Dropsy of uterus.
Tenderness of female parts to touch. Coition painful to women.
Menses: Too early and too profuse even with mania; too late and too scanty; suppressed.
Metrorrhagia during climacteric age; or, during pregnancy, especially fifth and seventh months.
Amenorrhoea at the age of puberty or later.
Redness, swelling and itching eruption on inner labia.
Leucorrhoea: yellow or greenish water; like pus; of bad- smelling fluids, accompanied by much itching in genital organs.
Pregnancy
Soreness of abdomen of pregnant women; feel the motions of child too sensitively.
Abortion after the fifth month.
Offensive, excoriating lochia.
Bleeding and soreness of nipples, preceded by itching.
Nipples crack very much across the crown.
Larynx
Hoarseness: with tickling in larynx and bronchi; with coryza and dry cough from titillation in throat.
Sensation of dryness in larynx.
Roughness and soreness of larynx and throat.
Breathing
Oppression of chest and shortness of breath when walking. Severe oppression toward evening.
After emotions of mind, loses breath and gets palpitation.
Cough
Dry cough: especially evening in bed, till midnight, frequently with nausea and bitter vomiting; during sleep, without waking; from tickling in larynx, or, in bronchi, toward morning.
Cough every evening, not ceasing until he coughs loose a little phlegm.
Paroxysms of spasmodic cough resembling whooping-cough, excited by tickling in chest, from larynx to the stomach; daytime without, morning with expectoration of yellow, green or grey pus, or, of a milk white, tenacious mucus, generally of saltish taste.
Cough and coryza, with sneezing, commences every morning before getting out of bed, and lasts until 9 A.M.
Irritation to cough so sudden and violent can scarcely inhale at all.
Cough worse: when at rest; when lying on left side; from acids.
Coughs phlegm loose, but cannot get it up.
Expectoration profuse, purulent, offensive, green, tasting salty only in morning; of blood while lying down.
Lungs
Sensation of emptiness in chest.
Great pressure on chest, more left side.
Stitch in left side of chest and scapula, when breathing.
Sensation of soreness in middle of chest.
Chest symptoms relieved by pressing on chest with hand.
Heart Pulse
Palpitation of heart after emotions of mind.
Interruption of the beating of the heart most after dinner; alarmed; quivering motion.
Wakes up with violent beating of the heart.
Palpitation, with anxiety about things which happened years ago.
Congestion of blood to chest, with violent palpitation of heart.
An occasional hard “thump” of the heart.
Outer Chest
Brown spots on chest.
Neck Back
Pain in back and small of back, particularly with stiffness, improved by walking.
When stooping sudden pain in back as if struck by a hammer, relieved by pressing back against some thing hard.
Weakness in small of back when walking, generally from disease of the uterus.
Belching relieves pain in back.
Upper Limbs
Humid tetter in arm-pit.
Pains as from dislocation, in shoulder-joint, after exertion.
Lameness and falling asleep of arms and fingers.
Drawing in arms down to fingers.
Bruised pain in arms.
Herpes on elbow (scaling off).
Stiffness in wrist joint.
Heat in hands during day, with nervous excitement.
Cold hands even in warm room, and from hands chill through whole body.
Skin on palms peels off.
Itch and scabs on hands, soldier’s itch. Panaritium with violent beating and stitching pains.
Painless ulcers on tip of fingers: or, on the joints.
Lower Limbs
Coxagra (gout or sciatica), with lancinating stitches, must get out of bed for relief; pains worse from rising, but better from slow walking.
Sciatica, better during pregnancy; pains 3 to 5 A.M., veins swollen.
Lower limbs go to sleep, when walking.
Icy-coldness of lower limbs.
Swelling of limbs and feet, worse when sitting or standing, better when walking.
Swelling of knee, soft, painless.
Cracking in knee-joint.
Sensation of running as from a mouse, in lower limbs.
Coldness in legs and feet, especially in evening in bed, when the feet get warm, the hands get cold.
Burning, or, heat of the feet at night.
Feet swollen, with sensation as if fallen asleep.
Profuse sweat of feet; or, sweat of unbearable odor causing soreness of toes.
Tension in tendo-achillis, also swelling of the tendon.
Sciatica becomes chronic, localizing in the heel.
Ulcer on the heel.
