ACTAEA RACEMOSA



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).

Edwin Awdas Neatby
Edwin Awdas Neatby 1858 – 1933 MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Consulting Physician at the Buchanan Homeopathic Hospital St. Leonard’s on Sea, Consulting Surgeon at the Leaf Hospital Eastbourne, President of the British Homeopathic Society.

Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,