Gossypium herbaceum

The cotton plant (Gossypium herbaceum, Malvaceae) yields a root-bark long used in American domestic and eclectic medicine as a powerful uterine agent—emmenagogue and partus-accelerant—its decoctions promoting uterine contractions, relieving congestive dysmenorrhœa, and aiding subinvolution; in crude dosage it may provoke miscarriage, nausea, faintness, and pelvic cramp, foreshadowing the homœopathic picture. The homœopathic tincture is prepared from fresh root-bark, the pathogenesis being mainly clinical, with fragments recorded by Allen and collated by Clarke; the remedy has a marked action on uterus, cervix and ovarian ligaments, and a reflex upon stomach (vomiting of pregnancy), bladder (pressure), and spine (sacro-iliac ache) [Hughes], [Allen], [Clarke], [Boericke].

No full Hahnemannian proving. The picture rests upon fragmentary provings (Allen) and abundant clinical confirmations—amenorrhœa with pelvic weight as if the menses would appear; dysmenorrhœa with cramp; nausea and vomiting of early pregnancy better lying still; threatened abortion with uterine colic and sacral dragging; subinvolution and prolapse symptoms better by rest and support. Tags: [Proving]/[Clinical]. [Allen], [Clarke], [Hering], [Boericke], [Farrington].

The essence of Gossypium is a uterus and stomach ruled by the law of stillness. The uterus is atonic and congested: it drags, it bears down, it threatens to evacuate its contents on the least motion—rising, turning, stepping, jar. The stomach echoes the same law—vomiting of pregnancy and nausea worse on moving, better lying perfectly still. A third chord is relief by outlet: when suppressed menses return and run evenly, the head lightens and sacrum eases. Thread these three and the picture clarifies. She lies on her back, hips a little raised, binder in place; she sips cool water lying, will not be hurried, will not be urged to move. The least jar—a carriage, a stair, a kerb—reignites pelvic cramp and retching. In threatened abortion the stillness becomes sacred, the voice lowered, the room cooled; a night without turning is victory. Compare Sepia, whose bearing-down likes exertion and whose mind is alienated; Gossypium is gentle, compliant, somatically obedient to rest. Compare Trillium and Sabina, leaders in bright, arterial bleeding; Gossypium is the darker, atonic flow with drag and nausea. Compare Pulsatilla for amenorrhœa in yielding temperaments; Gossypium is less tearful and more mechanical: “I am worse when I move; better when I lie quite still.”

Pathophysiologically, the picture reads as uterine smooth-muscle atony with irritability: movement increases intra-abdominal and pelvic tipping forces which, in a lax cervico-uterine complex, trigger reflex nausea via vagal mediation. Hence the simultaneity of womb and stomach; hence the law of stillness. The sacro-iliac “broken back” is the skeletal protest of a drooping uterus; the bladder frequency is merely its neighbour’s complaint. Practical management must therefore copy the remedy: absolute rest on the back, hips slightly raised; mechanical support; quiet cool room; no jar, no lifting; tiny sips and morsels taken without moving. Clinically, Gossypium has served in (1) amenorrhœa with pelvic weight and motion-agg. nausea; (2) threatened abortion in the early months with sacral drag and faintness on sitting up; (3) dysmenorrhœa of the atonic congestive type; (4) subinvolution with reflex gastric irritability; and (5) vomiting of pregnancy where stillness is a commanding amelioration.

Potency and repetition. In threatened abortion and early pregnancy nausea, 3x–6x or 6C at short intervals while absolute rest is maintained; in amenorrhœa/dysmenorrhœa with weight and stillness-amel., 6C–30C once to t.i.d. as needed; where the keynote is vivid and vitality fair, 30C–200C may be employed cautiously, spacing as the patient can move without nausea or bearing-down returning. Intercurrent Viburnum opulus is serviceable when cramping predominates without much nausea; Fraxinus when subinvolution and mechanical support are the lasting needs; Pulsatilla when the case melts into emotional, changeable amenorrhœa. The bedside tests are simple: the Stillness Test (better absolutely quiet); the Binder Test (support amel.); the Outlet Test (relief as flow frees). When a woman says, “If I lie quite still, I am safe; if I move, I am sick and feel it all drag down,” Gossypium stands central.

