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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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SYNONYM |
: | Actea
Racemosa Macrotys |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Black
Snake-root Black cohosh |
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SOURCE |
: | Tincture
of fresh root |
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FAMILY |
: | Helleboreae
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION: 1) C.N.S- Rheumatic Hyperaemia, chorea, paralysis. 2) Circulation- Febrile irritation, heart irregular, feeble. 3) Female- Rheumatic hyperaesthesia. |
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A/F |
: | -Fright,
anxiety -Child bearing -Disappointed love -Overexertion -Business failures -During dentition. |
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MODALITIES |
: | < Menstruation suppressed < During labour < Emotions < Alcohol, wine < Night < Puberty, climaxis < Change of weather < Heat and cold < Damp cold weather < Motion > Warm wraps > Open air > Pressure > Continued motion > Pressure > Grasping things |
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MIND |
: | -Sensation
as if heavy black cloud had settled all
over her, all is darkness and confusion. -Great depression, with dream of impending evil. -Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. -Incessant talking. -Illusion of a mouse running under the chair. -Puerperal mania or melancholia, tries to injure herself, hysterical. Delirium tremens. -Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Plump,
delicate, sensitive, nervous, chilly women
who complain of aching pain in back. -Many complaints are depending upon utero-ovarian irritation. -Symptoms are irregular, changeable and alternating. -Pains are-violent, shooting, aching -wander here and there, shock-like -with cries and faintness -go upwards or side to side. -General sick feeling with exhaustion. -Physical symptoms alternate with mental symptoms. -Causes irritation of spinal cord - Neuritis, neuralgias. -Head-Shooting, throbbing pains from overstudy, mental worry, or reflex of uterine disease. -Waving sensation, or opening and shutting sensation in brain. -Brain feels too large. -Pressing outward pain. -Eyes-Intense pain in eyeball, from eyes to top of head. -Photophobia from artificial light. -G.I.T.-Gnawing pain with sinking in epigastrium. -Respiratory system-Dry, short cough < speaking. -Female genitalia-Epileptiform convulsions at the time of menses. -Chorea at puberty with delayed menses. -Habitual abortion at the 3rd month in women. -Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea, pain as the flow increases. -Amenorrhoea. -Menses-profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive, irregular. -more profuse the flow, greater the suffering. -with backache, nervousness. -preceeded by pains in ovarian region, shooting up and down the anterior surface of thighs. -Pains across pelvis from hip to hip. -Afterpains. -Left infra-mammary pains. -C.V.S.-Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. -Back-Stiffness and contraction in neck and back. -Crick in the back. -Extremities-Rheumatic pain in muscles A/F - sewing, typewriting, piano playing. -Belly of the muscles feel bruised, sore heavy aching, especially large muscles affected. -Muscular soreness with uneasy, restless feeling in the limbs. -Stiffness in Tendo Achilles. -Skin-Facial blemishes in young women. |
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KEYNOTES |
: | 1.
Mania following disappearance of neuralgias. 2. Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair. 3. The more the menstrual flow the greater the suffering. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Dysmenorrhoea.
Menses irregular, with exhaustion
and pain, with mental symptoms during flow. -Habitual abortion in 3rd month. -Pains -severe, shooting, stitching, shock-like, changes the location, from hip to hip, ovary to ovary. -Rheumatic affections of belly of muscles A/F - overexertion, with sore, bruised feeling. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Complaints
of females, who are chilly, plump,
delicate. -Complaints usually of utero-ovarian nature. -Melancholy, nervousness, great mental depression. -Hysterical or epileptiform spasms. -Neuritis or neuralgias. -Pains are sharp, lancinating, electric like, shooting, intense in nature. -Rheumatic affections in females, with generalised sore bruised feeling all over. -Rheumatism of belly of muscles. |
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CLINICAL |
: | -Amenorrhoea,
Angina pectoris, Intercostal
rheumatism, Migraine, Ovarian irritation, Stiff neck, Uterine cramps. -Given before term, it renders labour easier, cures sickness of pregnancy, prevents after pains. -Has ensured safe delivery in women who have previously born dead children without any discovered cause. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Agar,
Aristolochia milhomens, Caulo,
Derris pinnata, Lil-t, Macrotin, Puls, Rhamnus californica. -Similar to Caullophylum and Puls in rheumatic and uterine affections. -Similar to Aconite in fear of death and restlessness. |