Actaea Racemosa



Respiratory organs

Night cough, dry, constant, short, worse on every attempt to speak. Tickling in throat, with violent cough. Pains in (right) side of chest, worse from motion, extorting cries. (Rheumatism of diaphragm. Pleurodynia.).

Heart

Pain in region of heart, followed by palpitation, pains extend down left arm, which is numb as if bound to side. Pulse weak and irregular, or quick and full. Palpitation from least motion.

Neck and Back.

Severe pain in nape of neck (rheumatic fever, cerebrospinal meningitis). Rheumatic pain in the muscles of the neck and back, a feeling of stiffness and retraction. Violent lightning-like pains in posterior spinal sclerosis. Stiff-neck from cold air, from moving even the hands. Sensitiveness of the spine, especially in the cervical and upper dorsal regions. Severe aching pain in the lumbar and sacral regions, down the things and through the hips, with heavy pressing down. Head and neck retracted (in spotted fever).

Limbs.

Rheumatic pains in the joints, with heat and swelling. Aching in the limbs. Excessive muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles. Trembling of the fingers when writing. Trembling in the limbs, is scarcely able to walk. Uneasy feeling in limbs, causing restlessness.

Upper Limbs

Pains down arms with numbness as if a nerve compressed. Left arm feels as if bound to side (chorea). Constant irregular motion of left arm, is useless (chorea). Cold sweat on hands. Trembling of fingers, especially when writing.

Lower Limbs

Aching in sacrum, lumbar region, and down left leg. Pressure round hips with pain in sacrum. Towards evening soreness, aching, and stiffness in region of tendo Achillis. Dull, aching, burning in second joint of right great toe, extending up the limb.

Generalities

Rheumatism. Weakness, trembling, and spasmodic action of the muscles. Nervous shuddering, tremor all over the body. Alternate tonic and clonic spasms. Epileptic and hysterical convulsions. Sharp, lancinating pains in various parts, associated with ovarian or uterine irritation. Affects the left side most. Pains come on suddenly. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Chorea. General bruised feeling of the whole body, as if sore.

Sleep

Obstinate insomnia. Sleepless, cannot rest, must change position, jerking of limbs. Unpleasant dreams of being in trouble. Restless sleep.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica