Caulophyllum Thalictroides caul.

A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of Caulophyllum thalictroides, Mx. (the blue Cohosh).

Two general effects are prominent: (1) on the uterus, causing labor-like pains; (2) on the small joints, causing pain, soreness and swelling.

Cimicif., Puls.

Weakness and nervousness. ▶ Headache. ▶ Dullness of head. ▶ Frequent vertigo. ▶ Aching in forehead; with sensation as if needles were stuck into it; with contracted feeling in skin of forehead. ▶ Drawing pain over left eye. ▶ Intermittent pain in temples as if crushed together. ▶ Aching in eyes, with feeling of something under lids. ▶ Lachrymation. ▶ Drawing pain in nose. ▶ All the teeth seem sore and elongated. ▶ Tongue coated white. ▶ Distress in fauces, causing frequent inclination to swallow. ▶ Canine hunger. ▶ Desire to drink a great deal of water. ▶ Eructations of sour, bitter fluid; empty E. ▶ Frequent pain in stomach and umbilicus. ▶ Distress in stomach; and in umbilicus; and in small intestines; and in bowels, with drawing pains in right hypochondrium; burning.

Rumbling in abdomen, waking at 1 A.M., with urging to stool, copious, painless stool of water running in a stream. ▶ Drawing pains in right side over liver. ▶ Pain in umbilicus, amel. emissions of flatus; when moving, amel. emissions of flatus; intermittent. ▶ Stool soft, very white. ▶ Stool dark. ▶ Stool hard, afterwards a soft one, followed by pain in umbilicus. ▶ Intermittent stinging in glans penis. ▶ Drawing pain in sterno-cleido-mastoid, that draws the head to left side. ▶ Pain in back; in lumbar region.

▶ Pain in fingers, ankles, feet and toes, causing a restless night; flying P. in arms and legs, first in one part, then in another. ▶ Drawing pains in fingers, ankles, feet, especially in toes; in hips, knees, wrists; elbow; legs; in joints of arms and legs. ▶ Aching in wrists and joints of fingers; in elbow. ▶ Cutting in second joints of all fingers on closing hand, with stiffness. ▶ Pain in finger-joints, with redness and stiffness, and on closing hand pain in them. ▶ Stiffness of fingers. ▶ Cracking of joints of lower limbs when walking or turning. ▶ Drawing pain in inside of left thigh; in thighs, knees, legs and ankles; in knees and toes, very sharp by spells. ▶ Sharp pain inside of left knee. ▶ Weakness of knees when walking. ▶ Drawing pain in legs and more in feet. ▶ Pain in left ankle and left toes; in feet; in metatarsal bones, from walking. ▶ Drawing pain in toes. ▶ Restless night; after 3 A.M. ▶ Skin hot and dry.

Labor pains are weak, do not press downward, but pass off with a kind of shivering. ▶ Inefficient labor pains which do not press downward, but fly in all directions. ▶ Useful in false annoying pains a few weeks before the time for labor. ▶ Rigid os during labor, pains sharp, pricking. ▶ Threatening miscarriage, with uterine cramp, hæmorrhage. ▶ Prolapsus of uterus. ▶ Retroversion of uterus, with dysmenorrhœa, profuse leucorrhœa, etc. ▶ Subinvolution of uterus after child-birth, with general debility and loss of power in lower extremities. ▶ Aphthæ in vagina, with dysmenorrhœa. ▶ Dysmenorrhœa. ▶ Leucorrhœa in a child. ▶ Hysterical convulsions during dysmenorrhœa, with pain shooting to various parts of body, great debility. ▶ Whooping cough, with vomiting and nosebleed. ▶ Rheumatism in small joints, especially of the hands, with cutting pain on closing hands, especially in women with suppressed menses.