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MENSTRUATION AND ITS AILMENTS

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Acetic acid Acet-ac

membranous dysmenorrhoea; labor-like in the womb, has to bend double, but no relief in any position; vagina dry, hot, sensitive, sharp shooting pains, more to the right of fundus uteri; abdomen very sensitive.

Aconite Acon

Menses profuse, long-lasting, especially in plethoric women who lead a sedentary life, or menses too late diminished or protracted; profuse with nosebleed; suppressed by fright with vexation; dysmenorrhoea from thickening of the peritoneum over ovaries; pains force her to bend double.

Aethusa cyn Aeth

Lancinating pains in sexual organs; pimples on external parts, itching exceedingly when she gets warm, CATAMENIA VERY WATERY; swelling of mammary gland, with heat, redness and lancinating pains.

Agnus castus Agn

Before menses; vertigo, headache, dim sight; during: pain in pelvis and loins; menses exceedingly profuse; dysmenorrhoea with ovarian neuralgia; COITUS PAINFUL AND ABHORRENT; looks thin and haggard; indifference to persons and things; hates to go out; mind stupid and dead to all excitement.

Agaricus musc Agar

At beginning: nightly restlessness on account of rigors; toothache and wakefulness; during headache, toothache, pain and itching in left ear, (>) by boring; labor-pains in belly and back; itching about genitals, rigors, menses too profuse, with tearing, pressing pains in back and abdomen; after; pain as from exhaustion; prolapsus; palpitations and interrupted sleep with anxiety.

Aletris far Alet

Premature and profuse; discharge dark with coagula; fulness and weight in uterine region, colicky pains in hypogastrium; debility, defective nutrition and assimilation, drowsiness, vertigo, fainting; extreme constipation and prolapsus uteri from muscular atony.

Aloe Aloe

Early and profuse, and last too long, with dragging pains in rectum and backache, (<) when standing; uterine haemorrhage about climaxis; haemorrhoids protrude in bunches,(>) by cold water; urgency a to stool, with sensation a of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and coccyx.

Alumina Alum

Menses too early, short and scanty, of pale blood; before, many dreams, on awaking face hot, headache and palpitation, abundant mucous discharge; during, corroding urine and diarrhoea, bloatedness; after; exhaustion of mind and body.

Ambra gris Ambr

Atony of uterus. DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN THE PERIODS, at every little accident, a t every hard stool, or after a walk a little longer than usual; burning in genitals with discharge of a few drops of blood; menses too early by a week and profuse; during menses left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices; soreness and itching of pudenda, with swelling of labia, must rub the parts; insomnia with aggravation of bodily sufferings in bed; nervous weakness with irritability; spasmodic dyspnoea, cardiac anguish and palpitations.

Ammonium carb Am-c

Before,; pale face, pain in belly and small of back, no appetite; at COMMENCEMENT CHOLERA-LIKE SYMPTOMS; very sad and fatigued, especially in thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in small of back and chilliness, flow more abundant at night, blackish, in clots, passing off with spasmodic pains in belly and hard stools; menses copious, acrid, it makes the thighs sore and causes a burning pain; too late, scanty and short, always accompanied by frontal headache; very nervous and restless, exhaustion with defective reaction; during menses sleeplessness (Ign., Sep., Natr. m.); diarrhoea before and during; blood from rectum during menses (Amm. m.).

Ammonium mur Am-m

Menses more profuse at night, or when sitting or riding, or after a ride in the cold air, with pain in abdomen and small of back, blood dark, tarry, in clots; DURING MENSES DIARRHOEA AND VOMITING, bloody discharge from bowels and neuralgic pains in feet, flow black and clotted.

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Menses commenced at an early period, are profuse, then cease, followed by chlorosis; before menses toothache, boring in temples.

Apis mell Apis

Menses too profuse or too scanty; metrorrhagia with red spots, stinging like bee-stings; irregular, lasting but one of two days, accompanied with weakness; copious and lumpy, with great pain in spleen, continuing after it and interfering with every walk, or when talking or coughing; flow delayed or suppressed, sensation as if they were coming on, but they fail to do so, much pain in right ovarian region before or during menses, or when they become suppressed; micturition painful, scanty dark urine; great tenderness over uterine region, with bearing-down pains; sharp stabbing or plunging pain in uterus or in head, sometimes followed by convulsions at every menstrual period, the patient feeling tolerably well during the interval; deep-seated tenderness; stinging and frequent micturition during menses; pale, waxy skin.

Argentum nit Arg-n

Menses too early, profuse, long-lasting, with headache, cutting in small of back and groin, at night tormenting pressure in praecordia, internal trembling in epigastrium; flow regular but attended with a great deal of pain the day before. which makes her feel horribly faint; flow irregular, too soon or too late, too copious or too scanty, but ALWAYS WITH THICK COAGULATED BLOOD, all pain ceases with a free discharge; violent palpitations of heart with faintish nausea; retching and vomiting or mucus or like coffee- grounds (gastric ulcer).

Arsenicum Ars

Early, profuse and exhausting dark flow, with leucorrhoea in the interval; during flow stitches in rectum extending into anus and vulva; stinging, cutting pain, extending from epigastrium into hypogastrium, sides of abdomen and back; after flow or instead of it discharge of bloody slime or stinking water from vagina and anus; thin, whitish, foul discharge instead of menses; menorrhagia with lancinating, burning pains; amenorrhoea; atony of uterus.

Artemisia vulgaris Art-v

Menses black as tar, violent contractions of uterus, like labor-pains; spasmodic affections during menses; irregular or deficient menstruation with epileptic convulsions and nervous exhaustion after it.

Asafoetida Asaf

Premature and too scanty, lasting but two or three days; Labor-like pains in uterus, with cutting and bearing down, especially when riding in carriage; swelling of external genitals; great sexual desire.

Asarum europ Asar

Early, protracted, but not very profuse; with their appearance violent pain in small of back, which scarcely allows her to

breathe; blood black; headache before and after menses.

Asterias rubens Aster

Delaying menses; colic and other sufferings cease with the flow which is more abundant than usual; severe general pain over womb as if something protruded behind it; jerking in uterus.

Aurum met Aur

Menses retarded and scanty, too early and too profuse, blood acrid and causing great soreness of pudenda; coming on all of a sudden; before; mental depression and suicidal tendency, eruption of pimples on labia major; during; the same with colic, constipation, hard and knotty stool. OFFENSIVE, PUTRID BREATH IN GIRLS AT THE AGE OF PUBESCENCE; URINE like buttermilk; uterus prolapsed and indurated.

Baryta carb Bar-c

Menses scanty, last only one day, preceded by toothache, colic and leucorrhoea, and accompanied by cutting and pinching in abdomen; bruised pain in small of back; especially suitable to dwarfish women with scanty menses and troublesome weight about the pubes in any direction.

Belladonna Bell

Too early and too profuse, of HOT, BRIGHT-RED BLOOD, containing dark, OFFENSIVE CLOTS, or the blood thick, decomposed and of a dark-red colour, THE DISCHARGE FEELING HOT AS IT PASSES. Before: dysmenorrhoea depending on a congested or inflamed ovary, more often the right one, with dragging and pressing downward pains and cutting from behind forward or vice versa, passing through the horizontal diameter of pelvis and not around circumference (as Sep. and Plat. do); during: great mental disturbance, throbbing headache, red and suffused face in young girls, pressing down in abdomen, as if the contents would push through the genitals, with heaviness as from a stone, spasm of cervix, (<) mornings, on sitting bent and when walking, (>) on standing or sitting erect; coldness of back, evenings; backache as if the back would break; pressive pains which come and go quickly; sweat on chest at night, frequent gasping, chills and colic; stools painful; after: cramps in stomach; bloody discharge between periods. Sudden suppression of menses from cold; with severe bearing-down pain and throbbing in the hypogastric region, flushed face, throbbing headache and difficult or painful micturition.

Benzoic acid Benz-ac

Menses too early or retarded, great weakness after menses; urine scanty; dark-brown and foetid.

Berberis Berb

Too scanty, intermitting and attended with labor-like pains, flow too scanty, too short, consisting of grayish serum or mucus, or BLACK DROPS OF FILTHY SLIME; great chilliness, violent pain in sacrum and loins, in renal region and down the thighs and calves of legs; ill-humor, apathy, inclination to weep; great weakness and faintishness; bone-pains; headache after dinner: (<) by motion, but(>) in fresh air; cutting, burning pains during and after micturition, urine turbid and flocculent.

