Polycystic Ovarian Disease Therapeutics

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 Constitutional

Approach

Specifics Miasmatic

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Suited emaciated women Great pain in lt.ovary darting,
with choleric temperament, swollen & indurated
Freckles, livid mottled skin, inflammation of ovaries,
dark eyes.. Ovaritis.

Menstrual colic in lt.ovary,

Loquacity, jealousy,
suspicious, LACHESIS ovarian neuralgia,
Membranous dysmenorrhoea
delusions < alcohol
Menses , irregular dark clotted
offensive.

< heat, lt.side,

< during & after sleep
Lt Sided remedy,
> Open air complaints go from lt to rt.
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 Experience
Sensitive, feeling of emotional pain in
great vulnerability to form of rejection,
emotional injury ridicule,
humiliation, grief

Anemic &
cachectic Create a wall of
individuals invulnerability
Natrum mur enclosing in their
own worlds
Loss of vital
fluids

Irregular menses
Develop hysterical
Profuse bleeding
tendency
Infertility
Consolation <
Leucorrhoea
Awkwardness
Bearing down
Cries when alone
pains < morning
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 Discontent is the theme Sluggishness – indifference
Dissatisfaction

Tendency to form cysts ,

tumors, menses early,
violent backache,
Child refuses breast Rapid decline of energy
Milk – tastes salty. and lowered vitality

Weakness, mind has A/F – grief, bad news –

become flabby, irritable, will collapse on hearing
Depressed,
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Embodies qualities of
grain of sand ie
hardness, granularity, Tendency to form
rigidity & chronicity hard lumps or
growths

Silicea Cysts,
tumorsss

Reserved,
submissive,
Delicate, refined,
stubborn.
aesthetic, lacks
stamina

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 Hemorrhage Craving for cold
Tall women disposed frequent profuse, things, ice cream,
to stoop, Slender, pouring out freely which agrees, or
Sanguine, delicate and then ceasing cold water, salt
eyelashes, fine for a time
blond or red hair, Tendency to bleed Burning is strong
quick perceptions, extends to growths under this remedy.
and very sensitive like fibroids, There is no organ
nature, what is called cancers, are very or tissue in which it
bloodless appearance dangerous and may not be found,
troublesome from the outer skin
to the innermost
surface of every
Phosphorus tract

Anxiety, restlessness
Feeling of intense
heat running up the
Short naps and back
Fears
frequent wakings Great susceptibility
to external
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Clairvoyance
 The first serious impairment
of health is referred to pubertal age

Pains drawing, tearing, erratic,

rapidly shifting from one part to other

Weeps easily: almost impossible to

detail her ailments without weeping.
Especially, in diseases of women and
children
changeable, contradictory.

Flows more during the day

Irregular intermittent flow with
evening chilliness
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Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases.
Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation
with reserved displeasure.
Sense of satiety, or hunger, but soon fills up.
Great thirst after the sweat.
Right sided medicine.
Greedy, miserly.
Red sand in urine.
Discharge of blood from genitals during every stool.
Easily angered & cannot endure opposition or
contradiction, seeks disputes
Constipation: since puberty; since last confinement;
when away from home; of infants; with ineffectual
urging, rectum contracts and protrudes during stool,
developing piles.
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Committed to a strong sense of duty, to an inflexible rigid degree

Mentalised – over use of mind as a mechanism for control over

emotional expression.

Appears devoid of emotions, suffers internally & silently,

never express.

HARD-BOUND or IRON CLAD mental control

Suffering channeled on to the physical level

Uterine tumors, Ovarian Cysts, Amenorrhoea, Menses – too late

Acrid, & profuse, violent colicky pain. Menorrhagia > taking bath

KALI CARB
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For people who have faced excessive life stresses, over –
exertion.
Collapse under too much stress or over – exertion.
Over – exertion – mental or physical is a great enemy to these
people.
Fear of insanity, losing control, fear of unknown, curiosity of
supernatural things

Try to overcome - prolonged effort

Anxiety about health, fear Over growths – tumors,

of infectious diseases, cysts, polyps, obesity,
hysterical state – fears Rheumatism, arthritis
that others will observe
her confusion.

CALC carb
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 Miasmatic Approach
Sycotic taint.
A/F – suppressed gonorrhoea or inheritant gonorrhoea in
women with chronic pelvic disorders.
Remedy for cysts, fibroids, & other morbid growth of
uterus & ovaries.
Chronicity & obstinacy of complaints.
A great deal of pain in left ovary with sensation as if sac
was distended and if pressed would burst, sensation as if
something was pulling it down, causing it to be sore, pain
when walking passed to left groin.
Tense pains passing diagonally to right ovary f/b bubbling
sensation.
Medorrhinum
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 Hydrogenoid constitution.
Extremely sensitive to damp, bathing, getting wet etc.
Sycotic remedy.
Fleshy person, dark complexion, unhealthy skin.
Affections of ovary. Left ovary inflammed, distressing
pain, burning, worse at every menses, walking, riding
must lie down.
Cutting squeezing pain in the region of ovary.
Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side, as if
soul and body were separated, as if something alive in
the abdomen.
Thuja

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₪ Useful in the affections of ovary.
₪ Ovaries congested & inflammed, tendency to ovarian tumors.
₪ Sore aching pain in lt.ovarian region, extending to right with
darting pains.
₪ Left ovary swollen, so much that its size & shape could be easily
felt through abdominal walls.
₪Very cruel individuals, fancies about death, artistic, have OCD.
Syphilinum.

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Prescribing specifics

• when definite pathology is known and is covered by a drug, there is no

need to reject it completely as having absolutely no value for the selection
of our remedy.

• In the absence of other symptoms, and to differentiate between drugs of

identical action, pathological data can be considered.

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Enormous induration of ovary, cystic enlargement of ovary,
sterility from ovarian disease.
Has more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy
(Burnett)
3x advised
Aurum mur natronatum

Pain in ovaries before menstrual flow, amenorrhoea,

menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, cystic ovaries,. headache caused by
suppressed menses
Janosia Asoca

It has been suggested as a chief remedy in ovarian cysts.

Suffering follows excision of ovaries.
Oophorinum

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Soreness and tenderness of right ovary. Menses delayed scanty
with severe cramp-like pain from beginning to end of period.
Thea
Valuable remedy in affections of left ovary with pain & tenderness
of ovarian region and frequent micturition. Menses preceded by
mental depression & constipation.
Vespa Vulgaris

Pain in left ovary, shooting down to knee.

Wyethia Helenioides

Ovarian cysts, uterine tumours provides favorable ground for the

action of this drug.
Aurum iod
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Cutting, burning pain in ovaries, ovaritis. Menses too early, too
profuse, blood black or scanty. Nymphomania.
Cantharis
Expels moles, dead foetus and placenta.

Useful in scrofulous constitutions. Right ovary seems like a heavy

ball. Valuable remedy for ovarian cysts. Carbo animalis

Inflammation of ovaries with vaginal discharge.

Cobaltum mur

Tickling, itching in region of ovaries not ameliorated by scratching

or rubbing. Metrorrhagia of thin, pale blood becoming very watery
the longer it lasts.
Prunus Spinosa

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 According to the Sides
RIGHT LEFT
* Lycopodium * Lachesis
* Carbo animalis * Kali Brom
* Phos * Iodum
* Thuja * Graphites
* Lac can * Eup perf
* Bell * Actea racemosa
* Apis * Ammonium brom
* platina
* Thea
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