Materia Medica
Actea Spicata
Baneberry
Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheuma- tism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardio-vascular spasm.
Head
Ebullition of blood to head excited by drink- ing coffee. Vertigu, .tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal emi- rence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alter- nating 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, (larting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suf- focation. Sudden lassitude after eating.
Abdomen
Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium.
Respiratory
Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. Great oppression. Shoy tncss of breath on exposure lo cold air.
Extremities
Tearing pains in loins. Rlicumutic pains in small joinls, wrist, fingers, ankles, toes. Swcil- ing of joinls from sliyhit fatiyuc. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic weakness in the ands. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Relationships
Compare: Cimicif.; Caulophi.; Lrd.
Dose
Third potency.