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GALACTORRHOEA DURING NURSING

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Mammae congested, burning hot, hard and distend, with little or no milk, anxiety, restlessness.

Aethusa cyn Aeth

Child takes breast with avidity, nurses well and then vomits copiously, and is exhausted, but soon rallies and cries for a fresh supply, the child's bowels either costive or loose, it cries much and does not thrive; mother not well, lochia thin and watery; she is nervous, has a bitter taste, milk disagrees with her; abdomen swollen and hard.

Agnus castus Agn

Despairing sadness of mother, hence scantiness of milk.

Apis Apis

Mammae discharge bloody milk (Ipec., Phos.)

Asafoetida Asaf

Tardy and scanty appearance of milk, especially in primipara.

Borax Bor

Milk is too thick and tastes badly, often curdles soon after it has been drawn; babe will not nurse the breast; unpleasant feeling of emptiness in the sucked-out breast; pain in opposite breast while infant nurses.

Bryonia Bry

Milk fever with rheumatic pains in breasts; STONY HEAVINESS OF MAMMAE, rather pale, but hard and painful, tensive burning, tearing, SCANTY SECRETION OF MILK; infant screams after nursing, passes wind, has slimy green Diarrhoea, instead of milk, babe sucks air from empty breast; rash of mother and babe.

Calcarea carb Calc

Mammae distend, but milk scanty, from want of vital activity, she is cold and feels the cold readily, or the breast if full of milk, with steady flow, or it cakes in the breast; hectic sweat, followed by prostration, profuse SECRETION OF WATERY MILK WHICH THE BABE REFUSES TO TAKE.

Calcarea phos Calc-p

Child refuses the breast, as the milk tastes saltish, acid, or thin and watery; pains and burning in mammae, which are sore to touch.

Carbo an Carb-an

MILK THIN AND OF SALTY TASTE- painful nodosities in breasts; nursing causes stitching pains in them and they are sore to touch; goneness and empty feeling in pit of stomach, not (>) by eating, every particle of food taken distress the stomach.

Causticum Caust

Milk almost disappears on account of overfatigue, nightwatching and anxiety; sensation in stomach as if lime were slaking; constipation; pulsation and noises in ears; threatening amaurosis.

Chamomilla Cham

Mammae hard and tender to touch, with drawing pains; is fretful. cross and irritable, insomnia.

China Chin

WHEN MOTHER PUTS BABE TO THE BREAST SHE GETS TOOTHACHE; cannot bear touch, feels better by heat, especially in women who had much haemorrhage during confinement.

Cina Cina

Child refuses to nurse; constant gnawing sensation in stomach; does not sleep well, feels cross and is not easily satisfied.

Croton tigl Croto-t

IRRITABLE NIPPLE WITH SUFFICIENCY OF MILK; nipple very sore to touch; excruciating pain running from nipple through to scapula of same side, when the child begins to nurse.

Cyclamen Cycl

At every nursing, mother suffers from COLICKY BURNING DOWN pains, each pain accompanied by a gush of blood, which relieves the pain momentarily.

Dulcamara Dulc

Suppression of milk from exposure to cold and damp air; mammae swollen, inactive, painless and itch; lochia suppressed from same cause,

Fragaria vesca Frag

Mammae diminished in size and the secretion of milk ceases.

Iodum Iod

Excessive flow of thin, watery milk, great weakness and rapid emaciation; atrophy and relaxation of mammae, suppression of milk.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

The milk, as it flows from the breasts, has the appearance of being composed of stringy masses of water.

Mercurius Merc

Milk repulsive to babe, being scanty and spoiled; mammae swollen, hard, sore; glandular swellings; syphilis; ptyalism.

Nux moschata Nux-m

Mammae too small; hysteric flatulence.

Oleander Olnd

After nursing, emptiness in pit of stomach, even after eating; sudden sinking in pit of stomach, nausea and vomiting; wants brandy which relieves.

Palladium Pall

NURSING WOMEN WHO MENSTRUATE; transparent, jellylike discharge, (<) before and after menses; heaviness and weight in pelvis; pain and weakness as if uterus were sinking down; subinvolution.

Phellandrium Phel

Pains come on or exist chiefly DURING THE INTERVAL between nursing (Crot; tigl: pain sets in as soon as the child begins to nurse; Bry; dragging pain during nursing; as child nurses from a nearly empty breast.)

Phosphoric acid Ph-ac

Scanty milk from nervous exhaustion, debility and great apathy.

Phytolacca Phyt

Violent pains in breasts whenever milk gushes in; severe stinging pains, somewhat relieved by pressure with both hands; babe worries continually day and night.

Pulsatilla Puls

MILK THEN AND WATERY; containing hardly any milk-globules; milk suddenly suppressed, lochia become milky-white; breasts swollen; rheumatic pains over chest and arms, change from place to place during nursing; cramps in abdomen and back every time the child nurses (Chin); craves fresh air.

Rheum Rheum

Almost immediately AFTER NURSING BABE HAS A LOOSE STOOL, smelling sour and accompanied by colic.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Mammae swell from catching cold or getting wet, and milk ceases to flow; vitiated lochia.

Ricinus com Ric

Increases the quantity of milk in nursing women.

Secale Sec

Breasts do not properly full with milk, there is much stinging in them; in women from venous haemorrhages.

Sarsaparilla Sars

Retraction or flattering of nipples in nursing women; withered nipples; shrivelling and withering of skin, which hangs in folds; atrophy of nipples, which are flaccid and insensible.

Silicea Sil

Infant refuses the breasts or vomits immediately after nursing, it does not grow as it should; mother is out of health, constipated, has discharge from uterus after nursing.

Urtica urens Urt-u

Agalactia without any other symptom and without apparent reason.

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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