Sepia officinalis

Common name: cuttle fish.

Adapted to women with dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition, particularly during pregnancy, childbed, or while nursing (N.).

Want of animal heat (Sil.).

The symptoms are relieved from violent exertions, but reappear most violently when sitting quietly in the forenoon and evening.

Painful sensitiveness of all parts of the body (Bell., Lach.).

Great sensitiveness to cold air (Bell., Hep., Sil.).

After getting wet, afterwards fainting spells and finally coryza.

General relaxation; weak; faints while kneeling at church (N.).

Dyspnœa, worse from sitting, after sleep, and in room, ameliorated by dancing or walking rapidly (N.).

Involuntary fits of laughter (Bor., Cann-I., Ign., Nat-M., Phos.) (G.).

Anxiety about real or imaginary evils (A.).

Greedy, miserly (Ars., Lyc.) (A.).

DULLNESS AND WANT OF INTEREST, ESPECIALLY IN THE FAMILY; ALSO LACK OF INTEREST IN HIS OCCUPATION (Phos-Ac.).

Irritable and easily offended (Cham., Nux-V., Puls.) (N.).

Weak memory (Calc., Kali-P., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Sil.) (N.).

Great sadness and weeping during menses, pregnancy or lactation (N.).

Dread of being alone (Ars., Stram.) (N.).

Bad effects from anger (Bry., Ign., Nux-V., Staph., Stram.).

Dread of meeting friends (N.).

Sense of helplessness and great susceptibility to excitement, and still more to terror (D.).

She dreads to be alone, wants company, but has an aversion to her own friends, and is indifferent to her household affairs (D.).

Indolent: Does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an exertion to think (A.).

The pain comes on in terrific shocks or jerks in the head (Glon.) (N.).

Pressing or bursting headache, worse from motion, stooping, and mental labour; ameliorated by pressure, or from continued fast motion (N.).

Headaches, commencing in the morning and relieved by sleep or violent motion (D.).

Menstrual headache with scanty flow (Bry., Graph., Kreos., Lyc., Nat-M.) (B.).

Coldness of the vertex with headache (Verat; heat of the vertex- Calc., Graph., Sulph.) (A.).

Great falling off of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric (A.).

At night palpitation of the heart and pulsation through the whole body.

Loose cough in the morning, with efforts to vomit (G.).

Toothache after sweets (Am-C., Nat-C., Phos.) and from tea-drinking (Chin., Coff., Ferr., Ign., Lach., Selen., Thuj.) (K.).

Swelling and cracking of the lower lip (A.).

Coryza of a profuse character (All-C., Ars., Nat-M., Puls., Sabad.).

Paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ending in gagging or vomiting (Ipec.) (N.).

Affection of the middle right lung (N.).

Cough seeming to come from the stomach or abdomen (D.).

Cough with salty expectoration, and attended by stitches in the epigastrium (D.).

YELLOW SPOTS (MOTH SPOTS) IN THE FACE, AND A YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS THE UPPER PART OF CHEEKS AND NOSE (N.).

Drooping of the eye-lids (Caust.) (N.).

All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened (Lach.) (A.).

Sour or putrid taste in the mouth (Nux-V., Puls.) (D.).

Toothache during pregnancy (Lyss., Mag-C.) (K.).

White coating on the root of the tongue only, strongly marked (N.).

Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases (A.).

Sensation of emptiness and debility in the stomach and abdomen (Phos., Sulph.).

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (Acon., Ant-T., Calc., Chin., Cic., Ferr., Glon., Kali-C., Nux-V., Phos., Puls., Sil.).

Painful sense of emptiness or goneness at the pit of the stomach (Carb-An.) (N.).

NAUSEA AT THE SIGHT OR SMELL OF FOOD (Colch.) (D.).

Great longing for acids or pickles (Hep.) (D.).

Sensation of a lump in the stomach (D.).

Heaviness or sensation of a load in the abdomen, especially during motion (N.).

Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children- Sulph.).

