Sepia officinalis is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• hormone imbalances
• post partum depression
• depression
• anxiety
• PMS
• mentrual cramps
• period pain
• nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
• menopause symptoms
• hot flashes
• irritability
• uterus prolapse
• infertililty

From Boericke:

 (Inky Juice of Cuttlefish) Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy fainting. "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brunettes. All pains are from below up. One of the most important uterine remedies. Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. FEELS COLDeven in warm room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum.

Mind
INDIFFERENT to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to FAMILY. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. VERY SAD. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening; indolent.

Head
Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in TERRIBLE SHOCKS at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.

Nose
THICK, GREENISH DISCHARGE; thick plugs and crusts. YELLOWISH SADDLE ACROSS NOSE. Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose. Chronic nasal catarrh, especially post-nasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges; must be hawked through the mouth.

Eyes
Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connection with uterine trouble. Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening. Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of the fundus.

Ears
HERPES BEHIND EARS ON NAPE OF NECK. Pain as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration. Swelling and eruption of external ear.

Face
Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth. Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks.

Mouth
Tongue white. Taste salty, putrid. Tongue foul, but clears during menses. Swelling and cracking of lower lip. Pain in teeth from 6 p.m. till midnight; worse on lying.

Stomach
FEELING OF GONENESS; NOT RELIEVED BY EATING. (CARB. AN.) Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea worse lying on side. TOBACCO DYSPEPSIA. Everything tastes too salty. (CARBO VEG.; CHIN.) Band of pain about four inches wide encircling hypochondria. NAUSEA IN MORNING BEFORE EATING. Disposition to vomit after eating. Burning in pit of stomach. Longing for VINEGAR, acids, and pickles. Worse, after milk, especially when boiled. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations. Loathes fat.

Abdomen
FLATULENT, with headache. LIVER SORE AND PAINFUL; RELIEVED BY LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. Many brown spots on abdomen. Feeling of relaxation and bearing-down in abdomen.

Rectum
Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum. Constipation; large, hard stools; FEELING OFA BALL IN RECTUM; cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting UPWARD. Dark-brown, round balls glued together with mucus. Soft stool, difficult. Prolapsus ani. (POD.) ALMOST CONSTANT OOZING FROM ANUS. Infantile diarrhoea, WORSE FROM BOILED MILK, and rapid exhaustion. PAINS SHOOT UP in rectum and vagina.

Urinary
Red, ADHESIVE, sand in urine. Involuntary urination, DURING FIRST SLEEP. Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis.

Male
Organs cold. Offensive perspiration. Gleet; discharge from urethra only during night; no pain. Condylomata surround head of penis. Complaints from coition.

Female
Pelvic organs relaxed. BEARING-DOWN SENSATION AS IF EVERYTHING WOULD ESCAPE THROUGH VULVA (BELL.; KREOSO; LAC C; LIL. T.; NAT. C; POD.); must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhoea yellow, greenish: with much itching. Menses TOO LATE AND SCANTY, irregular; EARLY AND PROFUSE; sharp clutching pains. Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus. PROLAPSE of uterus and vagina. Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.

Respiratory
Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach. Rotten-egg taste with coughing. Oppression of chest morning and evening. Dyspnoea; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty. (PHOS.; AMBR.) Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping-cough that drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest.

Heart
Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.

Back
WEAKNESS IN SMALL OF BACK. PAINS EXTEND INTO BACK. Coldness between shoulders.

Extremities
Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if too short. Heaviness and bruised feeling. RESTLESSNESS IN ALL LIMBS, twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel. Coldness of legs and feet.

Fever
Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from least motion. General lack of warmth of body. Feet cold and wet. Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards evening.

Skin
Herpes circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.

Modalities
WORSE, forenoons and evenings; washing, laundry-work, dampness, left side, after sweat; cold air, before thunderstorm. BETTER, by EXERCISE, pressure, warmth of bed, hot applications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing, after sleep.

