Cimicifuga
Boy, for a long tine I never knew it was Actaea Racemosa. I was reading that over and over and couldn’t remember it and couldn’t put it together with what I was seeing in the repertory. It is the same remedy though. It is mostly in hysterical people, quite hysterical people that are very extroverted and extremely loquacious. There are three capitals for - loquacity in the repertory: Lachesis, Hyoscyamus and Stramonium. And Cimicifuga is italics, but it is one of the main remedies for loquacity. There is a remedy, I haven’t seen this, but if you ever get it, it is a keynote, loquacity during the heat. Teucrium. If they get overheated, then they become loquacious. Maybe during fever if they feel hot. So, there is loquacity and you may confuse it with Lachesis. It is frequently hard to know because they can have sensitivity around the neck. They are very loquacious; they have menstrual problems, that kind of thing. The difference is that the loquacity is not quite as forceful, there is not quite as much of energy urge behind it. It is not quite as forceful, but you can’t usually use that but in general it is true. Now, they are people who work hard. They are hard workers and they generally will get along quite well in their psychological state at least. They may come in for physical problems, but in their psychological state they do well until they undergo some kind of stress that usually has to do with injustice, where they feel that their rights have been taken away and they are these extroverted and slightly hysterical people and they push, they push. They push, trying to get their rights and then finally there will come a point at which they feel their rights, that they can’t get it, and there is a breakdown, and they break down into a suicidal state. You know how it says in the books, “feels as if a black cloud settled over them?” So they break down into depression. They want to kill themselves. The kind of people who say, “I’ll show them. I’m going to kill myself.” That kind. Yet, it is one of the strongest remedies for fear of death. I think it’s an addition, but it is added as a three.
“I’ll show them” is out of anger. Nux also has desire for suicide out of anger with the same kind of thing, where they have been doing a job and then the get fired. They feel like they were doing it so well, “why wasn’t I appreciated” and “how could they do that to me”, you know, easily offended, and they want to kill themselves out of their anger and frustration. Yet, they don’t have the courage. It is one of the main remedies listed for suicidal but lacks courage. That’s Nux.
In one way or another everybody feels like killing themselves. It’s not so much that. It’s not a question of courage. It is an instinctive thing. It is not cowardice. If you are on the edge of something and you feel yourself tipping forward, you are going to feel fear. You’re going to have a rush of adrenalin. It doesn’t matter if you are a coward or if you are brave, you will have that. It’s an instinctive thing. To really be in a suicidal state and want to kill yourself and not be able to do it. Nux and Nitric Acid are the biggies for that.
Cimicifuga do go into deep psychotic kinds of states. The only thing I can say is that it would be a lot of loquacity with it. This aimless loquacity that they would have. It would be like Hyoscyamus. Hyoscyamus in their loquacity almost always will get an element of dirty words, cursing, sexual things like that. I remember a case in Athens that we saw. Somebody was in a coma, and after the first remedy, which I think was Opium, started to come out of the coma, went into a loquacious state, and there was some left sided problems, and George gave Lachesis, and then one of the nurses said, “He’s talking so dirty. Everything he is saying is dirty.” Then he gave Hyoscyamus, and that brought him out of that state. Eventually the person recovered. So, it is not just like Hyoscyamus, but you can see it in insanities with that. I can’t be more specific. I certainly haven’t seen a case like that.
Wandering speech. Loquacity and especially loquacity in conjunction with rheumatic complaints. Think of Cimicifuga. Especially rheumatic complaints in the back of the neck. Pains in the back of the neck. Rheumatic pains that shoot. Shooting pains shooting downward or stitching pains that go all over. There is a characteristic headache as if the top of the head would fly off. I have never heard anybody say that, but everybody talks about it. It is worse even from motion of the eyes. Another keynote is chorea of the side laid on. I imagine that is pretty rare. Anyway if you see it, you will get the case. Also it is one of the main remedies for sighing. One of the three main remedies for sighing. So, especially if you see loquacious person with rheumatic complaints and sighing, definitely be thinking of Cimicifuga.