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Homeopathic Labour & Birth Remedies
All remedies in 200C potency.
Aconite
| Anxious/foreboding
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| Anxious/restless
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| Precipitous birth
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| Hemorrhage*, trauma*
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Arnica
| Baby hurting you
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| Don’t want to be touched
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| Fetal distress
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| Pain, abdomen feels bruised
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| Hemorrhage*, urine retention, afterpains
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Arsenicum
| Being restless
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| Won’t let go
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Belladonna
| Back pain, feels as though it would break
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| Hot, thin,
rigid cervix; anterior lip
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| Hysterical, wants to escape
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| Hypersensitivity, extreme sensitivity to touch, worse for light, motion,
jarring, noise
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| Hemorrhage, forceful, gushing with fever
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Borax
| Fear of downward motion
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Caulophyllum
| FTP – uncoordinated contractions (alternate with Cimicifuga)
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| Exhaustion, shivers/trembling
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| Lack of progress*
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| Hemorrhage*
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Chamomilla
| Too intense
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Cimicifuga
| FTP – uncoordinated contractions
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| Foreboding, anxiety, hysterical, shivers/trembling
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| Overly sensitive, cannot tolerate pain
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Gelsemium
| Performance anxiety
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| Exhaustion, shivers/trembling
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| Lack of progress*
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| Pain moves up and down back
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| No urge to push
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Hypericum
| Nerve trauma*
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| Post-op pain*
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| Healing for puncture/needle wounds (suturing)
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Kali Carb
| Back labour, back wants to be pressed
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Pulsatilla
| Posterior presentation
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| Lack of progress*
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| Needy, weepy, emotional, wants constant reassurance
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| Retained placenta/hemorrhage
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| Depression (PPD)
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Staphysagria
| Obstructed labour from birth trauma and suppressed anger
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| Don’t want to be touched
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| Healing for cutting wounds (cesarean, episiotomy)
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