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Inky juice of Cuttlefish
MENTAL / EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS:
- GREAT SADNESS and WEEPING.
- INDIFFERENCE to loved ones, spiteful, critical of others.
- STILLNESS of emotions and mind (Detachment).
- Aversion to family/friends, yet dreads to be alone.
- Anger and irritability easily produced. Life has no joy.
- Fear of ghosts, storms, poverty.
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS:
- Affects venous circulation and female pelvic organs.
- Uterus prolapse on standing, pressure and bearing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis.
- Symptoms settle in the back.
- Faints easily- when kneeling, if hot then cold.
- Headache - pain over the left eye, better motion, worse fasting, menses.
- Fever blisters about the lips.
- Falling of hair.
- Yellowness of face, yellow saddle across upper part of cheeks.
GENERALITIES:
- Sensitive to COLD AIR, lack of vital heat.
- INDIFFERENT TO SEX.
- UPWARD DIRECTION OF SYMPTOMS.
- Sensation of 'emptiness', all gone feeling, better by eating.
- BALL SENSATION in inner parts.
MODALITIES:
- Amelioration: ' Violent motion, warmth, pressure, hot application, crossing or drawing limbs up, cold drinks, bath, evening, eating.
- Aggravation: Cold, sexual excesses, pregnancy, morning and evening, kneeling and stooping, fasting, 2 - 4 p.m., 3 - 5 p.m., sea, menses, loss of fluids, left side.
G.V.: Another remedy in which we don't expect to see jealousy is Sepia. Stasis comes into mind when studying Sepia; stasis which comes because of some action on the dynamic plane. When the two poles of the energy in the body come together and cause a state of non-existence and become neutralised, Sepia in its picture has the idea of stasis.
On the physical level we find Stasis of the uterus, prolapsus of the uterus. Muscles become weak because of the loss of control by the autonomic nervous system. Sense of fullness in the rectum. Constipation without urging. Empty feeling in the stomach, a kind of gnawing hunger. Aversion to food, even the smell. Constant nausea, worse in the morning (morning sickness during pregnancy).
She eats and eats and can't get a full feeling. Vessels neither contract nor dilate. Think of Raynaud's disease.
Sepia has low blood pressure. A paralysis of the vessels, they are not functioning properly. White to red to blue, with the stasis, needs vigorous activity to counteract. Better with vigorous activity, walking fast and long.
In the emotional state we also have the same idea of stasis. Stillness of emotions. Feeling without emotion. Can't be stimulated to have joy or emotion by any stimulus.
The emotions that have been stilled refer to the complaints. Affection and the joy of life. Can be so long in that state that she can't remember since when. Life begins running through her when she feels better again.
Doesn't express jealousy directly. Destroys objects the partner loves
Sepia will not express jealousy directly. What will it do? It will try to destroy things the other person loves. Whomever or whatever the other person loves. For example: a book. The partner reads a book and finds it fantastic. Suddenly the book disappears. It ended in the fireplace. Or: "I love this song, this CD." Suddenly the CD is destroyed. Sepia doesn't say it directly. Instead, it tries to destroy beloved things. Or it says things it knows the other person is sensitive to. Sepia understands very quickly where someone has his weak points.