Cimicifuga Racemosa

Mind

(Cimicifuga)

Thinks she is going crazy. (Calc. c.)

Miserable, dejected feeling.

Feels grieved and troubled, with sighing. (Ign.)

Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.

Incessant talking, changing from one subject to another. ( Lach .)

Fear of death. ( Acon., Ars., Agn., Nitr. ac.)

Not disposed to fix the attention on anything. (Aethus., Gels., Nux v., Phos. ac.)

Head

(Cimicifuga)

Vertigo , fullness, and dull aching in vertex.

Rush of blood to the head ( Bell.), brain feels too large for the cranium. (Arg. nit., Glon.)

Dull aching, particularly in occiput , during afternoon and evening ; worse indoors, better in the open air.

Headache through the whole brain, with distinct sense of soreness in occipital region.

Severe pain in head and eyeballs, increased on slightest motion. ( Bell., Bry .)

Excruciating pain in right side of head, back of orbit.

Top of head feels as if it would fly off. ( Bapt .)

Headache better in the open air.

Eyes

(Cimicifuga)

Intense aching pains in the eyeballs. ( Aloe, Spig .)

Dilated pupils, with dark spots before the eyes.

Face

(Cimicifuga)

Pale, eyes large, sunken, surrounded by dark rings.

Neuralgia affecting malar bone ; pain goes off at night and reappears next day.

Frequent flushes of heat ; wants to be in the open air.

Mouth

(Cimicifuga)

Breath offensive.

Mouth and tongue hot and dry.

Stomach

(Cimicifuga)

Nausea, eructations, headache, and tremor (more in women).

Sharp pains across the hypogastrium.

Sinking or goneness in the epigastrium. (Bapt., Hydras., Ign ., Petrol., Sep ., Sulph., Viburn.)

Abdomen

(Cimicifuga)

Periodical colicky pains, better bending double and after stool. ( Coloc .)

Excruciating pains in the bowels, small of back, and limbs.

Abdominal muscles sore.

Stool

(Cimicifuga)

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. ( Ant. crud ., Iodi., Nux v.)

Frequent, thin, dark, offensive stools. (Ars.)

Urinary Organs

(Cimicifuga)

Incessant flow of urine.

Pressing in region of kidneys and small of back.

Female Organs.- (Cimicifuga)

Menses irregular, delayed, or suppressed. (Puls ., Senecio, Sep.)

Hysterical or epileptical spasms at time of menses.

Pains in uterine region shoot from side to side.

Pains in ovarian region shoot upward.

Bearing down in uterine region and small of back ; limbs feel heavy, torpid. (Aloe, Puls ., Sep.)

Severe pain in lower part of abdomen.

Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea.

Leucorrhoea with sensation of weight in the uterus. ( Sep .)

During pregnancy : nausea ; false labor-like pains ( Gels ., Sec .) ; sharp pains across abdomen ; sleeplessness. (Coff. c.)

During parturition " shivers," first stage (Acon.) ; pains too strong, spasmodic cardiac neuralgia ; lochia suppressed (Acon.) ; rigid os (Bell., Gels .) ; puerperal mania. ( Hyos .)

Infra-mammary pains, worse on left side.

Burning in the mamma.

Respiratory Organs.- (Cimicifuga)

Night cough, dry, constant, short. (Alum., Hyos ., Puls.)

Tickling in throat, with violent cough. ( Phos .)

Pains in sides of chest, worse from motion. (Bell., Bry ., Merc., Phos.)

Heart

(Cimicifuga)

Pain in region of the heart, followed by palpitation.

Pulse weak and irregular.

Neck and Back.- (Cimicifuga)

Rheumatic pain in the muscles of the neck and back ; a feeling of stiffness and retraction. (Rhus tox.)

Violent lightning-like pains in posterior spinal sclerosis.

Stiff neck from cold air ( Dulc .), from moving even the hands.

Sensitiveness of the spine ( Agar .) ; especially in the cervical and upper dorsal regions.

Severe aching pain in the lumbar and sacral regions (Aesc.) ; down the thighs and through the hips, with heavy pressing down. ( Aesc .)

Head and neck retracted (in spotted fever).

Limbs

(Cimicifuga)

Constant irregular motion of left arm ; arm useless.

Rheumatic pains in the joints, with heat and swelling. ( Bry .)

Aching in the limbs.

Excessive muscular soreness. (Arn.)

Rheumatism affecting the belly of the muscles.

Trembling of the fingers when writing.

Trembling in the limbs, is scarcely able to walk.

Uneasy feeling in limbs, causing restlessness.

Generalities

(Cimicifuga)

Weakness, trembling, and spasmodic action of the muscles.

Nervous shuddering ; tremor all over the body.

Alternate tonic and clonic spasms.

Epileptic and hysterical convulsions.

Sharp lancinating pains in various parts, associated with ovarian or uterine irritation.

Affects the left side most.

Pains come on suddenly.

Pains like electric shocks here and there.

General bruised feeling of the whole body, as if sore.

Sleep

(Cimicifuga)

Obstinate insomnia. (Coff. c., Op.)

Unpleasant dreams of being in trouble.

Restless sleep.

Amelioration

Therapeutic Range.- (Cimicifuga)

In rheumatic, neuralgic, choreic, and other affections of nervous, hysterical females from irritation of the generative organs ; delirium tremens ; mental disorders ; meningitis cerebro-spinalis ; spinal irritation ; neuralgia ; sciatica ; chorea ; epilepsy ; hysteria ; rheumatism ; myalgia ; pleurodynia ; puerperal fever ; dysmenorrhoea ; amenorrhoea ; leucorrhoea ; ovaritis.

Compare

(Cimicifuga)

Act. spit., Arn., Acon ., Bapt., Bry ., Bell., Bapt., Caul., Gels ., Hyos., Ign., Lil. tig., Puls .

Antidotes

(Cimicifuga)

Acon., Bapt., Caul., Gels., Puls.

Copyright © Robert Séror 2003

Index