Sepia (sep) সিপিয়া
Sepia Officinalis
Inky Juice of Cuttlefish, Cuttle Fish. (Mollusca.)
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পরিচয়ঃ সামুদ্রিক কটল নামক মাছের (cuttle fish) (পেকী মাছ) দেহ নিঃসৃত এক প্রকার কাল স্রাব হইতে প্রস্তুত । ইহা একটি এন্টিসোরিক ও এন্টিসাইকোটিক ঔষধ । ইহার অপর নাম Sepia Succus/ Ink of the Cuttle Fish.
ধাতুগত বৈশিষ্ট্যঃ ইহা প্রধানতঃ নারীদেহের ঔষধ । পিত্তধাতু ক্ষীণাঘী নারী, নিতম্বদেশ প্রশস্ত নহে । মুখমন্ডল পীতবর্ণ, মুখমন্ডলে বিন্দু বিন্দু হলুদবর্ণের দাগ পড়ে, অথবা রোগীণির নাকের গোড়ায় জীনের আকারের পীতবর্ণ দাগ থাকে । শান্ত-স্বভাবা রমণী । রমণীদের ক্ষেত্রে এই ঔষধ অপেক্ষকৃত বেশি ব্যবহৃত হলেও ইহা স্ত্রী-পুরুষ উভয়ের মধ্যে সমান ভাবে প্রযোজ্য।
- Antidote food / ঔষধের ক্রিয়ানাশক খাদ্য: কফি, কর্পূর, টক/ উদ্ভিজ অম্ল ।
- Antidote ক্রিয়ানাশকঃ একোনাইট, এন্টিম-ক্রুড, এন্টিম-টার্ট, সলফ, ডিজি, এসিড।
- Inimical: Lach; Puls.
- inimical অর্থ্যাৎ পরস্পরের গুন নাশক ঔষধ: পালসেটিলা, ল্যাকেসিস ও সিপিয়া পরস্পর শত্রুভাবাপন্ন । কখনোই সিপিয়ার আগে বা পরে ল্যাকেসিস ব্যবহার করা চলে না । পালসেটিলার সঙ্গেও ইহার বিরুদ্ধ সম্পর্ক । এর সহিত কখনো পয্যার্য়ক্রমে ব্যবহার করা চলে না –ডাঃ এলেন ।
- Inimical food / ঔষধের পরিপন্থী বা অনিষ্টকর খাদ্য: অম্ল, মদ্য, মাখন, তামাক, শিম, বরবটি, মটর ডাল, রুটি, কফি, বাঁধাকপি, ঠান্ডা খাদ্য, সির্কা, বিয়ার, কচি বাছুরের মাংস, চর্বি, বায়ুবর্ধক খাদ্য, ফল, গরম খাদ্য, দুগ্ধ, মরিচ, আলু, শুকরের মাংস ।
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এই ঔষধের স্ত্রীলোকগন পাতলা, লম্বা ও পাছার অস্থি/হিপ অস্থিটি সরু।
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বিষন্নতা, ক্রন্দনশীলতা ও উদাসীনতা।
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অতিরিক্ত রক্তক্ষয় বা অতিরিক্ত সহবাস বা অতিরিক্ত গর্ভধারণজনিত জরায়ুর শিথিলতা।
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উদরে শূন্যতা বোধ এবং মলদ্বারে পূর্ণভাব, পূর্ণতাবোধ।
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মলদ্বারের ভিতর যেন একটা বল বা ঢেলা আটকাইয়া আছে এবং কিছুতেই তাহা বের হতে চায় না।
- যে সকল রমণী বহুক্ষণ পযর্ন্ত জলের ভিতর থাকিয়া কাপড় কাঁচে বা অন্য কাজ করে, তাহাদের ক্ষেত্রে সিপিয়া উৎকৃষ্ট ঔষধ, এইজন্য সিপিয়াকে রজকিনী ঔষধ বলা হয় ।
- সিপিয়ার পূর্বে ও পরে সালফার উত্তম কাজ করে । তরুণ রোগে যে অবস্থায় জেলস প্রয়োগ করা হয়, পুরাতন রোগে সেই অবস্থায় সিপিয়া প্রযোজ্য ।
সর্তকতা: গর্ভাবস্থায় সর্বদা সিপিয়ার ব্যবহার ঠিক না –ডাঃ ওয়াল্টার উইলিয়ামসন ।
ইহা পুনঃপুনঃ প্রয়োগের প্রয়োজন হয় না; টক খাওয়া নিষিদ্ধ ।
কাতরতাঃ
শীতকাতর (প্রথম গ্রেড): [Dr. Robert Gibson Miller এবং James Tyler Kent]
মায়াজমেটিক অবস্থাঃ (মায়াজমের দোষ নষ্ট করার শক্তি):
- এন্টি-সাইকোটিক (প্রথম গ্রেড)
- এন্টি-সিফিলিটিক (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড)
- এন্টি-টিউবারকুলার (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড)
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Henry Clay Allen, William Boericke, E. B. Nash, Boenninghausen, Constantine Hering, James Tyler Kent, Cyrus Maxwell BOGER, George Vithoulkas এঁর মেটেরিয়া মেডিকা থেকে নেয়া Sepia Officinalis (Sepia) ঔষধের সারাংশ:
- কালো চুল, দৃঢ় পেশি কিন্তু নম্র ও শান্ত প্রকৃতির রোগীদের জন্য উপযোগী।
- অতি বিষাদগ্রস্ত বিষন্নতা এবং কান্নাকাটি করে।
- স্বামী, সন্তানদের প্রতি মায়া-মমতা নেই, ভালোবাসা নেই, কমে গেছে।
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উদাসীনতা; এমনকি নিজের পরিবারের প্রতি উদাসীন, নিজের পেশা, জীবন জীবিকার প্রতি উদাস।
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তার প্রিয় লোকদের যাদের খুব ভালোবাসে তাদের প্রতি উদাসীনতা।
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জরায়ূর স্থানচ্যূতি। জরায়ুর বেড়িয়ে আসে যৌনিপথ দিয়ে।
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শ্রোণী, বস্তিদেশের সবকিছু যেন বের হয়ে আসবে – এমন
নিচের দিকে চাপ হয়; পায়ের উপর পা দিয়ে আড়াআড়ি ভাবে টাইট করে, চাপ দিয়ে
বসতে বাধ্য হয় যাতে করে জরায়ু দিয়ে বা পেলভিক হতে কিছু বের হয়ে আসতে না
পারে; সেইসাথে শ্বাসকষ্ট হয়।
- সহবাসে অনিচ্ছা, অনীহা, বিতৃষ্ণা।
- শরীরের অন্য অংশ হতে ব্যথা বেদনা পিঠ পযর্ন্ত প্রসারিত হয়; ব্যথায় দেহ কাঁপতে থাকে, কম্পন হয়।
- ভীষণ মানসিক আঘাত পেয়ে, অল্প পরিমাণে স্রাবযুক্ত মাসিক ঋতুস্রাবের সময় হিস্ট্রিয়াগ্রস্ত, সংবেদনশীল নারীদের মাথাব্যথা; চাপধরা, ফেটে যাওয়ার মত মাথা বেদনা যা নড়াচড়ায়, মাথা সামনে হেট করলে, মানসিক পরিশ্রম করলে বেড়ে যায়; মাথা টিপলে, চাপ দিয়ে টিপে দিলে, অবিরত দ্রুত জোরে সোরে সঞ্চালনে উপশম।
