The cuttlefish’s black ink can sketch portraits, scribble scripts and harmonize hormones– there must be magic in it. Sepia temperaments can fluctuate between energetic excitable individuals who thrive on exercise, to extremely sluggish, indifferent states capable of harsh witticisms and screaming outbreaks.

      When energy wains under pressure, Sepia helps combat nervous fatigue, sudden bouts of weariness, even faintness, and 3 a.m. insomnia. The bursting headaches it relieves come in waves and are stronger on the left side with tearing pain down to the bones and cold hands and feet. It helps clear out colds with salty dirty-yellow mucus, post nasal drip, a constant, violent, night cough. Its achy lower back pain has a ‘dragging down’ sensation.
   In the digestive field it helps travel sickness, nausea with a gnawing empty feeling, hard ‘ball in the anus’ constipation, and stomach distress from smoking. Its urinary applications include bed-wetting, frequent slow urination, leaking with dragging down sensation in pelvis and weak muscle issues especially after childbirth.

   Sepia can be very helpful when personality changes with hormonal cycles.  It earned its fame by balancing hormonal changes in women, aiding vaginal complaints (dryness, thrush...), pregnancy issues, and relieving menopausal symptoms, especially hot flashes. It is commonly used by women to relieve heavy periods with a ‘bearing down sensation,’ PMS and labor pains, all with erratic emotional changes, irritability, involuntary weeping and progressive indifference toward loved ones when out of sync.
 ‘Never well since puberty’ and tears when discussing symptoms point to Sepia as well.
   Though they are often too weary to exercise, most Sepia cases improve with vigorous exercise and worsen when sitting or kneeling, as well as with periods, menopause, fasting, mental exertion or getting wet.