Eructations like spoiled eggs or manure, with aversion to meat (G.).

Vomiting of bile (Ars., Bry., Nat-S.) (G.).

Inclination to vomit in the morning, when rinsing her mouth out (G.).

Morning sickness (Nux-V., Puls.) (G.).

CONSTIPATION DURING PREGNANCY (Alum., Bry., Coll., Dol., Hydr., Lyc., Nat-S., Nux-V., Op., Plb., Plat., Podo., Puls., Sulph.) (K.).

Pain in the rectum during and long after stool (Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (A.).

Constipation: Stools hard, difficult and knotty, with sense of weight or a lump in the anus, not relieved by an evacuation (N.).

No desire or urging for days and days; the stools are hard and large; inactivity of the rectum, and a sensation of a ball in it; patient cannot strain and consequently cannot expel stool (D.).

Diarrhœa from boiled milk (Nux-M.) (B.).

Intermittent fever with thirst during the chill only (Apis, Ign.).

Flushes of heat; heat ascends (N.).

Flushes of heat from least motion, with anxiety and faintness, followed by perspiration over the whole body (Lach., Sang., Sulph.) (A.).

Flushes of heat ascends from pelvic organs (A.).

Internal chilliness with external heat (Ars., Nux-V.) (G.).

COLDNESS OF THE EXTREMITIES DURING FEVER (Carb-An., Kali-Ars., Stram.) (K.).

Perspires easily (Bry., Calc., Chin.) (G.).

Single parts perspire profusely (Puls.) (G.).

Icy cold and damp feet all day, like standing in cold water up to ankles (Lyc., Puls.) (A.).

Feet hot at night (Sulph.) (A.).

Pains extend from other parts to the back (reverse of Sab.) and are attended with shuddering (with chilliness- Puls.) (A.).

Twitching in the muscles (Cupr., Gels., Hyos., Kali-P., Lach., Nat-M.).

Restlessness in all the limbs with anxiety, which does not permit him to remain quiet anywhere (Ars., Kali-P., Phos., Rhus-T.).

Twitching and jerking of the limbs night and day (Tarant).

Tension in the limbs, as if too short (Am-M.).

Restlessness and pulsation in all the limbs (Ars., Chin-Ars., Ferr., Kali-C., Nat-Ars., Rhus-T., Sep., Zinc.).

Stinging pain in the limbs (Apis).

Stiffness of the joints (hands, feet and knees).

Coldness of the legs and feet (Calc., Dig., Lach.).

Cold knees or heels (B.).

As the feet becomes hot the hands become cold (Bl.).

"The washer-woman's remedy," that is to say, complaints are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work (A).

Faints easily-after getting wet, from extremes of heat or cold, from riding in a carriage, or while kneeling at the church (A.).

Loud talking in sleep (Bell., Hyos., Kali-C., Sulph.) (B.).

Great sleepiness in the day-time, especially in the forenoon (Ant-C., Bism., Calc., Calc-P., Cann-S., Carb-An., Carb-V., Graph., Mag-M., Merc-Sulph., Mosch., Nat-C., Nat-P., Nux-V., Phos., Podo., Sabad., Thuj. (C.).

Restless, unrefreshing sleep (C.)

Wakes at night in a fright, and screaming (Bell., Stram.) (C.).

Vesicular eruptions around mouth and chin (Nat-M., Rhus-T.) (D.).

Ringworms (Ars., Nat-M., Sulph.) (D.).

Liver spots on the chest and abdomen (D.).

Herpetic eruptions about the knees and ankles (Petr.) (D.).

Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of the body (in intersecting rings over the whole body- Tell.) (A.).

Itching of the skin, of various parts, of external genitals.

Skin yellow, like jaundice (Chel., Iod., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Sulph.) (G.)

Salt-rheum (Ars., Nat-M., Rhus-T.) (G.).

Indolent ulcers, with itching, stinging and burning (C.).

SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION (Cycl., Ferr., Graph., Kali-P., Lach., Nat-M.).