- ক্রণিক মাথা ব্যথা কিংবা মেনোপোজের পর প্রচুর পরিমাণে চুল ঝরে পড়ে, উঠে যায়।
- মুখমন্ডলে হলদেটে ভাব; হলুদ মুখমন্ডল; চোখের কর্ণিয়ার পাতলা স্বচ্ছ আচ্ছাদন হলুদ হয়।
- নাক ও গালের উপরের অংশে ঘোড়ার জিনের মত হলদেটে দাগ পড়ে; জরায়ুর রোগে ভোগার ফলে মুখটি লম্বাটে হয়।
- জিহবার স্বাদ বিস্বাদ, মুখে দুর্গন্ধ কিন্তু ঋতুস্রাব শুরু হলে দুর্গন্ধ থাকে না; আবার মাসিক থেমে গেলে দুর্গন্ধ আবারো ফিরে আসে; এ সময় নিচের ঠোঁট ফুলে যায় এবং ফেটে যায়।
- শরীরের উপরের অংশে আলাদা আলাদা সেপারেট গোল গোল চাকার মত দাদ হয়।
- মূত্রের বেগধারণে অক্ষমতা; শিশু ঘুমাতে না ঘুমাতেই বিছানায় প্রস্রাব করে দেয়; সবসময় শিশু প্রথম ঘুমেই প্রস্রাব করে ফেলে ।
- বিশেষত গর্ভাবস্থায় নারীদের রোগ; প্রসূতি অবস্থায় বা স্তন্যদান কারে, সন্তানকে বুকের দুধ খাওয়ানোর সময় মহিলাদের পীড়া; হঠাৎ অবসন্নতা, মূর্চ্ছারোগ।
- ধোপানীর ঔষধ বলা হয় সিপিয়াকে কেননা রোগ সৃষ্টি হয় বা বেড়ে যায় লন্ড্রির কাজ করার পর বা কাপড় চোপড় ধোয়া ও ইস্ত্রি করার ফলে।
- বিশেষত ঠান্ডা বাতাসের প্রতি সংবেদনশীল, সহজেই শীতার্ত হয়, ঠান্ডা লাগে, শীতে কাঁপতে থাকে; বিশেষত ক্রণিক রোগে ভোগার সময় শরীরে উত্তাপের অভাব, শীতকাতর।
- মাসিক ঋতুস্রাবের সময়, গর্ভাবস্থায়, সন্তানকে স্তন্যদান করার সময় শরীরের ভিতরের অংশে কোথাও যেন গোলাকৃতির বল আছে –এমন অনুভূতি; সেইসাথে ডায়রিয়া, কোষ্টবদ্ধতা, অর্শ, সাদা স্রাব এবং সব ধরনের জরায়ু বিষয়ক সমস্যা থাকে।
- পানিতে ভিজে থাকলে, অতিরিক্ত ঠান্ডা বা গরমে, গাড়ীতে চড়িলে, প্রার্থনা করার সময় হাঁটু গেড়ে বসলে সহজেই মূর্চ্ছা যায়।
- মাথা ব্যথার সময় মাথার চাঁদির শীতলতা; মাথার শীর্ষে ঠান্ডা, ঠান্ডা ভাব ।
- বাস্তব বা কাল্পনিক অমঙ্গল সম্বন্ধে উদ্বেগ, উৎকন্ঠা, সেইসাথে ভয়, মুখমন্ডলে ও মাথায় উত্তাপের হলকা বয়ে যায়; এই অবস্থা সন্ধ্যায় বেড়ে যায়।
- একাকী থাকতে ভয়, পুরুষ মানুষের ভয়, বন্ধু বান্ধবীদের সাথে দেখা করতে ভীতি; সেইসাথে জরায়ুর সমস্যা থাকে।
- লোভী, লোভাতুর,অর্থলিপ্সু,কৃপণ ব্যক্তি; কিপটে ধরনের, কৃপণস্বভাব।
- অলস, কোন কাজ কাম করতে চায় না, কোন কাজ বা খেলাধুলা এমনকি চিন্তা করতেও চায় না, চিন্তা করতে যে পরিশ্রম করতে হয় সেইচুটও করতে চায় না।
- ঘাড়ের উপর সকল আবরণ, বন্ধনী অনেক টাইট, কষা, আঁটা, দৃঢ় মনে হয় এবং অনবরত ঢিলা করতে থাকে।
- মায়েদের তলপেট ঝুলতে থাকে; উল্টানো পাতিলের ন্যায় ফোলানো মা’দের পেট।
- উপর পেটে খালি খালি বোধ, পাকস্থলীর উপরের অংশে, পাকস্থলীতে শূন্যতা শূন্য অনুভূতি –কিছু খেলে সেই অনভুতির উপশম।
- গর্ভাবস্থায় কোষ্ঠকাঠিন্যতা; মল শক্ত, গিট গিট মত, গোল গোল বলের ন্যায়, অল্প পরিমাণে হয়; পায়খানা করতে কষ্ট হয়; মলত্যাগের সময় এবং পরে মলনালীতে ব্যথা হয়; মলদ্বারে ভারী বোধ বা মলদ্বারে একটা ভারী বল রাখা আছে-এমন অনুভূতি; পায়খানা করার পরও এই অনুভূতির আরাম বা উপশম হয় না।
- প্রস্রাবে লালচে, রাঙ্গা কাদামাটির মত তলানি পড়ে যেন আগুনে পোড়া হয়েছে - যাহা মূত্রপাত্রে লেগে থাকে।
- প্রস্রাব এত পূতিগন্ধময়, দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত যে তাড়াতাড়ি ঘর থেকে বাহিরে ফেলে দিতে হয়, সরাতে হয়, ধুয়ে ফেলতে হয়।
- গনোরিয়ার মত মেহস্রাব (গ্লিট) হয়, উক্ত স্রাবে কোন ব্যথা থাকে না; ব্যথাহীন স্রাব; কাপড়ে হলদে বর্ণের দাগ পড়ে; সকালে প্রস্রাবের রাস্তা জুড়ে যায়, কিছুতেই সারতে চায় না, দীর্ঘ দিন ধরে চলতে থাকে; জননেন্দ্রিয় দুর্বল এবং অবসন্ন হয়ে পড়ে।
- যৌনির উপরের দিকে তী,ব্র প্রবল সূঁচফোটানবৎ বেদনা; জরায়ু হতে নাভী পযর্ন্ত টনটনে ছিঁড়ে ফেলার মত ব্যথা।
- অনিয়মিত মাসিক ঋতুস্রাব; সময়ের আগে, নির্ধারিত সময়ের পরে, মাসিক পরিমাণে অল্প হয়, পরিমানে বেশি হয়; ঋতুস্রাব বন্ধ বা অতিরিক্ত স্রাব বা বিভিন্ন প্রকার অনিয়মিত মাসিক রজঃস্রাব।
- গর্ভাবস্থায় অসুস্থতা: খাদ্য, খাবার দেখলে বা খাবারের কথা মনে হলে, ভাবলে বা চিন্তা করলেই অসুস্থ হয়ে পড়ে; রান্না করা খাদ্যের গন্ধে বমি আসে।
- বসে থাকলে, ঘুমানোর পর, ঘরের মধ্যে থাকলে শ্বাসকষ্ট বৃদ্ধি।
- নাচলে, নর্তন করলে বা দ্রুত হাঁটলে শ্বাসকষ্টের উপশম।
- স্নায়বিক উত্তেজনা: সামান্য নড়াচড়ায় বা সঞ্চালনে চোখে মুখে উত্তাপের হলকা, ঝলক বয়ে যায়; সেইসাথে উদ্বেগ উৎকন্ঠা এবং মূর্চ্ছাভাব; এরপর সারা শরীর ঘামতে থাকে।
- যৌনাঙ্গের বিভিন্ন অংশে চুলকানি, চুলকালে জ্বলতে থাকে, জ্বালা করে।
- উষ্ণ, গরম ঘরেও ঠান্ডা অনুভূত হয়, শীতল বোধ হয়।
- যাদেরকে বেশি ভালোবাসে, যারা সবচেয়ে বেশি প্রিয় –তাদের প্রতি উদাসীনতা।
- পুরু মোটা সবুজাভ স্রাব।