Borax Bor

MEMBRANOUS DYSMENORRHOEA; menses too early, too profuse and attended with colic and nausea; flow preceded by stitching pains in pectoral region, lancinating pains in the groin during the flow; aphthae; nervous; starts at the least noise, dread of downward motion; after; gastralgia, stitches in uterus. Dysmenorrhoea with sterility.

Bovista Bov

MENSES FLOW VERY LITTLE DURING DAY WHEN ON HER FEET OR WALKING, more profuse when lying down at night, very profuse towards morning; blood dark and coagulated or watery; BLOODY DISCHARGE BETWEEN PERIODS from any little overexertion(Amb). before: diarrhoea and bearing down towards genitals, (>) when discharge sets in; during: lassitude, diarrhoea and headache, soreness and excoriation in groins; after; leucorrhoea, (>) when walking, dropping out in a coagulated mass or clots; sad and despondent when alone; sweat in axilla smelling like garlic or onions. bruised sensation in abdomen and thighs; puffy condition of body.

Bromium Brom

Premature and profuse flow of bright-red blood or passive flow with much exhaustion. Before: fulness in head and chest, headache, difficult respiration, violent contractive spasms in abdomen, leaving parts very sore, pain in small of back, feeling of great weakness; during: MEMBRANOUS DYSMENORRHOEA, violent contractive spasms for six or twelve hours in abdomen, leaving parts very sore, passing membranous shreds; emission of large quantities of flatus from vagina; hard swelling in ovarian region; weakness and want of appetite after disappearance of all symptoms.

Bryonia Bry

Too early, too profuse, dark-red, smelling badly. Before: congestion to head and chest, pinching in abdomen; during; aching in head; as if it would split, with nosebleed, burning gastralgia, constipation; stitch-like pains in bowels; (<) by slightest motion; when suppressed, nosebleed; vicarious menstruation.

Bufo Bufo

Menses regular, discharging pale fluid blood with clots; epileptic attacks (<)at time of menses, which return every three weeks; after; ill-humor, leucorrhoea like cream or the washings of meat; EPILEPTIC AURA FROM UTERUS TO STOMACH, burning heat and stitches in ovaries; menses early and copious, with headache, chilliness, shifting pains, faintness from emptiness of stomach.

Cactus grand Cact

Too soon and scanty, CEASE FLOWING WHEN PATIENT LIES DOWN, attended with terrible pain and prostration, causing her to cry aloud and weep, or copious and painless, of black, tarry blood, Before; palpitations; during: heart- troubles; agonizing uterine spasms,(<) evenings; PAINFUL CONSTRICTION AROUND PELVIS, extending gradually to stomach, pulsating pains in uterus and ovaries; love of solitude, sadness, taciturnity and irresistible inclination to weep; extreme fear of death; sensation of constriction in throat, chest, oesophagus, uterus, rectum or bladder.

Calcarea carb Calc

Premature, profuse and protracted (atony of muscular coat of uterus and relaxation) the LEAST EXCITEMENT CAUSES RETURN OF MENSES; monthly sickness during lactation; discharge light- colored or bright red. Before; nervousness, nocturnal shiverings and colicky pains; aching pain in back and hips: sensitiveness and swelling of mammae (Lac. can.,); during; exhaustion in the morning; congestive headache,(<) on ascending or when rising from a stooping position, with coldness of limbs; inward coldness and sensation as if cold stockings were on the feet; sour vomiting, urine of a peculiar pungent odor. Complications of uterine and chest affections.

Calcarea phos Calc-p

Menses too early in young girls, with bright-red blood; too late, blood first bright, with women; dark blood in rheumatic women; menses during lactation. Before: GREAT SEXUAL DESIRE, followed by a copious flow, headache three to seven days before; griping and rumbling in bowels, During: vertigo and throbbing in forehead, pressure over os pubis, she feels pulse in all parts; want of appetite, diarrhoea, backache, shooting pains from left

to right, lower limbs heavy, fatigued; great weakness and sinking sensation; leucorrhoea like albumen, (<) morning after rising, of a sweetish odor, for two weeks after menses. Lack of development; stenosis in women about 25 or 30 years, their difficulties dating back to puberty; tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus.

Camphora Camph

Retarded menstruation, with constant pain in loins as if back were broken; cold feeling or chilliness in back.]

Cantharis Canth

Flow stringy, membranous, too early and too copious, with black blood. Membranous dysmenorrhoea with painful and frequent micturition, pains in ovaries, uterus feels large and swollen; mammae painful; violent itching in vagina and burning in vulva; anxious restlessness; amorous rage; oversensitiveness with excessive debility.

Carbo an Carb-an

Too early and continuing too long, not profuse, but causing great exhaustion; DARK MENSES FLOW ONLY IN THE MORNING, and weaken her so that she can hardly speak; a goneness; not relieved by eating; during: great exhaustion with stretching and yawning: pressure in groins, thighs and small of back, distention of abdomen with ineffectual attempts to eructate; chilly, yawning, desire to urinate.

Carbo veg Carb-v

Premature and profuse or scanty; pale or thick, acrid, corrosive and of PUNGENT ODOR. Before: itching of old tetters; cramp-like drawing in hypogastrium, extending to back. During: cutting pain in abdomen, (<) when flow ceases; itching, burning, soreness and smarting at vulva and anus; burning in hands and soles of feet; violent contractive headache; skin moist and clammy; anxious and restless; vertigo and fainting early in the morning; weak digestion, the plainest food distress her; flatulent colic, flatus hot and offensive.

Carbolic acid Carb-ac

Menses much more profuse and of dark color than usual, followed by headache and great nervous irritability; CLIMACTERIC TROUBLES, irregular menstruation, great flow when it comes, lasting many days, with depressing effects.

Caulophyllum Caul

Too soon and too scanty; neuralgic and congestive dysmenorrhoea with SPASMODIC,IRREGULAR AND VERY SEVERE PAINS, especially the first two days of menses; pain in small of back and great aching and soreness of lower limbs, bad breath, bitter taste, vertigo, chilliness. During: scanty flow, blood very light, nausea and vomiting of yellow, bitter water; intermittent uterine pains from retroversion or a relaxed and flabby condition of uterus, with profuse flow; habitual cold feet; INTERMITTENT PAINS IN ALL PARTS, head, stomach, bladder, upper and lower limbs, After: passive flow, an oozing from the uterine vessels, with tremulous weakness of whole body.

Causticum Caust

Too early and too profuse, and AFTER CEASING A LITTLE IS PASSED FROM TIME TO TIME FOR DAYS; difficult first menstruation; delayed, but natural or profuse, menses too feeble and flowing only in daytime, no discharge during the night or when lying down; flow mixed with large clots, smells badly and causes severe itching of vulva. Before: sadness and anxious dreams; colic without diarrhoea. During: weakness and ill-humor, prosopalgia with scanty menses; colic with sensation as if the pelvic contents were being squeezed; cutting, tearing pains in back and limbs. After: great aversion to sexual intercourse; yellow, sickly complexion.

Cedron Cedr

MENSTRUAL EPILEPSY (Bufo); during menses mouth and tongue very dry, great thirst, difficulty of speech, painful pricking of tongue with sensation of heat; as if tongue were paralyzed; pale face, deep-sunken eyes, toothache every night; foetid breath; lips cold, bluish, dry. After: profuse ptyalism and leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea in place of menses.

Chamomilla Cham

Too early and too profuse, with dark, coagulated, sometimes offensive blood; membranous dysmenorrhoea; suppressed menses. Before: frontal headache with icy-cold hands and feet, cutting colic in abdomen and thighs; irritable and snappish; during: profuse discharge of dark clotted blood, with severe labor-like pains in uterus; tearing pains down the thighs; drawing from small of back forward; griping and pinching in uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood; FLOW OPEN IN STARTS AND ABUNDANT WHEN IT COMES. After: pressure on parts like labor- pains, with frequent urging to urinate; smarting, acrid, watery leucorrhoea; great irritability and crossness all the time, though unnatural to her when well.

