PULSATILLA.
Anemone pratensis, Linn. (Pulsatilla pratensis,
Mill.), officinal “Herba Pulsatillæ nigricantis.”
Natural order
, Ranunculaceæ.
Common names
, Wiesen Küchenschelle.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole fresh
plant.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 11,
from Hahmemann, R. A. M. L., 2, 273). 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Fr. Hn.; 3, Hornhurg; 4,
Michler; 5, Rückert; 6, Stapf; 7,
Bergius, Mat. Med., p. 519 (general statement, -Hughes), from Anemone
sylvestris, L.; 8, Hellwing, Flora
campana, Lips, 1719, p. 86, see note by Hahnemann to symptom 776; 9, Heyer, in Crell’s Journ., 2, p. 205 (not
found, -Hughes); 10, Saur, in
Bergius Mat. Med., p. 517 (effects of emanations of evaporating juice,
-Hughes); 11, Aut. v. Störck, von
der Pulsatille, Frst., 1771), (observations, chiefly on patients,
-Hughes); 12, Lembke, N. Z. f. Hom.,
Klinik, 8, 145, took tincture 2 drops, first day; 5 drops, fifth day; 20
drops, ninth day; 30, twelfth day; 40 fourteenth and nineteenth days;
50, twenty-second and twenty-ninth days; 60 drops, thirty-fourth day; 13, Dr. Robinson, Br. J. of Hom., 25, p. 328,
a young woman took a pill of the 30th every second morning; 14, same, a young woman took the 200th in
water every third morning; 15, same,
a woman took 30th in water every night; 16,
same, a man took 200th in water night and morning; 17, a young woman took 200th in water, one
dose, same; 18, same, a young woman
took one dose of 200th; 19, same, a
young woman took 30th in water every third morning; 20, same, a young woman took 30th in water
every third morning; 21, same, a
young woman took every second morning, in order, the 1000th, 200th,
30th, and 12th; 22, Berridge, Am. J.
Hom., Mat. Med., 8, 128, a man took a dose of the “16m.,”
Fincke; 23, Davis, J. E. L, MS.
proving, constant effect of the 3d dil.; 24,
Wenzel, Trans. of the Alumni Ass. of the Hasp. Coll. of Med., Louisville
Med. News, 3, 114, 1877, doses of 10 drops of tincture three times a
day, for several days; 24a, same, increased doses; 24b,
same, 20-drop doses, thrice daily, for a month; 24c, same, a 40-drop doses; 24d, same
continued a week.
MIND.
►
Nervous excitement, [21c]. ► After eating he seems intoxicated, [1]. ►
Careless ease, such as is often produced by a small dose of hasheesh, [24]. ►
*When evening comes he begins to dread ghosts, four evenings
in succession; during the day anxiety and flushing heat over the whole
body, though the hands and face are cold and pale, [1]. ► He
wishes now for this, now for that employment, but when given to him he
will have nothing to do with it (after ten hours), [1]. [Compare 7 and 9 with 427 and 431.
-Hahnemann.] ► *Satisfied with nothing,
yet not vexed, [1]. ► *The child longs now for this, now for that,
even with a good humor, [1].
► *Extremely capricious and peevish at
everything, even at himself, [1].
► Envious, avaricious, unsatisfied,
greedy, he would gladly have everything, to himself, [1]. [10.] ► *Everything disgusts him; he seems averse to
everything, [1]. [8,
25, 49 are alternate conditions.-Hahnemann.] ►►
*Anxiety at night, as from heat, [1]. ► Nightly
anxiety on waking, as if he had committed a crime, [1]. ► *Anxiety in
the evening, after going to sleep, with a rush of ideas and
determination of blood to the head, that forces him to get up
(after five hours), [1]. ► *A tremulous anxiety, aggravated during rest,
while sitting and lying, relieved by motion, [1]. ► *Anxiety;
does not know what to do (before an hour), [1]. ► *Anxiety,
thinks to die (after one hour), [1]. ► *Anxiety in
the region of the heart, even to suicide, in the evening, associated
with a sensation of qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
Anxiety, as if he would have apoplexy, in the evening, after lying down,
with chilliness, sounds in the ears like music, with twitching in the
fingers of the right hand (after half an hour), [1]. ► *Tremulous
anxiety, as if death were imminent (after one hour), [1]. [20.]
