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Sepia…Washerwoman’s Remedy
 

Nawal Kumar Nirmal, IIIrd B.H.M.S.
Fr. Muller Homoeopathic Medical college
Kankanady,
Mangalore..


 

       Adaptability and personality
          The sepia patients are tall and lean with slim hips, presenting male type of pevis. There are attractive and elegant, with an angular slightly masculine appearance. Very common feature is yellow saddle across their nose and cheeks. They look down cast and sit with crossed legs because of week feeling in the pelvic area. Sometimes they feel ball like sensation in inner parts.

          Sepia patients are irritable at home yet extrovert in company and transform in dancing which they love. They are strongly opinionated and hate to be contradictive and doesn’t like sympathy. They are passionate and show indifference to owns family to every thing. The nervousness leads to anxiety, sad, gloomy and sometimes weeping.

          Sepia patients are said to be washerwoman’s remedy because all her complaints are worse on, washing clothes, exposure to cold, laundry work, getting wet before and during menses, change of weather. She is a tried mother of a big family on “washing day”.

Miasm

          Sepia patients fall under the category of psora and sycotic miasm. Some times they present complex miasm Syco-psoric.

Causative Factors:

  • Exposure to cold , laundry work, alcohol
  • Tobacco, getting wet before or during menses
  • After coitus, Change of weather
  • Before thunderstorm
  • After eating, milk, acids, fats.

Therapeutical Uses:

  • Ammenorrhoea
  • Leucorrhoea
  • Prolapse Uterus
  • Gonorrhoea
  • Psoriasis
  • Eczema
  • Apoplexy
  • Asthma
  • Whooping – cough
  • Dyspepsia
  • Jaundice
  • Enuresis.

General Modalities