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Cimicifuga Racemosa

30C / 200CCimicifuga
Black Cohosh · Actaea Racemosa · "The Dark Cloud Depression Remedy"
cimic.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, muscles, and female reproductive organs, particularly in 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 , nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, 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 , nervous individuals, often women with 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. ; tries to injure himself.
following disappearance of .
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to thirtieth
Other
📝third most frequently used
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Caulophyllum Thalictroides →Lilium Tigrinum →Rhamnus Californica →Aristolochia Milhomens →Agaricus Muscarius →MacrotinumDerris Pinnata

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Cimicifuga Racemosa is listed in 370 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 181 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System105Nervous System44Locomotor System44Head37Mind35Circulatory System24Eyes19Respiratory System15Generalities7Modalities7Skin6Abdomen5Fever5Face5Male Sexual System4Stomach3Ears2Mouth1Teeth1Urinary System1

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