Gossypium herbaceum

COMMON NAME: COTTON PLANT.

Gossypium is a powerful emmenagogue. It has a wide reputation as an abortifacient. It produces firm, regular and strong uterine contractions, resembling Cimicifuga in its action (C.).

Flow of saliva (Am-C., Arum-T., Bar-C., Bor., Fluor-Ac., Iod., Ipec., Kali-C., Lyso., Merc., Merc-C., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sulph., Verat.) (B.).

Nausea on awaking (Alum., Asar., Bor., Con., Lac-Ac., Petr.) (B.).

Vomits on motion or rising up (Bry., Cocc., Sulph.).

HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM (Ars., Asar., Colch., Cup-Ars., Kreos., Lac-Ac., Nux-V., Petr., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sil., Symphori., Tab., Verat.) (B.).

NAUSEA, WITH INCLINATION TO VOMIT BEFORE BREAKFAST (Alum., Arg-N., Berb., Bov., Calc., Fago, Lyc., Nit-Ac., Petr., Sep., Tub.) (C.).

Intermittent pains in the ovarian region, worse from motion and better from rest (Bl.).

SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION (Bry., Cycl., Ferr., Graph., Kali-C., Lach., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.) (C.).

Menses: late, scanty and watery (Alum., Calc-P., Nat-M.) (B.).

Sensation that the flow is about to start, but it does not (C.).

Backache, and weight and dragging in the pelvis (Nat-M., Rhus-T., Sep.) (C.).

Uterine fibroids (Calc., Calc-F., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (Bl.).

Tumour of the breast (Carb-An., Con., Sil.), with swelling of the axillary glands (C.).

Uterine sub-involution (Calc., Cimic., Kali-Br., Kali-C., Puls., Sec., Sep., Sulph., Ust.) (Bl.).

Sensitive womb (Apis, Bell., Lach.) (B.).

Labia swollen and itching (C.).

AGGRAVATION: From motion; from pressure; and before breakfast.

AMELIORATION: From rest.

RELATIONSHIP: Similar to: Alum., Bry., Cimic., Kreos., Lac-Ac., Lil-T., Nat-M., Puls., Sab., Senec., Sep., Symphori. and Ust.