Menses

Absent (Amenorrhoea):

Pulsatilla

When menses do not appear at the age of puberty, without any apparent cause. The patient is constitutionally timid, weeps when describing the disease; feels better in the open air. Suppression of menses due to wetting of feet.

Ferrum Met

When suppression or delay in menses is due to debility or anaemia. It accompanies with langour and palpitation.

CycIamen.

Suppressionofmensesbywetting.lt is indicated when the symptoms of Pulastilla are present but she is worse in the open air, feels giddiness and headache.

Aconite N

When menses are suppressed by catching chili. If this does not give relief, it should be followed by Pulsatilla.

Sulphur

When the above remedies fail, especially when there is all gone sensation at the pit of the stomach with headache.

Senecio Aurens

Diseases such as cough, hysteria, chorea, chlorosis, hoarsensess and dyspnoea when due to suppression of menses. Use in tincture or IX.

Turners

(Or Damiana). Frigidity of females. Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in young girls. Give in mother tincture — 10 to 15 drops a dose twice daily half an hour after meals.

Stramonium

Ailments due to suppression of menses or lochia etc.

Sabal Serr

Delayed menses due to uterine diseases and shrinking of breasts.

Lac Vaec. Defloratum

Menses suppressed by drinking or putting hands in cold water, severe pains in uterine region, intense headache.

Nux Mosch

Suppression of menses from mental excitement or getting wet, with drowsiness, faintness and cold extremities, vaginal flatulence.

Eupionum

Nose bleed when menses flow intermits. Cutting ceases when flow starts. Backache with yellow leucorrhoea.

Magnesia Mur

Menses of black colour.

Mercurius

Mammae, painful as if they would ulcerate at every menstrual period; milk in breasts instead of menses or at the time of menses.

Apis Mel

Absence of menses at the age of puberty in nervous, hysterical, awkward or silly patients. It is not a natural awkwardness but one that comes from incoordination of muscles.

Castoreum

Absence of menses with painful tympany. Owing to uterine tenesmus the menstrual blood escapes only in drops. Nervous colic with pallor. Cold sweat and sudden loss of strength caused by emotion, chilling feet etc. Cutting about the navel. Distention of abdo­men with flatus, dragging in the groins, inclination to stool during menses.

Cocculus Ind

Suppressed menses from grief and anxiety with vertigo, headache and nausea.

Sepia

Amenorrhoea when accompanied by severe hysteric headache, leucorrhoea, toothache. Delicate constitution with yellowish spots on the face. Alternate shuddering and heat. Amenorrhoea at puberty from cold in feeble women.

Lycopodium

Menses suppressed by fear. Headache, sour vomiting, swelling of feet, fainting fitsand leucorrhoea. When she goes to 15, 16, 17, 18 without menstruation; the breasts do not develop and the ovaries do not perform their function. Discharge of flatus from the vagina.

Dulcamara

Suppression of menses due to cold or living in damp basement. Breasts engorged and hard. Warts on the hands. Eruption of skin at each period.

Kali Carb

One of the best remedies for primary or secondary amenorrhoea with dyspepsia, palpitation of heart, abdominal cramps, swelling of the cheek and gums; leucorrhoea.

Chionanthus

Absence of menses due to jaundice.
(Note. For absence of menses due to anaemia or tuberculosis please treat these diseases first with appropriate medicines).

Delayed and/or painful (Dysmenorrhoea):

Actea Racemosa,

Pain during and before menses. Menses irregular, too soon or too late. The more the flow the greater the pain. The patient is nervous, restless and melancholic. Prolapsus of the uterus, suffering during the menstrual flow, rheumatism, dysmenorrhoea, soreness in the uterus and ovarian region, lame feeling and jerking all over, are the main symptoms.

Acid Nitric

Painful menses with constant urging to urinate.

Aletris Farinosa

Constipation, menses profuse and pre­mature, labour-like pains, or amenorrhoea (absence ofmens.es), debility from loss of fluids, sterility, habitual tendency to abortion, prolapsus.

Viburnum Opulus

Excruciating pain which is relieved by bending double before menses. The pain disappears as the flow starts. Colic pain in lower abdomen which is unbearable. Pains come suddenly with severity. Give three drops a dose of mother tincture or in IX potency.

Chamomilla

Violent colic consequent on profuse and painful menses, labour-like pains on sides with diarrhoea.

Kreosote

Menses too early, too copious and last too long, with discharge of dark coloured and coagulated blood. Menses only when lying down, cease on sitting or walking. When there is violent colic, the discharge is of clear and watery blood. Pains at the navel, followed by whitish leucorrhoea. Vomiting and heartburn during the period of menses.

