Aconite [Acon]
Great distress, moaning and restlessness; vulva, vagina and os dry, tender and undilatable; patient full of anxiety ands fear, will never pass through the ordeal of labor, is sure to die; pains unnaturally violent and frequent, complaints that she cannot breath or bear the pains; hot sweat all over.
Arnica [Arn]
FATIGUE OF UTERUS, great flushing of face and feet and head of head during each [pain, the rest of body being cool; violent pains to very little purpose; feeble pains, with constant desire to change position; great soreness of back during labor, with too great sensitiveness to pain; foetus lies crosswise, which makes the mother sore and restless, so that she feels bruised all over.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Rigidity of vagina and soft parts, so that they will hardly admit the index finger; excessive restlessness and fear.
Aurum-met [Aur]
The pains make her desperate, so that she would like to jump out of window and kill herself; congestion to head and chest, palpitation of heat.
Belladonna [Bell]
Pains come on suddenly, with too quick bearing down, as if everything in pelvis would be ejected, and pains disappear suddenly; SPASMODIC CONTRACTION OF OS, which is hot, tender, red and inclined to be moist (Aconite, dry); os uteri thin and rigid (Gelsemium, thick and rigid os); labor slow and tedious, feels off and on only a pressure on sacrum; drawing pains from small of back to thigh; hot face, throbbing headache; sensitive to noise, light, jarring of bed. OLD MAIDS IN FIRST DELIVERY, MUSCLES RIGID.
Borax [Bor]
LABOR PAINS DART UPWARD, head of child goes back; spasmodic, more violent in stomach than in uterus, accompanied by violent and frequent eructations; false labour-pains; oversensitive to noise.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
Extraordinary rigidity of os; pains like pricking of needles in cervix, SEVERE SPASMODIC INTERMITTENT PAINS, WITHOUT PROGRESS, FROM INHARMONIOUS ACTION between funds and cervix; drawing in uterine ligaments; spasmodic pains, flying from one place to another, but not gong in the normal direction, nausea and spasmodic pains in stomach; patient so weak that she cannot develop normal pains, or PAINS FLAG FROM LONG CONTINUANCE AND EXHAUSTION; profuse secretion of mucus from vagina; thirst and fever; false pains.
Causticum [Caust]
Spasmodic labor-pains with sore, distressing aching in the back; INERTIA UTERI GREAT RELAXATION OF THE TISSUES and prostration, caused by debility from night-watching grief, or other depressing influence; paralytic condition of the fundus of the bladder, with inability to micturate; numb feeling.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Spasmodic pains, which she can hardly bear, rendering her frantic; the pains force the child upward or TEARING PAINS BEGINNING IN BACK and radiating down the legs, passes quantities of colorless urine with every pain; she is spiteful and shrieks out; wishes to get away from herself. desires fresh air, says she must and will get up; hour-glass contraction, irritable, thirsty; violent labor-pains and tearing in veins of legs, with discharge of dark coagulated blood; convulsions after anger, or has one cheek red, the other pale; rigid os uteri.
China [Chin]
Labor-pains cease from haemorrhage, cannot even have the hands touched during pain; atony of uterus, digging, tearing pains in uterus, desire to be fanned and to have fresh air, fainting and convulsions from loss of blood.
Chininum-sulph [Chin-s]
Labor-pains appear like tonic spasms, accompanied by convulsive twitches; unconsciousness after parturition; TETANIC CONVULSIONS, during intervals convulsive action of muscles of face, eyes, etc., oppressed respiration; distended veins in head and neck, rapid and intermitting pulse and albuminuria.
Chloroformum [Chlf]
NO FREEDOM FROM SUFFERING BETWEEN THE PAINS; she complains much of her back or of extreme pain and tenderness over whole abdomen; very restless; cannot find rest in any position, tosses about and is very restless; protracted and severe labor from rigidity of os uteri; women subject to convulsions during labor, complete paralysis of sphincter vesicae after labor.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
(Macrotin).- False labor-pains a few days or even weeks before labor sets in; NERVOUS CHILLS IN THE FIRST STAGE OF LABOR; spasmodic rigidity of os uteri; continuous tearing, distressing pains, during which the uterus seems to ascend; pains fly from side to side (Lycopodium, from right to left) in abdomen and double her up; nervous excitement in rheumatic women; labor-pains severe, (<) from least noise; limbs heavy and torpid; entire cessation of labor-pains. Uterine rheumatism.
