Murex Purpurea

COMMON NAME:

      MOLLUSK.

Symptoms

      Especially adapted to nervous, lively, and affectionate women (Br.).

Useful for the sufferings during climacteric (Amyl. nitrosum, Gloninum, Graphites, Lachesis, Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).

Aching in the sacrum (Rhus toxicodendron, (Bl.).

Lumbar pain impels walking, which ameliorates (Rhus toxicodendron) (B.).

The secretions are profuse, such as the menses and urination (D.).

NYMPHOMANIA (Hyoscyamus, Platina, Stramonium) (B.).

Fearful and anxious (Arsenicum, Kali-P.) (B.).

Great depression of spirits (Aurum, Ignatia, Kali-P., Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (A.).

Violent excitement in the female sexual organs (Mosch., Platina) (A.).

EXCESSIVE DESIRE FOR AN EMBRACE (Cantharis, Phosphorus, Platina, Stramonium) (A.).

LEAST CONTACT OF PARTS, CAUSES VIOLENT SEXUAL EXCITEMENT (Platina) (A.).

Leucorrhoea alternating with mental symptoms (B.).

Leucorrhoea, worse from mental depression; happier when the leucorrhoea is worse (A.).

SORE PAIN IN THE UTERUS (A.).

A distinct sensation of a womb (Helonias, Lyss.) (A.).

Menses: irregular; to early and too profuse; protracted; consisting of large clots (A.).

BEARING DOWN SENSATION, AS IF THE INTERNAL ORGANS WOULD BE PUSHED OUT; MUST SIT DOWN AND CROSS THE LIMBS TO RELIEVES THE PRESSURE (but no sexual desire – Sepia) (A.).

Sensation as if something were pressing on a sores part in the pelvis (D.).

Sinking, all-gone sensation in the stomach (Carb-An., Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).

Violent hunger, even after eating (Argentum nitricum, Bovista, Chin-S., Cina, Iodium, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Staphysagria, Sulphur) (B.).

Benign tumours in breast (Carb-An., Conium, Silicea) (Br.).

Dysmenorrhoea (Caulophyllum, Coloc., Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Platina, Sepia, Xanth.) (Br.).

Chronic endo-metritis (Apis., Bryonia, Calcarea, Graphites, Hydrastis, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja) (Br.).

Pain in the breast during menstrual period (Pulsatilla) (Br.).

Urging in the bladder (Belladonna, Cantharis, Nux vomica, Sepia, Terebintha) (Br.).

Urine smells like valerian (B.).

Frequent urination at night (Mercurius, Phos-A., Sulphur) (Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the sun; from touch; during climacteric; during menses; after eating; and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      From sitting and crossing the limbs; and from walking.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare : Lil-T., and Platina in nymphomania and Sepia in bearing down sensation (with lack of sexual erethism.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)