Cimicifuga Racemosa Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Matria Medica

Cimicifuga 

Another name: Macrotys

Common name: Black cohosh, Black snakeroot

Founder: Jeans

Family: Ranunculaceae

Temperament: Historical temperament

Relationship with heat and cold: Chili patient

Miasm: Psora in the background

Diathesis: Rheumatic and gouty

Introduction: 

• Some confusions may arise in the mind of the student due to different name applied to this remedy
• It was a Hughes who preferred it to be called by its Linnaean name Actaea
• Other  who support him rank from hering, Clarke Allen, kent whereas it was nash, boerike, roger in opposition who named it as cimicifuga
• Hughe’s pharmacodynamic reveals it Nickname
• The homoeopathic milk for the allopathic babies for his object was evidently to reconcile homoeopathic or at least make it acceptable to the members of the Orthodox School of medicine
• Who born only died child give 1 X for two months before the term

Clinical: 

• A tendency to action chest affection
• Disorder of pregnancy
• Headache
• Heart affection
• Breast affection
• Abortion
• Labour
• Menstrual disorder
• Rheumatism
• Vomiting of pregnancy
• Migraine

Sphere of action:

• Entire nervous system
• Female generative organs
• The Nervous system is concerned it especially on the cerebral spinal nerves and especially on the motor nerves as well as upon the uterus ovaries and joint
• Cerebrospinal and muscular system

Pathogenesis: 

• Disturb the nerve centres and produces irritation
• It also increases at arterial tension

Constitution:

• There is no particular look for the patient

 Mind: 

• It is full of mental symptoms
• Depression
• Dream of impending evil
• Fear
• Fear riding in a closed carriage and jump out
• Anguish and restlessness
• Fear of death
• Mania which occurs in a nervous historical woman
• Mania after the disappearance of neuralgia
• Puerperal mania - thinks she is going to be crazy, try to injured herself
• There is an illusion of a mouse running under her chair
• Sad
• Melancholic, gloomy
• Delirium tremens
• Low spirited
• A vision of rat mice 
• She is bowed down with sorrow and shits and mops in great sadness
• When questioned she will break into tears
• Express her feeling in sadness with chorea and epileptic fits as a reflex symptoms from uterine disease
• Changeable mode
• Physical and mental symptoms are all the time changing
• The mental symptoms following the disappearance of rheumatism are a strong feature 
• All the mental symptoms change worse during menstruation and compared to the amount of menstrual flow
• More profuse the flow greater the mental distress

Head:

• Headache causing by damp wet weather and clod
• Sensation as if sour, bruised feeling all over the head
• Bruised sensation in the occiput
• Sore feeling on the top of the head
• Sensation as if the top of the head was flying away
• Shooting and throbbing pain in the head from reflex symptoms of the uterus, overstudy and after mental worry
• Brain feels too large with waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in the head. pain like pressing outward
• Pressing type of headache with Soreness in the back of the neck
• Wild feeling in brain
• Meningitis

Eye: 

• Eyeballs are very sore and severe aching
• Shooting and throbbing pain in the eye
• Feels pain if he turns to head to any direction with ciliary Neuralgia
• Photophobia from artificial light
• Asthenopia with a pelvic problem
• Eye pain radiating to the top of the head
• Pain aggravation from going upstairs, during menses, weather change, cold damp weather
• Better by lying down

Ears:

• Ears are sensitive ti least noise

Stomach:

• A sinking feeling in epigastrium
• Trembling and pointed tongue
• Vomiting and nausea cause after pressure on the cervical region and spine
• Gnawing pain

Female: 

• Facial blemish in young women 
• Menses delayed  by mental emotion and from cold 
• Irregular and delayed  menses
• Profuse and scanty or suppressed menses
• Coagulated and very offensive blood
• Aggravation from pain during the floor, more the flow greater the pain  
• Severe pain before the period of flow
• Pain in ovarian region, across Pelvis, from hip to hip with great sensitiveness
• Pain in ovary shoots upward and down the anterior thigh
• With Manses chorea, hysteria, mania with more rheumatic pain
• Amenorrhea
• Menorrhagia
• Dysmenorrhea
• During pregnancy nausea all the time with sleeplessness
• Pain from hip to hip across the abdomen
• Abortion especially at the 3rd month
• In female who has previously born only dead child from no discoverable cause 
• False labour like pain which is sharp and lancinating, electric-like pain in various part from uterine irritation, a uterine region from site to site
• Shivering  in the first stage of labour
• Irregular type of pain with rigid os during work
• No dilatation
• Pain sever, spasmodic, difficult. aggravation from least noise 
• Severe pain in the uterine region darting from side to side
• Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pain
• Bearing down sensation with the relaxation of the part
• Ovaritis
• Ovarian cyst
• Inframammary pains worse left side

Respiratory:

• Cough when secretion is scanty
• Tickling sensation in the throat
• Short dry cough worse at night and by speaking
• Spasmodic dry cough with muscular soreness
• Cough with nervous irritation

Heart: 

• Irregular action of heart with fluttering and quick, irregular pulse 
• Sensation as if the heart is enlarged with Sour filling in the region of the heart
• Numbness of left arm, feeling like binding to the side
• Hearts action ceases suddenly with impending suffocation and palpitation
• Tremulous action
• Angina pectoris
• Aggravation of heart activity from lowest movement and during cycles
• Heart trouble is from reflex symptoms of uterus and ovaries 

Back:

• Stiffness and contraction in back
• Cerebrospinal meningitis
• Cervical spondylosis
• Sensitive spine especially upper part
• Crick in back
• Rheumatic pain in back
• Intercostal rheumatism

Extremities : 

• Muscular rheumatism especially affects the bellies of muscles of neck and back
• Commonly affected lumbosacral region and big joint
• Excessive muscular soreness
• Uneasiness, restlessness aching in the limb with pain in the lumbar and sacral region down the thigh
• Stiffness, lameness, in a limb. stitching and cramping pain in limb
• Aggravation by using the arm in sewing, typewriting, piano playing, from cold, damp weather and during menses
• Rheumatism alternate with mental symptoms

Sleep:

• Lack of sleep
• Sleeplessness
• Irritation of the brain in a child during dentition

Skin:

• For ivy poisoning locally and internally affection of the skin

Modalities:

Aggravation: 

• From cold. (except headache)
• During menses
• More severe the flow
• Greater the suffering

Better:

• By warmth

Relationship: 

• Similar: Caulophyilum, Pulsatilla in uterine affection 
• Compare: Rhamnus Californica, Derris Pinnata, Caulophyllum, Pulsatilla, Lilium Tigrinum, Agar

Dose: 

• 1st to 13th potency
• The third potency most frequently used