by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
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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.
“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…”
“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…”
“Blue Cohosh (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. Cardialgia, spasms of stomach . Dyspepsia with spasmodic…”
“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…”
“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 /…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).