Secale cornutum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• hemorrhages with dark, oozing blood
• post-partum hemorrhages
• labour pain
• afterpains
• childbirth
• gangrene
• miscarriage
• puerpural fever

 From Boericke:

CLAVICEPS PURPUREA (Ergot) Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers; hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. This produces an anaemic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women. All the Secale conditions are BETTER FROM COLD; the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat. Haemorrhages; continued oozing; THIN, fetid, watery black blood. DEBILITY, ANXIETY, EMACIATION, THOUGH APPETITE AND THIRST MAY BE EXCESSIVE. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by raising the blood pressure. (Hinsdale.)

Head
Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray. NOSEBLEED, dark, oozing.

Eyes
Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract, senile especially in women. EYESSUNKEN AND SURROUNDED BY A BLUE MARGIN.

Face
PALE, PINCHED, SUNKEN. Cramps commence in face and spread over whole body. Livid spots on face. SPASMODIC DISTORTION.

Mouth
Tongue dry, CRACKED; BLOOD LIKE INK EXUDES, coated thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid. TINGLING OF TIP OF TONGUE, WHICH IS STIFF. Tongue swollen, paralyzed.

Stomach
UNNATURAL RAVENOUS APPETITE; CRAVES acids. THIRST unquenchable. Singultus, nausea; vomiting of blood and coffee-grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and abdomen; tympanites. Eructations of bad odor.

Stool
Cholera-like stools, with coldness and cramps. OLIVE-GREEN, THIN, PUTRID, BLOODY, WITH ICY COLDNESS AND INTOLERANCE OF BEING COVERED, WITH GREAT EXHAUSTION. INVOLUNTARY STOOLS; no sensation of passing faeces, anus wide open. Urine. Paralysis of bladder. Retention, with unsuccessful urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Enuresis in old people.

Female
Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Passive haemorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. BROWNISH, OFFENSIVE LEUCORRHOEA. Menses irregular, copious, dark; CONTINUOUS OOZING OF WATERY BLOOD until next period. Threatened abortion about the THIRD month. (SAB.) During labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not fill properly. Dark, offensive lochia. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.

Chest
Angina pectoris. Dyspnoea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Praecordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.

Sleep
Profound and long. Insomnia with restlessness, lever, anxious dreams. INSOMNIA OF DRUG AND LIQUOR HABITUES.

Back
Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremities; can bear only slightest covering. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Formication and numbness. Myelitis.

Extremities
Cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trembling, staggering gait. Formication, pain and spasmodic movements. Numbness. Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, SPREAD APART OR BENT BACKWARDS, numb. VIOLENT CRAMPS. ICY COLDNESS OF EXTREMITIES. Violent pain in finger-tips, tingling in toes.

Skin
Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleraema and oedema neonatorum. Raynaud's disease. Blue color. DRY GANGRENE, developing slowly. VARICOSE ULCERS. BURNING SENSATION; better by cold; WANTS PARTS UNCOVERED, though cold to touch. Formication; petechias. Slight wounds continue to bleed. Livid spots. Boils, small, painful, with green contents; mature slowly. SKIN FEELS COLD TO TOUCH, yet covering is not tolerated. GREAT AVERSION TO HEAT. FORMICATION UNDER SKIN.

Fever
COLDNESS; cold, dry skin; cold, clammy sweat; excessive thirst. Sense of internal heat.

Modalities
WORSE, heat, WARM COVERING. BETTER, cold, UNCOVERING, rubbing, stretching out limbs.

