HOMEOPATHY FOR LABOUR

 KEYNOTES for commonly needed REMEDIES DURING THE BIRTHING PROCESS

ACONITE

• MIND: panic, fear, fear of death, fear of the future, anxiety, restlessness, unbearable pain, anxious dreams, insomnia

• FEVER: high fever with chills, sudden onset

• EYES: fearful, panicked, red inflamed, lids swollen, profuse watering

• HEAD: headache, as if hair being pulled, face red, flushed, swollen, one flushed cheek

• BODY: stiff, numb back, sensation bruised between scapula

• DIGESTION: vomiting

• RESPIRATORY: shortness of breath, throat constricted, red, dry, oesophageal burning

• SENSATIONS: burning, bursting, pressure, tingling in cheeks and jawbone

• PAINS: intolerable, unbearable, fearful

• WORSE: dry, cold winds, evening, night, warm room, rising, aversion to light,

• BETTER: open air,

• THIRST: very thirsty for cold water

ARSENICUM ALBUM

• MIND: great anxiety, restlessness, anguished, highly sensitive, fastidious, fearful, fear of death, of health

• FEVER: cold sweat, internal chills with external heat, desire for warm drinks during fever

• EYES: burning acrid discharge, pupils either contracted or dilated, swelling around eye

• HEAD: headaches better cold, icy scalp, periodic,

• BODY: oedemas, burning pains in the back, weakness of limbs

• DIGESTION: diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, retching, indigestion, heartburn

• RESPIRATORY: wheezing, anxiety in chest, tightness of chest, cough exhausting, after drinking, deep, dry, suffocative sensation when sleeping, pneumonia, expectoration frothy, bloody, thick, yellow, green, scanty

• SENSATIONS: chilly with burning sensations, as if torn, ice cold parts, stiffness, trembling, jerking, twitching, spasms

• PAINS: burning, itching, drawing, darting, convulsive

• WORSE: after midnight, lying down,

• BETTER: warmth, fresh air, warmth, sitting up, moving

• FOOD: loss of appetite with thirst and nausea, many foods aggravate, craves lemons and sour foods

• THIRST: very thirsty but tends to only sip drinks, desires warm/hot drinks

BELLADONNA

• MIND:

• FEVER: a key fever remedy, sudden onset high fever

• EYES: glistening, dilated pupils

• HEAD: flushed face, tearing pain in middle ear, acute hearing, humming noises, headache

• BODY: radiating heat, cold hands and feet

• DIGESTION: empty retching, nausea, vomiting, distended, cutting pain left worse coughing

• RESPIRATORY: dry, hot, barking, whooping cough. Stitching chest, painful larynx, dry nose, throat, hoarse voice, difficult breathing

• SENSATIONS: body jerks, extreme sensitivity stomach. lump in throat, vertigo

• PAINS: throbbing, stitching, sharp, needle like

• WORSE: afternoon and night around 9pm, lying down, often worse on right side, dryness

• BETTER: sitting up slightly

• FOOD: loss appetite, desire lemon/lemon taste, averse meat and milk

• THIRST: dread drinking, thirstless, dryness with thirst

BRYONIA ALBA

• MIND: grumpy, cross, desire to be left alone, irritable,

• FEVER: dry burning heat, blood feels hot, rheumatic fever, painful, ongoing fevers, profuse perspiration

• EYES: burning, worse movement, light sensitive

• HEAD: migraines, headache, sinus, occipital, tongue feels dry, vertigo

• BODY: muscles stiff, severe back pain or neck, perspiration oily, sour, profuse

• DIGESTION: nausea, vomiting worse after eating, stomach sensitive to touch, constipation, pain in the liver region

• RESPIRATORY: breathing hurts, cough hard, hacking, dry may automatically hold chest, tough mucous, hoarse, desire to take long breath, discomfort extends to right shoulder

• SENSATIONS: dryness, parched, splitting, sensitive to touch, as if stone in abdomen, stiffness

• PAINS: sharp, stitching, swelling, sticking, pressure, tearing, bursting, splitting

• WORSE: movement, warmth, morning, eating, arguing, coughing, deep breathing, bread

