Menses

Medicines.-(Every hour during the attack, or oftener if the pains are very severe; two or three times a day during the interval.)

Caulophyl.3.

-Violent, writhing pains in the body and back. One of the most useful of all medicines in the disease.

Cham 6.

-Pressure from the small of the back towards the front of the abdomen and downward; colic, with tenderness of the lower part of the body when touched; discharge of dark-coloured, clotted blood.

Pulsatilla3.

-Heaviness, as if from a stone in the lower abdomen; violent pressure in lower part of abdomen and small of back, attended with sensation of numbness extending down the thighs felt most when sitting; pressure in lower bowel, with frequent ineffectual calls to stool; frequent desire to pass water.

Nux c.3.

-Writhing pains in the body, accompanied by nausea; pains in back and loins, as if dislocated; feeling as if bruised in bones of pubis; frequent desire to pass water.

Veratrum 3.

-Colicky pain, with nausea and headache; cold sweat on forehead in the paroxysm; cold feet, hands, nose, great prostration, fainting.

Cessation of. See CHANGE OF LIFE.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica