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SORE AND BLEEDING NIPPLES DURING NURSING

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Agaricus Agar

Nipples itch and burn, look red.

Arnica Arn

During first days of nursing nipples feels sore and bruised.

Borax Bor

APHTHOUS NIPPLES; contractive pain in left breast when child nurses the right; disagreeable sensation of emptiness in mammae after nursing, obliging her to compress the breast with her hand.

Calcarea carb Calc

Ulcerated nipple, discharging pus; mammary glands pain as if they were suppurating, especially on touch.

Castor equorum Cast-eq

CRACKED, SORE NIPPLES in nursing women, excessively tender, cannot bear touch of clothing, even in neglected cases where the nipple is nearly ulcerated off and only hangs by small strings; areolae and nipples turn red as in erysipelas, very painful on left breast.

Chamomilla Cham

Nipples, inflamed and tender, can hardly endure the pain of nursing; milk cheesy, thickened, mixed with pus.

Colchicum Colch

Nipples dark, brownish-red, protruding; unbearable pain by slightest touch from child; breast full, skin hot, pulse strong.

Croton tigl Croto-t

Inflamed, hard, swollen breasts, threatening to gather; PAIN FROM NIPPLE THROUGH TO BACK, nipple very sore to touch, excruciating pain running from nipple through to scapula of same side when the child nurses.

Graphites Graph

Soreness of nipples, with small corrosive blisters or ulcers, oozing a limpid serum, or a thick glutinous fluid, which forms a crust that is removed by nursing, when the same formication again occurs, and so on. Disposition to fissures and cracks.

Hamamelis Ham

Sore nipples, where Arn., fails; bleeding nipples; great prostration from nursing.

Helonias Helon

Nipples very sensitive, cannot bear clothing to touch.

Lycopodium Lyc

Nipples sore, fissured and covered with scurf, the child draws so much blood from the nipples that when it vomits it seems to be vomiting blood; milk thin and blue or thick and cheesy, child does not thrive on it.

Mercurius Merc

Nipple very raw and sore; sensitive gums, sore teeth, enlarged cervical glands, and other mercurial symptoms.

Phosphorus Phos

Nipples hot and sore; goneness in stomach; much heat in lower part of back across the renal regions.

Phytolacca Phyt

Nipples sore and fissured, with intense suffering on putting child to breast; pain seems to start from nipple and radiates over whole body.

Pulsatilla Puls

Mother weeps as often as she has to nurse; the pain extends into chest, up into the neck, down the back, changes from place to place.

Sepia Sep

Nipples crack very much across the crown in various places, cracks very deep and sore.

Silicea Sil

Nipples ulcerate very easily, are sore and tender; pain in small of back while child nurses.

Sulphur Sulph

After nursing the nipple smarts and burns, it chaps badly about the base and bleeds.

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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.

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