Cimicifuga racemosa

(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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Lecture XXXII — Actea racemosa, Ranunculus bulbosus and Ranunculus sceleratus

ACTEA RACEMOSA.

We have in the homoeopathic materia medica two varieties of the Actea, namely Actea racemosa y Cimicifuga and Adea spicata. The lastnamed of these may be dismissed in a very few words. It acts upon the joints, especially upon the smaller joints, as those of the hands and feet. It is useful in rheumatism affecting these parts, especially if the hands and wrists are involved.

Actea racemosa acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, and especially on the motor nerves It seems to have a decided influence over the nerves distributed to muscles, producing a perfect picture of myalgia.

Actea racemosa is also valuable by reason of its reflex nervous symptoms. It has neuralgia of any part of the body as a reflex symptom from uterine or ovarian disease. One of its most important symptoms arising from this cause is a sensation of heat on the top of the head just behind the centre. Other symptoms which you may note about the head are feeling as if the top of the head would fly off, sharp lancinating and neuralgiform pains in and over the eyes, and supraorbital pains shooting up to the top of the head. These symptoms indicate Acfea racemosa in some of the diseases peculiar to women and in diseases of the eye proper. In any disease of the eye, when pains of the above-named character are present, Actea is one of the first remedies to be considered.

Spigelia has similar pains. Under this remedy the neuralgia comes and goes with the sun; that is, it reaches its height at noon and subsides in the evening. The Actea pain is worse at night rather than during the day. The Spigelia pain begins in the back of the head and comes forward, settling over one or the other eye. This remedy also has a sensation as if the eye-ball were enormously large; but when this latter symptom is traceable to uterine displacement, Actea is preferable.

Cedron is an invaluable remedy in neuralgiform affections when the pains involve the supra-orbital nerve and the eye, and are worse on the left side. The eye burns as if it were on fire. The pains recur regularly at the same hour each day.

Another remedy to be mentioned in this connection is Kalmia latifolia, which has supra-orbital neuralgia, worse on the right side. Aclea may also be used for headache attended with a feeling as if the patient were going crazy. Especially is it of value when uterine symptoms are present.

It is also called for when there is pain in the left infra-mammary region, dependent upon uterine disturbances.

We come now to the action of Actea on the female sexual organs. It is indicated in labor or in threatened miscarriage when the pains fly across the abdomen from side to side (Lycopodium, from right to left; Ipecac, from left to right and associated with nausea). The pains seem to double the patient up. It may also be used in the early months of pregnancy for those pains in the abdominal walls which so distress the patient.

When there is a great deal of soreness in the abdomen, the local application of a solution of Hamamelis is a good remedy.

The labor-pains of Actea seem to be associated with fainting spells or with crying out in agony, so severe are they.

In after-pains it is useful only when they are intense, when the patient is exceedingly sensitive and cannot tolerate them, and when they are worse in the groin.

Actea may also be used in puerperal mania. The patient declares that she will go crazy, and her every action apparently indicates that she is keeping her word. She is suspicious. Her talk is nonsensical, and yet she seems to be conscious of what she is doing, and she says she cannot help it. Sometimes she has visions of rats, etc. These symptoms may also indicate the drug in delirium tremens. Here you may compare Lachesis, which has " awakening from sleep and springing from bed, not only with superhuman strength, but in great terror.

Arsenicum often follows Lachesis when the patient is afraid to be left alone.

Calcarea ostrearum has visions of rats and mice as soon as the patient closes her eyes.

Another symptom that we find indicating Actea in labor is ' ( rigors, or nervous chills " in the first stage of labor. Gelsemium also is useful in this condition.

Actea racemosa does not cause phthisis, yet it may be one of the first remedies indicated when the disease is not of hereditary origin, especially if the trouble has been brought on hy exposure, or in any case in which the well-defined cough of Actea is present. This cough is dry, teasing, worse at night, with little or no sputum, and usually associated with pleurodynia.

In pleurodynia associated with tuberculosis, you will find Guaiacum to be a remedy that rarely fails.

You may use Actea in angina pectoris when the pains radiate over the chest, and are associated with cerebral congestion and unconsciousness. The face is livid, and the left arm feels as if bound tightly to the body.

Another use that we may make of Actea is in that condition known as spinal irritation. Especially is it indicated when the upper and lower cervical vertebrse, particularly the latter, are sensitive to pressure; hence the patient will not lean back in her chair because of the uneasiness which it produces. This symptom of Actea is usually reflex from uterine irritation.

We have several remedies similar to Actea in spinal irritation. One of these is Natrum mur., which also produces sensitiveness between the vertebrae. The main distinction is that the patient finds relief from lying flat on the back, and that, too, even when there is a uterine displacement. Another indication calling for Natrum mur. is a partial paralysis from weakness of the spine. Especially is it indicated when these symptoms arise from grief, anger, etc.

