Caulophyllum thalictroides

Common name: blue cohosh.

Especially suited to women, for their ailments during pregnancy, parturition and lactation (A.).

Is fretful and easily displeased (Bell., Cham., Nux-V., Sulph.).

Leucorrhœa: acrid, exhausting; preventing pregnancy (Alum., Calc-C., Carb-A., Nat-C., Nit-Ac.) (A.).

LEUCORRHŒA IN LITTLE GIRLS (Calc., Cann-S., Cub., Merc., Merc-I-F., Puls., Senec,, Sep.) (A.)

Sensation of fulness and tension in the hypo-gastric region (D.).

SHOULD BE USED DURING LABOUR, WHEN THE PAINS ARE INTERMITTENT, SHARP AND CRAMPY (Bell., Cupr., Mag-P., Puls.), AND APPEAR IN THE GROIN, BLADDER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES; THEY ARE SPASMODIC AND FLY FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER (D.).

May be called for false labour pains during the last months of pregnancy (Gels., Mag-P., Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (D.).

Habitual abortion from uterine debility (Alet., Gels., Helon., Sep.) (A.).

Spasmodic rigid os delays labour (Bell., Cupr., Sec.) (A.).

Needle like pricking pains in the cervix (A.).

Uterine hæmorrhage, with a tremulous weakness felt over the entire body during the flow (G).

LABOUR PAINS: SHORT, IRREGULAR, SPASMODIC; TORMENTING, USELESS PAINS IN THE BEGINNING OF LABOUR (Act-R., Bell., Cupr., Gels., Mag-P., Nux-V., Puls., Sec., Sep., Vib.) (A.).

Will correct deranged vitality and produce efficient pains, if symptoms agree (A.).

After pains: after long, exhausting labour; spasmodic, across the lower abdomen; extend into the groins (A.).

Hæmorrhage, after hasty labour (Arn., Chin., Sec.); want of tonicity; passive; after abortion (Sec., Thlaspi.). (A.)

Sub-involution, after abortion or confinement (Cimic., Kali-Br., Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (C.).

Prolapsus uteri (Abies-C., Alet., Calc-P., Helon., Lac-D., Nat-M., Sep.) (F.).

RHEUMATISM OF THE SMALL JOINTS OF HANDS AND FEET, AND FLYING PAINS IN THE LIMBS.

Painful stiffness of affected joints (Bell., Calc-F., Rhus-T.) (A.).

Erratic pains changing place every few minutes (Ign., Lac-C., Puls.) (A.).

Severe pains and swelling in the joints of wrists and fingers; shutting the hands produces severe pains (N.).

"Moth spots" on the forehead, with leucorrhœa (C.).

Frequent gulping up of sour, bitter fluid, with vertigo (Iris, Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (C.).

Lochia: protracted; great atony; passive oozing for days from relaxed vessels (Sec.).

AGGRAVATION: During menses; in open air; from coffee; and from motion.

AMELIORATION: From warmth.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Act-S., Bell., Cimic., Gels., Ign., Kali-B., Lil-T., Mag-P., Puls., Sec., Sep., Thlas., and Vib.

Caulophyllum is similar to Gelsemium in dysmenorrhœa and follows it well.

Incompatible: Coffea.