China Chin

Menses too early, too profuse, with discharge of dark, coagulated blood, or watery, pale blood, with coagula, Before: congestion to uterus, with sensation of fulness and painful pressure towards genitals, especially when walking. During: abdominal cramps, congestion to fainting fits.

Cicuta Cic

Retarded menses with spasmodic affections; during menses tearing, jerking pain in coccyx; spasms if means do not appear; suspicion and mistrust, perverted appetite, eats chalk and coal.

Cimicifuga Cimic

RHEUMATIC DYSMENORRHOEA, irregular; too soon and copious, dark and clotted or scanty; Before: tenderness of hypogastrium with severe spasmodic, intermittent uterine contractions. During: SHOOTING ACROSS BOWELS FROM SIDE TO SIDE,OF SUCH SEVERITY AS TO DOUBLE HER UP; great restlessness with the pains, accompanied by nervous headaches, severe pains in back and through the lips and passing down back to thigh; menstrual colic from retroversion. After: general debility, scanty flow between periods. Rheumatic diathesis, with sick-headache history and tendency to prolapse. Hysteric and epileptic spasms.

Cinnamomum Cinnam

Too early and too profuse,(<) after even the least exertion, thee flow bright-red and clear, particularly in women troubled with itching of nose and nightly restlessness; menses regularly every four weeks, each periods lasting eight days longer than usual and followed by leucorrhoea; diarrhoea,(<) after drinking; constantly tossing about, even in sleep.

Coca Coca

Menses after being delayed come in gushes, awakening from a sound sleep, melancholy from amenorrhoea, fainting from nervous depression.

Cocculus Cocc

Too early, too profuse, with crampy colic, WHEN RISING UPON HER FEET IT GUSHES OUT IN A STREAM, or irregular and scanty, retarded and painful. Before; great weakness, crampy colic, FLATULENCE, spasms in chest with groaning and sighing; constant sensation as if about to faint, During: menses lessen during abdominal pains and become copious with their abatement; paralytic weakness in back and lower limbs, so that she can hardly stand or walk; trembling over whole body; EXCESSIVE HYSTERICAL DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN WITH mind, colic as if sharp stones were rubbing against each other in abdomen,(<) at night , by every movement; paralytic pain in back, with hollow feeling in abdomen and chest; dysmenorrhoea followed by haemorrhoids; leucorrhoea instead of menses, mixed with purulent and blood streaked serum; all (<) by grief and anger.

Coccus cacti Coc-c

Too early and too profuse, discharge of dark thick blood; flow only in evening while lying down, passes enormous black clots; urging to urinate ineffectual till clots have passed. Irritable and out of humor; canine hunger, sharp pains in lower abdomen, first right. then left side.

Coffea Coff

Menses too profuse and too long, ONLY IN THE EVENING, with coldness and stiffness of the body; excessive painful and violent paroxysms of colic, with profuse bloody discharge, profuse secretion of mucus, voluptuous itching and excessive sexual excitement; (<) from motion; very excitable and nervous.

Collinsonia Coll

OBSTRUCTIVE DYSMENORRHOEA; membranous dysmenorrhoea, with haemorrhoids, constipation and dyspepsia; pruritus pudendi; prolapsus or displacement, caused by constipation; convulsions preceded by severe pains in uterine region, often followed by stupor, from which the patient revives with severe headache; menses too frequent and too profuse.

Colocynthis Coloc

Several days before menses sharp, darting, paroxysmal pains in uterine region, bending her double, (<) by pressing on painful parts and by warmth, with extreme nausea and vomiting and cold feet; difficulty of breathing during flow; pain in left ovarian region as if the parts were squeezed in a vise- all ceasing on appearance of flow; on last day of menses pains return, (<) by eating or drinking; flow rather increased; between menses yellow, thick, offensive leucorrhoea.

Conium Con

Menses irregular, too early and too feeble, or too late and too scanty, of brownish-colored blood. Before: great anxiety, weeping mood; great feat when being alone, but dreads company and strangers; vertigo when lying down and (<) by turning over; mammae swell, become hard and painful. During: dysmenorrhoea with pains extending to left chest; labor-like abdominal pains, extending into thighs; rash over body of small red pimples, which burn severely when scratched (Coff.., she wants to scratch, but parts are too sensitive) and disappear with cessation of menstruation; intermittent flow of urine, globus hystericus; bruises and shocks in spine; numbness and coldness of feet.

Crocus Croc

Too early and too profuse, of dark, or BLACK, COAGULATED STRINGY BLOOD; foul smelling, protracted and profuse flow, (<)by least motion. Before: sensation as if menses would appear; with colic and pressing towards genitals; great sexual excitement. During: profuse flow of dark, clotted, stringy blood, with or without pain , after any physical exertion; FOUL SMELLING DISCHARGE DURING CLIMAXIS, with sensation as of something alive rolling and bounding about in abdomen; changeable mood, from sadness and anxiety to mirth and cheerfulness; excessive gayety bordering on delirium; pale face, headache, dim vision; spasmodic twitching in abdomen arms and other parts of body.

Crotalus Crot-h

Vicarious menses in debilitated, depraved states; dysmenorrhoea five days before menses, much pain in lower abdomen and down thighs. lasting during first two days of flow; during which flow is copious and then lingers on and off for a few, days; dull, continuous aching pain in cardiac region, down left arm and thorough left shoulder-blade, (<) on drawing deep breath and ascending; cold feet.

Cuprum Cupr

Too late and last too long. Before: spasmodic dyspnoea, palpitation and arterial excitement. Before and during flow, or after suppression, violent severe cramps in abdomen, extending into chest, causing nausea, vomiting ,convulsions of limbs and piercing shrieks; epileptic convulsions.

Curare Cur

Menses very capricious, either too soon or too late; during the menses colic, headache, pains in kidneys, general malaise and hypochondria.

Cyclamen Cycl

Menses too profuse and too frequent, with severe labor-like pains, black, membranous; menses anticipate; MENSES FLOW LESS WHEN MOVING ABOUT, more evenings when sitting quiet; menses suppressed, or scanty and painful; vertigo, objects turn in a circle or make a see-saw motion, especially when walking out- doors great sadness and peevishness; after menses, swelling of mammae, with watery secretion, resembling milk, leaving on the linen spots like a weak solution of starch; semilateral headache (in left temple), with nausea, vertigo, obscuration of sight, face pale and eyes sunken, with amenorrhoea or scanty menstruation; torpor of bloody and mind, with languor; intolerance of fat food, thirst; anaemia, (<) sitting up; (>) indoors; flatulent colic at night, (>) by getting up and walking about; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES WITH MIGRAINE AND BLINDNESS.

Digitalis Dig

Premature, with bearing-down uterine pains; VICARIOUS MENSTRUATION; violent straining cough, with expectoration of clots of blood and sense of constriction in throat; epistaxis; great lassitude and coldness; face waxy pale, yellowish; pulse feeble.

Dulcamara Dulc

Menses too late, too short, blood thin, watery; rash before menses(during, Kali carb).

Elaps coral Elaps

Irregular menses, too soon, weight in vagina, with sharp pains; violent itching in vagina; formication of vulva, discharge of black blood after menses, with languor and weakness, though discharge is not great; hunger, with violent headache; if not satisfied at once; hysteria.

Erigeron can Erig

Too scanty and too profuse, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder; bright-red blood; dull backache, (<) in sacrum and during rainy weather.

Euphrasia Euphr

Menses late, scanty and of short duration; MENSES PAINFUL, LASTING ONLY ONE HOUR, time regular, followed by intense throbbing in temples and vertigo.

Eupion Eupi

Too soon and too copious, thin, fluid, followed by limpid leucorrhoea, with itching of skin between thighs and of vulva, (<) evenings; soreness all though chest, with desire to take a long breath; backache, (>) by lifting the weight of body from pelvis, leaning over foot of bedstead etc.

Ferrum Ferr

Too late and too scanty, with pale watery discharge; too late, long-lasting and profuse, too early and profuse, with flushed face, frequent short shudderings, headache and dizziness, labor-like pains in sides and abdomen and discharge of partly black, clotted blood; INTERMITTENT, CEASE FOR A DAY OR TWO AND THEN RETURN, pale and watery. Before: physical and mental depression, stinging headache and ringing in ears, discharges of long pieces of mucus from the uterus. During: violent colic with pale discharge, with paleness of lips and face; profuse with great vascular excitement, glowing redness of face, headache and vertigo; dragging pains in loins, pelvis and thighs; cold hands and feet, After: severe and distressing pruritus, (>) by bathing in cold water.