• Uterus (muscular body and cervix) — atony with congestion: amenorrhœa, suppressed menses with weight and bearing-down, threatened abortion; subinvolution; pains shoot to sacrum and thighs. See Female/Back. [Clarke], [Boericke], [Allen].
• Ovaries & Broad ligaments — dragging, left or right, worse jar and exertion; ovulation cramps; reflex vesical and rectal pressure. See Abdomen/Female/Urinary. [Clarke], [Hering].
• Stomach (gravid nausea) — vomiting of pregnancy, worse on moving or rising, better lying still; sympathetic faintness. See Stomach/Sleep. [Allen], [Boericke], [Farrington].
• Pelvic floor & Sacro-iliac supports — “broken back” feeling; worse standing/walking or lifting; better recumbency and a binder. See Back/Generalities. [Clarke], [Boger].
• Blood-vessels of pelvis — menorrhagia/metrorrhagia from atony; flow dark, clotty; relief as flow becomes free and even. See Female/Fever. [Clarke], [Phatak].
• Bladder (pressure) — frequent urging from heavy uterus; tenesmus vesicæ after exertion. See Urinary. [Boericke], [Allen].
• Mammæ (reflex) — sense of fulness and nipple sensitiveness about menses or early pregnancy. See Female. [Clarke].

The mental state turns upon pelvic load and a fear of miscarriage. She is anxious to keep still; even the thought of rising renews nausea and dragging, and the amelioration (better lying still) already given is instinctive—she lies motionless, asks for quiet, for cool air, and for loosened clothing [Allen], [Clarke]. Irritability and despondency appear when menses are delayed; the mind harps on “if only the period would come.” In threatened abortion she is timid, whispers rather than talks, dreads a footfall or jar; calm returns with recumbency and the least assurance that discharge is becoming free (Female/Fever cross-link). There is none of Sepia’s indifference or aversion to loved ones; her mood rises as soon as the pelvis is comfortable—proof that the mind is reflex, not constitutional [Kent], [Farrington]. Nausea clouds thought; she cannot think while the stomach heaves; the smallest movement of head or eyes may renew it (Stomach). Fear of fainting in warm rooms drives her to the window, but moving there worsens vomiting (the modality conflict). She is conscientious about rest, obeying the body’s law; hope revives after sleep or a quiet hour without jar. In chronic amenorrhœa she may grow low-spirited; improvement on the day the flow returns is a clinical key (Female link).

Sleep is easily broken by nausea on turning—she learns to wake and lie motionless until the wave passes, exactly mirroring the grand modality (better lying still; worse moving) [Allen]. Threatened abortion sends sharp pelvic twinges at the least change of posture; a pillow beneath knees and hips raised gives longer spells. Dreams of falling or of the womb expelling, and of trying not to move; when a night passes without movement-provoked nausea or cramp, she wakes refreshed (Mind link). First morning rising is the worst; she must lie down again to master the nausea.

Dreams of carrying something fragile that will fall if she stirs; of climbing then “holding still;” of a dark flow coming with relief—symbolic of the remedy’s mechanical and outlet laws (Female/Modalities). [Clinical], [Clarke].

Gossypium is a uterine–gastric remedy governed by two master laws: (1) Motion aggravates—rising, turning, walking, jar, lifting—provoking uterine pains (bearing-down, sacral drag, threatened abortion) and vomiting of pregnancy; (2) Absolute stillness ameliorates—lying perfectly still, recumbency with hips elevated, and mechanical support (binder/hand) relieve both womb and stomach. A third, vascular hinge recurs: relief when discharge is free, in delayed or obstructed menses and in atonic menorrhagia, the head/lightness and sacral burden easing as flow evens. These laws are explicit in Stomach (motion-agg. nausea, stillness-amel.), Female (bearing-down, threatened abortion, subinvolution, atonic flooding), Back (sacro-iliac drag better support), and Urinary (frequency standing, better lying). Compare Sepia (bearing-down yet better vigorous exercise and marked mental indifference), Trillium (bright gushing haemorrhage with syncope), Sabina (bright blood, uterine–sacral pains, earlier miscarriages), Ferrum iodatum (fibroid flooding with thyroidic heat, bright blood), Fraxinus (heavy bulk better binder, less gastric reflex), and Symphoricarpus (vomiting of pregnancy of a paralytic kind, not necessarily motion-provoked) [Farrington], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger]. The pace is subacute in early gestation and cyclic around the menses, the constitution otherwise simple and obedient to mechanical rules; management must copy the remedy: rest flat, no jar, cool fresh air, loosen bands, quiet mind, small sips lying still.

No septic type. Heat and flush in close rooms with pallor and faintness alternating; thirst for small sips; relief as pelvic outlet is free and in cool air (if attained without movement). [Clarke], [Hughes].

