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.
ACTEA SPICATA
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- ABDOMEN ACCOMPANIES MENSTRUATION
- ABSENT MINDED PREOCCUPIED
- AFFECT UPPER JAW FINGERS KNEES ANKLES AND TOES
- AFFECTIONS OF PARENCHYMATOUS ORGANS
- AFFINITY FOR SMALLER JOINTS WRIST
- AFTER A MEAL UNEASINESS LASSITUDE
- AFTER DRINKING SHUDDERING
- AFTER FEVER HEADACHE PERSISTS
- AGG AFTER EATING
- AGGRAVATED BY ALL MOTION
- AGGRAVATED BY COLD AIR
- AGGRAVATED BY COLD DAMP WEATHER
- AGGRAVATED BY FEAR OR FRIGHT
- AGGRAVATION FROM FRIGHT ANXIETY
- AGGRAVATION MOTION SLIGHT EXERTION TOUCH CHANGE OF WEATHER COLD
- AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT FEAR OR FATIGUE
- AIR CAUSES FEELING OF PAINFUL TENSION IN CHEST CHILLINESS
- ALWAYS TRIES TO PLEASE
- ANGER IMPATIENT AND RESTLESS
- ANXIETY THAT WILL FORCE HIM TO GET UP AND MOVE
- ANXIETY WILL FORCE TO GET UP AND MOVE
- ANXIRTY MURMURING IN THE EAR
- APPREHENSION AND FEAR
- ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM VOMIT WITH THE FEVER
- AS ARM WAS BANDAGED TIGHTLY TO THE BODY
- BACK PAIN AGG WHEN SITTING AND LYING
- BAD EFFECTS OF FATIGUE AND FROM FRIGHT
- BAD EFFECTS OF FATIGUE FROM FRIGHT
- BEATING IN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIUM
- BELCHING DURING CHILL
- BREATH DIFFICULT WEAKNESS WHEN EXPIRING AIR
- BREATH DIFFICULT WHEN EXPIRING AIR
- BREATHING DIFFICULT DUE WEAKNESS WHEN EXPIRING AIR
- BREATHING SEEMS DIFFICULT WHEN EXPIRING AIR
- BREATHING SEEMS DIFFICULT WHEN EXPIRING
- CALCULI RENAL
- CANCER OF STOMACH SOUR VOMIT EPIGASTRIC PAIN
- CANCER OF STOMACH VOMIT
- CANCER OF THE STOMACH SOUR VOMIT
- CANCER OF THE STOMACH
- CANCER STOMACH
- CAPRICIOUSNESS
- CARDIO VASCULAR SPASM OF SCLEROSIS
- CARDIO-VASCULAR SPASM FROM STANDING IN COLD WATER
- CARDIOVASCULAR SPASM
- CARPAL TUNNEL AND SPRAINING OF JOINTS
- CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME COMPUTER MOUSE IRRITATES FINGERS
- CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME WRIST PAIN
- CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
- CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF EYES TEAR HOT
- CAUSED BY FRIGHT FATIGUE
- CHILLY BUT AGG EXPOSURE TO SUN
- CHILY COLD DAMP WEATHER
- COLD AIR CAUSES OPPRESSION
- COLD AIR WATER CAUSES IRRITATION TO COUGH IN LARYNX
- CONFUSION WITH INTERCURRENT ABSENCE OF MIND
- CONFUSION WITH INTERCURRENT ABSENCE
- CONSTANT APPREHENSION
- CONSTANT COMPLAINING AND SIGHING
- CONSTANT VAGINAL AND BLADDER INFECTIONS
- CONSTIPATION FROM LACK OF BILE
- CONSTITUTION WEAK Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS COLD SWEAT RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS
- CONTACT WITH OPPOSITE SEX DEBAUCH DEVELOP SELF DECEPTION
