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A word about the author
Dr. Krishna Kumar Peddibhotla
hails from Andhra Padresh. His birth place is
He is a product of two
university. He had obtained his degree of law from the latter University and a
Sanad from Bar Council then known as
In 1967, answering to the call
of Smt. Indira Gandhi, he had given up his law practice in Bombay and went to
live in a small tehsil town, accepting a job as an administrator of the
properties belonging to the Sri Dwarakadhish Mandir, which is part of the
estate of H.H. the late Maharaja of
Kankroli. He worked in this capacity for over seventeen years.
There can be no doubt that for a
person, who has not participated in actual practice of medecine, to maintain
persistent enthusiasm in the subject for such a long period of four decades is
a creditable performance.
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The author promises to
contribute his best to the propagation of homoeopathy.
He looks for encouragement from
the homoeopathic fraternity in his efforts.
He would be glad to receive any
suggestions from the learned readers.
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Acknowledgment
Indirectly I owe my present
occupation of writing books on homoeopathy to my brother Dr. P. Raj Gopal Rao,
a veteran homoeopath of thirty odd years standing and a voracious writer, not
only on homoeopathy but on various other subjects also.
Directly I am grateful to the
old masters of yesteryears whom I consult constantly. In ny attempt to produce
a book on homoeopathy I refer to masters of the profession like Dr. Kent, Dr.
Farrington, Dr. Hering, Dr. Allen and others. They are the inspiration behind my
sincere endeavours.
I acknowledge my gratitude to B.
Jain Publishers P. Ltd,
I must also say a world of
thanks to my better half, Smt. P. Navaneet Priya, for her silent co-operation
when I so assiduouly engage myself in writing. For over fifteen years I have
been in the habit of composing various works mostly on religious topics and I
can understand how hard it could be on the domestic front.
My grandfather, Sri Subba Rayudu
Garu, is one of the pioneer homoeopaths the century. I would be ungrateful if I
do not pay a silent tribute in his memory for he was the person who laid the
foundation for three generations of homoeopaths in our family. But for the
efforts of my father Sri P. Krishna Sastry Garu I would not have gone to the
homoeopathic college.
Introduction
Gynaecological diseases are very
common among womenfolk of all ages, from puberty till after menopause.
Leucorrhoea; painful, scanty or excessive menses; irregularity of periods, etc.
are the chief problems faced by the fair sex, and many of the victims suffer in
silence out of shyness, or resort to simple pain-killers, rather than
approaching a doctor for proper treatment.
Homoeopathic materia medica is
replete with drugs covering all such maladies of the women. In this book the
author has attempted to present these drugs with their special characteristic
symptoms in relation to specific female diseases so that not only the busy
physician can get the help of this ready-reckoner but also intelligent females
can purposefully make use of it as a domestic guide.
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Commonly used remedies
Aconitum napellus
Menses too profuse with bleeding
from nose. They are late and too protected. Patient turns frenzied at the
appearance of menses.
In plethoric females menses are
suppressed when they are frightened or exposed to cold.
Vagina is dry, hot, sensitive to
touch. Ovaries are congested, painful; sharp, shooting pains in womb.
Even in “after-pains” one will
observe the characteristic fear and restlessness.
When you treat a patient
homoeopathically you should not overlook the intrinsic qualities of the drug
you administer.
Fear and anxiety run through
every complaint of Aconitum nap. Another important feature is the suddenness of
the appearance of symptoms. Complaints and tension are caused by exposure to
“dry cold weather”. Burning in internal parts is also seen commonly.
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Acon. Nap. Is remembered in
functional disease. It should never be given when pathological changes have
taken place.
Characteristic colic is seen in
menses suppressed due to anger or fear. Pain will force the patient to bend
double. “Yet relief does not come”.
During pregnancy Acon. Nap. May
be given if there are certain mental symptoms like fear of death, excitable
temperament etc. The patient does not want to cross the street for fear of
something untoward happening.
Another peculiar condition is
that she is intolerant of music. Sounds are unbearable.
In puerperal fevers she may even
predict the hour of death (
During labour the pains are
unnaturally violent, rapid and frequent. The patient will complain that she
cannot bear the pain. She is restless and anxious. In addition the body will be
covered with “hot sweat”.
The mammary glands will be hot,
swollen and dry, associated with restlessness and anxiety.
Lochia will be suppressed from
exposure or due to some violent emotion – but it must be accompanied by high
fever, thirst, and anxiety.
Same conditions will be observed
even in puerperal fever.
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Aesculus hippocastanum
hen leucorrhoea appears the
patient will feel her back lame across the sacro-iliac joint. It is dark,
yellow, sticky, corrosive and worse after menses.
this drug has a marked action on
the lower bowels . It produces engorged haemorrhoidal veins with that
characteristic “back-ache”.
Every function of the body is
slowed down, wheter it is digestion, heart or bowels ect. The patient is
depressed and confused and irritable.
Antimonium crudum
The patient is much concerned
about her fate. She is cross and contradictive. Nothing can satisfy her. She
does not wish to speak. Is peevish, vexed, without any apparent cause. She is
excited.
Part itch. Toothache before
menses. Menses are too early, profuse or suppressed from “cold bathing”, with
feeling of pressure in pelvis. Tenderness in ovarian region in observed.
Leucorrhoea is watery, acrid,
lumpy.
”nose is covered with crusts and
face with pimples and pustules. Cracks are found in the corners of mouth”.
Patient is worse while “washing,
from heat, in evening and better in open air and during rest”.
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It is also found useful in the
prolapsus of uterus, with constant bearing down feeling as if something is
pushing out of vagina. The ovarian region is tender particularly when menses
were suppressed by “cold bathing”.
Arnica montana
This remedy has the ability to
produce conditions similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows,
contusions, overuse of organs, strains etc.
It can also be thought of in
mental traumatic conditions like grief, remorse or sudden realisation of
financial loss.
Body aches as if beaten. Joints
feel as if sprained. Bed feels too hard.