Ferrum phos Ferr-p

Scarcely endurable, dull heavy pain on top of head during profuse menses; blind headache, with a constant dull pain in ovaries and uterus vaginismus; colic before menses; with flushing of face and quickened pulse; vomiting of undigested food, sometimes tasting acid; excessive congestion at monthlies, blood bright-red.

Fluoric acid Fl-ac

Too early, too copious, discharge thick and coagulated, she experiences then a BUOYANCY OF MIND, satisfied with herself and all around her.

Gelsemium Gels

Delayed and painful, suppressed ,Before: congestion to head and face; vomiting, with bearing-down pains in abdomen. During: NEURALGIC AND CONGESTIVE DYSMENORRHOEA, with sharp, labor-like pains in uterus altering with other neuralgic pains, pains extending into and up thee back; LOSS OF VOICE ONLY DURING MENSES; sensation as it uterus were squeezed by hand and forced downward; frequent emission of clear watery urine, with relief of head symptoms.

Glonoinum Glon

Before, during and after menses, or when they fail to appear, throbbing fulness of head; violent headache with menses of during climaxis, (<)by motion, has to tie up the head., feet cold; fainting fits with consciousness; plethora.

Gnaphalium Gnaph

Extremely painful menses, scanty flow of dirty-brown or chocolate- colored blood; cramps of calves and feet with numbness; flatulent colic.

Graphites Graph

Too late, too scanty and of too short duration; discharge of thick black blood or serous pale blood. Before. watery leucorrhoea, itching of vulva and vagina, tired-out feeling; constipation. During: membranous dysmenorrhoea, pain in epigastrium, as if everything would be torn into pieces; bearing down in abdomen, with pains in sides and back, (>) by motion; excoriation at vulva, soreness, between thighs; diarrhoea; cold feet; headache, nausea, pains in limbs, debility; sadness with thoughts of death and great grief about small affairs. Anaemic fat women, who are constantly cold, constipated and subject to rough, herpetic skin. OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION AND DELAYED MENSTRUATION OCCURRING TOGETHER.

Hamamelis Ham

PROFUSE DISCHARGE OF DARK BLOOD IN DAYTIME, NONE AT NIGHT; steady flow of dark-colored blood, without pain; retention of menses with haematemesis; profuse, blood bright-red, not coagulable; irregular; dysmenorrhoea with severe pain in lumbar and hypogastric region and down legs; bruised sore feeling in abdomen; fulness of brain and bowels, with headache, causing stupor and dull sleep; retention of urine; epistaxis, vicarious or idiopathic, relieves headache, general lassitude and feeling of weariness, she easily tries.

Helleborus Hell

DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN PERIODS, with great distention of abdomen. Suppressed menses from disappointed love.

Helonias Helon

Too frequent, too profuse and too exhausting, blood dark and smelling badly, especially in women feeble from loss of blood; flow passive, dark, clotted and offensive; PROFUSE FLOODING DURING MENOPAUSE. Before; pressing pain in sacrum and soreness of breasts. During: sharp, cutting and drawing pains from back to uterus; pruritus of vulva and vagina, albuminous urine; depressed, melancholy; breasts swollen, nipples tender, cannot bear pressure of clothing; sallow face with expression of sorrow and suffering; backache, constant tenderness in renal region; great general languor; loss of sexual desire with or without sterility; diabetes.

Hepar Hep

Early and profuse, metrorrhagia with chapped skin and rhagades of hand and feet, or menses delayed and too scanty, with pruritus vulvae during flow; discharge of blood between menses; uterus enlarged and anteverted, with congestion of ovaries; coitus intolerable.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

Profuse, like flooding, of bright-red blood, with vascular excitement and spasmodic jerkings; profuse with pale blood, Before: hysterical and epileptic spasms, labor-like pains in abdomen, with pulling in back and sides; profuse sweats with nausea usher in the menses. During: same pains; convulsive trembling on hands and feet; headache; profuse perspiration; lockjaw; silly, loud laughing; lascivious furor, without modesty; delirium, she gets wild and raging; enuresis; followed by complete apathy and dull, heavy sleep.

Hypericum Hyper

Menses delayed, with tension in uterine region as from a bandage; profuse and too early; Before: wrenching pain over eyes;(>) by motion; punching pain in abdomen; pressure in small of back and bowels; numbness and coldness of feet when sitting. During: dull headache, sharp hearing sickening pain in bowels; melancholy, fears that slight motion or touch will make her fall from a height.

Hura braz Hura

Shooting, stinging pains before scanty menses.

Ignatia Ign

Premature and protracted, but rather scanty than profuse, with thick, dark clotted blood of an offensive odor; profuse after great mental troubles; or suppression from grief. Before; sighing and sobbing; weak and empty feeling at pit of stomach. During; much bearing down in hypogastric region, (>) by pressure, lying down and change of position; headache with heat and heaviness in head, photophobia, anguish, beating of heart, great debility unto fainting; aversion to milk, meat and warm food; starting of limbs when going to sleep; feet burning hot or cold and damp; dysmenorrhoea from irritation of nervous system, and not from uterine congestion.

Iodum Iod

Premature, copious and violent; IRREGULAR, TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE; or delayed ,short and scanty, with vertigo and palpitations. Before. swelling of throat, heat rising up the neck to head, with tension of neck and palpitations. During; great weariness, (<) ascending; flow renewed during or after every stool, with cutting pains in abdomen; sensation as if a plug or wedge were driven from the right ovary towards the uterus; dwindling of breasts. After; obstinate excoriating leucorrhoea; palpitations and violent pressure in epigastrium; chronic leucorrhoea, (<) at each period, with great weakness, out of proportion to the loss of blood.

Ipecacuanha Ip

Premature, profuse and too long, blood bright-red and readily coagulating; menses every two weeks, Before: heat in head, nausea; pain about navel pressing upon uterus. During: cutting pain in umbilical region, dyspnoea, heat of head, pale face. constant nausea, restlessness, shivering great weakness and constant desire to lie down; aversion to food.

Juglans regia Jug-r

Too soon and composed only of black clots; flushed face and headache, migraine, flatulency and burning at anus; frequent micturition.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

Too soon, with vertigo, nausea and headache, Before: great anxiety, easily frightened. During: membranous dysmenorrhoea; yellow, ropy, vaginal discharge, voluptuous itching of vulva, swelling of labia; urine suppressed or she passes quantities of red urine. After: soreness, rawness and pruritus vaginae; PROLAPSUS UTERI, (<) IN WARM WEATHER; backache in women of sluggish lymphatic temperament; obstinate suppression of urine.

Kali brom Kali-br

Before menses: headache; during menses: epileptic spasms, nymphomania, itching burning and excitement in vulva, vagina and clitoris; after menses: headache, heat in genitals, sleeplessness; scanty menses or menorrhagia from reflex or nervous causes.

Kali carb Kali-c

Too late and too scanty or too early, too copious and too long; too late and too profuse: pale ,acrid, of a pungent or foetid odor, excoriating the parts with which it comes in contact and covering them with an eruption; often indicated in DELAYING AND DIFFICULT MENSES OF YOUNG GIRLS, with long intervals between the menses. Before; voluptuous feeling, (<) mornings; soreness of pudendum, itching of vulva, shooting pains over abdomen, or colicky pains; general bad feeling about a week before menses. During: peevish, dull, confused, restless sleep, dizzy on waking; violent starting of whole body; painful sensation of weight in groin and back, down the thighs; pruritus from the excoriating discharge. After: cold and chilly,; gastralgia with coldness in abdomen; leucorrhoea of yellow mucus, with itching and soreness of vulva; stitches through vulva; stitches in chest; backache as if broken.

Kali-iod Kali-i

Too late and too profuse; menses suppressed, and at their reappearance frequent urging to urinate , profuse flow, colic and diarrhoea. During: head hot; icy creeping over face and hands, constant shuddering; uterine cramps and painful colic, with violent squeezing pains down to thighs; the urging to urinate stops when flow begins; (<) during rest, (>) by motion; (<)from cold milk.

