# Sabina (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Savine
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Sabina is frequently used in the diseases of the women.  Except for the
menstrual symptoms, its overall picture resembles Pulsatilla.  Its
symptoms aggravate from heat.  In Pulsatilla, the menstrual bleeding
is scanty and interrupted while in Sabina it is excessive.  The bleeding
tendency is not limited to the uterus.  The nose and kidneys can also
bleed.  Sabina is very useful in the treatment of excessive menstrual
bleeding along with the generalized tende ncy to bleed.  The patient is
prone to abort in the third month of pregnancy .  Sometimes, the
women develop small knots (cysts or tu mours) in the ovaries,
barring pregnancy.  In this condition, Sabina  helps to cure the cysts
of the ovaries and also promotes conception.

Sabina is also useful in the treatment of bleeding piles .   I t  i s  a l s o
very beneficial in the treatment of kidneys becoming painfully
inflamed, associated with the passage of  blood in the urine.  Thus, it
resembles Pareira Brava.  In Sabina, the kidneys are inflamed all over,
causing constant localised pain (not colicky).  In Pareira Brava, the
pain radiates downwards along the uret er into the bladder.  The stones
from the kidneys may get lodged in the urinary bladder.  In Sabina,
the patient has a constant urge to pass urine .  The act of urination
does not relieve the urge however.   The quantity of urine passed is
scant as in Cantharis.

Sabina is certainly indicated and useful, in the treatment of
discharges resembling gonorrhoeal diseases  in both sexes.  Even if
there is no active gonorrhoea and the patient is apparently well; if the
discharge resembles that of gonorrhoea, Sabina will be very effective.

In Sabina, the patient may experience labour-like pains, even in the
absence of pregnancy .  The uterus contracts and bears down as in
labour.  This pain results in the loss of pregnancy
(abortion/miscarriage).  Anot her symptom of Sabina is prolonged
excessive menstrual bleeding , so much so that the period-free gap
may be very short.  The colour of the blood is bright red.  The patient
becomes anaemic due to excessive loss of blood.  The blood obviously
becomes of light colour due to dilution.

Violent pains through the uterus a nd the ovaries associated with
genital itching are best treated with  Sabina.  The pain is not steady,
rather it continuously moves upwards  or downwards.  Most of the
experienced homoeopaths are of the opinion that Sabina is the best
remedy to prevent abortion .  In my experience, Caulophyllum is
also very effective (see under Caulophyllum).

When combined with Calcarea Carb and Murex, Sabina becomes
more effective in the  treatment of prolonged menstrual bleeding,
diseases of the uterus, and the tendency to form fibroids .  This
prescription also prevents agains t the tendency to abort.  If the
placental attachment of the foetus becomes detached, threatening
abortion, then the immediate use of Sabina will obviate the loss of
foetus.  If the periods are followed by copious corrosive and offensive
leucorrhoea and heightened sexual ur ge, then Sabina should be used.
Sabina also exhibits sign of polyp formation with a tendency to bleed,
often present at the back  or thighs (natal clef t). They may prove quite
dangerous.

In Sabina, the patient tends to  bleed though not suddenly and
profusely.  In Millefolium, the bleeding is as if a tap has been opened.
This difference must be kept in mind.

Sabina is also useful in the treatment of gout .  One very peculiar
feature of Sabina is that during th e attack of gout, the bleeding stops
altogether.   As soon as gout is u nder control, the patient starts to
bleed again and vice versa.  Gout symptoms aggravate in a warm
room.  The joints become swollen, red and shiny.  There is a feeling of
burning in the chest.  The taste of  the mouth becomes bitter and the
belly hurts.  The patient may suffer from sudden headache, which
subsides only slowly.  The face and the head become congested with
blood.  The teeth hurt on chewing f ood.  The abdomen feels full.  The
patient may also remain constipated.

Adjuvant: Thuja
Antidote: Pulsatilla
Potency: 30

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