Folliculinum is a potent homoeopathic medicine prepared from the ovarian hormone estrogen (folliculin). It plays a crucial role in assisting conditions related to hormonal imbalance, particularly those affecting women during ovulation, menstruation, and the climacteric (menopausal) period. It is especially useful in patients with a history of sexual abuse, emotional suppression, or religious domination. Folliculinum addresses both physical disorders like menstrual irregularities and fibroids, and emotional symptoms such as confusion, rage, and sadness.
Common Name: Oestrone
SBL’s Folliculinum can be helpful in the following conditions:
• Menstrual and Hormonal Disorders
- Folliculinum helps to regulate irregular, absent, painful, profuse, or prolonged menses.
- Helpful in metrorrhagia (bleeding between periods) and leucorrhoea (white or colored discharge).
- Relieves uterine and ovarian pain, especially before and during menses.
- Indicated in hyperplasia, cysts, myomas, and ovarian tumors.
- Reduces swelling before menses, weight gain, and fluid retention.
- Assists dryness of the vagina, itching, and sexual dysfunction.
• Menopause and Climacteric Complaints
- Very beneficial in managing hot flushes, palpitations, mood swings, and fainting spells.
- Assists fatigue, prostration, and slowness during perimenopause.
- Alleviates emotional symptoms such as sadness, anger, restlessness, and loss of will.
• Mental and Emotional Health
- Helps in states of depression, melancholy, and emotional numbness, especially following trauma or childbirth.
- For individuals with identity confusion, low self-confidence, irresolution, or rage attacks.
- Sensitive to reprimands, criticism, and touch.
- Experience of being “under a powerful influence” or disconnected from self.
- Symptoms often worse in solitude, better with company.
• Headaches and Migraines
- Useful in congestive headaches, especially before menses.
- Associated with coryza, nausea, vomiting, and vertigo.
- Accompanied by hair fall in women.
• Digestive and Abdominal Symptoms
- Ravenous appetite before menstruation with craving for starchy food and sugar.
- Flatulence, rumbling, and abdominal distension, especially before menses.
- Pain in the right hypochondrium, enlarged liver, or swollen abdomen.
• Bladder and Rectal Complaints
- Recurrent bladder infections, especially in women.
- Constipation alternating with diarrhea, particularly around menstruation.
- Sensation of dragging, heaviness in rectum and presence of E. coli in stool.
• Cardiac and Chest Conditions
- Angina pectoris, tightness, and grasping sensation in the heart.
- Chest pain radiating to the left arm, especially before menses.
- Palpitations with faintness, especially during the climacteric.
- Breast pain, sensitivity, or nodules, worse before menstruation.
• Skin and Hair
- Useful in dry eczema, acne, seborrhea, and desquamating eruptions.
- Supports healing of chapped, cracked, or numb fingertips.
- Aids in hair loss, especially hormonally influenced alopecia in women.
• Respiratory and Throat Conditions
- Paroxysmal cough, worse in company.
- Throat pain, especially when swallowing liquids.
- Larynx sensitive to pressure.
- Deep, sighing respiration.
• Musculoskeletal and Extremities
- Folliculinum assists lumbago, pain in the cervical spine, worse before or during ovulation.
- Manages Raynaud’s disease-like symptoms: coldness, numbness, and blue discoloration of fingers.