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…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“PREGNANCY WANDERING, changeful, shifting pains (Comp. Here and There.)”
- 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…”
