Actaea Spicata

This is a rheumatic remedy like the other Actéa, but affecting more

prominently the small joints and wrists. I have several times cured wrist-rheumatism with it. The

joints swell after slight fatigue. The pains are tearing, drawing. The right arm and right wrist are

specially affected; and there are pains like rheumatism in face. Pains are of a violent, tearing,

drawing character, < by touch or movement. Pains of this kind running from decayed tooth to

temples. Swelling of the joints from slight fatigue may be regarded as very characteristic. It is

• ▸especially suited to men (Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸to women).
• ▸< From motion; from change of temperature; cold

air.

• ▸Fear of death, esp.
• ▸at night in bed.
• ▸—Furious delirium; also during the fever.
• ▸—Effects of

exertion of mind; fright mental anxiety.

• ▸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 red at tip, fluent coryza.

A kind of drunkenness.—Dizziness; forehead feels empty when stooping.—Twitching

in temples; pain from a decayed tooth to temples.—Pressure in forehead after having been in

sun.—Head symptoms < at night; from walking; return periodically; also after fever—Warm

sweat on head.—Small pimples on scalp.

Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.

Pains as of rheumatism in face; violent tearing and drawing pains in the upper jaw;

pulling, tearing from a decayed tooth to temples; < from slightest touch or movement of the

• ▸muscles.
• ▸—The cheek he lies on sweats.
• ▸—Yellow round mouth.
• ▸-Lips chapped.
• ▸—Submaxillary

glands hurt when chewing.

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.

After drinking, shuddering. —Sour vomiting. —Tearing, darting pain in epigastric

region with vomiting.—Cancer of the stomach, with characteristic pains—tearing, drawing, &c.

Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.

Throbbing in region of kidneys.—Urine deposits a white

sediment.—Urinary calculi.

Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. *Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.

Difficult inspiration; stitches in epigastrium during deep breathing or

a painful shock; or pain in the hip.

Urging sensation in heart towards abdomen and region of liver, with great anxiety at

night—Pulse 120.

• ▸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.

Shuddering after drinking.—Belching during the chill—Shuddering followed by heat,

during which vomiting supervenes.

• ▸Cancer of stomach Fright, effects of, Hepatitis.
• ▸Pleurisy.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Toothache.

• ▸/t follows well: Nux v.
• ▸Compare: Other Ranunculace¢; Arn.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Caulo.

• ▸(rheumatism of fingers), Lyc.
• ▸, Rhus t.
• ▸, Salic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, and Sticta (small joints).

Compare: Cimicif; Cauloph; Led.

Third potency.

Swelling of joints after slight fatigue (after walking)—Rheumatism of small joints

• ▸(ankle, toe-joints, and esp.
• ▸joints of hands).
• ▸—Pain as from paralytic weakness of hands.
• ▸-

• ▸Lameness of r.
• ▸arm.
• ▸-R.
• ▸wrist pains intolerably, swollen, red, touch intolerable; motion

impossible; pressure on palm intolerable.