Sepia



Ears

Otalgia.-Shootings in ears.- Stinging in the left ear.-Pain in ear, as from excoriation.- Swelling, and purulent eruption, in external ear.- Herpes on lobe of ear, behind the ear and on nape of neck.- Discharge of liquid pus from ear, with itching.-Hearing extremely sensitive, especially to music.- Hardness of hearing.- Sudden deafness, as if caused by a plug in ears.-Buzzing and roaring before ears.

Nose

Swelling and inflammation of nose, especially at tip.- Scabs on tip of nose.- Scabby and ulcerated nostrils.- Hardened mucus in nose.-Epistaxis, and discharge of blood, frequently, on blowing nose, after being in the slightest degree overheated, or when the nose has been struck by any thing, even lightly.- Violent bleeding of nose, especially during menses.-Anosmia.-Smelling too sensitive, too feeble, yellow saddle across the bridge of nose.- Fetid smell in nose.- Ozaena, blowing of large lumps of yellow green mucus or yellow green membranes, with blood, from the nose.- Dry coryza.- Dry coryza, especially of left nostril.-Dry mucus, which causes an obstruction in nose.- Violent fluent coryza, with sneezing, pain in occiput, and drawing in limbs.

Face

Paleness and puffiness of face, with blue circles round the eyes, which are red and dull.- Yellowness of face (and of the whites of eyes).-Face emaciated.- Yellow streak on nose, and cheeks, in form of a saddle.-Violent heat in face.-Pale bloatedness of face.- Erysipelatous inflammation, and swelling of one side of face (arising from a carious tooth).-Inflammatory swelling of face, with yellow scurfy pimples, thickly grouped.- Herpes, scurf on face.- Warts on face.- Black pores on face.-Acne worse before menses.- Itching, and eruption on face and on forehead, sometimes merely like redness and roughness of skin.- Skin swollen on forehead.- Tumours on the forehead.- Drawing facial pains.-Spasmodic pain and tearing in bones of face.- Neuralgic pains (left side, from abuse of tobacco).- Dryness and exfoliation of lips.-Tension of lower lip.- Swelling of under lip.-Yellow colour and herpetic eruption round mouth.-Moist and scabious eruptions on the red part of lips, and on chin.- Painful ulcer on internal surface of lips.- Engorgement, and painful sensitiveness of submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Toothache, on compressing or touching teeth, and on speaking, also from slightest current of cold air.-Nocturnal toothache, with extreme excitement.-Pulsative shooting, or drawing toothache, extending sometimes into ear (especially after eating, drinking, or taking anything cold into mouth) or into arms and fingers.-Toothache during the menses.-Toothache, stinging, pulsating, extending into ear during pregnancy, with shortness of breath, with swelled face and swelling of submaxillary glands, worse from every cold draft of air, when touching teeth and when talking.-Toothache with violent ebullition of blood, and pulsation in whole body.- Tearing shocks in teeth.-Bluntness, looseness, easy bleeding, and caries of teeth.- Gums dark red.- Swelling, excoriation, ulceration, and easy bleeding of gums.

Mouth

Fetid breath.-Swelling of interior of mouth.-Dryness of the mouth, lips and tongue.- Saline salivation.- Taste bitter, sour, slimy, foul, mostly in morning.- Pain in tongue and palate, as if they had been burnt.- Tip of tongue feels as if scalded.- Excoriation of tongue.- Vesicles on tongue.- Tongue loaded with a white coating.- Soreness of tip of tongue.

Throat

Sore throat, with swelling of glands of neck.- Pressure, as from a plug in throat, or pain as from excoriation, and shootings during deglutition.- Pressure in throat in region of tonsils, as if neck-cloth were too tight.- Jerking in throat.-Swelling and inflammation of the gullet.-Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of tonsils.-Dryness in throat, with tension and scraping.-Clammy sensation in throat.- Accumulation of mucus in throat, and on velum palati.- Roughness and burning in fauces, worse by hawking.- Hawking up of mucus, especially in morning.- Expulsion of sanguineous mucus on hawking.

Appetite

Putrid or sour taste.-Too salt taste of food.-Adipsia or excessive thirst, especially in morning and in evening, sometimes with anorexia.-Great voracity.-Bulimy, with sensation of emptiness in stomach.- Eager desire for wine, for vinegar.- Creates aversion to beer.- Repugnance and dislike to food, especially to meat, and milk, which produces diarrhoea.-Tobacco smoke disagrees.-Disagreeable risings, with nausea, after eating fat food.-Weak digestion.- After a meal: acidity in mouth, frequent risings, scraping and burning sensation in throat, pulsation in scrobiculus, hiccough, inflation of abdomen, sweat, feverish heat, palpitation of heart, cephalalgia, nausea, vomiting, pains in stomach, &c.