- নাকের উপর হলুদ বর্ণের দাগ (ঘোড়ার পিঠের যে অংশে জিন বসানো হয় সেখানে এক প্রকার দাগ পড়ে-সেরকম দাগ)
- কানের পিছনে গ্রীবার, ঘাড়ের পেছনের দিকে দাদ রোগ (ভাইরাসজনিত চর্মরোগবিশেষ; বিসর্প) (In the back of the neck)
- সকালে নাস্তার পূর্বে বিবমিষা, বমি বমি ভাব।
- ভিনেগার, সিরকা খাওয়ার প্রচন্ড ইচ্ছা।
- মাথা ব্যথার সাথে বায়ু নিঃসরণ।
- লিভারে স্পর্শকাতর ব্যথা-যা ডান পাশে শয়নে উপশম।
- মলদ্বার থেকে প্রায়ই সবসময়, অনবরত রস নিঃসরণ, ক্ষরণ হয়।
- ছোট্ট শিশু (ইনফ্যান্ট) ডায়রিয়া; সিদ্ধ দুগ্ধ, দুধ পানে বৃদ্ধি এবং দ্রুত অবসন্ন হয়ে পড়ে।
- ব্যথা পিঠে প্রসারিত হয়।
- দিনে রাতে সারা অঙ্গ-প্রত্যঙ্গ ঝাঁকি মারে, কম্পন হয়।
- লম্বা, হালকা পাতলা গড়ন, বস্তি প্রদেশ সরু, চিকন পাছা, পুরুষের মত দেখতে পেছনের দিকটা।
- পুরুষালী চেহারা।
বৃদ্ধি:
- বিকালে বা সন্ধ্যায় বাড়ে।
- ঠান্ডা বাতাসে বৃদ্ধি।
- শুকনো পূর্ববাতাসে কষ্ট বেড়ে যায়।
- অত্যধিক যৌনাচারে বৃদ্ধি।
- বিশ্রামে বৃদ্ধি।
- গুমোট স্যাতস্যাতে আবহাওয়ায় বাড়ে।
- বজ্রঝড়ের আগে, পূর্বে বৃদ্ধি।
- কাপড় কাচলে, ধৌত করলে, ধুলে বৃদ্ধি।
- লন্ড্রি কাজ করলে বৃদ্ধি।
- ঘামের পর বৃদ্ধি।
- মাসিক ঋতুস্রাবের পূর্বে বৃদ্ধি।
- প্রথম ঘুমের পর বৃদ্ধি।
উপশম:
- বিছানার গরমে আরাম।
- গরম সেঁক দিলে কমে।
- দ্রুত নড়াচড়ায় উপশম।
- হৃদপিন্ড ও বস্তিদেশের লক্ষণ বিশ্রামে উপশম।
- পরিশ্রমে বাড়ে এবং কমে।
- ঠান্ডা জলে স্নানে উপশম।
- শীতল পানি দিয়ে গোসলে উপশম, গোসল করলে আরাম।
- ঘুমের পর উপশম।
- পরিশ্রমে উপশম।
- উষ্ণ প্রয়োগে উপশম।
- ঠান্ডা পানীয় পানে উপশম।
- খুব জোরে সঞ্চালনে, নড়াচড়ায় উপশম।
পছন্দ, খাওয়ার ইচ্ছা:
- সিরকা, ভিনেগার পছন্দ।
- মিষ্টি পছন্দ।
- মাদক, এলকোহল ।
অপছন্দ, অনিচ্ছা, বিতৃষ্ণা, অনীহা:
- মাংস, মাংশ, গোস্ত, গোসত খেতে চায় না, ভালোলাগে না।
- খাদ্যের গন্ধ অপছন্দ, খাবারের গন্ধের প্রতি বিতৃষ্ণা।
- লবণ অপছন্দ।
- রুটি, ব্রেড অপছন্দ।
- চর্বি, তৈলাক্ত খাবার অপছন্দ।
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মূল কথাঃ
- এই ঔষধের স্ত্রীলোকগন পাতলা, লম্বা ও পাছার অস্থি/হিপ অস্থিটি সরু।
- রমণীদের পেছন দিকটা অনেকটা পুরুষের মত দেখায়।
- বিষন্নতা, ক্রন্দনশীলতা ও উদাসীনতা।
- অতিরিক্ত রক্তক্ষয় বা অতিরিক্ত সহবাস বা অতিরিক্ত গর্ভধারণজনিত জরায়ুর শিথিলতা।
- উদরে শূন্যতা বোধ এবং মলদ্বারে পূর্ণভাব।
- মলদ্বারের ভিতর যেন একটা বল বা ঢেলা আটকাইয়া আছে এবং কিছুতেই তাহা বের হতে চায় না।
- পরিশ্রমে উপশম।
- স্নানে অনিচ্ছা।
- শরীর হলুদ বর্ণের, রক্তশূন্য।
- মুখমন্ডল নির্বুদ্ধিতা ও বোকামীতে পূর্ণ।
- প্রকৃত বয়স অপেক্ষা অনেক বেশি বয়স্ক বলিয়া মনে হয়।
- ক্রন্দনশীল ও বিনয়ী (পালস)।
- ভীষণ জেদি, সামান্য প্রতিবাদে চটিয়া যায় ও রাগান্বিত হয়।
- অম্ল, টক পছন্দ।
- সহবাস একেবারেই অসহ্য এবং যন্ত্রণাদায়ক (আর্জেন্টাম নাইট্রিকাম, লাইকো, নেট্রাম মিউর, লাইসিন, প্লাটিনা, কেলি বাইক্রম)।
- অধিক মশলাযুক্ত খাবার, ঝাল, তিক্ত ও মাদক দ্রব্য বেশি পছন্দ করে (ফ্লুরিক এসিড, নাক্স ভমিকা)।
- পেটের মধ্যে শূন্যতা বোধ-অবিরত খেলেও শূন্যতা বোধ থেকেই যায়।
- সন্ধ্যাকালে বৃদ্ধি (রাসটক্স, টিউবারকুলিনাম, এসিড নাইট্রিক, ফসফরাস, জেলস, একোনাইট, পালসেটিলা, র্যানানকুলাস)।
ব্যবহারস্থলঃ মনোপীড়া, জরায়ুর নানাবিধ পীড়া, জরায়ু হইতে রক্তস্রাব, জরায়ুচ্যুতি, মূর্চ্ছাবায়ু, আধকপালি ব্যথা, একজিমা, লিভারের পীড়া, কোষ্ঠবদ্ধতা, পক্ষাঘাত, সন্ধিবাত, নানাজাতীয় চর্মপীড়া, শ্বেতপ্রদর প্রভৃতি পীড়ায় ফলপ্রদ । পুরুষের গ্লিট ও চর্মরোগেও ইহা ব্যবহৃত হয় ।
ক্রিয়াস্থলঃ স্ত্রী-জননেন্দ্রিয়ের উপর ইহার প্রধান ক্রিয়া ।
উপশম/হ্রাসঃ চলাফেরায়, চাপে, বিছানার গরমে, গরম সেঁকে, ঘুমের পর, কাপড় ঢিলা করিলে, ডান দিকে শুইলে, দ্রুত চলাফেরায় (মাথা, শ্বাসকষ্ট), খোলা হাওয়ায়, স্বল্প পরিশ্রমে উপশম ।
বৃদ্ধিঃ দুপুরের পূর্বে, সকাল ১১ টায়, বিকাল ৪ টায়, সন্ধ্যায়, প্রাতে, জল ঘাঁটিলে, জলে কাপড় কাঁচিলে, বাহু সঞ্চালনে, বাম দিকে শুইলে, হেঁট হইলে, দাঁড়াইলে, মানসিক পরিশ্রমে, রতিক্রিয়ায়, খাইবার সময়, দুধ খাইলে, তামাক সেবনে, মদ সেবনে, বিশ্রামকালে, শীতল বাতাসে, বজ্রপাতসহ জলঝড়ের পূর্বে বৃদ্ধি ।
ক্রিয়া স্থিতিকালঃ ৪০-৫০ দিন।
লক্ষণ সূত্রঃ এম, ভট্রাচার্য্য: পৃষ্ঠা-৭৪৯, এন. সি. ঘোষ: পৃষ্ঠা-৫৯২, উইলিয়াম বোরিক: পৃষ্ঠা-৪১১, নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৮০, অতুল কৃষ্ণ দত্ত: পৃষ্ঠা-৮১১, জেমস টেইলর কেন্ট: পৃষ্ঠা-৬৯০, ই. বি ন্যাশ: পৃষ্ঠা-২৪২, ই. এ. ফ্যারিংটন: পৃষ্ঠা-১০৯, জে এম মিত্র: পৃষ্ঠা-৬৯৩, এস কে সাহা: পৃষ্ঠা-৪৩৮, এইচ. সি এলেন: পৃষ্ঠা-২৫৪ ।
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Sepia
Sepia Officinalis
Inky Juice of Cuttlefish, Cuttle Fish. (Mollusca.)
