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.
