SBL ACTAEA SPICATA (DILUTION)

Actæa spicata is a valuable homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh root harvested in autumn of the Baneberry plant, native to Europe and Asia belonging from Ranunculaceae family. It acts predominantly on the nervous system, small joints, digestive organs, and respiratory tract, and is especially suited for individuals sensitive to exertion or cold air. It is marked by rheumatic, tearing pains, digestive distress, and mental restlessness often linked to the effects of fright or anxiety. It is highly beneficial in rheumatism of small joints, toothache with neuralgic radiation, and gastric or hepatic disturbances following emotional shocks.

Common Name: Baneberry, Herb Christopher
 

SBL’s Actæa spicata can be helpful in the following conditions:

Mental and Emotional Disturbance

• Aids in managing symptoms from mental anxiety, fright, or overexertion of the mind.
• Relieves fear of death, especially pronounced at night in bed.
• Supports cases of furious delirium, including during fever episodes.

Headache and Warm Scalp Sweating

• Helps in dizziness and sensations of drunkenness.
• Actæa spicata manages twitching in the temples and headaches triggered by sun exposure or walking.
• Aids in forehead pressure, empty sensation when stooping, and periodic headache return.
• Relieves warm sweats on the head and small scalp pimples.

Ocular and Auditory Issues

• Supports vision disturbances where objects appear blue.
• Aids in sharp, neuralgic pains extending from eyes into the head.
• Relieves twitching pain in the ears when sneezing or blowing the nose.

Facial Rheumatism and Dental Pain

• Manages facial rheumatism, with tearing and pulling pains in the upper jaw.
• Helps in neuralgic pain radiating from decayed teeth to the temples.
• Relieves pain aggravated by the slightest touch or muscle movement.
• Aids in sweating on the cheek one lies on, chapped lips, and yellow discoloration around the mouth.
• Supports tenderness of submaxillary glands during chewing.

Fetid Breath and Sore Throat

• Aids in increased salivation and fetid breath.
• Relieves sore throat from speaking or breathing cold air.

Sour Vomiting and Digestive Discomfort

• Supports the management of shuddering after drinking.
• Aids in sour vomiting and tearing, darting pain in the epigastric region.
• Relieves gastric disturbances, including vomiting during fever and pain suggestive of cancer of the stomach.

Tender Liver

• Helps in pain and tenderness in the liver region.
• Supports conditions involving hepatic sensitivity linked to emotional causes.

Urinary Calculi

• Aids in throbbing kidney region and complaints involving white urinary sediment.
• Supports the elimination of urinary calculi.

Suppressed Menses

• Relieves suppressed menses caused by fright or cold exposure.

Respiratory Difficulty

• Helps in difficult inspiration with stitching pains in the epigastrium.
• Manages painful respiratory shocks or pains radiating to the hip during deep breathing.

Anxiety and Rapid Pulse

• Supports urging sensations from the heart to abdomen and liver, accompanied by intense night-time anxiety.
• Aids in cases with rapid pulse (up to 120 bpm).

Rheumatism and Joint Affections

• Relieves swelling of joints after slight fatigue or walking.
• Manages rheumatism of small joints, especially the ankles, toes, and fingers.
• Supports weakness in the hands with paralytic pain, especially in the right arm and wrist, which may be swollen, red, painful to touch, and immobile.
• Actæa spicata aids in lameness and intolerable pressure sensitivity of the palms.

Fever and Chills

• Helps in shuddering after drinking, sometimes followed by heat and vomiting.
• Relieves belching during chills and associated gastric upset during febrile states.