Pre-menstrual Symptoms (PMS) - remedies in homeopathy

Pre-menstrual Symptoms (PMS)

Many women experience premenstrual symptoms 7-10 days before the onset of bleeding; irritability, lassitude, malaise, headache, intestinal upsets such as constipation, frequency of micturition, and a feeling of fullness in the breasts, abdomen, face and feet. All these symptoms become exaggerated and form a well- marked psychosomatic disorder called Premenstrual symptoms.
In some cases there is demonstrable water retention and a weight gain of 1 to 5 kg. The breast symptoms are particularly marked and give rise to a feeling of fullness, weight, and tenderness. Some patients may also notice a type of migraine and disappears with pregnancy.

It has been suggested that the main constant factor is an increase in the extracellular water through out the body, possibly due to excessive oestrogen production.

Homeopathic Treatment:

Chief Remedies:

Pulsatilla: Pulsatilla helps in pre-menstrual syndrome when there is vomiting and purging with severe pain across the abdomen which is shifting in nature. Diarrhoea during or after menses. There is also dryness of tongue with no thirst. Pulsatilla is suitable to ladies having fair complexion. Pulsatilla also helps in leucorrhoea which is milky white with swollen vulva. Leucorrhoea is acrid, burning and painless or cutting pain in abdomen. Leucorrhoea corrodes the vulva.

Magnesia Phosphorica: Magnesia Phosphorica is a chief remedy for pre-menstrual syndrome. It helps in dysmenorrhea and painful menses. Menses too early, flow dark and stringy. There is severe pain in abdomen especially on the right side. Pain rapidly changes place, comes like lighting flash. Pain is of cramping type. Pain is worse before the flow begins and better when flow starts, by lying of right side, by heat and bending double.