Caulophyllum thalictroides
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Blue Cohosh. Berberidaceae.
Especially suited to women; ailments during pregnancy, parturition, lactation.
Rheumatism of women, especially of small joints (Act. s.); erratic pains changing place every few minutes (Puls.) ; painful stiffness of affected joints. Pains are intermittent, paroxysmal, spasmodic.
Chorea, hysteria or epilepsy at puberty, during establishment of menstrual function (Actsea).
Leucorrhoea : acrid, exhausting; upper eyelids heavy, has to raise them with the fingers (Gels.) ; with ‘huoth spots” on forehead (Sep.) ; in little girls ( Calc. ) ; preventing pregnancy.
from anaemia with profound melancholy, Helon.).
Spasmodic rigid os, delays labor; needle-like pricking pains in cervix.
Labor pains short, irregular, spasmodic ; tormenting, useless pains in beginning of labor (Act.) ; no progress made. Will correct deranged vitality and produce efficient pains, if symptoms agree.
Haemorrhage, after hasty labor; want of tonicity; passive, after abortion (Sec., Thlaspi).
After pains : after long exhausting labor ; spasmodic, across lower abdomen; extend into groins (in the shins, Carbo v., Coc.).
Lochia protracted ; great atony ; passive, oozing for days from relaxed vessels (Sec.).
Relations. — Similar: to. Act., Bell., Lib, Puls.,
Sec., Thlas., Vib.
Similar: to, labor pains of Puls., but mental condition opposite.
Similar: to, Sep., “moth patches” and reflex symptoms from uterine irregularities.
What the other books say about Caulophyllum thalictroides
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Caulophyllum thalictroides in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Caulophyllum thalictroides in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Caulophyllum thalictroides — Keynotes, pp. 86–88. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/caulophyllum-thalictroides. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.