(Black Snakeroot)
Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and
muscular system, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful
in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and
heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin,
occurring in nearly every part of the body, are characteristic.
Agitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and
there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. "It
lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays
irritability." | ||
| Mental. Sensation
of a cloud enveloping her. Great depression, with dream of impending
evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out.
Incessant talking. Visions of rats, mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to
injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. | ||
| Head. Wild
feeling in brain. Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry,
overstudy, or reflex of uterine disease. Waving sensation or opening
and shutting sensation in brain. Brain feels too large.
Pressing-outward pain. Tinnitus. Ears sensitive to least
noise. | ||
| Eyes.
Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deepseated throbbing and
shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from artificial light.
Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top of
head. | ||
| Stomach. Nausea
and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in
epigastrium. [Sep.; Sulph.]
Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling. | ||
| Female.
Amenorrhea (use Macrotin preferably). Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward
and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses
profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness;
always irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to
hip. Afterpains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to
pain. Inframammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young
women. | ||
| Respiratory.
Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night.
Cough when secretion is scanty: spasmodic, dry, with muscular soreness and
nervous irritation. | ||
| Heart.
Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris.
Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart's action ceases
suddenly, impending suffocation. Left sided inframammary pain. | ||
| Back. Spine
very sensitive, especially upper part. Stiffness and contraction in neck
and back. Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back
and neck. Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips.
Crick in back. | ||
| Extremities.
Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular
soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large
muscles. Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs.
Stiffness in Achilles tendon. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching,
tensive pain. | ||
| Sleep.
Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition. | ||
| Skin. Locally
and internally for ivy poisoning. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more
profuse the flow, the greater the suffering. Better, warmth,
eating. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Puls.; Agar. | ||
| Dose. First to
thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used. |