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DERANGEMENT OF LOCHIAL DISCHARGES

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

CONFINEMENT AND POSTPARTUM DERANGEMENTS

Aconite Acon

Suppression or scanty discharge, with distress of abdomen, chest and head, probably from sanguineous congestion; fever with thirst and mental uneasiness; sharp cutting pain in abdomen which is sensitive to touch; offensive lochia; mammae soft and flabby; lochia returns when she begins to walk about house.

Arsenicum Ars

To prevent reabsorption and septicaemia and to sustain the nervous system; metritis puerperalis.

Baptisia Bapt

Lochia very acrid and foetid, with great debility and prostration.

Belladonna Bell

OFFENSIVE LOCHIA, FEELING HOT TO THE PARTS; flushed face and injected eyeballs; great tenderness of abdomen; pain in uterine region comes and goes suddenly; fever with thirst and delirium; unrefreshing sleep; great sensitiveness, cannot bear even a slight jar of her bed.

Bryonia Bry

Suppression of lochia, with sensation as if head would burst, with dryness of lips and mouth and (<) by least motion, or profuse lochia with burning pains in uterine region.

Calcarea carb Calc

Lochia last too long in leucophlegmatic women who menstruate too profusely from atony of uterine fibres; milky lochia.

Calendula Calen

Profuse offensive watery discharge with great exhaustion.

Cantharis Canth

Lochia profuse on second or third day, accompanied with burning and smarting in vagina and urethra.

Carbo an Carb-an

Lochia last too long, thin, offensive, excoriating, with numbness of limbs.

Caulophyllum Caul

BLOODY LOCHIA last too long and exhaust patient, it seems to ooze passively from the relaxed uterine vessels.

Chamomilla Cham

Suppression of lochia, followed by diarrhoea, colicky diarrhoea; irritable and impatient; thirst; redness of one cheek while the other is pale.

Coffea Coff

Profuse discharge with exalted nervous sensibility and wake- fulness.

Colocynthis Coloc

Suppression of lochia, with violent colic, perhaps from anger; abdomen tympanitic, diarrhoea; (<) after taking food or drink; great restlessness.

Crocus Croc

LOCHIAL DISCHARGE IN DARK STRINGS; sensation of something alive in abdomen which becomes greatly distended.

Dulcamara Dulc

Lochia suppressed by cold or dampness; quantity of milk greatly diminished.

Erigeron Erig

The least motion excites afresh a return of bloody lochial

discharge, (>) by rest.

Helonias Helon

Continuous lochial discharge FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS after confinement; prolapsus and uterine hyperaesthesia; mental gloom.

Hepar Hep

Disgusting and offensive odor of the lochia; pimples on parts.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

Much delirium and jerking of the muscles; fear of being poisoned; very jealous and suspicious.

Kreosotum Kreos

Offensive black clots, mixed with water; excoriating lochia almost ceased to flow, when they freshen up and become more profuse and bloody; and again almost disappear to freshen up again; low-spirited; lacerating headache; hair falls out.

Lilium Lil-t

Offensive excoriating lochia; urine causes smarting; dragging pains from DELAYED SUBINVOLUTION; fears an internal incurable disease.

Mercurius Merc

Discharge (<) at night, with swelling and inflammation of genital organs; swollen and sore groins.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Scanty and offensive lochia in women who live well and indulge in coffee and wine; irritable rectum, calling her to stool frequently; urinates often, urine producing a scalding sensation; soreness in uterine region, she does not wish to be moved or disturbed; prefers to be warm.

Opium Op

Suppression of lochia from fright; sopor.

Platina Plat

A little discharge remains, but it is black and clotted; genitals sore and tender, so that she cannot bear to have the usual napkins applied; DISCHARGE INTERMITTENT, IN GUSHES; cannot bear a warm room.

Pulsatilla Puls

Lochia make her feel faint as they flow; sudden disappearance of milk, the scanty lochial discharge remaining is milky; fever, but no thirst.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Lochia last too long, are thin and offensive and exhaust her; sometimes bloody or ichorous; shooting pains in rectum; restless at night, changes position often.

Secale Sec

Thin scrawny women. Lochia offensive, thin, scanty or profuse, painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing-down pains; very dark discharge.

Sepia Sep

Offensive, very foetid, excoriating discharge, with little sharp shooting pains in the region of the neck of uterus; distressing, bearing-down pain in back.

Silicea Sil

PURE BLOOD FLOWS EVERY TIME THE BABY NURSES; discharge excoriates; after pains in lips.

Stramonium Stram

Lochia of a cadaverous odor; full of absurd ideas.

Sulphur Sulph

Hot flushes; discharge weakens her; sweat; heat in soles of feet, or they feel cold all the time.

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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