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Actaea Racemosa
30C / 200CActaea RacBlack Cohosh · Cimicifuga Racemosa · "The Female Nervous Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system and female reproductive organs, particularly in cases of muscular soreness, rheumatic pain, and mental disturbances.
📖 Hering writes:
Actea Racemosa. (Cimicifuga.)
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Act-r. * Full text (55 Ko) * Red and blue only (40 Ko) * Red only
Actea racemosa, Linnee. Black Cohosh. Ranunculaceae.
Grows in woodlands from Canada to Florida. Famous as a popular medicine, particularly for snake-bites. Has received so many improper names that the oldest one is preferred. Proved in 1853 by H. M. Paine, in 1858 by Ch. H. Burr, in 1859 by Hill and Douglas, in 1871 by Bacmeister, and used like a polychrest by most practitioners.
[The observation that a drug may produce different symptoms on the different sexes is of the utmost importance for the scientific development of our Materia Medica.
Professors Hill and Douglas state in their valuable report of provings with Actea racemosa, in the New York Quarterly, Vol. VII., 1859, p. 450 : "It produced nausea, vomiting and much gastric irritation in the six women, while in forty men it was hardly noticed as affecting the stomach in the least." Being an important remedy in morning sickness of the pregnant, we may conclude that all the gastric symptoms observed by female provers depended on the uterus.
It has also been observed that Cuprum acts more on the female and Ferrum on the male organs.].
👤 Constitution
•Climacteric years
•Nervousness from anxiety or overexertion
•Rheumatic persons
•Children, teething; diarrhoea
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Mental state characterized by a fear of going crazy, often with incoherent talking or visions.
Hering
Sensation as if the brain is too large for the cranium, with a feeling of pressure from within outward.
Hering
Severe uterine or ovarian pain that darts from side to side or causes the patient to double up.
Hering
Excessive muscular soreness and bruised feeling throughout the body.
Hering
Symptoms are significantly worsened by any form of motion, especially movement of the head or eyes.
Hering
Sinking or 'goneness' sensation in the stomach, often accompanied by nausea.
Hering
Pains in the chest radiating to the left arm, which may feel numb or as if bound to the side.
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Menstrual flow that is profuse, early, or irregular, often associated with labor-like pains.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Think of this remedy for mental states characterized by intense fear, suspicion, or a feeling of being trapped, often following emotional distress, hormonal changes, or substance withdrawal.
Thinks she is going crazy.
Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.
Incessant talking, changing from one subject to another. ✓ Delirium tremens.
Feels grieved and troubled, with sighing
- •next day a feeling of tremulous joy, with mirthfullness, playfulness and clear intellect..
Fear of death.
Delirium with great headache. ✓ Puerperal fever.
Fear of death
- •fears those in house will kill him ;
- •saw wires encaging him ;
- •visions of rats and of strange objects. ✓ Delirium tremens..
Suspicious of everything, would not take medicine if she knew it. ✓ Mental disorder.
Headache of students.
Mental emotions cause : amenorrhoea ; suppression of lochia.
Mind disturbed by disappointed love, business failures.
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.
Often started by illusion of a mouse running from under her chair.
Imagines strange objects about bed, as rats, sheep, etc. ✓ Delirium tremens.
Frequent sighs and ejaculations. ✓ Mental disorder.
Apprehensive and sleepless. ✓ Pregnancy.
Indifferent, taciturn, takes no interest in household matters. ✓ Mental disorder.
Restless and impatient, can read only a few minutes, must get up and walk about, yet soon tires.
Forgetful.
Unable to find right word in speaking.
Mind dull and heavy.
Delirium with nausea, retching, dilated pupils.
Puerperal mania.
Desire for solitude, or to wander from place to place.
Answers questions hurriedly and evasively.
Declares she has been poisoned.
Would not answer ; at other times very loquacious.
Miserable dejected feeling ; anxious, weeping.
Mental depression, with suicidal mood
- •also after checked neuralgia..
Great melancholy with sleeplessness.
Fears she will become crazy, with headache on vertex.
Irritable ; the least thing that goes wrong makes her angry.
Nervous and irritable.
Headache when reading or writing ; cannot write a letter.
Feels faint at epigastrium when meeting a friend.
After fright : threatened abortion.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Cold air
aching pains in head
eyes sensitive
larynx sensitive
congestion to the chest
stiff neck
↑Better from
Bending double
colic
menstrual troubles
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia Alba →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Sepia Officinalis →Ignatia Amara →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM
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