Sepia officinalis
sepi-offInky Juice of Cuttlefish Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. 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. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy fainting. "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brune
Sepia officinalis — Materia Medica
Sepia officinalis — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Draggy, relaxed females -lithæmic, plethoric, - subject to prolapses or easy dislocations. Uterine reflexes. Symptoms settle in back; shoot up, < rectum, vagina, etc.; backward, head (l), ileo-cæcal region, ovary, etc., or cause shuddering. AS OF A LUMP or a rolling over internally. Weak, empty, hollow feeling; in epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees, etc., or fulness. Milky discharges. Bleedings. .................... Angry, sensitive and irritable and miserable. Sensitive to pain. Anxious fear; over trifles. Averse, to one's own; to sympathy; to company; yet dreads solitude. Stifled affections. Poor memory. Sad irritability, alternating with indifference or sulkiness. Sexually minded. Sad over her health and domestic affairs. Indifference. Stupid, wants to go away. Headache; over l. eye; alternate sides of occiput; < lying on it; heavy on vertex; shootings; bursting. Hemicrania. Jerks head back and forth. Drooping eyelids. Red, itching tarsi. Falling out feeling in eyes. Sees motes, flashes, zigzags, photopsies; then collapse. Odors are repulsive. NOSE; BROWN STRIPE ACROSS (Menis.); pressive pain at root; foul plugs or green crusts from. Dark circles under eyes. Changing of color of face. Chloasma. Numb malar bones. Swollen, cracked lower lip. Mouth feels burnt. Hawks mucus or foul, cheesy grains in A.M. Taste cheesy, fishy or bitter-sour. Ascending throat colds. Eructates tough, foamy mucus. Nausea at tought or smell of food; in A.M. Vomits; solids only; milky. Gnawing hunger. Craves acids. FAINT SINKING AT EPIGASTRIUM, not > eating, or a lump in. Griping in gall-bladder, < stooping. Falling out or heavy bearing down feeling in hypogastrium; holds it or crosses legs. Pot belly. Stool, then gelatinous mucus. Diarrhœa, from boiled milk. Rectum constricted and powerless; no urging for days. Obstipation. As of a ball in anus. Piles, prolapsing; sticking; of pregnancy. Oozing from anus. Slow urination; cutting before.
Sepia officinalis — mind · H.C. Allen
Anxiety: With fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary evils; towards evening. 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 (Fl-ac., Ph-ac.); to those whom she loves best. Greedy, miserly (Lyc.). Indolent: Does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think.
Sepia officinalis — general · H.C. Allen
Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition (Puls.). Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children, Sulph.). Diseases of women: Especially those occurring during pregnancy; childbed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness (Murx., Nux-m.); “the washerwoman’s remedy,” complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work. Pains extend from other parts to the back (reverse of, Sab.); are attended with shuddering (with chilliness, Puls.). Particularly sensitive to cold air, “chills so easily”; lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases (in acute diseases, Led.). Sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation; with constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, leucorrhea and all uterine affections. Faints easily: After getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a carriage; while kneeling at church. All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened (Lach.). Erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric (Lach., Sang., Sulph., Tub.); ascends, from pelvic organs.
Sepia officinalis — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Cuttlefish) Of Hahnemann says, " This brown-black juice which, before me, had only been used for drawing, is contained in the abdomen of the sea-insect, ink-fish (sepia octopoda), and is some times jerked forth by the insect to darken the water around, either for the purpose of securing a prey or opposing an attack.” (For the manner of Hahnemann’s spotting this great remedy, which he introduced, after provings, into his Materia Medica, see p. 652.) It is imperative to get a true realization of Sepia : one of our most important remedies in chronic diseases—related to Nat. rntir. and-PAos., both of which enter into cuttlefish juice and determine some of its symptoms. Yet Sepia provides a special stimulus all its own, that neither of the others can supply. I am told that Dr. Gibson Miller, that great prescriber, ured to say that, if he might have only one drug, he would choose Sepia. And Sepia has made some very wonderful cures, when the unit dose has been left to act over several months,—goitre—insanity— —rheumatoid arthritis, etc. Sepia is one of the drugs that does not bear repetition—anyway in chronic cases, and in the potencies. Now, how to spot Sepia ?... And here, as it seems to give, pretty graphically, the Sepia mentality, we will reproduce our Sepia drug picture from a paper read to the British Homoeopathic Society some years ago, and still to be found with a few other drugs in a small pamphlet. Sepia has been called the Washerwoman’s Remedy, and not without cause. Picture her—the sallow, tired mother of a big family, on ” washing day ”. She is perspiring profusely : pouring under the arms. She cannot be shut in, because of the heat and the stuffiness which make her feel faint—yet the cold wind that rushes in at the open door is almost unbearable. Her back aches fearfully.
Sepia officinalis — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: In afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry, moist weather; before a thunderstorm (Psor.). Amelioration: Warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise. Many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both < and > by rest and exercise.
Sepia officinalis — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
COLD: AIR; North wind. Wet. Snowy. Sexual excesses. Before menses. Pregnancy. Abortion. Morning and evening. After first sleep.
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