Sepia officinalis
作者：Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Mental.--Great indifference to all surroundings; comprehension difficult; affections of the intellect.
Nose.--Smelling too sensitive; too feeble, yellow saddle across the bridge of the nose.
Skin.--Skin yellow, like jaundice; chapping of the skin, or cracks may extend deeply into the tissues, and this is aggravated by washing in water; corns with jerking or darting pains; exanthema in general, particularly when it is disposed to crack; dry itch, often finding bad effects where the itch has been suppressed by Mercur. or Sulphur; eruptions peeling off; ulceration of the exanthema; bed sores; brown sphacelus. Tetters in general especially if they chap; tetters circular in form. Ulcers suppurating; pus too copious; swollen; with proud flesh. Salt rheum.
Sleep.--Falling asleep late; complaints preventing sleep; sleeping late in the morning; waking frequently during the night; very sleepy in the morning; sleeplessness before midnight; sleepiness without sleep.
Fever.--Coldness of single parts; perspiration in general; perspires too easily; single parts perspire profusely; perspiration with anxiety; with restlessness; sour-smelling. Internal chilliness with external heat.
Gastric.--Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach, just below the ensiform cartilage; this is a very weak, "gone" feeling, which nothing can satisfy--this symptom may appear in any complication of troubles, in disordered menstruation, etc. Want of appetite. Taste bitter, saltish; eructations. Vomiting of bile.
Chest.--Cough with expectoration in the morning, no expectoration in the evening; or with expectoration at night, none in the day; very severe cough in the morning on rising, and expectoration of a great quantity of badly tasting substance; expectoration purulent; with saltish taste.
Sexual.--Male: Discharge of prostatic juice; nocturnal pollutions. In either sex, complaints from coition. Female: Complaints generally of all kinds of the female organs of generation, internally and externally; labor-like pains which are felt chiefly in the back, accompanied with a feeling as though she must cross the legs and "sit close" to keep something from coming out through the vagina; threatened abortion; tendency to abort fifth to seventh month. Menses too late; flowing only in the morning; complaints before menstruation; yellow leucorrhœa which stings and burns.
Stool and Anus.--Great difficulty in voiding stool, which seems to stick in the anus or rectum as if a ball or a "potato" were there; bloody stool; affections of the anus; rectum, particularly where there are sharp, shooting, needle-like, or lancinating pains running up into the abdomen; hæmorrhoids with the same pain; difficult stool with sensation of weight in the abdomen.
Urine.--Sediment to the urine like clay, as if clay were burnt on the bottom of the vessel; urine very offensive--can't endure to have it in the room; reddish; bloody.
Sensations.--Of emptiness in the pit of the stomach, etc. (see Gastric); of a ball in inner parts; pain as if parts would burst, were pressed or pushed asunder; cramping, or drawing pains in inner or outer parts; sensations of emptiness or hollowness in any part, especially when accompanied by a fainting sensation; jerking in the muscles, or elsewhere, as they may be felt in the head when talking, etc.; knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in inner parts; pressing as of a heavy load; vibration like dull tingling or buzzing in the body.
Generalities.--Affections in general appearing in the left side; right upper and right lower extremities; eyelids; internal ear; hearing very sensitive; region of the liver; inner lower belly; left shoulder-blade; back and small of the back: axilla; axillary glands, especially where there are darting pains through them; upper and lower extremities, and joints; lumbar region, with a violent pressing or bearing-down pain; nails turn yellow. Dark hair; pale face, exanthema on the face, lips, nose, forehead. Bleeding from inner parts. Spasms clonic; tonic; cataleptic; great restlessness of the body, can't keep still; great aversion to washing. Debility in general, or of particular parts.
Worse.--In early morning; in forenoon; in evening, particularly before falling asleep; on waking; stooping; during inspiration; while in company; while coughing; after cohabitation; after eating; from exertion of the mind; during fever; female complaints generally; from loss of fluids; from masturbation; from music; from milk; fat pork; during and after perspiration; during pregnancy; riding in a car; from riding horseback: in a swing, etc.; from sexual excesses; during first hours of sleep: in snow air; from stretching the affected part; while nursing a child; from water and washing; from getting wet; females having leucorrhœa; during confinement especially.
Better.--From drawing up the limb; from moving; from exertion of the body; in solitude; from drinking cold water; when walking quickly.
Remedies following:--Bellad., Calc. carb., Conium, Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Silic., Sulphur.
Antidotes:--Sweet Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam.