Cimicifuga Racemosa cimic.

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

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.

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.

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

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 under her chair (Lac. c., Aeth.). 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.). 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.

Similar: to, Caul., and Puls. in uterine and rheumatic affections; to, Agar., Lil., Sep.

During menstruation; the more profuse the flow the greater the suffering.

This remedy is more particularly adapted to women.

In all her mental symptoms there is a want of natural coherence. Thinks she is growing crazy, and imagines all sorts of strange appearances, and that some one is going to kill her. In her talk, which is almost incessant, she is constantly changing from one subject to another. Puerperal mania. She is despondent and seems to feel under a heavy black cloud.

Much pain in the head and feels as if the top would fly off: pressing as from within outward, pain worse by ascending. Pain as if a bolt had been driven from the neck to the vertex, worse at every throb of the heart. Pain in occiput, shooting down the back of the neck. Headache down to the nose.

Pain in eyeballs or in temples; shooting into the eyeballs so severe it seems she would go crazy. Severe pain darting into left eye, feels as if needles were run into the eyeball.

Sensible to the least noise, with spasmodic labor pains.

Every inhalation seems to bring the cold air in contact with the brain.

Face bluish. Wild, fearful expression. Forehead cold; deadly pale. Suddenly very faint, face ashy white.

Nausea, eructations, vomiting and headache. Faint, sinking feeling at the epigastrium.

Colicky pains, better bending double and after stool. Sharp pains across the epigastrium. Abdominal muscles sore.

Frequent, thin, dark, offensive stools. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.

Urine frequent and quantity increased.

Female: Pains in the uterine region, darting from side to side. Bearing down in uterine region and small of the back. As if something were pressing out. Leucorrhœa, with sensation of weight in the uterus. Profuse, early: dark, coagulated; scanty and coagulated menses, irregular, delayed or suppressed. Giving it during the last month is said to shorten labor. In pregnancy, nausea; false, labor-like pains. Sharp pains across abdomen: sleeplessness. Threatened miscarriage at the third month, Labor pains severe. Spasmodic with fainting fits and cramps. Convulsions in labor from nervous excitement. "Shivers", in first stage of labor. After-pains worse in the groins. Lochia suppressed, by cold or emotions. Inframammary pains, worse left side. Burning in the mammæ. Rigidity of os uteri in labor. Puerperal mania. Feels strange, talks incoherently, screams, tries to injure herself.

Tickling in throat, with violent cough. Cough dry, short, constant, worse at night or at every attempt to speak. Sharp pains in chest from side to side.

Pains from region of heart, over the chest and down the left arm. Irregularity in its beats.

Head and neck retracted. Rheumatism of neck and back. Violent ache in small of the back.

Constant irregular motion of left arm; aching in all the limbs.

Rheumatism. Chorea. Excessive muscular soreness; general bruised feeling as if sore. Sharp, lancinating pains, with ovarian or uterine irritation. Hysterical or epileptic spasms.

From cold air.

Cauloph. in uterine and rheumatic affections.

Pains in every portion of the head, but more in vortex and occiput; pressing and aching; sometimes extending to shoulders and down the spine. Top of head feels as if it would fly off. Rush of blood to the head, brain fools too large for the cranium, after suppressed uterine discharges or suddenly ceasing pains. Intense aching pain in eyeballs, worse from moving the head. Nervous or muscular irritation, of a rheumatism or neuralgic origin, especially in delicate or hysterical women, who are affected with more or less disease of the generative organs. Neuralgic or rheumatic dysmenorrhoea, with great mental and nervous Irritability, sleeplessness, low spirited, sensitive. Chronic affections at puberty, the menses not appearing. Menses suppressed from cold or emotions. Bearing down in uterine region and small of back, limbs feel heavy and torpid. Rheumatic pains in muscles of the neck and back, feeling of stiffness and contraction. Severe aching pains in the back, down the thighs, through the hips, with heavy pressing down. Aching or soreness of all the muscles. Sharp, lancinating pains in various parts, associated with ovarian or uterine irritation.

Black Snake-root (CIMICIFUGA - 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".

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.

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.

Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition.

Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.

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

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.

Nervous symptoms, twitchings, spasms, convulsions, neuralgias; chills without shaking < at menstrual period. Muscular rheumatism; stiff neck, drawing head back; can't turn the head; rheumatism of the belly of muscles, by preference.

