ACTAEA SPICATA
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.