Homeopathic Medicines for Climateric disorders.

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Crocus Sativus

Amylenum Nitrosum: For nervous, sensitive, plethoric women, during or after menopause

Argentum Metallicum: Climacteric haemorrhage.

Calcarea Arsenica: Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the menopause.

Cactus Grandiflorus: Haemorrhage: from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder (Crot., Mill., Phos.). Headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex ( > by pressure, Meny.); climacteric (Glon., Lach.). 

Conium Maculatum: The "Balm of Gilead" for diseases of old maids and women during and after climacteric.

Crocus Sativus: Headache; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, < during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow (Lach., Lil., Sec.). 

Digitalis Purpurea: Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness and irregular intermitting pulse, occurring at the climacteric; < by least motion. 

Crotalus Horridus: Menopause: intense flushings and drenching perspirations; faintness and sinking at stomach; prolonged metrorrhagia, dark, fluid, offensive; profound anaemia. Malignant diseases of uterus, great tendency to haemorrhage, blood dark, fluid, offensive.

Glonoine: Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., Lach.); with the catmenia (Fer., Sang.).

Graphites: "What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the climacteric.". 

Lachesis: Climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids haemorrhages; hot flushes and hot perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after the menopause (Sang., Sulph.).  Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy. Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches shooting upward (Nit. ac.).

Medorrhinum: Metrorrhagia: at climacteric; profuse for weeks, flow dark clotted, offensive; in gushes, on moving; with malignant disease of uterus. Intense menstrual colic, with drawing up of knees and terrible bearing down labor-like pains; must press feet against support, as in labor. 

Murex Purpurea: For the sufferings during climacteric (Lach., Sep., Sulph.). 

Plumbum: Yellow skin: dark brown "liver spots" in climacteric years; jaundice, the eyes, skin and urine yellow.

Psorinum: Religious melancholy; very depressed, sad suicidal thoughts; despairs of salvation (Mel.), of recovery. Despondent: fears he will die; that he will fail in business; during climaxis; making his own life and that of those about him intolerable.. Leucorrhoea: large, clotted lumps of an intolerable odor; violent pains in sacrum; debility; during climaxis.

Sabina: Menorrhagia: during climacteric, in women who formerly aborted; with early first menses.

Sanguinaria : Headaches, return at the climacteric; every seventh day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph. - eight day, Iris). Climacteric ailments: flushes of heat and leucorrhoea; burning of palms and soles; compelled to throw off bedclothes; painful enlargement of breasts; when Lachesis and Sulphur fail to relieve.

Sepia : Great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric Erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness; followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric (Lach., Sang., Sulph., Tub.); ascends, from pelvic organs. Itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is > scratching; and is apt to change to burning (Sulph.).

Sulphur: Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric.

Sulphuric acid: Adapted to the light-haired; old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years.

Theridion curassivum: For extreme nervous sensitiveness; of puberty, during pregnancy and climacteric years. 

Thlaspi Bursa pastoris: Profuse passive haemorrhage from every outlet of the body; blood dark and clotted. Metrorrhagia: with violent cramps and uterine colic; in chlorosis; after abortion, labor, miscarriage; at climacteric; with cancer uteri (Phos., Ust.). 

Trillium:  Menses: Menorrhagia: flow, profuse, gushing, bright red; at least movement (Sab.); from displaced uterus; at the climacteric; every two weeks, dark, clotted (Thlas., Ust.). Profuse uterine haemorrhage t climacteric; flow every two weeks; pale, faint, dim sight, palpitation, obstruction and noises in ears (Fer.); painful sinking at pit of stomach.

REFERENCES

• Allen H.C, Keynotes and characteristics with comparisons of some of the leading remdies [i.e. remedies] of the materia medica with bowel nosodes
• Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Sepia Officinalis

Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris

Homoeopathic Medicines for sleep related disorders..

Coffea Cruda

Nux Vomica

Avena Sativa




• Avena sativa - Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics.

• Coca - Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnoea, anxiety and insomnia.
• Coffea cruda- Sleepless, wide-awake condition; impossible to close the eyes; physical excitement through mental exultation. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability.
• Kali Bromatum - Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarrassments.
• Kali Phosphoricum- Sleeplessness after worry, excitement, business troubles, and from nervous causes generally. Sleeplessness : from excessive mental exertion; after worry over business troubles; from nervous exhaustion; simple painless wakefulness.
• Passiflora Incarnata - Insomnia of infants and the aged, and the mentally worried, and overworked, with tendency to convulsions.

Some More Medicines..