Relationship
Compare: ERGOTIN. (Beginning arteriosclerosis progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pressure: 2x trit. Edema, gangrene and purpura haemorrhagia; when Secale, though indicated, fails); PEDICULARIS CANADENSIS (symptoms of locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation); BRASSICA NAPUS- Rape-seed-(dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, tympanitis, dropping of nails, gangrene); CINNAMON.; COLCH.; ARS.; AURUMMUR. 2x (locomotor ataxia); AGROSLEMA -Corn-cockle-active constituent is SAPONIN, which causes violent sneezing and sharp burning taste; burning in stomach, extends to oesophagus, neck and breast; (vertigo, headache, difficult locomotion, burning sensation); USTILAGO; CARBO; PITUITRIN (dilated os, little pain, no progress. Dose, 1/2 c.c, repeat in half hour, if necessary. Hypodermically contra-indicated in first stage of labor, valvular lesions or deformed pelvis). Antidotes: CAMPH.; OPIUM.

Dose
First to thirtieth potency. Non-Homeopathic Use. In haemorrhages of the puerperium, after the uterus is entirely emptied, when it fails to contract satisfactorily and in secondary puerperal haemorrhage the result of incomplete involution of the uterus, give one-half to one dram of the fluid extract. Remember Pagot's law. "As long as the uterus contain, anything, be it child, placenta, membranes, clots, never administer Ergot."

Sambucus nigra is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• colds and flus
• infuenza
• fevers
• sore throats
• coughs
•  profuse sweating
• asthma with profuse perspiration (sweating)
• children with runny noses

From Boericke:

Elder) Acts especially on the respiratory organs. Dry coryza of infants, snuffles, oedematous swellings. PROFUSE SWEAT accompanies many affections.

Mind
Sees images when shutting eyes. CONSTANT FRETFULNESS. Very easily frightened. Fright followed by suffocative attacks.

Face
Turns blue with cough. Red, burning spots on cheeks. Heat and perspiration of face.

Abdomen
Colic, with nausea and flatulence; frequent watery, slimy stools. Urine. Profuse urine with dry heat of skin. Frequent micturition, with scanty urine. Acute nephritis; dropsical symptoms, with vomiting.

Respiratory
Chest oppressed with pressure in stomach, and nausea. Hoarseness with tenacious mucus in larynx. Paroxysmal, SUFFOCATIVE COUGH, COMING ON ABOUT MIDNIGHT, with crying and dyspnoea. Spasmodic croup. Dry coryza. SNIFFLES OF INFANTS; nose dry and obstructed. Loose choking cough. When nursing child must let go of nipple, nose blocked up, cannot breathe. CHILD AWAKES SUDDENLY, NEARLY SUFFOCATING, SITS UP, TURNS BLUE. CANNOT EXPIRE. (MEPH.) Millar's asthma.

Extremities
Hands turn blue. Oedematous swelling in legs, insteps, and feet. Feet icy cold. Debilitating night-sweats. (SALVIA; ACET. AC.)

Fever
Dry heat while sleeping. DREADS UNCOVERING. PROFUSE SWEAT OVER ENTIRE BODY DURING WAKING HOURS. Dry, deep cough precedes the fever paroxysm.

Skin
Dry heat of skin during sleep. Bloated and swollen; general dropsy; PROFUSE SWEAT ON WAKING.

Modalities
Worse, sleep, during rest, after eating fruit. BETTER, sitting up in bed, motion.

Relationship
Compare: Ipec; MEPH.; OPIUM; SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS (great value in dropsies; large doses required- fluid extract, 1/4 to 1 teaspoonful three times daily). Antidotes: ARS.; CAMPH.

Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency.

Saccharum officinale is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• ADHD
• hyperactivity
• behavior issues in children
• diabetes
• menstrual cramps
• PMS with strong sugar cravings
• sugar cravings
• painful periods
• constipation alternating wtih diarrhea

 From Boericke:

