CONFINEMENT AND POST-PARTUM DERANGEMENTS
Aconite [Acon]
Suppression or scanty discharge, with distress of abdomen, chest and head, probably from sanguineous congestion; fever with thirst and mental uneasiness; sharp cutting pain in abdomen which is sensitive to touch; offensive lochia; mammae soft and flabby; lochia returns when she begins to walk about house.
Arsenicum [Ars]
To prevent reabsorption and septicaemia and to sustain the nervous system; metritis puerperalis.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Lochia very acrid and foetid, with great debility and prostration.
Belladonna [Bell]
OFFENSIVE LOCHIA, FEELING HOT TO THE PARTS; flushed face and injected eyeballs; great tenderness of abdomen; pain in uterine region comes and goes suddenly; fever with thirst and delirium; unrefreshing sleep; great sensitiveness, cannot bear even a slight jar of her bed.
Bryonia [Bry]
Suppression of lochia, with sensation as if head would burst, with dryness of lips and mouth and (<) by least motion, or profuse lochia with burning pains in uterine region.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Lochia last too long in leucophlegmatic women who menstruate too profusely from atony of uterine fibres; milky lochia.
Calendula [Calend]
Profuse offensive watery discharge with great exhaustion.
Cantharis [Canth]
Lochia profuse on second or third day, accompanied with burning and smarting in vagina and urethra.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Lochia last too long, thin, offensive, excoriating, with numbness of limbs.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
BLOODY LOCHIA last too long and exhaust patient, it seems to ooze passively from the relaxed uterine vessels.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Suppression of lochia, followed by diarrhoea, colicky diarrhoea; irritable and impatient; thirst; redness of one cheek while the other is pale.
Coffea [Coff]
Profuse discharge with exalted nervous sensibility and wake- fulness.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Suppression of lochia, with violent colic, perhaps from anger; abdomen tympanitic, diarrhoea; (<) after taking food or drink; great restlessness.
Crocus [Croc]
LOCHIAL DISCHARGE IN DARK STRINGS; sensation of something alive in abdomen which becomes greatly distended.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Lochia suppressed by cold or dampness; quantity of milk greatly diminished.
Erigeron [Erig]
The least motion excites afresh a return of bloody lochial
discharge, (>) by rest.
Helonias [Helon]
Continuous lochial discharge FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS after confinement; prolapsus and uterine hyperaesthesia; mental gloom.
Hepar [Hep]
Disgusting and offensive odor of the lochia; pimples on parts.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Much delirium and jerking of the muscles; fear of being poisoned; very jealous and suspicious.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Offensive black clots, mixed with water; excoriating lochia almost ceased to flow, when they freshen up and become more profuse and bloody; and again almost disappear to freshen up again; low-spirited; lacerating headache; hair falls out.
Lilium [Lil-t]
Offensive excoriating lochia; urine causes smarting; dragging pains from DELAYED SUBINVOLUTION; fears an internal incurable disease.
Mercurius [Merc]
Discharge (<) at night, with swelling and inflammation of genital organs; swollen and sore groins.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Scanty and offensive lochia in women who live well and indulge in coffee and wine; irritable rectum, calling her to stool frequently; urinates often, urine producing a scalding sensation; soreness in uterine region, she does not wish to be moved or disturbed; prefers to be warm.
Opium [Op]
Suppression of lochia from fright; sopor.
Platina [Plat]
A little discharge remains, but it is black and clotted; genitals sore and tender, so that she cannot bear to have the usual napkins applied; DISCHARGE INTERMITTENT, IN GUSHES; cannot bear a warm room.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Lochia make her feel faint as they flow; sudden disappearance of milk, the scanty lochial discharge remaining is milky; fever, but no thirst.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Lochia last too long, are thin and offensive and exhaust her; sometimes bloody or ichorous; shooting pains in rectum; restless at night, changes position often.
Secale [Sec]
Thin scrawny women. Lochia offensive, thin, scanty or profuse, painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing-down pains; very dark discharge.
Sepia [Sep]
Offensive, very foetid, excoriating discharge, with little sharp shooting pains in the region of the neck of uterus; distressing, bearing-down pain in back.
Silicea [Sil]
PURE BLOOD FLOWS EVERY TIME THE BABY NURSES; discharge excoriates; after pains in lips.
Stramonium [Stram]
Lochia of a cadaverous odor; full of absurd ideas.