Actaea spicata

Actaea spicata
(baneberry)
* Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it.
* Wrist-rheumatism.
* Pulsations over whole body, especially liver andrenal region.
* Cardiovascular spasm.
* Pains worse from touch and motion.
Head
- Fearful, starts easily; confused.
- Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee.
- Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to
between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed.
- Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose redat tip, fluent coryza.
Face
- Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples.
- Perspiration on face and head.
Stomach
- Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting.
- Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation.
- Sudden lassitude after eating.
Abdomen
- Spasmodic retraction.
- Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.
Respiratory
- Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying.
- Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.
Extremities
- Tearing pains in loins.
- Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, [Ulmus] fingers, ankles, toes.
- Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion.
- Paralytic weakness in the hands.
- Lame feeling in arms.
- Pain in knee.
- Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationship
- Compare : Cimicif.; Cauloph.; Led.
Dose
- Third potency.