Materia Medica de A a Z

CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA = ACTAEA RACEMOSA (Cimic)

Region

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

Worse

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

Better

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

General

A depressing irritant, causing exhaustion and low spirits, combined with oversensitiveness, agg. 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; behind eyeballs, uterus, neck; with a general sick feeling. Grippe. Variola. Trembling, 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 (Glon). 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; agg. 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; agg. 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; agg. lying on it. Stiff, contracted neck, back (Agar) or Tendo Achilles. Pain at angle of l. scapula [Chen. (Chen-v)]. 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. (Bapt); Caul; Gels; Ign; Puls.