SUCROSE (Cane-sugar) According to the great Dr. Hering, a large proportion of chronic diseases of women and children are developed by using too much sugar. Sugar is an antiseptic. Combats infection and putrefaction; has a solvent action on fibrin and stimulates secretion by the intense osmotic changes induced, thus rinsing out the wound with serum from within outward, favoring healing. Leg ulcers. Sugar must be considered a sustainer and developer of the musculature of the heart and hence useful in failure of compensation and a variety of cardio-vascular troubles. Acts as a nutrient and tonic, in wasting disorders, anaemia, neurasthenia, etc., increasing weight and power. Opacity of cornea. Dim sight. ACIDITY AND ANAL ITCHING. Cold expectoration. Myocardial degeneration. Fat, bloated, large-limbed children, who are CROSS, PEEVISH, whining; capricious; want dainty things, tidbits, and refuse substantial food. Oedema of feet. Headache every seven days

Relationship
Compare: SACCHARUM LACTIS-Sugar of milk- lactose-(diuresis; amblyopia; COLD PAINS, as if produced by fine, icy cold needle with tingling, as if frost bitten; great physical exhaustion. Sugar OF MILK in large doses to develop the Bacillus acidophilus to correct putrefactive intestinal conditions and also constipation.)

Dose
Thirtieth potency and higher. Locally in gangrene. One ounce of lump sugar morning and evening valuable adjunct in the treatment of obstinate cases of heart failure due to deficient heart muscle without valvular lesion. Epilepsy; blood with reduced sugar content irritates the nervous system with tending to convulsions. SUGAR as an oxytocic has its most suitable application towards the end of labor when there is no mechanical obstruction and delay is due to uterine inertia. 25 grammes dissolved in water, several times every half hour. Compare: SACCHARIN (hinders both the salivary and peptic ferment actions with consequent dyspepsia. Prof. Lewin believes its action to be on the secretory cells themselves and it has caused pain (right hypogastrium), loss of appetite, diarrhoea and wasting).

Sabadilla is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• hay fever
• allergic rhinitis
• allergies
• seasonal allergies
• violent sneezing
• colds and flus 

From Boericke:

(Cevadilla Seed. Asagraea Officialis) Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal glands, producing coryza and symptoms like HAY-FEVER, which have been utilized homeopathically. CHILLINESS; sensitive to cold. Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive symptoms). Children's diarrhoea with constant cutting pains.

Mind
Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium during intermittents.

Head
Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and sensation of fainting. Dullness and oppression. Over-sensitiveness to odors. THINKING produces headache and sleeplessness. EYELIDS RED, BURNING. LACHRYMALION. Difficult hearing.

Nose
SPASMODIC SNEEZING, WITH RUNNING NOSE. CORYZA, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge. Throat. Sore; BEGINS ON LEFT SIDE. (LACH.) Much tough phlegm. Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it. WARM FOOD AND DRINK RELIEVE. Empty swallowing most painful. Dry fauces and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat with CONSTANT necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air. Tongue as if burnt.

Stomach
Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and difficult breathing. NO THIRST. Loathing for strong food. Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food. Pyrosis; copious salivation. Cold, empty feeling in stomach. DESIRE FOR HOT THINGS. SWEETISH taste.

Female
Menses too late; come by fits and starts. INTERMIT (KREOS.; PULS.) (due to transient and localized congestion of womb alternating with chronic anaemic state).

Fever
CHILL PREDOMINATES; from below upwards. Heat in Head and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill. Lachrymation during paroxysm. Thirstless.

Extremities
Cracking of skin under and beneath toes; inflammation under toe-nails.

Skin
Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, THICKENED NAILS. Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation. Itching in anus.

Modalities
WORSE, cold and cold drinks, full moon. BETTER, warm food and drink, wrapped up.

Relationship
Complementary: SEPIA. Compare: VERATRINA (is alkaloid of Sabadilla, NOT of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and for removal of dropsy. Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed on inside of thighs, causes diuresis). COLCH.; NUX; ARUNDO and POLLATIN. PHLEUM PRATENSE-Timothy- Hay-fever-Potentized-12-specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing manner. (Rabe.) CUMARINUM (hay-fever). Antidotes: PULS.; LYCOP.; CONIUM; LACH.

