GELSEMIUM
Leucorrhoea after onanism with great weakness and trembling; lack of muscular co-ordination. Headaches in occiput. Heaviness in uterine region with leucorrhoeal discharge; a feeling of fulness across the sacrum; great depression of spirits and excessive languor. Leucorrhoea after febrile states, after LaGrippe, after a rheumatic attack; violent headache in occiput with pulsations, like a pulse beating. Leucorrhoeal discharge white, with aching across the lower part of the back or severe aching across the sacrum.
GRAPHITES
Leucorrhoea profuse, white, thin, mucous, with great weakness in the small of the back when sitting or when walking; discharge more profuse in the morning, often in gushes during the day; painful pressing towards the pudenda; soreness of labia with a rash; leucorrhoea sticky, glutinous, copious; flowing down the thighs and producing erythema of the part, even ulceration; smells like herring pickle, or is very offensive. Nails hard, thick, crippled, break or split easily. Stools hard, large, knotty, and are often covered with a viscid white mucus (similar to Pulsatilla in many of its symptoms), but is more apt to be indicated near or at the climacteric period. Skin unhealthy, everything suppurates; cracks, and fissures in feet, toes, fingers, lips, face. (Follows Sepia well in leucorrhoea.)
HAMAMELIS
Leucorrhoea very profuse, with relaxation of the vaginal walls; discharge usually bloody, copious, constant, with debility and lassitude; venous congestion generally; bruised feeling in abdomen; varicose veins; hemorrhoids adapted to passive hemorrhages, venous (complementary to Ferrum); general lassitude and a feeling of weariness, especially in her extremities, after hemorrhages or when suffering with varicose veins.
HELONIAS DIOICA
Leucorrhoea with an atonic state, or due to an atonic state of the uterus; prolapse with ulceration of cervix; discharge copious, continuous, foul-smelling, and profuse, serous, with backache, tenderness in the breasts, and a sore heavy sensation in the uterus. This is a remedy which has a constant consciousness of the uterus; very irritable, cannot bear contradiction, always fault-finding; loss of sexual desire with sterility; uterus either retroverted or low down in pelvis; always conscious of the uterus, dark, fetid discharge from uterus; labia and pudenda hot, red, swollen, covered with aphthae; indicated in women who are worn out with hard work or enervated by overindulgence and luxury; burning-aching in back when sitting; soreness and weight in uterus.
HEPAR SULPHUR
Leucorrhoea thick, creamy, yellow, with a sweetish odor; smells like hydrogen sulphide; cervical glands enlarged; indicated in pseudo-psoric patients, blondes; scrofulous leucorrhoea, yellowish or bloody, smelling like old cheese; slight wound and sore ulcerate and produce much yellow pus. Symptoms and patient very much like Calcarea carb., very sensitive to cold, and ((>)) from warmth. Glandular enlargements all over the body, also a tendency to the formation of abscesses; sour smell from body; urticaria from every change of weather, aggravated by uncovering, and relieved by warmth and in damp, wet weather; wounds or sores very sensitive to touch, and patient very irritable.
HYDRASTIS
Leucorrhoea viscid, hangs from the os uteri in viscid strings, ropy, yellow, tenacious; cheese-like discharges from vagina or uterus. Leucorrhoea complicated with hepatic difficulties and constipation; superficial ulceration of the cervix uteri with tenacious leucorrhoea, debility and general prostration. Patient cachectic-looking, sallow; leucorrhoea discharges very offensive in the early stages of uterine cancer; fissures about the mucous openings of the body; weakened, debilitated, scrofulous subjects with ropy catarrhal discharges; gastric and hepatic difficulties.
HYPERICUM
Leucorrhoea in children milky; leucorrhoea with violent, lacerating pains in genitals and frequent desire to urinate; with delayed menses and heaviness and pain in small of back; diseases brought on by injuries to nerve trunks or nerve endings; wounds of the coccyx; stitching, tearing pains after injuries to nerves, surgical operations on sphincters, mechanical injuries of spinal cord and consciousness, nervous shock and depression following nerve wounds.
IGNATIA
Leucorrhoea purulent and corrosive, preceded by bearing-down labor like pains; leucorrhoea in low-spirited, hysterical, nervous subjects who are always sighing or complaining; in very hysterical women who suffer from grief, joy, and disappointed love.
