Sepia sep.

Weak memory.
Heavy flow of ideas.
Inability for mental activity.
Fits of involuntary weeping and laughter.
Aversion to one's occupation.
Sadness about one's health and her domestic affairs.
Dread of being alone.
Anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over the face; about real or imaginary evils.
Antagonistic states; imagines what he does not want to; uses wrong words knowing them to be so, etc.
Great indifference even to one's family, to those one loves best.
Is easily offended and inclined to be vehement.
Great irritability alternating with indifference.
Greedy, miserly.
Great excitability in company.
Restless, fidgety.
After overexertion of the mind, as with book keepers, etc.

Stupefaction of the head.
Momentary attacks of giddiness when walking in open air or while writing.
Congestion of blood to the head.
Heaviness of the head.

Paroxysms of hemicrania, stinging pain from within outward, in one (mostly left) side of head or forehead with nausea, vomiting and contraction of pupils; worse in-doors and when walking fast; better in open air, and when lying on painful side.
Boring headache from within outward, forenoon till evening, feels as if he would die; worse from motion and stooping; relieved by rest, when closing eyes, from external pressure, and sleep and when enough has been had.
Shooting pains in-out, especially over left eye, extorting cries, with vomiturition.
Pressing or bursting headache as if eyes would fall out, or head burst, worse from stooping, motion, coughing or shaking the head; continued hard motion relieves headache.
Pulsating headache in cerebellum, beginning in morning, lasting till noon, or sometimes till evening; aggravated from least motion, when turning eyes, when lying on back; better when lying on side when closing eyes when at rest and in dark room.
Beating: in head; in occiput.
Headache, with aversion to all food.

Involuntary jerking of head backward and forward, especially forenoons and when sitting.
Fontanelles remain open, with jerking of head pale, bloated face, stomacace, green, diarrhœic stools.
Sensation of coldness on vertex, worse when moving head and stooping; better when at rest and in open air.
Disposition to take cold from dry cold wind, or getting head wet.
Sweat on head smelling sour, with faintish weakness in evening before sleep or in morning.
Violent itching, like from insects, on occiput or behind cars.
Eruption on vertex and back part of head, dry, offensive stinging, itching and tingling, with cracks; feeling sore when scratching.
Sensitiveness to roots of hair, worse in evening, to contact, to cold North wind, when lying on painless side, burning after scratching.
Falling off of the hair.

Dulness of sight; also when writing; sees only one-half of the object clearly, the other half is obscured.
Many black spots before eyes.
Green halo around candle light.
Great sensitiveness of eyes to light of day.
Prickling in eyes, evenings from candle-light.
Yellow color of whites of eyes.
Lachrymation, morning and evening.
Burning in eyes in morning.
Inflammation of eyes, with redness of white; stitching and pressure in eyes.
Follicular conjunctivitis, worse in summer; eyelids will close.
Redness of eyelids, with styes on them.
Nightly agglutination of eyes, or dry scurf on the eyelids on waking.
Pustules on cornea, also fungus hæmatodes.
Acne-like pustules on edges of lids; the latter feel tight.
Painful heaviness of upper lids on awaking.

Oversensitiveness to noise, particularly music.
Humming in ears, followed by loss of hearing.
Stitching in ears.
Discharge of thin matter from ear.
Much itching in affected ear.
Tetters on lobe of ear, behind ears and in nape of neck.
Stitches in parotid glands which swell, with tensive pain in turning the head.

Great sensitiveness to odors.
Loss of smell, or fetid smell before the nose.
Epistaxis, also during pregnancy and with hemorrhoids.
Fluent coryza sneezing, early morning.
Dry, worse left nostril.
Swollen, inflamed nose; nostrils sore, ulcerated and scabby.
Blowing of large lumps of yellow-green mucus or yellow-green crust with blood, from the nose.
Painful eruption on tip of nose.

Small red pimples on forehead; rough forehead.
Face: pale, yellow.
Yellow saddle across nose; yellow spots on face; yellow around mouth.
Tetters around mouth, with itching of face.
Swelling of under-lip, soreness, burning pain and a pricking as of a splinter in lip; or, ulcers covered with large thick scurfs; corrosive ichor oozes from under the scabs; epithelioma.
Inflammation and swelling of one side of face, from the root of a decayed tooth.
Intermittent prosopalgia, with congestion of eyes and head, jerking pains, like electric shocks upwards.

Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Toothache: drawing in upper molars; in a hollow tooth, extending to ear; throbbing; stitching.
Early decay of the teeth.
Teeth feel dull.
Swelling of gums, dark-red, painful, bleeding from slightest touch.
Gums painful, as if burned.

Taste: bitter; saltish; putrid or offensive.
Food tastes too salt.
Tongue painful, as if sore or scalded; vesicles; white-coated.

Offensive smell from the mouth.
Profuse flow of salt saliva; yet throat is very dry.

Pain in throat, as if raw, when swallowing; also stitching and scraping from empty deglutition.
Inflammation of throat, worse on left side.
Sensation of a plug.
Much mucus in throat.
Hawking of mucus in morning.

Canine hunger; or, no appetite, nothing tastes good.
Aversion to food, particularly meat.
Desire for vinegar; also for wine.
Thirstlessness; or, much thirst in the morning.

During and immediately after eating the pains are renewed or aggravated.
After eating: eructations; empty or bitter tasting; hiccough.
After drinking milk: 20. From acids: 28.

Eructations: frequent with efforts to vomit; bitter; sour; taste like rotten eggs.
Heart-burn, extending from stomach to throat.
Nausea: after eating, also in morning fasting; from smell of food; when riding in a carriage.
Vomiting: of bile and food in morning of milky fluid; during pregnancy.

Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to touch.
Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach and abdomen.
Pressure in stomach, as from a stone; after eating.
Pain in stomach after the simplest kind of food.
Cramp in stomach.
Stitches, or burning in stomach.
Beating in pit of the stomach.
Twisting in stomach and rising in throat, tongue becomes stiff, speechless, afterward the body may become rigid.
Hardness in pyloric region.

Stitches: in region of liver; also, when riding; in left hypochondrium; better lying on painful side.

Colic: with great distention and sensitiveness.
Rumbling in abdomen, especially after eating.
Abdomen puffed up.
Pot-belliedness of mothers.
Brown spots on abdomen.

Diarrhœa: jelly-like stools, with colic and tenesmus of green mucus; sour smelling; debilitating; worse after drinking milk, especially if boiled.
Unsuccessful urging to stool, only wind and mucus passes; sensation of lump in rectum.
Stool insufficient, retarded, like sheep-dung.
Pain in rectum during and long after stool; hard, knotty, insufficient stool, mixed or covered with mucus; involuntary straining.
Sense of weight in anus, not relieved by evacuation.
Discharge of blood with stool.
Pain in rectum extending to genitals.
Heat, burning and swelling of anus.
Almost constant oozing of moisture from rectum.
Soreness between the buttocks.

Urging to urinate from pressure on bladder.
Frequent micturition, even at night.
Involuntary discharge of urine at night, especially during first sleep.
Mucous discharge, periodical, not at each micturition; sometimes pieces of coagulated mucus clog up urethra.
Urine: turbid, with sediment of red sand; blood-red, with white sediment and a cuticle on the surface; very offensive, with much white sediment; with dark brown admixture.
Smarting in urethra, when urinating.
Difficulty of urinating, especially in morning; a feeling as if drops came out of the bladder, which is not the case.
Gleet no pain; discharge only during the night, a drop or so, staining the linen yellowish.

Increased sexual desire, with weakness of the genitals; profuse sweat, especially on the scrotum; itching around the genitals.
Emissions, also after onanism.
Semen watery.
After emission, burning in forepart or urethra, languid and drowsy, sensitive to damp air.
During coition, insufficient erection and but little thrill.
After coition, great weakness in the knees.

Pain in uterus, bearing down comes from back to abdomen, causes oppression of breathing, crosses limbs to prevent protrusion of parts.
Stitches, or shooting, lancinating pains mostly in neck of uterus, go up to umbilicus and pit of stomach.
Prolapsus: of the uterus; of the vagina; with constipation.
Induration of neck of uterus.
Dropsy of uterus.
Tenderness of female parts to touch.
Coition painful to women.
Menses: too early and too profuse even with mania; too late and too scanty; suppressed.
Metrorrhagia during climacteric age; or, during pregnancy, especially fifth and seventh months.
Amenorrhœa at the age of puberty or later.
Redness, swelling and itching eruption on inner labia.
Leucorrhœa: yellow or greenish water; like pus; of bad-smelling fluids, accompanied by much itching in genital organs.

Soreness of abdomen of pregnant women; feel the motions of child too sensitively.
Abortion after the fifth month.
Offensive, excoriating lochia.
Bleeding and soreness of nipples, preceded by itching.
Nipples crack very much across the crown.

Hoarseness: with tickling in larynx and bronchi; with coryza and dry cough from titillation in throat.
Sensation of dryness in larynx.
Roughness and soreness of larynx and throat.

Oppression of chest and shortness of breath when walking.
Severe oppression toward evening.
After emotions of mind, loses breath and gets palpitation.

Dry cough: especially evening in bed, till midnight, frequently with nausea and bitter vomiting; during sleep, without waking; from tickling in larynx, or, in bronchi, toward morning.
Cough every evening, not ceasing until he coughs loose a little phlegm.
Paroxysms of spasmodic cough resembling whooping-cough, excited by tickling in chest, from larynx to the stomach; daytime without, morning with expectoration of yellow, green or grey pus, or, of a milk white, tenacious mucus, generally of saltish taste.
Cough and coryza, with sneezing, commences every morning before getting out of bed, and lasts until 9 A.M.
Irritation to cough so sudden and violent can scarcely inhale at all.
Cough worse: when at rest; when lying on left side; from acids.
Coughs phlegm loose, but cannot get it up.
Expectoration profuse, purulent, offensive, green, tasting salty only in morning; of blood while lying down.

Sensation of emptiness in chest.
Great pressure on chest, more left side.
Stitch in left side of chest and scapula, when breathing.
Sensation of soreness in middle of chest.
Chest symptoms relieved by pressing on chest with hand.

Palpitation of heart after emotions of mind.
Interruption of the beating of the heart most after dinner; alarmed; quivering motion.
Wakes up with violent beating of the heart.
Palpitation, with anxiety about things which happened years ago.
Congestion of blood to chest, with violent palpitation of heart.
An occasional hard "thump" of the heart.

Brown spots on chest.

Pain in back and small of back, particularly with stiffness, improved by walking.
When stooping, sudden pain in back as if struck by a hammer, relieved by pressing back against something hard.
Weakness in small of back when walking, generally from disease of the uterus.
Belching relieves pain in back.

Humid tetter in arm-pit.
Pains as from dislocation, in shoulder-joint, after exertion.
Lameness and falling asleep of arms and fingers.
Drawing in arms down to fingers.
Bruised pain in arms.
Herpes on elbow (scaling off).
Stiffness in wrist-joint.
Heat in hands during day, with nervous excitement.
Cold hands even in warm room, and from hands chill through whole body.
Skin on palms peels off.
Itch and scabs on hands, soldier's itch.
Panaritium with violent beating and stitching pains.
Painless ulcers on tip of fingers; or, on the joints.

Coxagra, with lancinating stitches, must get out of bed for relief; pains worse from rising, but better from slow walking.
Sciatica, better during pregnancy; pains 3 to 5 A.M., veins swollen.
Lower limbs go to sleep, when walking.
Icy-coldness of lower limbs.
Swelling of limbs and feet, worse when sitting or standing, better when walking.
Swelling of knee, soft, painless.
Cracking in knee-joint.
Sensation of running as from a mouse, in lower limbs.
Coldness in legs and feet, especially in evening in bed, when the feet get warm, the hands get cold.
Burning, or, heat of the feet at night.
Feet swollen, with sensation as if fallen asleep.
Profuse sweat of feet; or, sweat of unbearable odor causing soreness of toes.
Tension in tendo-achillis, also swelling of the tendon.
Sciatica becomes chronic, localizing in the heel.
Ulcer on the heel.