Cinnamomum [Cinnam]
Weak, ineffectual or false labor-pains; spasms, twitching of raining during labor; complete cessation of labor-pains; SEVERE METRORRHAGIA IN PRIMIPARA AFTER THE FIRST FEW PAINS, when the os has dilated about an inch, placenta descended with the head; it mitigates the severity of labor and of the after-pains.
Cocculus [Cocc]
Spasmodic and irregular labor-pains, she will have one hard one, and then after a longer interval several lighter ones; much headache; numb and paralyzed feeling in lower extremities.
Coffea [Coff]
Ineffectual labor-pains, contractions of uterus and pressure upon os uteri, causing only pain in small of back; she feels every pain intensely, weeps and laments with constant and extreme fear of death (but nothing of the spiteful crossness of Chamomilla) pains, though severe are not efficacious.
Conium [Con]
During parturition complete sleeplessness and exhaustion; extreme sensitiveness to light; stinging, stitching pains in the rigid os; vertigo, particularly on turning in bed.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Violent spasmodic pains at irregular intervals, with violent cramps in lower limbs; great restlessness between the pains.
Ferrum [Ferr]
With each pain face flushes up fiery-red.
Gelsemium [Gels]
False labor-pains, running directly upward or backward and upward; feeling as if muscular power were wakened from weakness of will-power, cramping pains in various parts of abdomen; os ROUNDED AND HARD ( Belladonna, thin and rigid) and feels as if it would not dilate; PAINS IN UTERUS GOING THROUGH TO AND UP BACK; sensation of wave from uterus to throat, which seems to impede labor; with every pain child seems to ascend instead of descending; nervous chills in first stage of labor; INSUFFICIENT LABOR-PAINS FROM INERTIA, labor-pains gone, os widely dilated, face flushed, she is drowsy and dull; albuminuria; convulsions, pulse large and soft, face deep red, puffed and expression heavy. She dreads beforehand the approaching confinement; nervous trembling during or just after labor, chatters during first stage.
Gossypium [Goss]
Lingering, almost painless labor, uterine contractions feeble and inefficient.
Graphites [Graph]
Large and corpulent women of venous constitution, subject to tettery eruptions; labor-pains weak or have ceased entirely.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Cold sweat, pale face, suffocating spells and convulsions during labor; facial muscles greatly agitated; spasms with much nervous irritability.
Ignatia [Ign]
Labor-pains with sadness; trembling and languor of limbs.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Pains go from left to right (Lycopodium, from right to left), with constant nausea and faintness; SHARP, CUTTING PAINS ABOUT NAVEL, WHICH DART OFF TOWARDS UTERUS, interfering with true pains.
Jaborandi [Jab]
TEDIOUS LABOR, NORMAL SECRETION FROM VAGINA HAS DRIED UP, passage hot and dry, os unyielding and pains decrease in force.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Labor-pains insufficient, violent backache, WANTS THE BACK PRESSED; bearing down from back to pelvis; sharp, cutting pain across lumbar region, or passing off down the buttocks, thus hindering labor, pulse weak, belching with relief; COMPLAINTS AFTER PARTURITION; suits fat women of a sluggish habit.
Kali-phos [Kali-p]
False labor-pains, ineffectual pains, TEDIOUS LABOR FROM CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS; labour-pains weak and irregular.
Lachesis [Lach]
FAINTING DURING LABOR, lies as if dead from cardiac syncope, especially when she had been previously sad and gloomy (Ignatia).
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
VIOLENT DYSPNOEA with every uterine contraction, which seems to neutralize all expulsive effort; rigid os uteri and rigid perineum.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
LABOR-PAINS GO UPWARD OR FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, she must keep in constant motion often with weeping; relief by placing the foot against a support and pressing and relaxing alternately, so as to agitate her whole body; retention of urine due to severe pressing during labor; undilated os uteri.
Magnesia [Mag-c]
Hysterical spasms interrupt labor; total insomnia (Conium); constipation; fainting fits with nausea, (>) by eructations.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Spasmodic labor-pains with cramps in legs; excessive expulsive efforts; puerperal convulsions.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Anguish tremor and perspiration with every pain, during which she desires to be gently rubbed, which affords relief; aids in expelling moles.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Labor-progresses slowly, pains feeble, seemingly from sad feeling and forebodings.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]