Homeopathy & Birth
Recommended Birth Kit |
Chamonilla 200c |
KaliCarb 200c |
Aconite 200 c |
Cimicifuga 200c |
Laurocerasus 200c |
Antimonium Tart 200c |
Cinchona 200c |
Pulsatills 200c |
Arnica 200c |
Ferrum Phos 3x |
RhusTox 200c |
Belladonnna 200c |
Gelsium 200c |
Sabina 200c |
Carbo Veg 200c |
Hamamelis 200c |
Secale 200c |
Caulophyllum 200c |
Hypercum 200c |
Staphsagria 200c |
For Breach or unfavorable Presentation
prior to Onset of Labor, try Pulsatilla 30c, 2 times per day for 3 days,
discontinuing if baby turns, or Pulsatilla 200c once, then repeating once
if necessary. If the woman does not fit the overall Pulsatilla picture,
or if the baby needs to remain in her present position for whatever reason,
the remedy may not work.
Some midwives have reported good
results from routine recommendation of the following prenatal regimen.
- Cimiguga Racemosa 12c (To ease fear of giving birth.)
- Cimicifuga Racemosa or Black Cohosh acts
synergistically with Caulophyllum Thalictroides
(To ready the uterus for labor.)
- Black Cohosh (helps the uterus to contract in a coordinated and effective way.)
- Caulophyllum Thalictroides 12c (To make contractions more effective and speed up delivery.)
- Arnica Montana 12c (To avoid the physical trauma sometimes associated
with childbirth and maintain strength necessary to deliver the baby.)
Helpful Regimen: Start taking 4 weeks prior to due date.
Take each remedy once per week, alternating as follows:
Cimicifuga 3-5 pellets on Monday
Caulophyllum 3-5 pellets on Wednesday
Arnica 3-5 pellets on Friday
Pre-eminent Female Remedies:
Pulsatills, Natrum Muriaticum,
and Sepia are the three most commonly seen female remedies. Most women
will change to a Pulsatilla type when pregnant. Midwives should familiarize
themselves with these remedies by reading about them in-depth. Catherine
Coulter's Portraits of Homeopathic Medicines is highly recommended
for this purpose. If women are presenting a strong picture of a remedy
during pregnancy, difficulties during labor and birth may be averted by
prenatal treatment.
Remedies Grouped According To Usage:
Prenatal Remedies:
- Anemia: Ferrum Phos
- Cystitis: Cantharis
- Discomfort: Arnica, Bellis, Caulophyllum, Hamamelis, Kali Carb
- Headaches: Natrum Sulp, Nux Vomica
- Herpes: Natrum Mur
- Insomnia: Arsenicum, Coffea, Nux Vomica
- Morning Sickness: Anacardium, Arsenicum, Colchidum Ipecac, Natrum Sulph, Nux Vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia
- Toxemia: Apis, Colchicum, Nux Vomica
- Vaginitis: Hepar Sulph, Hydrastis, Natrum Muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia
Miscarriage Remedies:
Aconite, Caulophyllum, Ignatia, Ipecac, Sabina, Sepia
Labor: Aconite, Arsenicum,
Belladonna, Caulophyllum, Causticum, Chamomilla, Cimicifuga, Coffea, Gelsemium,
Kali Carb, Pulsatilla, Rhus Tox
Baby: Antimonium Tart, Arnica,
Belladonna, Carbo Veg., Hypericum, Laurocerasus
Mother: Arnica, Calendulla
: Succus or tincture, Cantharis, Carbo Veg, Caulophyllum, Ferrum Phos,
Hamamelis, Ipecac, Phosp., Sabina, Secale
Postpartum: Borax, Chamomilla,
Chelidonium, Colcynthis, Magnesium Phos
Mother: Arnica, Bellis, Calendula
Caulophyllum, Cinchona, Hamamelis oiintment, Hypericum, Ignaia, Kali
Carb, Magnesium Phos., Natrum Muriaticum, Phrogenium, Rhus Tox, Sepia,
Staphysagaria
Breastfeeding: Belladonna,
Bryonia, Calc Phos, Coffea, Hepar Sulph., Ignatia, Lactuca Virosa, Phytolacca,
Pulsatilla, Sepia, Staphsagraia
Homeopathic Remedies and Symptoms:
- Aconite: fright; precipitous birth; sudden hemorrhage of bright blood with faintness and panic; miscarriage
due to fright; anxious, restless, tossings, fear of death; inflamation