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

Ruta is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• sprains
• strains
• bruises
• bone injuries
• headaches after straining eyes
• eyestrain
• injuries to tendons
• sore joints
• formation of deposits or nodes on tendons, periosteum and joints

From Boericke: 

(Rue-bitterwort) Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining FLEXOR TENDONS especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All parts of the body are painful, AS IF BRUISED. Sprains (after ARNICA). Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. FEELING OF INTENSE LASSITUDE, WEAKNESS AND DESPAIR. Injured "bruised" bones.

Head
Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks. Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.

Eyes
EYE-STRAIN FOLLOWED BY HEADACHE. EYES RED, HOT, AND PAINFUL FROM SEWING OR READING FINE PRINT. (NAT. MUR.; ARG. NIT.) DISTURBANCES OF ACCOMMODATION. Weary pain while reading. Pressure deep in orbits. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.

Stomach
Gastralgia of aching, gnawing character.

Urinary
Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating; painful closure. (APIS.) Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full.

Rectum
DIFFICULT FSECES, evacuated only with straining. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. CARCINOMA AFFECTING LOWER BOWEL. PROLAPSUS ANI every time the bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.

Respiratory
Cough with copious, thick, yellow expectoration; chest feels weak. Painful spot on sternum; short breath with tightness of chest.

Back
Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure and lying on back. Lumbago worse morning before rising.

Extremities
Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak. (PHOS.; CON.) Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Ganglia. (BENZOIC AC) Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened. (GRAPH.) TENDONS CORE. Aching pain in tendo-Achilles. THIGHS PAIN WHEN STRETCHING THE LIMBS. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Modalities
WORSE, lying down, from cold, wet weather.

Relationship
Compare: RATANHIA; CARDUUS. Rectal (irritation); JABORANDI; PHYT.; RHUS; SIL.; ARN. Antidote: CAMPH. Complementary: CALC. PHOS.

Dose
First to sixth potency. Locally, the tincture for ganglia and as a lotion for the eyes.

 Chamomilla is a homeopathic remedy that is indicated for:

• teething, especially when the child becomes extremely irritable
• colic , especially when the child becomes extremely irritable
• otitis media
• otitis externa
• ear infections
• fevers
• diarrhea

Rhus tox is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• joint stiffness that is better with movement, when you "limber up"
• muscle stiffness
• arthritis
• poison ivy
• strains
• sprains
• sporsts injuries
• fibromyalgia
• rashes
• rosacea
• eczema
• bursitis
• tendonitis
• herpes
• hives

From Boericke:

 (Poison-ivy) The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly- joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc., producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. TEARING ASUNDER PAINS. Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages. (ECHINAC.) Rheumatism in the cold season. SEPTICEMIA.

Mind
Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. EXTREME RESTLESSNESS, VNTH CONTINUED CHANGE OF POSITION. Delirium, with fear of being poisoned. (HYOS.) SENSORIUM BECOMES CLOUDY. GREAT APPREHENSION AT NIGHT, CANNOT REMAIN IN BED.

Head
Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead. Vertigo when rising. HEAVY head. Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising. Scalp sensitive-worse on side Iain on. Headache in occiput (RHUS RAD.); painful to touch. Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward. Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.

Eyes
Swollen, red, ïedematous; ORBITAL CELLULITIS. PUSTULAR INFLAMMATIONS. Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus. Oedema of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated, swollen. Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Ears
Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

Nose
Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.

Face
JAWS CRACK WHEN CHEWING. Easy dislocation of jaw. (IGN.; PETROL.) SWOLLEN FACE, erysipelas. Cheek bones sensitive to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening. CRUSTA LACTEA. (CALC.; VIOL. TRIC.)

Mouth
Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore. Tongue red and cracked; COATED, EXCEPT RED TRIANGULAR SPACE AT THE TIP; dry and red at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blistera around mouth and chin. (NAT. MUR.) PAIN IN MAXILLARY JOINT. Throat. Sore, with SWOLLEN GLANDS. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis, left side.