- CONTACT WITH OPPOSITE SEX GO AFTER WOMEN DERANGEMENT
- COPIOUS EMISSION OF FLATULENCE
- COUGH WITH SPASMODIC CONSTRICTION OF LOWER BRONCHI
- CRAMPS IN FEET DURING ORGASM
- CRAVING FOR RICH FOODS
- DECIDEDLY RHEUMATIC INDICATION
- DEGEDr. Calvin Brobst KnerrATES TO TYPE OF DEBAUCH
- DELIRIUM DURING FEVER
- DELUSION EVERYTHING WILL FAIL
- DEPRESSION DISSATISFACTION LOATHING OF LIFE
- DEPRESSION MELANCHOLY FRIGHT AND ANXIETY
- DESIRE FOR COMPANY AGG WHILE ALONE
- DESIRE TO URINE PAIN
- DESIRE TO VOMIT WITH DIZZINESS
- DESIRE TO WORK ENJOY EXERCISING
- DESIRE TO WORK THOUGH INCAPABLE OF IT
- DESIRE TO WORK THOUGH INCAPABLE
- DESIRE TO WORK YET INABILITY
- DESPERATION ABOUT SUCCESS
- DEVELOP SELF DECEPTION
- DIFFICULT BREATHING ABDOMEN PAON AT INSPIRATION
- DIFFICULT BREATHING PAINFUL SHOCK IN ABDOMEN ON INSPIRATION
- DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH PAIN IN ABDOMEN EACH INSPIRATION
- DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH PAIN IN HIP STOMACH
- DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH PAIN IN STOMACH HIP
- DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH STOMACH EPIGASTRIC HIP PAIN WHEN EXPIRING AIR
- DIFFICULT INHALATION
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION EPIGASTRIUM PAIN WHEN DEEP BREATH
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION EPIGASTRIUM PAIN
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION PAIN EPIGASTRIUM STOMACH HIP
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION PAIN EPIGASTRIUM WHRN DEEP BREATH
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION PAIN EPIGASTRIUM
- DIFFICULT INSPIRATION STITCHING PAIN EPIGASTRIUM
- DIFFICULT RESPIRATION IN COLD AIR
- DIMINISHED POWER OF COMPREHENSION CONFUSION
- DIMINISHED POWER OF COMPREHENSION
- DISSATISFIED WITH SELF DOUBTFUL OF SUCCESS
- DISTASTE OF LIFE EVEN MOST TRIFLING UNDERTAKING
- DISTASTE OF LIFE
- DIZZY FAINT IRRITABLE IF DOESN T EAT
- DOUBTFUL OF SUCCESS EVEN TRIFLING UNDERTAKE
- DOUBTFUL OF SUCCESS HOPELESS
- DULNESS OF THE SENSES
- EASILY TIRED BY MUCH TALK
- EASILY TIRED BY TALK
- EASY SPRAINING OF JOINT
- EASY STRAINING OF JOINT AND LIGAMENT
- EFFECTS OF EXERTION MIND FRIGHT ANXIETY FATIGUE
- ENVIRONMENT COLD TEMPERATURE AGG
- ENVIRONMENT SUN SUNLIGHT AGG HEADACHE FROM EXPOSURE
- EPIGASTRIC PAIN SOUR VOMIT AFTER DRINKING
- EPIGASTRIC PAIN WITH DYSPNOEA
- EPIGASTRIUM PAIN WITH DIFFICULT BREATHING VOMIT
- ERUCTATIONS WITH PRESSURE IN PHARYNX
- ERUPTION OF SMALL PIMPLES ON HAIRY SCALP
- ESPECIALLY SUITED TO MEN ACT R WOMEN
- EVIL EFFECTS OF SUPPRESSED PERSPIRATION
- EXERTION CAUSES COLD SWEAT
- FACIAL OR TEETH NEURALGIAS
- FATIGUED PHYSICALLY EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY
- FATIGUED PHYSICALLY EMOTIONALLY
- FEAR OF BEING ALONE
