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Sepia Officinalis

30C / 200C / 1MSepia
Ink of Cuttlefish · "The Washerwoman Remedy"
sep.PolychrestAnimalCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 Acts primarily on the portal system and female reproductive organs, causing venous congestion, organ prolapse, and profound exhaustion.
📖 Boericke writes:
(SEPIA)
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 brunettes. All pains are from below up. One of the most important uterine remedies. Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine 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
Herpes behind ears on nape of neck.
ears
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating (Carb an).
stomach
Tobacco dyspepsia.
stomach
Nausea in morning before eating.
stomach
Liver sore and painful; relieved by lying on right side.
abdomen
Constipation; large, hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum, cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting upward.
rectum
Almost constant oozing from anus.
rectum
Infantile diarrhoea, 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 apathy, 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
12th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Should not be used too low or repeated too frequently.
Primary Dosage
30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
1X
Decimal
🕒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 →Dictamnus →Murex Purpurea →Silicea Terra →Sulphur →Ozonum →Lapathum →
⚠️ Inimical
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Lachesis Mutus →
📚 Sources & References

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