Murex Purpurea

Petroz first proved the Purple-fish, Murex, which, like the Ink-fish, Sepia,

produces the chief intensity of its action in the female generative sphere. They are chiefly

distinguished in that Murex produces frantic sexual desire, and tends to have excessive

hemorrhage with large clots, Sepia having, in general, scanty flow. Another leading feature of

Murex is: Consciousness of the womb; sore pain in uterus. In addition there are cutting pains

confined to the cervix and os. The sinking, all-gone sensation is very well marked in both

remedies, and also the feeling of bearing down and prolapse. Murex has a sensation of dryness

and constriction in the womb. The pains are frequently diagonal and shoot from ovary to

opposite breast. Another peculiar symptom of Murex is: A feeling as if something were pressing

on a sore spot in the pelvis. This is analogous to a general sensitiveness to touch. The least

contact with the parts causes violent sexual excitement. The cervix is sensitive to the examining

finger. The slightest touch causes bleeding of excoriation on cervix. (May be thought of in

cauliflower excrescences.) There is excessive secretion of urine, and frequent necessity to rise at

night to urinate. This nightly polyuria, with the hungry craving of Murex and other symptoms,

has led to its successful use in diabetes. Murex is suited to: the melancholic, or sanguine,

lymphatic temperament; to climacteric sufferings. There is very great depression of spirits, a sort

of deep hypochondriacal state. If there is leucorrhoea, the spirits are > when leucorrhoea is <, and

• ▸vice versa.
• ▸Walking 1s difficult, all joints are weak, during pregnancy.
• ▸> Putting head back.
• ▸< By

• ▸exertion.
• ▸> Pressure and support.
• ▸< Night.
• ▸< After sleep.
• ▸Must lie down from weakness, but lying

down < all symptoms.

Great sadness, anxiety, and dread.

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

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

• ▸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.
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea and chronic endometritis, with displacement.
• ▸Must keep legs tightly crossed.
• ▸Leucorrhoea green or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in sacrum.
• ▸Benign tumors in breasts.
• ▸Pain in them during menstrual period.

• ▸Abortion.
• ▸Breasts, pains in.
• ▸Cervix uteri, affections of.
• ▸Climacteric sufferings.

• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Nymphomania.
• ▸Pregnancy,

affections of. Uterus, prolapse of.

Compare: Uterine congestion, cervix affected, Sep. (Sep. is passive; Murex feels

disgust and despair at her sexual desires). Shooting pains in uterus, prolapse, melancholy, Aur.

• ▸(Aur.
• ▸has induration).
• ▸Nocturnal polyuria, Kre.
• ▸Sexual erethism, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Orig.
• ▸Dragging

• ▸down, Bell.
• ▸Prolapsus uteri, Aésc.
• ▸h.
• ▸, Sec.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Nux, Nux m.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sep.

• ▸Consciousness of womb, Helon.
• ▸, Hdrfb.
• ▸Climacteric, Lach.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸> Throwing head back,

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

Third to thirtieth potency.