Cyclamen – Sow-Bread

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh rootstock with the attached tuber- ous roots of the plant, Cyclamen purpurascens Mill. (Cyclamen europaeum L.), gathered in the Autumn. It grows in the woodlands of the central mountains of Southern and Central Europe, as far north as 50° latitude. N.O. Primulaceae.

The main symptoms are:

Hemicrania with darkened complexion. Fluent coryza with loss of smell and taste. Dysmenorrhoea. Breasts hard and swollen. Galactorrhoea, even in non-pregnant women.

An indication for Cyclamen can be a lack of sense of taste and an aversion to bread and butter, and to a lesser extent to hot food.

Cyclamen has a sad, tearful mood similar to that of Pulsatilla; however, warm ameliorates, (in Pulsatilla, cool fresh air). A particularly important symptom deserv- ing emphasis is the secretion of milk from the breasts of non-pregnant women, since this symptom is found hardly anywhere else, and therefore in many cases used to lead to mastectomy in young girls.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Cyclamen europaeum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cyclamen: headaches; migraine; various forms of paramenia; digestive insufficiency; common cold; rheumatism, emotional discord or upset.