Stomach
Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst. BITTER TASTE. (CUPR.) Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating. DESIRE FOR MILK. Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. (BRY.; ARS.) DROWSY AFTER EATING.

Abdomen
Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in region of ascending colon. Colic, compelling to walk bent. Excessive distention after eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

Rectum
Diarrhoea of blood, slime, and reddish mucus. Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum. Dysentery.

Urinary
Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.

Male
Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, OEDEMATOUS. ITCHING INTENSE.

Female
Swelling, with intense itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. LOCHIA THIN, PROTRACTED, OFFENSIVE DIMINISHED (PULS.; SECALE), WITH SHOOTING UPWARDS IN VAGINA. (SEP.)

Respiratory
Tickling behind upper sternum. DRY, TEASING COUGH from midnight until morning, DURING A CHILL, OR WHEN PUTTING HANDS OUT OF BED. Haemoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones. (EUP. PERF.) Hoarseness from overstraining voice. (ARN.) Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking, pains. Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Heart
Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. TREMBLING AND PALPITATION WHEN SITTING STILL.

Back
Pain between shoulders on swallowing. PAIN AND STIFFNESS IN SMALL OF BACK; BETTER, MOTION, OR LYING ON SOMETHING HARD; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Extremities
Hot, painful swelling of joints. PAINS TEARING IN TENDONS, LIGAMENTS, AND FASCIM. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better motion. (AGARIC) Soreness of condyles of bones. LIMBS STIFF, PARALYZED. THE COLD FRESH AIR IS NOT TOLERATED; IT MAKES THE SKIN PAINFUL. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. SCIATICA; worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion. Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet.

Fever
Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, uticaria. Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Skin
Red, swollen; ITCHING INTENSE. Vesicles, herpes; URTICARIA; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. CELLULITIS. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.

Sleep
DREAMS OF GREAT EXERTION. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

Modalities
WORSE, during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and after rain; at night, DURING REST, drenching, when lying on back or right side. BETTER, warm, dry weather, motion; walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.

Rheum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• colicky babies who are always screaming and crying
• vomiting that leaves a sour taste in the mouth
• diarrhea
• nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
• difficult teething in babies

From Boericke:

 (Rhubarb) Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition. WHOLE CHILD SMELLS SOUR.

Mind
Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries. (CINA.)

Head
Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. COOL SWEAT ON THE FACE, ESPECIALLY ABOUT MOUTH AND NOSE.

Mouth
Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour. (CHAM.)

Stomach
Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full.

Abdomen
Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest.

Rectum
Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. STOOLS SMELL SOUR, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhoea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered faecal stools.

Modalities
WORSE, uncovering, after eating, moving about.

Relationship
Compare: MAG. PHOS.; HEP.; POD.; CHAM.; IPEC. Antidotes: CAMPH.; CHAM. Complementary: MAG. CARB.

Dose
Third to sixth potency.

Pulsatilla is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of :

• depression
• changeable moods
• PMS
• period pain
• menstrual pain/cramps
• headaches
• colds and flus
• conjunctivitis
• pink eye
• sinusitis
• chicken pox
• anxiety
• ear infections
• otitis media
• labour pains
• styes 

From Boericke:

(Wind Flower) The weather-cock among remedies. The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; CHANGEABLE, contradictory. THE PATIENT SEEKS THE OPEN AIR; ALWAYS FEELS BETTER THERE, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. DISCHARGES THICK, BLAND, AND YELLOWISH-GREEN. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles. SYMPTOMS EVER CHANGING. THIRSTLESS, PEEVISH, AND CHILLY. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.

Mind
Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghosts. Likes sympathy. Children like fuss and caresses. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex. Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Highly emotional. Mentally, an April day.