- FEAR OF DEATH AGG AT NIGHT SIGHING
- FEAR OF DYING THAT KEEPS THEM AWAKE
- FEAR PHOBIAS ALONE OF BEING
- FEARFUL STARTS EASILY CONFUSED
- FEARFUL STARTS EASILY
- FEELING OF COMPRESSION IN ABDOMEN
- FERMENTATION OF THE BLOOD
- FETID ODOR FROM MOUTH
- FEVER CHILL WITH BELCHING
- FEVER PULSE 120 ANXIETY AT NIGHT
- FEVER VOMITING SUPERVENES
- FINGERS ARE NUMB AND COLD THEY DISCOLORED
- FLEXOR RADIAL WRIST PAIN SHOOTS UP ARM AND DOWN
- FLEXOR RADIAL WRIST PAIN WHICH SHOOTS UP ARM
- FRIGHT WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE
- GASTRIC DERANGEMENT SOUR VOMITI
- GEDr. Calvin Brobst KnerrAL HEADACHE NIGHT AGGRAVATED BY WALKING
- HANDS CRAMPING TREMBLE
- HANDS CRAMPING TREMBLING
- HEADACHE PERSISTING AFTER THE FEVER
- HEADACHE PERSISTS AFTER FEVER
- HEADACHE PERSISTS AFTER THE FEVER
- HEADACHE VERTEX EXTENDING TO EYEBROW
- HEADACHE WHICH PERSISTS AFTER THE FEVER
- HEART BEAT WEAK PAIN WITH PRESSURE TOWARD ABDOMINAL
- HEART PAIN PRESSURE TOWARD THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY
- HEPATITIS PLEURISY AND RHEUMATISM
- HIATAL HERNIA FOOD ALLERGIES PILE
- HIATAL HERNIA FOOD ALLERGIES
- HOPELESSNESS CONSTANT APPREHENSION ANXIOUS
- HOPELESSNESS CONSTANT APPREHENSION
- HOPELESSNESS OUTBURSTS OF SIGHING
- HROAT BECOMES SORE WHEN SPEAKING
- HUNGER WITH AVERSION FOOD
- HUNGER WITH AVERSION TO FOOD
- IF THINGS DO NOT GO THEIR OWN WAY BECOME ANGRY IRRITABLE
- IMPATIENCE AND RESTLESSNESS
- IMPATIENT AND RESTLESS RHEUMATISM
- IMPATIENT RESTLESS RHEUMATISM DISGUST FOR FOOD
- INCAPACITY TO RECOLLECT
- INCLINED TO DEBAUCHERY
- INJURED KNEE BENDING OVER WHILE WORK
- INJURY KNEE BENDING OVER WHILE DOING LAUNDRY
- INSPIRATION DIFFICULT BREATHING WITH PAIN IN STOMACH HIP
- INSPIRATION PAINFUL SHOCK IN ABDOMEN
- INVOLUNTARY MUSCULAR MOVEMENTS
- IRRESOLUTION INCONSTANCY AND CAPRICE
- JAW PAIN WITH MOLAR BONE
- JOINTS PAIN AGGRAVATED BY MOTION
- JOINTS PAIN AND EVEN SWELL AS HE WALK
- JOINTS SWELL CAN NOT MOVE
- JOINTS SWELLING AFTER SLIGHT FATIGUE
- JOINTS SWOLLEN MOTION RENDERED ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE
- KNEES AND ARCHES OF FEET
- LASSITUDE AFTER EATING
- LEGS AND KNEES BECOME WEAK TIRE
- LOATHING OF LIFE
- LONELINESS WAS VERY STRESSFUL
- LOW SPIRITS INCLINATION TO WEEP
- LOWER LIMB PAIN AMELIORATION BY STRETCHING
- LOWER LIMBS PAIN AMELIORATED BY STRETCHING
- MELANCHOLY DEJECTION WITH INCLINATION TO WEEP
- MELANCHOLY SAD WEEP
- MEMORY WEAK INCAPACITY TO RECOLLECT
- MEN CONTACT PRINE OPPOSITE SEX BECOM WOMANISERS
- MENSES ONLY EVERY THREE OR FOUR MONTHS
- MENSES SUPPRESSED BY FRIGHT COLD PLEURISY
- MIND SLOWS DOWN WORK DIFFICULTY ABSENT MINDED
- NASAL HEMORRHAGE DURING OPPRESSION OF CHEST
- NASAL HEMORRHAGE DURING OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST
