Looking for an absent period homeopathy remedy? Explore natural treatments like Pulsatilla and Sepia to balance hormones and regulate your cycle safely.
Experiencing an absent period can be an alarming signal from your body, often sparking immediate concerns about pregnancy. However, for many women, an absent period not pregnant is a common occurrence triggered by high stress levels, sudden weight changes, or intense physical exertion. These lifestyle factors can disrupt the delicate hormonal balance required for a regular cycle, leading to secondary amenorrhea.
Another frequent scenario is having an absent period on birth control. Hormonal contraceptives, such as the progesterone-only pill, hormonal IUDs, or contraceptive injections, often thin the uterine lining to the point where there is little to no shedding, resulting in light or non-existent periods. While usually a normal side effect of the medication, it is a change that many users find unexpected.
When lifestyle adjustments aren’t enough, doctors may prescribe mainstream medicines for absent periods. Common treatments include:
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Medroxyprogesterone (Provera): A synthetic progestin used to induce a withdrawal bleed; however, it is contraindicated in individuals with a history of blood clots or liver disease.
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Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills: Used to regulate cycles but contraindicated for smokers over 35 or those with certain types of migraine.
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Metformin: Sometimes used if the absence is linked to PCOS, though it may cause significant gastrointestinal distress in some patients.
Understanding these underlying causes and treatment limitations is the first step toward regaining your hormonal health.
In Kent’s repertory, the remedies that appear in grade 3 (bold type) for “GENITALIA FEMALE – MENSES, absent, amenorrhoea”
Absent Period (Amenorrhea) Rubric – leading homeopathy remedies and indications
| Abbreviation | Full remedy name | Key amenorrhea indications (Repertory & Materia Medica) |
|---|---|---|
| AUR. | Aurum metallicum | Amenorrhea with profound melancholy or suicidal depression; uterine induration or prolapsus; menses too late and scanty, especially first menses in anaemic, oversensitive women. |
| CARBN-S. | Carbo (Carboneum) sulphuratum | Marked debility and nervous exhaustion with delayed or suppressed menses; venous stasis and coldness; tendency to skin eruptions or ulcerations around menses |
| DULC. | Dulcamara | Amenorrhea from getting chilled or wet (especially feet) just before expected period; rheumatic or skin eruptions that alternate with menses; tendency to catarrhal complaints after suppression. |
| FERR. | Ferrum metallicum | Delayed or scanty menses in chlorotic, anaemic girls with flushing of face and easy exhaustion; tendency to haemorrhages once flow appears; weakness from slightest exertion. |
| GRAPH. | Graphites | Late, scanty or entirely suppressed menses in obese, chilly women with constipation and fissured, moist eczema; leucorrhoea instead of menses; tendency to endocrine sluggishness. |
| IGN. | Ignatia amara | Amenorrhea after emotional shock, grief, disappointment or suppressed emotions; spasmodic uterine cramps with globus hystericus; changeable, contradictory mental state. |
| KALI‑C. | Kali carbonicum | Delayed or suppressed menses with stitching pains in uterus and back; great weakness around 3–4 a.m., backache better by firm support; suited to stooping, chilly women prone to oedema |
| LYC. | Lycopodium clavatum | Late, scanty menses with marked flatulence, right‑sided ovarian or abdominal complaints, and hepatic dyspepsia; timid but domineering temperament; poor circulation and fatigue. |
| PULS. | Pulsatilla pratensis | One of the main remedies for delayed or suppressed first menses; menses too late, scanty, changeable or suddenly stop; suppression from getting feet wet; weepy, mild disposition, better in open air. |
| SENEC. | Senecio aureus | Functional amenorrhea of young girls with backache and anaemia; sense that menses are about to appear but do not; urinary or respiratory symptoms accompanying menstrual suppression. |
| SEP. | Sepia officinalis | Amenorrhea or very scanty menses in worn‑out women with bearing‑down sensation “as if everything would protrude”; indifference to loved ones; yellowish blotches and pelvic congestion |
| SIL. | Silicea terra | Late, scanty menses in delicate, chilly, perspiring women; tendency to delayed development and chronic suppurations; headaches or neuralgias when menses are suppressed |
| SULPH. | Sulphur | Amenorrhea with flushes of heat, burning feet, and offensive body odours; tendency to recurrent skin eruptions; used often as an antisycotic/psoric opener in long‑standing menstrual suppression. |
| TUB. | Tuberculinum | Amenorrhea in tubercular constitutions with great restlessness, desire for change and travel; recurrent respiratory complaints; menstrual disorders including amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea with exhaustion. |
