SEPIA OFFICINALIS
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Venous congestion
- Ptosis of viscera
- Weariness
- Misery
- Weakness
- Yellow complexion
- Bearing-down sensation
- Pains extend down to back
- Chills easily
- Tendency to abortion
- Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration
- Easy fainting
- "Ball" sensation in inner parts
- Pulsating headache in cerebellum
- Indifference to loved ones
- Aversion to occupation and family
- Irritability
- Easily offended
- Dreads being alone
- Sadness
- Weeping when telling symptoms
- Miserliness
- Anxiety toward evening
- Indolence
- Vertigo with sensation of something rolling in head
- Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting
- Jerking of head backwards and forwards
- Coldness of vertex
- Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow
- Hair falls out
- Open fontanelles
- Roots of hair sensitive
- Pimples on forehead near hair
- Thick, greenish nasal discharge
- Thick nasal plugs and crusts
- Yellowish saddle across nose
- Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose
- Chronic nasal catarrh, especially post-nasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges
- Muscular asthenopia
- Black spots in the field of vision
- Asthenic eye inflammations
- Tarsal tumors
- Ptosis
- Ciliary irritation
- Venous congestion of the fundus
- Herpes behind ears on nape of neck
- Pain as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration in ears
- Swelling and eruption of external ear
- Yellow blotches on face
- Pale or sallow face
- Yellow about mouth
- Rosacea
- Saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks
- Tongue white
- Taste salty, putrid
- Tongue foul, but clears during menses
- Swelling and cracking of lower lip
- Pain in teeth from 6 pm till midnight
- Feeling of goneness in stomach, not relieved by eating
- Nausea at smell or sight of food
- Tobacco dyspepsia
- Everything tastes too salty
- Band of pain about four inches wide encircling hypochondria
- Nausea in morning before eating
- Disposition to vomit after eating
- Burning in pit of stomach
- Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles
- Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations
- Loathing of fat
- Flatulent abdomen, with headache
- Liver sore and painful
- Many brown spots on abdomen
- Feeling of relaxation and bearing-down in abdomen
- Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum
- Constipation; large, hard stools
- Feeling of a ball in rectum, cannot strain
- Great tenesmus
- Pains shooting upward in rectum
- Dark-brown, round balls glued together with mucus
- Soft stool, difficult
- Prolapsus ani
- Almost constant oozing from anus
- Infantile diarrhea, worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion
- Pains shoot up in rectum and vagina
- Red, adhesive, sand in urine
- Involuntary urination, during first sleep
- Chronic cystitis
- Slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis
- Organs cold in males
- Offensive perspiration in males
- Gleet; discharge from urethra only during night
- Condylomata surround head of penis
- Complaints from coition
- Pelvic organs relaxed in females
- Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva
- Leucorrhea yellow, greenish; with much itching
- Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains
- Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus
- Prolapse of uterus and vagina
- Morning sickness
- Vagina painful, especially on coition
- Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach
- Rotten-egg taste with coughing
- Oppression of chest morning and evening
- Dyspnea
- Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty
- Hypostatic pleuritis
- Whooping-cough that drags on
- Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest
- Violent, intermittent palpitation
- Beating in all arteries
- Tremulous feeling with flushes
- Weakness in small of back
- Coldness between shoulders
- Lower extremities lame and stiff
- Heaviness and bruised feeling in extremities
- Restlessness in all limbs
- Twitching and jerkings night and day
- Pain in heel
- Coldness of legs and feet
- Frequent flushes of heat
- Sweat from least motion
- General lack of warmth of body
- Feet cold and wet
- Shivering, with thirst
- Herpes circinatus in isolated spots
- Itching; not relieved by scratching
- Chloasma
- Herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose
- Ringworm-like eruption every spring
- Urticaria on going in open air
- Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis
- Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor
- Lentigo in young women
- Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin