JAYOTI VIDYAPEETH WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF HOMOEOPATHIC SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

PRESENTING

ACTEA RACEMOSA

• COMMON NAME- CIMICUFUGA RACEMOSA, BLACK COHOSH, BUGBANE• FAMILY- RANNUNCULACEAE• HABITAT- U.S.A. & CANADA• PROVER- IN 1853 by H.M. PAINE• PART USED- ROOTS ARE USED IN PREPARATION OF MOTHER TINCTURE• DRUG STRENGTH- • MIASM - PSORA• DIATHESIS - RHEUMATIC & GOUTY

•Physiological Action –Its main sphere of action lies in the female sexual system especially upon the uterus and ovaries. It is the remedy affecting mainly the Nerves and Muscles with over sensitiveness to pain...

• CONSTITUTION-It is suited to plump, delicate, sensitive, nervous and chilly women who complain of aching pain in back, neck, here and there; many of these complaints are dependent upon utero-ovarian irritation.

CHILLY PATIENT

MIND

HYSTERICAL WOMEN

FEELING OF BLACK CLOUD OVER HER

EVERYTHING IS IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION

TRYING TO INJURE HERSELF

ILLUSION OF MOUSE RUNNING UNDER HER CHAIR

DELIVERENCE OF BAD DREAMS

FEAR OF DEATH

RESTLESSNESS AND FEAR

inCESSANT TALKING

CHANGEABLE MOOD

NERVOUS WOMEN

GREAT SUSPICION

FEMALE

DYSMENORRHOEA

PAIN IN OVARIAN REGION

INFRA-MAMMARY PAIN IN LEFT SIDE

MENSES SUPPRESED FROM COLD AND FEVER

PAIN ACROSS PELVIS FROM HIP TO HIP

NAUSEA WITH SLEEPLESSNESS

HEART TROUBLES FROM OVARIES AND UTERUS

UTERINE PROLAPSE

SHORTENS LABOUR, WHEN GIVEN IN THE LAST STAGE

ABORTION AT 3RD MONTH

HEART

PALPITATION FROM LEAST MOTION

IRREGULAR SLOW PULSE

PAIN IS LIKE ELECTRIC SHOCK

HEARTS ACTION CEASES SUDDENLY IMPENDING SUFFOCATION

ANGINA PECTORIS

HEAD

SHOOTING AND THROBBING PAIN IN HEAD

FEELING AS IF TOP OF THE HEAD WOULD FLY OFF

OPENING AND SHUTTING SENSATION IN BRAIN

<By turning head in any direction

WITH HEADACHE, PAIN IN ANY DIRECTION

BRAIN FEELS TOO LARGE

EXTREMITIES

RHEUMATIC PIAN IN MUSCLE OF NECK & BACK

MUSCULAR SORENESS ALL OVER THE BODY

< USING ARMS IN SEWING, TYPING, WRITING, PIANO PLAYING

HEAVINESS IN LOWER EXTREMITIES

MODALITIES

WORST IN MORNING AND BY WALKING

THE MORE

PROFUSE THE

FLOW, GREATER

THE SUFFERINGMENSES

BETTER BY EATING

PRESENTEES•VAISHALI PANDYA•RICHA GUPTA•ALMAS NAQVI•ALKA YADAV

REFERENCES• Notes OF H.O.D. MATERIA MATEDICA

Dr. Yogeshwari Gupta• Allen’s keynotes• A study on materia medica by Dr.

N.M.Choudhuri• Lectures on homoeopathic materia

medica by Dr. J.T. Kent• www.google.com • www.hpathy.com

A fifty year-old woman, with no physical symptoms of particular note, complained of depression and difficulty concentrating at work, since a neighbour had cut down several old trees near her home some days earlier. “The grief is overwhelming,” she said, crying as she spoke. “I can’t get out from under it. No matter how much we do to help the planet, there are still too many people who just don’t care. It’s too dark and hopeless. I can’t believe people have the power to do these things.”

Prescription: 30 drops Cimicifuga three or four times a day.

Two days later the patient called to report that she was much better. “The depression is gone!” she said. “I still feel grief at the loss of those beautiful trees, but I’m not overwhelmed by the feelings anymore and I’m more able to focus on my work again. That herb you gave me is amazing!”

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