- The inky juice of cuttle fish, known as Indian ink, is one of the remedies of the Chronic Diseases, and was proved by Goullon, Von Gersdorff, Gross, Hartlaub and Wahle.
- It is preeminently a woman’ s remedy, although the first symptoms were found by Hahnemann accidentally proved by a male artist.
- It affects the generative organs of both sexes and a large number of the symptoms occurring in other organs have some relation thereto.
- Sep affects the ven ous circulation, especially of the female pelvic organs and of the digestive tract.
- It acts especially on the portal system with venous congestion.
- Venous stasis, ptosis of viscera.
- Violent eb ullitions of blood with pulsation throughout the body.
- Pulsating headache in cerebellum.
- Bleedings.
- Hormonal disorders.
- Affections in preg nant women.
- Tendency to miscarriages.
- Bearing down in pelvic region.
- Uterus prolapsed.
- Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration.
- Excess of sexual indulgence.
- Loss of vital fluids.
- Milky secretions.
- Upward tendency of its symptoms settle in back, in ileo-cecal region, ovaries.
- Pains extend down to back, chills easily.
- Shuddering from pain.
- Burning pains in different parts of the body.
- RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., chronic cases.
- Fits of uneasiness and hysterical spasms, clonic, tonic, cataleptic.
- Jerking in muscles.
- Fidgety.
- Sudden prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
- Easy fainting.
- Feels cold, even in warm room.
- Short walk fatigues much.
- Weariness and misery.
- Weakness, yellow complexion.
- Weak, empty, hollow feeling in epigastrium, chest, muscles, lumbar back, hips, knees etc or sensation of fullness.
- As of a lump or something rolling over internally.
- “Ball’’ sensation in inner parts.
- Females dragged down by overwork.
- Tubercular patient wi th chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes.
- Children who take cold easily when the weather changes.
- Relaxed, plethoric females.
- Weak, pot bellied mothers with yellow complexion.
- Diseased conditions which drag on, linger.
- Atrophy of children, their face like an old man.
- Warty growths.
- Big belly, dry flabby skin.
- COMMENTS - Historically, physicians used the flesh, the eggs or even the only bone that constitutes the skeleton of this animal, for “leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., gonor rhea, catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. of the blad der, gravel, spasms of the bladder, baldness, freckles and certain kinds of tetters which is sufficiently remarkable in the light of the provings.” Sep acts on the vital forces as well as on organic tissues.
- The sphincters and al l non-striated muscles are weakened.
- Sep disturbs the circulation, causing flushes and other irregularities, throbbings all over, hot hands and cold feet or vice versa.
- The flushes run upward and end in sweat with a faint, weak feeling.
- Nosebleed may occur from a blow, from being in a warm room, or from suppressed menses.
- Low thyroid with hormonal components.
- Grimmer stated “This remedy has cured cancer of rectum and uterus, it acts strongly on the sexual organs of both sexes and a great many symptoms and conditions are manifested in this sphere.
- Young people of both sexes frequently have ailments calling for this medicine, women during the pregnant state after childbirth, men who have been addicted to drinking and sexual excesses are often helped by this r emedy.
- Sex aggravates it in both sexes.” Difficulty with hormonal changes, associated with headaches, constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. and irritability.
- Never well since pubertyAdolescent sexual maturity phaseThe stage of physical growth and hormonal changes when a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction. (Puls.), childbirth, miscar riage, abortion, menopause.
- Ailments from the birth cont rol pill, hormonal creams or patches.
- Premenstrual syndrome, with irritabil ity, headache, generally fastidious before menses.
- Irregular menses, painful, may have a heavy flow.
- Low energy, bloating, irritability and sensitivity before period.
- May crave chocolate.
- Somewhat offensive, yellowish-green leucorrhea.
- Prolapse or indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of uterus and cervix.
- Engorgement of the uterus going on to induration.
- Prolapse or retroversion.
- Bearing -down pains of great intensity, in the abdomen, back, extending into thi ghs, and sometimes even seem to interfere with breathing.
- Bearing down worse standing or walking.
- Constant sense of pressing into vagina, compelling the patient to cross the limbs to prevent prolapse.
