Cimicifuga racemosa

Cimicifuga racemosa
(black snake-root)
* Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, as well as upon the uterus
and ovaries.
* Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjectswith 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 pulsesoothes pain and allays irritability".
Mental
- 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.
Head
- Wild feeling in brain.
- Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry, over-study, or reflex of uterine
disease.
- Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain.
- Brain feels too large.
- Pressing-outward pain.
- Tinnitus.
- Ears sensitive to least noise.
Eyes
- Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble.
- Deepseated throbbing and shooting pains in eyes,with photophobia from artificial light.
- Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to topof head.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region.
- Sinking in epigastrium. [Sep.; Sulph.]
- Gnawing pain.
- Tongue pointed and trembling.
Female
- Amenorrhoea (use Macrotin preferably.) Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down
anterior surface of thighs.
- Pain immediately before menses.
- Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive withbackache, nervousness; always irregular.
- Ovarian neuralgia.
- Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip.
- After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain.
- Infra-mammary pains worse, left side.
- Facial blemishes in young women.
Respiratory
- Tickling in throat.
- Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night.
- Cough when secretion is scanty - spasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous
irritation.
Heart
- Irregular, slow, trembling pulse.
- Tremulous action.
- Angina pectoris.
- Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side.
- Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation..
- Left-sided infra-mammary pain.
Back
- Spine very sensitive, especially upper part.
- Stiffness and contraction in neck and back.
- Intercostal rheumatism.
- Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck.
- Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips.
- Crick in back.
Extremities
- Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs.
- Aching in limbs and muscular soreness.
- Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles.
- Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism.
- Jerking of limbs.
- Stiffness in tendo-Achilles.
- Heaviness in lower extremities.
- Heavy, aching, tensive pain.
Sleep
- Sleeplessness.
- Brain irritation of children during dentition.
Skin
- Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.
Modalities
- Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more profuse the flow, the
greater the suffering.
- Better, warmth, eating.
Relationship
- Compare : Rhamnus Californica (muscular pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute
rheumatism).
- Derris pinnata (Neuralgic headaches of rheumaticorigin).
- Aristolochia milhomens (pain in tendo-Achilles; diabetes).
- Caulophyl.; Pulsat.; Lilium; Agar.; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).
Dose
- First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.