BAKSON BCT # 15 (IRREGULAR PERIODS)

• Amenorrhoea: It is the abnormal absence or suppression of menses. It can be primary, i.e., absence of menses in a girl by the age of 16 or secondary, i.e., ceasing of menses for 3 months in a woman with history of regular cyclic bleeding or for 6 months in a woman with history of irregular cycles.
• Oligomenorrhoea: It is abnormally infrequent or scanty menstrual flow. Menstruation occurs at intervals greater than 35 days, with only 4-9 periods in a year. Causes include thyrotoxicosis, perimenopause, PCOS, etc.
• Menorrhagia: Abnormally profuse or heavy menstrual flow where the total menstrual flow is > 80 ml per cycle, soaking a sanitary pad at least every 2 hours, or bleeding lasting for > 7 days. Causes include fibroids, coagulation defects, endometria polyps, PID, endometriosis, adenomyosis, miscarriage, etc.
• Polymenorrhoea: Menstruation at abnormally frequent intervals, i.e. cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer. Causes include stress, infections and STDs, endometriosis, menopause, etc.
• Dysmenorrhoea: It is the term used for painful menstruation or menstrual cramps. It can be primary, where there is no underlying pathology, or secondary where the pain is due to a pathology like fibroids, adenomyosis, ovarian cysts, pelvic congestion and endometriosis.
• Metrorrhagia: Irregular uterine bleeding especially between menstrual periods or intermenstrual bleeding. Causes include inflammation of cervix, endometrium, vagina, PID, endometriosis, polyps, DUB, PCOS, hormone imbalance, etc.

Action of Ingredients:

Calcarea phosphorica: Menses too early, excessive and bright in girls (menorrhagia). If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark with violent backache, during lactation with sexual excitement.

Ferrum phosphoricum: Menses every three weeks (metrorrhagia and dysmenorrhea) with bearing down sensation and pain on top of the head. Menses pale first half of the period.

Kali phosphoricum: Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Very profuse discharge, deep red or blackish-red, thin and non-couagulating; sometimes with an offensive odor.

Magnesium phosphoricum: Menses too early, dark, stringy, tarry, flowing at night leaving a stain. Menstrual colic. Membanous dysmenorrhea. Swelling of external parts.

Kali sulphuricum: Menses too late, scanty, with sensation of a weight in the abdomen. Metrorrhagia.