Case 3.3: Cypripedium
Results with unusual remedies. by Dr Elizabeth Wright Hubbard (1937)
Insomnia. Elderly lady with nervous prostration, unable to get to sleep until seven o'clock in the morning, week in, week out; restless, sensitive to noise, mentally over excited, lively and gay during the night with occasional twitchings, has tried all sorts of sedatives without success. I compared Scutellaria. Valerian and Cypripedium and gave the latter 1M., one dose, and placebo each night. The patient slept
ten hours the first night, only a very occasional night until two A. M. for six weeks, then return of insomnia. Repeated Cypripedium 1M., one dose; sleeping well since.