CONFINEMENT AND POSTPARTUM DERANGEMENTS
Aconite Acon
Fever, restlessness, tossing without relief; hot skin, dry tongue, parched lips, thirst.
Apis Apis
Restless tossing about, fever without thirst; scanty urine; white transparent swelling, with stinging and sharp plunging pains.
Arnica Arn
Early stage, after severe and protracted labor, from the pressure on vessels and nerves; she feels bruised and sore.
Arsenicum Ars
Excessive restlessness, every motion producing a sensation of exhausting; thirst for frequent sips of cold water; cold and chilly, wants to be covered up; burning pains, swelling pale and oedematous.
Belladonna Bell
Cutting pains as if with knives; tearing pains, in limbs, rending in joints, cannot bear the least jar or to be touched; sensation of heaviness in thighs, hypogastrium and sexual parts; fever, with burning thirst and hyperaesthesia of the senses; much moaning and sleeplessness.
Bryonia Bry
Drawing, lancinating pains from hip to foot, (<) from touch or least motion; copious sweat without relief; pulling in abdomen and down the legs as if the menses would appear; pale pink swelling of leg; painful tensive stiffness, but no redness; dry lips and thirst for large quantities of water.
Calcarea carb Calc
White swelling of foot and leg, with sensation of coldness as though covered with a cold damp cloth; suppression of milk, with sensation of coldness all through the body; strumous cachexia.
Cepa All-c
Phlegmasia alba dolens after instrumental delivery; exceedingly painful swelling of whole lower limb, especially the thigh; panaritia on several fingers, with red streaks up arms; pains driving to despair.
Crotalus Crot-h
Left leg swollen to twice its natural size; grinding pains in legs, (<) from slightest motion; feeble pulse, sluggish circulation, blush skin, faintness, general debility.
Hamamelis Ham
Great pain and swelling from knee to hip, very sensitive to touch; cutaneous veins hard, swollen, knotty and painful, finally involving pains of abdomen; tympanitis, constipation; (<) from motion.
Kali carb Kali-c
Swelling of the foot and leg, with stitching and shooting pains; shooting and stitching pains in abdomen, which is distended with flatus; distressing pain in back extending down glutei muscles; restlessness with tossing and thirst.
Lycopodium Lyc
Swelling of feet and legs; saphena swollen very large, is very tender and can be traced all the way up; abdomen flatulent; pain in back before urinating; restless and tossing all night.
Nux vomica Nux-v
Red swelling of leg with dark, painful spots; a powerless, bruised sensation in leg; bruised sore sensation low down in abdomen, with frequent desire to urinate and to defaecate; loss of appetite; great depression of spirits.
Pulsatilla Puls
Pale swelling in foot and limb; suppression of milk and of lochia, (<) in warm room, (>) by moving limb, craves fresh air; offensive, clammy taste in mouth, particularly after sleeping.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Loss of power in limb from the start, cannot draw it up; red streak running up the course of the saphena; great restlessness; momentarily (>) from change of position; (<) after midnight, from water or wetting the part; wants to be covered up warm.
Sepia Sep
Disease connected with chronic metritis; weakness in small of back, (>) by belching and from slow walking; swelling of limbs and feet, (<) when sitting or standing, (>) when walking.
Sulphur Sulph
Frequent flushes of heat; weak, faint spells; short naps, from which she starts up wide awake, little papular eruptions on leg and other parts of body.