Pregnancy

Chamomilla6.

-Labour-like pains, each followed by a discharge of dark, clotted blood or blood and mucus;violent pains in the bowels, extending round the sides, with feeling as if about to have a motion or pass water; coldness, shivering, and thirst.

Croc. 3 -Dark, clotted blood, increased by the least exertion;feeling of fluttering, as if something moving about the navel.

Sabina 3.

-In the early months, much pain, discharge of bright-red blood.

China 3.

-In weak, exhausted persons;; blood discharged at intervals, with bearing-down pain;spasmodic pains in womb; giddiness, drowsiness, fainting. Very useful for weakness after the discharge has ceased.

Varicose Veins.-During pregnancy the veins of the lower limbs often become varicose in consequence of the pressure of the enlarged womb impending the return of the blood from the limb to the heart. After delivery they generally regain their natural condition.

General Treatment.-When the condition is serious the patient must be kept lying down. If she is compelled to go about the limbs must be bathed in cold water or in spirit-and-water, and bandaged. It may be necessary to wear an elastic stocking.

Medicines.-See under VARICOSE VEINS.

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