Homeopathy Remedies for Woman


Anshutz gives a useful therapeutic differential diagnosis of the condition Woman, with the most useful homeopathic remedies. Therapeutic byways by E.P. Anshutz, published in 1900….


Fraxinus Americanus [Frax]

      The organ remedy for woman is Fraxinus Am., according to Burnett, who wrote: Where the organ ailing is primary to the organism, use organ remedies in material doses frequently repeated; where the organ ailing is of a piece pathologically with that of the organism use the homoeopathic simillimum in high potency infrequently repeated. For details of Frax. Am. see Burnett’s Organ Diseases of Women.

Bellis perennis [Bell-p]

      Burnett, Organ Diseases of Women, writes: It often happens to some ladies when they are enciente that they find it very inconvenient to get about, walking being very irksome and almost impossible. In such cases the Daisy Bellis perennis soon sets matters right; I mean, of course, when the cause of the trouble lies in the mechanical circumstances and these are of a remediable kind. Burnett’s dose was material, 5 drops of the tincture once or twice a day.

Vinegar This is from Alabama. A doctor said nothing would stop post- partum haemorrhage like a fine cloth, or gauze, steeped in vinegar, wrung out and inserted.

Fraxinus Americanus [Frax]

      Soreness, heaviness, bearing down pains in pelvic and hypogastrium; sub-involution; this drug, 5 drop doses of the tincture, will cure.

Actaea racemosa [Cimic]

      1x, given for two months before delivery, seemed to insure the birth of live, healthy children. In one case the woman had borne four dead babes and in another case the woman had borne two dead. Reported by Dr. Wingfield.

Senecio aureus [Senec]

      The Indians squaw root is too little known, according to some old practitioners. In doses of from 1 to 5 drops of the tincture it has worked wonders in chlorotic girls, nervous, easily fatigued, menses scant or absent; after childbirth woman remains weak and sickly. It is a sort of all-round female regulator, worth knowing.

Mitchella repens [Mit]

      is the drug Indian women gave for several days previous to labor. It promotes ease, clears away erratic pains, opens the bowels and aids digestion. Many old physicians certify to the truth of all this. The dosage is from 5 to 10 drops of the tincture twice a day.

Olive oil An old recipe for pregnant women to prevent the agonies of labor is to rub the abdomen, vulva and perineum, every night on retiring, with olive oil, for a week or so before the time.

Caulophyllum [Caul]

      1x was Dr. Ludlam’s drug when confinement cases were too lingering, patient exhausted and fretful. Dr. Simpson, Liverpool, endorsed this prescription.

Peach leaf An infusion of fresh peach leaves and twigs is a good, popular remedy for morning sickness, and vomiting of pregnancy. The tincture of Amygdalus persica will answer the same purpose.

Symphoricarpus racemosus [Sym-r]

      A drug that, according to Dr. E.V. Moffat, acts very beneficially in morning sickness and vomiting, nausea and retching of pregnancy. Give the 3d potency, several doses, or until relieved.

Apis [Apis]

      An English doctor relates the case of a woman who had suffered horribly from difficult menstruation, and would, at times, scream from the pain. Apis 3 cured.

E.P. Anshutz
Edward Pollock Anshutz – 1846-1918. Editor - Homeopathic Recorder and author of New Old and Forgotten Remedies. Held an Hon. Doctor of Medicine from Hering Medical College.