- Anacardium: morning sickness
with dry heaves, but feels better when eating; bowels plugged up
- Antimonium Tart: newborn's
lungs sound full of fluid and mucous; difficulty with resuscitation
- Apis: toxemia of pregnancy
with swelling; loss of protein; high blood pressure; convulsions
- Arnica: shock; bleeding, bruising,
trauma to muscles and tissues; hematoma; follows any chosen hemorrhage
remedy; give as soon as possible to breech or premature babies
- Arsenicum: anxious, fearful,
restless; insomnia; morning sickness, thirsty but can't drink much, food
smells terrible; rigidity of vagina; mother cleans house fanatically in
labor
- Belladonna: hot, moist, thin,
rigid cervix; fever, hot, red face; bounding pulse; twitching; headache;
wants to escape (freeking out); worse from light, motion, jarring, noise,
mastitis with reddened skin; too copious flow of milk; breasts very
tender, swollen
- Bellis: uterus sore, uncomfortable,
as if squeezed; inability to walk; varicosities; dragging afterpains; multipara
- Borax: thrush; baby's mouth
sore, cries when nursing; apthae on nipples of nursing mom; dread of downward
motion
- Bryonia: excessive milk (will
reduce); at onset, with engorgement
- Calendula: succus or tincure
stops bleeding when applied to cervical or vaginal tears; in potency, for
scars and poor healing
- Cantharis: cystitis; fever, urging,
and frequency with urination; bloody urine; retained placenta with painful
urination
- Carbo Veg.: "corpse reviver";
colapsed, limp, flaccid, cold, appears dead; hemorrhage with paleness and
icy coldness of body; air hunger, wants to be fanned
- Caulophyllum: known as a labor
regulator; to initiate or augment contractions, (use 12c potency and alternate
with Cimicifuga 12c); irregular, strong, but ineffective contractions;
pains flag from exhaustion; hemorrhage and/or retained placenta due to absent
contractions or uterine weakness, usually after long labor; uterus soft
and flabby; tremulous weakness; miscarriage due to uterine weakness from
repeated abortions, miscarriages, and childbirths; painful, swollen joints
during pregnancy or postpartum
- Causticum: long, slow labor
with over-stretched bladder; retention; uterine inertia; contractions insufficient,
irregular; distressed, hopeless, sympathetic; burning, rawness, and
soreness
- Chamomilla: whiney, throws
husband out of room; very sensitive to pain; jaundice with irritability;
colic
- Chelidonium: long-lasting jaundice
- Cimicifuga: helps produce
coordinated contractions, allays fear and anxiety (alternate with Caulophyllum
12c); shivers during first stage of labor; displaced labor pains, cramps
in hips, shooting pain in leg, sciatica
- Cinchona: reviver; faint from
exhausting discharges (bleeding, diarrhea, vomiting); loss of sight, ringing
in ears; mother still feels dragged out after day three, or is weak
from long labor
- Coffea: agonizing labor pains
with sciatica; hypersensitive to noise or vibration; unable to sleep
due to excitement; decreased milk due to excitement
- Colchicum: morning sickness;
worse from sight and smell of food, especially meat and eggs; thought of
food is gross; toxemia, protein in the urine, swelling, diarrhea
- Colocynthis : colic; tries to bend
forward
- Ferrum Phos: anemia; improves
absorption of iron; hemorrhage -- if you don't know what to give, give
this; 3x potency builds hemoglobin after hemorrhage (give 3 doses in 24
hours)
- Gelsemium : thick, rigid cervix;
nervous chattering; spasmodic pains; performance anxiety in midwives (shaking,
frequent stools)
- Hamamelis: great weakness
from steady, slow blood loss after long labor; tendency to varicose veins
and hemorrhoids; lax ligaments and tissues; phlebitis; prolapsed rectum;
ointment preparation great for hemorrhoids
- Hepar Sulph: vaginitis; discharge
is curdy and smells like old cheese, with itching; mastitis with pus production
- Hydrastis : vaginitis; thick, yellow,
ropy discharge with itchy vulva; intercourse relieves
- Hypericum : trauma to nerves such
as face and shoulder; pain in tailbone since childhood
- Ignatia: miscarriage due to
grief; postpartum depression with weeping and sighing; decreased milk due
to emotional upset
- Ipecac : morning sickness with clean
tongue and excess salivation; nausea with retching; averse to all food;
irritated; threatened miscarriage due to extreme nausea and vomiting; hemorrhage
with nausea and vomiting
- Kali Carb: back labor
radiating to gluteal muscles; pressure helps; irritable since birth; back
pain; worse change in weather
- Lactuca Virosa : deficient or absent
milk; a true galactogogue
- Laurocerasus : face blue; difficulty
breathing; pulse failing; heart abnormalities
- Mag Phos: colic; afterpains;
better with heat and warm drinks
- Natrum Mur: vaginitis; discharge
watery and like eggwhite; herpes brought on by emotional stress and
fatigue; deep depression, fear of rejection
- Natrum Sulph: for non-specific
nausea; gas, bloating, desires sweets; headache with constipation; history
of head injury; feels over burdened
- Nux Vomica: morning sickness; feels
like a hangover; toxic feeling with nausea and vomiting; hypersensitive
to noise; dry heaves; "wants to but can't" constipated, sluggish insomnia,
can't turn mind off; irritability with backache and spasms
- Phosphorus : hemorrhage in tall,
slim, wispy women; bright blood with intense thirst
- Phytolacca: extreme breast
infection; nipples sore and fissured; intense suffering on putting child
to breast; pain radiates all over body; breast feels like brick, lumpy
and nodular, caked; excessive milk flows, mammary abscess; irritable, restless,
indifferent, sure she will die
- Pulsatilla: mild symptoms;
better outside' weepy and emotional; nausea later in the day, usually in
response to fatty foods; vaginitis; changeable discharge, usually creamy
with burning; weak, ineffective, irregular contractions; may help change
a posterior or breech presentation; overabundant milk production; cracked
nipples with pain extending down back
- Pyrogenium: uterine infection,
sepsis; fever; dark, offensive blood
- Rhus Tox: restless, can't
get comfortable; back and joints ache; sciatica; strained and chilled after
long labor
- Sabina: #1 to assist
miscarriage with bright blood and clots; pain from sacrum to pubis;
hemorrhage; retained placenta; uterine atony; wants windows open
- Secale: hemorrhage; passive
flow of dark blood from low lying placenta; to clamp down lower segment
of uterus; chilly but wants to be uncovered; feeble women
- Sepia: difficulty conceiving due
to hormonal imbalance; never well since birth control pill; mask of pregnancy;
irritable, dragged-out fatigue; dark-haired women; insatiable hunger, then
nauseous; worse from smell of food; vaginitis; greenish-yellow discharge
with bearing down sensation in pelvis; intercourse is extremely painful;
periodic miscarriages; placenta previa; uterine prolapse; postpartum
blues; aversion to baby; deep, sore cracks across crown of nipple
- Staphysagria: trauma of cut or
torn tissues; stretched sphincter pain after catherization; over
sensitive, brooding, angry; nursing almost impossible from pain when milk
begins to flow; colic in baby due to mother's anger
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