PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME AND HOMEOPATHY

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME AND HOMEOPATHY

Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being practised?all over the world. It strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual through promotion of inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual and physical levels. When premenstrual syndrome is concerned there are many effective medicines available in Homoeopathy, but the selection depends upon the individuality of the patient, considering mental and physical symptoms.

BOVISTA:?Diarrhea before menses. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist. Traces of menses between menstruation. Sensitive and absent minded.

CALCAREA CARBONICUM:?Breast tender and swollen before menses. Headache, colic, chilliness, and leucorrhea before menses. Thick, milky, gushing leucorrhea. Burning and itching in genitals before and after menstruation. Apprehensive, worse towards evening. Depressed. Melancholic or doubting moods. Chilly persons. Profuse sweat, especially on the scalp. Craving for indigestible things, dirt, chalk, coal, and pencils. Suited to fat and flabby persons, who catches cold easily.

CONIUM MACULATUM:?Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses, worse every step. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Pimples, small red, small red, burning appear with scanty menses and disappear after menses.

IGNATIA AMARA:?Emotional disturbances. Highly emotional and moody.?Sighing and sobbing. Inward weeping, enjoys being sad. Silently brooding. Desire to be alone. Aversion to company. Worse from consolation. Constantly frustrated. Internal conflicts with herself. Melancholic, sad and tearful.

LACHESIS:?Great mental and physical tension. Sensation of tension in various parts. Headache before menses. Headache with dim vision nad vertigo. Uterine and ovarian pains, all relieved by the flow. Cannot bear anything tight anywhere. Heat feeling in the body.?Sensation of constriction in the throat, abdomen and head. Great loquacity, rambling, frequently jumping from one subject to another, then sadness and repeats the same thing.

NATRUM MURIATICUM:?Depressed and introverted. Irritable. Consolation aggravates complaints. Wants to be alone to cry. Cannot cry in front of others. Acne breakout before menses. Oily face. Craving for salt or salty foods is characteristic to Natrum muriaticum.

PULSATILLA NIGRICANS:?Changeable moods. Weeps easily. Cries easily, moved to tears before menses. Craves sympathy and company. Mild, timid, emotional and tearful. Scanty or suppressed menses. Wants cool, fresh, open air. Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints. Worse from rich foods, fats, pastries, desserts, and ice-cream.

SEPIA:?Mood swings.?Irritable, sensitive and angry, easily offended and miserable. Irritability alternates with indifference or sulks. Sad over her health and domestic affairs. Aversion to indulge in any kind of physical or mental labor. Aversion to family to those loved best. Weak uterus, dragging or bearing down sensation as if everything would escape through the vagina, must cross legs to prevent protrusion or press against vagina. Acne worse before menses.

ZINCUM METALLICUM:?Menses associated with restlessness, depression, coldness, spinal tenderness, and restless feet. Dry cough before and during menses. Complaints all better during menstrual flow.

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