Lachesis

Menses too late, too scanty and of too short a duration with haemorrhoidal pains, nose bleed, bloody stools, constipation, leucorrhoea and toothache.

Lycopodium

Menses too short and too late or too early and too profuse, reappearing after every six or eight days. The menses are suppressed by the least fright;, flatulence in the abdomen.

Pulsatiila

Painful menses in timid girls who are easily excited owing to mild temperament. They weep even when telling the symptoms. The constitution is fatty with liking for cold and open air. The pain stops as the flow starts.

Lapis Albus

Menstrual pain so severe that she would fall unconscious. Relieved as the flow starts. Dark clots and black lumps of blood first day. Pain between shoulder blades. Headache. Likes to be out of doors.

Sabina

Most distressing pain at menses with bearing down and. labour like pain; inflammation of the ovaries and uterus.

Carbo Animalis

Painful menses with enlargement and induration of the uterus, deranged menses, severe pain in the back which extends to the hip. Constipation.

Cuprum

Met. Violent pain with spasms and delirium.

Bufo

Pain with burning in the ovaries and in the pelvis before or during menses.

Caulophyllurn

Spasmodic, severe abdominal pains.

Colocynth

Menstrual colic before menses which appear too soon, blood blackish often in clots. Acrid leucorrhoea. Menstrual colic when relief comes by bending double, and by hard pressure. Pain may be in uterus or ovaries. The patient is nervous.

Sarsaparilla

Menses painful with diarrhoea, vomiting and fainting at the time of menses. Contracted nipples.

Lobelia Infl

Painful menstruation which is irregular. Pain all over abdomen, especially in the ovaries; legs ache fearfully. Pain all over the body, faints continually. Vomiting and nausea when the menses are delayed. It has also vomiting before or after menses when the patient feels broken down and feverish. Diarrhoea with menstrual irregularity.

Gun Powder

An excellent remedy for painful and scanty menses. Flow stops and restarts. Give 3X.

Castoreum

Menstrual colic with pallor and cold sweat.

Kali Carb

Menses either too late and too scanty or else too early and too profuse lasting too long.

Sepia

Insufficient or tardy or early and profuse menstruation with cramp like pains occuring in the feeble and debilitated persons. In delay of first menses where leucorrhoea occurs instead of menses with determination of blood to the  chest. Sensation of heaviness downwards in the pelvic region. Irritable temper with loss of appetite. Vomiting and heartburn after menses.

Graphites

Excessively delayed, very scarce menses, associated with tenacious constipation with knotty mucus evacuation. Induration of the left ovary with stony hardness. Tendency to skin diseases, predisposed to obesity (fatness).

Collinsonia

Terrible dysmenorrhoea with haemorrhoids (piles), violent convulsions preceded by severe pain in. the region of womb. Irritation of cardiac nerves. Suppressed menses return after heart trouble is over.

Veratrum Alb

Painful menses with deathly coldness, lips, blue, extremities cold and blue, sinking sensation; mania to kiss everybody.

Magnesia Phos

Head remedy for painful menses. The pain is relieved by bending double and by heat or warm application. Give in 6X trituration in acute cases and in high potency say IM or CM one dose every week or fortnight to ensure permanent cure.

Calcarea Phos

Painful menses in girls at puberty when due to careless living thereby causing sterility. Pain in uterus connected with puberty (young age). Labour-like pain with some bearing down.

Borax

Painful menses with leucorrhoea like the white of an egg and ropy, several days before menses. Pain labour-like.

Jaborandi

When the period begins with a feeling of coldness and faintness. neuralgic throbbings in head and pelvis, with headache, a drop or two of Jaborandi in hot water will at once relieve.

Secale Cor

Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Burning pains in uterus. Brownish, offensivc-leucorrhoea. Continuous oozing of watery blood until next period.

Calcarea Carb

An excellent anti-psoric constitutional remedy. Ovarian troubles with decalcification, functional disorder of the thyroid and pituitary glands. Tendency to obesity (fatness). Itching of external genitals with profuse cold sweating thereof. Premature menses two or three days too soon. Lascivious dreams, headache, nervous prostration and swelling of breasts before menses. Polypus in the uterus.

Helonias

Languid, inactive, tired patients who wish to be left alone. Delayed menses due to ovarian insufficiency. Menses offensive and coagulated. May be associated with nephritis, diabetes, albuminuria and phosphaturia.

Conium

Scanty menstruation with terrible pain in both the ovaries, often associated with urticaria invading the face and the trunk. Adapted to unmarried girls who are dejected, timid and inclined to weep.

