Pains false, weak; or SPASMODIC AND IRREGULAR; drowsy, faint spells; pains slow, feeble or suppressed; chilly, pale face; restless; (>) when moving about.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Irregular pains, and labor does not advance; drawing in back and thighs; DOWNWARD PRESSURE WITH CONSTANT DESIRE TO DEFAECATE AND TO URINATE; every pain nearly causes fainting and thus retards labor.
Opium [Op]
Suppression of pains from fear or fright; twitching and jerking of muscles; THE BED FEELS TOO HOT; bloated, red face with drowsiness; pains cease suddenly and coma sets in between convulsive paroxysms.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Tall and slender women of phthisical habit, pains distressing and of very little use; very weak and empty feeling in abdomen. sometimes with cutting pains.
Platina [Plat]
Contractions interrupted by painful sensitiveness of os uteri, of vagina and of external genitals; LABOR-PAINS ALL ON LEFT SIDE, painful spasmodic, ineffectual; her thoughts horrify her.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Inertia of uterus (Arnica, fatigue of uterus); pains slow, weak, ineffectual or spasmodic and irregular, exciting fainting, wants doors and windows open, fears to suffocate; chilliness and pale face; soreness of uterus and of abdominal walls (Hamamelis) IT CORRECTS MALPOSITION OF THE FOETUS BY STIMULATING THE ACTION OF THE MUSCULAR WALLS OF THE WOMB.
Secale [Sec]
Thin and scrawny women with sallow complexion; labor weak and uterus flabby strength of uterus weakened by too early or perverted efforts, sometimes a few weeks before regular labor sets in; during labor prolonged bearing down and forcing pains in uterus; pains irregular, too weak; feeble, distant or ceasing; EVERYTHING SEEMS LOOSE AND OPEN, WITHOUT ACTION; fainting fits.
Sepia [Sep]
Shuddering during pains, she wants to be covered; rigid os from induration (Natr. carb) on neck of uterus; shooting pains in cervix, extending upward, dyspnoea, weak feeling in abdomen.
Ustilago [Ust]
Labor-pains deficient, os soft, pliable, dilatable.
Viburnum-op [Vib]
Ante-partum or post-partum pains of a severe-crampy or spasmodic nature, with cramping of the limbs and neighboring organs, precede and follow the real labor-pains; acts well on blondes.
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.