Head
Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; vertigo; better in open air. Frontal and supraorbital pains. Neuralgic pains, commencing in RIGHT TEMPORAL region, WITH SCALDING LACHRYMATION OF AFFECTED SIDE. HEADACHE FROM OVERWORK. Pressure on vertex.

Ears
Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhoea. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. Catarrhal otitis. Otalgia, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of hearing.

Eyes
THICK, PROFUSE, YELLOW, BLAND DISCHARGES. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus. LIDS INFLAMED, AGGLUTINATED. STYES. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.

Nose
Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.

Face
Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Mouth
Greasy taste. DRY MOUTH, WITHOUT THIRST; wants it washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. CRACK IN MIDDLE OF LOWER LIP. YELLOW OR WHITE TONGUE, COVERED WITH A TENACIOUS MUCUS. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in mouth. (COFF.) Offensive odor from mouth. (MERC; AUR.) Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much SWEET saliva. ALTERATIONS OF TASTE, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, FOUL. Loss of taste. Desire for tonics.

Stomach
AVERSE TO FAT FOOD, WARM FOOD, AND DRINK. Eructations; TASTE OF FOOD REMAINS A LONG TIME; after ices, fruits, pasty. BITTER TASTE, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. FLATULENCE. Dislikes butter. (SANG). Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. THIRSTLESSNESS, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. (NUX.) Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling. (ABIES C.) Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. (ASAF.) All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers. Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning.

Abdomen
Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.

Stool
Rumbling, watery; worse, night. NO TWO STOOLS ALIKE. After fruit. (Ars.; CHIN.) Blind haemorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness. (MERC; RHEUM.) TWO OR THREE NORMAL STOOLS DAILY. Urine. Increased desire; WORSE WHEN LYING DOWN. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Female
Amenorrhoea. (CIMICIF.; SENEC; POLYGON.) Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, CLOTTED, CHANGEABLE, INTERMITTENT. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhoea during or after menses.

Male
Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoea. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. (CLEMAT.) ACUTE PROSTATITIS. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, WORSE LYING ON BACK.

Respiratory
Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. DRY COUGH IN EVENING AND AT NIGHT; MUST SIT UP IN BED TO GET RELIEF; AND LOOSE COUGH IN THE MORNING, with copious mucous expectoration. PRESSURE UPON THE CHEST AND SORENESS. Great soreness of episgastrium. Urine emitted with cough. (CAUST.) Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. (PHOS.) Smothering sensation on lying down.

Sleep
WIDE AWAKE IN THE EVENING; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over head.

Back
Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Extremities
Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and CHILLINESS. PAIN IN LIMBS, SHIFTING RAPIDLY; tensive pain, LETTING UP WITH A SNAP. Numbness around elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; SUFFERING WORSE FROM LETTING THE AFFECTED LIMB HANG DOWN. (VIPERA.) Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Skin
Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. MEASLES. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Fever
CHILLINESS, even in warm room, WITHOUT THIRST. Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 p.m. Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during sweat. EXTERNAL HEAT IS INTOLERABLE, VEINS ARE DISTENDED. During apyrexia, headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, nausea.

Modalities
WORSE, from heat, rich fat food, after eating, towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side, when allowing feet to hang down. BETTER, open air, motion, cold applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.

Relationship
PENTHORUM, often indicated after Pulsatilla in later colds. IONESIA ASOCA-Saraca indica-(AMENORRHEA, Menorrhagia-acts powerfully on female organs. Abdominal pain). ATRIPLEZ (Uterine symptoms, amenorrhoea; hysteria, coldness between shoulders, dislike of warm food, craves strange foods, palpitation, sleeplessness). PULSATILLA NUTTALIANA, identical effects. Compare: CYCLAMEN; KALI BICH.; KALI SULPH.; SULPHUR. PIMENTA-Allspice-(one-sided neuralgias, parts of body hot and cold). ANAGYRIS (headache, amenorrhoea). Complementary: COFFEA; CHAMOM.; NUX.

Dose
Third to thirtieth attenuation.