Prolapsus uteri complicated with indurations, ulcerations and profuse leucorrhœa (Aur., Nat-M.) (N.).

Yellowish leucorrhœa, with bearing down in the pelvic region (Nat-M.) (N.).

Pressure in the uterus downward, as if everything would fall out, with pain in the abdomen; feels as though she must cross her legs to prevent everything coming out (N.).

Left ovarian soreness and bearing down sensation in the uterus (Lach.).

Bearing down pains in the uterus, with a sense of lump or ball in the anus, not ameliorated by evacuation (N.).

Sense of fullness in the pelvic organs, and pressure down into the anus, as of a ball or weight; oozing of moisture (N.).

Violent stitches upward in the vagina (N.).

Discharge of a green-red fluid from the vagina during pregnancy (G.).

Ailments during pregnancy (Ars., Bry., Calc., Kali-C., Lyc., Merc-C., Nat-M., Phos., Sil.).

TENDENCY TO ABORT FIFTH TO SEVENTH MONTH (G.).

FLUSHES OF HEAT AND PERSPIRATION AT THE CLIMACTERIC (Amyl-N., Graph., Lach., Sulph.) (N.).

Flushes of heat over face and head (A.).

Enlargement and hardening of the uterus (Aur., Am-M., Calc-F., Sil.) (D.).

Offensive, excoriating lochia (Kreos.) (G.).

Lancinating pains from the uterus to the umbilicus (A.).

Sharp, clutching pains (in the uterus), as if clutched with a hand (D.).

Troublesome and severe itching of the vulva, with pimples all around (G.).

MENSES TOO LATE AND TOO SCANTY; OR TOO EARLY AND TOO PROFUSE (K.).

Weakness and tired pain in the small of back when walking (N.).

Aching and dull pain in the lumbar and sacral regions, extending to thighs and legs (N.).

Pain in the back and small of back, particularly with stiffness, improved by walking (N.).

Intense burning and cutting pain when urinating (Canth.) (Bt.).

URINE THICK, SLIMY, VERY OFFENSIVE, DEPOSITING A YELLOW OR PASTY SEDIMENT, WHICH SOMETIMES ADHERES TO THE VESSEL LIKE BURNT CLAY (N.).

CHILD ALWAYS WETS THE BED DURING THE FIRST SLEEP (Benz-Ac., Caust., Cina, Kreos., Phos-Ac.) (N.).

Irritable bladder (Apis, Bell., Canth., Nux-V., Puls.) (D.).

Red sediment in the urine (Lyc.), which is acid and fetid ( D.).

Weakness of sexual organs (Calad., Dig., Gels., Phos.) (D.).

Discharge of prostatic juice (Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos-Ac., Sel., Sulph.) (G.).

Nocturnal pollutions (Dios., Gels., Nux-V., Phos-Ac.) (G.).

GLEET, WITH SCANTY DISCHARGE IN THE MORNING ONLY (D.).

MEATUS GLUED TOGETHER IN THE MORNING (Canth., Phos., Thuj.) (A.).

Painless, yellowish, gleety discharge, staining the linen; obstinate gonorrhœa, of long standing (A.).

AGGRAVATION: During and right after eating; in the forenoon; in the afternoon; in the evening; when sitting quietly; from standing; from mental labour; from sexual excesses; from jar; after sleep; from laundry work; from milk; during climacteric; while kneeling at church; in the cold air; and before a thunder-storm.

AMELIORATION: From external heat; from violent exertions; from sitting with legs crossed; from loosening clothes; in open air; and from warmth of bed.

RELATIONSHIP: It antidotes mental effects of overuse of tobacco in patients of sedentary habits, who suffer from overmental exertion.

Complementary: Nat-M.

Frequently indicated after Nux-V., Sil. and Sulph.

Similar to: Lach., Sang., and Ustil., in climacteric irregularities of the circulation.

Inimical to: Lach. (should not be used before or after), and Puls. (with which it should never be alternated).