Sepia


Sepia symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Sepia? Keynote indications and uses of Sepia…


COMMON NAME:

      CUTTLE FISH.

Symptoms

      Adapted to women with dark hair. rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition, particularly during pregnancy, child-bed, or while nursing (N.).

Want of animal heat (Silicea).

The symptoms are relieved from violent exertions, but reappear most violently when sitting quietly in the forenoon and evening.

Painful sensitiveness of all parts of the body (Belladonna, Lachesis).

Great sensitiveness to cold air (Belladonna, Hepar, Silicea).

After getting wet, afterwards fainting spells and finally coryza.

General relaxation; weak; faints while kneeling at church (N.).

Dyspnoea, worse from sitting, after sleep, and in room, ameliorated by dancing or walking rapidly (N.).

Involuntary fits of laughter (Br., Cannabis indica, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus) (G.).

Anxiety about real or imaginary evils (A.).

Greedy, miserly (Arsenicum, Lycopodium) (A.).

DULLNESS AND WANT OF INTEREST, ESPECIALLY IN THE FAMILY: ALSO LACK OF INTEREST IN HIS OCCUPATION (Acid phosphoricum.).

Irritable and easily offended (Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (N.).

Weak memory (Calcarea, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Silicea) (N.).

Great sadness and weeping during menses, pregnancy or lactation (N.).

Dread of being alone (Arsenicum, Stramonium) (N.).

Bad effects from anger (Bryonia, Ignatia, Nux vomica, Staphysagria, Stramonium).

Dread of meeting friends (N.).

Sense of helplessness and great susceptibility to excitement, and still more to terror (D.).

She dreads to be alone, wants company, but has an aversion to her own friends, and is indifferent to her house-hold affairs (D.).

Indolent: Does not want to do anything, either work or play: even an exertion to think (A.).

The pain comes on in terrific shocks or jerks in the head (Gloninum) (N.).

Pressing or bursting headache, worse from motion, stopping, and mental labour; ameliorated by pressure, or from continued fast motion (N.).

Headache, commencing in the morning and relieved by sleep or violent motion (D.).

Menstrual headache with scanty flow (Bryonia, Graphites, Kreosotum, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum) (B.).

Coldness of the vertex with headache (Verat; heat of the vertex- Calcarea, Graphites, Sulphur) (A.).

Great falling off of the hair, after chronic headache or at the climacteric (A.).

At night palpitation of the heat and pulsation through the whole body.

Loose cough in the morning, with efforts to vomit (G.).

Toothache after sweets (Am-C., Natrum carbonicum, Phosphorus) and from tea- drinking (China, Coffea, Ferrum, Ignatia, Lachesis, Selenium, Thuja) (K.).

Swelling and cracking of the lower lip (A.).

Coryza of a profuse (character (All-C., Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sabad.).

Paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ending in gagging or vomiting (Ipecac.) (N.).

Affection of the middle right lung (N.).

Cough seeming to come from the stomach or abdomen (D.).

Cough with salty expectoration, and attended by stitches in the epigastrium (D.).

YELLOW SPOTS (MOUTH SPOTS) IN THE FACE, AND A YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS THE UPPER PART OF CHEEKS AND NOSE (N.).

Drooping of the eye-lids (Causticum) (N.).

All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened (Lachesis) (A.).

Sour or putrid taste in the mouth (Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (D.).

Toothache during pregnancy (Lyss., Magnesia carb.) (K.).

White coating on the root of the tongue only, strongly marked (N.).

Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when flow ceases (A.).

Sensation of emptiness and debility in the stomach and abdomen (Phosphorus, Sulphur).

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (Aconite, Ant-T., Calcarea, China, Cicuta, Ferrum, Gloninum, Kali carb., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Silicea).

Painful sense of emptiness or goneness at the pit of the stomach (Carb-An.) (N.).

NAUSEA AT THE SIGHT OR SMELL OR FOOD (Colchicum) (D.).

Great longing for acids or pickles (Hepar) (D.).

Sensation of a lump in the stomach (D.).

Heaviness or sensation of a load in the abdomen, especially during motion (N.).

Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children-Sulph.).

Eructations like spoiled eggs of manure, with aversion of meat (G.).

Vomiting of bile (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Nat-S.) (G.).

Inclination to vomit in the morning, when rinsing her mouth out (G.).

Morning sickness (Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (G.).

CONSTIPATION DURING PREGNANCY (Alumina, Bryonia, Collinsonia, Dol., Hydrastis, Lycopodium, Nat-S., Nux vomica, Opium, Plb., Platina, Podophyllum, Pulsatilla, Sulphur) (K.).