Kali mur Kali-m

Too late or suppressed, checked, or too early, excessive dark, clotted, tough black blood like tar; menses too frequent; milky white leucorrhoea, thick, bland and non-irritating; chronic rheumatic pains, (<) from warmth of bed.

Kali nitr Kali-n

Too soon and too profuse, discharge as black as ink, thin or clotted, but lasting only a short while, Before; violent colic and pain in sacrum. During: great thirst, waterbrash, colic with pain in thighs and sides; legs weak, numb.

Kali phos Kali-p

Too late, too profuse, deep-red or blackish-red, thin, not coagulating, sometimes with offensive odor; SPASMODIC DYSMENORRHOEA, uterine pains alternating with severe migraine,, over left eye, gastralgia, vomiting of mucus and bile, aggravating uterine pains; mammae painful; (<)by pressure; hysterical yawning, sighing and depression, NERVOUS EXHAUSTION AND FEELING OF FAINTNESS.

Kalmia Kalm

Too early or too late, but always scanty. Neuralgic pains through body; yellow leucorrhoea after, with lameness in back and weary extremities.

Kreosotum Kreos

Too early, too copious, too long, followed by acrid-smelling, bloody ichor, with corrosive itching and biting of the parts during flow, but much, (<)after it; INTERMITTENT FLOW AT TIMES ALMOST CEASING AND THEN RECOMMENCING; discharge dark, clotted or clear and watery; with violent colic. Before: great restlessness and nervous excitement; hardness of hearing with buzzing and humming in head; distention of abdomen; clawing and digging about navel, followed by white leucorrhoea. During: humming and buzzing in head, with pressure from within outward, (<) when stooping; sharp stitches darting from abdomen into vagina; nausea and prostration during first two days; more or less pain during flow; but much worse after it(Nux, Puls); discharge of coagulated blood after passing flatus; flow more profuse when lying down, ceases nearly when walking or standing. After: urticaria; violent abdominal spasms after too copious and long- lasting menses; cramp-like pains of external parts; discharge of foul-smelling, acrid, bloody ichor, with corrosive itching and biting of the parts, with strong desire for a sexual embrace; ALL COMPLAINTS (<) AFTER MENSES; fainting and pulseless with metrorrhagia, blood dark, clotted and offensive.

Lac caninum Lac-c

Too frequent and profuse, of bright-red blood, stringy, but dissolving in water, and of a strong AMMONIACAL SMELL, AT THE CLOSE STAINING NAPKIN GREEN, Before: great engorgement of mammae, which are sore to the touch, dry, husky cough, causing soreness of abdomen; itching of vulva; flatus from bowels and vagina; congestion of ovaries. During: great distress in pelvic region, with sensation as if abdomen in mammae, which are slightly, (>) from leaning back; pain and soreness in mammae, which are full of small hard lumps; dejected and despondent, feels herself surrounded by snakes. After: leucorrhoea, only in daytime, when standing, yellow, not excoriating.

Lac defloratum Lac-d

Delayed, suppressed, too scanty, with intense distress in lower part of abdomen, cannot bear the weight of hand or clothing on abdomen, great lassitude and somnolency; migraine, profuse watery urine.

Lachesis Lach

Delayed, scanty or intermittent; regular, but scanty and feeble; blood dark, lumpy acrid and highly offensive; PROFUSE DURING CLIMAXIS. Before: desire for fresh air; leucorrhoea several days before menses stiffening the linen and leaving a greenish stain; abdominal cramps and throbbing headache, nosebleed. During: desire for fresh air: (>) WHEN FLOW IS ESTABLISHED; cannot bear even weight of sheet on genitals, so sensitive; haemorrhoidal troubles during menses; labor-like pains as if everything were pressed out; menstrual colic beginning in left ovary; bruised pains in hips; sense of suffocation, as of something tight around neck; flushes of heat in daytime; loquacity; tearfulness; tendency to faint and to hysterical fits during or just before menses set in; ALL THE ACHES RELIEVED WHEN FLOW STARTS. After; diarrhoea, beating in anus as from little hammers.

Laurocerasus Laur

Too early and too profuse, thin, liquid, During: colic afternoons; tearing pain in vertex at night: suffocative spells about heart with gasping for breath; weariness in small of back; frontal headache with dizziness of vision; coldness of extremities, ICE COLDNESS OF TONGUE AND GREAT MELANCHOLIA.

Ledum Led

Too early and profuse, blood bright red; great want of vital heat, she cannot keep warm; desire to be alone; the least covering of head is unbearable.

Lilium tigr Lil-t

Normal as to time and quantity, but ONLY WHEN SHE IS MOVING ABOUT; and cease when lying down; Before: nervous palpitations with a suffocative of choking feeling, (<) when lying on right side and (>) on left side. During; great weakness; dysmenorrhoea with sensation of constriction from back around hips and ending in pudenda, dysmenorrhoea from dislocation; clammy coldness of limbs; pressure and weight low down in vagina, (>) by firm pressure with hand on vulva; neuralgic uterine pains; sharp pains across hypogastrium from ilium to ilium. After; profuse, bright-yellow leucorrhoea, acrid and excoriating external parts; ovarian neuralgia, burning, darting, stinging pains with cutting pains in mammae.

Lithium carb Lith-c

Menses late and scanty; all symptoms accompanying irregular menses are on left side; urine turbid and flocculent; rheumatic soreness about heart, (<) bending forward, (>) after urinating; menses cease suddenly and headache comes on.

Lobelia Lob

Too early and profuse or too scanty and profuse, violent pain in sacrum during fever; GREAT WEIGHT AND HEAVINESS IN GENERAL ORGANS; rheumatic or neuralgic pains in face, chest, extremities, extreme tenderness over sacrum, she CANNOT BEAR THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH; cries out when attempt is made to examine parts.

Lycopodium Lyc

Too profuse, too long, flow partly black, clotted, or bright-red or watery with labor-like pain, followed by fainting; too often, reappearing after six or eight days; suppression from fright; Before; sadness and melancholy; shivering; heaviness of lower extremities and coldness of feet; distention of abdomen. During; Dizziness and dull screwing headache in temples, as if forehead would burst; shooting and cutting pains across abdomen from right to left, sometimes running upward; pains in back before urination; flow (<) in afternoon,4 p.m. After: obstinate dryness of vagina; bearing -down pains, as if menses would reappear; itching ,burning , gnawing at the vulva, varices of genitals; low-spirited, constant sensation of satiety.

Magnesia carb Mag-c

MORE PROFUSE DURING NIGHT( Amm. carb., Zinc.) AND WHEN FIRST RISING; only when lying down; ceasing when walking; too frequent, dark and thick; retarded menses with discharge of large coagula, flow only in the absence of pain and at night, discharge acrid, dark, thick, viscid, almost like pitch, and washed out with difficulty. REAPPEARANCE OF MENSES IN WOMEN OF ADVANCED AGE; bloody discharge from vagina when standing or walking, outside of monthly period, Before: ulcerated sore throat just before menses, commencing on one side and going to the other; chilliness, backache, and great weakness; pressing towards pelvis, with cutting in abdomen. During: headache and heaviness of head, (>) at night; paleness of face; neuralgic pains in face, driving her out of bed; diarrhoea with great trembling of limbs, After: severe backache and itching of vulva.

Magnesia mur Mag-m

Too early and too profuse with discharge of black clots. Before: leucorrhoea and great nervous excitement. During: weariness; wakefulness; backache, (>) walking while pains in thighs are , (<) sitting; menstrual pains , by pressure on back; pale face; debility; ill humor before and during menses; suppressed menses; congestion of blood to head; with painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on side on which she rests; stools hard, difficult, crumbling; uterine spasms, accompanying induration of uterus; palpitations; (<) when quiet, (>) from moving about.

Magnesia phos Mag-p

Menstrual colic, pains radiating from spine, during or preceding flow; vaginismus, ovarian neuralgia (<) on right side, (>) by external application of heat; nervous headaches with sparks before eyes; menses anteponing.

Magnesia sulph Mag-s

Too early and too short, reappear in a fortnight, more profuse with thick, black blood, bruised pain in back with pain in groin when sitting or standing, less when walking. After: profuse leucorrhoea burning, thick, (<) during motion.

Manganum Mang

TOO EARLY AND TOO SCANTY, thick, black blood; bloody discharge between menses; pressure on genital organs; low- spirited and reflective; headache, jarring in brain,(<) or (>)indoors.