- NAUSEA VOMITURITION WITH DIZZINESS
- NEEDS ATTENTION FOR WORK SUCCESSES
- NEURALGIC HEADACHE FACE PROSOPALGIA
- NIGHT VERTIGO FEAR OF DEATH
- NIGHTLY ATTACKS OF FEVER
- NOISES IN EARS FROM ANXIETY
- NOSE BLEED DURING OPPRESSION OF CHEST
- NOSEBLEED DURING OPPRESSION OF CHEST
- OBJECTS SEEM COLORED BLUE
- OBJECTS SEEM COLOURED BLUE
- OBJECTS SEEMED COLORED BLUE
- OBSTINACY AND ANGER IMPATIENT RESTLESS
- OBSTINACY AND ANGER
- OCCASIONAL ABSENCE OF MIND
- OPPRESSION CHEST WITH STOPPED FEELING AS BLOOD COULD NOT FLOW
- OPPRESSION OF CHEST NASAL HEMORRHAGE
- OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST AS BLOOD COULD NOT FLOW
- OPPRESSION OF THE CHEST NOSE BLEED
- OPPRESSION SHORT BTEATH WHILE LYING
- OPPRESSION SHORTNESS OF BREATH ON EXPOSURE TO COLD AIR
- PAIN AND DISTENSION OF HYPOGASTRIUM
- PAIN AND TENDERNESS IN LIVER
- PAIN AS GLOWING HOT WIRE THRUST INTO BONE
- PAIN DECAYED TOOTH GOING UP TO TEMPLES
- PAIN DECAYED TOOTH TO TEMPLES ACTA S
- PAIN DECAYED TOOTH TO TEMPLES
- PAIN EPIGASTRIC WITH VOMIT
- PAIN EPIGASTRIUM VOMIT NAUSEA
- PAIN FROM DECAYED TOOTH TO TEMPLE
- PAIN IN EARS WHEN SNEEZING OR BLOWING NOSE
- PAIN IN EARS WHEN SNEEZING SORE TO TOUCH
- PAIN IN FLEXOR TENDON OF WRIST
- PAIN IN STOMACH AND EPIGASTRIUM WITH DIFFICULT BREATHING
- PAIN IN THE HEART WITH PRESSURE TOWARD ABDOMEN
- PAIN IN UPPER JAW FROM TEETH THROUGH MALAR BONE TO TEMPLES
- PAIN KNEES AND ARCHES OF FEET
- PAIN PERIOSTEUM AND IN BONES OF THE SKULL
- PAIN PERIOSTEUM EVEN BONES OF SKULL
- PAIN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIUM
- PAIN SACRAL WHEN LYING ON SIDE
- PAIN SEATED IN PERIOSTEUM EVEN BONES OF SKULL
- PAIN STOMACH CANCER
- PAIN SWELLING OF THE LOWER LIMB
- PAIN TEARING FROM A DECAYED TOOTH TO TEMPLES AGGRAVATION BY TOUCH
- PAIN WORSE FROM TOUCH AND MOTION
- PAIN WRITING DRIVING HOLDING A PEN
- PAINFUL OF PRESSURE AT PIT STOMACH RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIUM
- PAINFUL SHOCK IN ABDOMEN EACH INSPIRATION
- PARALYTIC WEAKNESS OF AFFECTED PARTS
- PERSISTS AFTER THE FEVER
- PHOBIAS MENSES DURING SUPPRESSED FROM
- PLEURISY MENSES SUPPRESSED FROM COLD FRIGHT
- PNEUMONIA PLEURISY
- PRESSURE IN FOREHEAD FROM BEING IT SUN
- PRESSURE IN THE VERTEX
- PRESSURE IN VERTEX TEMPLE PAIN
- PREVIOUS
- PRONE EASY CONTACT WITH OPPOSITE SEX
- PRONE TO FLIRT WITH AND GO AFTER WOMEN
- PRONE TO FLIRT WITH GO AFTER WOMEN BECOMING WOMANISER
- PRONE TO FRIGHT AGGRAVATED BY FEAR
- PROTRUDING HEMORRHOIDAL NODES
- PULLING TEARING FROM A DECAYED TOOTH TO TEMPLES
- PULSATIONS LIVER AND RENA
- RAISING THIGHS THEY TREMBLE
- REGURGITATION OF FOOD HEARTBURN AFTER EAT
- RENAL CALCULI THROBBING REGION OF KIDNEY
- RES[PIRATION WEAK EXPIRATION
- RESPIRATION INSPIRATION DIFFICULT PAIN IN STOMACH HIP
- RESTLESSNESS AND ANXIOUS TOSSING