Pain in the rectum during and long after stool (Acid nitricum, Sulphur) (A.).

Constipation: Stools hard, difficult and knotty, with sense of weight or a lump in the anus, not relieved by an evacuation (N.).

No desire or urging for days and days; the stools are hard and large; inactivity of the rectum, and a sensation of a bell in it; patient cannot strain and consequently cannot expel stool (D.).

Diarrhoea from boiled milk (Nux-M.) (B.).

Intermittent fever with thirst during the chill only (Apis., Ignatia).

Flushes of heat; heat ascends (N.).

Flushes of heat from least motion, with anxiety and faintness, followed by perspiration over the whole body (Lachesis, Sanguinaria, Sulphur) (A.).

Flushes of heat ascends from pelvic organs (A.).

Internal chilliness with external heat (Arsenicum, Nux vomica) (G.).

COLDNESS OF THE EXTREMITIES DURING FEVER (Carb-An., Kali-Arsenicum, Stramonium) (K.).

Perspires easily (Bryonia, Calcarea, China,) (G.).

Single parts perspire profusely (Pulsatilla) (G.).

Icy cold and damp feet all day, like standing in cold water up to ankles (Lycopodium, Pulsatilla) (A.).

Feel hot at night (Sulphur) (A.).

Pains extend from other parts to the back (reverse of Sabina) and are attended with shuddering (with chilliness-Pulsatilla) (A.).

Twitching in the muscles (Cuprum, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum).

Restlessness in all the limbs with anxiety, which does not permit him to remain quiet anywhere (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron).

Twitching and jerking of the limbs night and day (tarent.).

Tension in the limbs, as if too short (Am-M.)

Restlessness and pulsation in all the limbs (Arsenicum, Chin-Arsenicum, Ferrum, Kali carb., Nat-Arsenicum, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Zincum met.).

Stinging pain in the limbs (Apis.).

Stiffness of the joints hands, feet and knees.).

Coldness of the legs and feet (Calcarea, Digitalis, Lachesis).

Cold knees or heels (B.).

As the feet becomes not the hands become cold (Bl.).

“The washer-woman’s remedy,” that is to say, complaints are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work (A.).

Faints easily-after getting wet, from extremes of heat or cold, from riding in a carriage, or while kneeling at the church (A.).

Loud talking in sleep in the day-time, especially in the forenoon (Ant-C., Bism., Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Cannabis sativa, Carb-An., Carbo vegetabilis, Graphites, Mag-M, Merc-Sulph., Mosch., Natrum carbonicum, Natrum phos., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Podophyllum, Sabad., Thuja (C.).

Restless, unrefreshing sleep (C.).

Wakes at night in a fright, and screaming (Belladonna, Stramonium) (C.).

Vesicular eruptions around mouth and chin (Natrum muriaticum, Rhus toxicodendron) (D.).

Ringworms (Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (D.).

Liver spots on the chest and abdomen (D.).

Herpetic eruptions about the knees and ankles (Petroleum) (D.).

Herpes circinatus in isolated on upper part of the body (in intersecting rings over the whole body-Tell.) (D.).

Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of the body (in interesting rings over the whole body-Tell.) (A.).

Itching of the skin, of various parts, of external genitals.

Skin yellow, like jaundice (Chelidonium, Iodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (G.).

Salt-rheum (Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Rhus toxicodendron) (G.).

Indolent ulcers, with itching, stinging and burning (C.).

SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION (Cyclamen, Ferrum, Graphites, Kali-P., Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum).

Prolapsus uteri complicated with indurations, ulcerations and profuse leucorrhoea (Aurum, Natrum muriaticum) (N.).

Yellowish leucorrhoea, with bearing down in the pelvic region (Natrum muriaticum) (N.).

Pressure in the uterus downward, as if everything would fall out, with pain in the abdomen; feels as though she must cross her legs to prevent everything coming out (N.).

Left ovarian soreness and bearing down sensation in the uterus (Lachesis).

Bearing down pains in the uterus, with a sense of lump or ball in the anus, not ameliorated by evacuation (N.).

Sense of fullness in the pelvic organs, and pressure down into the anus, as of a ball or weight; oozing of moisture (N.).

Violent stitches upward in the vagina (N.).

Discharge of a green-red fluid from the vagina during pregnancy (G.).

Ailments during pregnancy (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calc, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Merc- C., Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Silicea).

TENDENCY OF HEAT AND PERSPIRATION AT THE CLIMACTERIC (Amyl. nitrosum, Graphites, Lachesis, Sulphur) (N.).

Flushes of heat over face and head (A.).

Enlarged and hardening of the uterus (Aurum, Am-M., Calcarea fluorica., Silicea) (D.).

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)