Books · Homoeopathic Therapeutics

LABOR - RETAINED PLACENTA

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Arsenicum Ars

Metritis in childbed, with signs of dissolution of blood and reabsorption of the septic matter.

Artemisia vulgaris Art-v

Retained placenta. nervous chlorosis, dry skin.

Belladonna Bell

Red face and injected eyes, great distress and moaning; heat and dryness of vagina; profuse flow of hot blood which speedily coagulates; slightest jar causes suffering; hour-glass contractions.

Caulophyllum Caul

Retained placenta from exhaustion and weakness; no contractions; flooding.

Cantharis Canth

Retained placenta or membranes usually with painful urination; burning pain in pelvic portion of abdomen and back, abdomen sensitive; feverishness, vomiting, swelling of the lips of os.

Cimicifuga Cimic

Rheumatic, distressing, tearing pains in uterine region; no uterine action; feels sore, headache, brain feels too large for the skull; eye-balls pain.

Crocus Croc

Shortly after delivery, placenta still remaining, haemorrhage in large clots; womb dilated, soft; fainting, pulseless, extremities icy-cold; anxious palpitations, with desire to draw a long breath.

Gelsemium Gels

Cutting pains in lower part of abdomen, running upward and backward, which retard the expulsion of placenta.

Gossypium Goss

Retained placenta, adheres firmly to walls of uterus, no amount of force will hardly dislodge it.

Ipecacuanha Ip

Deficient labor-pains and with the pains there is much suffering, but nothing is accomplished on account of the sharp, pinching pain about the navel, running downward to the womb; constant nausea; haemorrhage of bright-red blood, with retained placenta.

Pulsatilla Puls

Inertia uteri, want of expulsive or spasmodic retention; intermittent flow of blood, restless wants cool, fresh air.

Sabina Sabin

INTENSE AFTER-PAINS,NOTWITHSTANDING THE RETENTION, with discharge of fluid blood and clots, with every pain running from sacrum to pubes.

Secale Sec

Constant bearing down; passive haemorrhage; parts feel relaxed and there is no uterine contraction (Cimicif.) or irregular hour- glass contraction.

Sepia Sep

Little sharp, shooting pains in cervix uteri, sometimes burning.

Viscum alb Visc

Retained, incarcerated placenta; metrorrhagia.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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