Stiffness of joints.
Arthritic pains in joints.
Jerking and twitching of head and limbs, during the day.
Limbs go to sleep easily, after manual labor.
Weakness of joints, especially the knees.
Patient fears the joints cannot beat the exertion of lifting.

Rest: 3, 4, 27. Lying on painful side: 3; on painless side: 4; on left side: 27; on back: 3.Sitting: 4, 33. Standing: 33. Rising: 33. Stooping: 3, 4, 31. Motion: 3, 40. Exertion: 32, 40. Walking: 2, 3, 26, 31, 33, 36, 40. Stretching: 36. Kneeling: 36. Legs crossed: 23. Writing: 2. Shaking head: 3. Moving head: 4. Turning head: 6. Closing eyes: 3. Turning eyes.

Restless, fidgety.
Hysterical spasms.
Sensation of ball in inner parts.
Jerking and twitching of head and limbs.
Spasms in buttocks in bed, at night, when stretching out the limb.
Twitching of limbs during sleep.
A short walk fatigues much.
Paralysis, with atrophy.
Fainting: after getting wet; from riding in a carriage; while kneeling in church.

Great sleepiness in daytime or too early in evening.
Frequent awaking from sleep without cause or because he thinks he has been called.
Talks aloud during sleep.
Awakens in morning at 3 o'clock and cannot go to sleep again.
Wakeful, sleeplessness from rush of thoughts.
Restless sleep.

Morning: 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 16, 21, 27. Forenoon till evening: 3. Morning and evening: 5. Evening: 4, 5, 19, 26, 27, 33, 38, 40. Evening till midnight: 27. Night: 21, 27, 33, 36. 3 A.M.: 37. Day: 27, 32, 34, 37, 40.

Warm room: 3, 32. In bed: 27, 33, 46. Open air: 2, 3, 4, 40. Cold winds: 4. Damp air: 22. Getting wet: 4, 36.

Want of natural bodily warmth.
Shuddering during the day, without chill.
Chilliness evening in open air, and from every motion.
More thirst with the chill than with the heat.
Heat with attacks of chilliness, with thirst.
Intermittent fever, with thirst during the chill.
Flushes of heat from least motion; or, as if hot water was poured over him, then sweat, weakness, faintness.
Heat ascends.
Morning-sweat after awaking, profuse.
Sweat, more when walking and from the least exertion.
Sweat more after a nervous shock and when sitting quietly after exertion.
Night-sweat: on chest, back and thighs; from above downward on the calves, every third night; smelling sour; offensive; or, like elder blossoms.

Right: 18. Left: 3, 7, 13, 18, 27, 28. Within outward: 3. Below upward: 23, 40. Above downward: 32, 40.
Pains extend from other parts to the back.

Sensation of a ball in inner parts.
Tingling in outer parts.
Excessive sensitiveness to pain.

Bad effects from loss of fluids.
Painless swelling of the lymphatic glands.
Erysipelas, generally pustulous.
Arthritic affections of the joints.
Crippled nails.

Touch: 4, 10, 17, 23. Pressure: 3, 28, 31. Scratching: 4. Riding: 18, 36.

Itching in face, on arms, hands, back, hips, feet, abdomen and genitals.
Itching often changes to burning, when scratching.
Soreness of the skin; humid places in bends of knees.
Brown; or, claret-colored, tetter-like spots.
Humid tetter, with itching and burning.
Vesicles, itching, followed by abundant desquamation.
Ringworms; boils; pustules; pemphigus.
Ulcers: painless, on joints or tips of fingers or toes; itching, stinging and burning.

Especially suited to persons with dark hair; for women, and particularly during pregnancy, in childbed, and while nursing.

Sepia is frequently indicated after: Pulsat., Silic., Sulphur.
Antidotes to Sepia; Its action is reduced by vegetable acid; the most powerful antidote, is inhalation of Spir. nitr. dulc.; less powerful Ant. crud. or Ant. tart.; when the circulation is much excited, Acon.
Sepia antidote: Calc. ostr., Cinchon., Mercur., Phosphor., Sarsap., Sulphur, Rhus-poisoning (with desquamation).
Incompatible: Laches.