- Uterine symptoms with hysteria, weakness, palpitation, orgasm of blood, faintness.
- Loss of sex drive.
- Aversion to sex, to affection, or being touched and held since hormonal change.
- Aversion to the smells of their partner.
- Aloofness, disgust for sex.
- May fake orgasms, have sex out of a feeling of duty, obligation.
- Anorgasmie or may take a long time to orgasm.
- Ailments from rape, with emotional and sexual shutdown (Staph, has anger).
- Drainedof love and affection for all loved ones.
- Empty, sinking feeling.
- Morning sickness with aversion to sight, smell, thought o f foods.
- Vomiting of food, bile and milky fluid, in the morning.
- Strains so that blood comes up.
- “The thought of food sickens her with sense of a great weight in anus.” Hypersensitive to odors, delusions of odors.
- Disgusted feeling.
- May want to back out of pregnancy.
- May have a history of many childbirths or miscarriages.
- Miscarriage from sex, causes contractions.
- Tendency to miscarriage.
- Her ing is reported to have said “All women prone to miscarriage should take Sep or Zinc.” Physical affects from abortions (Nat-m for emotional trauma).
- Difficulty making decisions, confusion, anger during pregnancy.
- Sinking sensation in pregnancy.
- Premature delivery or false labor pains associated with low energy or depression.
- Traumatic, loss of blood and energy.
- Long and exhausting labor.
- Postpartum depression.
- Emotionally shutdown after childbirth.
- Loss of mother ing instincts.
- Aversion to breastfeeding.
- Ill effects of breastfeeding.
- Weight gain since pregnancy (Calc.).
- Depression with meno - Sepia succus pause.
- Hot flashes, low sex drive, depression after a hysterectomy.
- Indifference to loved ones.
- Aloof and detached, insensitive.
- Critical, cold hearted, tendency to nag and complain, especially with hormonal changes.
- Easily upset, frus trated (Ign.), from hormonal imba lance.
- Ailments from grief (Nat-m.).
- Impulse to do violence.
- Fits of weeping, without knowing why.
- Fear of not understanding their emotions.
- Worse from consolation, desires to be left alone.
- Lack of mental thought, of emotional feeling.
- Mind becomes dull, struggle to thing.
- Weak, dragged feeling.
- Venous stasis, weak veins.
- Slowed cir culation, better from vigorous exercise.
- Raynaud’s disease.
- Tendency to bruise easily.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Varicose veins (Phos.), during or since pregnancy.
- Weakened uterine tissues, bearing down feeling.
- Lack of tone and weakness leading to congestion, then to bearing down pain.
- Hemorrhoids, ever since childbirth.
- Hemorrhoids with menses.
- Prolapsed rectum in cases of hemorrhoids.
- Sensation of emptiness, sometimes con nected with the pelvic bearing down.
- Empty sensation in the epigastrium and throughout the abdomen.
- Lump sensation in the throat and rectum.
- “Ball” sensation in inner parts, most notably in rectum, not relieved by stool.
- Clarke has cured both constipation and diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. when that symptom was present.
- Upward stitches in rectum and vagina.
- Portal stasis.
- Fullness, soreness and stitches in liver region, as well as stitches in left hypochondrium.
- Diabetes with a hormonal component.
- Low blood sugar.
- DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., from inju ry, by over -lifting.
- Severe constipa tion (Alum., Calc.), or constipation during pregnancy.
- Craves chocolate, bitter, sour and tart foods, particularly during pregnancy.
- Tendency to stimulate their taste buds.
- Strong aversion to fat.
- Irritation of the urinary tract.
- Catarrh of bladder and urethra.
- Frequent strong urg ing to urinate.
- Stitches along the urethra.
- Relaxed sphincters.
- Bedwetting, “The bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep, always during the first sleep.” Discharge of urine may be difficult even with urgent desire.
- Gonorrhea after the acute stage has subsided.
- Gleet and gonorrheal warts.
- Delicate skin, the least injury tends to ulceration.
- Itching, which often changes to burning when scratched.
- Soreness of skin, humid places on bend s of knees.
- Painful eruption on tip of nose.
- Herpetic eruption on lips and about mouth.
