An uneasy feeling just before the menses or a week before menses. It may manifest itself in the form of mental symptoms like:
• Excessive irritability
• Depression
• Anxiety

Or in the form of physical symptoms like lower abdominal discomfort, leucorrhoea, headache, breast enlargement of tender breasts, puffiness felt all over the body or a general ill-being. These kinds of disturbances may incapacitate the woman and hamper her day-to-day routine life.

Homeopathic medicines can help the patient feel psychologically better and can help to relieve her physical symptoms also. After homeopathic medication, the female experiences a general feeling of well being. The intensity and duration of pain before, or during, periods will reduce and subsequently disappear. Menses, if irregular will slowly start becoming regular. Bleeding, if profuse, will reduce and return to normal. Premenstrual symptoms like irritability, breast engorgement and water retention will slowly reduce and eventually disappear.

Homeopathy treats the patient as one integrated unit of mind and body. This makes it the only therapeutic system which takes personalities into account while prescribing treatment. Often adverse circumstances may create lacunae in the mind and give rise to behavioural abnormalities. Homeopathic medicines have a effect an the cope mechanisms. The idea is not to change either the person or circumstances or to get a perfect person, but to restore an equilibrium so that he can continue effective coordination at both the mental and physical levels.