Abortion. Breasts, pains in. Cervix uteri, affections of. Climacteric sufferings. Diabetes. Dysmenorrhœa. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Nymphomania. Pregnancy, affections of. Uterus, prolapse of.

Petroz first proved the Purple-fish, Murex, which, like the Ink-fish, Sepia, produces the chief intensity of its action in the female generative sphere. They are chiefly distinguished in that Murex produces frantic sexual desire, and tends to have excessive hæmorrhage with large clots, Sepia having, in general, scanty flow. Another leading feature of Murex is: Consciousness of the womb; sore pain in uterus. In addition there are cutting pains confined to the cervix and os. The sinking, all-gone sensation is very well marked in both remedies, and also the feeling of bearing down and prolapse. Murex has a sensation of dryness and constriction in the womb. The pains are frequently diagonal and shoot from ovary to opposite breast. Another peculiar symptom of Murex is: A feeling as if something were pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis. This is analogous to a general sensitiveness to touch. The least contact with the parts causes violent sexual excitement. The cervix is sensitive to the examining finger. The slightest touch causes bleeding of excoriation on cervix. (May be thought of in cauliflower excrescences.) There is excessive secretion of urine, and frequent necessity to rise at night to urinate. This nightly polyuria, with the hungry craving of Murex and other symptoms, has led to its successful use in diabetes. Murex is suited to: the melancholic, or sanguine, lymphatic temperament; to climacteric sufferings. There is very great depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state. If there is leucorrhœa, the spirits are > when leucorrhœa is <, and vice versâ. Walking is difficult, all joints are weak, during pregnancy. > Putting head back. < By exertion. > Pressure and support. < Night. < After sleep. Must lie down from weakness, but lying down < all symptoms.

Compare: Uterine congestion, cervix affected, Sep. (Sep. is passive; Murex feels disgust and despair at her sexual desires). Shooting pains in uterus, prolapse, melancholy, Aur. (Aur. has induration). Nocturnal polyuria, Kre. Sexual erethism, Lil. t., Plat., Orig. Dragging down, Bell. Prolapsus uteri, Æsc. h., Sec., Plat., Bell., Lil. t., Nux, Nux m., Pod., Pul., Sep. Consciousness of womb, Helon., Hdrfb. Climacteric, Lach., Sep., Sul. > Throwing head back, Seneg.

Anxious, apprehensive, timorous; great sadness towards evening, with repugnance to conversation, and compression of ideas.─(She is happier when leucorrhœa is <, and vice versâ.).─Weakness of memory, with difficulty in finding words to express his thoughts.

Confusion in head, with unfitness for labour; sometimes with inclination to sleep, or dulness of head.─Heaviness in head, as in sultry weather; or else frequent, alternating from time to time with great clearness of thought.─Headache, in morning, on awakening, which disappears on rising.─Pain in occiput, sometimes very acute.─Pain in l. temple.─Aching pain in forehead, or in forehead and r. temple, cramp-like squeezing at back of head, requiring the hand to be placed upon it, or the head to be thrown back, which > the pain.

Cramp-like squeezing behind ears.─Noise in ears, with aggravation of heaviness of head.

Distressing coldness of nose all day.

Burning sensation of one cheek, r. in evening, l. in morning.

Hunger, sometimes in morning only, and unfelt during a meal.─Awful hunger and emptiness, even after a meal.─Tensive pain in r. hypochondrium.─Colic, sharp pain, as from a cutting blow in l. side of hypogastrium, which continues painful throughout evening.

Difficult evacuations; constipation, during more than five days.─Pressure in anus, like painful lancinations.─Sensation of heavy weight pressing on rectum; swelling of hæmorrhoids.─During stool: bloody leucorrhœa; discharge of pure blood by vulva.

Frequent want to urinate during day; at night, with emission of colourless urine.─Fetid urine, almost like valerian, with a white sediment, and discharge of a small quantity of mucus after urination.─Slight discharge of blood when making water.

Extreme irritation of genital parts, with ardent sexual desire to a degree almost maniacal; slightest touch reawakens desire.─Sensation of dryness, and of constriction in uterus; pulsation; incisive pain, as if caused by cutting instruments.─Violent pains in r. side, crossing abdomen to l. breast.─Violent lancination in l. side, in evening.─Distinct feeling of womb.─Burning, shooting, and stitching pains in cervix.─Knife-thrusts in uterus as if os were cut.─Stitches on l. side of uterus from below upward.─Feeling as if something pressing on a sore spot in pelvis, r. side of uterus, going into abdomen to thorax.─Violent bearing down with symptoms of prolapse, > by crossing legs.─Sensation of weight and of expansion in labia majora.─Sensation of weight in vagina during the abdominal pains.─Menstruation too profuse.─Hæmorrhages.─Expels large coagula.─During the profuse menstruation, sensation of constriction at uterus.─Leucorrhœa: serous; greenish; thick; becoming sanguineous; reappearance of sanguineous leucorrhœa while at stool.─Violent pains, acute lancinations in breasts.─During pregnancy: leucorrhœa; sensation of pelvic bones getting loose.

