Cimicifuga racemosa
cimi-racBlack 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
Cimicifuga racemosa — Materia Medica
Cimicifuga racemosa — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Moving head causes opening and shutting sensation of head : and cramps in muscles of neck. Moving eyes causes opening and shutting sensation in head. Irregular motion of legs, worse left. Legs unsteady (Chorea). Epilepsy : Hysteric spasms. Comatose state. Affects the nerves, especially muscular nerves. Myalgia. Similar to Caulophylum in uterine and rheumatic affections. • • • Hughes {Pharmacodynamics) has a great deal, of great interest, to say about Actea as he prefers to call Cimicifuga. He says, "It causes no febrile symptoms ’’ (this, however, we must question judging by symptoms of provings and by cases of amelioration of lever during its use) " but it is a valuable remedy for some forms of rheumatism, especially where nervous centres and muscles are the seat of the disorder. . . . In the acute and local muscular rheumatisms, such as pleurodynia, lumbago and torticollis AcUa has gained commendation from all. . . . In rheumatoid arthritis, where the pains are worse at night and in wet weather, especially if of uterine origin. . . . Another form simulates gonorrhoeal rheumatism, but without any history of gonorrhoea. Here, not only may the pains be almost immedi ately relieved, but the joints may become supple and useful again. Then in the sufferings which heart and uterus often undergo from the rheumatic poison. . . . Provings make it evident that Actea affects the heart very powerfully. When rheumatism affects this organ, not setting up inflammation, but jls it does other muscles, we have a valuable remedy in this drug. . . . In a case cured, the symptoms resembled angina pectoris, the attacks recurring several times a day.
Cimicifuga racemosa — head · William Boericke
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.
Cimicifuga racemosa — eyes · William Boericke
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.
Cimicifuga racemosa — stomach · William Boericke
Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium (Sep; Sulph). Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling. Female.––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.
Cimicifuga racemosa — respiratory · William Boericke
Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scanty-spasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.
Cimicifuga racemosa — heart · William Boericke
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.
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