Sepia
Cuttlefish ink · Abbrev.: SEP
Abdomen
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Flatulent, with headache. Liver sore and painful: relieved by lying on right side. Many brown spots on
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Feeling of relaxation and bearingdown in
Back
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Coldness between shoulders. i'
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Pain as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration. Swelling and eruption of external ear.
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IVeakness in small of
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Pains extend into
Compare
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LiL; Murex; Silica; Sulph,; Asperula (leucorrhoea of young girls and uterine catarrh) ; Osonum (sacral pain; tired feeling through pelvic viscera and perineum) ; Dictamnus (metrorrhagia, leucorrheea, and constipation; also somnambulism). Lapa~ thum. (Leucorrhoea with constriction and expulsive effort through womb and pain in
Dose
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Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency. Should not be used too low or be repeated too frequently.
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200C single doses classically for the constitutional picture; observe through one cycle before judging.
Ears
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Herpes behind ears on nape of
Extremities
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Lower extremities lame and stiff. Heaviness and bruised feeling. Restlessness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel.
Face
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Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about
Female
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Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through pelvis, forcing crossed limbs; menses irregular, late, scanty or flooding; prolapse tendencies after deliveries.
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Pelvic organs relaxed. Bearing-doum sensation as if everything would escape through vulva [Bell.; Kreos.; Lac c.; Lil. t.; Nat. c.; Pod.]\ must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhoea 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. Pro^ lapse of uterus and vagina. Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.
Fever
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Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from* least General lack of warmth of body. Feet cold SEPIA — SERUM ANGUILLAS-ICHTHYOTOXIN 679 and wet. Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards evening.
Guiding symptoms
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tion with uterine trouble. Ajfgravation of eye troubles morning and evening. Tarsal tumors.
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Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. {Zinc.] 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.
Head
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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 fontanclles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair. Host. — Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts. Yellozvish saddle across nose, \trophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of
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Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in
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Violent intermittent headaches in awful bursts, nausea and fainting with them, better pressure and vigorous motion; hair falls after nursing or childbirth.
Heart
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Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.
Introduction
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Hormonal exhaustion turning love to indifference — dragged-down feelings better from vigorous exercise and weeping freely.
Male
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Organs cold. Offensive perspiration. Glefet; discharge from urethra only during night; no pain. Condylomata surround head of penis. Complaints from coition.
Mind
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Indifference to family members once dearly loved; weeps when telling her complaints yet refuses sympathy's comfort; irritable, finds fault, dreads solitude yet avoids company; better after vigorous exercise.
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Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. l\'ry sod. W'eeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening ; indolent.
Modalities
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Worse, forenoons and evenings ; washing, laundry-work, cold air, before thunder-storm. Better, by exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot applications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing.
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Worse: menopause, pregnancy/nursing, standing still, consoling, before menses. Better: violent exertion, crossing limbs tightly, warmth, free discharge of menses.
Mouth
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Rosacea ; .saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks.
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Tongue white. Taste salty, putrid. Tongue foul, but clears during menses. Swelling and cracking of lower lip. Pain in teeth from 6 p. m. till midnight; worse on lying.
Nose
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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
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Ejyes. — Muscular asthenopia, black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connec-
Rectum
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Constipation; large, hard stools; feeling of a ball in
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Bleeding at stool and fullness of
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cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting upivard. Dark-brown, round balls glued together with mucus. Soft stool, difficult. Prolapsus ani. [Fod.] Almost constant oasing from anus. Infantile diarrhoea, worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion. Pains^ shoot up in rectum and vagina.
Relationships
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Complementary Natrum muriaticum; compare Lilium tigrinum (manic pelvic urgency), Sepia's indifference vs Pulsatilla's neediness.
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Complementary ; Nat, mur. Nux intensifies action. Inimical: Lack.; Puls,
Respiratory
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Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from
Skin
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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
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Yellowish saddle-like brownish patch across nose and cheeks; itching worse menopause and perspiration; ringworm-like rings.
Sleep
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Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis.
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belter, "rapid motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty. .[Phos.; Ambr.] Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping-cough that drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or
Stomach
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Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles. Worse, after Inilk. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations.
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Rotleii-egg taste with coughing. Oppression of chest morning and evening. Dyspnoea; worse, after
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Feeling of goneness: not relieved by ra/- ing. [Carb. a«.] Nausea at smell or sight of food. Tobacco dyspepsia. Everything tastes too salty. [Carbo vcg.: Chin.] Band of pain about four inches wide encircling hypochondria. Nausea in mornhtg before eating. Disposition to vomit after eating. Burning in pit of
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Nausea from the smell or thought of food, especially cooking; all-food-disgust with emptiness not relieved by eating.
Urinary
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Red, adhesive, sand in urine. Involuntary 678
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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