Headaches pressing outward; or upward, as if top of head would fly off, or into eyes (ciliary neuralgia), or down nape into spine.

Gloomy, sad, sleepless; thinks she will go insane.

Menorrhagia; pains run through hips into thighs, passing down.

Climacteric; infra-mammary pains left side, persistent.

Actæa racemosa is another remedy which exerts a strong influence upon the female organism. The nervous system manifests its action in a multitude of symptoms, many of them being what is known as hysterical in character. There are twitchings, spasms, convulsions, neuralgias and mental symptoms in abundance. She shivers (nervous chill without coldness), faints, talks incessantly, frequently changing subjects; is grieved and troubled, with sighing, or is very gloomy with sleeplessness; thinks she is going insane, etc.

In the head there are severe pains, pressing outward, as if the top of the head would fly off, or running into the eyes, which ache fearfully or the pains settle in the occiput and shoot down the neck. There are very few, if any, remedies that have worse ciliary neuralgia than Actæa racemosa.

In the female sexual organs it cures "pains in the uterine region, darting from side to side." The menstrual function is performed irregularly. Sometimes the flow is scanty, but more generally profuse, and we have the mental and nervous symptoms above enumerated in abundance, with these irregularities. It is one of our best remedies in menorrhagia, when there is "severe pain in the back, down the thighs and through the hips, with heavy pressing down," as I have often proven. It is also excellent in infra-mammary pains in the left side during the climacteric, as I have also proven.

Also in backache and spinal irritation sympathetic with uterine troubles. It cures sharp lancinating pains in various parts, either nervous or muscular, if they are connected with uterine disturbances. In rheumatism the affection attacks the belly of the muscle by preference. Actæa is a many-sided remedy and adapted to nervous troubles of many forms.

Modalities: < menstrual period and during climacteric.

Sensation as if a heavy black cloud had settled all over her, and enveloped her head, so that all was darkness and confusion, while, at the same time, it weighed like lead on her head.
Forgetful.
Unable to find right word in speaking.
Mind dull and heavy.
Thinks she is going crazy.
Often started by illusion of a mouse running from under her chair.
Imagines strange objects about bed, as rats, sheep, etc. θ Delirium tremens.
Delirium with great headache. θ Puerperal fever.
Delirium with nausea, retching, dilated pupils.
Fear of death ; fears those in house will kill him ; saw wires encaging him ; visions of rats and of strange objects. θ Delirium tremens.
Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.
Puerperal mania.
Desire for solitude, or to wander from place to place.
Answers questions hurriedly and evasively.
Declares she has been poisoned.
Incessant talking, changing from one subject to another. θ Delirium tremens.
Frequent sighs and ejaculations. θ Mental disorder.
Would not answer ; at other times very loquacious.
Feels grieved and troubled, with sighing ; next day a feeling of tremulous joy, with mirthfullness, playfulness and clear intellect.
Miserable dejected feeling ; anxious, weeping.
Mental depression, with suicidal mood ; also after checked neuralgia.
Great melancholy with sleeplessness.
Apprehensive and sleepless. θ Pregnancy.
Fears she will become crazy, with headache on vertex.
Fear of death.
Indifferent, taciturn, takes no interest in household matters. θ Mental disorder.
Irritable ; the least thing that goes wrong makes her angry.
Nervous and irritable.
Suspicious of everything, would not take medicine if she knew it. θ Mental disorder.
Restless and impatient, can read only a few minutes, must get up and walk about, yet soon tires.
Headache when reading or writing ; cannot write a letter.
Headache of students.
Mental emotions cause : amenorrhœa ; suppression of lochia .
Mind disturbed by disappointed love, business failures.
Feels faint at epigastrium when meeting a friend.
After fright : threatened abortion.

Constant dull feeling in vertex.
Dulness and heaviness in head ; like after "a spree."
Dizzy on rising in morning, with pain over eyes ; faintness, nausea and occasional vomiting. θ In mental diseases.
Vertigo, head feels too large and heavy ; when stooping, head swims.
Vertigo, dizziness with impaired vision.
Fainting fits generally with some uterine affection.
Sensation as if a heavy black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head, so that all was darkness and confusion. θ Mental disorder.