Parts feel bruised after labour.
Violent “after-pains”. Uterine haemorrhage after mechanical injury or after
coition. Sore nipples.
Patient feels as if fœtus were
lying crosswise.
The patient is worse “with least
touch, motion, rest and damp and cold”. She is better “lying down with head
low”.
Arsenicum album
Menses are two profuse and too
soon. There is burning in ovarian region.
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Leucorrhoea is acrid, with
burning, offensive, thin discharge.
Pain are as if from “red hot
wires”, worst with least exertion, causes great fatigue. She is better in “warm
room”.
All Arsenicum patients are
aggravated by wet weather, after midnight, by cold and cold drinks. They feel
better from heat,” from head elevated”, and from warm drinks.
An arsenicum patient is
recognised by the prevailing debility, exhaustion and restlessness. “Burning
pains better for heat” and “unquenchable thirst for sips” also run through all
complaints.
Aurum metallicum
You find enlargement of uterus
and its prolapse. Vagina is sensitive. You find vaginismus in many cases.
Sterility is a marked symptom of
this drug.
In the background of all
symptoms, Aurum met has syphilis. It produces mental derangement. The patient
is depressed, despondent and has passion for suicide. These you can take as guiding
symptoms.
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Argentum nitricum
Gastralgia is observed at the
beginning of menses. Then she will have intense spasms in chest muscles, which
indicate this drug.
Nervous erethism at the change
of life is seen. Leucorrhoea is profuse with erosion of cervix. The patient
bleeds easily. Uterine haemorrhage two weeks after menses.
Neurotic effects are indicative
of this drug. Some of the noteworthy indications are symptoms of
inco-ordination and loss of control. Mentally and physically unbalanced.
It produces violent inflammation
of throat and marked gastro-enteritis. The patient craves “sweets”.
The pains are “splinter-like”.
She looks “withered and dried up”. Pains increase and decrease “gradually”. She
looks “prematurely old”. For her time passes “slowly”.
Baptisia tinctoria
mental depression causes
threatened miscarriage. Shock, watching and low fevers also may cause it.
Menses are too early and
profuse. Lochia is acrid and fetid. Puerperal fever follows.
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In the backdrop of all ailments
the drug shows low fevers, septic conditions of blood, malarial poisoning and
extreme prostration.
Breath and all secretions like
stool, urine, sweat etc. are fetid and foul smelling.
During fever she thinks that she
is broken in parts. She tosses in bed, attempting to gather the pieces.
Belladonna
Sensation of forcing downwards
as if all internal parts would protrude from the genitals. Dryness and heat in
vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacral region.
Increased menses, bright red in
colour, too early and too profuse. Haemorrhagic blood hot. Cutting pain from
hip to hip. Menses and lochia are very offensive and hot.
Labour pains come and go
suddenly.
Mastitis gives pain. Throbbing.
Redness. Pain radiates from nipple. Breasts heavy, hard and red. Tumours of
breast, pain worse while lying down.
Smelly, hot blood gushes. Lochia
gets diminished.
All symptoms become worse by
touch, jar noise, draught, in the afternoon, by lying down, and are better when
in semi-erect position.
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A peculiar feature of Bell is:
“dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water”.
Dr. Farrington gives some very
interesting symptoms showing Bell’s action on female genital organs.
This drug causes constant
violent bearing down which is “ worse on lying down and relieved by standing”?
He adds that Sepia is opposite of this. Acon also has bearing down but there it
is worse from rest and relieved by motion.
He further mentions that the
menses are early, copious, bright red, with cramp-like pains in the back, arms
etc. Painful congestive dysmenorrhoea. Both menses and lochia are offensive
without any apparent putridity. Blood pours out and is hot.
Contraction of uterus. Pain in
back as if it would “break”. Bell may be used during labour when the os does
not dilate. A few doses are sufficient to correct it, Dr. Farrington assures.
Bryonia alba
Menses are too early, too
profuse and worse from motion, with tearing pain in legs. Menses are sometimes
suppressed with vicarious discharges or splitting headache. Stitching pains in
ovaries “on taking deep inspiration”. Very sensitive to touch. Pain in right
ovary as if torn, extending to thigh. (Compare: Lilium tig., Croc.)
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In milk-fever she feels pain in
breasts at menstrual period. Breasts are hot, painful, hard. Abscess of mammae.
Menstrual irregularities with gastric symptoms. Inflammation of ovaries.
Intermenstrual pain with great abdominal and pelvic soreness (Ham.).
All symptoms turn worse by
warmth, by any motion, in the morning, by eating, in hot weather, by exertion,
on touching. She feels better when she is lying on the painful side, i.e. , by
pressure, while resting and with cold things.
The guiding symptoms of Bry are:
She is irritable; will have vertigo while raising head, will have pressive
headache; parched lips and mouth; excessive thirst.
Dr. Farrington says that Bry is
indicated in menstrual difficulties when the flow is dark-red and profuse. It
is more useful when normal flow will be totally suppressed. Vicarious
menstruation. (compare Puls; Phos; Senecio; Hamamelis; Ustilago; Millefolium.)
This drug is more effective in
milk-fever when the fever is not very marked but there is tension in breasts
with headache.
Calcarea carbonica
Headache, colic, chilliness and
leucorrhoea precede menses. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses
are too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, tooth-ache and cold damp
feet. Least excitement brings the menses back.
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Uterus is easily displaced. Leucorrhoea
milky (Sepia). Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation.
One strange symptom of this
medicine is that menses appear in little girls.
Conception is easy. Breasts are
tender and swollen before menses.
Milk will be too abundant but is
disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation with distended breasts. Much sweat
about external genitals. Sterility is noticed with copious menses.
The patient is worse from
exertion, cold in every form, water, washing, moist air, wet weather and during
full moon. She is better in dry climate. She finds relief on lying on the
painful side.
Near menorrhagia is provoked by
over exertion and by strong emotions. You will find sweat on the head but feet
will be cold.
Trillium pendulum is suggested
when the flow of menses exhausts the patient very much. Use 6 th potency for
best effect. (Dr. Farrington)
Leucorrhoea of Calc carb is
profuse with itching and burning. Leucorrhoea is found in small girls before
puberty, even in infants.
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Carbo vegetabilis
Menses are premature, too
copious, pale blood. Vulva is swollen. Leucorrhoea appears before menses which
is thick, greenish, milky, excoriating (Kreosote). The patient will complain
about “burning in hands and soles” during menses.
She is worse in the evening,
from fat foods, from eating butter, drinking coffee, milk. Warm damp weather
affects her. She feels better from eructations, from fanning, from cold.
The typical Carbo veg. Patient
is sluggish, fat, and lazy. She has a tendency to chronicity in her complaints.
Body turns blue and icy cold. The patient may appear almost lifeless. Breath
will be cold. Craves fresh air. She dislikes darkness, is afraid of ghosts.
Causticum
Uterine inertia during labour
(Kali c.). Menses cease at night. Flow is seen only during the day (Cycl.;
Puls.).
Leucorrhoea also appear at night
with great weakness (Nat. Mur.). Menses are delayed (Con.; Graph.; Puls.).
Her complaints are aggravated by
dry cold winds, she feels bad in clear fine weather, she is upset by the motion
of vehicle. She feels better in damp, wet weather and warmth gives her relief.
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If you observe the skin you will
find it dirty, white and sallow, with warts especially on face. She is restless
at night.
Chamomilla
Uterine haemorrhage with profuse
discharge of clotted blood, dark in colour, with labour-like pains.
Labour pains are spasmodic and
press upwards (Gels.). Patient is intolerant of pain (Caul., Caust., Gels.,
Hyos., Puls.). Nipples are inflamed, tender to touch. “Even infants feel their
breast tender”. Yellow acrid Leucorrhoea (Ars., Sep., Sulph.).
Her symptoms are aggravated by
heat, anger, in open air, by wind and at night. She is better in warm wet
weather.
All Chamomilla patients are
sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot and numb. Pains become unendurable and are
associated with numbness.
Dr. Farrington says that a
patient of Chamomilla, whether it is a child or a woman in labour or a person
with toothache will be cross and excitable. “Unless this mental excitable state
is present it will not show its effect”.
This medicine is required in
lying-in room when labour pains begin in the back and pass down the inner side
of thighs. There will be great nervous excitement. Labour seems exceedingly
painful. Lochia will be dark and too profuse. The after-pains will be violent
and intolerable.
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This drug is also indicated in
threatened abortion, caused by anger, when there is a flow of dark red blood.
China officinalis
China is a very deep acting medicine.
While looking into physiological symptoms of the patient the physician should
not overlook its constitutional characteristics.
You will find menses too early
with dark clots. In such cases you will find the abdomen distended. Menses are
profuse followed by pain.
During this period she will have
“strong desire”.
Leucorrhoea is intermingled with
blood. Painful heaviness in pelvic region. She is worse by slightest touch,
draught of air, every other day, due to loss of vital fluids, at night, after
eating and by bending over. She feels better by bending double, by hard
pressure, in open air.
When you see a China patient you
must at once recognise the causes behind, like debility from exhausting
discharges and loss of vital fluids. Nervous erethism. Marked periodicity.
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This remedy is seldom indicated
in the earlier stages of an acute disease. Her disposition will be to other
people’s feeling. She is disobedient. Taciturn. Ideas crowd in mind and prevent
sleep.
Cuprum metallicum
Menses are too late and
protracted. More marked are the cramps in chest before or during menses, or
after suppression of menses. She may have these cramps as a result of
“suppressed foot sweats” (Sil) also. Discharge of blood with palpitation.
The patient is worse before
menses, from vomiting, and better during perspiration. Drinking cold water
gives relief.
In Cup met. The symptoms have a
periodicity. Complaints have left-sidedness (Lachesis). An other important sign
is “nausea” which is greater than in any other medicine.
Dulcamara
Menses are suppressed on
exposure to cold and dampness. Before the appearance of menses you will observe
a rash coming up on the skin or she may be sexually excited. Dismenorrhoea with
blotches all over. Mammae engorged and sore, delicate and sensitive to cold.
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The symptoms of this patient are
worse at night, from cold, from damp rainy weather. She will be better from
moving about in external warm atmosphere. Its symptoms appear when days are hot
and nights are cold. Diarrhoea will appear if exposed to wet weather. The
complaints are relieved while she moves constantly. She is also affected when
she sits on damp cold ground. People working or living in damp cold basements
also come under the influence of this drug.
Gelsemium sempervirens
This patient has rigid os
(Bell.). Suffers from vaginismus. Has false labour pains, which pass up the
back. Dysmenorrhoea with scanty flow. Menses retarded. Pains extend to back
hips.
Aphonia and sore throat during
menses.
Sensation as if uterus were
squeezed (Cham., Nux vom., Ustilago).
This drug has also aggravation
from damp weather, before “thunder-storm”. Patient is excited from bad news.
Feels bad when thinking of her “ailments”. She is worse at
The chief symptoms of this drug
are “general prostration, dizziness and trembling. Muscular weakness”. “She is
sensitive to falling barometer”.
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Dampness brings on many
complaints. She desires to be alone. Fright, fear and excitement from hearing
bad news.
Dr. Farrington considers Gels.
As an invaluable remedy in diseases of female sexual organs.
You have to differentiate the
rigid os of Gels. With Bell where it is followed by spasms.
In labour it has tardy dilation
of the os, unyielding, hard and thick. Patient turns hysterical. She becomes
excited. Pains shoot upwards from uterus. Sensation of a wave rising from
uterus to throat. Complete atony of uterus. The neck of uterus is soft as putty
and is flabby. Thus you observe that Gels. Has both rigidity of os and
sometimes the opposite.
Gels. Is an admirable medicine
in the premonitory stages of puerperal convulsions. They are preceded by
drowsiness, twitching of parts of body. The os is either rigid or perfectly
inactive. Pains in abdomen go backward and upward.
Gels is useful in neuralgic and
congestive type of dysmenorrhoea when bearing down co-exists. (Caulophy.
Follows it well often)
Gels. Should be thought of in
bad effects of emotions, particularly after fright. A sudden appearance of
diarrhoea as from stage fright etc. (Opium, Verat alb., Arg. nit., Puls.).
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Gels. May avert impending
abortion from depressing emotions with peculiar pains mentioned in connection
with labour. (Compare with Acon. And Opium).
Hepar sulphur
Discharge of blood from uterus.
Itching of pudenda, worse during menses which are late and scanty. Abscess of
labia with great sensitiveness. Leucorrhoea is extremely offensive. Smells like
cheese (Sanicula).
Profuse perspiration at the
climacteric (Tilia, Jaborandi). She is worse from dry cold winds. Slightest
draught upsets her. She is aggravated by touch. Cannot lie on painful side.
She feels better in damp
weather, likes wrapping the head up and after eating.
This medicine is best suited to
constitutions inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. She is
sensitive to all impressions.
During sweating she pulls the
blanket over. The tendency of suppuration is marked. She has also this
sensation that wind were blowing on some part of her body. Mentally she is sad
and low spirited. recollects all past unpleantnesses. Her memory is week.
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Ignatia amara
Menses are early, black, too
profuse or scanty. During menses she feels lack of vigour with spasmodic pains
in stomach and abdomen. Sexual rigidity is observed in the patient.
All complaints arise from
suppressed grief. She is worse in the morning, open air, after meals, after
consuming coffee. She is better while eating and by changing position.
Patients are sensitive, of
easily excitable nature, dark, with mild disposition. They are quick to
perceive, rapid in execution, who suffer acutely in mind and body.
Dr. Farrington adds that these
women are burdened with grief and talk about their troubles in secret. They are
hysterical, exhibit changeable mood, alternately laugh and cry - a
kind of hysterical palsy. Convulsions after grief.
Nervous type of women in labour
require Ignite for spasms. Menstrual colic with bearing down feeling. Pains
relieved by pressure, by lying down and by change of position.
Ignite is also useful in
prolapsed of anus, with sharp shooting pains in rectum which are better while
sitting.
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Ipecacuanha
Uterine haemorrhage, profuse,
bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. (Ant t., Arg nit., Nux
vom., Tabac., Sep., Sulph.). Pain from navel to uterus. Menses are too early
and profuse.
She is worse from warm winds and
lying down. The principal feature is its persistent nausea and vomiting.
Haemorrhage is bright red and has periodicity.
Lycopodium clavatum
Menses are too late, last too
long, vagina dry, coition painful (Arg nit., Berb., Kreos.). Pain in right
ovarian region, varicose veins of pudenla. Leucorrhoea with burning in vagina.
Discharge of blood from genitals during stool.
Patient has right sided
affections which move from above downward, aggravation from 4 to 8 p.m. ,
suffers while lying on left side. She is better by motion, after midnight, when
uncovered. The symptoms develop gradually where the liver is associated. They
run from right to left. Lycopodium patient is thin, withered, full of gas and
dry.
Mercurius solubilis
Menses are profuse and accompanied
by abdominal pains. Leucorrhoea is excoriating, greenish and bloody. Sensation
of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries (Apis). Itching, burning. Worse
after urinating. Better washing with cold water.
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Morning sickness with profuse
salivation. Mammae painful and full of milk at the time of menses. The patient
is generally affected by warmth of bed, damp and cold rainy weather.
Perspiration is profuse and oily and does not relieve.
Mentally she is slow in
answering questions. Her memory is weak. You can see that she has lost her will
power. She is weary of life.
Opium
Menses are suppressed from
fright. Cessation of labour pains with coma and twitching. Puerperal
convulsions. Drowsiness between paroxysms.
Threatened abortion and suppression
of lochia from fright with stupor. Horrible labour-like pains in uterus with
urging to stool.
The general condition of Opium
is the insensibility of the nervous system. Depression and drowsiness are seen
in all complaints. The complaints are painless accompanied by heavy stupid
sleep, with stertorous breathing.
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The patient does not want
anything. She is affected by heat, during and after sleep, is better by cold
things and constant walking.
According to Dr. Farrington,
puerperal fever when caused by fright requires Opium. The patients will find
the discharge from uterus fetid.
The guiding symptom through all
the complaints of Opium is “stupor”.
Phosphorus
Fistulous tracks after mammary
abscess. Slight haemorrhage from uterus between periods. Menses are too early
and scanty but last too long. Weeps before menses.
Stitching pains in mammae.
Leucorrhoea profuse, smarting, corrosive and comes instead of menses.
Amenorrhoea with vicarious menstruation (Bry).
Suppuration of mammae.
Discharges burn, are watery and offensive.
Nymphomania.
The patient is worse by touch,
cannot bear physical or mental exertion. Warm food or drink disagrees. Change
of weather brings complaints. She is worse when she gets wet, in hot weather,
lying on left side, or on painful side, during a thunderstorm.
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We find her feeling better in
dark, lying on right side, open air, washing with cold water.
Phosphorus patients are
generally tall, slender, weakened by loss of animal fluids.
They are sensitive to light,
sound, odours, electrical changes and thunderstorms. They will have a
background of tertiary syphilis.
In the opinion of Dr. Farrington
this drug affects the female sexual organs very prominently. The patient weeps
very often, overpowered by sad moods. It is indicated in checked menses - in
amenorrhoea - when menstruation becomes vicarious and
either epistaxis will follow or she will have haematuria.
The inflamed mammary gland will
have an erysipelatous appearance. Red streak radiates from it.
