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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 62 of 653noid Cimicifugin, first or second trituration, is very commonly uIn the menostasia of young girls it is generally indicated by heaache, hysteric nervousness, pale complexion, debility, loss of apcolicky bearing-down pains in the lower abdomen. In amenorrhoeaor suppression of the menses from some accidental cause, a cold,the characteristic indications are : congestive or neuralgic headfebrile motions, chilly creepings, rheumatic pains in the limbs,ach, uterine spasms. In dysmenorrhoea it seems principally indicaby the prevalence of neuralgic pains, spasmodic pains in the uterregion, disposition to faint, nausea, headache. In menorrhagia ituseful when the flow is of a passive character, the blood is darkcolored, coagulated, the patient complains of neuralgic pains insmall of the back, dizziness, headache, obscured vision, great weness. It will be found admirably adapted to the hemorrhages occurring at the critical age. The doses should not be given too smIf given in sufficiently largo doses, this medicine will often pr64 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.miscarriage. It is chiefly indicated by the sudden appearance ofviolent bearing-down pains, together with such accessory symptomsas headache, nausea, fainting feeling, etc. Cimicifuga is used byeclectic physicians for leucorrhoea with much success. It greatlyfacilitates labor, not only by accelerating the process itself, bwise by preventing the harassing and exhausting pains which sooften accompany a tedious labor. Dr. E, M. Hale suggests the useof Cimicifuga as a preventive of difficult labor. In the second etion of his "New Remedies" he relates the following case: A lady,the mother of three children, was in the eighth month of pregnancHer previous labors had been unusually severe, very tedious, painand accompanied by fainting fits, cramps, agonizing pain, etc., bthe birth, and flooding, syncope, and many unpleasant symptomsafter the expulsion of the placenta. She took, for nearly threeweeks, about ten drops of Cimicifuga first decimal dilution,times a day. Labor came on at the proper period, but lasted onlysix hours ; was not painful nor difficult ; there was no floodingfainting and no cramps. She got up in nine days, and had a betterconvalescence than ever before.We know from abundant experience that it is an excellent remedyfor the various ailments incident to the critical age of women. Tannoying flashes of heat to which such women are so often subjectand for which we have been in* the habit of prescribing Sepia, Saguinaria, etc., yield much better to Cimicifuga. "In the irritablcondition of the uterus," writes the London Lancet, "often observin patients for some time after menstruation has ceased, or irregwhen about to cease, and marked by pain more or less periodical ithe lumbar region, Cimicifuga aftbrds rapid relief. In neuralgicpains often met with in such patients, in other localities, it isbeneficial. Females at the period of life we are speaking of, frequently suffer Irom a distressing pain in the upper part of the hrecurring with greater severity at night. These cases are very safactorily met by this remedy. Pains in the mammee also, whetherreferable to uterine disturbance or to pregnancy, are relieved bythe Cimicifuga very speedily."Collinsonia canadensis, stone-root. This remedy is recommended bysome homoeopathic physicians for amenorrhoea, menorrhagia, dyshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt