Cimicifuga is another of those remedies which is used very specifically. It is used to alleviate the pains of pregnancy and also for depression.

During pregnancy the pains are often experienced as pains that ‘shoot around’. The mother-to-be experiences the pains as moving from one side of her abdomen to the other and back again. Often occurring in the late stages of pregnancy the pains are sometimes accompanied by a general sore feeling all over the abdomen.

The Native American Indians have used the root of Cimicifuga for hundreds of years for many different conditions not only for problems of pregnancy and labor.

Homeopathically, this remedy is also useful in bouts of depression (although professional help should always be taken in depression).

## Key Symptoms of this remedy

# Labor pains, moving around from place to place

Whole abdomen sore and bruised

## Conditions often requiring this remedy

Labor and Childbirth

Depression