History

    Proved and introduced by Dr. Hahnemann. Allen’s Encylop. Mat. Med.,Vol .Vlll,600;Clarke:lll, 1958.

Description

    The cuttel-fish is a cephalopodous mollusc, without an external shell, from 25cm to 50cm feet long, soft gelatinous of a brown colour verging on red and spotted back.

    The head separated from the body by the neck, is salient and round, provided with salient eyes of a lively red colour. The mouth is surrounded by ten arms which are pedenculated, very large and furnished with suckers.

    The cuttel fish ink is an excretory liquid contained in a bag about the size and shape of a grape within the abdomen.It is blackish brown and discharged by this fish to darken the water when they wish to catch the prey or to escape from the enemy.

    The ink bag is found separate from the liver and deeper in the abdominal cavity. Sepia in a dry state, as it occurs in trade, appears to be a dark blackish –brown solid mass of shining conchoidal, very brittle fracture, having a faint smell of sea-fish, nearly without taste and scarcely dyeing the saliva. It is enclosed in little skins and is of the shape of grapes.

Preparation

(A) Trituration 1x

        Drug strength - 1/10
        Sepia in fine powder - 100g
        Saccharum lactis - 900g
        To make one thousand grams of trituration

(B) Potencies : 2x and higer to be triturated in accordance with the method. 6x may be converted to liquid 8x, 9x and higher with dispensing alcohol.