Chilliness in amenorrhœa states; heat and sweat with uterine colic and nausea; sweat is not profuse and brings little relief except as it enforces recumbency (Generalities).

Dull, congestive ache frontal or vertex during suppressed menses or early pregnancy; the head feels hot in close rooms and is relieved by cool air—yet the movement to reach it renews nausea (Stomach cross-link) [Clarke], [Hughes]. Vertigo on attempting to rise; she must lie down at once (Generalities). A sense of fulness recedes as the uterine outlet becomes free; headache coincides with pelvic check and lifts with the flow (Female echo). No throbbing fury of Belladonna; no periodic right-sided blaze of Sanguinaria; this is a vascular heaviness bound to the pelvic state. Paleness alternates with flushing during uterine colic; faintness pushes her to recumbency (Generalities).

Dark motes and dimness on sitting up in bed, a presyncopal sign of pelvic vascular strain; eases lying down. Lids feel weighty before the menses and at early pregnancy; tears may rise with nausea (Stomach link). Photophobia is not a keynote; if ocular throbbing rules, think Belladonna.

Singing in ears on rising during threatened abortion; the sound passes when she lies and breathes quietly. No catarrhal ear sphere.

Smells—especially cooking—excite nausea, which is worse on moving away than remaining still where she is; paradox noted by patients (Stomach link). No acrid coryza.

Pale and drawn while nausea lasts; lips bloodless during delayed menses. Cheeks flush when the flow sets in or after a quiet hour recumbent (Female/Generalities). Expression is timid under miscarriage fear, relieved by reassurance and stillness.

Salivation slightly increased with pregnancy nausea; taste flat or nauseous; water relieves in small sips if taken lying. Vomiting leaves a sour mouth (Stomach). Tongue clean or lightly coated. No aphthæ keynote.

No marked odontalgia; toothache worsens if she must stand and move about during a late period, easing in bed—mechanical echo rather than a dental remedy.

A tightness at fauces on rising to vomit; swallowing aggravates when nausea is high; small sips tolerated lying quiet. No follicular tendency; this is reflex.

Oppression and sighing while nausea is high; jar of cough felt in the pelvis. Palpitations in warm rooms with faintness; recumbency cools (Heart/Generalities). No primary bronchial catarrh.

Soft, quick pulse during nausea and pelvic colic; faint turns on trying to rise in warm rooms; steadies when she lies quiet (Generalities). No constricting band (contrast Cactus).

Desire for cool air, but the act of moving to it aggravates stomach and womb; sighing relieves. Breath short on stairs; better horizontal (Modalities).

A prime sphere. Vomiting of pregnancy with constant nausea, worse on moving—especially on rising—and better lying perfectly still; she begs to remain flat, takes sips and morsels without moving head; any attempt to sit, turn, or walk reinstates retching [Allen], [Boericke], [Clarke]. Odours of cooking, warmth of kitchens, and close rooms inflame the qualm; cool air (if reached without movement) is grateful (Modalities). The effort to vomit provokes pelvic bearing-down and sacral pain (Female/Back). Nausea accompanies delayed menses, and clears as the flow becomes free (Female). Colic-like cramp in epigastrium and hypogastrium together, a womb–stomach reflex; pressure of the hand steadies both. In contrast to Ipecac., vomiting is motion-provoked and stillness soothes; unlike Colchicum, smell of food is not the whole story—motion is.

Hypogastric fulness and weight as if the menses must come; pains shoot to groin and along thighs; abdomen tender to the least jar (Female cross-link) [Clarke]. Ovulation pains, left or right, with dragging to sacrum; worse walking and stairs; better lying with hips elevated. Flatus increases sense of pressure; relief follows stool (Rectum). A binder gives notable comfort—mechanical keynote repeated. In threatened abortion the uterus feels as if it would expel; she dare not move.

Constipation common with pelvic atony; stool difficult from pressure—not hard so much as obstructed. Tenesmus recti when uterus heavy; better after evacuation (Generalities). If piles and knife-pains dominate, Ratanhia supersedes; in Gossyp. the rectum reflects uterine weight rather than its own disease [Boger].

Frequency from uterine pressure, worse standing or walking, better lying (Urinary echo of the mechanic); a dragging to urinate during colic of abortion; urine otherwise normal [Boericke], [Clarke]. Tenesmus vesicæ at day’s end after housekeeping. No burning tenesmus of Cantharis.

