Dysmenorrhoea Therapeutics


Homeopathic medicines for Dysmenorrhoea and some cases of these medicines had been presented by J.H.allen in his book chronic Miasm….


ACONITE

Aconite will be indicated only when the psoric element is prominent in the case, as it is not a sycotic remedy. The menses are profuse, bright red, and protracted, or are suppressed from cold, cold baths, fright, over-joy, bad news, etc. There is fever with anxiety and apprehension; the pulse is full and quick; there is fear of death, much alarm and excitement; painful menstruation, and a febrile and congested condition. The pains are sharp, cutting, doubling the patient up; hands are cold, even in the febrile state; there is chilliness with flushes of heat intermingled; over-sensitiveness to noise or touch; restlessness with tossing in sleep (like Rhus tox or Arsenicum album). It is adapted chiefly to the sanguine temperament, to young girls of a sedentary habit. Other symptoms are palpitation of the heart, quick hard pulse, anxiety, fear, and hot flushed face.

AURUM METALLICUM

Syphilo-psoric. In this remedy we have a somewhat profuse menstruation with labor-like pains in the abdomen. The flow is acrid, producing great soreness of the parts. There is swelling in the axillary glands and often periostal or bone pains. It is adapted to sanguine, ruddy people with black hair and eyes; in chronic Syphilis and for the bad effects of the over use of mercury. Menstruation with great melancholy, depression of spirits, suicidal tendency, and mental dejection; imagines she is unfit to live; mind turns toward self-destruction, longs for death, < in the evening, at night and at the menstrual period; the least contradiction excites her wrath, and mental labor fatigues her. Indicated more at puberty.

Case : Mrs. A. B., age 27, after birth of second child, suffered with inflammation of right ovary; ovary very much enlarged, sensitive to touch; pain dull, heavy, always < at night, feels well during the day; is cross and irritable at the menstrual period, no living with her, her husband says; wants to die, says she is going to jump into the river if this awful depression keeps on; it begins just before the menses. She is under a fearful cloud all during menses. She was cured with 1m. potency; no return in fourteen years.

ACTEA RACEMOSA

Like all the cohosh family, this remedy is anti-sycotic in its curative effects. It shows the strong rheumatic element of that miasm, while it has the hysterical element of Psora. Many of its phases are hystero-rheumatic or the combining of the two elements; or they alternate, when one is < the other is ((>)). The menses are too early copious as a rule, clotted and dark. During menses the mental field is clouded, there is great sadness and gloominess; fears that she will hear bad news, or that something awful is going to happen, that she is losing her mind. She is full of imaginations, fears, forebodings, and all sorts of uneasiness. Like Lachesis she is suspicious of everything. The appearance of the flow gives relief to many of her symptoms, especially to the mental. “Rheumatism following the disappearance of mental states.” (Kent).

Vertex headaches during the menses; sore feelings all over the head, and pain in the back extending to the thighs; much weight and bearing down in the uterus; a feeling of weight in the extremities; pain increases until the flow reaches its maximum, then suddenly ceases. Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea in brunettes. There is much weight and heaviness on the vertex (Sepia); a sensation as if the head would fly off. Besides, there is much pain in the back of the neck which is rheumatic in character. Pains in uterus darting from side to side; often the severity of the pain increases or decreases with the flow; soreness in the uterus or all about that region, and like Arnica, there is a bruised feeling all over. It has also in its lameness, some resemblance to Rhus tox. Her symptoms are changeable like Pulsatilla, yet she is the opposite of Pulsatilla in temperament, irritable, quick tempered, snappish and very emotional. She may be subject to hysterical spasms, even to convulsions; during the menses she has spasms of the uterus, with pains shooting across the abdomen, or from the left ovary to the heart. It acts upon the cerebro-spinal system and is useful in delicate rheumatic, hysterical women with uterine irritation.

ANACARDIUM

This remedy partakes of both the psoric and sycotic element. Its pains and its mental symptoms are characteristically sycotic, especially the mental symptoms. Menses scanty but too frequent. Dysmenorrhoea with pressing pain in the abdomen and uterus. The menses are often accompanied with a severe headache, pressure as of a plug in the left side of vertex. Mental symptoms: Great irritability; desire to curse and swear; great contradiction between understanding and will; a veritable Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde; she has two wills, one hindering her from doing that which the other impels her to do. Dreadfully irritable, always in a controversy with self, lives if in a dream, nothing real. Compare the mental sphere with Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Belladonna She is morose, sulky, sullen, irritable, easily angered, often cruel and malicious, yet feeble. The headache is relieved by eating and by sleep. This remedy follows well after Lycopodium, and Pulsatilla Platina may follow it.

