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Sepia Officinalis

30C / 200C / 1MSepia
Ink of Cuttlefish · "The Washerwoman Remedy"
sep.PolychrestAnimalCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the portal system and female reproductive organs, causing congestion, organ , and profound exhaustion.
📖 Boericke writes:
(SEPIA)
Acts specially on the portal system, with congestion. Stasis and thereby 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 . Hot flashes at with weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy . "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brunettes. All pains are from below up. One of the most important remedies. patients with chronic troubles and reflexes. Feels cold even in warm room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum.
👤 Constitution
•Typically brunettes who are prone to weakness, sallow or yellow complexions, and a tendency toward feeling cold even in warm rooms.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts.
nose
Yellowish saddle across nose.
nose
behind ears on of neck.
ears
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating (Carb an).
stomach
Tobacco .
stomach
in morning before eating.
stomach
Liver sore and painful; relieved by lying on right side.
abdomen
; large, hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum, cannot strain; with great and pains shooting upward.
rectum
Almost constant oozing from anus.
rectum
Infantile , worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion.
rectum
Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva (Bell; Kreoso; Lac c; Lil t; Nat c; Pod); must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva.
female
Weakness in small of back.
back
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for emotional states involving , irritability, and sadness, especially in family or work settings.
Indifferent to those loved best.
Averse to occupation, to family.
Irritable; easily offended.
Dreads to be alone.
Very sad.
Weeps when telling symptoms.
Miserly.
Anxious toward evening; indolent.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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📝Should not be used too low or repeated too frequently.
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200th
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🕒twice a day
📝Dr. Jousset's experience with strong doses. · continued for some time
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Guaiacum →Natrium Muriaticum →Phosphorus →
⏭️ Similar
Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Euonymus Atropurpurea →Murex Purpurea →DictamnusSilicea Terra →Sulphur →OzonumLapathum
⚠️ Inimical
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Lachesis Mutus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Sepia Officinalis is listed in 870 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 278 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System145Locomotor System74Skin70Abdomen70Head57Stomach54Modalities52Respiratory System47Urinary System39Male Sexual System31Eyes31Nose30Nervous System30Mind29Fever22Face16Circulatory System15Mouth14Generalities10Teeth8Ears8Taste5Throat5Tongue4Gums4

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