Childbirth Materia Medica A - B

A Specific Guide to Homoeopathy in Childbirth.
18 Remedies for use before, during and after labour

ACONITE
Used for threatened miscarriage or premature labour after severe frights / violent experiences. Distressed, anxious, fearful, before or during labour. May predict their own, or baby’s death. Restless. Tossing in agony. Skin dry, red, hot. May scream out.; have glassy staring eyes; dilated pupils. Symptoms have sudden onset. Labour too quick. Pains extreme, violent, terrifying. Mother feels panicky, distressed, despairing. Heartbeat rapid/ uncomfortably strong. Newborns in shock, colour normal but not crying/moving (cf. Carbo veg). Worse: at night (especially around midnight); touch; noise. Better: fresh air.

ARNICA
Number one trauma remedy. Encourages healing; controls bleeding; reduces swelling and likelihood of pus formation. Nearly all women benefit from it during labour. Reduces exhaustion, gives" second wind", particularly during long, slow, painful labours, where tiredness makes contractions weak / ineffectual (cf. Caullophyllum). Give routinely after birth to speed recovery / alleviate battered and bruised feeling. Use for shock, when someone claims to be alright but clearly isn’t. Reduces excessive bleeding where birth was traumatic / unusually long or short. Worse: being touched or examined; any jarring movements; lying or sitting on injured parts (" bed feels too hard").

BELLIS PERENNIS
Before birth can relieve sciatica (shooting nerve pain down leg) caused by position of the baby. Reduces the pain of over-stretched uterine ligaments." Refreshes the parts Arnica cannot reach". An excellent remedy for healing injury to deep tissue, which is sore/ bruised. Particularly useful after abdominal surgery (Caesarian) or forceps deliveries. cont...