Pregnancy Labor and Nursing

 Pregnancy, during:

• constipation: Nux-vomica

• discharge: Sepia

• headaches: Sepia

• incontinence of urine: PuIsatilla

• vaginal itching: Calad.

• varicose veins: Pulsatilla

• vertigo: Nat-mur

Morning Sickness (nausea in pregnancy):
Colchicum, Ipecac, Phosphorus, Sepia

• breakfast, before: Sepia

• deathly nausea: Ipecac

• eggs, smell of, after: Colchicum

• fish, smell of, after: Colchicum

• food, looking at: Colchicum

• smell of: Colchicum

• thought of: Colchicum

• putting hands in warm water: Phosphorus

• vomiting: Ipecac, Phosphorus, Sepia

Before Childbirth:

• fear: Aconite, Gelsemium

• contractions, to prepare for: Caulophyllum (see specific directions under Caulophyllum)

During Childbirth

• cessation (stopping) of contractions: Cimic., Gelsemium

• dilate cervix: Cimic.

• faintness during labor: PuIsatilla

• impatience with: Chamomilla

• legs, cramping in the, with: Cuprum metallicum, Mag-p.

• nausea, with: Ipecac

• pain in back: Gelsemium, Nux vomica

• painful contractions: Belladonna, Chamomilla, Mag-p.

• bear the pains, can hardly: Chamomilla

• weeping: PuIsatilla

After Childbirth

• after-pains: Chamomilla, Sepia 

• depression ("postpartum blues"): Sepia 

• episiotomy, to heal: Calendula

• hair loss, ongoing: Lachesis

• trauma/bruising: Arnica, Bellis perennis

• urine, retention of absence of: Causticum, PuIsatilla

• weakness, exhaustion: Kali-phosphoricum

Breastfeeding

• inflammation of the breast during: Phyt.

• milk production, to stimulate: Lac-d.

• to stop: Lac-c.

• suppressed from grief: Ignatia

• nipples, sore: Arnica, Nux vomica, Sulphur

• cracked: Graph., Sulphur

• weakness from nursing: China

PMS and Menstruation

Menstrual Cramps:
Belladonna, Chamomilla, Coff  Col., Mag-p., Pulsatilla

• > double bent over: Mag-p.

• heaviness, feeling of: Pulsatilla

• labor-like pains: Chamomilla

• nausea, with: Nux vomica

• nervous excitement, with: Coif.

• painful: Cact., Chamomilla, Mag-p

Menses suppressed (stopped)

• from: anger: Colocynthis

• cold or chill due to dampness: Pulsatilla

• feet wet and chilled, from becoming: Pulsatilla

• fright: Aconite

• grief: Ignatia

• Wet and chilled, from becoming: Rhus-tox.

Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS):

• anger and irritability: Sepia

• insomnia: Sepia  

• water retention: Apis

• weepiness, depression: Sepia

Other Women's Health Conditions

VAGINAL DISCHARGE (leucorrhea):

• anger and irritability: Sepia  

• burning: Kreos., Pulsatilla, Sulphur

• cottage cheese-like: Hepar Sulphuis

• cream-like: Pulsatilla

• girls, in little: Pulsatilla, Sepia  

• intercourse, after: Sepia

• yellow: Hydr., Sepia, Sulphur

• white: Graph., Sepia

HONEYMOON CYSTITIS: Staphysagria

(following unaccustomed and rather prolonged or vigorous sexual activity)

ITCHING:

• white: Graph., Sepia

• vaginal: Calad., Kreos., Nit-ac., Sepia

• evening: Kreos.

• intense, voluptuous: Kreos.

• intercourse, after: Nit-ac.

MISCARRIAGE OR ABORTION, after:

• bruising of birth canal: Bellis perennis

• grief: Ignatia

• "toning of uterus: Bellis perennis

• weakness: China

PAIN, in ovaries:

• right-sided: Apis, Belladonna

• left-sided: Colocynthis

RAPE, sexual abuse: 

• suppressed anger, humiliation: Staphysagria

• bruising: Arnica

• emotional trauma: Staphysagria

• fright, shock: Aconite

VAGINITIS (inflammation of vagina):

•  itching and and burning: Sulphur

• itching and soreness: Causticum

• itching and stinging: Apis