tremens, consumption, acute rheumatism, scrofula, and leukorrhea. Large doses cause vertigo, tremors,
reduced pulse, vomiting, prostration.
CAUTION: Should not be used by pregnant women.
DOSE: The tincture should be made from the fresh root, or that which has recently been dried; 2 ounces to
½ pint of alcohol (96 proof) taken 5–15 drops four times a day. As a tea 1 teaspoonful of the cut root to 1
cup of boiling water three times a day, or 15–30 drops of the tincture added to 1 cup of water, sweetened
with honey.
EXTERNALLY: The bruised root was used by the Native Americans as an antidote for snakebites, applied
to the wound; and the juice, in very small amounts, was taken internally.
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: Cimicifuga dahurica, not poetic in name, but known by all aborigines of the Far
East and Mongolia as klopogon daursky or bug chaser daurian. Lately Russians recognize the medical
value of native American black cohosh. Clinically: The extract or tincture, straight or in combination with
other herbs has of late been discovered and clinically approved for cardial asthma, high blood pressure,
anemia of the intestines, and as a tonic for the central nervous system. They vividly stress that even in
large doses it does not induce intoxication. Folk medicine: Used as a tea decoction and poultice for high
blood pressure, headache, tonic, sedative, hysteria, neuralgia, asthma, and migraine, in female disorders,
painful menstruation, and to ease labor pain.