Menorrhagia, Metrorrhagia.
Acalypha [Acal]
Haemorrhages in the morning bright red and not profuse, dark and clotted in the afternoon; pulse soft and compressible; feels played out in the morning and gains strength as the day advances.
Acid-lacticum [Lac-ac]
Morning sickness in pale anaemic women who lose large quantities of blood during menses, which usually last from five to eight days.
Aconite [Acon]
Active haemorrhage, with fear of death, of moving or flow would increase, and much excitability; vertigo on rising from a recumbent position, she has to lie down again; restlessness; thirst; the flow is constant and coagulates into one mass.
Aletris-far [Alet]
Menorrhagia in consequences of congested condition of uterus and ovaries; profuse discharge of dark-colored blood with clots; PASSIVE FLOODING FROM ATONY OF UTERUS: general debility with loss of tone in muscular system; dyspepsia.
Ambra-grisea [Ambr]
Uterine engorgement; DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN THE PERIODS AT EVERY LITTLE ACCIDENT as after a long walk or a hard stool; swelling soreness and itching of labia.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Menorrhagia after a long drive in the cold air; course come on a few days too soon, are copious, especially at night; blood blackish, often in clots, passing off with spasmodic pains in abdomen and hard stools; ACRID BLOOD CAUSES AND BURNING AND EXCORIATED; left ovary swollen and hard.
Ammonium-mur [Am-m]
Hypertrophy and displacement of uterus; menses too early with pain in abdomen and small of back, continuing at night; flow more profuse at night; during menses diarrhoea and vomiting, bloody discharge from bowels; violent flooding during climaxis in delicate, small-built women.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Haemorrhages from uterus coming on one week after menses, menorrhagia with heaviness in abdomen, faintness, uneasiness, restlessness, yawning; red spots on body, stinging like bee- stings, often the RESULT OF ACTIVE CONGESTION OF OVARIES; metrorrhagia with profuse flow of blood; copious menses with discharge of clotted black blood with labor like pains, especially in right ovarian region.
Apocynum-can [Apoc]
Profuse menses lasting eight days, with violent pressing pains, efforts to vomit, great prostration and trembling of the whole body, preceded for a day or two by a moderate discharge; shreds or pieces of membrane come away with the fluid blood; fainting when raising the head from the pillow; haemorrhage ceasing at intervals, always recurs when the vital powers rally; great irritability of the stomach and vomiting; palpitation whenever she attempts to move; pulse feeble and quick; excessive debility.
Aranea-diadema [Aran]
Menorrhagia, anticipating menses, metrorrhagia, bright-colored blood.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Menorrhagia, with cutting pains in the small of back and groin; confusion, dulness and much pain in the head, aggravated by the least movement. A SHORT TIME SEEMS VERY LONG TO HER, and everything done for her seems done so very slowly; belching wind affords marked relief; FLOODING FROM FIBROMA UTERI.
Arnica [Arn]
Metrorrhagia after coition, during pregnancy and from prolapsus uteri; flooding after cases of convulsion, as from a blow or fall or riding over rough roads; blood bright-red or mixed with clots; heat about head, extremities cool; nausea in pit of stomach. Menorrhagia with pain in small of back, extending into the groin and down the inner side of legs down to the toes; tympanitis.
Arsenicum [Ars]
TEDIOUS, LONG CONTINUED FLOODING IN FEEBLE CACHECTIC WOMEN afflicted with rheumatism, disorganization of uterus or ovaries, with great debility, restlessness and lancinating burning pains; uterus larger and softer than usual, with dilated capillaries; APHTHAE IN MOUTH INDICATE THE LOW STATE OF THE SYSTEM, the least effort exhaust her; chronic endometritis and passive hyperaemia, based on atony.
Badiaga [Bad]
Marked increase of flow at night with sense of enlargement and fulness of head.
Belladonna [Bell]
Profuse discharge of bright-red blood, which FEELS HOT AS IT ESCAPES FROM THE VULVA; the blood flows PROFUSELY BETWEEN THE AFTER PAINS; VASCULAR excitation, showing itself by throbbing of the carotids, flushed face, red eyes; full bounding pulse; nausea, with rumbling in the whole abdomen, with great weight from above downward; gentle pressure on the uterus causes nausea; there is a wave like feeling and undulating sensation, or pulsating tremor all over the body, from head to foot, a sick pulsation all over the body; painful pressure over the sexual organs, as if all would escape from the vulva, or pain in the back, as if it would break; the blood sometimes has a bad smell; haemorrhage between the periods, with darkness before eyes, yawning, twitching, and convulsive jerking of the arms and fingers; OFFENSIVE METRORRHAGIA; frequently indicated in uterine haemorrhage after labor.