AMYLENUM NITROSUM

Indicated in nervous, sensitive, plethoric women during and after change of life. (Lachesis) It rapidly dilates the arteries and accelerates the pulse, but later weakens and retards the pulse; intense surging of blood to the face during menses or after menopause. (Belladonna, Gloninum) Craves fresh air, opens clothing, throws off the clothes, and opens windows in the coldest weather. (Argentum nit., Lachesis, Sul.) Flashes of heat start from the stomach, followed by hot profuse sweating; parts below stomach are cold; flashes of heat from the slightest emotion, much yawning and stretching; angina with tumultuous heart action, must loosen clothing and collar when flashes come on (Lachesis) It is said to have cured puerperal convulsions after delivery. (Similar to Lachesis, Belladonna, Coca, Gloninum) It acts better in the c. m. potency.

ALETRIS FARINOSA

Suitable to chlorotic girls and pregnant women. Menses prolonged and accompanied with labor-like pains. Amenorrhoea from uterine or ovarian atony or from a congested state of the uterus or ovaries. Flow copious, black, clotted with fullness in the region of the uterus. During pregnancy, obstinate vomiting with constant spitting of a cottony, frothy mucus. False pains during gestation. General debility with prolapsus of uterus. Similar to Belladonna, Sabina, Hydrastis, Senega and Pulsatilla

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM

This is a sycotic remedy, and is helpful in gouty conditions and gouty states of the system. Its symptoms center about the stomach, and digestive tract. Menstruation premature and profuse, with a peculiar pressure in the uterus, menses too early in young girls, before the time of puberty; flow dark, fluid, with coagula; great tenderness in the ovarian region after menses or after suppression from cold, from cold bathing or from being overheated; gouty dysmenorrhoea; gouty gastritis; dysmenorrhoea in young girls who are disappointed in their love affairs, this is one of the remedies for the bad results of unrequited affection. Mentally peevish, sentimental; ecstacy with exalted love; suicidal tendency with great anxiety about self. Tongue thickly coated white; eructations after eating, tasting of food; desire for coffee, pickles, sour things; subject to warts and gouty pains.

Aggravations from eating and from extreme cold or heat.

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM

Syco-psoric. Adapted to pale, sickly, torpid, phlegmatic persons; menses premature and profuse, or scanty and of short duration. Menses begin with great nausea, pains in the groins, cold creepings all over the body; dysmenorrhoea with nausea and vomiting, and cold sweat on the forehead. Face is pale, sunken, dark circles about the eyes; lips dry, cracked; great desire for acids, with much thirst, nausea and vomiting of mucus, or rattling of mucus in chest. (Ipecac.)

Aggravations. Dampness, cold weather, also < in spring (Kali sul., Nat. mur., Sul.).

Ameliorations. Cool and open air.

ALUMINA

This remedy is an anti-psoric, but partakes largely of the pseudo-psoric nature also. In it we have one of those rare remedies in which the menses are retarded, scanty and of too short duration; occasionally they are premature, but they are always too brief. The color is pale and watery. Before the menses, headache and disturbed sleep, with a copious discharge of mucus from the vagina. Before the menses, great exhaustion, both mental and physical debility between the periods. The inter menstrual discharge is transparent mucus, very copious, and is relieved by cold bathing. Unnatural appetite in young girls; they desire to eat chalk, starch, slate pencils, charcoal, plaster, coffee, or tea grounds. They have a faint feeling at the stomach, better by eating (Sulphur); sense of constriction in the throat, can swallow but a small piece at a time; rectum feels paralyzed, no desire for stool; a nightly, dry, hacking cough with oppression in the chest. The remedy is adapted to dry, thin, dark women of a mild and cheerful nature, who suffer from constipation and dry itching eruptions. The itching is worse upon getting warm, and in winter.

John Henry Allen
Dr. John Henry Allen, MD (1854-1925)
J.H. Allen was a student of H.C. Allen. He was the president of the IHA in 1900. Dr. Allen taught at the Hering Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Allen died August 1, 1925
Books by John Henry Allen:
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin 1902
The Chronic Miasms: Psora and Pseudo Psora 1908
The Chronic Miasms: Sycosis 1908