• BETTER: being left alone, pressure, cold thing, cloudy damp days

• FOOD: aversion to greasy foods, milk, aggravated by cabbage

• THIRST: very thirsty for large quantities of cold water or thirstless, strong desire for coffee, desires warm drinks

CARBO VEG

• MIND: weakness, exhaustion, debilitated, lifeless, confusion,

• FEVER: burning in specific places, hectic fevers, exhausting perspiration, warm head yet cold limbs

• EYES: muscles painful when looking up

• HEAD: hot, face blue, pale, cold, sweaty, teeth sensitive when chewing, nosebleeds, perspiration on face sour, headaches, hair feels sore,

• BODY: blood stagnates leading to coldness and low vitality, severe pain in lumbar, throat feels closed,

• DIGESTION: flatulence, bloating, distended abdomen, painful diaarhoea, stool escapes when passing wind, stools acrid, burning, moist

• RESPIRATORY: air hunger, breath cold, thick, acrid discharges, hoarseness

• SENSATIONS: lack of vitality, lack of reaction, bruised, soreness, heaviness, slowness, numbness

• PAINS: tender, dull, compressive, heavy

• WORSE: tight clothing around waist, from the smallest amount of food, rich food, extremes of temperature, from depletion or since a recent illness

• BETTER: cool air, belching, elevating feet

• FOOD: aggravated by coffee, butter, milk, wine

• THIRST: coldness with thirst

CHINA officinalis

• MIND: overactive, indifferent, muddled thoughts yet clear mind in the evening, irritable, sensitive, mistakes in speech and writing, insomnia from ideas

• FEVER: debilitating sweats, canine hunger during fever

• EYES: inflamed, itching

• HEAD: headache accompanied by ringing in ears, headaches congestive, throbbing, face sallow, pale, lips deep blue,

• BODY: exhaustion, drenching sweats,

• DIGESTION: constipation, extreme distention of abdomen, diarrhoea, dehydration, flatulence

• RESPIRATORY: cough spasmodic, violent, hacking, dry, irritable, cutting pains in abdomen during cough, difficult expectoration, violent dry sneezing, chest feels sore, heightened sensitivity to smells

• SENSATIONS: numbness, trembling, heaviness, bruised, as if stone between scapulae

• PAINS: throbbing, neuralgic, bursting, intolerable, periodic, pressing, stinging

• WORSE: loss of vital fluids, talking, laughing, hot foods, milk, bad meat, impure water,

• BETTER: open air, hard pressure, bending double

• FOOD: voracious appetite or complete loss of appetite, desires sour fruit, food tastes bitter

• THIRST: thirsty for cold water

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

• MIND: talkative, funny, excited or alternatively angry, apathetic with the need for quiet

• FEVER: night sweats, fever with sore throat, chills while eating, chills with desire to stretch

• EYES: sensation of something inside upper lid, inflamed, stye on lower lid

• HEAD: nosebleeds, earache, face alternating red to pale,

• BODY: hot with sweaty hands, stiff neck, back pain, night sweats,

• DIGESTION: sour belching, vomiting, stomach pain aggravated after eating, diarrhoea, stools yellow, watery, bloody, undigested

• RESPIRATORY: tickling or hacking, short, spasmodic cough, dry, persistent, painful cough, tonsils red, swollen, watery discharge from nose, chest feels heavy, sore,

• SENSATIONS: roaring, buzzing, stiffness,

• PAINS: rheumatic, throbbing, stinging, neuralgic,

• WORSE: going into open air, morning, evening, shaking head, stooping, tea, coffee, 4am to 6am, noise, cold drinks, sour food

• BETTER: night, cold applications, lying down

• FOOD: desire sour tastes, stimulants, loss of appetite

• THIRST:

GELSEMIUM

• MIND: anticipation, worse bad news, dullness, apathy, lack of fear, heaviness, listless, desire for quiet, fear of falling, of doctors, fright

• FEVER: chills especially in the back alternating with heat, chills run up and down the spine

• EYES: double vision, pupils may be dilated or contracted, heavy eyelids, dullness, inflamed

• HEAD: dizziness, dusky complexion, facial neuralgia, face is hot, heavy, flushed, fatigued, headache dull, band-like, heavy, occipital

