Actaea Racemosa


Actaea Racemosa symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Actaea Racemosa? Keynote indications and uses of Actaea Racemosa…


COMMON NAMES:

      SQUAW ROOT; BLACK COHOSH; CIMICIFUGA.

Symptoms

      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 (Lachesis, LIl-T., Nat-c., Pulsatilla, Sepia). (K.).

Menses irregular in time and amount (B.).

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

Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea (Belladonna) (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 (Sabina). (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 (Aconite, Bryonia, Secale). (C.).

The patient cannot sleep because of pain; he tosses about; is extremely restless; and should be 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 (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Phosphorus, 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 (Argentum nitricum, Gloninum). (C.).

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

Sinking in epigastrium 9Sepia, Sulphur). 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 (Belladonna, Bryonia, Ran-B.). (B.).

AGGRAVATION:

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

AMELIORATION:

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

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to Caulophyllum and Pulsatilla in uterine and rheumatic affections; to Agaricus, Lit-T. and Sepia

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)