PETULANT ANGER
SHAPE RESEMBLANCE TO HUMAN UTERUS AND IT’S APPENDAGES TENTACLES RESEMBLE THE FALLOPIAN TUBE MORE ABOUT SEPIA SWIMS ALONE( SOLITARY ) CONSTANTLY MOVES HIS FINS AND TENTACLES ( WASHERWOMEN REMEDY) CONSTANT EFFORTS TO COME OUT OF THE SHELL( NEED FOR FREEDOM+INDEPENDENCE)
CONSTITUTION
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE BODY – LIKE TRADITIONAL IMAGE OF THE WITCHES THEY TEND TO BE VERY THIN ,BONY AND HAVE LONG,THIN LIMBS,DIGITS AND NECK SLIM WAIST, WOMEN WHO HAS MALE TYPE OF PELVIS
POT BELLIED, YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS NOSE OLD WRINKLED WITH SPOTS TELL TALE FACE- UTERINE COMPLAINTS BUTTERFLY PIGMENTATION ON CHEEKS TENDENCY TO ABORTION BALL LIKE SENSATION IN THE INNER PART FAINT FROM LEAST EXERTION
PREPARATION TRITURATION ARE PREPARED FROM DRIED LIQUID FROM INK BAG OF CUTTLEFISH
Journey of molluscs Oyster ( completely shelled animal)➡️shell less animal Importance of the shell- security and for existence or living Inside shell- secure,happy,cheerful Outside the shell- timid,insecure,anxious Journey from the shelled body to the non shelled body shows the libertinism (to break the shell,to be independent)
SYPHILITIC : a)Absent minded b)Company aversion c)Business aversion d)Indifference to everyone e)Loathing of life f)aversion to occupation g)depression on awakening in morning
FEW SYMPTOMS FROM PROVINGS TENDENCY TO RELAXATION OF MUSCLES a)Tendency to abortion b)Prolapse of uterus FAINTNESS Sensitive & Faint easily a)Increase in temperature b)Riding in carriage c)Strong smell
Physical Symptoms Suited to diseases of women during pregnancy, child bed, climacteric. Diseases attended with sudden prostration,& sinking faintness. [Murex, Nux mos ] Washer women’s remedy, complaints are brought up by laundry work; i.e., aggravation. Sepia is a chilly remedy from lack of vital heat, “chills so easily”; esp ; in case of c/c diseases
“Faints easily” is a note of sepia weakness: after getting wet; from extreme of heat& cold; riding carriage; kneeling at church. Sensation of a ball in inner parts, during menses, pregnancy, lactation, and all uterine complaints. Pains extended from other parts to the back( rev - sabina ) attended with shuddering( with chillness Puls ). Erythism , flushes of heat from least motion, with anxitey&faintness , perspiration all over whole body
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Remedy relationship Complimentary - Natrium mur. Inimical - To lachesis,should not be used before or after; to,puls., With which it should never be alternated. Similar - To lach.,sang,,ust.,in climacteric irregularities of the circulation