Melilotus Meli

Menses painful and difficult, with nervous headaches; sharp, shooting, sticking pains in external genitals only for a moment, but often recurring, with nausea and pelvic pains at the close of menses.

Mercurius Merc

Too profuse with great anxiety and colic. Before: slight bloody discharge a few days before menses; dry heat and rush of blood to head; During: anxiety, red tongue with dark spots, salty taste, scorbutic gums, if it had to be supported; dragging in loins; swelling of labia with itching pimples and nodes. After. leucorrhoea, , night.

Mezereum Mez

Too frequent, too profuse and too long; scanty with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia, low-spirited and weeping, wants company.

Millefolium Mill

Too often, too long and too much; PROFUSE FROM OVEREXERTION; VICARIOUS MENSTRUATION; membranous dysmenorrhoea with convulsions and fainting fits; hysterical spasms; epilepsy; sterility from profuse menstruation.

Moschus Mosch

Too early and too profuse, Before: violent drawing and downward pressing pain on genitals. During: violent drawing pains; pulling and pressing on genitals like labor-pains, intolerable titillation, ceasing with the menstrual flow; Nymphomania; urine scanty and thick like yeast; dysmenorrhoea with frequent fainting; great desire for beer and brandy; constriction of chest, relieved by sighing; sadness at the approach of menses, wants to die.

Murex purp Murx

Too early and too profuse, with soreness of uterus; patient lively and in good spirits despite the haemorrhage. During. intense pain in abdomen LIKE SOMETHING PRESSING ON A SORE PLACE; feeling of goneness in stomach (Sep.); appetite poor; bowels costive or bloody leucorrhoea during stool; flow ceases after a few days and then reappears after twelve hours; VIOLENT SEXUAL EXCITEMENT FROM MERE TOUCH OF THE PARTS.

Natrum carb Nat-c

Too late and scanty, thin, watery; too soon and too long, like flooding,(<) OR REPRODUCED BY THUNDERSTORM. Before; headache and drawing in nape of neck, leucorrhoea. During: excessive nervousness; CANNOT BEAR MUSIC; tearing headache, pressing in hypogastrium towards genitals as if everything would issue from abdomen, MOVEMENT IN UTERUS AS FROM A FOETUS; distended abdomen in the morning, relieved by diarrhoea, (<) after exertion; dysmenorrhoea; sterility from discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace.

Muriatic acid Mur-ac

Too early and profuse. Before: severe pressing and bearing down pains. During: sad and taciturn as if she were going to die, colic sore piles; cannot bear the least touch, not even of the sheets, on genitals; scurvy.

Natrum mur Nat-m

Too late, too short and scanty; too early and profuse; retention of otherwise regular menses; BLOOD DARK AND FLOWING DAY AND NIGHT. Before: sadness and anxiety; faintishness; palpitations and fluttering of heart, throbbing headache, which continues persistently after menses; pressure and pushing towards genitals from relaxation of ligaments, must sit down to prevent procidentia; music causes weeping. During: sleepy in daytime, lassitude and trembling; morning headache. After: headache, impatient and hasty; pimples and itching at vulva; falling out of the hair; profuse leucorrhoea with contraction of abdomen; loses flesh while living well; hysterical debility, (<) morning and during full moon.

Natrum phos Nat-p

Too early, pale with afternoon headaches over eyes; (<)after menses with sensation in knees as if cords were shortened.; sterility, with acid secretions from vagina; acid discharges from uterus; anxious and apprehensive. leucorrhoea; discharge creamy or golden - yellow, just as found on back part of tongue.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

Profuse, acrid, corrosive first two days, during last days lumps of clotted blood are discharged; retarded and scanty; with colic and constipation. before: violent nosebleed. During: colic with scanty flow and hard; knotty stools; chilly in the afternoon; FLOWS FREELY WHILE WALKING. After; leucorrhoea with great heaviness; acrid, corrosive with sticking pain in vagina and vulva.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

Too early and profuse; too early and scanty, like muddy water, with palpitations of heart; irregular; blood thick, brownish, offensive, during and between irregular menses. Before: violent throbbing pain in sacrum and nape of neck, crampy pains in hypogastrium and sides. During: weakness, hardly able to breathe, has to lie down, cramp colic in hypogastrium as if it would burst, and bearing down as if everything would be pushed out; pulling in sides and legs; FOETID URINE. After greenish watery leucorrhoea, itching and soreness of vulva; stitches in vagina, shooting upward; sad and despondent, vexed at trifles.

Nux moschata Nux-m

IRREGULAR AS TO TIME AND QUANTITY; discharge thick and dark or leucorrhoea instead of menses; suppression from fright, over exertion, cold or debility. Before: peculiar pain in small of back as from a stick lying across back being pressed from within outward; excessive tendency to laughter. During; drowsiness, lassitude, headache, laughter, especially in open air; dryness of mouth, tongue and throat; pains in uterus at the onset; irritability of pelvic viscera, which feel swollen and sensitive to pressure, (<) from cold, wet, windy weather, when riding in carriage; (>) by hot, moist applications.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Too early and too long, through the amount lost is not excessive; too early; too scanty and too short, with spasmodic pains in abdomen; griping in. uterus, blood thick, clotted, dark, attended with fainting spells; MENSES IRREGULAR, NEVER AT THE RIGHT TIME, Before; anxious, excited, irritable, cross; morning nausea and vomiting; distended bowels, During: wishes to be alone, oversensitive to impressions; faints easily; congestive headache with vertigo; griping in uterus; grinding pains in back, as if it were broken, (>) when lying perfectly still on back; constipation; languor chills, rheumatic pains in limbs; recent prolapsus from sudden wrenching of the body.

Palladium Pall

MENSES DURING LACTATION; transparent; jellylike leucorrhoea (<) before and after menses; heaviness and weight in pelvis; pain and weakness as if uterus were sinking down; sharp, knife- like pains in uterus, (>)after stool.

Petroleum Petr

Premature and scanty, causing intense itching; delayed or suppressed, often from chronic diarrhoea. Before: heat and throbbing in head, boiling in epigastrium. During: intense of genitals, burning palms of hands and soles of feet, singing and roaring in ears; lassitude, sadness and inclination to weep; DIARRHOEA IN DAYTIME, NONE AT NIGHT.

Phosphorus Phos

Too early, too profuse, too long, too early, too scanty; retarded, but copious; flow usually pale, but sometimes black, viscous, clotted, membranous, haemoptae and haematemesis instead of menses. Before: colic; leucorrhoea with WEEPING MOOD AND FREQUENT TO URINATE. During; sleepiness, weakness in abdomen; violent colic pain as if cut with a knife, with pains in back, vomiting and diarrhoea, sensation of weariness and emptiness in abdomen. After: great weakness and anxiety; stitches through pelvis, from vagina to t uterus; milky, mucous or acrid, corrosive and blistering leucorrhoea; aversion to sexual intercourse, or excessive voluptuousness with sterility.

Phosphoric acid Ph-ac

Too early and too long, dark blood. Dysmenorrhoea with pain in liver; meteoristic distention of uterus, passes quantities of colorless urine at night; Profuse yellowish leucorrhoea after menses; pale sickly complexion, loss of health from lactation; ovaritis and metritis from debilitating influences.

Phytolacca Phyt

Too frequent and too profuse, mammae painful, membranous dysmenorrhoea; painful menstruation in barren women, accompanying erosions and ulceration of cervix.

Platina Plat

Too early, profuse and long-lasting or early, profuse, but lasting only a short while; MENSES SUPPRESSED IN EMIGRANTS; discharge dark, clotted, like tar, or black, ropy and tenacious. Before: mind depressed, severing bearing-down pains; backache and desire for stool. During: catalepsy; spasms and screaming; tetanic rigidity and trismus alternating with dyspnoea; DISCHARGE OF MUCH CLOTTED BLOOD DURING THE FIRST DAY, with painful urging and pinching pains in abdomen and groins, as if abdominal viscera were drawn downward; crampy colic with pressure on vulva; mons veneris cold and extremely sensitive to touch; whole external genitals feel numb; pressing in hypogastrium, body feels as if getting larger, with ill-humor and flooding; low- spirited, taciturn, loud cries for help, is tired of living; but fears death. After: leucorrhoea, sensation as if menses would reappear; vulva painfully sensitive during coitus; NYMPHOMANIA WITH VOLUPTUOUS TINGLING IN EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL GENITALS; all pains (<) at rest, (>) during motion.