- RETRACTION OF THE ABDOMINAL MUSCLES
- RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS MEN CIMIC TO WOMEN
- RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS MEN
- RHEUMATIC GASTRIC DERANGEMENT
- RHEUMATIC GOUT FINGER JOINTS
- RHEUMATIC GOUT SMALL JOINTS ASSOCIATED WITH SOUR STOMACH
- RHEUMATIC GOUT SMALL JOINTS SOUR STOMACH
- RHEUMATIC PAIN JOPINT ANKLES
- RHEUMATIC SIMILAR TO RHUS TOXICODENDRON
- RHEUMATIC SMALL JOINTS TEARING TINGLING PAIN
- RHEUMATIC SMALL JOINTS
- RHEUMATISM DISGUST FOR FOOD
- RHEUMATISM IMPATIENT AND RESTLESS
- RHEUMATISM RENAL CALCULI DISGUST FOR FOOD
- RHEUMATISM SUPPRESSED SWEAT
- RHEUMATISM URINE DEPOSIT A BRICK DUST SEDIMENT
- RHEUMATISM WRIST PAIN INTOLERABLY SWOLLEN
- RHEUMATOID PAINS GASTRIC DERANGEMENT
- RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIUM IS PAINFUL TO PRESSURE
- RIGHT WRIST PAIN INTOLERABLY SWOLLEN
- SAD LAMENTING AND SIGHING HOPELESSNESS
- SAD LAMENTING AND SIGHING
- SALIVARY SECRETION IS INCREASED
- SEAT OF OLD INFLAMMATION
- SELF CONTROL LOSS OF DECEPTION
- SELF DECEPTION DEGEDr. Calvin Brobst KnerrATE SATISFACTION
- SELF DECEPTION SATISFACTION
- SHINE BONE INTO THE ANKLE JOINT
- SHORTNESS OF BREATH ON EXPOSURE TO COLD AIR WHILE LYING
- SHORTNESS OF BREATH ON EXPOSURE TO COLD AIR
- SIGHING EMOTIONAL
- SKIN AROUND THE MOUTH YELLOW
- SLEEPLESS IMPOSSIBLE TO LIE IN BED NIGHT
- SORE THROAT WHEN SPEAK
- SORE THROAT WHEN SPEAKING TALK
- SORE THROAT WHEN SPEAKING
- SOUR SMELLING SWEAT
- SPASMODIC RETRACTION PAIN DISTENSION OF HYPOGASTRIUM
- SPRAIN FINGERS WRIST TYPING ON COMPUTER
- STOMACH AFFECTIONS INCLUDING CANCER IN GOUT
- STOMACH CANCER PAIN IN EPIGASTRIC REGION SOUR VOMIT
- STOMACH PAIN DIFFICULT BREATHING
- STOMACH UNEASINESS AFTER MEAL
- STRAINING OF JOINTS AND LIGAMENTS
- SUB MAXILLARY GLANDS HURT WHEN CHEWING
- SUBMAXILLARY GLAND PAINFUL WHEN CHEW
- SUBMAXILLARY GLANDS HURT WHEN CHEW
- SUITED TO OLD PEOPLE
- SUN EXPOSURE WORSE
- SUN PRESSURE IN FOREHEAD
- SUPPRESSED SWEAT THEY GET A RHEUMATIC ATTACK
- SUPPRESSION OF MENSES FROM FEAR OR FRIGHT
- SWEAT SLIGHT EXERTION OF BODY OR MIND
- SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION OF THE KNEE JOINT
- SWELLING OF BREASTS ITCH NIPPLE
- SWELLING OF JOINTS FROM SLIGHT FATIGUE
- SWELLING OF THE JOINTS FROM SLIGHT FATIGUE
- SWELLING OF THE LOWER LIMB
- TALKING EASILY TIRED
- TEETH NEURALGIA IN STOMACH AFFECTIONS INCLUDING CANCER
- TENDENCY TO SPRAINS
- TENSENESS OF THE LOWER ABDOMEN RUMBLING
- TENSIVE PAIN IN THE FINGERS THUMB
- THIGHS TREMBLE WHEN LIFT
- THIGHS TREMBLE WHEN RAISED
- THROAT PAIN WHEN BREATHING COLD AIR
- THROAT PAIN WHEN BREATHING COLD MORNING
- THROAT SORE WHEN SPEAK
- THROAT SORE WHEN SPEAKING
- TIRED BY MUCH TALK
- TIRED BY MUCH TALKING
- TIRED BY TALKING SORE THROAT