H.C Allen
Sepia
Cuttle Fish (Mollusca.)
- Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition (Puls.).
- Diseases of women: especially those occurring during pregnancy, child- bed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness (Murex, 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 (rev. 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, 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 (Ver. - heat of vertex, Calc., Graph., Sulph.).
- Anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles. (About real or imaginary evils; towards evening.)
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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., Phos. 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.
- Headache: in terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting < motion, stooping, mental labor, > 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 (Lach.).
- Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body (in intersecting rings over whole body, Tell.).
- Pot-belliness of mothers (of children, Sulph.).
- Painful sensation of emptiness, "all-gone" feeling in the epigastrium, relieved by eating (Chel., Mur., Phos.).
- Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip.
- Constipation: during pregnancy (Alum.); stool hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool (Nit. ac., Sulph.); sense of weight or ball in anus, not > 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 (horribly offensive after standing, Indium).
- Enuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep (Kreos.); always during the first sleep.
- Gleet: painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in morning; obstinate, of long standing (Kali iod.); 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 (compare Agar., Bell., Lil., Murex, Sanic.).
- 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 (Nux); the smell of cooking food nauseates (Ars., Coch.).
- Dyspnoea: < sitting, after sleep, in room, > dancing or walking rapidly.
- 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.
- Itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is > scratching; and is apt to change to burning (Sulph.).
Relations:
Complementary: Natrum mur. Inimical: to, Lach., should not be used before or after; to, Puls, with which it should never be alternated. Similar: to, Lach., Sang., Ustil., in climacteric irregularities of the circulation. Frequently indicated after: Sil., Sulph. A single dose often acts curatively for many weeks.
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.
It antidotes mental effects of overuse of tabacco, in patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over-mental exertion.
William BOERICKE
Sepia Officinalis
Inky Juice of Cuttlefish, (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.
Mind:
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Indifferent to those loved best.
- Averse to occupation, to family.
- Irritable; easily offended.
- Dreads to be alone.
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Very sad.
- Weeps when telling symptoms.
- Miserly.
- Anxious toward evening; indolent.
Head:
- Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head.
- Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy.
- Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side.
- Jerking of head backwards and forwards.
- Coldness of vertex.
- Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow.
- Hair falls out.
- Open fontanelles.
- Roots of hair sensitive.
- Pimples on forehead near hair.
Nose:
- Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts.
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Yellowish saddle across nose.
- Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose.
- Chronic nasal catarrh, especially post-nasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges; must be hawked through the mouth.
Eyes:
- Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connection with uterine trouble.
- Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening.
- Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation.
- Venous congestion of the fundus.
Ears:
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Herpes behind ears on nape of neck.
- Pain as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration.
- Swelling and eruption of external ear.
Face:
- Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth.
- Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks.
Mouth:
- Tongue white.
- Taste salty, putrid.
- Tongue foul, but clears during menses.
- Swelling and cracking of lower lip.
- Pain in teeth from 6 pm till midnight; worse on lying.
Stomach:
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating (Carb an).
Nausea at smell or sight of food.
Nausea worse lying on side.
Tobacco dyspepsia.
Everything tastes too salty (Carbo beg; Chin).
Band of pain about four inches wide encircling hypochondria.
Nausea in morning before eating.
Disposition to vomit after eating.
Burning in pit of stomach.
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles.
Worse, after milk, especially when boiled.
Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations.
Loathes fat.
Abdomen:
- Flatulent, with headache.
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Liver sore and painful; relieved by lying 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 stools; feeling of a ball in rectum, cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting upward.
- Dark-brown, round balls glued together with mucus.
- Soft stool, difficult.
- Prolapsus ani (Pod).
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Almost constant oozing from anus.
- Infantile diarrhoea, worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion.
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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 relaxed.
- 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.
- Leucorrhoea yellow, greenish; with much itching.
- Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains.
- Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus.
- Prolapse of uterus and vagina.
- Morning sickness.
- Vagina painful, especially on coition.
Respiratory:
- Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach.
- Rotten-egg taste with coughing.
- Oppression of chest morning and evening.
- Dyspnoea; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion.
- Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty (Phos; Ambr).
- Hypostatic pleuritis.
- Whooping-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, tension as if too short.
- Heaviness and bruised feeling.
- Restleness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day.
- Pain in heel.
- Coldness of legs and feet.
Fever:
- Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from least motion.
- General lack of warmth of body.
- Feet cold and wet.
- Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards evening.
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.
Modalities:
Worse, forenoons and evenings; washing, laundry-work, dampness, left side, after sweat; cold air, before thunder-storm.
Better, by exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot applications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing, after sleep.
Relationship:
Complementary: Nat mur; Phosph. Nux intensifies action.
Guaiacum often beneficial after Sepia.
Inimical: Lach; Puls.
Compare: Lit; Murex; Silica; Sulph; Asperula-Nacent oxygen. Distilled water charged with the gas--(leucorrhœa of young girls and uterine catarrh); Ozonum (sacral pain; tired feeling through pelvic viscera and perineum); Dictamnus--Burning Bush--(Soothes labor pains); (metrorrhagia, leucorrhœa, and constipation; also somnambulism). Lapathum (Leucorrhœa with constriction and expulsive effort through womb and pain in kidneys).
Dose:
Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency.
Should not be used too low or be repeated too frequently.
On the other hand Dr. Jousset's unique experience is that is should be continued for some time in strong doses. 1x twice a day.
E. B. NASH
Sepia
- Bearing down pains, must sit close and cross her legs to keep something from coming down out of the vagina.
- Sense of fullness in the pelvic organs, and pressure down into the anus, as if a ball or weight; oozing of moisture.
- Flushes of heat and perspiration at the climacteric.
- Painful sense of emptiness or goneness at the pit of the stomach.
- General relaxation, weak, faints while kneeling at church; falling womb and pelvic organs; drooping eyelids, weak back < on walking.
- Cachectic, yellow face, with yellow saddle across face and nose; moth patches; ringworms.
- Modalities: < standing, mental labor, sexual excess, jar, after sleep, laundry work; milk (diarrhea), climacteric kneeling at church, > sitting with legs crossed, loosening clothes, open air.
- Sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation, great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone; of meeting friends, indifferent, even to one's family, to one's occupation; to those whom she loves.
- Headache: in terrific shocks; pressing, bursting < motion, stooping mental labor, > by pressure, continued fast motion.
- Urine: deposits a reddish clay sediment, which adheres to the vessel; fśtid, offensive, must be removed from room.
- Enuresis: bed wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep; during first sleep, violent stitches upward in the vagina.
- Dyspnea; < sitting, after sleep, in room, > dancing or walking rapidly.
Boenninghausen
Sepia
Mind: Angry, sensitive, irritable, very excitable when in company.
Face.-- Yellow, especially about mouth and transversely across nose and cheeks.
Sexual Organs.--Prolapsus uteri
George Vithoulkas
Sepia
- Irritability towards the husband and the aversion to the family.
- Stagnation of emotions.
- Aversion to coition.
- Detachments.
- The Leucorrhoea and aversion to sex are the main characteristics on the physical level.
- Stillness of emotions and mind.
- Detached.
- Indifference to loved ones.
- Aversion to company, ameliorated when alone.
- Aversion to husband.
- Aversion to family members.
- Great sadness and weeping, agg. (worse) consolation.
- Life has no joy.
- Feels stimulation and amelioration through DANCING, PHYSICAL EXERTION, fast walking.
- Anger and irritability worse after coition, consolation, exertion, when spoken to.
- Spiteful, malicious, critical of others.
- Happy during thunders and lightning.
- Fear of poverty
- Affects venous circulation and female pelvic organs.
- Leucorrhoea especially in young girls.
- Diminished sexual desire.
- Pain in vagina during coition (sexual acts), Dryness of vagina.
- Prolapsus of uterus, pressure and bearing down sensation, as if everything would protrude from pelvis, agg. standing, Amel. (better) Crossing legs.
- Ball sensation in inner parts.
- Crack in middle of lower lip.
- Fever blisters on lips.
- Sensation of emptiness all gone feeling in stomach, amel. (better) eating.
- Nausea during pregnancy.
- Falling of hair.
- Involuntary urination when laughing.
- Yellow discoloration of face, yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks.
- Tendency to abortion.
- Headache agg. (worse) over the left eye, amel. Motion.
- Faints easily when kneeling, with heat and then coldness.
Aggravates (agg. Worse):
- Cold (entering a cold place, becoming cold, cold bathing, cold wind).
- After sexual excesses, after coition.
- Pregnancy.
- Morning.
- Evening.
- Perspiration (sweat) after.
- Kneeling.
- Stooping.
- Loss of fluids.
- Left side.
- Seashore.
- 2pm to 4pm.
Ameliorates (Amel. better):
- Physical Exertion.
- Motion.
- Crossing limbs.
- Warmth (bed, applications).
- Evening.
- Pressure.
- Cold drinks.
Desire:
- Vinegar.
- Sweets.
- Alcohol.
Aversion:
- Meat.
- Smell of food.
- Salt.
- Bread.
- Fat.
JAMES TYLER KENT
Sepia
Sepiais suited to tall, slim women with narrow pelvis and lax fibers and muscles; such a woman is not well built as a woman.
A woman who has the hips of a well-built man is not built for child bearing, she cannot perform the functions of a woman without becoming relaxed in the pelvic organs and tissues. Such a build is a Sepiabuild, very tall, slim, narrow, straight from the shoulders all the way down.
Mind: One of the strongest features of the Sepiapatient is found in the mind, the state of the affections. To a great extent, the remedy seems to abolish the ability to feel natural love, to be affectionate. To illustrate it in the language of the mother:
"I know I ought to love my children and my husband, I used to love them, but now I have no feeling on the subject."
The love does not go forth into affection, there is a lack of realization, a lack of ability to register such affections; the love does not manifest itself. Upon reflection it will be seen that the love itself cannot be so changed, but the affections can be as they are the expression of the love.
It is a striking feature of this remedy that the affections are stilled; all things seem strange; she does not realize; she may even be estranged and turned aside from those she loves. This is on the border land of insanity; it is quite a different state of affairs from that when a woman abused by her husband knows in her rational mind that she does not love him.
This state is brought out in a woman during confinement, after uterine and other hemorrhages, after prolonged indigestion; high living with disturbance in the circulation, pallor, enfeeblement of body and mind. It is seldom manifested in a man, but it is a striking feature in the woman. It often comes on when nursing a child, from nursing an over-vigorous child or twins who require much lacteal fluid and drag her down. It may be brought out in a woman who has an overvigorous husband. Excessive sexual excitement and over-indulgence brings on coldness and she becomes a cold woman.
She who has been excitable, nervous, and fidgety becomes the opposite, cold, takes on a stoical state of mind. Yet Sepiahas all the excitability of any medicine, aggravated by noises, excitement, company, extreme irritability of tissue and mind; an excitable suicidal patient; melancholy, sits and says nothing; taciturn; answers questions in monosyllables when pressed to answer.
An absence of all joy, inability to realize that things are real; all things seem strange; no affection for the delightful things of life; no joy; life has nothing in it for her. She is worse in company yet dreads to be alone; and when she is in company she is spiteful, in the midst of her dullness of mind she is spiteful; she vents her spite on those she loves best. The Sepiawoman permits no opposition to her opinions. The best impression of her is lost if controversy arises.
Skin: The next most general state is a peculiar sallowness which you will need to see to fix in your mind.
Sepiahas jaundice, yet this peculiar sallowness is a waxy, anaemic appearance, mottled with yellow, a yellow, sallow tint across the nose and the cheeks described as a yellow saddle across the nose and down the sides of the face.
It is also common for the whole face to be covered with enormous freckles, great brown patches as in pregnancy, brown spots on the cheeks, brown warts, warts that have been red or pink become pigmented; liver spots on the face, chest, and abdomen.
The skin of the face is sallow and doughy, looks as if the muscles were flabby; you will seldom see Sepia indicated in the face that shows sharp lines of intellect; a person who has been thinking a long time has the lines and sharp angles of a thinking person, of one who possesses will and intellect. The Sepiasubject is one who is rather stupid and dull, thinks slowly and is forgetful; the mind is anything but active and we see it in the face.
Face: In many instances, however, the Sepiapatient is a quick patient, but the dullness of intellect is the most striking feature and it reflects itself upon the face.
The face is generally puffed, often smooth and rounded and marked by an absence of intellectual lines and angles.
This patient is anemic, pale lips and ears, pale, sallow face, fingers and hands become shrivelled, sallow, waxy, bloodless. Sepiaestablishes a progressing emaciation of the body and the skin becomes wrinkled; the person looks prematurely old; wrinkles intermingled with sallow spots on the face in one who is 35 years of age, making him look as if he were fifty. A child looks like a shrivelled dried up old person.
