Materia Medica
Mos)
(Black Snake-root) (Macrotys) Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and mus- cular system, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part cf the body. are characteristic. gitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symp- toms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. Mental. -- Sensation of a loud enveloping her. Great depression, with dream of inpcnding cvit. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. In- cessant talking. Visions of ats, ice, et
Head
Wild feeling in brain. Shooting and throb- bing pains in head after mental worry, over-study, o)r reflex of uterine disease. Waving sensation or open- ing and shutting sensation in brain. Brain feels ton large. Pressinig-outrvard pain. Tinnitus. Ears sensi- tive .to. least noise.
Eyes
Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deep-seated throbbing and shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from artificial light. Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top of heaa.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium. [Scp.; Sulph.] Gnazving pain.
Female
Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately be- fore menses Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offen- sive with backache, nervousness; always jrregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip. After-pains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain. Infra-mammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young women.
Respiratory
Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night.
Heart
Irregular, trembling pulse. Tremulous ac- tion. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart's action ceases suddenly, im- ending suffocation. Left-sided infra-mammary pain.
Back
Spine very sensitive, especially upper part. stiffness and contraction in neck and back. Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and
Extremities
Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Ach- ing in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism af- fecting the bell of muscles, especially large muscles. Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerk- ing of limbs. Stiffness in tendo-Achilles. Heaviness in lower extremities.
Skin
Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.
Sleep
Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition.
Neck
Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back.
Modalities
Worse, during menses; the more pro- fuse the flow, the greater the suffering. Better, warmth, eating.
Relationships
Compare : Rhamnus Californica (muscular pains, lumbago, pleurodynia, acute rheuma- tism). Derris pinnata (Neuralgic headaches of rheuma- tic origin). Aristolochia milhomens (pain in tendo- Achilles; diabetes). Caulophyl.; Pulsat.; Lilium; Agar.; Macrotin (especially for lumbago).
Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; third most frequently used.