- TOOTHACHE EXTENDING TO TEMPLES
- TREMBLING IN THE THIGHS WHEN LIFTING THEM
- TREMBLING IN THE THIGHS WHEN LIFTING
- TREMBLING IN THIGHS WHEN LIFTING
- TWITCHING OF EYES AND HANDS
- TWITCHING OF THE LEFT EYELID
- UNABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS
- URGING AND PAINFUL MICTURITION
- UTERINE FIBROIDS SCANTY MENSES
- VAGINAL AND BLADDER INFECTION
- VAGINAL AND BLADDER INFECTIONS
- VERTIGO HEADACHE HEAT IN FOREHEAD
- VERTIGO NAUSEA HEADACHE
- VERTIGO PAIN FROM CROWN TO BETWEEN EYEBROW
- VERTIGO WITH DARKNESS BEFORE EYE
- VERTIGO WITH DARKNESS BEFORE EYES
- VERTIGO WITH DIM VISION
- VERTIGO WITH STAGGERING FAINT
- WEAK Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS COLD SWEAT
- WEAKNESS AFTER EATING FROM TALKING
- WEAKNESS AFTER EATING TALKING
- WEAKNESS LOWER EXTREMITIES AFTER CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE
- WEAKNESS OF MEMORY ABSENT MINDED UPSET CONFUSION
- WEAKNESS OF MEMORY INCAPACITY TO RECOLLECT
- WEARINESS IN THE KNEES
- WHEB DEEP BREATH DIFFICULT INSPIRATION STOMACH PAIN
- WHEN CHEWING SUBMAXILLARY GLANDS PAIN
- WHEN CHEWING SUBMAXILLARY GLANDS PAINFUL
- WHEN EXPIRING AIR BREATHING SEEMS DIFFICULT
- WHEN LOOKING STEADILY SPOTS BEFORE EYES
- WHEN LYING BRUISED PAINS IN SACRAL
- WHEN LYING IN BED BRUISED PAINS SACRAL
- WHEN SPEAK TALK TIRE SORE THROAT
- WHEN SPEAKING THROAT BECOMES SORE TIRED
- WHEN SPEAKING THROAT SORE
- WHIMSICAL WAVERING MOOD
- WHIMSICAL WEAK MOMORY
- WHISTLING RESPIRATION
- WORSE FROM FATIGUE AND MENTAL EXERTION
- WORSE FROM FRIGHT ANXIETY
- WORSE FROM FRIGHT ANXIRTY
- WORSE FROM FRIGHT MENTAL ANXIETY
- WRIST PAIN MOTION IMPOSSIBLE
- WRIST RHEUMATISM
Clinical Applications
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 Fearf...
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,...
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ACTAEA SPICATA
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, (Ulmus) 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.
Actæa Spicata.
Clinical
Cancer of stomach Fright, effects of, Hepatitis. Pleurisy. Rheumatism. Toothache.
Characteristics
This is a rheumatic remedy like the other Actæa, but affecting more prominently the small joints and wrists. I have several times cured wrist-rheumatism with it. The joints swell after slight fatigue. The pains are tearing, drawing. The right arm and right wrist are specially affected; and there are pains like rheumatism in face. Pains are of a violent, tearing, drawing character, < by touch or movement. Pains of this kind running from decayed tooth to temples. Swelling of the joints from slight fatigue may be regarded as very characteristic. It is especially suited to men (Act. r. to women). < From motion; from change of temperature; cold air.
