Sabina
Juniperus sabina · Plant · Cupressaceae
Sabina suits individuals — especially women — with marked uterine irritability, profuse bright-red haemorrhages, and pain radiating from the sacrum to the pubis. There is a strong tendency to miscarriage at the third month and menorrhagia with extension of uterine pains into the thighs. The patient is sensitive to music, which she cannot tolerate, and desires open windows due to violent pulsations.
Key symptoms
- Pain from sacrum to the pubis
- Haemorrhages with fluid blood that clots together
- Tendency to miscarriage especially at the third month
- Violent pulsations; desires windows open
- Music is intolerable, produces nervousness
- Menses profuse and bright red
- Haemorrhoids with bright red blood bleeding copiously
- Inflammatory gonorrhoea with pus-like discharge and sycotic excrescences
Worse (aggravation)
- Music (produces nervousness)
Better (amelioration)
- Open air or open windows
Savine
Has a special action on the uterus; also upon serous and fibrous membranes; hence its use in gout. Pain from sacrum to the pubis. Hæmorrhages, where blood is fluid and clots together. Tendency to miscarriage, especially at third month. Violent pulsations; wants windows open.
Mind
Music is intolerable, produces nervousness.
Head
Vertigo with suppressed menses. Bursting headache, suddenly coming and going slowly. Rush of blood to head and face. Drawing pains in masseter muscles. Teeth ache when chewing.
Stomach
Heartburn. Desire for lemonade. Bitter taste (Rhus). Lancinating pain from pit of stomach across back.
Abdomen
Bearing-down, constrictive pain. Colic, mostly in hypogastric region. Tympanitic distention.
Rectum
Sense of fullness. Constipation. Pain from back to pubis. Hæmorrhoids, with bright red blood; bleed copiously.
Urine
Burning and throbbing in region of kidneys. Bloody urine; much urging. Bladder inflamed with throbbing all over. Inflammation of urethra.
Male
Inflammatory gonorrhœa, with pus-like discharge. Sycotic excrescences. Burning, sore pain in glans. Prepuce painful with difficulty in retracting it. Increased desire.
Female
Menses profuse, bright. Uterine pains extend into thighs. Threatened miscarriage. Sexual desire increased. Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive. Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement (Ambr). Retained placenta; intense after-pains. Menorrhagia in women who aborted readily. Inflammation of ovaries and uterus after abortion. Promotes expulsion of moles from uterus (Canth). Pain from sacrum to pubis, and from below upwards shooting up the vagina. Hæmorrhage; partly clotted; worse from least motion. Atony of uterus.
Back
Pain between sacrum and pubis from one bone to another. Paralytic pain in small back.
Extremities
Bruised pains in anterior portion of thighs. Shooting in heels and metatarsal bones. Arthritic pain in joints. Gout; worse, in heated room. Red, shining swelling. Gouty nodosities (Ammon phos).
Skin
Fig-warts, with intolerable itching and burning. Exuberant granulations (Thuj; Nit ac). Warts. Black pores in skin.
Modalities
Worse, from least motion, heat, warm air. Better, in cool fresh air.
Relationship
Complementary: Thuja.
Compare: Sanguisorba (Venous congestion and passive hæmorrhages; varices of lower extremities; dysentery. Long lasting profuse menses with congestion to head and limbs in sensitive, irritable patients. Climacteric hæmorrhages. Use 2x attenuation). Sanguisuga.--The leech--(Hæmorrhages, especially bleeding from anus. Use 6x). Rosmarinus (menses too early; violent pains followed by uterine hæmorrhage. Head heavy, drowsy. Chilly with icy coldness of lower extremities without thirst, followed by heat. Memory deficient). Croc; Calc; Trill; Ipec; Millef; Erig.
Antidote: Puls.
Dose
Locally, for warts, tincture. Internally, third to thirtieth potency.
Generalities
The use of this remedy is generally confined to symptoms of the kidneys, bladder, uterus, rectum and anus; inflammatory and hemorrhagic symptoms principally of these parts.
Sabina establishes a turmoil in the circulatory system, with violent pulsations all over the body. The patient is disturbed by heat, is worse in a warm room or from too much clothing. Wants the windows open and to be in the open air (Puls.). This turmoil in the circulatory system is such as might be expected in a hemorrhagic remedy.
Inflammation and bleeding
Tendency to bleed from all the mucous membranes, especially of the kidney, bladder and uterus. It has a decided effect in diminishing knots, enlargements, or varices in veins. The principal action is on the lower bowel, about the anus. Hoemorrhoidal tumors which bleed copiously. Constipation with bleeding hemorrhoids. A sense of fullness in these parts.
Juniperus sabina. Savin. N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of the young, fresh tops of the branches. Tincture of the oil.
Clinical
Abortion; after-effects of. After-pains. Boils. Condylomata. Cystitis. Dysmenorrhœa. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Inter-menstrual flow. Leucorrhœa. Menstruation, excessive. Miscarriage. Moles, promotes expulsion of. Nephritis. Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of. Penis, cartilaginous swelling on. Phimosis. Retained placenta. Rheumatic gout. Strangury. Sycosis. Toothache. Uterus, bleeding from.
Characteristics
Stapf made the first collection of the symptoms of Sabina, and Hahnemann and his son were among the provers. A number of observations on women who had taken the drug to bring on the menses or procure abortion have also been added; and some cases of fatal poisoning are on record. Sbi. acts as a widespread irritant, inflaming the pyloric end of duodenum and causing patches of inflammation in other portions of the intestines, especially the upper intestines, the omentum and peritoneum (R. …
Savine. (Coniferae.)
Chronic ailments of women; arthritic pains; tendency to miscarriages, especially at third month. Music is intolerable: produces nervousness, goes through bone and marrow (causes weeping Thuja). Drawing pains in small of back, from sacrum to pubes, in nearly all diseases (from back, going round the body to pubes, Vib. op.). Ailments: following abortion or premature labor; haemorrhage from uterus; flow partly pale red, partly clotted; worse from least motion (Sec.); often relieved by walking; pain extending from sacrum to pubes. Menses: too early, too profuse, too protracted; partly fluid, partly clotted (Fer.); in persons who menstruated very early in life; flow in paroxysym; with colic and labor-like pains; pains from sacrum to pubes. Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement (Amb.). Retained placenta from atony of uterus; intense after-pains (Caul., Sec.). Menorrhagia: during climacteric, in women who formerly aborted; with early first menses. Inflammation …
Female Sexual Organs
Drawing pains running through from back to pubes.
Neck and Back
Drawing pains and dragging in small of back, extending into the pubic region.
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Drawing pains and dragging in the small of the back, extending into the pubic region.
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Hemorrhage from the uterus, in paroxysms; worse from motion; blood dark and clotted from loss of tone in uterus; also after abortion or confinement; with pain from back to pubes.
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