% Physostigma, or the Calabar bean, develops a perfect picture of spinal irritation. It produces all sorts of burning and twinging sensations referable to the spinal column, with numbness of the feet and hands and other parts of the body, crampy pains in the hands, and sudden jerking of the limbs on dropping off to sleep. The muscles of the back become rigid, and even a tetanic condition may ensue. Agaricus muscarius also produces a perfect picture of spinal irritation, with well-marked tingling or formication in the back, itching or burning of the skin as if frost-bitten, twitching of the muscles, especially of the eyelids, and sensations in different parts of the body as if needles of ice were being thrust into the skin.

This spinal irritation may develop a partial paralysis, in which case we have two remedies to fall back upon. The first of these is Zincum metallicum. This produces a perfect picture of irritable spine, with aching in the back at about the last dorsal vertebra, worse from sitting than from either walking or lying. Accompanying this symptom there is weakness of the legs, especially at noon, when the patient is hungry. You should also remember that the spinal symptoms of Zinc are made worse by wine.

The second remedy is Cocculus Indicus. This we use in females with weak spine, when there is paralytic aching in the small of the back. The patient feels as if she could scarcely walk. Along with these symptoms there is also an empty, gone feeling in the abdomen, which feels as if it were a hollow cavity.

Among men we do not find these symptoms present except as a result of sexual excesses, in which case Nnx vomica is the remedy. Cobalt is of use for spinal irritation from sexual excesses when there is backache, worse when sitting, with weakness in the legs.

Black Snake-root Actaea racemosa Macrotys Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body, are characteristic. Agitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. "It lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability". Mental.––Sensation of a cloud enveloping her. Great depression, with dream of impending evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. Incessant talking. Visions of rats, mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.

Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering. Better, warmth, eating.

Wild feeling in brain. Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry, over-study, or reflex of uterine disease. Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain. Brain feels too large. Pressing-outward pain. Tinnitus. Ears sensitive to least noise.

Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deepseated throbbing and shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from artificial light. Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top of head.

Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium (Sep; Sulph). Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling.

Amenorrhœa (use Macrotin preferably). Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip. After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain. Infra-mammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young women.

Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scanty-spasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.

Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. Left-sided infra-mammary pain.

Spine very sensitive, especially upper part. Stiffness and contraction in neck and back. Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and

neck. Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back.

Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles. Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching, tensive pain.

Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.

Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition.

Compare: Rhamnus Californica (muscular pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute rheumatism). Derris pinnata (Neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Aristolochia milhomens (pain in tendo-Achilles; diabetes). Caulophyl; Pulsat; Lilium; Agar; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).

First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.

Actea Racemosa (Black Cohosh)

Introduction: This remedy has been only meagerly proved, yet there are a few useful points in it.

From its proving we can perceive that it is similar to diseased states in the human family, and especially in women, namely, hysterical and rheumatic conditions.

The patient is always chilly, easily affected by cold, sensitive to cold and damp weather, which rouses the rheumatic state and develops a state of rheumatism not only in the muscles and joints all over the body, but also along the course of nerves.

In the general nervous disturbance there is a lack of will balance, or great disturbance in the voluntary system, which is the underlying feature of hysteria, the symptoms are intermingled with rheumatism.

With the pains we have soreness all over the body. Trembling, numbness, jerking of muscles. Inability to exercise the will over the muscles of the body, turmoil in the voluntary system, with stiffness.

Tendency to take cold and thereby she takes on sensitiveness in the glands and larger organs, such as the liver and uterus.

Complaints in these organs come on from cold damp weather (Dulcamara) and from being chilled.

The patient is sensitive to cold in all parts except the head, and is aggravated from becoming cold both in parts of the body and in general. The headaches, however, are better in the open air and from cold, which is an exception and a particular, for the general feature is aggravation from cold.

Mind: There is a terrible mental state that alternates with physical states. It is an overwhelming sadness or gloominess, she is bowed down with sorrow.

Sits and mopes in great sadness, like Psorinum and Pulsatilla.

This may pass off instantly, or be brought on and aggravated from motion, from fear, from excitement, from taking cold.

Very commonly there is muscular soreness, a bruised feeling all over, with drawing and jerking. This will let up very suddenly and leave a nervous, hysterical girl in a state of sadness, and she will sit and say nothing. When questioned perhaps she will break into tears or ex press in various ways the overwhelming sadness. With the headache there is marked sadness. Changeable moods. The physical and the mental are all the time changing. Other symptoms alternate and change.