Dulness in head as after "a spree."
Rush of blood to head, brain feels too large for cranium ; after suppressed uterine discharges or suddenly ceasing neuralgic pains.
Waving sensation in brain.
Opening and shutting sensation when moving head and eyes.
Dull frontal headache relieved by pressure.
Great pain in head and eyeballs, increased by slightest movement of head or eyeballs. θ Meningitis.
Sensation as if temples were compressed.
Headache down to nose.
Headache every day at same hour.
Severe pain in right side of head, back of orbit. θ After pains.
Aching and shooting pains in vertex, occiput, left temple, eye and ear ; < lying down ; hysterical crying.
Brain as if too large ; pressing from within outward.
Head feels as if pounded, full ; as if too large. θ Intermittent.
Top of head feels as if it would fly off, < going up-stairs ; declares she will go crazy.
Intense pain as if a ball had been driven from neck to vertex, < at every throb of heart.
Aching pain in head, particularly at occiput, only indoors ; < in afternoon and still more in evening, disappearing entirely at 9 P. M. after a walk in open air.
Great pain in head, back and limbs.
Pain over and in eyes, extending along back to occiput.
Excruciating pain in forehead, eyeballs and temples, with cold forehead on waking, 2 A. M.
Dull boring in forehead over left brow, 10 A. M.
Pain in forehead, temple and vertex, with fulness, throbbing and heat.
Dull pain in occiput, with shooting down back of neck.
Headache better in open air.

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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.

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 hysterio-rheumatic 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.

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."

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.

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 after-pains, 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 clothing-quite 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.

Anxious, indifferent, melancholic, taci- turn.

Sensation as if a heavy black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion.

Delirium: with nausea, retching, dilated pupils; incessant talking, changing from one subject to another; saw wires en- caging him; visions of rats and animals; dreams of negroes, devils, etc.; waking from sleep frightened; fear of death.

Head and neck retracted.

Nervous, intense restlessness.

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; severe left-sided infra-mammary pains (Ust.).

Spasms: hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side.

Violent 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. Excessive muscular soreness.

Rheumatic dysmenorrhœa.

Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side.

During menstruation: the more profuse the flow the greater the suffering.

Yellow fever; cerebro-spinal fever.

Down the back from 11-12 M. Chill, then heat, then sweat, alternating with dryness of skin, 5 P. M. Chill, cold tremors from the back; hot flushes, then sweat on the abdomen.

Desire for solitude; to wander from place to place.
Answers questions hurriedly and evasively.
Would not answer, at other times very loquacious.
Declares she will go crazy.
Weeping mood; dejection; anxiety; apprehensiveness.
Melancholia from hyperæsthesia of nervous centres; hence with women, with inebriates, etc.
Fear of death -thinks she is going to die.
Mental depression, with suicidal tendency.
Suspicious, in different, taciturn, takes no interest in household matters.
Irritable, least thing that goes wrong makes her angry.
Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.
After fright, threatened abortion.
Aggravations from mental emotions.
Mind affected by business failure; by disappointed love.

Constant dull feeling in vertex.
Vertigo: head feels large and heavy; when stooping, head swims; on rising in morning; nausea when raising the head from the pillow.
Fainting fits.

Rush of blood to the head, brain feels too large for the cranium; after suppressed uterine discharges or suddenly ceasing pains.
Waving sensations in the brain.
Dull frontal headache relieved by pressure.
Great pain in head and eyeballs, increased by the slightest movement.
Severe pains in right side of head, back of orbit.
Aching and shooting pains in vertex, occiput left temple, eye and ear; worse lying down; hysterical crying.
Top of head feels as if it would fly off.
Head feels too large and throbs. θ Intermittent fever.
Intense pain as if a bolt had been driven from neck to vertex, worse at every throb of the heart.

Dark spots before the eyes, dilated pupils, double vision.
Intense pains in the eyeballs; worse from moving the head or eye, and in the evening.
Severe pain in the centre of the eyeballs; worse in the morning, lasts all day; worse going up stairs.

Sensitive to least noise.
Singing in the left, later in both ears.

Coryza, dry in the evening, white mucus during the day; sneezing; aching pain in the head and eyes, sensitive to cold air, every inhalation seems to bring the cold air in contact with the brain.

Wild fearful expression.
Face pale; eyes large, sunken, surrounded by dark rings.
Forehead feels cold; deadly pale.
Neuralgia affecting, the malar bone, pain goes off at night, reappears the next day.
Frequent flushes of heat, wants to be lie in the open air.

