AMMONIUM MURIATICUM
Leucorrhoea profuse, yellow or white, thick, corrosive, with burning and smarting of the vulva. It often excoriates the whole perineum and inner surface of thighs; it constantly runs from vagina; scrofulous and syphilitic leucorrhoea in despondent and melancholy individuals, whose minds are constantly turned towards self destruction; leucorrhoea from prolapsed uterus; leucorrhoea with redness and swelling of labia majora; burning and pricking in the vagina; large red pimples on labia. Adapted to despondent, suicidal, sanguine temperaments; muddy complexions; light haired women or girls at puberty. Aggravated at night, and from getting cold.
BARYTA CARBONICA
Leucorrhoea, thick, white, copious, passive; worse before menses; slightly bloody, with a continuous troublesome weight over the pubes; indicated in scrofulous girls whose development is greatly retarded by the excessive tubercular element present; young girls of slow development; mind and body dwarfed by the tubercular element; usually the tubercular element hurries the development; usually the tubercular element hurries the development too rapidly as seen in Calcarea carb., but under Baryta it retards it. Leucorrhoea in these cases often prevents lung difficulties. We find the glands hard, knotty, and indurated all over the body; abdomen and head large, and limbs usually emaciated; children or young women who look prematurely old; they are bashful and timid, and grow worse by thinking about their case. Dwindling of the glands with sterility or induration and hardening of the glands.
BELLADONNA
Leucorrhoea sanious, mucous, always before menses, followed by more or less congestion; leucorrhoea with colicky pains and bearing down in the uterus. It appears and disappears suddenly, and is more copious in the morning. Leucorrhoea after acute febrile states (Aconite) Great dryness of mucous surface and sense of constriction. Discharges feel hot, as they pass from the body. Leucorrhoea after acute inflammations of uterus or sexual organs. Congested feeling in uterus. Better when sitting or lying down, and much worse when standing, parts affected very sensitive to touch. Leucorrhoea white mucous attended with colic. Worse in the morning.
BORAX
Leucorrhoea white, albuminous; feels hot like warm water while passing over the parts; appears midway between the menstrual periods; like starch or white of egg; bland and without pain; between the menstrual period it may be corrosive. While she has the leucorrhoea she is very nervous, is easily startled, cannot bear a downward motion, such as descending stairs or going down in an elevator. Even rocking affects her. Adapted to lax, sensitive, nervous women. She is subject to aphthae in the mouth during the menses, or to herpetic eruptions about the mouth (Nat. mur.); urine hot, burns like fire. This remedy has cured some cases of leucorrhoea, especially in children where there was an aphthous condition of the mouth and external genitals.
BOVISTA
Leucorrhoea following the menses, thick, slimy, tenacious acrid and corrosive. It, like Borax, has a leucorrhoea like the white of an egg. It comes out coagulated when walking, or it is of a yellowish-green color and leaves a green stain on linen. it excoriates the labia, perineum, groins and thighs by its acridity. The menstrual flow is only at night.
BERBERIS
Leucorrhoea albuminous and worse before the menses; region of the vagina sensitive, and hot. Leucorrhoea is accompanied with intense burning on urination with much soreness in the urinary canal. A yellow mealy sediment in the urine. There is much prostration while the leucorrhoea lasts; grayish, mucous leucorrhoea which is very acrid; stitching and shooting pains in kidneys.
BUFO RANA
Leucorrhoea purulent, fetid, or it may be clear and without any odor; sometimes it is thick, yellow, cream like, or like the wastings of meat. Leucorrhoea from polypi of the cervix. It produces pruritus vulva, burning heat and stitches in the ovaries (Cactus grand). The leucorrhoea of this remedy has nothing characteristic about it, so we have to confine our study to the general symptoms. A sense of constriction seems to be the guiding symptom in this remedy. Constriction about neck, chest, heart, as if uterus or heart were grasped by a hand or in a vice; rush of blood to chest and heart. It is quite decidedly a sycotic remedy as seen in its rheumatic, gouty and cardiac symptoms. Her menstrual pains cause her to scream. This remedy is adapted to young plethoric women who are subject to sudden congestions. The heart symptoms usually call your attention first to the remedy. Aggravation II a.m. (Sulphur, Nat. mur.)