Pulsatilla pratensis
Amenorrhoea is commonly observed
(Cimicif., Senec., Polyg.). Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility
or chlorosis. Tardy menses, appear too late, scanty, thick, dark, and clotted.
They are changeable and intermittent.
You will find chilliness,
nausea, downward pressure. Painful flow intermits.
Leucorrhoea is acrid, burning
and creamy. Pain in back with tired feeling.
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Diarrhoea during or after
menses.
The guiding symptoms are, the
patient is mild, gentle and yielding. She is sad and cries easily. She weeps
when talking. She likes open air, feels better there. Symptoms have the
tendency to change very often.
She is thirstless, peevish and
chilly. She keeps her head high while lying.
Pulsatilla is basically a female
remedy. It is indicated in girls, at the age of puberty when normal menstrual
flow has not been established. At this time the apices of lungs will be sore
and will call for Puls. When eventually menses will be established it will be
late – too late and too scanty. This will be preceded by menstrual colic. The
pains will be unbearable.
A single dose of Puls. Given in
amenorrhoea as a result of wet feet with epistaxis will bring on menstrual
flow.
We observe soreness of uterus and
abdomen during pregnancy. This remedy may also correct the malposition of the
fœtus in uterus if it is not caused mechanically. Dr. Farrington says that
Puls. Will act on the muscular walls of the uterus and stimulate their growth
rather than setting the fœtus in position by itself.
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During labour, the pains are
slow, weak, ineffectual. They may be also spasmodic and irregular. They may
even cause fainting. The peculiar feature here is that “the patient will demand
the windows be opened”.
You will observe that placenta
remains adherent even after labour. Puls. Will release the placenta and tone up
the uterus and avert postpartum haemorrhage.
Rhus toxicodendron
Pelvic articulations (joints)
stiff begining to move. There is swelling of vulva with intense itching. Menses
are early, profuse, prolonged and acrid. Lochia is thin, protracted, offensive,
diminished (Puls., Secale). Pains shoot upwards in vagina (Sep.).
Rhus tox patient is worse by
cold, wet, rainy weather. Other noteworthy signs are that she is worse at
night, during rest, when lying on back or on right side.
She is better on a warm dry day.
She feels all right while moving, change of position brings relief. Warm
applications give solace.
Sepia officinalis
Pelvic organs are relaxed giving
a bearing down sensation, as if everything will escape through vulva (Lil. T.,
Nat. C., Pod.). Must cross limbs to prevent protrusion of uterus.
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Leucorrhoea is greenish yellow
with much itching. Violent stitches upward in vagina, from uterus to umbilicus.
Prolapse of uterus and vagina.
Morning sickness.
Vagina is painful especially on
coition.
She feels bad in the afternoon
and evening.
washing aggravates her. She is
disturbed before thunderstorm.
She feels good when she is doing
exercise, then warmth of bed relieves her complaints, hot applications and
drawing the limbs up make her feel better.
Let us understand the
characteristics of this polychrest. The patient looks weak with yellow
complexion. Sepia has pronounced effect on the organs of women. These women
have a tendency to abortion. They experience hot flushes at menopause. They
have a peculiar ball-like sensation in their inner parts.
Silicea terra
A milky (Calc.c. , Puls., Sep.)
, acrid leucorrhoea during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina which are
very sensitive.
Discharge of blood between
periods. Increased menses with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body.
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Nipples are very sore, and
ulcerate easily. They are drawn in. Fistulous ulcer of breasts (Phos.). Abscess
on labia.
Discharge of blood from vagina
every time child is nursed. Vaginal Cyst (Lyco., Puls., Rhod.). Hard lumps in
breasts (Conium).
The patient feels bad on a new
moon day, she feels worse in morning, from washing, during menses, on
uncovering and when she tries to lie down.
She is better by warmth, when
she covers her head, in summer and in humid weather.
Sulphur
Pudenda itches. Vagina burns
(Berb., Nit ac.). Much offensive perpiration (Lyco., Merc., Petrol., Thuja).
Menses are too late, short,
scanty, difficult, thick, black, acrid, making prts sore (Kali c., Lach.,
Sil.). Menses are preceded by headache (Kreos), or headache when they are
suddenly stopped.
Leucorrhoea is of burning and
excoriating type. Nipples are cracked, they smart and burn (Agar., Lyc., Sil.).
Patient feels bad at rest, when
standing, warmth of bed, washing, bathing.
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Sulphur has characteristic
periodicity of symptoms.
She is better in dry warm
weather, lying on right side, from drawing up affected limbs.
Standing is the worst position.
Sulphur patients are dirty, filthy, prone to skin affections.
Their aversion to washing is
proverbial.
It is a deep-acting antipsoric
medicine.
It is remembered when well
selected remedies fail to finish the case, especially in acute diseases.
The complaints have a tendency
to relapse. Sulphur subjects are irritable, depressed and thin. They are weak in spite of good eating.
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Rare remedies in the diseases of women
Anantherum muricatum
Anantherum, which is prepared
out of Indian cuscus, is primarily a skin remedy of high order. But it is also
found useful in swollen breasts with induration.
Breasts are hard to touch.
Nipples are excoriated. This drug can be compared with: Staph, Merc, and Thuja.
Apium graveolens
Prepared from common celery,
Apium is mostly useful where there are retention of urine and throbbing
headache.
But its usefulness is seen in
the diseases of women also. The patient feels sharp pains in the ovaries,
particularly in the left one.
She feels better by bending over
and lying on left side with legs flexed.
Nipples are very tender to
touch.
“Sleep does not generally
relieve.”
She has strong “desire for
apples”.
Strangely loss of sleep does not
“fatigue the patient”.
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Asarum europaeum
This European snake-root is
considered to be of high value in nervous affections and loss of energy.
Asarum is suitable to irritable
females with that peculiar sensitiveness to scratching of silk or linen or
paper is unbearable to her.
Cold and dry weather aggravates
her (Caust). Washing face and the affected parts gives relief.
There is a sensation as if parts
are pressed together.
Menses are too early, last long,
and black in colour, accompanied by violent pain in small of back. Leucorrhoea
is tenacious and yellow.
Asarum induces a feeling as
though the “whole body is hovering in air”. Emotions bring shivering and
coldness.
According to Dr. Farrington both
Asarum and Tarentula have this intolerance to sounds. The difference is that in
Asarum mere thinking of it brings on a thrill in her.
Aurum muriaticum natronatum
Proved from sodium chloroaurate,
this remedy has prominent influence on female genital organs, with a background
of syphilis.
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Cervix is indurated; chronic
metritis and prolapsus; uterus fills up the whole pelvic region.
Neck of womb and vagina are
ulcerated. Ovaries are indurated. Ovarian dropsy.
Aurum mur nat. And Sepia have
this congested or indurated state of cervix uteri.
Bovista lycoperdon
Bovista patient is awkward and
drops things. She is a very sensitive patient.
Diarrhoea appears before and
during menses. Menses are too early, profuse and “worse at night”. In nights
she is harried by voluptuous sensation.
Leucorrhoea is acrid, thick,
tough and greenish and follows menses.
Like Lachesis, Bovista patient
cannot bear tight clothing round the waist.
Traces of menses are observed
between periods. There is soreness of pubes during menses.
Dr. Farrington states that this
remedy is indicated in uterine haemorrhage with engorgement of uterus. It is
also indicated when there is flow of blood in between menstrual periods, the
cause being overexertion.
Both Ambra grisea and Bovista
have this symptom. But the latter is prescribed when the menstrual flow appears
“at night or early morning”.
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Haemorrhage with engorged uterus
is also found in Ustilago and Secale.
A Bovista patient is recognised
by the puffiness of body. While holding scissors it will leave deep creases in
the thumb and finger indicating sluggishness in passage of blood through veins.
Incidentally Bovista is
considered to be a good antidote to the “effects of chacoal and gas fumes”.
Other drugs that come to mind are Arnica, Opium.
Dr. Allen reports sweat in
axilla which smells like onion.
He recommends Bovista for menses
“only at night”. He also records intolerable itching at tip of cocyx.
Bufo rana
Menses appear too early.
Leucorrhoea will be thin and watery. This remedy is reported to be very good
for epileptic conditions. In women epilepsy appears at the time of menses.
Induration of mammary glands.
Bufo is used as “a palliative in cancer of mammae”.
Burning in ovaries and uterus.
Ulceration of cervix. Discharge of blood is offensive.
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Blood will be seen in breast
milk. She suffers from “milk leg”. Veins of breasts are swollen.
Dr. Farrington states that the
aura of an epileptic paroxysm starts from the female genital organs. The woman
may even be thrown into violent convulsions during coitus. This state is
preceded by marked irritability of mind. The patient begins to talk
incoherently and gets vexed if she is not understood. The convulsions will
finally end leaving the patient in deep sleep.
Dr. William Wayne confirms this
symptom by reporting the cure of a case of peritonitis in which there repeated
convulsions which ultimately ended in stupor.
Camphora bromata
A proving from mono bromide of
camphor, this remedy is found useful in cases of nervous excitability. It is
also efficacious in suppression of milk.
A peculiarity is that this
patient has “misconceptions of direction”. For her “north seems as south and
east appears as west”.
It can also be used in hysteric
patients who weep and laugh alternatively. Sometimes she goes into a
trance-like state.
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Castor equi
Clinically verified by Dr.
Hering and other provers, this remedy is
1established as a very useful one for cracked and ulcerated nipples. It
has its influence mainly on female organs.
Its action is also seen on nails
and bones.
Warts are found on forehead and
on breasts. Chapped hands.
Nipples are sore and tender to
touch. You will find swelling of mammae. She has violent itching of breasts.
Areola is reddened.
Cucurbita pepo
This pumpkin seed product
creates intense nausea in patients, immediately after eating.
It is one of the best medicines
for vomiting of pregnant women.
Incidentally it counteracts
seasickness.
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Copaiva officinalis
Copaiva has powerful action on
mucous membranes particularly of urinary track.
It also produces nettle-rash on
skin.
In diseases of females its
action is observed in the itching of vulva and anus. The discharge that
emanates is bloody and purulent.
Menses are profuse and foul
smelling.
The pains that radiate to hip
bones are followed by nausea.
Dr. Farrington found it useful
in urethritis. There will be burning at the neck of bladder and in urethra. The
discharge is milky and corrosive.
Meatus urinaris is swollen,
inflamed and sore as though wounded.
Erigeron canadense
This remedy is strongly
recommended for the cure of haemorrhages, particularly constant bleeding from
bladder.
Haemorrhage from uterus is
followed by painful micturition. The flow is profuse and bright red in colour.
The patient complains pain in
left ovary and hip.
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When there is a background of
gonorrhoea you will find burning while passing urine. Urine dribbles.
Eucalyptus globulus
Haemorrhages are found both internally
and locally (Ham.). Eucalyptus leucorrhoea is acrid and excoriating and with
fetid discharge.
Eupionum
Eupion is very useful in many of
women’s diseases. First it can be thought of in uterine displacements. It
produces severe pains in back which are followed by bland leucorrhoea. Menses
will be too early with thin flow. Slightest exertion produces intense sweat.
Disgusting dreams. Feeling as if
her body is made of jelly.
Vertigo is brought on by sitting
on bed. Everything seems to rotate round her.
Stitching pains in genitals.
Burning sensation in right ovary. Leucorrhoea gushes out.
Patient turns morose and does
not desire to talk when the menses are appearing. Yellow leucorrhoea follows
menses with severe headache, adding to her misery.
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One notable feature of Eupion is
that “when the pains in back cease the discharge starts in a gush”.
She complains of pain between
labia during urination. Pruritus pudandi. Labia swollen.
It is said to go well with
Kreosote, Graphites and Lachesis.