Aversion to food; cooking odours aggravate if she moves about; cold water in small sips lying still relieves; desire for dry toast or small morsels taken without moving. Heavy, spiced meals and alcohol inflame pelvic congestion and nausea (to be avoided). [Hughes], [Allen].

Seldom called for; eclectics noted depressant influence on sexual excitement in crude bark, but in homœopathic doses the male sphere is meagre. Consider only for vesical frequency from pelvic congestion and sympathetic nausea (rare). [Hughes], [Clarke].

The centre of action. Amenorrhœa and suppressed menses with pelvic weight and bearing-down “as if the flow would come”, nausea and faintness on attempting to rise; when the flow becomes free, the head eases and sacrum grows lighter—distinct echo of Modalities and Stomach [Clarke], [Allen]. Dysmenorrhœa with cramp, darting to sacrum and inner thighs; worse jar and exertion; better recumbency and binder. Threatened abortion, especially in early months, from exertion or jar: pelvic colic with backache, constant nausea worse on moving; absolute rest calms; the least turning in bed renews effort (Mind/Back links) [Boericke], [Farrington]. Subinvolution and lax supports after labour—sacro-iliac weakness and pressure on bladder/rectum; needs support and cool, quiet room (Back/Urinary). Menorrhagia or metrorrhagia from atony—dark with clots; better as discharge runs evenly (Fever). Compare Sepia (bearing-down, but better by violent exercise and mental indifference), Trillium (bright gushing with faintness), Sabina (bright, painful, sacral to pubes), Ferrum iodatum (fibroid flooding with thyroidic heat), and Fraxinus (heavy enlarged uterus better by support; more mechanical bulk) [Farrington], [Clarke], [Boericke].

Sacro-iliac dragging with every pelvic effort; “broken back” on standing for household tasks; better recumbency, hips elevated, binder or hand support—mechanical key repeated. Pains radiate from cervix uteri to sacrum and down thighs; walking downstairs, stepping off a kerb, or jolting a pram rekindles them (Female echo) [Clarke], [Boger].

Thighs heavy and ache with pelvic weight; inner thighs feel pulled; knees tremble on stairs (Female cross-link). Feet cold in uterine chilliness; warmth of bed grateful. Weakness from faint turns while nauseated.

Blanched in amenorrhœa; flushes at the onset of flow; no special eruption. Areolar darkening and nipple sensitiveness in early pregnancy may accompany the gastric picture (Female).

Vomiting of pregnancy (motion-provoked; stillness amel.)

• Symphoricarpus racemosus — severe NVP, constipation, often not better by stillness; indomitable emesis; Gossyp.: motion-provoked, better absolute rest. [Farrington], [Clarke].
• Ipecacuanha — constant nausea not relieved by vomiting; motion may aggravate but stillness not key; tongue clean; much salivation. Gossyp.: lying still decisive; uterine drag. [Allen], [Boericke].
• Colchicum — smell of food unbearable; extreme nausea; less uterine sphere; Gossyp. adds pelvic bearing-down and threatened abortion. [Clarke].
• Nux vomica — morning nausea in the irritable, with gastric spasm; movement less central; Gossyp.: uterine atony and motion-agg. dominate. [Kent], [Farrington].

Threatened abortion / early uterine colic

• Viburnum opulus — crampy uterine pains with external pressure amel.; less nausea-motion link; Gossyp.: stillness law + gastric reflex. [Clarke], [Boericke].
• Sabina — bright, active haemorrhage with pains from sacrum to pubes; often 2–3rd month; Gossyp.: atony, dark clots, nausea on movement. [Boger], [Farrington].
• Trillium — gushing bright bleeding with faintness on least motion; Gossyp.: darker, atonic, “weight” and binder-amel. [Clarke].
• Secale — passive dark oozing with coldness and better cold, desire to be uncovered; Gossyp.: seeks stillness and support, not cold exposure. [Kent].

Amenorrhœa / delayed flow with weight

• Pulsatilla — mild, weepy, thirstless, changeable; late menses; motion not the chief issue; Gossyp.: mechanical weight and stillness law; less emotional colour. [Farrington], [Clarke].
• Sepia — bearing-down with pelvic relaxation, better exercise, mental indifference; Gossyp.: worse motion, no Sepia mind. [Kent].
• Ferrum iodatum — anaemic plethora, thyroid heat, bright bleed; Gossyp.: darker atony, gastric reflex, stillness-amel. [Clarke].

