LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Actaea appears to irritate muscular tissue and to heighten the impressionability of nervous tissue. Articulations are not much affected.
(2) This is shown by pains in a variety of sites; the pains in a variety of sites; the pains are (a) bruised and sore; (b) crampy or definitely cramps; (c) shooting jerking without pain may be present.
(3) The sites are back neck scalp eyes, intercostals, uterus, & c.
(4) Such pains are often denominated rheumatism, or lumbago, torticollis, headache, &c according to site.
(5) Changeableness or alternation of symptoms or groups of symptoms (as in pulsatilla cases)
(6) The mental and nervous indications are: Depression, possibly amounting to melancholia; fearfulness; suspicions; sleeplessness; restlessness.
(7) The reproductive sphere is notably affected, and actaea is useful in dysmenorrhoea, in parturition, in these the above- mentioned indications for the drug must be present.
AGGRAVATIONS:
Damp cold, general or local (except the head); motion at night excitement pressure.
AMELIORATION
Cool open air (headache).