Cimicifuga racemosa

Common names: squaw root; black cohosh; cimicifuga.

GLOOMY, SAD, SLEEPLESS; THINKS SHE WILL GO INSANE (N.).

Puerperal mania; tries to injure herself.

Weeping mood; melancholia.

Mania following disappearance of neuralgia (A.).

In all her mental symptoms there is a want of natural coherence (G.).

SENSATION AS IF A HEAVY, BLACK CLOUD HAD SETTLED ALL OVER HER AND ENVELOPED HER HEAD, SO THAT ALL IS DARKNESS AND CONFUSION (A.).

Visions of rats, mice, etc. (D.).

MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM; STIFF NECK, DRAWING HEAD BACK; CAN'T TURN THE HEAD; RHEUMATISM OF THE BELLY OF MUSCLES BY PREFERENCE (N.).

Nervous symptoms, twitchings, spasms, convulsions, neuralgias; chills without shaking, worse at menstrual period (N.).

Angina pectoris: pains radiate all over the chest, and are associated with cerebral congestion and unconsciousness; the face is livid, and the arm feels as if bound tightly to the body (F.).

Palpitation from the least motion (R.).

Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism (Br.).

Headache of drunkards and students (L.).

HEADACHE PRESSING OUTWARD; OR UPWARD, AS IF TOP OF HEAD WOULD FLY OFF, OR INTO EYES (CILIARY NEURALGIA), OR DOWN NAPE INTO SPINE (N.).

Prolapsus uterus during menses (Lach., Lil-T., Nat-C., Puls., Sep.) (K.).

Menses irregular in time and amount (B.).

Ovarian neuralgia, with other reflex left-sided pains (D.).

Rheumatic dysmenorrhæa (Bell.) (A.).

Menorrhagia; pains run through hips into thighs, passing down (N.).

Pregnancy: nausea, sleeplessness; false labour-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; abortion at third month (Sab.) (A).

Climacteric; infra-mammary pains left side, persistent (N.).

After-pains, worse in the groins (A.).

DURING LABOUR: SHIVERS IN THE FIRST STAGE; CONVULSIONS, FROM NERVOUS EXCITEMENT; RIGID OS; PAINS SEVERE, SPASMODIC, TEDIOUS, AGGRAVATED BY LEAST NOISE (A.).

Lochia suppressed (Acon., Bry., Sec.) (C.).

The patient cannot sleep because of pain; he tosses about; is extremely restless; and should he fall asleep, it is full of unpleasant dreams; never is the sleep restful or refreshing (R.).

Dry, short cough, worse from speaking and at night (Br.).

Tickling in the throat, with violent cough (Bell., Hyos., Phos., Rumx.) (C.).

Cough excited by every attempt to speak, so that one is obliged to desist (N.).

Excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion (A.).

ACHING PAINS IN THE EYEBALLS, OR IN TEMPLES, EXTENDING TO EYES (N.).

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

Brain feels too large for the cranium (Arg-N Glon.) (C.).

Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or ovaries. Heart's action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation (A.).

Sinking in epigastrium (Sep., Sulph.). Gnawing pain. Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region (Br.).

Hysterical or epileptical spasms at the time of menses (C.).

PLEURODYNIA (Bell., Bry., Ran-B.) (B.).

AGGRAVATION: During menstrual period and climacteric; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering; from cold, damp air; sitting and alcohol.

AMELIORATION: In open air; gentle, continued motion; pressure; and warm covering.

RELATIONSHIP: Similar to Caul. and Puls. in uterine and rheumatic affections; to Agar., Lil-T. and Sep.