ACTAEA RACEMOSA Black Cohosh Mental Generals Ranunculaceae • Puerperal mania; thinks she is going crazy (compare, Syph.); tries to injure herself. • Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. • Sensation as if a heavy, black cloud settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion. • Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair (Lac-c., Aeth.). Eyes • Ciliary neuralgia; aching or sharp, darting, shooting pains in globes, extending to temples, vertex, occiput, orbit, < going up stairs, > lying down. Cardio-vascular System • Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or ovaries. Heart’s action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation; palpitation from least motion (Dig.). Female Reproductive System • Menses: Irregular; exhausting (Alum., Cocc.); delayed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria or mania; increase of mental symptoms during menses. • Severe left-sided inframammary pains (Ust.). • Sharp, lancinating electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side. • Pregnancy; nausea; sleeplessness; false labor-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; abortion at third month (Sab.). • During labor: “Shivers” in first stage; convulsions, from nervous excitement; rigid os; pains severe, spasmodic, tedious, < by least noise. • After-pains, worse in the groins.
• When given during last month of pregnancy shortens labor, if symptoms correspond (Caul., Puls.). • Rheumatic dysmenorrhea. Neck and Back • Rheumatic pains in muscles of neck and back; feel stiff, lame, contracted; spine sensitive, from using arms in sewing, typewriting, piano playing (Agar., Ran-b.). • Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles; pains, stitching, cramping. Extremities • Excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion. Nervous System • Spasms: Hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side. Modalities • Aggravation: During menstruation: The more profuse the flow the greater the suffering. Relation • Similar: To, Caul. and Puls. in uterine and rheumatic affections; to, Agar., Lil-t., Sep.
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