AMENORRHOEA, DYSMENORRHOEA, MENORRHAGIA, METRORRHAGIA



Hyoscyamus. Hemorrhage after accouchement, miscarriage, or at any time when there are general spasms of the whole body, interrupted by jerks or by twitching of single limbs; the bright- red blood continuing to flow all the time.

Ignatia. Hemorrhage after the abuse of Chamomilla. Heavy sighing and sobbing, with empty feeling at the pit of the stomach. Great despondency.

Iodium. Uterine hemorrhage occurring at every stool, with cutting in the abdomen, pains in the loins and small of the back.

Ipecacuanha. Constant flow of bright-red blood with cutting about the umbilicus, or nausea. Very frequently used after parturition or miscarriage.

Lachesis. Pain in the right ovarian region increasing increasing more and more until relieved by a discharge of blood.

Laurocerasus. Profuse discharge of liquid blood with nightly tearing in the vertex.

Lycopodium. Hemorrhage with cutting pain across the abdomen from right to left. Great fermentation in the abdomen and discharge of much flatulence.

Mercurius s. Metrorrhagia in aged females, scorbutic gums, salivation. Mucous or muco-sanguinolent stools with tenesmus.

Nitric acid. After miscarriage or confinement, with violent pressure as if every thing were coming out at the vulva; with pain in the small of the back, through the hips and down the thighs.

Nux mosch. The blood is thick and dark, with intolerable dryness of the mouth and tongue; the tongue is so dry that it sticks to the palate. Fainting. Sleepiness.

Nux vomica. Metrorrhagia as a precursor of the critical age; also after parturition, particularly if there be constipation of large, difficult stools, or frequent call to stool, with small and painful stools, or without result. She leads a sedentary life, drinks much coffee, wine or other liquids, and lives on highly seasoned food. She is dyspeptic and cannot sleep after three or four A.M. Dreams frightful dreams and does not sleep well.

Phosphorus. After difficult labor; between the monthly periods; or during pregnancy. Particularly in tall and slim females. Weak and empty feeling across the abdomen. Constipation of narrow, dry, difficult stools. Much belching belching of wind after eating.

Platina. Metrorrhagia of dark, thick blood with pain in the small of the back, which penetrates into both groins; with excessive sensitiveness of the genital organs. Metrorrhagia with the sensation as if the body were growing larger in every direction. In pregnant females.

Pulsatilla. Metrorrhagia, profuse at times; at other times intermitting and mixed with clots, most profuse in persons given to reveries. And at the critical age. In females of mild, tearful temperament.

Rhus tox. Metrorrhagia in pregnant females of a rheumatic diathesis, worse on change of weather.

Sabina. Hemorrhage at the menstrual periods; after miscarriages; after parturition. The blood is dark, having blackish clots mixed with thin watery blood. The pain extends from the back through to the pubis. Painless loss of dark-red blood immediately after delivery. Sabina is used in frequent next to Ipecac.

Secale corn. Passive hemorrhage of very fetid blood. Sallow face. General debility, insensibility and feverish pulse. Passive hemorrhage in feeble cachectic females, particularly when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids.

Sepia. Chronic metrorrhagia, when it is excited from the least cause. She has yellow spots on the face, a yellow saddle across the bridge of the nose. She has icy cold paroxysms; icy cold feet; and has flushes of heat. Painful sense of emptiness at the pit of the stomach. Urine fetid; it has a sediment as if clay were burned on the bottom of the vessel. Constipation. Stools mixed with mucus. Sense of weight in the anus.

Silicea. Metrorrhagia with terribly offensive sweating of the feet. Constipation of difficult; lumps which the rectum has not action enough to expel and which sometimes recede after being partially expelled.

Stramonium. Metrorrhagia, with excessive loquacity, singing, prayers and praise. Full of strange and absurd ideas.

Sulphur. Chronic hemorrhage. She seems to get almost well, when it occurs again and again, day after day for weeks. She is weak; has weak and fainting spells; flushes of heat; heat on the top of the head, and cold feet. Sleep very light, often gets awake, wide she cannot wait for her food, especially for her dinner.

Sulph. acid. Metrorrhagia with tremulous sensation in the whole body without trembling.

H.N. Guernsey
Henry Newell Guernsey (1817-1885) was born in Rochester, Vermont in 1817. He earned his medical degree from New York University in 1842, and in 1856 moved to Philadelphia and subsequently became professor of Obstetrics at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (which merged with the Hahnemann Medical College in 1869). His writings include The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy to Obstetrics, and Keynotes to the Materia Medica.