Under-lip cracked, as if bitten.
Jaw sunken.

Toothache in neuralgic and rheumatic patients.

Taste: disagreeable; coppery.
Cannot speak a syllable, though she makes the effort.
Speaking: 27.
Tongue: clean, but pointed and trembling; swollen; coated light brown, in the middle.

Breath offensive.
Mouth and tongue feel hot and dry.

Dry spot in the throat, causing cough; dryness of the pharynx, with constant desire to swallow; fulness in the pharynx; uvula and palate swollen.
Hawks up a viscid, coppery tasting mucus.

No thirst, slight feeling of hunger in stomach; rumbling in abdomen.
Appetite variable.
No appetite for dinner, wants to drink cold water; little at a time suffices.

Eructations, with nausea, vomiting and headache.
Vomiting of green substance; groans, raves, presses both hands to her head for relief.

Acute darting pains in the stomach.
Sinking or "goneness" in the epigastrium.

Periodically colicky pains, bending double and after stool.
Flatulence, causing sensation of fullness.
Severe pains in bowels, small of back and down the limbs.
Excruciating pains in bowels, much rumbling and wind.
Sharp pain across the hypogastrium.
Abdominal muscles sore.

Frequent, thin, dark, offensive stools. θ Spotted fever.
Morning diarrhœa, of children.
Pains go from limbs to bowels, producing diarrhœa and partial retention of urine.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.

Pressing in region of kidneys and small of back.
Irritable bladder.
Urine: profuse, pale, watery; bloody, frequent, scanty, feels hot.

Spasms of the broad ligaments.
Ovarian pains shoot up to the side.
Severe pain in lower part of abdomen, worse by motion.
Bearing down in uterine region and small of back; limbs feel heavy, torpid.
Great tenderness on pressure over the uterine region.
Menses: profuse, early, dark, blood coagulated; scanty, slightly coagulated; sharp pains across abdomen, has to double up; labor-like pains; debility between periods, scanty flow between menses; suppressed by mental emotions, from cold, from fever.
Rheumatic dysmenorrhœa.
Epileptic or hysterical spasms at time of menses.
Leucorrhœa, with sensation of weight in the uterus.

Complaints in pregnancy; nausea; false labor-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; sleeplessness; insanity.
Labor-pains severe, tedious or spasmodic, with fainting fits or cramps.
Cardiac neuralgia in parturition.
Convulsions in labor from nervous excitement.
"Shivers", first stage of labor.
After-pains, worse in the groins: oversensitiveness; nausea and vomiting.
Lochia: suppressed, by cold or emotions; watery, mixed with small clots.
Inframammary pains, worse left side.
Burning in the mammæ.

Hoarseness, worse in the evening; very sensitive to cold air.
Tickling in throat, with violent cough.

Frequent sighing.

From a dry spot in the throat, spasmodic with pain in back of neck.
Cough at every attempt to speak, dry, short, constant at night.

Severe pain in the left chest, below fifth or sixth rib.
Pain in right side of chest; must lie quietly on back and press with the hand; breath short; slight cough.

Pains from the region of the heart, all over the chest and down the left arm; palpitation; unconsciousness; cerebral congestion; dyspnœa, face livid; cold sweat on the hands; numbness of the body; the left arm numb and as if bound to the side.
Heart's action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation.
Pulse: weak, irregular, eighty per minute; feeble in the morning; with trembling and weakness.

Cramp in the muscles of the neck on moving the head.
Violent, lightning-like pains in the posterior spinal sclerosis.
Stiff neck from cold air, pain from moving even the hands.
Sensitiveness of the spine, especially in the cervical and upper dorsal regions; pressure causes retching and nausea, soreness of all the muscles. θ Spotted fever.
Heat in back of head extending down the back; during spasms, muscles of neck and shoulders sore afterwards.
Pain under left scapula.
Head and neck retracted. θ Spotted fever.
Severe pain in the back, down the thighs and through the hips, with heavy pressing down.
Violent aching in small of back.

Pains in the muscles, worse from motion.
Left arm feels as if bound to the side.
Constant irregular motions of the left arm; arm useless.
Cold sweat on hands.
Hands tremble, especially when writing.

Joints swollen, heat in them.
Fearful pains through the lower limbs, like growing pains.

