Actaea Spicata

▲   GENERAL

General

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.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

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Compare: Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimic.; Caulophyllum Thalictroides ^Caul.; Ledum Palustre ^Led.

▲   MIND

Mind

Delirium

raging, raving

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; everything will fail

Desires, wants; company

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

impatience

inconstancy

indecisive

irritability

loathing; life (see desires, death)

unhappy; lamenting, regretting

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

impaired thinking; confusion

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; from movement

fear; of being alone (see company)

fear; of death

night

Memory; weakness of memory

Restlessness, nervousness

Sighing (see respiration)

Talking, conversation; obstinate

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

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

In open air

As if intoxicated

On stooping

With obscuring of vision

▲   HEAD

Head

Fearful, starts easily; confused

Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking Coffea Cruda ^Coffee

Headache

Pain, headache

night

recurring headache

walking

while

from warmth; from exposure to sun

back of head (occiput); hammering

back of head (occiput); pulsating

temples

boring, digging, screwing

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex)

tearing, rending; forehead

tearing, rending; top of head (vertex)

Scalp

Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.

Skin and scalp

out-break on skin; pimples

perspiration; forehead; warm

▲   EYES

Eyes

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

wounds

conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

wounds; lids

Pain

cutting

cutting; extending inward

Tears

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; blue

spots

looking steadily

Dim; during vertigo, dizziness

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

anxiety

humming

mental anxiety

after sleep

Pain

on blowing nose

on sneezing

Twitching

blowing nose

when sneezing

▲   FACE

Face

Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples

Perspiration on face and head.

Pain

rheumatic

tearing

Perspiration; on one side of face; lain on

Skin; discoloration; yellow; around mouth

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose; blood

Pain; sore, bruised

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness; inside

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); putrid

Gums and teeth

Teeth

pain; extending to other parts; temples

pain; tearing

Saliva

Salivation

▲   THROAT

Throat

Pain

sore; from speaking

tearing

on breathing in cold air

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying

Great oppression

shortness of breath on exposure to fresh air.

Difficult (dyspnea); from weakness of respiratory organs

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back); sacrum (base of spine); when lying still on the side

Back

sacrum (base of spine)

while lying down; side

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation

Sudden lassitude after eating.

Spasmodic retraction

Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.

Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on

Pain

as if diarrhoea would come on

in women; as if period would appear

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs

right

Pulsation

behind lower ribs

behind lower ribs; right

Bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); frequent (see urination, frequent)

Kidneys; pulsation

Stomach

appetite; lacking, no appetite; with hunger

disordered; after fruit

disordered; without hunger

indigestion; after fruit

indigestion; after meat; after salt meat

pain; cramping, griping, constricting

pain; pressing

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; all food; with hunger

loathing of food (see nausea)

Nausea

nausea

Vomiting

Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting

vomiting; sour

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; gnawing, biting; during urination

Male

Male; pain; penis; head (glans); during urination

Menses

Female; period; as if period would appear

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Tearing pains in loins

Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, (Ulmus) fingers, ankles, toes

Swelling in 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.

Coldness; upper limbs; fingers

Heaviness; knee

Movements and positions

lameness; upper arm

trembling; thigh

when raised

Numbness (see tingling); fingers

Pain

rheumatic

joints; rheumatic

wrist

right

on movement

rheumatic

hand

paralytic

rheumatic

fingers; joints; rheumatic

fingers; first finger; joints of

hip

boring; lower limbs

stretching

boring; thigh

Paralysis; hand

Skin; discoloration; fingers

Swollen

joints

joints; after exertion

wrist

rheumatic

fingers

after walking

lower limbs

Weakness

hand; paralytic

lower limbs; change of temperature

knee

leg

changes of temperature

▲   GENERALITIES

Perspiration

Cold

after the slightest exertion of body, or mind

Mental exertion

Generalities

Pain; tearing; away

Swelling; of affected parts

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); after eating

sudden

from talking

walking; in open air

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