Voice changed, hoarse.─Cough: in morning while fasting; dry, hard, with oppression of chest.

Wheezing in chest, when breathing, in evening.─Pain in chest, as if it had been bruised.─Lancinating and burning pains below false ribs on l. side, towards back.─Sensation as of a snake creeping over entire region of short ribs.

Palpitation of heart and throbbing of arteries.

Lumbago, sometimes burning, and with pain like excoriation.─On extending the body, esp. in bed, pain in hips and lumbar region.─Pains in pelvic region.─Sensation as if bones of pelvis getting loose.

Pain in forearm, below elbow.─Heat in hands.

Great weakness and fatigue in legs, which sometimes fail and compel patient to seat himself.─Intolerable creeping pain in r. hip.─In thighs: violent contusive pain; burning heat in forepart; acute pain, in forepart, on raising body, which renders contact with anything insupportable; sensation of throbbing in forepart of thighs.

Great fatigue; for several days symptoms more violent when seated than when walking; they cease while walking, and reappear on sitting down.

Skin dry, as if about to crack.

Drowsiness, sometimes with sadness.─Urgent inclination to sleep, towards 9 p.m.─Sleep interrupted by pains, like those of catamenia.─Awakening with fright, with urgent want to make water, and abundant emission.─Distressing dreams, from which patient sometimes awakens with a start.

Murex purpurea

• Like Sepia the juice of purple fish affects the FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS prominently.

• It is adapted to sensitive, nervous, lively, affectionate women, who are very tired, weak and rundown; must lie down which agg..

• Pains are diagonal, ovary to opposite breast.

• Climacteric sufferings.

• Touch.

• In Sun.

• Sitting.

• Lying down. - After sleep.

• Before menses.

• Eating.

• Pressure and support.

• Putting heat back.

• Great depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state.

• Anxious; apprehensive; amel. leucorrhoea.

• Memory weak, can not find correct words to express himself.

• Squeezing at the back of head amel. putting hand on it or by throwing head backwards.

• Distressing coldness of the nose all day.

• Violent hunger even after eating.

- Sinking - all gone sensation.

• Painful weariness of loins.

• Weight in hypogastrium.

• Frequent urging to urinate.

• Urine smells like valerian.

• Slight discharge of blood while urinating.

• Pain stitching in genital; up through abdomen; into the breasts.

- Painfully sore uterus; consciousness of womb.

• Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis amel. sitting.

- Violent nervous sexual desire; nymphomania; from least contact with the parts.

• Bearing down pains; must keep legs tightly crossed.

• Copious menses with large clots.

• Leucorrhoea; thick; yellow bloody; alternating with mental symptoms.

• Pain in mammae during menses.

• Walking difficult, all joints are weak during pregnancy.

• Prolapse, enlargement of the uterus.

• Discharge of blood through the vagina or bloody leucorrhoea, during stools.

• As if bones of pelvis getting loose.

• Lumbar pain impel walking which agg.

• Dry, as if about to crack.

• Hives.

• Lil-t;Plat;Sep.

Sore pain in uterus; a distinct sensation of a womb.

Sore pain in uterus; a distinct sensation of a womb (Helon., Lys.).

Persons of a melancholy temperament. For the sufferings during climacteric (Lach., Sep., Sulph.). Great depression of spirits. Sinking, all gone sensation, in stomach (Sep.). Least contact of parts, causes violent sexual excitement (excessive sexual irritation driving to self abuse, Orig., Zinc.). Violent excitement in sexual organs, and excessive desire for an embrace (rev. of Sep.). Sore pain in uterus; a distinct sensation of womb (Helon., Lys.). Bearing down sensation, as if internal organs would be pushed out, must sit down and cross limbs to > pressure (but no sexual desire, Sep.). Menses: irregular, early, profuse, protracted, large clots. Leucorrhoea: < mental depression, happier when leucorrhoea is worse.

. Compare: Lil., Plat., in nymphomania; Sep. in bearing down sensation, but has no sexual erethism.