Relations
It follows well: Nux v. Compare: Other Ranunculaceæ; Arn., Bry., Caulo. (rheumatism of fingers), Lyc., Rhus t., Salic. ac., and Sticta (small joints).
Causation
Fright. Fatigue.
1. Mind
Fear of death, esp. at night in bed.─Furious delirium; also during the fever.─Effects of exertion of mind; fright mental anxiety.
2. Head
A kind of drunkenness.─Dizziness; forehead feels empty when stooping.─Twitching in temples; pain from a decayed tooth to temples.─Pressure in forehead after having been in sun.─Head symptoms < at night; from walking; return periodically; also after fever.─Warm sweat on head.─Small pimples on scalp.
3. Eyes
Objects seem coloured blue.─Sharp pains through eyes into head.
4. Ears
Twitching pain in ears when blowing nose or sneezing.
6. Face
Pains as of rheumatism in face; violent tearing and drawing pains in the upper jaw; pulling, tearing from a decayed tooth to temples; < from slightest touch or movement of the muscles.─The cheek he lies on sweats.─Yellow round mouth.-Lips chapped.─Submaxillary glands hurt when chewing.
8. Mouth
Increased salivation.─Fetid odour.
9. Throat
Throat sore when speaking; when breathing cold air.
11. Stomach
After drinking, shuddering.─Sour vomiting.─Tearing, darting pain in epigastric region with vomiting.─Cancer of the stomach, with characteristic pains─tearing, drawing, &c.
12. Abdomen
Pain and tenderness in liver region.
14. Urinary Organs
Throbbing in region of kidneys.─Urine deposits a white sediment.─Urinary calculi.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Menses suppressed by fright; by cold.
17. Respiratory Organs
.─Difficult inspiration; stitches in epigastrium during deep breathing or a painful shock; or pain in the hip.
19. Heart
Urging sensation in heart towards abdomen and region of liver, with great anxiety at night.─Pulse 120.
21. Limbs
Swelling of joints after slight fatigue (after walking).─Rheumatism of small joints (ankle, toe-joints, and esp. joints of hands).─Pain as from paralytic weakness of hands.-Lameness of r. arm.-R. wrist pains intolerably, swollen, red, touch intolerable; motion impossible; pressure on palm intolerable.
27. Fever
Shuddering after drinking.─Belching during the chill.─Shuddering followed by heat, during which vomiting supervenes.
Actaea spicata
Actaea spicata
Generalities
-It acts upon joints, especially small joints.
• Though it affects wrist joints prominently; other joints like ankle and fingers are also affected.
• It causes tearing and tingling pains.
• Joints are swollen and pains are agg. by touch and movement.
• Slight fatigue, causes swelling of the joints.
• It causes paralytic weakness of affected part.
• Symptoms are liable to appear from fright and fatigue.
• Shortness of breath on exposure to cold.
• Old age.
• Hypersensitive to cold, Weakness.
Worse
• Change of weather, slight exertion, cold; night; touch.
Eyes
• Objects look blue.
Ears
• Twitching pain on sneezing or blowing the nose.
Complementary
• Caul; Coloc; Sabin; Stict; Viol-o.
ACTÆA SPICATA
REGION:
Joints: Wrist. Small.
WORSE:
Change of weather.
Slight exertion.
Cold.
Night.
Touch.
Old age. Tingling. Weakness. .................... Joints swell; can not move. Paralytic weakness of affected parts. Hypersensitive to cold.
REMEDY RELATION
Complementary: Caul. Colo. Sabi. Stic. Viol.
ACTEA SPICATA
(Baneberry)
PHARMACY -act-sp. Actea Spicata. Baneberry. Herb Christopher. Radix christophoriana.
N.0. Ranunculacee. Europe and Asia. Tincture of root obtained in autumn.
Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.
CLINICAL- Arthritis. Cancer, stomach. Fright, effects. Headaches. Hepatitis. Insomnia. Joint, pain. Pleurisy. Rheumatism. Toothache. Wrist, pain.