Ooptaorinum

Menses appearing every 40 to 65 days which are painful and of short duration. Vulvae pruritus
(itching).

Xanthoxylum

Suppressed, delayed and painful menses with or without leucorrhoea. Give in IX dilution every three hours.

Magnesia Carb

Painful menses which are usually too late and scanty. Discharge is more copious during night and while lying down and ceases when standing or walking. Canine hunger and stomachache, nausea, laming and aching pain before menses. Violent colic.

Nux Vomica

Menses too early and last too long preceded by drawing pain in the posterior cervical muscles. Lassitude with goose—flesh and rheumatic pain in extremities; restlessness, irritable and quarrelsome mood. Uterine cramps.

Phosphorus

Menses too early, too copious and last too long with colic and pain in the sides, discharge of blood between the periods. When menses are too scanty they are preceded by leucorrhoea, cutting pains as if caused by knives, weeping mood and vomiting of bile.

Platina

Menses too early and too profuse with labour-like pains and cramps. Discharge black, followed by leucorrhoea. Restlessness, sleeplessness, suspicious mood, superiority complex. Cramp, colic with pressure above the vulvae, pulling in the groins; constipation and frequent desire to urinate.

Sulphur

Retarded and painful menses with distress, oppression, constipation and distension of the abdomen. A constitutional remedy when other selected remedies fail.

Argentum Nit

Painful menstruration with profuse bleeding jot only from uterus but also from nose, chest, mouth etc.

OFFENSIVE:

Platina

Offensive and stinking after abortion with much haemorrhage.

Crotalus

Offensive from retained and decomposing matter.

Lachesis

Offensive with saculated ovarian disease.

Lilium Tig

Early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow only while moving about. Bearing down sensation.

Colocynth

Offensive in ovarian tumor.

Sulphur

Sour smelling.

Kali Carb

With chilliness and cramping pains in abdomen; pungent.

PREMATURE:

Calcarea Phos

Menses before the proper age in weak debilitated girls. Menses too early, excessive and bright; if late, the blood is dark. Leucorrhoea like the white of egg.

Sabina

Menses before the proper age which are profuse and bright red. Atonic condition of uterus.

Calcarea Carb

Menses in little girls with itching and burning of the parts before and after; milky leucorrhoea, headache and colic before menses.

Carbo Veg

Premature and too copious menses, pale blood. Vulva swollen. Burning in hands and soles of feet during menses.

Profuse (Menorrhagia or metorrhagia):

China

Head remedy for excessive bleeding and of long duration. It should be tried first, especially when the patient is debilitated, weak.

Rhus Aromatica

Haemorrhage due to atonic condition of the uterus. Give drop doses of mother tincture.

Thlaspi Bursa Q

Haemorrhage starts slowly and then becomes abundant to the extent that the patient becomes extremely weak. She hardly regains strength thereafter when the second month's flow starts. Give drop doses in mother tincture.

Mitchella

Bleeding with frequent urination which is not very free and satisfactory. Blood bright red associated with painful urination.

Belladonna

Premature and profuse menses with sensation as if every thing will fall down through the vagina. Foul smelling coagulated blood. Throbbing headache and red and puffed face.

Stramonium

Profuse discharge of black blood, coagulated blood, drawing pains in the abdomen, thighs and limbs. Talkative.

Ignatia

Menses every fortnight of long duration with cramps and hardness of abdomen. Hysteria. Nausea with fainting. Intolerance of light. Vision blurred.

Arnica M

When profuse bleeding is caused by a strain, a false step or other mechanical injury.

Chamomilla

Profuse menses with drawing, cramp like colic from the sides of the abdomen.

Ratanhia

Haemorrhage from the uterus with pain in abdomen and loins, bearing down towards genital organs, followed by leucorrhoea.

Silicea

Blood from vagina every time the child takes breast.

Lachesis

Excessive flow with dark clots and excruciating pains which are better as flow starts and clots pass away. Worse during heat and warm weather, better in cold. Profuse perspiration with unpleasant odour. Breasts undeveloped or not sufficiently developed.

Viscum Album

Metorrhagia (profuse bleeding) following cold foot bath.

Epihysterinum

Profuse bleeding due to fibrous tumor.

Aletris Farinosa

Menses profuse and premature due to atonic condition of uterus, labour-like pains of amenorrhoea (absence of menses), debility from loss of fluids, sterlity. Habitual tendency to abortion. Prolapsus. Constipation. Disgust for food, nausea and indigestion. Uterine haemorrhages, may it be after an abortion or in connection with menstruation; large clots followed by copious haemorrhage.

