Caulophyllum


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


COMMON NAME:

      BLUE COHOSH.

Symptoms

      Especially suited to women, for their ailments during pregnancy, parturition and lactation (A.).

Is fretful and easily displeased (Belladonna, Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Sulphur).

Leucorrhoea: acrid, exhausting; preventing pregnancy (Alumina, Calc-C., Carb-A., Natrum carbonicum, Acid nitricum) (A.).

LEUCORRHOEA IN LITTLE GIRLS (Calcarea, Cannabis sativa, Cub., Mercurius, Merc-I-F., Pulsatilla, Senec., Sepia) (A.).

Sensation of fulness and tension in the hypo-gastric region (D.).

SHOULD BE USED DURING LABOUR, WHEN THE PAINS ARE INTERMITTENT, SHARP AND CRAMPY (Belladonna, Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Pulsatilla), AND APPEAR IN THE GROIN, BLADDER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES; THEY ARE SPASMODIC AND FLY FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER (D.).

May be called for false labour pains during the last months of pregnancy (Gelsemium, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (D.).

Habitual abortion from uterine debility (Alet., Gelsemium, Helonias, Sepia) (A.).

Spasmodic rigid as delays labour (Belladonna, Cuprum, Secale). (A.).

Needle like pricking pains in the cervix (A.).

Uterine haemorrhage, with a tremulous weakness felt over the entire body during the flow (G.).

LABOUR PAINS: SHORT, IRREGULAR, SPASMODIC; TORMENTING, USELESS PAINS IN THE BEGINNING OF LABOUR (Actea racemosa, Belladonna, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Secale, Sepia, Vib.) (A.).

Will correct deranged vitality and produce efficient pains, if symptoms agree (A.).

After pains: after long, exhausting labour; spasmodic, across the lower abdomen; extend into the groins (A.).

Haemorrhage, after hasty labour (Arnica, China, Secale); want of tonicity; passive; after abortion (Secale, Thlaspi). (A.).

Sub-involution, after abortion or confinement (Cimic., Kali-Br., Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur) (C.).

Prolapsus uteri (Abies-C., Alet., Calcarea phos., Helonias, Lac-D., Natrum muriaticum, Sepia) (F.).

RHEUMATISM OF THE SMALL JOINTS OF HANDS AND FEET, AND FLYING PAINS IN THE LIMBS.

Painful stiffness of affected joints (Belladonna, Calcarea fluorica., Rhus toxicodendron) (A.).

Erratic pains changing place every few minutes (Ignatia, Lac-C., Pulsatilla) (A.).

Severe pains and swelling in the joints of wrists and fingers; shutting the hands produces severe pains (N.).

“Moth spots” on the forehead, with leucorrhoea (C.).

Frequent gulping up of sour, bitter fluid, with vertigo (Iris, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (C.).

Lochia: protracted; great atony; passive oozing for days from relaxed vessels (Secale).

AGGRAVATION:

      During menses; in open air; from coffee; and from motion.

AMELIORATION:

      From warmth.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Act-S., Belladonna, Cimic., Gelsemium, Ignatia, Kali bichromicum, Lal-T., Magnesia phos., Pulsatilla, Secale, Sepia, Thlas., and Vib.

Caulophyllum is similar to Gelsemium in dysmenorrhoea and follows it well.

Incompatible: Coffea.

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)