Piper meth Pip-m

Intense pain on first day; deathly pallor of face and feeling of faintness; nausea and pain in both sides of abdomen and uterus.

Plumbum Plb

Menses and sexual desire increased; CESSATION OF MENSES WITH INVASION OF COLIC, WHICH MAY REAPPEAR AFTER CESSATION OF PAIN OR NOT TILL NEXT PERIOD; profuse menses with sensation as of a string pulling from abdomen to back; pale dry skin, with liver- spots; spasmodic dysmenorrhoea and vaginismus; amenorrhoea when working in lead; menses return when ceasing such work: menorrhagia at climaxis; obstinate constipation, difficult micturition.

Podophyllum Podo

Painful menses with bearing-down in abdomen and back, (>) lying down; sensation as if genitals would come out during stool.

Prunus spin Prun

Too early, too profuse, blood light-colored, watery, daily bloody discharge during intervals; sacrum feels stiff; as from overlifting; painful urination.

Pulsatilla Puls

Irregular, delayed or scanty, flowing by fits and starts, with shivering coldness of body, sadness, melancholy, pale face, weeping mood, chilliness and trembling of feet; too early and too profuse, discharge thick, clotted, viscous or pale and watery, changeable with erratic pains, flying from one place to another. MENSES FLOW MORE IN DAYTIME AND WHILE WALKING ABOUT, VERY LITTLE AT NIGHT (Lil).Before: weeping, sadness, pale face, migraine, thick white leucorrhoea when lying down. During: FAINTING: nausea and vomiting; sour slimy taste; great difficulty of breathing in a warm room; pressure in abdomen and small of back as from a stone. lower limbs go to sleep when sitting. After: milky, thick white mucus or burning acrid leucorrhoea with swelling of labia and soreness of pudendum; uterine cramps, compelling her to bend double; cutting pains in os tineae; irregular menses in consequence of constipation.

Rhododendron Rhod

Too and too profuse, attended with fever and headache; ovarian neuralgia, (<) during changeable weather; rough weather, thunderstorms.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Too early, profuse and long-lasting, flow light-colored, acrid, causing an itching and biting of the parts or clotted with labor- pains. Before: bearing down from standing, walking; aching pain, (>) by lying on something hard. During: profuse clotted discharge from straining or lifting too heavy, with pressing bearing down pains; stiffness of limbs in damp cold air; or damp wet weather, as she feels then poorly and depressed; rheumatic dysmenorrhoea; prolapsus from straining and lifting, (>) when shifting position and walking about; soreness in vagina during embrace.

Sabadilla Sabad

Too late, irregular, flows by fits and starts, sometimes stronger, then weaker, with painful bearing-down a few days before; nymphomania from ascarides (Calad.); pain and cutting in ovarian region.

Sabina Sabin

Too early and profuse, too long and debilitating, partly fluid, partly clotted and offensive, bright -red or dark and clotted, flowing in paroxysms; brought on by slightest motion and often (>) by walking; profuse flooding of thin watery blood mixed with blackish clots. During: neuralgic dysmenorrhoea with shooting, cutting, drawing pains, extending up and down from sacrum to pubes. After: offensive leucorrhoea with pruritus; severe stitching pains in vagina from before back; uneasiness and restlessness in lumbar vertebrae and drawing from behind thee funds uteri through pubes and genitals, like labor-pains.

Sanguinaria Sang

Regular, but too profuse, with black or scanty, followed by irritating leucorrhoea; FLOW AT NIGHT, BRIGHT-RED, OFFENSIVE, and clots like lumps of flesh, and later blood darker and less offensive. Before: pains in loins extending through hypogastric down thighs. During: DYSMENORRHOEA WITH RIGHT-SIDED HEADACHE AND PAIN IN RIGHT EYE; nausea, (>) by vomiting: scanty discharge, with headache from occiput to forehead, as if brain would burst and eyes pushed out, face red and hot, (>) by vomiting; irregular, with slight dry cough, faintness, palpitations, weakness, neuralgia in left chest; chills and flushings of face; headache (<) from motion, stooping, noise and light,(>) lying still and after sleep; eruption on face of young girls from deficient menses.

Sarsaparilla Sars

Too late and scanty, preceded by FREQUENT DESIRE TO URINATE, WHICH CEASES AS SOON AS THE FLOW IS ESTABLISHED; unbearable smarting after micturition; flow scanty and acrid, excoriating inside of thighs. Before: itching eruption on forehead, burning and becoming moist on rubbing. During: colic with griping pains in abdomen; pain from pit of stomach down to sacrum. After: leucorrhoea when walking or riding with pains from crest of ilia around to uterus; mental depression, emaciation.

Secale Sec

Too profuse and too long, with violent cramps, tingling in limbs and great weakness; discharge thin, dark or black, FLOWING WHEN MOVING about, or black and lumpy, of a disguising smell; atonic flooding during climaxis; suppression in thin, scrawny women, suffering each period with severe forcing pains. Before: weakness and dread of death. During: excessive uterine contractions, tearing and cutting colic, cold extremities, cold sweat, great weakness. . small pulse, DISCHARGE COMES IN GUSHES AND IS ALWAYS PRECEDED BY STRONG BEARING-DOWN PAINS, great prostration, pinched look, coldness, but cannot bear to be covered.

Selenium Sel

Delaying, flow copious and dark. Before: IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE FOR LIQUORS, want to get completely drunk and afterwards feels distressed, wants to be taken to the insane asylum; headache, wants to lie down to sleep, though it does not refresh her.

Senecio Senec

Premature and profuse, retarded and scanty or profuse; irregular; HAEMOPTAE AS VICARIOUS CATAMENIA. Sleeplessness from uterine irritation as from flexion or prolapsus; BURNING PAIN IN NECK OR BLADDER WITH DYSURIA, (<) at night; cutting pain in sacral region; in hypogastrium and groins, with too early and profuse flow; dysmenorrhoea from want of tone and vigor; chlorosis in girls with dropsy; sleepy in daytime.

Sepia Sep

Too early, too scanty and FLOWING ONLY IN THE MORNING; great weakness in the morning,(>) open air, (<) indoors, REGULAR BUT SCANTY, LASTING ONLY ONE DAY, dark. Before: sadness and weeping; shuddering; foul odor and taste in mouth; tongue very foul, but cleanses at each period; returning again when flow ceases; burning, excoriating, smarting at vulva; sensation of distention at genitals. During: sleepless and restless; empty sensation at pit of stomach; drawing pains in abdomen and limbs, palpitation and dyspnoea; spasmodic colic and pressure over sexual organs, with headache, rigidity of limbs; weakness of sight, nausea, hard stools; painful stiffness, apparently in uterus; crampy colic with bearing-down pains and sensation as if she must cross her legs to keep everything from coming out of vulva; constipation with sensation of a heavy lump in anus; soreness of perineum; foetid urine, depositing a clay-colored sediment, which adheres to the bottom of the vessel. After: dryness of vulva and vagina, causing a disagreeable sensation when walking; offensive sweat in axillae and soles; FLOODING DURING CLIMAXIS OR PREGNANCY, FIFTH AND SEVENTH MONTH; much pain and weakness in small of back.

Silicea Sil

Irregular, every two or three months; too early and profuse; too early and scanty; too late and profuse, protracted; milky, watery, or brown leucorrhoea discharged instead of menses; PROFUSE MENSES DURING LACTATION; offensive, acrid and excoriating; discharge of blood between menses Before: diarrhoea, constipation from loss of power to expel faces; icy coldness of body at commencement of flow. During: cold feet; paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body; melancholy; momentary blindness, praecordial anguish, drawing between scapulae only at night, (>) by bending backward; burning soreness of pudenda with eruptions on inside of thighs; sensation in vagina, which is very sore, as if everything were pressed out; strong odor of secretion. After; dispirited and melancholy; bloody discharge of mucus from vagina, itching at vulva, serous or milky leucorrhoea.

Spigelia Spig

Menses too early, too copious; bright red, FOUL ODOR, with fulness, pressure and tearing pains in uterine region, extending down the limbs; burning in vagina , (<) standing, followed by brownish leucorrhoea.