Subinvolution / prolapse (post-partum)

• Bellis perennis — pelvic bruising after labour, loves cold bathing; Gossyp.: atony and weight with motion-agg., stillness-amel. [Clarke].

Fraxinus americana — heavy, enlarged uterus better binder, jar/stairs <; Gossyp.: adds gravid nausea and motion-agg. [Boericke], [Clarke].

• Complementary: Viburnum opulus — cramp-calmer in threatened abortion; Gossyp. for the motion-provoked nausea/atony background. [Clarke], [Boericke].
• Complementary: Fraxinus americana — mechanical subinvolution and prolapse after Gossyp. steadies nausea and atony. [Clarke].
• Complementary: Pulsatilla — delayed menses in timid girls; Gossyp. when motion-agg. and pelvic weight predominate; Puls. for emotional climate. [Farrington].
• Follows well: Bellis perennis — after strains of labour/trauma ease, Gossyp. completes uterine tone. [Clarke].
• Follows well: Nux vomica — after drugging/over-stimulation in nausea; Gossyp. when stillness-amel. and uterine drag persist. [Kent].
• Precedes well: Sepia — if chronic pelvic relaxation remains without motion-agg.; Sepia then constitutional. [Kent].
• Related/Compare: Sabina, Trillium, Viburnum, Sepia, Pulsatilla, Symphoricarpus, Nux-v., Ferr-iod., Fraxinus (see Differentials). [Farrington], [Clarke].
• Antidotes: Nux/Coffea for medicinal over-action; physiological antidote—absolute rest, cool air. [Allen], [Kent].
• Inimicals: none recorded; avoid promiscuous alternation among uterine congeners without a keynote shift. [Boger].

• NVP with motion-agg.; stillness-amel.—cannot even turn in bed without retching; sips cold water lying ⇒ 6C–30C, strict recumbency, cool room. [Allen], [Boericke], [Clarke].
• Threatened abortion (early months)—pelvic colic + sacral drag after jar/lifting; faint on rising; dark clots; better binder + lying still ⇒ 6x–6C q1–2h initially, then space. [Clarke], [Farrington].
• Amenorrhœa with sense menses will appear but checked; nausea on rising; relief when flow comes ⇒ 6C b.i.d. for several days around expected period. [Clarke], [Phatak].
• Post-partum subinvolution with gastric irritability and motion-agg. pelvic weight—combine rest/support with 6x; follow by Fraxinus/Helonias if mere atony persists. [Boericke], [Clarke].

Mind

• Anxiety about miscarriage; dreads motion or jar lest symptoms return — motion-fear driven by pelvic atony. [Clarke].
• Timid, whispers; seeks quiet, cool room; calmer when recumbent — environment–mind link. [Clarke].
• Despondent during amenorrhœa; hopeful the instant flow becomes free — outlet law. [Clarke], [Phatak].
• Aversion to being hurried or moved while nauseated — stillness imperative. [Allen].
• No Sepia-like indifference; mood governed by pelvic mechanics — differential pointer. [Kent], [Farrington].
• Faintness in warm rooms with fear of rising — thermal + motion nexus. [Hughes].

Head

• Headache, frontal/vertex, with suppressed menses; better when flow free — uterine–head hinge. [Clarke].
• Vertigo and faintness on rising; must lie down — motion-agg. [Allen].
• Heat of head in close rooms; cool air relieves if attained without movement — thermal nuance. [Hughes].
• Pallor alternating with flush during uterine colic — vascular sign. [Clarke].
• Heaviness of head with constant nausea; lying still — stomach reflex. [Allen].
• No throbbing fury (≠ Bell.), no sun-periodicity (≠ Sang.) — differential. [Farrington].

Stomach

• Vomiting of pregnancy, worse motion/rising, better lying perfectly still — master gastric rubric. [Allen], [Boericke].
• Nausea from cooking odours, especially in warm rooms — odour/heat nexus. [Hughes], [Clarke].
• Sips of cold water lying relieve; moving to drink aggravates — position-specific. [Allen].
• Nausea with pelvic bearing-down; efforts to vomit increase uterine pains — reflex loop. [Clarke].
• Morning worse in early months; quieting the room amel. — timing. [Boericke].
• Not relieved by vomiting unless she is still; differs from Ipec. — comparator. [Allen], [Farrington].

