SEPIA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition
- diseases of women: especially those occurring during pregnancy, child- bed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness; \"the washerwoman's remedy\"
- complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work
- pains extend from other parts to the back; are attended with shuddering
- particularly sensitive to cold air, \"chills so easily;\" lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases
- sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, leucorrhoea and all uterine affections
- faints easily: after getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a carriage; while kneeling at church
- coldness of the vertex with headache
- anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles
- great sadness and weeping
- dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends; with uterine troubles
- indifferent: even to one's family; to one's occupation; to those whom she loves best
- greedy, miserly
- indolent: does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think
- headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting worse motion, stooping, mental labor, better by external pressure, continued hard motion
- great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric
- yellowness: of the face; conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow saddle across the upper part of the cheeks and nose; a \"tell tale face\" of uterine ailments
- all the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened
- herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body
- pot-belliness of mothers
- painful sensation of emptiness, \"all-gone\" feeling in the epigastrium, relieved by eating
- tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip
- constipation: during pregnancy; stool hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool; sense of weight or ball in anus, not better by stool
- urine: deposits in a reddish clay-colored sediment which adheres to the vessel as if it has been burned on; fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room
- enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep; always during the first sleep
- gleet: painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in morning; obstinate, of long standing; sexual organs, weak and exhausted
- violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus
- prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly to \"sit close\" to prevent it; with oppression of breathing
- irregular menses of nearly every form - early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhoea or menorrhagia - when associated with the above named symptoms
- morning sickness of pregnancy: the sight or thought of food sickens; the smell of cooking food nauseates
- dyspnoea: worse sitting, after sleep, in room, better dancing or walking rapidly
- erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric; ascends, from pelvic organs
- itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is better scratching; and is apt to change to burning
- worse in afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry moist weather; before a thunderstorm
- better warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise
- many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both worse and better by rest and exercise
- it antidotes mental effects of overuse of tabacco, in patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over-mental exertion