Postpartum Indications


Homeopathy treatment of Postpartum Indications from the book Homoeopathy for Mother and infant by Dr. Douglas M. Borland (1950), a useful guide for treating Postpartum Indications homeopathically. …


After Labour

ACONITUM NAPELLUS. Shock; excitement; fears; sleepless. Retention of urine (CAUST.).

ARNICA MONTANA. The great remedy after delivery, for relief and comfort, and to avoid sepsis. Sore; feels bruised. Bed feels to hard. The great remedy of bruised parts. (In serious illness says, “Nothing the matter!”)

CAUSTICUM. Long, slow labour; overstretched bladder. Retention with over-flow.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON. After long labour; patient strained and chilled.

STAPHISAGRIA. Stretched-sphincter pain; laceration. After catheterization.

Douglas Borland
Douglas Borland M.D. was a leading British homeopath in the early 1900s. In 1908, he studied with Kent in Chicago, and was known to be one of those from England who brought Kentian homeopathy back to his motherland.
He wrote a number of books: Children's Types, Digestive Drugs, Pneumonias
Douglas Borland died November 29, 1960.