Caulophyllum Thalictroides

Blue Cohosh

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(CAULOPHYLLUM)

This is a woman's remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb. During labor, when the pains are deficient and the patient is exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the smaller joints. Thrush , locally and internally.

Stomach

Cardialgia, spasms of stomach . Dyspepsia with spasmodic symptoms.

Female

Extraordinary rigidity of os ( Bell; Gels; Ver v ). Spasmodic and severe pains, which fly in all directions; shivering, without progress; false pains. Revives labor pains and furthers progress of labor. After pains. Leucorrhœa, with moth-spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility ( Helon; Puls; Sab ). Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhœa, with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great atony. Menses and leucorrhœa profuse.

Skin

Discoloration of skin in women with menstrual and uterine disorder.

Extremities

Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.

Relationship

Incompatible: Coffea .

Compare: Viol. Odor (rheumatic carpal and metacarpal joints); Cimicif; Sepia; Pulsat; Gels .

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation.

Caulophyllum Thalictroides across the other classic books

Caulophyllum Thalictroides appears in 9 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Blue Cohosh (Berberidaceae) Especially suited to women; ailments during pregnancy, parturition, lactation. Rheumatism of women, especially of small joints (Act. s.); errative pains changing place every few minutes (Puls.); painful stiffness of affected joints. Pains are intermittent, paroxysmal, spasmodic. Chorea…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Caulophyllum thalictroides. Michaux. Nat. order , Berberidaceæ. Common name , Blue Cohosh. Preparation , Trituration and tincture of the root. Authority. Dr. Burt (Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed., p. 171), proving with, first day, 10 grains of the "pure resinoid;" second day, 15 grains and 30 grains; third day, 50 grains…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“PREGNANCY WANDERING, changeful, shifting pains (Comp. Here and There.)”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“FEMALE ORGANS. NERVES. Muscles. Neck. Lower limbs. Small joints. Pregnancy. Suppressed menses. Open air. P.M. Exhaustion . PAINS, ERRATIC, drawing, cramping, shooting, rheumatic; ending in neck, which gets stiff. Uterine reflexes. Internal tremor. .................... Fretful and fearsome. Nervous; excitable. Chorea…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“thalictroides. Blue Cohosh. Squaw Root. N. O. Berberidaceæ. Tincture or trituration of root. Abortion, threatened / After-pains / Amenorrhœa / Barrenness / Bearing-down pains / Chloasma / Cholera morbus / Dysmenorrhœa / False conception / Feet, affections of / Gonorrhœa / Hands, affections of / Inframammary pain /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Blue Cohosh. Berberidaceæ. Grows in the woods from Canada to Carolina and Kentucky. Trituration and tincture are prepared from the brown, knotty, hard root, which is yellow insides. Called "squaw or papoose-root" by the Indians, by whom it is used in female complaints. First introduced into medicine by botanic…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: blue cohosh. Especially suited to women, for their ailments during pregnancy, parturition and lactation (A.). Is fretful and easily displeased (Bell., Cham., Nux-V., Sulph.). Leucorrhœa: acrid, exhausting; preventing pregnancy (Alum., Calc-C., Carb-A., Nat-C., Nit-Ac.) (A.). LEUCORRHŒA IN LITTLE GIRLS…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Is another very valuable “woman remedy,” because of its specific action upon the uterus. It deserves a thorough reproving. I cannot better show its virtues than by reporting a case or two. A married lady, aged 40, with wry neck of long standing, was seven months’ pregnant. She was attacked with severe pains and…”

Caulophyllum Thalictroides in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Caulophyllum Thalictroides in 239 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (59), EXTREMITIES (58), STOMACH (19), ABDOMEN (12), BACK (11).

FEMALE GENITALIA - CONTRACTIONS - os spasmodic,during labor
FEMALE GENITALIA - RIGIDITY of os during labor
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers - joints - rheumatic
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - labor pains - false
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus - menses - before
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hand - rheumatic
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - labor pains - spasmodic
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - cramping - Uterus
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers - joints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers
STOMACH - VOMITING - bitter - menses - before
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - labor pains - short
HEAD - PAIN, - noon - until - midnight
MOUTH - TASTE - bitter - menses,at beginning of
FACE - DISCOLORATION - brown - forehead - spots
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - labor pains - interrupted
BLADDER - PAIN - paroxysmal
FEMALE GENITALIA - IRRITATION - Uterus
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - menses - before
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers - rheumatic

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