• BODY: aching muscles all over the body, muscular weakness

• DIGESTION: diarhhoea,

• RESPIRATORY: breathless, breath slow, sore chest,oppressive sensation on chest, heaviness at the centre of the chest, loss of voice, swollen throat, cough ticking, dry, croupy, convulsive, spasmodic, irritable

• SENSATIONS: fatigue, relaxation of muscles, lump in throat, tickling, itching, from throat to ears. lightness in the head, body, band-like headaches, trembling

• PAINS: shooting in to ears, dull, aching, heavy, back, hips, legs, lumbar, sacral

• WORSE: damp weather, 10am, swallowing, wine, motion, anticipation

• BETTER: open air, continued motion, profuse urination,

• FOOD: low appetite,

• THIRST: thirstlessness

IGNATIA

• MIND: sighing, sobbing, changeable, sadness, worse from a shock, grief, disappointment or loss, anger

• FEVER:

• EYES: inflamed, red, light sensitivity, stabbing, blue rings around eyes,

• HEAD: sour taste, face red or pale, lips dry, cracked, headaches sudden, congestive, following extreme emotion

• BODY: painful, jerking, heavy limbs,

• DIGESTION: colic, cramping, sinking sensation, intestinal rumbling, flatulent, diarrhoea, nausea, hunger and nausea simultaneously

• RESPIRATORY: sharp pains in left chest, chest feels constricted, cough spasmodic, hacking, irritating, tickling, in quick succession, dry, hoarse, nervous, sighing, oppressive breathing, slow inhale quick exhale, choking breath

• SENSATIONS: stitching, tendency to choke, lump in throat, jerking, twitching, weakness

• PAINS: trachea, calves, soles feet, throbbing, cramping, aching, stabbing, spasmodic

• WORSE: coffee, smoking or smelling tobacco smoke, grief, shock, worry, slight touch

• BETTER: belching, deep breathing, pressure, lying on back

• FOOD: tastes bitter, loss of appetite

KALI CARBONICUM

• MIND: discontent, changeable moods, anxiety, anxious about state-of-health, obstinate, highly sensitive to pain, worry, desires company

• FEVER: surging fever with throbbing sensation

• EYES: stitching sensation in eyes, lids stick together, swollen eyelids, vision of spots, pain shutting eye

• HEAD: tongue burning, tip of tongue feels raw, headache from cold wind, in to eyes, when sneezing, coughing, congestive

• BODY: back pain, burning in spine, kidneys, right scapula, offensive sour perspiration, skin dry, sensitive

• DIGESTION: chokes when eating, anxiety in stomach, acidity and burning, flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, burning in rectum or anus, anxiety felt in the stomach, nausea

• RESPIRATORY: nose stopped up, post nasal drip, yellow discharge, sore nostrils, nosebleed, sore throat, wheezing, hoarseness, dry hard cough, accumulation mucous worse morning,

• SENSATIONS: stitching, stiffness, paralysis, oedema, back, thighs, lump in stomach, trembling

• PAINS: cutting, stitching, extreme sensitivity, congestive, pulsating, throbbing, burning

• WORSE: warm room, washing face, 2am to 4am, right lower chest, exertion, loss of fluids

• BETTER: warm weather, moving, open aire, sitting with elbows on knees

• FOOD: desires sweets, perspires after eating, aversion to food or ravenous

LACHESIS

• MIND: restlessness, paranoid, suspicious, talking, quick speech,

• FEVER: chilly felt in back, hot flushes,

• HEAD: gums spongy, painful facial bones, swollen tongue,

• BODY: pain in neck, coccyx,

• DIGESTION: pain in pit of stomach.