The jerking has made physicians see the resemblance to chorea in these hysteriorheumatic constitutions.

The rheumatisms will change in a day into chorea, and again the choreic movements will keep on with the soreness throughout the muscles of the body.

The jerking and soreness and numbness often keep on together.

There are certain features about the chorea that should be noted. Jerking of the muscles when in a state of emotion or from becoming chilled. If any part of the body is pressed upon jerking of the muscles of that part will take place. One of these nervous, rheumatic, hysterical subjects may not have chorea constantly, but as soon as she retires at night the whole of the side lain on will commence to jerk and prevent her from going to sleep. If she turns on the back the muscles of the back and shoulders will jerk and prevent sleep.

She turns over on the other side, but after a little while the muscles pressed on commence to jerk. All this time she has become so restless and nervous that she is driven to distraction. The mind is full of all sorts of imaginations and the body is full of all sorts of uneasiness, because she can find no place to rest upon. Sometimes the muscles are so sore that they cannot be lain upon for any length of time; sometimes it is a numbness, sometimes a jerking.

These things are queer, but they belong to the patient, affecting not one part, but the whole economy.

Full of fear, anguish and restlessness. Fear of death, excitement, suspicious, "Will not even take the medicine because there is, something wrong about it" .

It has a mania such as occurs in nervous, hysterical women, and it has cured puerperal mania.

Puerperal mania from taking cold during or soon after confinement. The remedy belongs especially to women, because its symptoms are so commonly associated with the affections of women.

Mental states following the disappearance of rheumatism is a strong feature. The rheumatism gets better, but the mental state becomes worse. Sometimes the rheumatism disappears in short order and the mind is not disturbed, but then it is because a diarrhea has come on, with great soreness and aching in the bowels, or because a flow from the uterus has given relief. There must be some relief or a disturbance will take place like Abrotanum. Some flow must be established, and hence the menstrual flow or diarrhea gives relief; otherwise the mind takes on trouble, the patient becomes gloomy, or has a low form of mental excitement.

One of the symptoms is quite descriptive of this sadness I have referred to:

"Sensation as if a black cloud had settled all over her," while at the same time it weighed like "lead upon the head."

This is entirely figurative. It can all be expressed in the word "sadness".

We will find "melancholy," "gloominess ... .. low spirited," etc., running all through out text, but the word "sadness" is just as broad as any of them.

Head: The headaches are rheumatic.

"Sore, bruised feeling all over the head. Bruised sensation in the occiput. Sore, bruised feeling in the top of the head, as if the top of the head would fly off."

"As if cold air was blowing upon the brain." Yet most of these headaches are better by being in the cold air.

"Headache brought on from catching cold, from the weather changes, cold, damp weather." There are many headaches. Pressing headache. Many of the headaches are intense, and described as if a bolt were extending down into the back of the neck. Soreness in the back of the neck. Pain in the back of the neck. Hysterical girls; they have much pain in the back of the neck.

With the headache the eyeballs are very sore, "painful to turn in any direction."

"Pain in the eyes, bruised pain in the head." "Soreness in the abdomen; sore and bruised. Alternate diarrhea and constipation. Alternation of diarrhea and physical complaints."

Genitals female: We pass now to the female genitalia, which form a center for a great deal of trouble in the remedy. A routine saying about Actea is that it makes confinement easy. That is not a legitimate saying concerning any remedy and such expressions encourage routine practice. It is true that when this remedy has been given to pregnant women in accordance with its symptoms it has proved capable of making confinement easy.

But the way it has been given has been the routine practice of giving it in the tincture or in the 2d or 3d, until the patient was under its influence even when it was not indicated, as it was not similar to the case.

But the homoeopathic physician never practices in this way. A remedy fits a general condition when the symptoms of that general condition are found in the remedy.

Remember that it does so because all the symptoms agree.

"Pain in the uterine region, darting from side to side. Bearing down and pressing out." These bearing down sensations, taken with all the other states that relate to the patient in general, show that it is a very useful remedy in prolapsus of the uterus.

It has the relaxation of the parts. Do not suppose that our remedies are not sufficient to cure these conditions, when the symptoms agree. It is true that remedies will cure prolapsus when the symptoms agree, and at no other time. If it fits the patient in general, these bearing down sensations will go away, the patient will be made comfortable, and an examination will finally show that the parts are in normal condition. You cannot prescribe for the prolapsus; you must prescribe for the woman. You cannot prescribe for one symptom, because there are probably fifty remedies that have that symptom.

There are menstrua! disorders in these hysterical rheumatic constitutions. Irregularity of the menstrual flow. It may be copious, suppressed or scanty. Severe pain all through the flow. The more the flow, the greater the pain. That is very peculiar. Generally the flow will relieve pain, but with this remedy the pain is during the flow. Generally the most severe and most painful attack is at the beginning of the flow, and with some women again just after the flow has ceased.

Each woman is a law unto herself. In this remedy the sufferings are during the menstrual flow as a rule. The most severe mental symptoms, the most severe rheumatic symptoms, the most extreme jerking and cramping of the limbs and sleeplessness are during the menstrual flow. During menses, epileptic spasms. All sorts of sufferings in the nerves. Soreness along the course of the nerves, soreness in the muscles or joints during the flow. Increase of mental symptoms.

Cold and chilly, must be wrapped rip. "Rheumatism. Dysmenorrhoea."

"Soreness in the uterus and ovarian region. Lame, bruised feeling all, over; painful menstruation,"

and some one has named that rheumatic dysmenorrhoea, not a bad name.

Pregnancy: Many symptoms during pregnancy. It cures all sorts of conditions, in this kind of constitution, these nervous, rheumatic, fidgety women with jerking in the muscles.

So markedly do her troubles alternate with each other that alternation is in the nature of her case. You will commonly find that all the rest of her troubles have passed away, and that now nausea has come on. In all the years past she has had a hysterical constitution, but now when she is pregnant she has nausea all the time. You will find when one set of symptoms becomes extremely severe others have temporarily subsided, and so they change about like Pulsatilla.

But the symptoms have to be taken collectively to get at the image of the patient. A woman will come to you with one group of symptoms today and may come back to you with an entirely different group in a couple of weeks. These are very troublesome cases to prescribe for, and you have sometimes to take the symptoms a dozen times and put them all together as if she had felt them all in one day, and so make your prescription.

A hysterical patient is difficult to manage because of this changing of symptoms, and also because she has a tendency to deceive the doctor.

"Shivering in the first stage of labor. Hysterical manifestations through labor."

Pains have all ceased or are irregular, so that they do not good. No dilatation has taken place. But when the regular pains come on we have some important symptoms.

A pain comes on and it seems to be about to finish satisfactorily; it has been regular and prolonged until about two-thirds through, and all at once she screams out and grasps her hip-the pain has left the uterus and gone to the hip, causing a cramp in the hip, and she has to be rubbed and turned over.

This medicine will regulate the pains, and when the next pain comes it will hold on to the end. So impressionable is this woman during confinement that if she is subjected to any emotion - such as having an emotional story told in the room - or if anything excitable occurs, the pain will stop.

If she has passed through the labor and the lochia has been established, from such a cause the lochia will stop, as if she had taken cold, and she will have cramps and troublesome afterpains, the milk will be suppressed, she will feel sore and bruised all over, and have fever. This remedy should be compared with Caulophyllum, which has the following symptoms:

Weakness in the reproductive system of the woman. From weakness she is sterile, or she aborts in the early months of gestation. During parturition the contractions of the uterus are too feeble to expel the contents, and they are only tormenting.

Labor-like pains during menstruation with drawing pains in the thighs and legs, and even the feet and toes. Uterine haemorrhage from inertia of the uterus. Relaxation of muscles and ligaments. Heaviness, and even prolapsus. Subinvolution. Excoriating leucorrhoea. Menses too soon or too late.

She is sensitive to cold and wants warm clothingquite unlike Pulsatilla. She is hysterical, like Ignatia. She is fretful and apprehensive. She is rheumatic, like Actea, only the small joints are most likely to be affected.

Later she suffers from after-pains, and they are felt in the inguinal region. Rheumatic stiffness of the back and very sensitive spine.

She is sleepless, restless and withal very excitable. This remedy has cured chorea at puberty when menstruation was late.

You need not be surprised that such an emotional subject has a fluttering, quick pulse, and irregular, action of the heart, but many of the most marked hysterical features are present without any disturbances whatever in the action of the heart.

"A feeling in the region of the heart as if the heart were sore, and as if it were enlarged." "Back of head and neck sore."

The head is drawn back from contraction of the muscles at the nape. Violent aching down the back.

Rheumatism in the back. Impossible to lie upon the back because of the contraction of the muscles of the back. impossible to lie upon the slide of the body because of the contraction and jerking of the muscles.

"Numbness of the limbs. Trembling. Soreness." The symptoms of the nerves are simply a reiteration of what I have said.

"Hysterical spasms. Convulsions. Trembling of the legs; hardly able to walk."

The numbness is such as is associated with paralysis. Paralytic weakness.

The best effects have resulted from the 30th, 200th, 1000th and still higher potencies, and from the use of medicine in single doses. It is similar in some of its conditions to the Blue Cohosh.

Compare it with Puls., Sepia, Natr. mur., Lit. t., Caulophyllum, and Ign.