Female

• Amenorrhœa/suppressed menses with weight “as if would come,” nausea on rising — key indication. [Clarke].
• Threatened abortion (first trimester)—pelvic colic; sacral drag; motion/jar <; recumbency/support > — master uterine rubric. [Boericke], [Farrington].
• Dysmenorrhœa with cramp to sacrum/thighs; jar <; recumbency/binder > — mechanic. [Clarke].
• Menorrhagia/ metrorrhagia from atony, dark with clots; better when flow runs even — outlet law. [Clarke], [Phatak].
• Subinvolution with sacral weakness and vesical pressure — postpartum note. [Clarke], [Boericke].
• Breast fulness, nipple sensitive in early pregnancy with gastric reflex — concomitant. [Clarke].

Back / Generalities

• Sacro-iliac “broken back,” worse standing/walking, better recumbency/support — spinal hinge. [Boger], [Clarke].
• Jar, lifting, stairs aggravate pelvic/back pains — mechanical. [Clarke].
• Better hips elevated; binder relieves — support law. [Clarke].
• Faintness and pallor on attempting to rise — kinetic sign. [Allen].
• Weakness after uterine colic and nausea; sleep restores — restorative. [Boericke].
• Warm, close rooms aggravate; cool air relieves if movement is avoided — thermal. [Hughes].

Urinary / Rectum

• Frequency from pelvic pressure; worse standing/walking, better lying — pressure law. [Boericke].
• Tenesmus vesicæ after household exertion; quiet relieves — fatigue echo. [Clarke].
• Constipation from uterine pressure; stool difficult though not hard — mechanical. [Boger].
• Relief of pelvic weight after stool — drainage hinge. [Boger].
• Urging to urinate during uterine colic of abortion — concomitant. [Allen].
• No Cantharis-like burning; pain is pressure-reflex — differential. [Clarke].

Sleep

• Wakes on turning with nausea or uterine pains; must lie perfectly still — position rubric. [Allen].
• Sleep refreshes if posture is kept; short doze relieves nausea — restorative. [Boericke].
• Dreams of falling or expulsion of womb; fear to stir in sleep — symbolic. [Clarke].
• Morning rising renews nausea; must lie again — clock hinge. [Allen].
• Quiet room and pillow under knees prolong rest — management. [Clarke].
• Nocturnal cramps lessen with binder — bedside. [Clarke].

Generalities

• Worse motion, worse jar, worse rising — grand general. [Allen], [Clarke].
• Better absolute rest, lying still, mechanical support — grand amelioration. [Clarke], [Boericke].
• Relief when discharges are free (menses) — outlet law. [Clarke], [Phatak].
• Warm rooms/odours <; cool air > if no movement — thermal–odor. [Hughes].
• Sexual excitement and coitus < in atony — pelvic irritability. [Clarke].
• Standing household tasks <; afternoon fatigue — occupational rubric. [Boericke].

Allen, T. F. — Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–79): fragments and clinical notes—amenorrhœa with pelvic weight; nausea/vomiting of pregnancy worse motion; threatened abortion; modalities.
Boericke, W. — Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica (1901): keynotes—uterine atony; threatened abortion; nausea of pregnancy better lying still; subinvolution; relationships.
Clarke, J. H. — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900): substance background; uterine and gastric spheres; binder/recumbency; odour/heat aggravations; comparisons.
Hughes, R. — A Manual of Pharmacodynamics (1870): pharmacologic and eclectic notes on cotton root-bark; thermal/odour aggravations; emmenagogue/oxytocic background.
Hering, C. — The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879): confirmations—amenorrhœa, threatened abortion, sacral drag, motion-aggravation, rest amelioration.
Farrington, E. A. — Clinical Materia Medica (1887): differentials—Sepia, Pulsatilla, Sabina, Trillium, Symphoricarpus; early pregnancy indications.
Boger, C. M. — Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (1915): generalities—motion/jar <; support/rest >; pelvic pressure to bladder/rectum; miasmatic colouring.
Kent, J. T. — Lectures on Homœopathic Materia Medica (1905): constitutional distinctions—Sepia vs mechanical uterine remedies; mental shading.
Phatak, S. R. — Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines (1977): concise keynotes—amenorrhœa with sensation of impending flow; relief when discharge free; pelvic weight.
Nash, E. B. — Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics (1899): practical remarks on uterine hæmorrhage and motion modalities; dosing hints.
Dewey, W. A. — Practical Homœopathic Therapeutics (1901): regimen and repetition in threatened abortion and NVP; rest and support doctrine.
Tyler, M. L. — Homœopathic Drug Pictures (1942): portraits of stillness-ameliorated pregnancy nausea and early miscarriage fear; bedside differentiations.