Ambra Grisea

Bleeding between periods on slightest strain in nervous women. Too early and too profuse, appearing 7 days before time and then comes the horrible itching, soreness and swelling of genitals.

Ficus Rel

Profuse bleeding from any part of the body including uterus without any apparent cause.

Kreosote

Bleeding from uterus brought on by lifting, over exertion and always followed by coitus. No pain during coitus. Menses regular but profuse and clotted; at times it is black, very fetid, produces rawness on the genitals and thighs, stops and then starts again; starts too soon and lasts too long. Constant dull aching pain in back. Terrible left side headache a day after the flow. Milky leucorrhoea. Menses only when lying down, cease on sitting or walking.

Sabina

Bleeding with bearing down sensation. At times flow does not stop before the next period begins. Gout and haemorrhage alternately, i.e. haemorrhage starts when gout stops and vice versa.

Carbo Animalis

Menses too early, too long and1 copious. Prostration with every menstrual flow. Burning in vagina as if burning coals are put on it. Sensation of emptiness whenever she puts child to the breast.

Carbo Veg

Bleeding due to non-contraction of uterus for want of tonicity. It may be after confinement, menstruation or incidental haemorrhage.

Phosphorus

Haemorrhage with uncontrollable thirst for cold water. Head hot.

Ammonia Carb

Menses too soon, blood blackish, often in clots. Leucorrhoea is acrid. Swelling of genitals. Griping and colic before menses. At every menstrualperiod bleeding from the rectum.

Ammonia M

Menses accompanied by haemorrhage from the bowels and rectum, especially in pale sickly feeble women. Menses too soon each month with pain in the back, Flow of blood at night.

Secale Cor

Profuse bleeding of black colour with icy cold extremities in lean and slander women who always suffer from heat. The patient wants to uncover and to be cool. Blood is thin and fetid. There may be clots in the blood.

Ustilago

Bleeding due to retroflexion of the uterus, the blood is bright red, partly fluid and partly clotted. The uterus feels soft and spongy to the examining finger.

Trilium

Flow bright red and profuse with faint feeling at epigastrium, pain in back, coldness of extremities. Prostration with rapid feeble pulse. Haemorrhage due to uterine fibroids. It will stop haemorrhage and absorb growths.

Aconite N

When with the gushing bright red blood, there is overwhelming fear of death.

Ferrum Met

Menses too early, too profuse and lasting too long, causing debility to the patient.

Ipec

Bleeding with prostration, bright red blood gushes in a stream running through clothes, bed and collecting in a pool on the floor. The blood does not coagulate easily. She is pale, nauseated and fainting. Give in 200 or IM potency every fifteen minutes till improvement commences and then stop the medicine.

Platinum

Menses about 4 or 6 days too early and very profuse.

Calcarea Carb

Uterine haemorrhage with large clots mixed with bright red liquid flow which is copious. Mental shock brings on the flow. Feet cold damp. It is indispensable when the menses appear a few days before the period especially when the flow is considerable.

Vinca Minor

Profuse menstruation or passive menorrhagia when blood flows in one continuous stream associated with great debility.

Cocculas Ind

Menses too early and last too long in women prostrated from grief and anxiety.

Fraxinus Americana

Extremely painful menses; delayed but profuse. Coming on at intervals of five to twelve weeks.

SCANTY:

Cyclamen

Scanty with vertigo and headache. Terrible abdominal pain starting from sacrum extending along both sides of abdomen to pelvis. Irregular menses appearing after several months. Patient morose, dejected, unable to undertake any work, lassitude.

Pulsatilla

Delayed and scanty menses with all the symptoms as in Cyclamen except that the Pulsatilla patient is always better in open air.

Sulphur

Delayed menses with constipation and tendency to skin eruptions, flushings. All-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach in the forenoon.

Alumina

Menses scanty after which the woman is completely exhausted in body and mind. Between the periods leuccorrhoea which is profuse, acrid and corroding; running down to heels.

Graphites

Occasional flow of the menses which are too pale and of too short a duration. Abdominal pains, uterine cramps, rheumatic pain in limbs. Oedema of hands and feet. Scanty menses accompanied with other complaints such as headache, skin affection.

Manganum

Menses scanty and too frequent in anaemic girls.

Natrum Mur

Scanty with constipation in patients with earthy complexion.

Actea Racemosa

Menses scanty, dark and coagulated. Great genera] debility. Scanty flow between the periods..

Gunpowder

Excellent remedy for scanty and painful menses. Flow stops and then starts afters 12 hours. Give 3X.