• RESPIRATORY: sore throat, constant need to hawk, throat painful to touch, sensitivity in the windpipe

• SENSATIONS: neuralgia, dryness,

• PAINS: swollen, sensitivity to touch, burning

• WORSE: rising from sitting, swallowing liquids, scarf around throat, lying down

• BETTER:

• FOOD: gnawing pressure with desire to eat

• THIRST: craves alcohol
  

LYCOPODIUM

• MIND: sad, anxious, angry on waking, weak memory, very sensitive, difficulty with change

• FEVER:

• EYES:

• HEAD: headache, pain in temples, teeth, dry mouth, foul breath, cracked and swollen tongue,

• BODY: limbs fall asleep, calf cramps, painful heels and soles of feet,

• DIGESTION: abdominal fullness, bloating, flatulence,

• RESPIRATORY: tickling cough, burning in chest, pneumonia that has been neglected, sore throat, laryngitis,

• SENSATIONS: swelling, moves from right to left, dryness,

• PAINS: throbbing, tearing,

• WORSE: bread,

• BETTER:

• FOOD: desire for sweets, hot drinks and food, hungry during the night

• THIRST:

NUX VOMICA

• MIND: dramatic, sensitive,irritable, nasty, demanding, fault-finding, fastidious, restless, fear of death, weak memory, insomnia,

• FEVER: sour perspiration, chilly, aching back and limbs

• EYES: bloodshot, twitching, sensitive to light

• HEAD: migraines, headache over eyes, occiput, frontal, toxic, from sunshine, alcohol, tongue red, sore, yellow, vertigo

• BODY: liver congestion, limbs feel stiff,

• DIGESTION: flatulence, cramping, sour and bitter belching, nausea, vomiting, sensation of emptiness, constipation, sensation of incomplete passing of stool, indigestion

• RESPIRATORY: tight, dry, hacking cough, blocked nose at night and when outside, violent sneezing, oppressive breathing, loud snoring during sleep, sensation of suffocation, cough aggravates headache

• SENSATIONS: numbness, as if weight in stomach, loss of power, tickling

• PAINS: tearing, cramping, aching, spasmodic,

• WORSE: over exertion, stimulants, pressure, warm room, after 3am

• BETTER: warmth, after a nap, damp weather, moist air

• FOOD: desires stimulants, craves pungent foods, hungry yet aversion to food

• THIRST: thirstless during heat but thirsty during chills

PHOSPHORUS

• MIND: wants company, excitable, brain fog, anxiety, fearful, highly sensitive,

• FEVER: excessive perspiration, unnatural hunger, chilly in the morning

• EYES: blue rings under eyes,

• HEAD: head pain with dry cough,

• BODY: palpitations with anxiety, fast pulse,

• DIGESTION: sour belching, nausea, vomiting, h

• RESPIRATORY: hard, dry, hacking cough, congestion of lungs, for symptoms going to the chest and/or threatening to turn into pneumonia, cold air aggravates chest, throat and neck symptoms, as if heavy weight on chest, larynx very painful

• SENSATIONS: sensitive to light and noise, abdomen feels cold, cold knees in the evening, body trembles with cough,

• PAINS: sharp, cutting, burning, neuralgic,

• WORSE: in the dark, cold food, cold water, left side, lying on left, cough worse from laughing and talking,

• BETTER: stomach pain better cold food,

• FOOD: hunger even after eating

• THIRST: cold drinks, craves icy water, desire to drink huge quantities, desire for cola

SULPHUR

• MIND: irritable, apathetic, depressed, sadness, forgetful, easily bored, ambitious, workaholic

• FEVER: flashes of heat, night sweats, dry skin,

• EYES: inflamed, trembling, styes

• HEAD: bright red lips, headache, white tongue with red tip, face appears sickly, headache with pressure in temples, sweaty scalp

• BODY: jerking, twisting, offensive discharges, unhealthy skin,

• DIGESTION: nausea, feeling of faintness mid-morning, diarrhoea, nausea, haemorrhoids, abdomen sensitive to pressure, colic after eating, acidic system

• RESPIRATORY: loose cough, throat burning, red, dry, shooting pains through chest,

• SENSATIONS: burning, dryness, pressure, heat on top of head, ball rising in the pharynx, throat pressure as if from splinter, as if band around the chest or bones

• PAINS: throbbing, shooting, beating, burning, heavy

• WORSE: milk, 11am, warmth, bathing

• BETTER: open air, dry weather, warm weather, lying on right side

• FOOD: loss or alternatively excessive appetite, bitter, sour, sweet taste

• THIRST: very thirsty

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