Cimicifuga racemosa
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
Actaea racemosa
Black Cohosh. Ranunculaceae .
Puerperal mania; thinks she is going crazy (compare, Syph. ) ; tries to injure herself.
Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.
Sensation as if a heavy, black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion.
Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair (Lac. c., ^th.).
Ciliary neuralgia: aching or sharp, darting, shooting pains in globes, extending to temples, vertex, occiput, orbit, < going up stairs > lying down.
Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or ovaries. Heart’s action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation; palpitation from least motion (Dig.).
Menses: irregular; exhausting (Alum., Coc. ) ; delayed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria or mania; increase of mental symptoms during.
Spasms: hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side.
Severe left-sided infra-mammary pains (Ust.).
Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side.
Pregnancy: nausea; sleeplessness; false labor-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; abortion at third month (Sab.).
During labor : ''shivers’^ in first stage; convulsions, from nervous excitement; rigid os; pains severe, spasmodic, tedious, < by least noise.
After-pains, worse in the groins.
When given during last month of pregnancy shortens labor, if symptoms correspond (Caul., Puls.), i6
Excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion.
Rheumatic pains in muscles of neck and back; feel stiff, lame, contracted; spine sensitive, from using arms in sewing, type writing, piano playing (Agar., Ran. b.).
Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles ; pains stitching, cramping.
Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea.
Relation. — Similar : to. Caul, and Puls, in uterine and rheumatic affections; to. Agar., Lib, Sep.
Aggravation. — During menstruation : the more profuse the flow the greater the suffering.
What the other books say about Cimicifuga racemosa
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cimicifuga racemosa in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cimicifuga racemosa in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Cimicifuga racemosa in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cimicifuga racemosa 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. Cimicifuga racemosa — Keynotes, pp. 14–15. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cimicifuga-racemosa. 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.