Caulophyllum thalictroides
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 87
Blue Cohosh. Berberidacece.
Keynotes
Especially suited to women; ailments during pregnancy, parturition, lactation.
Rheumatism of women, especially of small joints (Act. s.); erratic pains changing place every few minutes (Puls.) ; painful stiffness of affected joints.
Pains are intermittent, paroxysmal, spasmodic.
Chorea, hysteria or epilepsy at puberty, during establishment of menstrual function (Actsea).
Leucorrhoea : acrid, exhausting; upper eyelids heavy, has to raise them with the fingers (Gels.) ; with ‘moth spots” on forehead (Sep.) ; in little girls (Calc.) ; preventing pregnancy.
Habitual abortion from uterine debility (Alet. — from anaemia with profound melancholy, Helon.).
Spasmodic rigid os, delays labor; needle-like pricking pains in cervix.
Labor pains short, irregular, spasmodic ; tormenting, useless pains in beginning of labor (Act.) ; no progress made. Will correct deranged vitality and produce efficient pains, if symptoms agree.
Haemorrhage, after hasty labor; want of tonicity; passive, after abortion (Sec., Thlaspi).
After pains : after long exhausting labor ; spasmodic, across lower abdomen; extend into groins (in the shins, Carbo v., Coc.).
Lochia protracted ; great atony ; passive, oozing for days from relaxed vessels (Sec.).
Relationship p. 88
Similar: to. Act., Bell., Lil, Puls., Sec., Thlas., Vib.
Similar: to, labor pains of Puls., but mental condition opposite.
Similar: to, Sep., “moth patches” and reflex symptoms from uterine irregularities.