Symptoms
1. Chilly, nervous women esp. if with “moth patches” on forehead (Sepia).
2. Internal trembling.
3. Spasmodic disorders of female system; dysmenorrhoea with irregular spasmodic pains and bearing down esp. left ovarian region (almost specific, cp. Mag phos., Viburn). In labour with rigid os. Pains spasmodic, irregular and ineffectual, nervous excitement; after-pains. Leucorrhoea acrid, exhausting; in little girls.
4. Nervous, spasmodic complaints during the establishment of the menstrual function.
5. Rheumatism of small joints esp. wrists and fingers; pains intermittent, change place every few minutes (Pulsatilla).
Note. Strongly antidoted by coffee.
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.