CALCAREA CARBONICA
Leucorrhoea after menses like mucus or milk; worse after urination; albuminous leucorrhoea from cervix with lassitude and debility; leucorrhoea of little girls; the least excitement brings on the leucorrhoea or menses. The leucorrhoea is thick, yellow, acrid or bland. This remedy is indicated in pale, blond, light-haired anaemic women Tubercular leucorrhoea in pale, fleshy, soft-muscled blonds; perspiration about the face or head; hands and feet cold and damp always. Thinks she will lose her mind; much anxiety with fear of death. Leucorrhoea is thick yellow, acrid, continuing from one menstrual period to another. Leucorrhoea following copious long lasting menses.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
Leucorrhoea looks like the white of egg, odor sweetish, worse in the morning on arising, also worse after stool or urination (Calcarea cab). Feeling of great weakness in the sexual organs. She takes cold at every change of weather. This remedy is indicated in school girls, who develop too rapidly and who suffer with rheumatic pains in their extremities. Albuminous leucorrhoea comes in gushes, worse from walking, or running sewing machine.
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS
Constant sense of weight and fullness in pelvis; leucorrhoea profuse, offensive and watery; cancer of the uterus; discharge causes much exhaustion.
CALADIUM SEGUINUM
Very forgetful; absent minded; forgetfulness induced by onanism or sexual excesses. It cures a white mucous discharge from the vagina, that is induced by onanism; violent sexual desire with complete loss of sexual power, and gonorrhoeal in old debauchees. The discharge produces intense pruritis; the patient is compelled to scratch or rub the parts; the discharge produces pimply eruptions.
CARBO ANIMALIS
Leucorrhoea watery, causing burning and bring and biting; yellowish leucorrhoea; discharge stains linen; worse when walking or standing; offensive, bloody in cancer; quite often it is thin, watery and dark. Induration of the cervix uteri malignant ulceration with foul discharges; venous plethora in elderly women.
CARBO VEGETABILIS
Leucorrhoea often accompanies the menses and continues after they cease. It produces aphthae, itching, burning, swelling, soreness and smarting of vulva; sore spots on vulva like little ulcers. Leucorrhoea a milky mucus, or thick, yellow or yellowish green; < in the morning, before menses and after urination. Flatulent distension of abdomen; great debility from least exertion; low state of vital power; knees and joints remote from the center of circulation are cold; all discharges are offensive; desire for cool air and to be fanned.
CASTOREUM
Leucorrhoea thick or watery, with burning; great weariness in thighs.
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES
Leucorrhoea profuse, mucous, acrid or bland, with congestion of the uterus and bearing down pains, often indicated in little girls. Leucorrhoea with aching and dragging in the small of back, and rheumatism in the small joints; spasmodic dysmenorrhoea in young girls; upper eyelids heavy; moth spots on forehead; very similar to Pulsatilla. Leucorrhoea with uterine congestion or sensation of congestion; articular rheumatism of the small joints.
CAUSTICUM
Indicated in women with a yellow, sickly complexion; leucorrhoea flowing only at night, like the menses and is of a similar odor. Leucorrhoea preceded by colic or abdominal cramps, with emission of flatus; weariness in thighs, and soreness in the small of back; great aversion to sweet things. (Reverse to Sulph., and Arg, nit.) A feeling as if the scalp were too tight; much melancholy and sadness and threatening paralysis.< in fine, clear weather: ((>)) in damp, warm weather. Appetite vanishes as soon as she begin to eat.
CHAMOMILLA
Leucorrhoea yellowish, corrosive smarting, burning in vagina as if excoriated; leucorrhoea acrid, watery, gonorrhoeal leucorrhoea, crampy, pains in back and abdomen. She is whimsical, snappish, irritable, fretful; flies into a rage in a minute; over sensitive to pain and impressions of every kind; constantly criticising and finding fault. Adapted to cross, irritable, black-haired women. Aggravated by heat, evenings, open air, and anger.
CINA
Indicated often in the leucorrhoea of little girls suffering from pin worms; much itching about genitals; hemorrhage from uterus before the age of menstruation; masturbation of little girls due often to the irritation of ascarides; urine turbid, and milky; fat globules on the urine; appetite very ravenous or changeable; breath smells sweetish or like new corn on the ear; spasmodic dry cough, < in the evening; temperature rises about three in the afternoon and lasts all night; the child is peevish, fretful, irritable, impulsive, and cannot bear to be touched; picks and bores in the nostrils with fingers. Leucorrhoea bloody serum alternating with pus.
J.H. Allen was a student of H.C. Allen. He was the president of the IHA in 1900. Dr. Allen taught at the Hering Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Allen died August 1, 1925
Books by John Henry Allen:
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin 1902
The Chronic Miasms: Psora and Pseudo Psora 1908
The Chronic Miasms: Sycosis 1908