Cimicifuga Racemosa

Clinical

Reflex neuralgias in various parts of the body, especially in women, dependent on ovarian and uterine troubles.

Muscular rheumatism affecting the fleshy parts of the muscles, aggravated by motion, but great restlessness.

Chorea, especially in muscles of left side.

Mind

Troubled, sighing mood.

Miserable, dejected feeling.

Clinical

Delirium, with excessive restlessness, twitching of tendons, starting up suddenly.

Delirium, wild imaginings of rats, etc. (Stram.), with crazy feeling about head ; talking continually, changing the subject and moving about.

Puerperal mania ; she is very suspicious, talking of a great variety of things, constantly changing the subject ; sometimes sees vermin ; speech is often disconnected.

Insanity in the form of melancholia ; is very apprehensive, talks of becoming crazy ; she is suspicious or talks incessantly, constantly changing the subject.

Delirium tremens, is frightened, trembles, cannot remain in one place.

Puerperal melancholia, with sleeplessness, sighing and moaning all the while.

The two marked characteristics of the delirium or insanity of this drug are the mental and physical restlessness ; the patient cannot remain in one place, and, when talking, constant change of the subject.

Head

Pain, especially in the occiput, extending to the vertex, always > in the open air, sometimes > bending the head backward.

Vertigo, as with fullness and aching in the vertex and impaired vision.

Pressure outward in the forehead and upward in the upper part of cerebrum, as if there were not room enough.

Pain on the vertex paroxysmal, often extending to the occiput, with pain through the whole brain, < motion.

Clinical

In general the headaches affect the base of the occiput, or the headaches begin at that point ; frequently they are extremely violent and shoot up to vertex or down spine, and bending the head forward seems to pull upon the spine ; sometimes it seems as if a bolt would be driven from the neck to the vertex with every beat of the heart ; sometimes the whole neck is very lame from distress on moving the head.

These headaches of Cimicifuga may be neuralgic, associated in women with uterine disturbances, or they may be associated with symptoms of inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spine.

Neuralgic headaches, feeling as if the top of the head would fly off.

Eyes

Pain in the eyeballs, in the centre, or between the ball and frontal bone, sometimes extending to the occiput.

Eyes feel congested with the headache.

Pains in the eyes extending to the vertex.

Eyeballs feel enlarged.

Photophobia.

Vision of black specks.

Face

Pains in the face < during the day, > at night.

Mouth

Offensive breath.

Throat

Soreness, especially on the left side, with dryness ; a feeling of fullness.

Stomach

Nausea.

Faintness.

Vomiting.

Clinical

Nausea and efforts to vomit, in uterine affections or with spinal irritation.

Nausea and vomiting, caused by pressure on the spine and cervical region, with palpitation ; suppression of menses.

Stool

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea .

Urinary Organs

Urine usually increased (with fever, high-colored and scanty).

Sexual Organs

Bearing-down pain during menstruation.

Suppressed menses.

Clinical

Neuralgia of the ovaries and uterus, with great tenderness and bearing down, the pains shooting up the sides and across the lower part of the abdomen.

Menstruation painful, irregular or suppressed, with hysterical symptoms or epileptiform spasms at the period.

Menorrhagia ; menses too profuse and early, dark, clotted, with severe pain in back, extending through hips and down thighs.

Endocervicitis, with general nervous hysterical symptoms, uterus engorged, cervix hypertrophied, all the organs very sensitive, especially the ovaries.

During parturition the pains do not force downward, but extend across the abdomen and upward into the sides (false pains).

Threatening miscarriage, the pains fly about, with fainting spells.

After-pains, with great sensitiveness, the patient feels that she cannot tolerate the pain.

During parturition the os is rigid.

Ovarian neuralgia, especially of left ovary ; pains extend up and down left side, with great tenderness.

Respiratory organs :

Tickling in the larynx causes a dry cough, especially in the evening ; < talking.

Chest

Sharp pains through the sides of the chest along the false ribs, < long inspiration.

Heart and Pulse :

Pain in the region of the heart, and palpitation.

Catching pain on bending forward ; or when at dinner and after dinner.

Pulse irregular, tremulous.

Neck and Back :

Pains like paralysis in the muscles of the neck and back, with stiffness and contraction.

Pains > pressure in the back and around the hips.

Drawing-tensive pain at points of spinous processes of three upper dorsal vertebrae, in morning on bending neck forward.

Heavy weight in the lumbar and sacral region ; the pains extend around the body.

Extremities

Twitchings and tremblings, especially of the fingers and toes, scarcely able to walk.

Pains and restlessness in the extremities.

Pain in the muscles from shoulders to wrists.

Trembling of the fingers when writing.

Pain in tendo Achillis, which feels shortened, especially when walking in the open air.

Soreness in the region of the tendo Achillis, < on walking.

Pain in right great toe.

Burning pain in second joint of right great toe, extending up limb.

Sleep

Restlessness, troubled dreams.