Guaco
This drug has action on nervous
system and female organs. Incidentally it is considered to be a good antidote
to scorpion and snake bites.
It is a good remedy for
leucorrhoea when the discharge is copious, corrosive, with putrid smell.
You will find itching and
smarting of parts with a sensation of fire running out of them. All her
complaints are worse from motion.
Lamium album
Lamium has an affinity for
female urinary organs.
She suffers from headaches. She
tosses her head backwards and forward with intense pain passing through head.
Both menses and leucorrhoea are
too early but scanty.
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She also suffers from
haemorrhoids. Stools are hard with blood in it.
She complains of a peculiar
sensation as though “a drop of water is flowing through urethra”.
Lappa arctium
Lappa is found very useful in
uterine displacements. It has intense sore and bruised feeling in uterus.
Vaginal tissues are relaxed. There is a lack of tonicity of pelvic contents.
All her complaints increase
while standing and walking or when she makes a mis-step or when there is a
sudden jar. 2
Origanum majorana
Origanum has strong action on
sexual impulses, producing erotomania in females.
Origanum women are susceptible
to strong lascivious ideas arousing sexual desire. It may carry the patient to
hysteric pitch. 3
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Ovininum
This ovarian extract is used in
the sufferings caused by excision of ovaries.
It is a good remedy for nervous
breakdown in women at climacteric. It is useful for many of climacteric
disturbances.
You can also try it in ovarian
cysts. It also controls prurigo. 4
Pulex irritans
This blood sucking common flea
produces many marked urinary and female symptoms when proved in potency.
The patient is cross, impatient
and irritable. She suffers from headaches with a sensation of enlarged eyes.
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Her face looks old and wrinkled.
Menses are delayed. One noteworthy symptom is flow of saliva increases during
menstrual periods.
There will be burning in vagina.
Leucorrhoea is copious and foul smelling. One recognising feature is that it
stains the clothes greenish yellow. The stains from both menses and leucorrhoea
are very hard to wash out.
She feels better while sitting
or lying . She is aggravated from motion. She has left sided complaints.
Spiranthes autumnalis
This remedy is used to increase
milk flow in nursing women.
The patient suffers from
spasmodic yawning. She also suffers from pruritus of vagina which is dry and
burns. Vulva is red.
She complaints of burning pain
in vagina during coition.
Leucorrhoea is bloody.
She also complains of flushes of
heat during fever. Palms sweat. Hands are hot and cold alternately.
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Symphoricarpus racemosus
Dr. William Boericke recommends
this medicine very strongly for preventing persistent vomiting of pregnant
women. Patient suffers from gastric disturbances. Appetite is inconsistent.
Nausea is felt during menstruation. Nausea is also aggravated by any motion.
She dislikes all food. She is better lying on back. 5
Viburnum opulus
It chiefly produces cramps. But
it has also given out several female symptoms.
Dr. William Boericke asserts
that it is capable of preventing miscarriage, correcting false labour pains.
Spasmodic and congestive
affections originate from ovarian and uterine region. Menses are too late and
scanty. Will last only for a few hours. Flow is offensive. Menses are followed
by cramps that extend down thighs (Bell.).
Bearing down pains before
menses. Heaviness and congestion in ovarian region. Susceptibility to spasmodic
membranous dysmenorrhoea (Borax). Leucorrhoea is excoriating. Genitals itch and
smart.
Faints while making an effort to
sit.
Miscarriages take place
frequently and at early stages giving an impression of sterility.
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She is worse lying on the
affected side. Her complaints appear when in a warm room. She is better while
taking rest and in open air. 6
Vinca minor
It is not only found useful in
skin diseases of the scalp but is also efficacious in female diseases.
She suffers from excessive
menstruation followed by great weakness. however the uterine haemorrhages are
passive (Ustilago, Trill, Secale). She is vexed by continuous flow of blood,
particularly at menopause. She also suffers from haemorrhage from fibroids.
One should not overlook the
primary action of vinca minor, i.e.
eczema of head and face with pustules itching, burning and smelling
badly. The identifying symptom is “matting of hair”.
Yohimbinum
Its chief action is found in
sexual organs and nervous system.
But in females it causes
hyperaemia of the milk glands stimulates the function of lactation.
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Therapeutics
Breasts
Abscess of : Bry.
Abundance of milk : Calc carb.
Cancer of : Bufo rana
Dryness in : Acon.
Heavy : Bell.
Hard : Bell., Bry., Anantherum
Distended : Calc carb.,
Anantherum
Induration of mammary glands :
Bufo rana
Glands hot : Acon., Bry.
Mammae painful with milk : Merc.
Nipples :
Sore: Silicea
Easy ulceration: Silicea
Drawn in : Silicea
Excoriated : Anantherum
Tender : Apium grav.
Painful mastitis : Bell., Bry.
Pain radiates from nipple :
Bell.
Pain during periods : Bry.
Stitching pain in mammae : Phos.
Swollen : Acon.
Suppuration of mammae : Phos.
Red : Bell.
Ulcers of : fistulous : Silicea
Milk in abundance but
disagreeable to child : Calc carb.
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Leucorrhoea
Acrid: Antim crud., Ars. Alb.
Burning: Ars. Alb., Puls.,
Sulph.
With burning in vagina: Lycopod.
Blood: intermingled with: Merc.,
China, Spiranthes
Before puberty: Calc. Carb.
Corrosive: Aes. Hip., Carbo
veg., Merc., Phos. Sulph.
Backache during: Aes. hip.
Creamy: Puls.
Dark: Aes. Hip., Merc., Phos.,
Sulph.
Excoriating: Aes. Hip., Merc.,
Phos., Sulph.
Follows menses: Bovista
Foul smelling: Pulex
Greenish: Carbo veg., Merc.,
Sep., Bovista
Instead of menses: Phos.
Lumpy: Antim. Crud.
Milky: Calc carb., Carbo veg.
Offensive: Ars alb.
At night: Causticum
Precedes menses: Calc carb.,
Carbo veg.
