Sabina
Remedy of uterine hemorrhage and threatened miscarriage. Profuse, bright red, clotted hemorrhage worse from any motion. Pain from sacrum to pubis. Fig-warts. Gout. Music is unbearable.
Source
Prepared from the fresh young tops and leaves of Juniperus sabina (Cupressaceae).
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Keynote Symptoms
Uterine hemorrhage — profuse, bright red, partly clotted, gushing, worse from the least motion. Threatened miscarriage at third month. Pain from sacrum to pubis — the characteristic direction (Sepia reverses: pubis to sacrum). Fig-warts with intolerable itching and burning. Music is unbearable. Gout.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Irritable, cannot bear music — it goes through the bones. Hypochondriacal. Despondent. Wants to be alone.
General Symptoms
Worse from motion, heat, warm air, warm room, night, touch, pregnancy. Better from cool fresh air, cold applications.
Physical Symptoms
Rectum
Hemorrhoids with bright blood. Bloody, mucous stool. Fig-warts around anus.
Female Genitalia
Uterine hemorrhage — profuse, bright, partly clotted, with labor-like pains from sacrum to pubis. Menorrhagia. Threatened miscarriage (third month). Retained placenta with hemorrhage. After-pains. Inflammation of uterus or ovaries after delivery. Leucorrhea.
Male Genitalia
Inflammatory gonorrhea with fig-warts. Condylomata on prepuce.
Urinary
Burning during urination. Blood in urine.
Back
Pain from sacrum to pubis — the keynote direction. Drawing pains in small of back.
Extremities
Gout — red, shining swelling of joints. Arthritic nodes. Pain in heels and metatarsal bones.
Skin
Fig-warts — itching, burning. Condylomata. Black pores on skin.
Modalities
Better From
Cool fresh air, cold applications
Worse From
Motion, heat, warm room, night, touch, pregnancy, music, least motion
Constitutional Type
Women with hemorrhagic tendency. Gouty diathesis. Sycotic constitutions with warts.
Clinical Indications
Uterine hemorrhage, threatened miscarriage, menorrhagia, fig-warts, condylomata, gout, retained placenta
Comparative Materia Medica
Thuja also has fig-warts but with more left-sided symptoms and mental fixed ideas. Nitricum acidum has warts at mucocutaneous junctions. Ipecacuanha has uterine hemorrhage with persistent nausea and bright red blood. Secale has hemorrhage but dark, non-coagulating blood.
Safety Information
Camphora, Pulsatilla.
Juniperus sabina is highly toxic. Contains sabinol and podophyllotoxin. Historically used as an abortifacient — extremely dangerous. Causes severe GI irritation, uterine hemorrhage, kidney damage, death. Use only potentised forms.
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