Sepia officinalis Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of our materia medica

Sepia officinalis

Common name : Inky juice of European cuttlefish.

Introduction :

• Available in many high street.
• Chemists and health food shops.
• It can be used in so many different circumstances.
• It can be difficult to self-prescribe.
• One of the most common purposes for it is used is womens problems.
• Many aspects of the female reproductive system.

Temperament : Nervous

Relation with heat and cold : Very chilly

Miasm : psora and sycotic

Constitution :

• Weak person with earthy, yellow skin.
• Shallow skin.
• Yellow spots on chest.
• Yellowish conjunctiva and face.
• Tell tale face to indicate internal derangement like a recording clock moth spots .
• Cachectic yellow face with yellow saddle across the nose.
• Male type of pelvis in women.

Condition :

• Flatulence
• Insomnia
• Menopausal hot flushes
• Morning sickness
• Painful periods
• Thrush
• Toothache
• Backache
• Bloating
• Constipation
• Cramp in calf muscles
• Cystitis
• Exhaustion
• Faintness

Mind :

• Irritable easily offended.
• Indifferent to loved once.
• Very sad.
• Dreads to be alone.
• Easily weeps when telling symptoms to other.
• Wants to be alone.
• Averse to occupation to family.
• In evening anxious feeling.
• Indolent.

Head :

• Headache in terrible shocks at the menstrual period with scanty flow.
• Vertigo associated with something rolling out in head.
• In left side of head  and forehead stinging pain within outward and upward.
• Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy.
• Stinging pain in head with nausea and vomiting.
• Aggravated in doors and lying on painful side.
• Cold feeling in vertex.
• Jerking sensation in head forward and backward.
• Hair falling.
• dandruff in scalp.
• Fontanelles are open.
• Sensitive roots of hair.
• Pimples on face on forehead near the hair margine.

Eyes :

• Tarsal tumors also called styes in eye.
• Ciliary irritation, ptosis in eye.
• Muscular asthenopia.
• Black spot in field of vision.
• Asthenic swelling associate with uterine problem.
• Eye problem worse in morning and evening.

Ears :

• Swelling ans eruption i external ear.
• Herpes on the nape of neck behind ear.
• Subcuteneous ulceration painful.

Nose :

• Nose thick plugs and crusts.
• Thick, greenish discharge also called ozena.
• Yellowish saddle across the nose.
•  Chronic nasal catarrh.
•  Post nasal dropping of heavy, lumpy discharge, must be hawked through the mouth.
•  Pain at the root of nose.
•  Atrophic catarrh with greenish crust from anterior nose.

Face : 

• Yellow blotches also called chloasma.
• Paleness and yellowness around the mouth.
• Rosacea.
• saddle like brownish patches around the nose and cheek.

Mouth :

• Salty putrid taste in mouth.
• White coated tongue.
• Tongue clear during menses.
• Cracking and swelling of lower lip.
• Pain in  teeth from 6 p.m till midnight.
• Worse on lying down.
• Foul tongue.

Stomach :

• Feeling of goneness.
• Goneness feeling not relived by eating.
• Nauseated feeling as smell of food.
• Nausea worse lying on painful side.
• Tobacco dyspepsia.
• Salty taste of everything.
• Hypochondria.
• Vomit after eating.
• Burning sensation in the pit of the stomach.
• Nausea in morning before eating.
• Craving for acid, vinegar and pickles.
• Worse after drinking boiled milk.
• Dyspepsia with bloated abdomen.
• Sour eructation.

Abdomen :

• Headache with flatulent.
• Painful and swollen liver.
• Pain relieved by lying on right side.
• Many brown spot on the abdomen also called liver spot.
• Bearing down and of a relaxation sensation in the abdomen.

Rectum :

• Bleeding with stool.
• Fullness of the rectum.
• Constipation large, hard stool.
• Sensation of a ball in rectum.
• Great tenesmus and shooting pain upwards.
• Dark brown round ball mix with mucus.
• Difficulty in soft stool great straining.
• Ani prolapsus.
• Constant oozing from anus.
• Infantile diarrhoea.
• Worse from rapid exhaustion and warm milk.
• Pain shoot up in vagina and rectum.

Urinary  :

• Adhesive red sand in urine also called hematuria.
• Enuresis during first sleep.
• Chronic cystitis.
• Bearing down sensation about the pubis with slow maturation.

Male :

• Condylomata surrounds head of penis also called gonorrhea.
• Complaint from coition.
• Cold organs.
• Perspiration offensive.
• Discharge from urethra and gleet only at  night.

Female :

• Pelvic organ relaxed.
• Bearing down sensation as if everything would through out the vulva.
• Must cross limb to prevent press against vulva.
• Leucorrhea  green, yellowish with much itching.
• Menses too late and scanty.
• Irregular early and profuse menses.
• Cutting sharp pain in a lower abdomen.
• Violent stitches up ward in the vagina from the uterus to the umbilicus.
• Prolapse of vagina and uterus.
• Morning sickness.
• Vagina painful specially during coition also called dysparunia.

Respiratory :

• Fatiguing, dry cough coming from the stomach.
• Taste of rotten egg with coughing.
• Oppression pain in chest.
• Morning and evening cough.
• Dyspnea.
• Worse after sleep.
• Better with Rapid motion.
• Cough in the morning with profuse expectoration.
• Cough is salty in taste.
• Hypostatic pleuritis.
• Whooping cough that drags on.
• Cough excited by tickling in the chest and larynx.

Heart :

• Violent, intermittent palpitation in heart.
• Pulsation in all arteries.
• Tremulous sensation with flushes.

Back :

• Weakness in the lumbosacral region.
• Pain radiate to back.
• Coldness between two Shoulders.

Extremities :

• Lower extremities lame and stiff.
• Tension in extremities as if to short.
• Bruised feeling and heaviness in extremities.
• Restlessness in all limbs.
• Twitching and jerking sensation in limb at Night and Day also called chorea.
• Pain in heels.
• Coldness of leg and feet.

Fever :

• Frequent flushes of head.
• Sweat from list motion.
• Lack of warmth in the body.
• Feet cold and wet.
• Shivering with thirst.
• Worse in evening.

Skin :

• Itching not relieved by scratching.
• Herpes circinatus in isolated spot.
• Itching worse in bands of elbow and knee.
• Herpetic eruption on nose, lips and around the mouth .
• Ring worm like eruption in every Spring.
• Urticaria on going in open air.
• Urticaria better in warm room.
• Bromidrosis and hyperidrosis.
• Lentigo in Young women.
• Ichtyosis with offensive odour of skin.
• Perspiration more on foot.
• Sweat with offensive odor.

Modalities :

Worse :

• Forenoon and evening.
• Washing.
• Laundry work.
• Dampness.
• Left side.
• After sweat.
• Cold air.
• Before a thunderstorm.

Better : 

• By exercise.
• Presser.
• Warmth of bed.
• Hot application.
• Drawing limbs up.
• Cold bathing.
• After sleep.

Relationship :

• Complementary : Phosphoric acid, Nux vomica, Natrum mur.
• Compare : Lil t, Murex, Silicea, Sulphur.
• Inimical : Lach, Pulsa.

Dose :

• Twelfth, 30 and 200 potency.
• Should not be used to low or be repeated to frequently.
•  Dr Jousset's unique experience is that it should be continued for sometime in strong dose.
• 1 X twice a day.