Caulophyllumthalictroides

Blue Cohosh

Region

FEMALE ORGANS. NERVES. Muscles. Nape of neck. lower limbs. Small joints.

Modalities

Worse: Pregnancy. Suppressed menses. Open air. Evening. Coffee. Motion. Better:
Warmth.

Leading symptoms

G - Chilly.

G - ERRATIC PAINS; drawing, cramping, shooting.

G - Ailments during pregnancy, parturition, lactation.

G - Nervous and excitable women; weakness, drooping of upper lids, cannot keep
them open, has to raise them with fingers [Gels.].

G - "Spasmodic affections, hysteria and epilepsy developing during puberty at the

establishment of menstrual functions" [Mathur]. Severe dysmenorrhoea
[wandering, shooting, cramping, paroxysmal pains with nausea, vomiting and pain
in lumbar region before menses].
G - Convulsions during menses [2].

G - Rheumatic affections and gynaecological ailments.

P - RHEUMATISM of SMALL JOINTS [hands and feet]. "Closing the hands produces
severe pains."

P - LABOR THAT DOESN'T PROGRESS; labor pains fly about [to breasts], are weak or
irregular; false labor pains ["May be called for in false labor pains during the last
months of pregnancy." - Dewey]. Delayed labor due to rigid os. UNBEARABLE
AFTERPAINS [across lower abdomen, extending to groins]. "Should be used during
labor, when the pains are intermittent, sharp and crampy, and appear in the groin,
bladder and lower extremities; they are spasmodic and fly from one place to
another" [Dewey].

P - Habitual miscarriage.

P - Subinvolution after abortion or confinement.

P - Leucorrhoea and brown spots on forehead.

Repertory

Vertigo

Menses, before [2], during [1].

Head

Prickling, like needles [1].

Face
Discoloration, brown, forehead, spots [2].

Mouth

Inflammation, nursing women [1]. Odor, offensive, before menses [1]. Taste, bitter,
at beginning of menses [2].

Stomach

Nausea, labor, during [1]. Menses, before [1]. Vomiting, menses, before [1]; bitter,
before menses [2/1].

Bladder

Pain, paroxysmal [2].

Urine

Copious, amenorrhea, with [1].

Female genitalia

Abortion, inertia of uterus [2], tendency to, from uterine debility [2/1]. Congestion,
uterus, during menses [1]. Contractions, os, spasmodic, during labor [3]; uterus,
before menses [1]. Displacement of uterus [2]. Heaviness, uterus [2]. Metrorrhagia,
labor, during and after [1], passive [1], profuse [1], retained placenta, from [1]. Pain,
uterus, before menses [3], paroxysmal [2], cramping [3]; labor pains, ceasing [2],
distressing [2], false [3], interrupted [2], irregular [2], short [2], spasmodic [3],
suppressed and wanting [1], weak [2]. Rigidity of os during labor [3]. Subinvolution
[2].

Back
Pain, lumbar region, menses, before [2].

Extremities

Cracking, joints, in, turning, when [1/1], walking, while [1]. Pain, joints; small joints
amel. after menses [2/1]; fingers, rheumatic [2]; lower limbs, menses, before [2],
wandering [2]. Swelling, finger joints [2].

Food

Worse: Coffee [1].

Nucleus

1. Ailments during pregnancy, parturition and lactation.

2. Excessively painful, ineffective or false labor pains; wandering, flying about.

3. Tendency to abortion. Unbearable afterpains.

4. Spasmodic affections since menarche. Severe dysmenorrhoea. Leucorrhoea.

5. Rheumatism of small joints; can be related to menstruation. Notes