Rhamnus californica
Keypoints to remember:-
- One of the most positive remedies for rheumatism and muscular pains.
- Dysmenorrhoea of myalgic origin; pain in head, neck, and face.
- Inflammatory rheumatism, joints swollen, painful; tendency to metastasis; profuse sweat.
- Unable to control muscular action with soreness of leg. The gate in this case might appear to physician as drunken gate.
Dosage: Tincture to potency
Constitutional traits:-
- Nervous, restless, irritable.
- Lassitude; mentally dull and dazed; unable to concentrate mind on studies.
Similarity to:
- Rhamnus cathartica or Rhamnus Frangula – European Buckthorn-a rheumatic remedy-(abdominal symptoms, colic, diarrhoea; haemorrhoids, especially chronic).
- Rhamnus Purshiana-Cascara Sagrada-(palliative in constipation, as an intestinal tonic, and dyspepsia dependent thereon. 10-15 drops of tincture).