Spongia Spong

Too soon and profuse. Before: pain in back and palpitations. During: AWAKENS WITH SUFFOCATING SPELLS,. drawing in all limbs; chronic hoarseness and cough; swelling and induration of glands; feels best in wet weather.

Stannum Stann

Too early and too profuse. Before: GREAT ANGUISH AND MELANCHOLY THE WEEK PREVIOUS AND CEASING WITH THE APPEARANCE OF MENSES; great weakness of larynx and chest; pains in malar bones, which continue during menses. During: improvement in mental condition, severe headache, gradually increasing and decreasing; face pale and sunken; limbs suddenly give out when attempting to sit down; dizziness and weakness when descending; trembling when slowly exercising or talking.

Staphisagria Staph

Irregular, late and profuse, first pale, later dark and clotted; sometimes wanting; crampy pains in uterus and vagina; itching of vulva, painful sensitiveness of vulva and pudendum, especially when sitting; sadness and ill-humor; pain in teeth during menses; (<)eating.

Stramonium Stram

Too profuse, of dark blood mixed with large clots; STRONG ODOR OF THE WOMAN DURING MENSES; watery, During: excessive loquacity, desires bright light and company; dysmenorrhoea with religious loquacity or nymphomania with lewd behaviour. After: sobbing; whining; desire of company and light; constriction of chest with dyspnoea; hysterical abdominal spasms.

Sulphur Sulph

Too late and too short, too scanty or suppressed, premature and profuse, blood thick, dark, acrid and corroding, sour-smelling, of putrid odor, (<)when she gets up in the morning, driving her out of bed and increases again afternoon. Before; headache, nosebleed, restlessness, and anxiety; weak, faint spells, leucorrhoea with itching of vulva. During: dysmenorrhoea, flow sets in with great pain, bathing during flow; great irritability; HEAT all over, especially on top of head, vertigo, nosebleed, heart-burn, cardialgia, itching of pudendum, leucorrhoea, asthma; convulsions. After: acrid, smarting leucorrhoea; great weakness in uterine region, with pressure in parts, itching and excoriation at vulva and vagina; smarting and burning when urinating.

Sulphuric acid Sul-ac

Too early, too copious and too long, Before: NIGHTMARE WITH CHOKING. During: great haste, talks, eats and works in a hurry; trembling, sensation without trembling, general debility, After: sexual excitement; climacteric spiting of blood; UTERINE DISEASES IN ELDERLY WOMEN.

Tanacetum vulg Tanac

Menstrual irregularities accompanied by intense nausea, discharge scanty, pale, watery, inclined to acidity, with uterine pains extending to knees, (<) in close rooms, (>) in open air: intense nausea temporarily relieved by eating, (<) from talking sweets.

Tarentula Tarent

Profuse and early, flow dark and clotted, accompanied by frequent erotic spasms, neuralgia of uterus with sadness an despair; reflex chorea; pains in lumbar region commence and cease with menses. After: pruritus vulvae; burning smarting leucorrhoea, coccygodynia, (>) standing, (<) by movement, sitting or lying or by least pressure; hysteria.

Theridion Ther

Neuralgia and neurasthenic dysmenorrhoea in psoric women; tardy menstrual flow; with chilliness, depression of spirits, want of self-confidence, frontal headache; nausea,(<) on rising in the morning from least movement or talking; burning pains in hepatic region; retention of urine, which is dark and scanty.

Thuja Thuj

Too early, too copious, too early, too scanty and too short, Before: PROFUSE PERSPIRATION; burning pains in left ovary; Labor-like pains in abdomen. During: GENERAL COLDNESS AND WEARINESS; distressing pains in left ovary, , riding in carriage or walking, has to lie down; burning pain in vagina, (<) by walking. After: rush of blood to head, nightmare, sleeplessness, leucorrhoea from one menstrual period to thee other; vertigo on closing eyes; blotches, freckles and sycotic eruptions; vaginismus. ALL SYMPTOMS WORSE DURING MENSES (Zinc., better).

Trillium Tril

Premature and profuse, GUSHING OF BRIGHT-RED BLOOD FROM UTERUS AT LEAST MOVEMENT, later becomes pale from anaemia, after any overexertion, as after riding, after too long a walk; profuse flow during climaxis; discharge dark; thick, clotted ands exhausting the women. Before: congestion to head, shortness of breath; palpitations of heart. During: vertigo, dimness of sight, palpitation, sinking at pit of stomach; yellow saddle across nose; sensation as if hips and back would fall to pieces, with desire to bind them up.

Ustilago mayd Ust

Too frequent, too profuse, too long, dark fluid blood intermixed with small black coagula; ATONY OF UTERUS, WITH PERSISTENT OOZING O of dark brown, half-fluid blood, slightly coagulable and forming long, black, stringy clots; profuse gushes of bright- red blood when rising from a seat or after a fright; vicarious haematemesis. Before: heavy backache with sharp pains across abdomen from hip to hip, followed by expulsive pains. During: MEMBRANOUS DYSMENORRHOEA, severe uterine pains extending down thighs; reappearance of flow having nearly ceased, from any excitement. Passive enlargement of sensitive uterus, cervix soggy flabby, tumefied and open. After; heavy, dragging backache from lest exertion; sensation as if top of head were being lifted up; mental depression; constant suffering under left breast at the margin of the ribs; excoriating albuminous leucorrhoea; copper- colored spots on skin.

Veratrum alb Verat

Too early and too profuse. Suppressed with despair of salvation, or spitting of blood, Before: nymphomania, mania for kissing everybody. During: full of nonsense, violent thirst for ice-cold water; vomiting profuse, exhausting diarrhoea, profuse cold sweat; attacks of fainting; collapse.

Veratrum vir Verat-v

Suppressed menses with cerebral congestion; TERRIBLE DYSMENORRHOEA FOR SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE APPEARANCE OF MENSES; pains extending all over body; head and face bloodshot, pulsation in head, neck and carotids; pulse full and bounding.

Viburnum op Vib

Too early, too profuse, offensive in odor, like-jelly; scanty, thin, light-colored. Before: cramps and bearing-down pains; SPASMODIC, AND MEMBRANOUS DYSMENORRHOEA, excruciating pains through hypogastrium and womb, coming on slowly just preceding the menstrual flow, lasting several hours, with great nervousness, cannot sit or lie still; severe bearing down pains, accompanied by drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs and sharp shooting pains over ovaries; feeling as if heart would cease to beat and breath leave her body.

Xanthoxylum Xan

Too soon, profuse, scanty, retarded. Before: despondent, full of fear; headache as if top of head would fly off; grinding pain in pelvis. During; neuralgic. dysmenorrhoea in women of spare habit, nervous temperament and delicate organization; starting at every trifle, yawning and drowsy during the day; weak in lower limbs, wants to sit or lie all the time; headache a day before menses; pains over eyes, with throbbing at glabella; agonizing bearing-down, as if everything would be pushed out; backache as if broken; PAIN STARTING IN ILIAC CREST AND SHOOTING DOWN INTO KNEES, with no relief in any position; oppression of chest, with desire to take a deep breath.

Zincum met Zinc

Too early and too profuse, especially at night and when walking, when lumps and clots pass off. Before: irascible and weeping: incessant fidgety feeling in lower limbs and feet, cannot keep them still; abdomen distended, oppression of stomach, with feeling of suffocation, has to loosen her dress; boring pain over left ovary, (>) by pressure. During: SHE FEELS PERFECTLY WELL WHILE THE FLOW CONTINUES. After: return of all her former complaints, thick mucous leucorrhoea, preceded by colic and gnawing, or after stool; swelling of mammae with pain and sensitiveness; varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet; dry, hard stool, followed by involuntary micturition.

Zincum cyan Zinc-cy

Dysmenorrhoea with cramp-like pains in uterine region, severe pain in back, colic pains in bowels, vertigo, CONCLUSIVE MOVEMENTS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF BODY, great restlessness and nervous irritation, oppressed and rapid respiration, frequent and feeble pulse, depression of spirits.

Zingiber Zing

Too early and too profuse, blood dark and clotted, looks exhausted before menses, suffers with violent drawing pains in sacrum and is irritable and chilly during the flow.

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