Climacteric (Change of life or Menopause)

Sulphur

Tiresome. Losing weight. Skin coarse and inclined to look dirty. Everything around is dirty and indescrib­ably untidy. It should be used as an intercurrent remedy when other well selected remedies fail to give complete relief.

Camphor

Flushes of heat and sweat in warm room; the limbs and abdomen very cold and she suffers from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously when covered.

Pulsatilla:

Irritable temper, which is changeable. Hot perspiration in close and warm room. Cannot tell her symptoms without weeping.

Actea Racemosa

Violent headache as if the top of the head is torn off. Muscles of the back and neck sore. Rheumatism or rheumatic diathesis.

Lachesis

Head remedy for climacteric period. Severe headache beginning at the back and passing over to the front of the head. Hypersensitive to touch. Distressing palpitation of the heart and pulsations of the body. Haemorrhage of dark colour with patient being incredi­bly talkative. Burning sensation as if burning coal is placed on the body. Flushing. Melancholic and irritable. Fainting fit. Haemorrhoids.

Glonoine

Surging pulsations; and hammering of the head, worse in warm room and in the heat of the sun. Cannot lie in bed. Palpitation on going uphill.

Calcarea Carb

For pale, flabby, relaxed and cold patients who have become tired by overwork. Like Sulphur this remedy should also be used as an intercurrent remedy.

Nux Vomica

Profuse bleeding in sensitive women who are irritable and quarrelsome. They are easily offended. This remedy should only be used provided all these symytoms are accompanied by digestive trouble.

Sepia

Haemorrhage with prolapsus of uterus; bearing down pains. The patient is constitutionally tall, thin and easily depressed. She is cold, fidgety and spiteful, tired of affection, disliking sympathy. Leucorrhoea with dyspepsia or constipation. Sudden hot flushes with sweat, weakness and tendency to faint.

Sanguinaria

Leucorrhoea, corrosive, fetid, continues after menses cease.

Platina

Pain in ovaries with excessive bleeding.

Sabina

Bleeding of bright red colour with violent pains shooting up from the sacrum to the front end of the navel.

Crocus

Bleeding with dark clots in hysterical women; with feeling of weight in the; lower part of the abdomen as if she is to give birth to a baby.

Bacillinum

Facial neuralgia ctf the left side. Worse at bed time.

Medorrhinum

Facial neuralgia after suppression of leucorrhoea by injections. Pain in small bones in the morning with acidity, coated tongue, filthy taste and breath, uncleanable dirty tongue, weakness. Pallor, chilliness, worse from cold wet weather.

Bellis Per

For varicose veins; during menopause.

Fraxinus Am

It is useful in mental diseases at the time of the change of life with atonic condition of the uterus.

Trillium

Haemorrhage due to extreme weakness.

Camphor

Flushes of heat and sweat in a warm room. The limbs and abdomen very cold. She suffers from cold when uncovered and copious sweat when covered.

Oophorinum

For acne rosacea and other skin disorders of the climacteric.