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Painful menstruation |
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Homeopathic treatment is constitutional but the remedies listed below are recommended for use in emergencies. Choose the remedy which most closely match your illness. It is not necessary to have every symptom listed in order to bring about a cure. Take remedies of the 6c potency three times a day until certain improvement, then stop taking the remedy. If symptoms continue despite the repetition of the remedy, then try an other remedy or consult a homeopath. Take remedies in a clean mouth, 30 minutes before or one hour after food or drink, try not to touch and allow it to dissolve under the tongue. Remember not to use mint : toothpaste, chewing gum, chocolate, cough drops, etc.
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| Remedy | Cycle & Flow | Pain & Related Symptoms | Generals & Personality |
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| Pulsatilla | Irregular, often late. Dark, scanty, clotted, changeable, intermittent, heavier in day time. |
< before mp, > warm applications, >downward
pressure, > motion. With chilliness, nausea, migraine, or diarrhea during period. |
Favours blonde, blue-eyed, gentle, resigned, shy.
Intense mood swings. > Consolation. Hint: More useful when given between periods |
| Sepia | Irregular Too late and scanty, or too early and profuse |
Sharp clutching pains, pelvic heaviness, uterine
prolapse, > sitting with legs crossed Bearing down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva. Low back pains, migraines (right sided), weakness and sweating, < cold. |
Brown haired, dark eyes, freckled skin with brownish
or yellowish areas around the mouth and the eyes. Sad, quiet, low sex desire,
which causes an irritating vaginal discharge. Subject to hepatic, circulatory and genital disorders |
| Lachesis | Too short Too feeble |
The less the flow, the more the pain > by the flowMenopause troubles, rapid, strong heartbeat, flashes of heat, pain on top of head, fainting, backache | Talkative, restless, uneasy, jealous and suspicious. < pressure of clothes, warmth. Hint: Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation. |
| Belladonna | Early, heavy periods Offensive odour, clotted, hot, bright red gushing < from slightest motion |
Labor-like pains, come and go suddenly. < for lying down. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Breasts feel heavy, vagina is hot and dry. |
Fair complexion. Red, hot skin, flushed face. Obese tendency, Dryness of the mouth and throat with aversion to water. Restless sleep. Neuralgic pains. |
| Lycopodium | Too late, too profuse Discharge of vaginal blood during stool |
In uterus before periods. Right ovarian pain. Before periods: bloated abdomen, headache, depression, irritability and weepiness. During periods: nausea, migraines, backache. |
Thin, or thin above waist and heavy below, gassy.
Smart but physicaly weak, prematurely gray, skin problems. Sensitive to noise, odors. Pains come and go suddenly. Fainting and trembling < cold. |
| Thuja | Menses too early and too short Scanty |
Terrible distressing pain in left ovarian and iliac region.During menses: tiredness, rapid, strong heartbeat, spasmodic weeping, chilliness, restlessness in legsWarty excrescences, raised wart on astem and skin tags, particularly around vulvae and perineum. | Treated with many drugs: antibiotics, corticoids,oral
contraceptives. History pelvic infections. Body appears swollen, obesity appearence of trunk, hips and shoulders. Easily sad, depressed, obsessive, cancer obsession has due to pains in pelvic region and warty skin formations. |
| Cimicifuga | Irregular, profuse. The more the flow, the more the pain. Dark, clotted. |
Labor-like, sharp pains. Pain flying across pelvic region side to side. > bending double, < movement Agitation |
Rheumatic,nervous woman with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. |
| Magnesia phosphorica | Too early Dark, stringy |
Violent, fits of cramp-like pains, start and stop
suddenly < cold, draughs > doubling-up, heat, strong pressure, or movement. Back ache > pressure and heat. |
The most commonly required remedy for menstrual
cramps. Tired, languid, exhausted woman. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen with belching |
| Viburnum opulus | Viburnum opulus Late periodsScanty, offensive odor | Sudden uterine cramps Pain extends into thighs Tendency to faint |
A general remedy for cramps. Female symptoms most important. |
| Cocculus | Too early, irregular Dark, scanty, clotted |
Cramps as if sharp stones were rubbing against
each other in the abdomen. < at night, awakening and making her irritable Abdominal distention from accumulation of gas. Nausea |
Sensitive and romantic girls, unmarried and childless
women. Light hear. Feels too weak to talk loud. Hint: more efficacious given between the periods. |