Cimicifuga racemosa

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

(Cimicifuga Racemosa) A depressing irritant, causing exhaustion and low spirits, combined with oversensitiveness, < during pain (Nux-v.). Plumpness. Irregular, changeful or alternating symptom groups; utero- rheumatic (Caul.), etc. Violent pains; achings; shooting, here and there; shock-like, with cries, faints, etc.; up nape, about thorax, ovary to ovary (Arn.); lumbar spine, etc.; or alternating with other states. Myalgia. Ovaralgia. Lumbago. Bruised, sore or heavy, aching muscles; behing eyeballs, uterus, neck; with a general sick feeling. Grippe. Variola. Trmbling, twitching; of part lain on, tongue, fingers, etc. Chorea; cardiac. Compressive pain; temples, feet, etc. .................... Insanity before menses. Melancholy. Agitation. Alternate mental and physical effects. Nervous, fidgety, excitable and jerky. Annoyances drive her crazy. Depressed and talkative, with constant change of subject. Suspicious. Gloomy forebodings; of death; insanity, etc. Sees rats. Sees various colors and forms. Mania; alcoholic, puerperal, etc. Deathly fear, of rats, etc.; agitated. Weak will. Waving in brain (Glo.). Head retracted. Vertex; as if to fly off; as of a cold draft or heat on. Occiput; like a blow or pressive pain, ascends to eyes (l). Eyeballs ache; feel big. Sees red flashes, with black borders. Tinnitus; violent with deafness. Pale, hot face. Thick saliva. Mucus on teeth, or coppery mucus hawked up. Burning in throat. Nausea in A.M.; of pregnancy or alcoholism; in bowels; < pressure on spine. Vomits green; holds head and groans. Profuse, clear urine; weakening; with yellow sand. Menses irregular in time and amount; more flow more pain. Slow labor with nervous shivers. Uterine atony (Alet.). After-pains. Sore and tender along track of pains. Nervous; urination, shuddering, cough, etc. Delicate, sensitive women. Spasms of cerebro-spinal fever. Thyroid aches before menses. Incessant, dry night cough; < speaking. Sharp stitches in l. chest. Pleurodynia. Left inframammary pain. Heart sore; swelled; needle-like pains; backward from or to l. arm. Muscles fatigue. Neckache. Throws head back. Arms numb, cramp down; l. seems bound to side. Irritable, sensitive spine; < lying on it. Stiff, contracted neck, back (Agar.) or Tendo Achilles. Pain at angle of l. scapula (Chen.). Heavy, pulsative lumbar pain, through hips and down thighs. Cramps in limbs; in calves. Alternate mental and rheumatic symptoms. Itching soles. Sleepless or dizzy, drunken sleep; with arms over head or yawning. Pulse weak, irregular; drops every 3rd or 4th. beat. Chilly females. Cold sweat on hands and feet.

Worse

Menstruation; suppressed. During labor. Emotions. Alcohol. Night. Air: Damp. Cold. Wind. Drafts. Change of weather. Heat and cold. Sitting. Puberty and climaxis.

Better

Warm wraps. Open air. Pressure. Continued motion. Grasping things. Eating.

Region

Mind. Occiput. Vertex. Nape. NERVES AND MUSCLES: Cerebro-spinal. Eyesballs. Ovario-uterine. Heart. FEMALES. Joints. Left side; ovary, chest, etc. Front of thighs.

Relationships

Related: Bap. Caul. Gel. Ign. Pul.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Cimicifuga racemosa — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/cimicifuga-racemosa. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.