Limbs in General
Stiffness of joints..
Arthritic pains in joints.
Jerking and twitching of head and limbs, during the day.
Limbs go to sleep easily, after manual labor.
Weakness of joints, especially the knees.
Patient fears the joints cannot beat the exertion of lifting.
Position etc.
Rest : Lying on painful side :; on painless side :; on left side :; on back :; in bed : Sitting : quietly : Standing : Rising : Stooping : Motion :; quivering : Exertion :, Over exertion (of mind) : Mental emotion : Walking :; fast : Stretching : Kneeling : Legs crossed : Writing : Shaking head : Moving head : Jerking of head backward and forward : Turning head : Closing eyes : Turning eyes :. Rest :. Shuddering :.
Nerves
Restless, fidgety.
Hysterical spasms. Sensation of ball in inner parts.
Jerking and twitching of head and limbs.
Spasms in buttocks in bed, at night, when stretching out the limb.
Twitching of limbs during sleep.
A short walk fatigues much.
Paralysis, with atrophy.
Fainting : after getting wet; from riding in a carriage; while kneeling in church.
Sleep
Great sleepiness in daytime or too early in evening.
Frequent awaking from sleep without cause or because he thinks he has been called.
Talks aloud during sleep.
Awakens in morning at 3. o’clock and cannot go to sleep again.
Wakeful, sleeplessness from rush of thoughts.
Restless sleep.
Time
Morning :,,,, till 9 A.M.: Forenoon :; till evening: Morning and evening : Evening :, Evening till midnight : Night : 1, 3 A.M. : 3 to 5 A.M. : Day : Fifth and seventh months of pregnancy (metrorrhagia) : Fifth month (abortion) :. Every third night :.
Temperature and Weather
Warm room : In-doors : Room (dark) : In bed : Out of bed : 3 to 5 A.M. : Open air : Cold north winds : Damp air :. Getting wet : Summer.
Chill Fever Sweat
Want of natural bodily warmth.
Shuddering during the day, without chill.
Chilliness evening in open air, and from every motion.
More thirst with the chill than with the heat.
Heat with attacks of chilliness, with thirst.
Intermittent fever, with thirst during the chill.
Flushes of heat from least motion; or, as if hot water was poured over him, then sweat, weakness, faintness.
Heat ascends. Morning-sweat after awaking, profuse.
Sweat, more when walking and from the least exertion.
Sweat more after a nervous shock and when sitting quietly after exertion.
Night-sweat : on chest, back and thighs; from above downward on the calves, every third night; smelling sour; offensive; or, like elder blossoms.
Sides
Right :. Left :,, Within outward : Below upward :, Above downward : Pains extend from other parts to the back.
Sensations
Sensation of a ball in inner parts : Tingling in outer parts.
Excessive sensitiveness to pain.
Sensation of a mouse running in the lower limbs, Sensation of a plug in throat :; of a lump in rectum :.
Tissues
Bad effects from loss of fluids.
Painless swelling of the lymphatic glands.
Erysipelas, generally pustulous.
Arthritic affections of the joints.
Crippled nails.
Contact Injuries etc.
Touch :,, Pressure : Scratching : Riding :,; in a carriage :, In candle-light (eye symptoms become worse) : Sensitive to day light,.
Skin
Itching in face on arms, hands, back, hips, feet, abdomen and genitals.
Itching often changes to burning, when scratching.
Soreness of the skin; humid places in bends of knees.
Brown; or, claret-colored, tetter-like spots.
Humid tetter, with itching and burning.
Vesicles, itching, followed by abundant desquamation.
Ringworms; boils; pustules; pemphigus.
Ulcers: painless, on joints or tips of fingers or toes; itching, stinging and burning.
Stages and States
Especially suited to persons with dark hair; for women, and particularly during pregnancy, in childbed, and while nursing.
Relationship
Sepia is frequently indicated after : Pulsat., Silicea, Sulphur.
Antidotes to Sepia; Its action is reduced by vegetable acid; the most powerful antidote, is inhalation of Spir, nitr, dulc.; less powerful Antim crud. or Ant. tart; when the circulation is much excited, Aconite
Sepia antidote : Calcarea ostr., Cinchon., Mercur. Phosphor., Sarsap., Sulphur, Rhus-poisoning (with desquamation). Incompatible : Laches.