HOMEOPATHlC - Rheumatism (Cimic.), particularly affecting the small joints and wrists (Caul.). Rheumatism of the wrist, particularly the right wrist and arm. Joints are swollen and pains are worse by touch and movement. Slight fatigue causes swelling of the joints. Violent tearing, drawing and tingling pains. Pains are worse from touch and motion.
Rheumatism like pains in the face. Pains running from decayed tooth to temples. Symptoms are liable to appear from fright and fatigue. Shortness of breath on exposure to cold. Old age. Hypersensitive to cold, weakness. Paralytic weakness of affected part. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and kidney region. Cardiovascular spasms. Hepatitis. Pleurisy.
MIND - Fearful, starts easily, confused. Fear of death, especially at night in bed. Furious delirium, also during the fever. Effects of exertion of mind, fright, or mental anxiety.
Abdomen - Spasmodic retraction. Sticking Pain and distention of hypogastrium. Pain and tenderness in liver region.
Constitutions - Weak, nervous, cold sweat. Rheumatic diathesis. It is especially suited to men (Cimic. to women).
Ears- Twitching pain on sneezing or blowing the nose.
Eyes - Objects seem colored blue. Sharp pains through eyes into head.
Face - Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones. to temples. Perspiration on face and head. The cheek he lies on sweats. Yellow around mouth. Lips are chapped. Submaxillary glands hurt when chewing.
Female - Menses suppressed by fright or cold.
Food - Hunger with aversion to food. More appetite in morning. Disgust for food. Shuddering after drinking.
Head - Rush of blood to head, excited by drinking coffee. 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. Warm sweat on head. Small pimples on scalp.
Heart - Urging sensation in heart towards abdomen and region of liver with great anxiety at night.
Kidneys - Throbbing in region of kidneys. Urine deposits a white sediment. Kidney stones.
Limbs- Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, fingers, ankles toes. Swelling in joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic weakness in the hands. Lanie feeling in arms. Pain in knee. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Lungs - Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. Great oppression. Shortness of breath on exposure to fresh air. Difficult inspiration, stitches in the epigastrium.
Modalities- Worse from change of weather or temperature. Worse cold air. Worse night. Worse touch. Worse slight exertion. Worse fatigue and mental exertion.
Mouth - Increased salivation. Fetid odor.
Nose - Nose red at tip, fluent coryza.
Sleep - Obstinate insomnia, sleeplessness, unable to rest (Coff.).
Stomach - Tearing, darting pains in epi-gastric region with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium with
difficult breathing. Sudden lassitude after eating. Sour vomiting. Cancer of the stomach with tearing, drawing pains.
Temperature - Shuddering after drinking. Shuddering followed by fever during which vomiting supervenes. Belching during the chill.
Throat- Throat sore when speaking, when
breathing cold air.
Vertigo - Dizziness, forehead feels empty when stooping. Vertigo with tearing headache, better in open air.
COMMENTS - Rheumatism, arthritis, osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis of the small joints, wrists, fingers and toes (Caul.). Rheumatism, weakness, trembling, spasmodic action of muscles. Epileptic and hysterical convulsions. Sharp pains in various parts. Pains come on suddenly, pains like electric shocks.
Boericke said, "Rheumatic remedy of the small joints and specific for wrist rheumatism." "Worse touch and motion" and "oppression of the chest and shortness of breath."'
Grimmer wrote that it had been success-fully used in cancer of the stomach. Sour vomiting after drinking with tearing, darting pains in epigastric region. Increased salivation, fetid odor from mouth.
Vertigo, fear of death, especially when in bed at night. Furious delirium, also during fever, mental anxiety. Bad effects from fatigue and fright.
RELATIONS - Compare: (I) Cimic., Caul., Led. (2) Other Ranunculacee, Am., Bry. (3) Caul.- Rheumatism offingers. (4)Lye.,Rhus t., Ruta, Sal-ac., and Stict. - Small joints. Complementary: Caul., Coloc.,Sabin., Stiel.. Viol-o.
REFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke. Grimmer. Murphy. Phatak.
Remedy Profile
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- Origin Source Natural
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