Properties and Uses: Poison antidote, female hormone, lowers blood pressure, promotes normal hair growth, antispasmodic, sedative, alternative, support adrenal gland function, meningitis, allergic reactions.

BODILY INFLUENCES: As a poison antidote, Black Cohosh has several useful functions. Its regular use, and use in crisis, can prevent allergic reactions and correct allergic reactions of stings and bites of poisonous creatures of all kinds (bees, mosquitoes, spiders, snakes, etc.). Also can be used as a poison antidote to prevent colds and childhood illnesses or clear them up. Black Cohosh absorbs and neutralizes the poisons of disease so the body can heal itself. This is of special importance with internal poisons from cysts, fistulas, boils, carbuncles and acne. Menopause and its tortures and many widespread female problems are handled routinely by Black Cohosh. The action of Black Cohosh on the circulatory system is to slow the heartbeat and strengthen its output as well as increase the pulse strength. At the same time, it acts as an arterial and nerve sedative which is most important to reduce hypertension (nerve-induced high blood pressure) and far safer than Digitalis. In folk medicine, it has long been used as a fomentation, (cloth soaked in the extract used externally) for headaches, sedative for upset nerves, migraine, epilepsy, insomnia, meningitis (inflammation and painful infection of membranes around brain and spinal cord), painful menstruation and to ease labor.