ACTAEA SPICATA

Scientific / Botanical Name ACTAEA SPICATA Common Name Baneberry Abbreviation Actea Spicata Source
Materia Medica ACTAEA SPICATA
Origin
Medicine Type
Family

Keynote / Introductory Description

Rheumatic remedy especially affecting small joints with tearing and tingling pains; wrist-rheumatism and pains worse from touch and motion.

Modalities

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Dose / Potency

Third potency.

Relationship

Compare: Cimicifuga, Caulophyllum, Ledum.

Compare

Cimicifuga, Caulophyllum, Ledum

Complementary

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Mind

Fearful, starts easily; confused.

Head

Ebullition of blood to head excited by coffee. Vertigo. Tearing headache better in open air. Throbbing brain. Pain from crown to between eyebrows. Heat in forehead. Pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching scalp alternating with heat.

Nose

Nose red at tip. Fluent coryza.

Face

Violent pain in upper jaw running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.

Stomach

Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium with difficult breathing and sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating.

Abdomen

Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.

Respiratory

Short, irregular breathing at night while lying. Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.

Back

Tearing pains in loins.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrists, fingers, ankles and toes. Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen and red, worse from motion. Paralytic weakness in hands. Lame feeling in arms. Pain in knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.

General Description

ACTAEA SPICATA
Baneberry
(ACTEA SPICATA)

Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheumatism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion.

Head.--Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.

Face.--Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head.

Stomach.--Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating.

Abdomen.--Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.

Respiratory.--Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air.

Extremities.--Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, fingers, ankles, toes. Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic weakness in the hands. Lame feeling in arms. Pain in knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.

Relationship.--Compare: Cimicif; Cauloph; Led.

Dose.--Third potency.