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Macrotinum

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Macrotinum · Resinoid of Cimicifuga Racemosa · "The Concentrated Black Cohosh Resin"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the muscular system and the female reproductive cycle, specifically addressing symptoms that resolve upon the onset of menstruation.
📖 Clarke writes:
Macrotyn. Resinoid of Actaea racemosa. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Muscular weakness
Excessive restlessness, relieved by moving about in spite of the weakness
Symptoms of the mind, eyes, and breasts are worse before menses and better as soon as flow sets in
Most important distinctive feature is improvement of symptoms (other than dysmenorrhoea, pains) by onset of menses
Backache is better after menses
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Melancholy
Irritable
Dulness of intellect
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Intense pain at occiput, worse at every throb of heart
Retraction of head and neck
Neuralgic pains in limbs
Pulse 96
Temperature 99°
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Symptoms of the mind, eyes, and breasts improve as soon as the menstrual flow sets in.
Clarke
Excessive restlessness that is relieved by moving about, despite feeling physically weak.
Clarke
Headache in the evening that is relieved by eructations and nausea.
Clarke
Sharp cutting pain in the umbilical region early in the morning, relieved by stool.
Clarke
Backache and muscular soreness that improve after menstruation.
Clarke
Dark circles around the eyes appearing a week before menses and disappearing when flow starts.
Clarke
Muscular system feels exhausted after the slightest exertion.
Clarke
Frequent desire to urinate with a profuse flow of pale urine.
Clarke
Starts up suddenly when falling asleep for fear of falling or impending danger.
Clarke
Sensation in the neck as if the muscles are too short.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for melancholy, irritability, and apprehension of incurable disease, especially when symptoms are linked to the menstrual cycle.
BETTER when menses come on.
Melancholy
at times irritable
Fear: apprehensive, of impending danger, or incurable disease.
Sits for a long time thoughtless
moving hands and feet
frequent sighing.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
headache
nausea
eructation
Better from
Menses
mental symptoms
eye symptoms
breast symptoms
backache
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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