Animal
Sepia
Ink Juice of Cuttlefish
Repertory abbreviation: Sep.
Acts specially on the portal system, with venous con- gestion. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. [Zinc.] Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspira- tion. Upward tendency of its symptoms. H Easy fainting. "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brunettes.
Mind
Indifferent to those loved best. Averse 1o occupation, to family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alune. I'ery swd. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening; in- dolent.
Head
Vertigo, with sensation of something roll- ing round in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting, worse in- doors and when lying on painiful side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Head- ache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty Aow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.
Eyes
Muscular asthenopia, black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connec- 677 tion with uterine trouble. Aggravation of eye troubies morning and evening. Tarsal tumors.
Ears
Herpes behind cars on nape of neck. Pain as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration. Swelling and eruption of external car.
Nose
Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts. Y'ellowish suddle acrrss nose. Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose.
Face
Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth. Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribu- tion on nose and cheeks.
Mouth
Tongue white. Taste salty. putrid. Tongue foul, but ciears during menses. Swelling and cracking of lower lip. Pain in teeth from 6 P. M. till midnight; worse on lying.
Stomach
Feeling of gonencss: not relieved by cai- ing. [Carb. an.] Nausea at smeil or sight of food. Tobucco dys?. psia. Everything tastes too salty. IC'arbo Zcg.: Chin.] Band of pain about four inches wide en- circling hypochondria. Nausea in morning before eat- ing. I Disposition to voinit after eating. Burning in pit of stomach. I Longing for vincgur. acids, and pickles. Worse, after milk. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdo- men, sour eructations.
Abdomen
Flotulent, with headache. Liver sore and painful: reliczcd by lving on right side. Many brown spots on abdomen. Feeling of relaxation and bearing- down in abdomen.
Rectum
Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum. Constipation; large, hard stoois; feeling of a ball in rectum: cannot strain: with great tenesmus and pains shooting upward. Dark-brown, round balls glued to- ether with mucus. Soft stool, difficult. Prolapsus ani. [Pod.] Almost constant oozing from anus. Infantile diarrhcea, worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion. Pains shoot up in rectum and vagina.
Urinary
Red, adhesive, sand in urine. Involuntary urination, during first sleep. Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis.
Male
Organs cold. Offensive perspiration. Gleet; discharge from urethra only during night; no pain. Condylomata surround head of penis. Complaints from coition.
Female
Pelvic organs 6 relaxed. Bearing-down sensation as if everything rvould escape through vulva [Bcll.; Kreos.; Lac c.; Lil. t.; Nat. c.; Pod.]; must cross limbs s to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhcea yellow, greenish; with much itch- ing. Menses too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains. Violent stitches up- ward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus. Pro- lapse of uterus and vagina.1 Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.
Respiratory
Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach. Rotten-egg taste with cough- ing. Oppression of chest morning and evening. Dyspncea; worse, after sleep: belter, rapid motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty. .[Phos.; Ambr.] Hypostatic pleuritis. Whoop- ing-cough that drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest.
Heart
Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.
Back
Weakness in small of back. Pains extend into back. Coldness between shoulders.'
Extremities
Lower extremities lame and stiff. Heaviness and bruised feeling. Restlessness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel.
Skin
Herpes circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees.( Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.
Fever
Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from' least motion. General lack of warmth of body. Feet cold and wet. Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards eve!- ing.
Modalities
W'orse, forenoons and evenings; wash- ing, laundry-work, cold air, before thunder-storm. Better, by exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot ap- plications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing.
Relationships
Complementary : Nat. mur. Nux in- tensifies action. Inimical: Lach.; Puls. Compare: Iil.; Murex; Silica; Sulph.; Asperula (leucorrhcea of young girls and uterine catarrh); Ozonum (sacral pain; tired feeling through pelvic vis- cer and perineum) ; Dictamnus (metrorrhagia, leucor- rhcea, and constipation; also somnambulism). Lapa- 'uny? ( Leucorrhcea a with constriction and expulsive effort through womb and pain in kidneys.)
Dose
Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency. Should