Murex Purpurea

or simply Murex

(Purple Fish)

The symptoms of the female sexual organs are most-prominent, and have been clinically verified. Especially adapted to nervous, lively, affectionate women. Patient weak and run down.

Mind
Great sadness, anxiety, and dread.

Stomach
Sinking, all-gone sensation in stomach (Sep). Hungry, must eat.

Female
Conscious of a womb. Pulsation in neck of womb. Desire easily excited. Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis: worse sitting. Pain from right side of womb to right or left breast. Nymphomania. Least contact of parts causes violent sexual excitement. Sore pain in uterus. Menses irregular, profuse, frequent, large clots. Feeling of protrusion. Prolapse; enlargement of uterus, with pelvic tenesmus and sharp pains, extending toward breasts; aggravated lying down. Dysmenorrhea and chronic endometritis, with displacement. Must keep legs tightly crossed. Leucorrhea green or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in sacrum. Benign tumors in breasts. Pain in them during menstrual period.

Urinary
Urine frequent at night; smells like Valerian constant urging (Kreos).

Modalities
Worse, least touch.

Relationship
Compare: Plat; Lil; Sep (the latter lacks sexual erethism of Murex).

Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.

(Reference: Homeopathic Materia Medica by William Boericke)