Profuse: Calc., Guaco., Phos.,
Pulex
Putrid smell: Guaco
Smarting: Phos.
Scanty: Lamium
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Stains: hard to wash: Pulex
Small girls: infants: Calc carb.
Sticky: Aes hip.
Yellow: Aes hip., Cham., sepia
Worse after menses: Aes hip.
Watery: thin: Antim crud., Ars
alb.
Thick: Carbo veg., Bovista
With weakness: Caust.
Tenacious: Asarum
Tough: Bovista
Menses
Acrid: Rhus tox., Sulph.
Abdominal pain: with: Merc.
Amenorrhoea: Phos.
Appearing during daytime: Mag
carb.
Aphonia during: Gels.
Black: Ignite, Sulph., Asarum
Back pain: worse motion: with:
Bry.
Back cramp-like pains: in: Bell.
Blood gushes: Bell., Ipecac.
Blood bright: Ipeac.
Burning in hands and soles:
during: Carbo veg.
Ceases at night: Causticum
Copious: Carbo veg
Cramps in chest after
suppression: Cuprum met.
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Dark in colour: Cham.
Dark: clotted: china, Puls.
Diarrhoea: before and during:
Bovista
Difficult: Bry., Sulph.
Discharge betwen periods:
Bovista, Silicea
Discharge during nursing child:
Silicea
Ceases on lying down: Mag carb.
Cramps follow: extend to thigh:
Viburnum
Discharge gushes when back pain
ceases: Eupion.
Delayed: Acon., Cup. Met., Hepar
sulph., Lyco., Puls., Sulph., Viburnum
Early: Antim crud., Ars alb.,
Bell., Bry., Bap., Calc carb., China, Ignite, Ipecac., Asarum, Bovista, Bufo,
Rhus tox.
Excitement: brings: Calc carb.
Excessive weakness follows:
Vinca
Excited sexually: before: Dulc.
Exhaustion from: Trillium pend.
Flow during day: Caust., Cycl.,
Puls.
Flow dark red: Bry.
Flow vicarious during menopause:
Vinca
Gushing: Ipecac.
Haemorrhage with engorged
uterus: Bovista
Haemorrhage followed by
micturition: Erigeron
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Haemorrhage passive: Vinca
Haemorrhage profuse: Cham., Ipecac.
Haemorrhage hot: Bell.
Headache when suddenly stopped:
Sulph.
Headache: preceded by: Kreosot.,
Sulph.
Increased: Bell;, Silicea
In little girls: Calc carb
Itching of pudenda: worse
during: Hepar sulph.
Lasts for few hours only:
Viburnum
Labour-like pains: during:
Chamom.
Lack of vigour: during: Ignite
Increase of saliva during: Pulex
Too long: Calc carb., Lyco.,
Rhus tox., Asarum
Nausea: with: Ipec.
No desire to talk: during:
Eupion
Pain: with: China
Pain: in back: during: Asarum
Pale blood: Carbo veg.
Palpitation during: Cuprum met.
Paroxysm of icy coldness: in:
Silicea
Making parts sore: Sulph.
Protracted: Cuprum met., Acon.
Rash: before: Dulc.
Scanty: Hepar sulph., Ignite,
Puls., Sulph., Lamium, Viburnum
Sore throat during: Gels.
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Stains hard to wash: Pulex
Spasmodic pains in stomach
during: Ignite
Strong desire during: China
Suppressed: from cold bath:
Antim crud , from fright: Acon., Opium, from exposure to cold: Acon nap., Dulc.
, from dampness: Dulc. ,from wet feet: Puls.
Ovaries
Burning in: Bufo rana
Burning sensation in right
ovary: Eupion
Congested: Acon.
Dropsy: Aur mur nat.
Indurated: Aur mur nat.
Pain: sharp shooting: in womb:
Acon.
Sharp pain in: Apium grav.
Sharp pain left: Apium grav.,
Erigeron
Suffering caused by excision of:
Oophorinum
Tenderness in: Antim crud
Uterus
Atony of: Gels.
Bearing down feeling: worse from
rest: Bell. , better by motion: Bell. , must cross limbs: Sepia pressing
against vulva to prevent: Sepia
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Burning in: Bufo rana
Bruised feeling of: Lappa
Contraction of: Bell.
Cervix indurated: Aur mur nat.
Chronic metritis: Aur mur nat.
Congested cervix: Aur mur nat.
Cervix: ulceration of: Bufo rana
Discharge of blood from: Hepar
sulph.
Engorgement of: Bovista
Heaviness in pelvic region:
China
Haemorrhage from: Erigeron
Lack of tonicity of pelvic
contents: Lappa
Os does not dilate during
labour: Bell.
Pain shoots upward from: Gels.
Pelvic organs relaxed: Sepia
Prolapse of: Antim crud., Sepia,
Aur mur nat.
Soreness during pregnancy: Puls.
Uterine haemorrhage two months
after menses: Arg nit.
Displaced easily: Calc carb.,
Lappa
Fills up the whole pelvic
region: Aur mur nat.
Vagina
Abscess of labia: Hepar sulph.,
Silicea
Burning in: Pulex irritans
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Burning pain during coitus:
Spiranthes
Cyst in: Silicea
Discharge of blood from: while
nursing: Silicea
Dry and burns: Spiranthes
Dry: Acon., Bell.
Hot: Acon., Bell.
Itching of: Silicea
Neck of: ulcerated: Aur mur nat.
Labia swollen: Eupion
Pain between labia during
urination: Eupion
Painful coition: Sepia
Prolapse of: Sepia
Pruritus vulvae: Eupion,
spiranthes
Sensitive to touch: Acon., Aur
met., Silicea
Sensation as if something is
pushing down: Antim cr., Bell.
Shooting upward: Rhus tox.
Stitches upward: Sepia
Tissues relaxed: Lappa
Vulva
Itching of: Silicea, Copaiva
Red: Spiranthes