COMMON NAME- Cuttle fishFAMILY- Mollusca

This is one of the important contribution in homoeopathy byMASTER HAHNEMANN

Preparation: from ink bag of the cuttle fish Acts especially on the portal system,with venous congestion & on the female genital organs

SEPIA OFFICINALIS

PRESENTED BY: PARUL, 54/10, IV BHMS,NHMC.

•Adapted to the persons of dark hair,rigid fibre,but mild and easy disposition. •womens who has male type pelvis.

CONSTITUTION

•Pot-bellidness of mothers

Physical generals •Washerwoman’s remedy

(complaints aggravated after laundary work)

Pain extend from other parts to the back

Sensation of ball in inner parts

Erythism followed by perspiration over whole body

Faints easily: while kneeling at church; from extremes of heat or cold

Chilly patient: sensitive to cold air Desires:

Aversions:

MENTAL GENERALS

Indifferent

DREAD OF BEING ALONE

GREAT SADNESS & WEEPING

MISERLY

GREEDY

GREAT ANXIETY

(To those whom she loves best)

Think about imaginary evils

Headache in terrific shocks;at menstrual nisus,with scanty flow

Great falling of the hair

< stooping,mental labour> By external pressure

HEAD COMPLAINTS

A YELLOW SADDLE ACROSS UPPER PART OFTHE CHEEKS AND NOSE

YELLOWNESS of FACE and CONJUNCTIVA

A “TELL TALE FACE” of uterine ailments

FACE AND MOUTH

•Sensation of weight or ball in anus , not > by stool

•Painful sensation of emptiness “all-gone feeling” in the epigastrium,relived by eating

•Constipation during pregnancy

GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM

Nausea from the sight or thought of food.

•Involuntary urination, during first sleep.

•Urine is fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room

•Deposits a reddish clay colour sediment

•slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis

URINARY SYSTEM

•GLEET

• Painless, yellowish, staining linen

•Meatus glued together in the morning•Sexual organs week & exhausted

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

•Prolapse of uterus & vaginaPressure & bearing down as if everything protrude from the pelvis

Must cross limbs tightly or sit close to prevent it

•Irregular menses of nearly every form- early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhea or menorrhagia

•Morning sickness of pregnency

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

• DYSPNEA < sitting, after sleep, in room >dancing or walking rapidly

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

•Herpes circinatus in isolated parts on upper parts of body esp. behind ears on the nape of the neck

•Itching of skin; of various parts

Is not > by scratching and is apt to change to burning

SKIN

MODALITIESAGGRAVATION: In afternoon or evening; sexual excesses; at rest; before a

thunderstorm

AMELIORATION: Warmth of bed; hot application; violent exercise.

MANY SYMPTOMS, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF HEAD, HEART AND PELVIS, ARE BOTH < AND >BY REST AND EXERCISE

RELATION•Complementry: Natrium mur

•Inimical: To Lach., puls.

•Similar: To Lach., Sang., Ust., in climectaric irregularities of the circulation

•Frequently indicated after : Sil., Sulph.

•A SINGLE DOSE OFTEN ACTS CURATIVELY FOR MANY WEEKS.

•IT ANTIDOTES MENTAL EFFECTS OF OVERUSE OF TOBACCO, IN PATIENTS OF SEDENTARY HABITS WHO SUFFER FROM OVER MENTAL EXERTION