Borax [Bor]
Menses too soon, too profuse, attended with colic and nausea; great nervousness.
Bovista [Bov]
Uterine engorgement. BETWEEN THE PERIODS FLOW OF BLOOD FROM EVERY LITTLE EXERTION; menses too often and too profuse, flowing less during the day, when on her feet and worse at night when lying down; severe neuralgic pains in eyes and temples, accompanied by a sense of enlargement and fulness of the whole head.
Bromium [Brom]
Menses too early and too profuse, of bright-red blood or PASSIVE FLOW WITH MUCH EXHAUSTION, or membranous shreds may pass off, particularly in women with affections of the chest, heart or eyes.
Bryonia [Bry]
Haemorrhage of dark-red blood, with pain in small of back, and headache as if it would split; dry mouth and lips; nausea and faintness on sitting up in bed or after eating.
Cactus-grand [Cact]
METRORRHAGIA IN CLOTS, with bearing-down pains; every throe expels clots of blood; menses are premature as well as too copious; the flow ceases on lying down; cardiac complications;
the menses are dark-colored, or black and thick.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Menses too frequent and too copious, amounting almost to menorrhagia; flow provoked by overexertion and by emotions, with aching in vagina; sweating of head and coldness of feet, she wants to be covered up, feels chilly and is oversensitive to draught of air; vertigo on stooping, (<) on rising or going up- stairs; PROFUSE MENSTRUATION DURING LACTATION OR DURING CLIMAXIS.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Menorrhagia; menses every two weeks, black and clotted; before them griping, rumbling in bowels and leucorrhoea; especially with rheumatic women.
Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]
Menorrhagia; menses very profuse and painful, dark, but without clots; pains returning like labor-pains; agitation and sleeplessness, cramps in legs.
Cannabis-sat [Cann-s]
Menses too profuse, with dysuria and sensation of soreness in the whole track of the urethra (gonorrhoea). Anaemia from postpartum haemorrhage, with feeling as if she would lose her senses, or as if the head would fall in all directions, mistiness before eyes, aversion to meat and a nasty taste in mouth.
Cantharis [Canth]
Uterine haemorrhage, with great irritation in the neck of the bladder; urinating often, smarting, cutting and burning in passing only a few drops; more suitable to sterile women.
Capsella [Thlaspi]
PROTRACTED HAEMORRHAGES during climaxis, of a passive character.
Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]
Menses much more profuse and darker than usual, followed by headache and great nervous irritability.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Menses too early, not too profuse, but last too long; great weakness of the thighs. After the appearance of the menses she feels so tired she is scarcely able to speak; menorrhagia from CHRONIC INDURATION OF UTERUS, also in cachectic women with glandular affections, carcinoma, etc.; blood black clotted, putrid.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
PERSISTENT HAEMORRHAGE OF A LOW TYPE, often from degeneration of the sexual organs, with burning pains across sacrum and lower part of spine, with burning pains in chest and difficult breathing; patient wants to be fanned, skin cold and bluish, pulse rapid and weak; excessive prostration; much itching of vulva and anus; tettery eruption on nape of neck and between shoulders; dragging pain from abdomen to back; hardly any restlessness, no anxiety.
Carduus-mar [Card-m]
Metrorrhagia during climaxis, especially in women suffering from stagnation in portal system from hepatic or splenic affections; fulness in head with disposition to become angry.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
Passive haemorrhage, an oozing from the lax uterine vessels after premature delivery or hasty labor; tremulous weakness felt over the entire body, accompanying the flow, with sensation of exhaustion; the uterus is soft and relaxed, and contracts very feebly; protracted lochia; threatening abortion, with spasmodic bearing-down pains.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Metrorrhagia of dark coagulated blood, occasionally interrupted by bright-red gushes, with tearing pains in legs and violent labor pains in uterus; haemorrhage of dark blood, with pressure towards the uterus and frequent discharge of colorless urine; menorrhagia of dark-red or black foetid blood, with lumps; THE FLOW OCCURRING BY THE FITS AND STARTS AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS; coldness of the extremities; nausea and fainting; DESIRE FOR COOL AIR; irascibility; local and general sensibility abnormally exalted; cervix enlarged and indurated; uterine cavity enlarged.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.