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Cimicifuga Racemosa

Black Snake-root
15 sectionsBoericke · 15

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke
  • Agitation and pain
  • dream of impending evil

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Black Snake-root (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 rheumatic, nervous subjects with 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 pulse soothes pain and allays irritability".
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Mentals

Mental
Boericke
  • 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.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering
Better
warmth, eating

Head

Head
Boericke
  • 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

Eyes
Boericke

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 top of head.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke
  • Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region.
  • Sinking in epigastrium (Sep; Sulph).
  • Gnawing pain.
  • Tongue pointed and trembling.

Female

Female
Boericke
  • 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 with backache, 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

Respiratory
Boericke

Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scanty-spasmodic, dry with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.

Chest

Heart
Boericke
  • 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.

Neck & Back

Back
Boericke
  • 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

Extremities
Boericke
  • 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.

Skin

Skin
Boericke

Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.

Sleep

Sleep
Boericke

Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke
  • Compare: Rhamnus Californica (muscular pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute rheumatism).
  • Derris pinnata (Neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin).
  • Aristolochia milhomens (pain in tendo-Achilles; diabetes).
  • Caulophyl; Pulsat; Lilium; Agar; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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