RHUS TOX
Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea, secondary or tertiary Sycosis; leucorrhoea like dirty water, coming on from lifting, over- straining of getting wet. It is often acrid and excoriating and not infrequently produces herpes or vesicles on external genitals, with intense itching, smarting and burning. Extra exertion brings on menses again. Suppression of menses from getting wet and leucorrhoea follows, which is very acrid; rheumatic pains in muscles and tendons; stiffness, lameness, soreness all over the body which is < on beginning to move, yet ((>)) when in motion, until the muscles become tired. Aggravation, rest, quiet, afternoon, and cold. ((>)) from motion, warmth, warm and dry weather, rubbing the affected part. Sycosis in its manifestations on the muscular system, tendons and skin. It is a true anti-sycotic.
SABINA
Anti-sycotic. Leucorrhoea thin, milky, fetid; suppression of the menses, with a milky discharge, or with a copious and starch-like discharge with drawing pains in the small of the back through to the pubes. Sycotic or gouty leucorrhoea, yellowish, ichorous, producing severe itching, suitable to plethoric women; bloody leucorrhoea coming on every two weeks, offensive, smelling; weariness and bad feeling in the lumbar region, dragging from back forwards. Leucorrhoea after abortion or miscarriage about the third month of pregnancy. Fig warts itching and burning; ((>)) in cool fresh air, music intolerable.
SANGUINARIA
This remedy is said to be especially good for leucorrhoea following the cessation of the menses, at the menopause. The discharge is fetid and corrosive. In tubercular patients with a cough, uterine polypi, cancer or ulceration of the os. It has flatulence from the vagina (Lycopodium). There is pain in the loins extending down through the hypogastric region and uterus to thighs. Climacteric difficulties with acrid leucorrhoea accompanied with severe burning of the hands and feet (like Phosphorus, Sulphur). Throws the bed-coverings off (Like Lachesis, Sulphur).
SARRACENIA PURPUREA
Anti-sycotic and pseudo-psoric. Leucorrhoea milky, thick, foul smelling, with spasmodic pains in the uterus; leucorrhoea produces an irritating eruption on the external genitals, urging to urinate with a feeling that the bladder is very full (Caladium). Great commotion in abdominal regions while lying down (Lyc); taste very oily and bitter. Stools dark, hard, covered with mucus (Alum).
SARSAPARILLA
Anti-sycotic. Menses retarded, scanty, acrid and burning on the inside of thighs. Leucorrhoea slimy, mucous, scanty; < when walking or riding; severe pain at the close of urination. Urinary deposit like gray sand; urine reddish, turbid, containing flakes of mucus. The patient has an old look. Indicated after, suppressed gonorrhoea where the suppression manifests itself upon the urinary tract and bladder. Often the urine dribbles while sitting; renal colic with passage of sand or gravel from the kidneys; often indicated in sycotic children in bladder or urinary difficulties (Benzoic acid, Nit acid)
SECALE CORNUTUM
An anti-psoric remedy, but it acts in all the miasms, even in Syphilis. Leucorrhoea is brownish and offensive or it is jelly- like, alternating with menorrhagia; not in frequently it is dark, sanious, putrid as found in malignancies. In uterine ulcer or cancer, the discharge is dark, putrid, bloody, burning pains in uterus; leucorrhoea that looks like coffee grounds or disorganized blood (Arsenicum, Conium, Pyro) General coldness, although heat aggravates her. Indicated in feeble, cachectic, thin, scrawny women who are full of fear, and who are very despondent and melancholy. Skin cold to touch; < from warm covering and ((>)) in the cold air.
SEPIA
Syco-psoric. The leucorrhoea of this wonderful remedy is varied and changeable, but I have found it to be either milky and white or thick and yellow, staining the linen. Occasionally it is yellowish-green in gonorrhoea; it is sometimes lumpy and of a fetid odor. In the latter case it is often accompanied by stitches in the cervix and is quite acrid, causing soreness of the pudenda; in most forms there is a sensation of a downward pressure, and in displacements and malpositions, this is very marked; crossing the limbs relieves the downward pressure; dirty- yellow or moth spots on the face are commonly present. Sepia is suited to physically feeble women, dark eyed; skin fine with rigid fiber, but mild and gentle disposition. General weakness of the sexual sphere. Aggravation, forenoon and evening; ((>)) from severe exercise. Sensation as of a ball in inner parts, causing the genitals to feel as though distended and as if everything were coming out through the vagina. This gives us a good picture of Sepia in pelvic difficulties.
SILICA
Pseudo-psoric but acts in tertiary stages of all the miasms. Leucorrhoea milky, watery and sometimes brownish or she has bloody discharges between the periods. Discharges of whitish water from the vagina between the menstrual periods, < after eating sour things. Leucorrhoea with severe itching and smarting of the pudenda. Again in Silica we have milky leucorrhoea or a copious, yellow leucorrhoea that is corrosive and excoriates. aggravation in open air, cold, new moon; amelioration by warmth, and wearing warm clothing. Adapted to light-haired, lax-muscled, pale-faced and thin blooded people; also dry-skinned women of an irritable, nervous and tubercular taint.
STANNUM
Pseudo-psoric. Leucorrhoea with prolapsus uteri, great debility, and a sensation in the uterus as if menses would appear; weakness about the chest and throat; voice husky, deep, hollow, and weak. Leucorrhoea whitish, albuminous, transparent, mucous, or thin and watery with great debility. Pain in the malar bone during the menses. Dry cough in the evening until midnight, expectoration greenish or greenish-yellow, tastes sweet and smells musty; limbs give out easily; desire to sit or lie down constantly.
SULPHUR
Anti-psoric. Leucorrhoea with cutting and pinching pains about the navel; scanty, acrid, inducing soreness, itching, smarting and burning of the vulva. Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, smarting like salt and itching < at night, when she becomes warm in bed. Burning in the soles of the feet, with much heat and restlessness with desire for cool air, throwing the clothing off. Old Chronic cases of leucorrhoea with a marked psoric or sulphur diathesis.
VERATRUM ALBUM
Menses too early and too profuse, with cerebral congestion and choleraic symptoms; great mental disturbances; exhaustion with cold perspiration especially on the forehead; cold sensation on vertex with constriction of the heart; vomiting, rice water discharges from the bowels; general collapse; great thirst for cold water; lemonade or acids; but wants everything cold; aversion to warm things; sudden sinking of strength like Arsenicum, adapted to lean, choleric, melancholy young women with light brown hair and lax muscles.
ZINCUM METALLICUM
Pseudo-psoric. Leucorrhoea thick, < before menses and after stool, with stinging and biting in the pudenda; < when walking, as the result of masturbation in young girls; great nervous exhaustion and restlessness of feet and lower extremities. Leucorrhoea preceded by cutting pain in bowels, and distension of the abdomen. Sexual mania from pruritus vulva in young girls; pricking and twitching with soreness in the spine; hysterical symptoms; mind acts slowly; patient weary, tired and forgetful. Indicated in spinal irritation in feeble minded girls.
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