ACTAEA RECEMOSA

(cimicifuga)
Common names---Black cohosh
Black snakeroot
squaw root
Family--- Ranunculaceae
Prover --- Jeanes

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Tincture of the fresh root; Class III
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SPHERES OF ACTION
Cerebrospinal nerves esp motor nerves
Circulation
Female genital organ
Joints
PATHOGENESIS
It disturbs the nerve centres & produces
irritation
It also increases arterial tension

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• Constitution---no particular look of the
patient
• Temparament—hysterical
• Thermal relation---chilly patient
• Miasm---psora
• Diathesis ---rheumatic& gouty

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• GUIDING SYMPTOMS
1)All the complains are worse DURING
MENSES; the more profuse the flow the
greater the suffering
(opp—lach, zinc met, Mag phos))
2)Chilly patients, easily affected by
cold,sensitive to cold, relieved by warmth
3) Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in
various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or
uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from
side to side.
4)Muscular rheumatism--- Rheumatism
affecting the bellies of the muscles; pains,
stitching, cramping.
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MIND

• Mental symptom alternate with

physical symptom.
Mania following disappearance of
neuralgia. or when rheumatism gets
better mental state becomes worse
• Increase of mental symptoms during
menses.; more the flow more the
suffering.
Menses : delayed or suppressed by
mental emotion,
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• Puerperal mania; thinks she is going
crazy (compare, Syph.); tries to injure
herself
• Sensation as if a heavy, black cloud
had settled all over her and enveloped
her head so that all is darkness and
confusion. Sensation of weight as if
‘lead upon the head’
• - Illusion of a mouse running from under
her chair (Lac. c., Aeth.).

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Fear ,anguish & restlessness.
Fear of death with great suspicion

 Hysterical, changeable mood.

Hysterical girls in a state of sadness &
she will sit & say nothing. When asked
something she will break into tears or
express her overwhelming sadness ,
with chorea & epileptic fit as a reflex
symptom from uterine disease;
chorea < left side
 worse during menses;
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HEAD
• causation –from cold damp wet weather,
headache of rheumatic origin.

• Location- pain in the back of neck, occiput

• Character of pain-- Shooting and throbbing

pains in head after mental worry, over-
study, or reflex of uterine disease.
HEADACHE PRESSING OUTWARD; OR
UPWARD, AS IF TOP OF HEAD WOULD
FLY OFF,
OR INTO EYES (CILIARY NEURALGIA),
OR DOWN NAPE INTO SPINE
sore bruised pain in the occiput
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• sensation-- Wild feeling in brain,
Waving sensation or opening and
shutting sensation in brain.
Brain feels too large.
• Modality
• <during menses, cold damp weather,
• > lying down

• Ciliary neuralgia : aching or sharp, darting

shooting pains in eye balls, extending to
temples, vertex, occiput, orbit, < going up
stairs, >> lying down.
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 FEMALE
Menses

• Delayed menses from mental emotion,

from cold
• Always irregular
• Profuse, dark, coagulated,
Offensive
with backache, nervousness;

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• Rheumatic dysmenorrhæa (Bell.)
• Pain immediately before menses
• Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward
and down anterior surface of thighs.
• Hysterical or epileptical spasms at the time
of menses
• Prolapsus uterus during menses
(Lach., Lil-T., Nat-C., Puls., Sep.)
• Ovarian neuralgia-- Pain across
pelvis, from hip to hip.

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• Pregnancy:
Nausea, sleeplessness;
False labour-like pains during
pregnancy; sharp pains across
abdomen;
Abortion at third month (Sab.)

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• During labour:
shivers in the first stage of labour;
convulsions, from nervous excitement;
rigid os;
pains severe, spasmodic, tedious,
aggravated by least noise
• Lochia suppressed (Acon., Bry.,
Sec.)
• After-pains, with great sensitiveness
and intolerance to pain.
• When given during last month of
pregnancy shortens labor, if
symptoms correspond
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• Climacteric ---Infra-mammary pains
worse, left side.
• Facial blemishes in young women.

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 HEART
• Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of
uterus or ovaries.
Heart's action ceases suddenly; impending
suffocation
• Angina pectoris: pains radiate all over the
chest, and are associated with cerebral
congestion and unconsciousness; the face
is livid, and the arm feels as if bound tightly
to the body
• < from the least motion, DURING MENSES

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 RHEUMATISM
• Muscular rheumatism;
• rheumatism of the belly of muscles
( of tendon of muscle—rhus tox)
especially of neck & back. Stiff neck,
drawing head back; can't turn the
head;spine sensitive
pains, stitching, cramping.
< from using arms in sewing,
typewriting, piano playing (Agar., Ran.
b.), During menses
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> warmth
 GENERAL MODALITIES

• Worse---
morning, cold (except headache),
During menses; the more profuse the flow, the
greater the suffering.

• Better---- warmth, eating.

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

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