Latin, Actaea gyrostachya, A. monogyna, A. orthostachya, A. racemosa, Botrophis actaeoides, B. serpentaria, Christopheriana canadensis racemosa, Cimicifuga, serpentaria ;
English, Black cohosh, Black snakeroot, Bugbane, Deerweed, Rattleroot, Rattlesnake root, Rattleweed, Richweed, Squawroot;
French, Racine d’actee a grappes;
German, Schwarze Schlangenwurzel;
Vernacular, Afeoon Ratie.
A perennial, deciduous plant, with thick, short, horizontal, tough root, with numerous long fibers underneath, scarred from fallen scales. It is blackish externally, whitish internally, with a peculiar, disagreeable odour, and bitter, astringent taste. The stem is straight, simple, cylindrical, smooth, 3 to 8 feet high. The leaves are bi-or tri-pinnate, lower very large, upper smaller, leaflets cut and serrate. The flowers appear in Jun and July, are numerous, ˝ inch wide, on slender horizontal pedicels, forming a terminal raceme 1 to 3 feet long, white and fetid. The fruit ripens in September.
Found in :-Rich woodlands, edges of field, newly cleared hillsides in the United State from Maine to Michigan, Canada and southward. In Pakistan found in Murree Hills.
Introduced in homoeopathic |
literature in 1856 by Dr. A. Houghton, N. A. J, of Hom. V. 27. [ Allen’s Encyc. Mat. Med. X. 468].
The fresh root.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Cimicifuga, moist magma containing solids | 100gm. |
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Plant moisture 185 Cc. | = 285 |
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Distilled Water | 200 Cc.
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Strong alcohol | 650 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part tincture, four parts distilled water, five parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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