• Absinthium - It corresponds to nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
• Acidum Flouricum - Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep; a short sleep suffices and refreshes him.
• Aconitum napellus - Insomnia of the aged. Sleeplessness from anxiety, with constant agitation and tossing.
• Ammonium carbonicum- Sleeplessness, and sleep delayed, esp. after going late to bed. Sleeplessness till 4 a.m., and when falling asleep, perspiration.
• Ammonium muriaticum- Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.  ; or from sneezing; pain in small of back.
• Anacardium orientale- Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.
• Arnica montana - Sleepless and restless when overtired.
• Arsenicum album - Sleeplessness, from anguish and restlessness, with tossing about (after midnight).
• Borax - Sleepiness during the day, and sleeplessness at night.
• Cactus grandiflorus- Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body.
• Cadmium sulphuratum - Protracted sleeplessness.
• Camphora - Insomnia, with cold limbs.
• Cannabis indica - Obstinate and intractable forms of insomnia.
• Capsicum annuum - Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide.
• Causticum - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude.
• China - Protracted sleeplessness.
• Chinum arsenicosum - Sleeplessness due to nervous causes.
• Cimicifuga racemosa - Obstinate insomnia. Sleepless, cannot rest, must change position, jerking of limbs.
• Cinnabaris -  Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). Nightly sleeplessness, without causing fatigue.
• Colocynth - Sleeplessness following a fit of indigestion.Very wakeful and sleepless.
• Daphne indica - Complete sleeplessness, caused, sometimes, by aching in the bones.
• Ferrium Phosphoricum - Insomnia from hyperaemic conditions.
• Gelsemium - Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Sleepless from nervous irritation.
• Hepar sulph - Sleeplessness, caused by a great flow of ideas.
• Hyoscyamus Niger - Retarded sleep, or sleeplessness caused by excessive nervous excitement, or by great anguish, sometimes with convulsions and starts.
• Ignatia amara - Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning.
• Lachesis - Drowsiness and sleeplessness alternately every two days. Sleeplessness, chiefly before midnight, with excessive nervous excitement.
• Ledum palustre - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with restless tossing, jerking, fantastic visions and images on closing eyes.
• Mag phosphoricum - Insomnia from exhaustion or lack of brain nutrition. Insomnia from nervousness and emotions.
• Myrica cerifera - Persistent sleeplessness.
• Natrum muriaticum- Sleepless from grief. Insomnia, with unusual general animation.With sleeplessness, gloomy forebodings, exhaustion after talking, embarrassment of the brain.
• Opium - Sleepy, but cannot sleep, sleeplessness with acuteness of hearing, clock striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake.
• Phosphorus - Sleeplessness in old people.
• Plantago major - Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Insomnia from abdominal trouble.
• Plumbum met - Nocturnal sleeplessness, with abdominal spasms.
• Psorinum- Sleepless from intolerable itching, or frightful dreams of robbers, danger, etc.
• Pulsatilla - Sleepless : for an hour 4 a.m.  ; for several hours; from over-eating.
• Raphanus sativa- Sexual insomnia.
• Sanicula- High fever every night with sleeplessness.
• Secale cornatum - Insomnia with restlessness, fever, anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.
• Selenium- Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.
• Senecio aureus -  Nervousness and sleeplessness.
• Silicea- Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head.
• Tabacum - Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.
• Thea Chinensis- Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. Sleepless and restless.
• Thuja- Persistent insomnia.
• Yohimbinum - Sleepless. Thoughts of events of whole past life keep him awake.

Passiflora Incarnata

Gelsemium

REFERENCES

• Allen H.C, Keynotes and characteristics with comparisons of some of the leading remdies [i.e. remedies] of the materia medica with bowel nosodes
• Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Homoeopathy

The word Homoeopathy is derived from the greek word homoios meaning like and pathos meaning suffering.

Homoeopathy is a system of medical treatment introduced by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in 1796 based on the Main Principle of Similia – Similia Similibus Curentur (meaning let similars be treated by similars). According to this principle A medicine is able to treat a condition which it produces when admistered in apparently healthy subjects during proving.

Before Hahnemann Hippocrates also mentioned about the concept of treating similar by similar in

400 BC. Some other physicians who mentioned about the concept of similars before Hahnemann were Paracelsus, Boulduc, Detharding, Bertholon,  Thoury, Von Stoerck and Stahl. Dr Hahnemann was the first to experiment with the concept and introduced it as a system of treatment.

The fundamental Laws of homoeopathy include:

Law of similia

Dr. Hahnemann mentioned this law in §26 in his book ‘Organon of medicine’ where he mentions it as Homoeopathic Law of nature.

A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differring in kind) is very similar to the former in its manifestations.

Law of Simplex

According to this concept A single and simple  medicinal substance should be administered in a given case at a time.

Dr Hahnemann mentions about this law in §273  in his book ‘Organon of medicine’(Sixth Edition) as:

In no case under treatment it is necessary and therefore not permissible to administer to a patient more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time. It is inconceivable how the slightest doubt could exist as to whether it was more consistent with nature and more rational to prescribe a single, simple medicine at one time in a disease or a mixture of several differently acting drugs. It is absolutely not allowed in homoeopathy, the one true, simple and natural art of healing, to give the patient at one time two different medicinal substances.

Law of minimum

According to this law the medicine administered to the patient must be in the minimum dose required by the patient.

In § 277 Dr. Hahnemann mentions

For the same reason , and because a medicine, provided the dose of it was sufficiently small, is all the more salutary and almost marvelously efficacious the more accurately homoeopathic its selection has been, a medicine whose selection has been accurately homoeopathic must be all the more salutary the more its dose is reduced to the degree of minuteness appropriate for a gentle remedial effect.