ACTAEA RACEMOSA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- puerperal mania; thinks she is going crazy; tries to injure herself
- mania following disappearance of neuralgia
- sensation as if a heavy, black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion
- illusion of a mouse running under her chair
- ciliary neuralgia; aching or sharp, darting, shooting pains in globes, extending to temples, vertex, occiput, orbit, < going up stairs, > lying down
- heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or ovaries
- heart's action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation; palpitation from least motion
- menses: irregular; exhausting; delayed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria or mania; increase of mental symptoms during
- spasms: hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side
- severe left-sided infra-mammary pains
- sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side
- pregnancy: nausea; sleeplessness; false labor-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; abortion at third month
- during labor: \"shivers\" in first stage; convulsions, from nervous excitement; rigid os; pains severe, spasmodic, tedious, < by least noise
- after-pains, worse in the groins
- when given during last month of pregnancy, shortens labor, if symptoms correspond
- excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion
- rheumatic pains in muscles of neck and back; feel stiff, lame, contracted; spine sensitive, from using arms in sewing, type writing, piano playing
- rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles; pains stitching, cramping
- rheumatic dysmenorrhoea
- < during menstruation; the more profuse the flow the greater the suffering