IODINE
Leucorrhoea thick or thin, yellow, corroding, aggravated at the menstrual period, and attended with great weakness; hunger with emaciation; swelling and induration of cervix; leucorrhoea makes thighs sore. Leucorrhoea with great weakness;l dwindling of the breasts; when it becomes corrosive it is usually scanty; very nervous, irritable, melancholic; dull pressure like a wedge between the right ovary and uterus.
KALI BICHROMICUM
Leucorrhoea yellow, ropy (Hydrast), may be drawn out in strings; stiffens the linen, yellow; much weakness across the back; dull heavy pain in the hypogastrium suitable to fleshy light haired women; syco-psoric affections or pseudo-psoric; sycotic or sycotic or syphilitic leucorrhoea; yellowish or greenish, stringy, ropy, comes out in fine strings of a gleety nature; voice often hoarse, metallic; leucorrhoea preceded by membranous dysmenorrhoea, greenish, bloody, ropy, stringy leucorrhoea; gonorrhoeal leucorrhoeal, white or yellow and tenacious.
KALI CARBONICUM
Pseudo-psoric leucorrhoea with severe constant backache; back aches as if it would break; marked tired feeling; very tired in the morning and unrefreshed when she awakes; discharge yellow mucus, with itching and smarting of the vulva. Leucorrhoea very acrid and excoriating; mucus leucorrhoea with pain in back as if it would break. Frequent sour eructations; constipation, stools dry large, hard difficult, Dry, hard, tight, spasmodic cough in tubercular patients, < in the morning. Backache with night sweats and dry cough; bags-like swellings above the eyes. People with dark hair, lax fiber, inclined to obesity, very sensitive to touch, especially the feet, wandering, stitching pains. Indicated in the gouty stage of Sycosis.
KALI FERROCYANATUM
Leucorrhoea after menstruation, pus-like or yellowish, creamy, profuse, non-irritating; “uterus tender and sensitive to touch.” Minton.
KALI HYDROIODICUM
Anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic; syphilitic leucorrhoea discharge is greenish, thick, copious and offensive. Leucorrhoea white-with lameness and stiffness in small of back or nightly bone pains after mercurialization.
KALMIA LATIFOLIA
Yellowish leucorrhoea which is < in the morning; pain in back and lumbar region; weariness of the extremities.
KREOSOTUM
Leucorrhoea, thick mucus with bad odor, excoriating the perineum; menstrual and leucorrhoeal flow intermittent; patient always chilly; discharges almost cease then begin again. Leucorrhoea acrid with voluptuous itching of pudenda, and swelling, heat and redness; whitish leucorrhoea, bland, smelling like green corn. It may be bloody in the beginning, then yellowish-white and acrid, causing much irritation and itching of the vulva. It stiffens the linen and turns it yellow; leucorrhoea like washings of meat, acrid, dark and bloody with stitches in the vagina and great debility of the lower extremities. Frequent urging to urinate at night; burning between the thighs on urinating. Leucorrhoea flows from her like milk with urinary irritation and burning in the small of the back. Indicated in delicate blondes, who are tall for their age; irritable and despondent, complexion yellow and sallow, even cancerous; gums often spongy and bleed easily; leucorrhoea with burning in abdomen like a ball of fire.
KALI MURIATICUM
Leucorrhoea milky white, thick, mucous, bland with chronic hypertrophy and congestion of uterus.
KALI PHOSPHORICUM
Leucorrhoea often bloody, acrid, scalding the parts passed over; great depression of mind; lassitude and nervous debility.
LAC DEFLORATUM
Leucorrhoea, light-yellow with great lassitude and disinclination to work; sensation as if cold air were blowing over her even when covered up warm. Chronic constipation, stools large, hard, with great straining. Indicated in anaemic patients with a well marked tubercular diathesis; she feels completely tired out and exhausted. I have found it to be called for in thin, tall, anaemic blondes with a quite disposition; subject to cephalalgia, lasting for a number of days after each menstrual period. Supraorbital headache; urine scanty during headache but pale and copious and gushes out with a hot sensations as headache is getting((>)). Face and lips pale, pulse slow and thread-like patient )) lying down when quite, at rest, and in the dark.
LACHESIS
Leucorrhoea greenish, thick, or yellow just before the menses; as menses become scanty leucorrhoea increases; very sensitive over region of uterus, about waist and throat. Cannot bear clothing tight in any place. Leucorrhoea beginning three days before menses, copious, acrid, thick, yellowish, stiffening the linen; leucorrhoea in place of menses at climacteric period, with hot flashes, pains, and suffering, all relieved when menstrual flow begins.
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