Bowels: With all complaints there is constipation.
The bowels lose their ability to expel their contents and the patient is always constipated; constipation during pregnancy; slow, difficult stool; stool like sheep dung. Always has a feeling of a lump in the rectum, never able to empty the bowels; though he goes to stool there is always a sensation of a lump remaining in the rectum. When the stool passes into the lower bowel, it is not expelled until there is an accumulation, which presses the stool out.
Hunger: Another feature present in most Sepia patients is a gnawing hunger, seldom satisfied; even though he eats plentifully he feels a gnawing, empty, hungry feeling in the stomach, not relieved by eating or relieved only for a moment. This is striking especially when associated with the constipation and the peculiar state of the affections.
When these symptoms are associated with prolapsus, Sepiawill certainly cure, no matter how bad the prolapsus has been or what kind of displacement there is. It is the result of the state of relaxation of all the internal parts as if they were let down, wants a bandage to hold the parts up or wants to place the hand or napkin on the parts; a funneling sensation, better sitting down and crossing the limbs.
When these symptoms group themselves together, the gnawing hunger, the constipation, the dragging down, and the mental condition, it is Sepiaand Sepiaonly. One is not sufficient but it is the combination.
Sepiahas a marked catarrhal tendency, tendency to milky discharges from mucous membranes. Long after digestion has ceased and the stomach is empty comes nausea and sometimes vomiting.
It is a catarrhal state of the stomach and when it persists with the milky vomiting, Sepiais very valuable. This is not an uncommon feature in the vomiting of pregnancy. Vomits up food and after emptying the stomach of its contents, vomits or eructates a milky fluid; morning vomiting, first of food, then a milky substance. Do not confound this with vomiting of milk. Some medicines vomit milk alone and Sepiadoes this also.
Whitish, milky discharges from the posterior nares, from the vagina, excoriating, milky leucorrhea, which at times takes on the appearance of curds, thick, cheesy, and horribly offensive; it has also thick, green and yellow discharges; it has dry crusty formations on mucous membranes.
Nose: Prolonged inveterate catarrh of the nose, thick, green, and yellow crusts are blown from the nose and sometimes are hawked from the posterior nares, thick, leathery formations.
Loss of taste and smell. The smell of cooking food, meat and broth causes nausea. Catarrh of the chest with thick, tenacious, yellow expectoration, accompanied with a violent cough, retching, gagging, violent prolonged retching, vomiting; dry cough and yet there is rattling. Whooping cough; asthmatic cough with retching and loss of urine.
Cough: The cough is a violent one.
Cough during first sleep (Lach., in irritable children Cham.). Tuberculosis. Quick consumption after a suppressed gonorrhea; if given soon enough it will check. Spasmodic dry cough in the evening until midnight; holds the chest during the cough (Bry., Natr. sulph., Phos.)
Skin: Eruptions of the skin.
Tendency to produce herpetic eruptions about the genitals, lips and mouth; ring-worm upon the face and body. It has cured zona, and herpetic eruptions of the labia and foreskin. Vesicular eruptions in the axilla, upon the tip-s of the elbows; eruptions that pile up in great crusts on the elbows; thick crusts form upon the joints; eruptions between the fingers; moist eruptions that pour out a watery fluid, or thick, yellow, purulent fluid.
Sepiaproduces the induration that belongs to some forms of eruption like epithelioma; indurations will form on the lips and crack and bleed. The scaly eruption that looks like epithelioma is especially Sepia. When the scales come off a yellow, green, ichorous base remains, and as soon as one crust peels off, another forms; finally if torn off prematurely, it bleeds. Sepiahas cured epithelioma of the lips, wings of the nose, and eyelids It has cured old indurations caused by the use of a clay pipe, where it continues to form, and beneath it is seen this thick, yellow, purulent exudation.
It is indicated in lumps and lupoid formation on the skin, where there is infiltration; sometimes healing from the centre to form a ring; this is a typical Sepiacondition. The hardness and purple color are what are peculiarly Sepia. Sepiastands on a par with Lach. for this purple aspect.
Mind again: Sepia has a hysterical diathesis.
Breaks out in spells of weeping, is sad one minute, gentle, yielding, and in another she is disagreeable, excitable, obstinate. You do not know what she is going to do next. She says and does strange things, makes errors, no dependence can be placed on her; no mental endurance; no affection for her family; whole Mind weak and disordered, not when there is fever, but it is a chronic manifestation of psoraor sycosis.
Fear of ghosts; that something unusual will happen; atmosphere full of figures, not seen, but she knows that they are there; departed friends or other forms and very often in accordance with religions belief.
Never happy unless annoying some one; relating her grievances; sarcastic; insulting fear of insanity, poverty.
"Fears to starve, is peevish and feels mortified, easily frightened and full of forbodings."
"Passionate, irritable; the greatest irritability from slight causes, very easily offended.
Vexed and disposed to scold."
Head: The headaches are nervous, bilious, periodic, violent, involving the whole head; congestive.
Generally better lying down, keeping perfectly quiet; worse from ordinary motion, but relieved by violent motion, like most Sepiasymptoms in general; she can walk off her sufferings. Stasis of the brain, slowness of thought, mind will not work and, mental labor aggravates the headache. A good substantial sleep relieves it, but if she is awakened after sleeping a short time, the headache is worse.
The same is seen in regard to motion; moving the eyes, head, or body, moving about in a warm room aggravates the pain, but a good, long walk in the open air until she becomes heated up, relieves. It is a sluggish state of the body which requires exercise, and violent exercise to keep it in a state of comfort.
The Sepiasymptoms are worse in the open air unless combined with continued motion, better from exercise in the open air and worse in the house. The headache is worse from stooping, motion, coughing, going up stairs, jarring, light, turning the head, lying on the back and from thinking, but continued, hard exercise relieves, as does a tight bandage, and the application of heat, though worse in a warm room.
There are Sepiaheadaches that particularly affect the occiput, worse in the morning; great pain through the eyes and temples; relieved by sweat, worse on beginning to move; throbbing felt on stooping, worse on going up s airs.
The Phos. headache is relieved by sleep, but continued, rapid motion aggravates. Cannot endure it. Sepiais suited to the old fashioned bilious headaches. It is better from vomiting; the pain gradually increases, loathing of food, then nausea, vomiting and the patient falls asleep and wakens without the headache. Sang. resembles it, is better vomiting, better in a dark room; the direction is different, however.
Neuralgia of the head; periodic sick-headaches in gouty people; violent, congestive headaches in young women sensitive to noise, women of extremely delicate fiber, especially those with dark eyes, dark skin, and who become sallow from sickness. Jaundice often sets in with the headaches; at the close of the headache vomiting, and in a few days jaundice, which passes away but returns again with the next headache.
Headache every morning with nausea; the smell of food repulsive. Sepiatakes on a stupid state of mind as mentioned above; will not work; will not answer questions; as if intoxicated, benumbed; eyes and face swollen, sclerotics yellow and jaundice.
This sometimes ends in violent vomiting spells. Craves spicy, pungent, bitter things like beer - in old drunkards with headache; threatening apoplexy.
"Apoplexy in men addicted to drinking and sexual excesses, with a disposition to gout and hemorrhoids, etc."
"Threatening apoplexy in a dissipated, middle-aged man, who is subject to arthritic and hoemorrhoidal complaints; they have usually passed through several light attacks of apoplexy and are frequently visited with prodromic symptoms!"
