• Cimicifuga Racemosa has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, uterus, and ovaries.

• Cimicifuga Racemosa is useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps, and heavy limbs.

• Muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occur throughout the body.

• Agitation and pain are key indicators.

• Pains like electric shocks occur here and there.

• Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs are prominent.

• Cimicifuga Racemosa lessens the frequency and force of the pulse, soothes pain, and allays irritability.

• Cimicifuga Racemosa is adapted to women of a rheumatic diathesis, subject to neuralgic and hysterical affections.

• A history of suppressed menses or leucorrhea is often present.

• The patient experiences a general feeling of bruised soreness all over the body.

• Aching and stiffness occur, especially in the muscles of the neck, back and limbs.

• The patient experiences great prostration and weariness.

• The patient is usually a woman with a dark complexion and rigid fiber.

• Marked periodicity of symptoms.

• The patient is sensitive to touch.

• Cimicifuga Racemosa has a tendency to chorea.

• Great debility is present.

• The patient experiences faintness.

• Anemia is present.

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• Great depression of spirits is experienced.

• The patient feels as if she is going crazy.

• Irritability and restlessness are present; she cannot sit still.

• The patient experiences fear of death.

• She talks rapidly and incoherently.

• Forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating are present.

• The patient experiences delirium tremens and tries to injure himself.

• Mania follows the disappearance of neuralgia.

• Hysterical tendencies are present; she is easily excited and agitated.

• Apprehension and anxiety are present, especially about health.

• Mental confusion is present; there is difficulty in understanding.

• The mood is changeable; alternating between excitement and depression.

• Sadness and weeping occur, especially during menses.

• The patient experiences a sensation as if a dark cloud is hanging over her.

• She thinks she is being pursued or persecuted.

• Loss of memory and inability to recall names or events occur.

• Dread of impending evil.

• Suicidal thoughts are present.

• The patient is suspicious.

• A restless, uneasy feeling drives her from place to place.

• She fears she will lose her reason.

• Loquacity alternates with taciturnity.

• She feels as if she were in a dream.

• She is sensitive to noise.

• The patient is peevish and fretful.

• Aversion to being touched or looked at is present.

• Indifference to everything is present.

• Weakness of will is present.

• The patient is easily offended.

• Headache is present, especially in the vertex and occiput.

• Headache is associated with menstrual disorders.

• Headache feels as if a band were around the head.

• Sharp, shooting pains are present in the head.

• The head feels too large or as if it would burst.

• Vertigo is present, especially on rising or moving the head.

• Pain extends from the neck up into the head.

• Headache is relieved by pressure or tight binding.

• Throbbing headache is present.

• The head feels heavy and dull.

• Headache is accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

• The scalp feels sore and sensitive.

• Sore, aching eyes are present, especially when using them.

• Pain in the eyeballs feels as if they would be forced out.

• Blurred vision is present.

• Photophobia (sensitivity to light) is present.

• Twitching of the eyelids occurs.

• Diplopia (double vision) is present.

• Black spots appear before the eyes.

• Dim vision is present.

• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus) is present.

• Aching pain is present in the ears.

• The ears feel stopped up.

• The patient is sensitive to loud noises.

• Frequent sneezing occurs.

• Watery discharge is present from the nose.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds) occurs.

• Dryness of the nasal passages is present.

• Sore throat is present with a sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Dry, hacking cough is present.

• Pain is present in the throat on swallowing.

• Burning sensation is present in the throat.

• Hoarseness is present.

• A sensation of a foreign body is present in the throat.

• Swollen tonsils are present.

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• Spasmodic cough is present, worse at night.

• A feeling of constriction is present in the chest.

• Shortness of breath is present.

• Cough is dry, hacking, and teasing.

• Cough is caused by tickling in the throat.

• Palpitations of the heart are present, especially during excitement or exertion.

• Pain is present in the heart region.

• A feeling of oppression is present in the chest.

• The heart feels weak.

• A rapid pulse is present.

• An irregular pulse is present.

• Angina pectoris is present.

• A feeling of weight is present on the chest.

• Difficulty breathing is present.

• Stitching pains are present in the chest.

• Stomach: Nausea and vomiting are present.

• Vomiting of food and bile occurs.

• Burning is present in the stomach.

• Sour eructations are present.

• Heartburn is present.

• Loss of appetite is present.

• Ravenous hunger is present.

• Abdomen: Colicky pains are present in the abdomen.

• The abdomen is distended with gas.

• Tenderness of the abdomen is present.

• Rectum: Diarrhea is present, especially during menses.

• Stools are dark and offensive.

• Constipation is present with hard, dry stools.

• Ineffectual urging to stool is present.

• Hemorrhoids are present.

• Burning is present in the rectum.

• Prolapsus of the rectum is present.

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• Frequent urination is present.

• Scanty, dark urine is present.

• Burning is present during urination.

• Involuntary urination is present.

• Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) is present, with labor-like pains.

• Amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) is present.

• Leucorrhea (white discharge from the vagina) is present.

• Prolapsus uteri (prolapse of the uterus) is present.

• After-pains are too severe and long-lasting.

• Tenderness and soreness of the uterus are present.

• Sharp, shooting pains are present in the ovaries.

• Menstrual flow is profuse and clotted, or scanty and suppressed.

• Vaginismus (painful spasm of the vagina) is present.

• Labor pains are spasmodic, irregular, and ineffective.

• Metrorrhagia (uterine bleeding between periods) is present.

• Ovarian cysts are present.

• Uterine fibroids are present.

• Sterility is present.

• Symptoms are worse during pregnancy.

• Nymphomania is present.

• Increased sexual desire is present.

• Bearing-down sensation is present in the uterus.

• The patient feels as if the pelvic organs are being dragged downwards.

• Swelling and inflammation of the ovaries are present.

• Pain is present in the groins.

• Rheumatic pains are present in the joints and muscles.

• Stiffness and soreness are present in the neck and back.

• Aching pains are present in the limbs, especially the legs.

• Pain is present in the wrists and ankles.

• Heaviness and weakness are present in the limbs.

• Sciatica (pain radiating down the leg) is present.

• Twitching and spasms are present in the muscles.

• Pains are worse during menses.

• Restless legs are present.

• Muscular soreness is present all over the body.

• Pain is present in the bones.

• Joints feel swollen and inflamed.

• Lumbago (low back pain) is present.

• Torticollis (wry neck) is present.

• Pain is present in the shoulders.

• Cramps are present in the calves of the legs.

• Trembling of the limbs is present.

• Skin is dry and itchy.

• Eruptions are present on the skin.

• Urticaria (hives) is present.

• Herpes is present.

• Boils are present.

• The skin feels sensitive to touch.

• Cold sweats are present.

• Profuse perspiration is present.

• Restless sleep is present.

• Insomnia is present.

• Sleeplessness from pain is present.

• Vivid dreams are present.

• Anxious dreams are present.

• Dreams of death are present.

• Dreams of being chased are present.

• Nightmares are present.

• The patient sleeps on the back with hands above the head.

• Cold; damp weather; motion; mental exertion; during menstruation; lying down; morning; cold air; touch; noise.

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• Warmth; rest; pressure; open air; eating; during the day; continued motion.

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• Complementary remedies: Caulophyllum, Pulsatilla, Sepia.

• Antidotes: Camphor.

• Comparisons: Actaea spicata, Belladonna, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Lilium tigrinum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum.

• Cimicifuga Racemosa is useful in conditions such as: Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Hysteria, Dysmenorrhea, Menopausal complaints, Chorea, Myalgia, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica, Intercostal neuralgia, Cephalalgia.