- Skin condition relating to hormonal changes.
- Tendency to dry skin from low estrogen.
- Severe dryness of the vagina (Nat-m.).
- Chloasma.
- Liver spots, brown spots.
- Hair fal ls out after childbirth or with menopause.
- Acne, mole growth, freckles related to hormonal change, including puberty, childbirth, or birth control pills.
- Brittle nails.
- Addison’s disease.
- PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp., skin funguses (Thuj.), ringworm (Thuj., Bac., Tell.).
- Ringworm-like eruptions, pityriasis, every spring on different parts of body.
- Herpes circinatus.
- Round, yellow spots.
- Nettle rash, appears on going into open air, better in warm room.
- Desperate itching, especially when it affects the genitals and anus.
- Bursitis from kneeling and scrubbing the floors, overwork.
- Patient is worn out from domestic duties.
- ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age., worse cold, wet (Calc.), packache (Bry., Nat -m.).
- Stiff ness of limbs worse after sleep.
- Stiffness of uterine region.
- “Involuntary jerking of head b ackward and forward, especially at forenoon when sitting.” Jerking in hysteria.
- Open fontanelles in children.
- VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with sensation of something “rolling round” in the head.
- “Faints easily,” after getting wet, from extremes of heat and cold, riding in a carriage, kneeling at church.
- Chronic nasal catarrh.
- Inflamed tonsils from colds, tending to suppuration.
- Nash had a case in which the discharge was thick, bland and copious.
- Puls, relieved the catarrh but increased the menstrual flow too much.
- Sep cured both.
- Whooping cough when it has lasted eight weeks or longer and the paroxysms, though reduced in number and virulence, do not disappear and occur especially before mid night.
- The patients are reduced in strength, dyspeptic, irritable, tearful, easily angered or apathetic.
- Symptoms are generally left-sided.
- Worse standing, kneeling, on the left.
- Very chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., sensitive to cold.
- Better deep pressure but worse light touch.
- Irritable in the mornings from toxicity in the liver (Nux-v.).
- Need movement, but worse from exertion.
- Cheerful with thunderstorms.
- Kunkel reported a case of pulmonary affection in a boy, 14, who had been under treatment five weeks for cough and hoarseness was worse evening, cough with purulent sputa during the day.
- Slept well but dreamed when he lay on left side.
- Emaciated.
- Phos lOx produced little change.
- There was remarkable tightness of the chest on breathing with inclination to take a deep breath, this was better in open air, on motion, while at work, worse while in the h ouse and at rest.
- Though the weather was bad he had a constant desire to be out of doors.
- Sep lOx made a rapid cure.
- Boenninghausen recommended Sep in cases of cough, either with or without ex pectoration with blood - streaked, purulent, yellow greenish or stinking sputa, and especially in tuberculosis.
- Nash mentioned a case of cholera infantum that he cured with Sep on the indication “always worse after taking milk.” He compared it with Ant-c for moisture oozing from the anus, which has the first place.
- Bahr said Sep afforded considerable help in a certain condition of the system that had only been noticed in females.
- After the exacerbation of a chronic gastric catarrh has lasted a few days with intolerable burning pains, the kidney region becomes painful, more particularly the left side.
- Violent burning pain in the kidney region and a quantity of saturated, highly-colored urine is discharged.
- Urine deposits copious quantities of urates, or else a clear urine with copious sandy sediment, coated with uric acid.
- After the discharge, the pains generally abate and only return if the stomach has not been restored to its normal condition.
- Hering noted its usefulness for “condylomata completely surrounding head of penis.” Clarke cured a crop of small, velvety w arts completely encircling the mouth of the prepuce.
- Thuja had failed.
- Clarke also cured with Sep.
- 3x a large horn-like wart on the abdomen of a woman.
- It was as large as a crown- piece but shaped like a bean and raised a quarter of an inch from the surface .
- Clarke confirmed the experience of Dr.
- Swallow, who found the fresh preparation of Sep to possess a wider range than the ordinary preparation and to act as an “organ remedy” in a great variety of uterine disorders not definitely indicated by the pathogenesis.
- Clarke used it in potencies from the 5c to 30c