Under external head we have eruptions and falling out of the hair yellow crusts; oozing of pus and other fluids; vesicles eczema of infants.
Face: Eyes; catarrhal symptoms with vesicles and pustules granular lids ulcers and psoric manifestations; various infiltrative conditions of the eyes and about the eyes; pustules on the margins of the lids, pustules on the globe of the eye, seems as if looking through a gauze; tarsal tumors, agglutination of lids, styes, etc.
The ears discharge thick, yellow pus; offensive.
The nose is a favorite locality; loss of smell; yellow or green thick crusts fill the nose and cannot be blown out; inveterate discharge of thick yellow pus.
"Large offensive-smelling plugs from the nose, often so large that they have to be drawn back into the mouth and expectorated, causing vomiting.
Dry coryza especially of left nostril, following of large lumps of yellow or green mucus or yellow-green crusts with blood from the nose."
This is descriptive of the worst forms of catarrh; very few will let it run on thus far, they apply local treatment and heal the nose up, and, the process at once going to the chest, phthisis pituitosa comes on.
The gums settle away from the teeth. Toothache and neuralgia from taking cold.
Sensation of a lump in the throat (like Lach.), but the latter is better from swallowing. (The same in worm troubles indicates Cina.) Uneasiness of the collar and corsets like Lach. Worse in the first, sleep like Lach.
Stomach: Sepiabrings out many things in connection with the appetites, thirst, eating, drinking and stomach, etc.
The Sepia patient is generally conscious of a spoiled stomach, sour and bitter eructations of food, of mucus and bile, sour and bitter vomiting of food and mucus; all-gone, hungry, empty feeling in the stomach sometimes not relieved by eating.
At times a gnawing pain, a sinking, a gnawing hunger which is not always relieved by eating. Almost constant nausea, especially in the morning, nausea and eructations and vomiting of milky fluid; when the stomach is empty, vomiting, spitting up, eructations of milky fluid.
Aversion to food, to the smell of food cooking, like Colch. and Ars. The patient gets up in the morning with an all-gone feeling, distress and fullness in the stomach followed by belching and uprisings of mucus, and milky fluids; vomiting of pregnancy; vomiting of milky water in the morning; this is a characteristic of Sepia.
Acrid, burning eructations; heartburn; rancid eructations, excoriating the throat; pyrosis which is another form of eructation; acrid, sour fluids burning all the way up, causing contraction, tingling, smarting.
Nausea violent; deathly sinking accompanied with an awful anxiety in the stomach.
Phos. has more of the typical hunger which is relieved by eating. The Ignatiapatient is always sighing; cannot get rid of "that feeling."
Oleanderhas an all-gone empty feeling as if he would die; food does not relieve, is not digested, but panes undigested the next day.
Lyc. has an all-gone feeling sometimes not better by eating, felt as markedly before as after eating, and after eating there comes a throbbing.
Kali carb. has it also, without the amelioration from taking food; it is even intensified by eating, which is followed by a sensation of fullness and throbbing.
In severe liver and heart affections the stomach is not able to keep up assimilation; palpitation, great weakness, liver congested, white stool.
Digitaliscomes in here with its deathly sinking not better by vomiting. In Sepiathis symptom is associated with the loss of affections, the lump in the rectum, with the constipation, etc.
"Pain in the stomach after the simplest food.
Stitches and burning in the stomach.
Pain in the stomach worse by vomiting."
This is peculiar, for vomiting usually relieves the distress. The Sepiastomach becomes like a leather bag, fill it up and the food comes up just as eaten or at times sour or mixed with bile. Inflammation of the liver, enlargement with jaundice, pain, fullness, distension, distress in the region of the liver.
Abdomen: distended with flatus, rumbling and distension. These disturbances are often chronic as in pot-bellied mothers; abdomen covered with brown spots. Sepiahas removed tape-worm.
Chronic diarrhea, stools jelly-like, lumpy; alternating diarrhoea and constipation; a great amount of mucus with the stools, whether constipated or diarrheic; hard stool covered with a great quantity of jellylike mucus.
Goes for days without a stool and then sits and strains until a copious sweat breaks out and yet no stool, but after assistance with the finger and prolonged strain a little stool is passed, followed by a cupful of jelly-like mucus, yellow or yellow-white and very offensive.
The acute diarrheas and dysenteries with jelly-like stools are more in keeping with Kali bi. and Colch. This is chronic diarrhoea or in constipation with stool covered with or followed by jelly-like mucus is Sepia.
Do not confound with Graph., which has an enormous stool with much straining and sweating, and coated with and mixed with a substance looking like the cooked white egg, as if covered with albumen.
In Sepiathere is much offensiveness; the odor of the stool is unusual, loose stools horribly offensive, foetid; the sweat is foetid, the urine is foetid.
"The stool has a putrid, sourish, foetid smell, expelled suddenly and the whole of it at once."
Sepia is given in a routine way for constipation, when there are few symptoms.
Rectum: There is always a sense of fullness in the rectum after stool; ineffectual straining and sweating in the effort because the patient is weak and exhausted.
Sepiahas the ineffectual urging like Nux. She may go for days with no urging and then the effort is as if she were in labor. Prolapse of the rectum. Weight as of a ball in the anus not relieved by stool.
Soreness of the anus. Expulsion of ascarides. Oozing moisture from the rectum, soreness between the buttocks.
Hemorrhoids soon form when the rectum is so packed with feces, and they give additional trouble.
Urinary: There is much urinary trouble; involuntary urination as soon as the child goes to sleep at night.
Sepiais compelled to keep the mind on the neck of the bladder or she will lose the urine; urine is lost when coughing, sneezing, laughing, the slam of a door, a shock, or when the mind is diverted.
Frequent, constant urging to urinate with milky urine that burns like fire and after standing a while a milky, grayish deposit will form which is hard to wash off the vessel. Bloody urine scanty and suppressed, great pain in the kidneys and bladder with great bearing down; sudden desire with tenesmus as if the uterus would come out. Sudden desire to urinate with cutting like knives and chill all over the body, if unable to pass it, as a lady in company.
I remember a pitiable case. A saleswoman was obliged to go to the closet every few minutes; a violent pain like a knife cutting came with the desire to urinate, and if the urine was not passed this pain would hold right on. She was compelled to keep her mind on the urine or she would lose it. She was tall, slim, with sallow face, distressed look, worn and tired. Sepiacured her and she was never troubled again.
The Sepiapatient aborts at the third month. All sorts of ulcerative conditions, displacements, dragging down and relaxations. Retained Placenta. Sub involution, all the pelvic organs are tired and weak. Metrorrhagia during the climacteric or during pregnancy, especially at the fifth and seventh months.
Genitals: Both male and female have aversion to the opposite sex.
In the female there is a state as if she had indulged to excess, when this is not the case. No endurance, tired after coition, sleepless nights, sleep full of dreams, jerking of muscles, twitching, leucorrhoea, congestion of the pelvis.
A woman who has been normal in her relations with her husband brings forth a child, and then the thought of sexual relations causes nausea and irritability.
The menstrual symptoms are of all sorts, no particular derangement characterizes Sepia. At one time it was thought that scanty menstruation was the more striking feature, but this is not necessarily so; from provings and clinical observations, it has cured profuse as well as scanty flow. Most violent dysmenorrhoea in girls of delicate fiber, sallow girls.
Sepiacomes in when the woman ought to menstruate when the child ceases to nurse; sometimes the child dies and menses ought to be established but do not appear, and the mother runs down, pines away; Sepiawill establish the flow.
Calc. is the opposite; the menses come on while the child is nursing. Thick greenish acrid or milky leucorrhea. Leucorrhoea in little girls.
In the male, old sycotic discharge that has resisted injection. Profuse yellow, or milky discharge from the urethra, or the "last drop" painless.
Gonorrhea after the acute symptoms have subsided. Urine loaded with urates, stains everything red and often excoriates, very foetid, associated with prostatitis.
"Gleet; no pain; discharge only during the night, a drop or so staining the linen yellowish; yellowish discharge, no burning or urinating; painless; of a year and a half's standing; orifice of urethra stuck together in the morning, particularly when the sexual organs are debilitated by long continuance of disease or through frequent seminal emissions."
Warts on the genitals; Sepiais useful when these organs have been overused and take on such an appearance. Impotence in the male, loss of sexual feeling in the female.
The close relation between this remedy and Murexisworth considering. The muscular relaxation, dragging down in the abdomen and pelvis, aggravated from exertion and walking, ameliorated by sitting with the limbs crossed and ameliorated by pressure on the genitalia would be like both remedies; but add to this copious menstrual flow and violent sexual desire and Murexmust be considered and Sepiaeliminated.
Both have extreme empty feeling in the stomach. Sepiahas diminished sexual desire and often aversion. Murexhas great soreness and congestion of the uterus, and she is constantly reminded of the uterus. Murexhas acute pain in right side of uterus which crosses the body diagonally upward to left side of chest, or left breast, It cures violent dysmenorrhoea. It has been useful in cancer of the -uterus. Watery, greenish, thick, bloody leucorrhea, causing itching.
Back: One of Sepia'smost general characteristics is the amelioration from violent exercise; worse on beginning to move but better by getting warmed up. This condition is closely related to the back symptoms. There is a great amount of soreness in the back, the spine aches all the way down. Pressure on the spine reveals sore places, spinal irritation.
Aching in the back mostly from the loins to the coccyx, often coming on from sitting, and ameliorated from violent exercise. A peculiar feature is amelioration from hard pressure. The patient commonly puts a book low down on the chair and presses the back against it. Sepiadoes not seem to get the amelioration from lying upon the back as Natrum mur. does. Stooping aggravates the backache.
''Backache worse from kneeling."
Under symptoms of the lower extremities we find great numbness of the feet.
"Coldness of the legs and feet especially in the evening in bed when the feet get warm the hands get cold; icy coldness of the feet profuse sweat of the feet or sweat of unbearable odor causing. soreness between the toes. Swelling of the limbs better while walking."
The sleep is full of dreams and distress; cannot sleep upon the left side because of palpitation of the heart. Palpitation in sleep, with pulsations and trembling all over the body, pulsations to the finger tips.
In old cases of suppressed malaria, Sepiabrings back the chill, but its most useful sphere is after a bad selection of the remedy and the case becomes confused. Where a remedy has been selected for only a part of the case and changed it a little but the patient gets no better.
It will be seen that the fever, chill, and sweat are just as erratic as can be. Natrum mur. isone of the greatest malarial remedies, but it is full of order like China, Sepiais full of disorder.
In a case confused by remedies think of Calc., Ars., Sulph., Sepia and Ipecac. Never give Chinaor Natrum mur. for irregular symptoms and stages.
Sepiais complementary to Natrum mur. Aside from the stupid condition of the mind it has an excitable condition of the general nervous system that is often marked in Natrum mur. as, for instance, being disturbed by a noise, the slam of a door, etc. It produces jerking of the muscles in sleep; constantly wakes from imaginary noises, thinks someone has called her; the last disturbance about the house wakens her.
Worse before and during menses; during pregnancy; after eating during first sleep; change of weather; during a thunderstorm; overwhelming fear.
Cyrus Maxwell BOGER
SEPIA OFFICINALIS
REGION:
Venouscirculation:Digestive tract. Portal system. FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS.
Nerves.
Skin.
WORSE:
COLD:AIR; North wind. Wet. Snowy.
Sexual excesses.
Before menses.
Pregnancy.
Abortion.
Morning and evening.
After first sleep.
BETTER:
VIOLENT MOTION.
Warmth.
Cold drinks.
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. Enuresis, during first sleep; < coughing, sneezing, etc. THICK, FOUL URINE; ADHERENT, RED, SANDY SEDIMENT, or white, gritty. Menses absent; at puberty; after weaning, etc. Grasping, burning or sticking in uterus (os). Sub-involution. WEAK, DRAGGING OR BEARING DOWN FEELING; must sit close or hold parts. Tends to abort. Labia swelled; abscessed. Leucorrhœa; in large lumps; foul; gonorrhœal. Stomach cough; < rapid change of temperature; with foul sputum. Circulation, irregular; seems to stagnate. Palpitation; visible; ascends to occiput. General pulsation. Ebullitions at night. Overful blood-vessels. Collar feels tight. Aching; inter-scapular; LUMBAR-paralytic-wants it pressed. Purple hands. Cold knees or heels. Skin blotched; raw, rough, hard or cracked, < flexures. Herpes. Ringworm. Itching vesicules. Boils in axillæ. Thick crust on elbows. Ulcers, on small joints. Epithelioma of eyelids, lips, etc. Skin; wine colored. Spots on the skin. Loud talking in sleep. Dreams if lies on l. side. Easily chilled. Chilly, with air-hunger. Cold; in spots; on vertex; between scapulæ; feet, in bed. Sudden weakness; then anxious, hot flushes. Hot hands, with cold feet or vice versa. Sweat, easy; with orgasms; on genitals, axillæ or back. Irregular fevers.
Complementary: Nat-m. Pho.
Related: Caus. Gel. Lil-t. Nat-m. Pul.
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অলস নিশ্চেষ্ট নিরুদ্যম নিরুদ্যোগী পরিশ্রমবিমুখ কোন কাজই আটসাট আটোসাটো আলগা বন্ধনী বন্ধনি প্রচন্ড সূচফোটান মত সূঁচ সূচ সূঁচিবিদ সূঁচানো ফোটান ফোঁটান ব্যথা নাভি ছিড়ে ছিঁড়ে ফেলানোর তাড়াতড়ি হাঁটাচলা করলে দ্রুত হাটলে আরাম কমে ঘুমেরপরেউপশম অশ্বপৃষ্ঠে অশ্ব পিষ্টে নাস্তা করার আগে বিবমিষা বমিবমিভাব ভিনেগার পছন্দ ডানে শুলে ডানকাতে শুইলে আরাম কমে যকৃৎ যকৃতে যকৃৎে বেদনা সোরপেইন পড়ে উদরাময়ে দুধপানে বৃদ্ধি দুগ্ধপানেবৃদ্ধি ডায়রিয়ায় দিনেরাতে অংগ প্রতঙ্গে ঝাঁকি মারে ঝাকি জরায়ুর স্থানচুতি স্থানচূত্যি স্থানচ্যূতি স্থানচুত্যি স্থানচূত্যি জরায়ূর বর্হিগমন বর্হিগমণ জরায়ু বের হয়ে যায় ঝুলে পড়ে উদাশীন উদাশীনতা শীথিলতা শিথীলতা শিথীল শীথিল relaxation মলদ্বার পূর্ণবোধ পুর্নবোধ পুর্ণতাবোধ মলদ্বারে যেন ভর্তি শীতকাতর১মগ্রেড শীতকাতরপ্রথমগ্রেড Chillypatient Chillypatient1stGrade Chillypatientfirstgrade Chillypt1stgrade Chillyptfirstgrade
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