Aching in the limbs.
Excessive muscular soreness.
Rheumatism affecting the belly of the muscles; cramping, stitching pains.
Uneasy feeling in limbs, causing restlessness.

Motion: 3, 23, 31 ; of head: 5; of eyes: 5 ; of handwriting: 32. Stooping: 2. Bending double: 19. Raising head: 2. Rising: 2. Going up stairs: 5. Lying: 3; on back: 28.

Trembling of the legs, twitching of the flexors.
Great debility between the menses.
Irregular motion of the limbs, worse left; legs unsteady.
Alternate tonic and clonic spasms.
Epilepsy, periodical convulsions, uterine diseases.
Hysteric spasms.

Comatose.
Sleeplessness; with excited brain; after nursing the sick.
Starts during sleep; restless.
Cannot sleep, because she feels numb all over.
Unrefreshing sleep.

Day: 5, 7. Morning: 2, 5, 20, 29, 40. "11-12 M.": 40. Evening: 5, 7, 25, 40. Night: 8, 27, 40.

Cold air: 7, 25, 31. Open air: 8.

Chilliness down the back, from 11 to 12 M.
Chilliness, then heat; languid, stretches her limbs, 10 A.M.
Feet and hands cold, then hot.
Chill, then heat, then sweat, alternating dry skin, 5 P.M.
Night-sweats. θ Diarrhœa.
Sweat smell offensive.

Periodical attacks of colic.
Pains come on suddenly.
Headache at intervals.

Right: side of head, of chest, see 28.
Left: temple, see 3: inframammary pain, chest below 5th and 6th ribs, from heart down the arm, arm as if bound to side, motions in it, asleep, comp. 36, back below scapula.
Singing in ear: left them both.

Pricking all over.
Like electric shocks here and there.
Sharp, lancinating pains in various parts, associated with ovarian or uterine irritation.
General bruised feeling as if sore.
Whole body, especially the arms, feels numb.

Pressure: 3, 16, 23, 28.

Eruption of white, pustules over the face and neck; sometimes large, red, papular.
Prickling itching, heat of the whole surface.

Climacteric years.
Nervousness from anxiety or overexertion.
Rheumatic persons.
Children, teething. θ Diarrhœa.

Collaterals: Act. spic., and other Ranunculaceæ.
Acon. relieves the sleeplessness.
Act. spic., Bryon and Pulsat. similar in rheumatism. The first is preferable in rheumatism of small joints, tearing pains; joints ache after exercise.
Baptis. relieved headache and nausea.
Cauloph. similar in uterine and rheumatic affections.
Compare: Pulsat., Sepia, Natr. mur., Lil. tig. and Ignat.

A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of the black-snake root, Cimicifuga racemosa, Ell. (Actæa racemosa, L.).

It seems to exert a marked action on the spinal nerves especially at the upper part, symptoms of meningeal irritation and inflammation, neuritis, neuralgia, muscular spasms and tremors, etc. ▶ Clinically it has been found to control a large variety of troubles of the uterus and ovaries, neuralgias and even inflammations.

Aconite, Ranunculus, Pæonia, Clematis, China , Gels., Silicea.

▶ Tremors over whole body (Arg. n., Gels., Stram.). ▶ Nervous shuddering through upper and back part of body. ▶ Jerking after going to bed, obliging change of position, beginning in side on which he was lying as a perceptible twitching in left foot. ▶ Continual stretching and yawning. ▶ Bruised feeling (Arn., Sil.). ▶ Soreness of whole body, with stiffness, as after hard labor. ▶ Lameness in morning, with many unenviable feelings. ▶ Feeling as after a "spree." ▶ General feeling of intoxication. ▶ Peculiar tingling in muscles, then aching in limbs, from above downward. ▶ Feeling of illness; amel. by supper; with weakness and trembling, believes the condition to be but one remove from mania-â-potu.

▶ Restlessness; in forenoon; in afternoon; at night; latter part of the night; nervous, in afternoon, with indisposition to fix the attention on any subject; in all parts, hardly amounting to pain, agg. right side. ▶ Nervous all day, full of work and doing it fast. ▶ Sensation as from severe muscular exertion, agg. small of back. ▶ Desire to lie down and close the eyes. ▶ Weakness; in morning, with trembling; caused by great discharge of clear urine; with trembling, sinking feeling and nausea; nervous, in afternoon. ▶ Aggravation on left side; A. by motion.

Reflex neuralgias in various parts of the body, especially in women, dependent on ovarian and uterine troubles. ▶ Muscular rheumatism affecting the fleshy parts of the muscles, agg. motion, but great restlessness. ▶ Chorea, especially in muscles of left side.

Delirium with excessive restlessness, twitching of tendons, starting up suddenly. ▶ Delirium, wild imaginings of rats, etc. (Stram.), with crazy feeling about head, talking continually, changing the subject and moving about. ▶ Puerperal mania, she is very suspicious talking of a great variety of things, constantly changing the subject, sometimes sees vermin, speech is often disconnected. ▶ Insanity in the form of melancholia, is very apprehensive, talks of becoming crazy, she is suspicious or talks incessantly, constantly changing the subject. ▶ Delirium tremens, is frightened, trembles, cannot remain in one place. ▶ Puerperal melancholia, with sleeplessness, sighing and moaning all the while. ▶ The two marked characteristics of the delirium or insanity of this drug are the mental and physical restlessness the patient cannot remain in one place, and when talking constantly changes the subject.

A sort of delirium, with inclination to run over the subject on which he was reading. ▶ Symptoms as in delirium tremens. ▶ Grieved, troubled and sighing, next day tremulous joy, playfulness and clear intellect. ▶ Miserable, dejected feeling; in afternoon, and dullness. ▶ Anxiety.

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Tremors over whole body.
Nervous shuddering through upper and back part of body.
Jerkings after going to bed, obliging change of position.
Bruised feeling.
Soreness of whole body, with stiffness.
Restlessness; nervous, in the afternoon, with indisposition to fix the attention on any subject.
General aggravation on left side.

Clinical:
Reflex neuralgias in various parts of the body, especially in women, dependent on ovarian and uterine troubles.
Muscular rheumatism affecting the fleshy parts of the muscles, aggravated by motion, but great restlessness.
Chorea, especially in muscles of left side.

Troubled, sighing mood.
Miserable, dejected feeling.

Clinical:
Delirium, with excessive restlessness, twitching of tendons, starting up suddenly.
Delirium, wild imaginings of rats, etc. (Stram.), with crazy feeling about head; talking continually, changing the subject and moving about.
Puerperal mania; she is very suspicious, talking of a great variety of things, constantly changing the subject; sometimes sees vermin; speech is often disconnected.
Insanity in the form of melancholia; is very apprehensive, talks of becoming crazy; she is suspicious or talks incessantly, constantly changing the subject.
Delirium tremens, is frightened, trembles, cannot remain in one place.
Puerperal melancholia, with sleeplessness, sighing and moaning all the while.
The two marked characteristics of the delirium or insanity of this drug are the mental and physical restlessness; the patient cannot remain in one place, and, when talking, constant change of the subject.

Pain, especially in the occiput, extending to the vertex, always > in the open air, sometimes > bending the head backward.
Vertigo, as with fullness and aching in the vertex and impaired vision.
Pressure outward in the forehead and upward in the upper part of cerebrum, as if there were not room enough.
Pain on the vertex paroxysmal, often extending to the occiput, with pain through the whole brain, < motion.

Clinical:
In general the headaches affect the base of the occiput, or the headaches begin at that point; frequently they are extremely violent and shoot up to vertex or down spine, and bending the head forward seems to pull upon the spine; sometimes it seems as if a bolt would be driven from the neck to the vertex with every beat of the heart; sometimes the whole neck is very lame from distress on moving the head.
These headaches of Cimicifuga may be neuralgic, associated in women with uterine disturbances, or they may be associated with symptoms of inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spine.
Neuralgic headaches, feeling as if the top of the head would fly off.

Pain in the eyeballs, in the centre, or between the ball and frontal bone, sometimes extending to the occiput.
Eyes feel congested with the headache.
Pains in the eyes extending to the vertex.
Eyeballs feel enlarged.
Photophobia.
Vision of black specks.

Pains in the face < during the day, > at night.

Offensive breath.

Soreness, especially on the left side, with dryness; a feeling of fullness.

Nausea.
Faintness.
Vomiting.

Clinical:
Nausea and efforts to vomit, in uterine affections or with spinal irritation.
Nausea and vomiting, caused by pressure on the spine and cervical region, with palpitation; suppression of menses.

