SEPIA

Name : Alfiya Mulla

3rd yr. Bhms.
Roll no. : 03
Common name : Cuttle fish

Kingdom : Animal

Prover: Dr. Hahnemann

Introduction

■ Sepia is an animal remedy which is

made from ink juice of cuttle fish.
■ It is also known as washer
woman’s remedy.
■ It is been proved accidentally.
■ Hahnemann accidentally proved this drug on an
artist friend who had a habit of wetting his paint
brush with his saliva.
■ The paint brush contained Indian Ink which was
being absorbed by his system slowly over the
time.
■ So, he developed certain chronic illness.
Hahnemann after many failed efforts to treat
him thought that the saliva containing Ink might
have some maintaining cause.
■ Then he advised the artist to discontinue that
habit and he was completely cured of his
ailments. This unique experience led him to
prove sepia.
Sphere of action
■ Acts on FEMALE
GENITAL ORGANS,
■ GIT,
■ LIVER, AND
PORTAL SYSTEM,
■ SKIN, GLANDS
AND NERVOUS
SYSTEM.
 Pathogenesis
Venous stasis and venous congestion

Weakness and weariness in visceral organs

Pt. Feels better by vigorous motion.

Constitution
■ Make up of body : suited to tall, straight, slim
women with narrow pelvis and lax fibres and muscles.
-weak persons with yellow, earthy complexion,
discolouration, with yellow spots.
■ Temperament : nervous temperament.
■ Chilly patient
■ Anti-psoric and anti-sycotic miasm.
 Guiding symptoms
■ Weakness and bearing down sensation; must sit cross legs.
■ Pain extends from other parts to back; shuddering from pain.
■ All gone sensation in the stomach, >by eating.
■ As of lump or something rolling over internally.
■ Very sensitive to cold air ‘ very chilly’ ,feels cold even in the warm
room.
■ Faints while kneeling at the church; from extremes of heat or cold.
■ Lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases.
■ Flushes of heat and perspiration.
■ Atrophy of children, face like old man, big belly, dry flabby skin.
■ Tendency to abortion ;from 5-7 month.
■ Drooping of eyelids with catarrhal discharge.
■ All the coverings of the neck felt too tight.
■ Dyspnoea; < by sitting, after sleep in room, but > dancing or walking rapidly.
■ Sight or even the thought of the food sickens. Smell of cooking food nauseates.(c.r)
■ Desire: acids, vinegar, pickles, butter, bread, sweets, wine, pungent.
■ Aversion: to smell of food, milk, tobacco and meat.
 Mind
■ Indifferent
■ She cannot narrate symptoms without weeping.
■ Indolent , anxiety,.
■ Great intolerance to tobacco.
■ Very greedy, miserly, absent-minded, weak
memory, unable to recollect thoughts.
■ Great dread of being alone, of men, of meeting
frndz.
■ Ailments from :
o Exposure to cold o Change of weather

o Laundry work o From cold air

o After eating o Milk, acids, fats

o Going upstairs
o coitus
 Reference
■ Textbook of materia medica by S.k. dubey
■ Materia medica by Dr. S.R. Phatak.
■ PHOTOS: GOOGLE.
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