Materia Medica

Caulophylum

Blue Cohosh

This is a woman's remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb. During labor, when the pains are deficient and the patient is exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the smaller joints. Thrush, locally and internally.

Stomach

Cardialgia, spasms of stomach. Dyspepsia with spasmodic symptoms.

Female

Extraordinary rigidity of os. [Bell.; Gels.; V'er. v.] Spasmodic and severe pains, which fy in all directions; shivering, without progress; false pains. [Bell.; Cimicif.; Gels.; Nux v.; Puls.] After pains. Leucorrhcea, with moth-spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility. [Helon.: Puls.; Sab.] Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhcea, with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great atony. Menses and leucorrhcea profuse.

Extremities

Severe drawing, cratic pain and stiff- ness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. . Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.

Skin

Discoloration of skin in women with men- strual and uterine disorder.

Relationships

Incompatible: Coffca. Compare: Vio. Odor. (rheumatic carpal and met- carpal joints) ; Cimicif.; Sepia: Pulsat.; Gels.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 203. Public domain.

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