Stomach

Sensation of emptiness in pit of stomach, just below ensiform cartilage, this is a very weak, “gone” feeling, which nothing can satisfy, this symptom may appear in any complication of troubles, in disordered menstruation, &c.- Frequent risings, generally sour or bitter, or else like rotten eggs, or with taste of food. Painful risings, during which blood comes into mouth.-Acidity, with disgust to life.- Nausea, sometimes when fasting in morning, better by eating a little.- Nausea, with bitter taste and risings.- Nausea from motion of a carriage.- Nausea and vomiting after a meal.-Vomiting of bile and of food (in morning, with headache).- Vomiting of bile and food during pregnancy, straining so hard that blood comes up.- Pains in stomach after a meal, sometimes in evening.- Violent pain in cardia, when food passes into stomach.- Pain in the scrobiculus while walking.- Pressure in stomach, as from a stone, especially during or after a meal, or else at night.-Contractive spasm in stomach.-Water brash, especially after drinking or eating, or preceded by a whirling sensation in stomach.-Vomiting of milky serum (in pregnant women).-Nocturnal vomiting, with headache.- Cramps in stomach and chest.-Tearing boring in cardiac region, extending to loins.- Cutting boring from stomach towards spine.- Pressive shootings in scrobiculus, and in region of the stomach.- Burning sensation in pit of stomach and scrobiculus.-Throbbing in pit of stomach.- Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach.

Abdomen

Pains in the liver, when riding in a carriage.-Aching, throbbing, and shooting in hepatic region.-Boring or tensive shootings in hypochondria, especially during movement.-Shootings in left hypochondrium. Attacks of contractive pain in right hypochondrium.- Pain across hypochondrium at night on lying down, better from micturition.- Pain in abdomen, in bed in morning.- Pressure and heaviness in abdomen, with sensation of expansion, as if it were about to burst.- Excessive distension of abdomen.- Heaviness and hardness in abdomen.- Hardness in pyloric region.- Soreness of abdomen in pregnant women.- Enlargement of abdomen (in women who have had children).- Dropsical swelling of abdomen.- Abdominal spasms, with a clawing pain, as if intestines were twisted.- Incisive colic, especially after corporeal exercise, or at night, with desire to evacuate.- Digging, cuttings, and aching in the abdomen. Pain, as from a bruise in intestines.- Coldness in abdomen.-Burning sensation and shootings in abdomen, especially in left side, and sometimes extending into thigh.-Sensation of emptiness in abdomen.- Lancinations in groins.- Brownish spots on abdomen.- Movements and borborygmi in abdomen, especially after a meal.- Excessive production and incarceration of flatus.

Stool & Anus

Constipation during pregnancy.- Ineffectual want to evacuate, or only with emission of slime and flatus.-Slow, inefficient evacuations, like sheep dung.- Scanty evacuations, with straining and tenesmus. Faeces too soft.- Difficult discharge even of soft stool.-Great difficulty in discharging stool, which seems to stick in anus or rectum as if a ball or potato was there.- Difficult stool with sensation of weight in abdomen- Gelatinous evacuations (small), with gripings (and tenesmus). Debilitating diarrhoea.-Greenish diarrhoea, often of putrid or sour smell, especially in children.- Diarrhoea after boiled milk. Whitish or brownish colour of stools.-Discharge of blood during the evacuation.-Contractive pain and tension, itching, tingling, burning, and shooting in anus and rectum.- Oozing from rectum.- Slimy discharge from rectum, with shooting and tearing pains.- Affections of anus and rectum where there are sharp, shooting, lancinating pains running up into abdomen.-Prolapsus recti, especially during an evacuation.- Weak feeling in rectum in bed.- Congestion of blood in anus.- Inactivity of the bowels. Protrusion of haemorrhoids from rectum (when walking, bleeding when walking).- Bleeding haemorrhoids.-Excoriation between the buttocks.- Contractive pain in perinaeum.- Ring of condylomata round anus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent (and ineffectual) want to urinate (from pressure on bladder and tension in hypogastrium).- Aching in bladder.-Feeling as if bladder were greatly distended.- Emission of urine at night (has to rise frequently).- Involuntary discharge of urine at night, especially in first sleep.- Deep-coloured urine, red like blood.- Turbid urine, with red, sandy, or brick-coloured sediment.- With white sediment and a cuticle on surface.-Profuse fetid urine, with white sediment.- Urine with a sanguineous deposit.- Sediment to the urine like clay, as if clay were burnt on the bottom of the vessel.- Urine very offensive, cannot be endured in room.- Cramp in bladder, burning sensation in bladder and urethra.- Smarting in urethra, especially when urinating.- Incisive pains and shootings in urethra.- Discharge of mucus from the urethra, as in chronic gonorrhoea.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica