Historical uses for Black Cohosh: Disturbance in sleep, headache (back of the head, at the base of the brain), rheumatism, chorea, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, subinvolution, spinal irritation, pelvic disturbances, uterine troubles, apoplexy, eruptive problems (smallpox, etc.), whooping cough, cholera, periodical convulsive fits, a disorder typically ,arked by disturbed electrical rhythem of the central nervous system by attcks of convulsions and by loss of conciuosness, nervous excitability, Problem due to narrowing of air passage, tremors of delirium, spasmodic affections, consumption, cough, scrofula, neuralgia, hysteria, fatty heat, acute and chronic bronchitis, phthisis, dyspepsia, uterine hemorrhage, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbago, peritonitis, seminal emissions, nerve soreness, An eroded sore in the inner lining of digestive tracks, dropsy, spinal meningitis, liver and kidney troubles, poisonous insect and snake bites.