A symptoms of Cimicifuga that I have never made us of is tickling in larynx, worse speaking (43), causing inclination to cough, or nervous cough (46), excited by every attempt to speak.
It is to bethought of for neuralgia of the diaphragm (56), with sharp pains, “worse by deep inspiration, coughing and lying down” (Lilienthal).
It is of value in pleurodynia or intercostal neuralgia (120); either side may be affected, the l. especially, and in women with uterine troubles, the l. side in particular. In women also, we often find the remedy indicated in a catching pain about the heart preventing respiration, with palpitation (111) and faintness. In angina pectoris (107) calling for this remedy, we have pain or numbness of the 1. arm (110), with irregular, trembling pulse (109_ and tremulous action of the heart. Cimicifuga is of great value in rheumatic affections of the muscles of the back. This lumbago is especially caused from a strain (173), bending over to pack a trunk, for instance, from catching cold or from getting wet, with stiffness, worse from motion and with relief from lying flat on the back. There is great restlessness (16) and pains running from the small of the back down the thighs (128), especially the left.
A word to the aggravation from motion in the rheumatic pains under Cimicifuga. It is not the aggravation of Bryonia, the afraid-to-move-for-fear-it-will-hurt condition, but more like that found under Rhus tox., where it hurts on first beginning to move. It is said that there is not as much relief from continued motion in Cimicifuga as in Rhus tox., but my understanding they are very similar in that respect.
Cimicifuga is one of the remedies recommended for sleeplessness (170) in delirium tremens (54) but in this case Macrotin, the resinoid of Cimicifuga, seems to work better.
Talcott speaks of Cimicifuga for the “Sleeplessness of former opium eaters.”
I use Cimicifuga 30th.
