Rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation
and heavy limbs.
Muscular, neurotic, crampy pains in every part of the body.
Agitation and pains like electric-shocks.
Depression, with sensation of a great cloud enveloping her.
Dreams of impending evil. Illusions of rats and mice.
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SYNONYM
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Actea Racemosa
Macrotys
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COMMON NAME
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Black Snake-root
Black cohosh
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SOURCE
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Tincture of fresh root
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FAMILY
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Ranunculaceae
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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- | C.N.S. - Rheumatic Hyperaemia, chorea, paralysis.
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- | Circulation - Febrile irritation, heart irregular, feeble.
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- | Female - Rheumatic hyperaesthesia. |
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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< | Menstruation suppressed
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MIND
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- | Sensation as if heavy black cloud had settled all
over her, all is darkness and confusion.
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- | Great depression, with dream of impending evil.
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- | Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out.
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- | Illusion of a mouse running under the chair.
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- | Puerperal mania or melancholia, tries to injure herself, hysterical.
Delirium tremens.
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- | Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Plump, delicate, sensitive, nervous, chilly women
who complain of aching pain in back.
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- | Many complaints are depending upon utero-ovarian irritation.
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- | Symptoms are irregular, changeable and alternating.
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violent, shooting, aching
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wander here and there, shock-like
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with cries and faintness
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go upwards or side to side
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- | General sick feeling with exhaustion.
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- | Physical symptoms alternate with mental symptoms.
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- | Causes irritation of spinal cord - Neuritis, neuralgias.
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- | Head - Shooting, throbbing pains from overstudy, mental worry, or reflex of
uterine disease.
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- | Waving sensation, or opening and shutting sensation in brain.
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- | Eyes - Intense pain in eyeball, from eyes to top of head.
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- | Photophobia from artificial light.
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- | G.I.T. - Gnawing pain with sinking in epigastrium.
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- | Respiratory system - Dry, short cough < speaking.
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- | Female genitalia - Epileptiform convulsions at the time of menses.
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- | Chorea at puberty with delayed menses.
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- | Habitual abortion at the 3rd month in women.
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- | Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea, pain as the flow increases.
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- | Menses - profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive, irregular.
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- | More profuse the flow, greater the suffering.
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- | With backache, nervousness.
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- | Preceeded by pains in ovarian region, shooting up and down the anterior
surface of thighs.
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- | Pains across pelvis from hip to hip.
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- | Left infra-mammary pains.
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- | C.V.S. - Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation.
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- | Back - Stiffness and contraction in neck and back.
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- | Extremities - Rheumatic pain in muscles. A/F - sewing, typewriting, piano
playing.
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- | Belly of the muscles feel bruised, sore heavy aching, especially large
muscles affected.
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- | Muscular soreness with uneasy, restless feeling in the limbs.
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- | Stiffness in Tendo-Achilles.
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- | Skin - Facial blemishes in young women. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Mania following disappearance of neuralgias.
- Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair.
- The more the menstrual flow the greater the suffering.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Dysmenorrhoea - Menses irregular, with exhaustion
and pain, with mental symptoms during flow.
- Habitual abortion in 3rd month.
- Pains - severe, shooting, stitching, shock-like, changes the location,
from hip to hip, ovary to ovary.
- Rheumatic affections of belly of muscles. A/F - overexertion, with sore,
bruised feeling.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | Complaints of females, who are chilly, plump,
delicate.
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- | Complaints usually of utero-ovarian nature.
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- | Melancholy, nervousness, great mental depression.
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- | Hysterical or epileptiform spasms.
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- | Pains are sharp, lancinating, electric like, shooting, intense in nature.
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- | Rheumatic affections in females, with generalised sore bruised feeling all
over.
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- | Rheumatism of belly of muscles. |
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CLINICAL
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- | Amenorrhoea, Angina pectoris, Intercostal
rheumatism, Migraine, Ovarian irritation, Stiff neck, Uterine cramps.
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- | Given before term, it renders labour easier, cures sickness of pregnancy,
prevents after pains.
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- | Has ensured safe delivery in women who have previously given birth to dead children
without any discovered cause. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare: Ign,
Lil-t, Nat-m, Puls, Sep
Antidoted By: Acon, Bapt
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