Origin Animal · Cephalopoda · Simple
ClarkePreparation Trituration of dried liquid contained in the ink-bag.
Sources 18 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
1X
Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency. Should not be used too low or be repeated too frequently. On the other hand Dr. Jousset's unique experience is that is should be continued for some time in strong doses. 1x twice a day
Reason for useNash
Bearing down pains, must sit close and cross her legs to keep something from coming down out of the vagina. Sense of fullness in the pelvic organs, and pressure down into the anus, as if a ball or weight; oozing of moisture. Flushes of heat and perspiration at the climacteric. Painful sense of emptiness or goneness at the pit of the stomach. General relaxation, weak, faints while kneeling at church; falling womb and pelvic organs; drooping eyelids, weak back < on walking. Cachectic, yellow face, with yellow saddle across face and nose; moth patches; ringworms.
▲ Worse standing, mental labor, sexual excess, jar, after sleep, laundry work; milk (diarrhoea), climacteric kneeling at church
▼ Better sitting with legs crossed, loosening clothes, open air
By regionNash
Skin "Itching often changes to burning when scratching" (Sulph.) "Soreness of skin; humid places in bend of knees." "Brown spots in face, chest, abdomen; chloasma" Herpes circinates "Large suppurating pustules constantly renewing themselves." "Acarus itch, pruritus; tettery eruptions, etc." Sepia, like Sulphur, has many forms of eruption on the skin, and indeed there is great general resemblance between these two antipsorics. …
Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 2, Antimonium Crudum 2, Antimonium Tartaricum 2 +16
Complementary Natrum Muriaticum, Guaiacum, Natrium Carbonicum +2
Follows well Nitricum Acidum, Pulsatilla Pratensis
Compare Murex Purpurea, Sulphur, Arsenicum Album +52
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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