Actaea spicata
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheumatism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion.
Head
Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.
Face
Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.
Stomach
Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp- like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating.
Abdomen
Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.
Respiratory
Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.
Extremities
Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, (Ulmus) fingers, ankles, toes. Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic weakness in the hands. Lame feeling in arms. Pain in knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationships
Compare: Cimicif; Cauloph; Led.
Dose
Third potency.
What the other books say about Actaea spicata
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Actaea spicata in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Actaea spicata — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/actaea-spicata. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.