Constipation alternating with diarrhœa.

Urine usually increased (with fever, high-colored and scanty).

Bearing-down pain during menstruation.
Suppressed menses.

Clinical:
Neuralgia of the ovaries and uterus, with great tenderness and bearing down, the pains shooting up the sides and across the lower part of the abdomen.
Menstruation painful, irregular or suppressed, with hysterical symptoms or epileptiform spasms at the period.
Menorrhagia; menses too profuse and early, dark, clotted, with severe pain in back, extending through hips and down thighs.
Endocervicitis, with general nervous hysterical symptoms, uterus engorged, cervix hypertrophied, all the organs very sensitive, especially the ovaries.
During parturition the pains do not force downward, but extend across the abdomen and upward into the sides (false pains).
Threatening miscarriage, the pains fly about, with fainting spells.
After-pains, with great sensitiveness, the patient feels that she cannot tolerate the pain.
During parturition the os is rigid.
Ovarian neuralgia, especially of left ovary; pains extend up and down left side, with great tenderness.

Tickling in the larynx causes a dry cough, especially in the evening; < talking.

Sharp pains through the sides of the chest along the false ribs, < long inspiration.

Pain in the region of the heart, and palpitation.
Catching pain on bending forward; or when at dinner and after dinner.
Pulse irregular, tremulous.

Pains like paralysis in the muscles of the neck and back, with stiffness and contraction.
Pains > pressure in the back and around the hips.
Drawing-tensive pain at points of spinous processes of three upper dorsal vertebræ, in morning on bending neck forward.
Heavy weight in the lumbar and sacral region; the pains extend around the body.

Twitchings and tremblings, especially of the fingers and toes, scarcely able to walk.
Pains and restlessness in the extremities.
Pain in the muscles from shoulders to wrists.
Trembling of the fingers when writing.
Pain in tendo Achillis, which feels shortened, especially when walking in the open air.
Soreness in the region of the tendo Achillis, < on walking.
Pain in right great toe.
Burning pain in second joint of right great toe, extending up limb.

Restlessness, troubled dreams.

Cimi. / The Squaw

Cimicifuga,-Gloomy dame!
Monthly pains the cause to blame-
Shivers with a "nervous chill,"
Talks insanely- can't be still.
Twitches-Has hysteric fit,
Sinking at the stomach pit.
Tender spine, and muscles sore,
Pains by motion hurting more.

The Squaw,-Has Painful Times.

The Squaw, Helen Ustil, pines for her yellow child, Xantho Pla-Vis.

This Squaw,- who is subject to Nervous Shivers,- Is on Yellow Plat, with Asher.

Dysmenorrhoea: Cimi., Helon., Ustil., Pul., Nux. v., Sul., Gel., Cham., Xanth., Plat., Vis. a., etc. (Tearing pains, Cham., Graph., Vis. a.)

Nervous Shivers: Cimi., Gel., Plat., Asar.

Indicated in muscular rheumatism; in uterine and ovarian disease; in neurotic conditions.

Restless; sleepless; depressed. "A great cloud presses upon her brain and heart."

Headache with severe pain in the eyeballs; with faintness and sinking at the stomach, especially in women suffering from uterine and menstrual disorders.

Headache as though due to protracted loss of sleep or overstudy; with a feeling as though the brain were too large for the skull.

Headaches as though the top of the head would fly off, especially upon going up-stairs, the pain entering the eyeballs.

Intense aching pain in the eyeballs.

Spine sensitive, especially the upper spine; the neck and back feel stiff and constricted.

Rheumatic pains in the belly of the (larger) muscles.

Pains of neuralgic, pressing character; remittent; with restlessness, exhaustion and sense of bing bruised all over.

Pains come on suddenly, resembling a sharp electric shock; chiefly on the left side.

Muscular sorenss all over; feels as though bruised.

Menstrual and uterine derangements, with sharp, shooting pain from side to side; pains labor-like; neuralgic; extending into legs and with reflex gastric symptoms (faintness and goneness at the stomach).

Copious dark, clotted menstrual flow, with great mental depression, restlessness, backache and prickling in the breasts.

Pains, especially in women, across the pelvis from hip to hip.

Worse during menstruation.

Better from eating, from warmth, from stimulants.