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Cimicifuga Racemosa
30C / 200CCimicifugaBlack Cohosh · Actaea Racemosa · "The Dark Cloud Depression Remedy"
cimic.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, muscles, and female reproductive organs, particularly in rheumatic and nervous individuals.
📖 Boericke writes:
(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".
👤 Constitution
•Typically rheumatic, nervous individuals, often women with uterine or ovarian irritation, who are prone to depression and muscular pain.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Great depression, with dream of impending evil.
mental
Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain.
head
Intense aching of eyeball.
eyes
Pain from eyes to top of head.
eyes
Gnawing pain.
stomach
Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip.
female
Stiffness and contraction in neck and back.
back
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mental
Useful for mental states involving deep depression, anxiety, and irrational fears, often following physical illness or hormonal changes.
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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
First to thirtieth
Other
🕒As directed
📝third most frequently used
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Caulophyllum Thalictroides →Lilium Tigrinum →Rhamnus Californica →Derris Pinnata →Aristolochia Milhomens →Macrotinum →Agaricus Muscarius →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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