► Anxiety in the afternoon, with
trembling of the hands, that are spotted red, but not hot, [1]. ►
*Anxiety, as if he were in a hot atmosphere, [1]. [Compare with 1282. -Hahnemann.] ► Anxious solicitude about his health, [1]. ►
Solicitude about his household matters, in the morning, [1]. ► He was
very quiet, [2]. ► It seems so quiet in her head and
everything feels so empty that she seems alone in the house and in the
world; she will speak to no one, just as if her surroundings did not
exist, and she paid attention to no one, [1].
► Very discontented, weeps a long
time, in the morning, after waking, [1].
► *She cried a good deal, and was very
low-spirited (naturally she is quite the contrary), [13]. ►
*He sinks into a condition of sadness and despondency from disagreeable
news (after twenty hours), [1].
► *A gloomy, melancholy mood set in
(after four hours), [3]. [30.] ►►
*Hypochondriac moroseness; is out of sorts with everything, [1]. ►
*Morose, lachrymose, anxious, [6].
► Extremely morose, will not answer,
takes everything in bad part, in the evening towards sundown, [1]. ►
*Morose mood, breaking out into
weeping, whenever interrupted in his
business, about 4 P.M. (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ►
Extreme peevishness (after six or seven days), [14]. ► *Extremely
ill-humored and fretful, [16].
► *Ill-humored and discontented all day,
without cause (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *Ill-humor
(after several hours), [1]. ► *Fretful and without appetite, after
walking about the room (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► *Fretful,
dread of work (after one hour), [1]. [40.] ► *Confused, fretful, very chilly, [1]. ►
*Fretful, everything said to him makes him ill-humored (after
half an hour), [1]. ► Hasty, [1].
► Extreme irresolution, [1]. ►
*Shuns business, is irresolute, with sighing respiration and a feeling
as if he were beside himself, [1].
► He is not indifferent to his
surroundings, but he will pay attention to nothing (after one hour), [1]. ►
More inclined to mental labor in the evening than at any other time, [1]. [Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► He cannot at all get rid of a thought
that he once grasped, [1]. ► *Cannot think of his business without grief, in
the morning (after eight hours), [1]. ► *A great
many wandering thoughts in his head, [1]. [50.] ► Could only with great effort express
himself correctly, while talking, [1].
► Mental labor affects him most of
all, [1]. ►
When writing he omits letters, [1].
► Inattentive, does things hurriedly,
does something different from what he intended to do (after two hours), [1]. ►
Stops talking, it frets him to answer, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
*Confusion of the head and pain in the forehead, as if it were beaten to
pieces, [1]. ► *Confusion and a hollow feeling in the head,
the head felt like a lantern, [1].
► Confusion and pain in the head, as
on the day after a debauch, [1].
[Compare 1098 and 1237. -Hahnemann.] ►
Confusion of the head; the thoughts vanish, [1]. ► *Confusion
of the head and vertigo, caused by motion, [1]. [60.] ►► *Vertigo, [1]. ► *Excessive
vertigo, like intoxication, [6].
► *Vertigo, as if one had turned in a
circle a long time, associated with nausea, [3]. ► *Vertigo,
he thought he was unable to stand (during the first hours), [1]. ► *A
kind of vertigo, on looking upward, as if he would fall, or as if he
were dancing, [1].
[Compare S. 136. -Hahnemann.] ►
*Vertigo, he thought he was unable to grasp an object (during the first
hours), [1]. ► *Vertigo on stooping, as if he would fall down,
as though intoxicated; followed by inclination to vomit (after six hours), [1]. ► *Vertigo on
stooping, so that she could scarcely rise up again, [1]. ►
Vertigo, as from heaviness in the head, on walking and stooping, with
some whirling that was noticed even while lying down, [1]. ►
*Vertigo (immediately, still more severe the next day), [2]. [70.]
►► *Vertigo, especially while
sitting, [1]. ► Vertigo when walking in the open air,
disappearing while sitting, [1].
[One of the symptoms of reaction of Pulsatilla, which always appear
late, and seldom contrary to the condition in which the symptoms are
relieved or disappear in the open air, but return while sitting and
during rest, as many partly be observed in S. 175. -Hahnemann.] ► Vertigo, as if the blood mounted to the
head; it beat and surged therein, [1].
►► *Vertigo, as if caused by
intoxication, [1].
[Compare 78 and 82 with 107 and 1277. -Hahnemann.] ►
Paroxysm of vertigo, intoxication, heat, [1].
► *Vertigo, as from drinking brandy,
[3]. ►►
*Vertigo in the morning, on rising from bed, on account of which he was
obliged to lie down again, [1].
► Vertigo, while walking over a high
bridge (eleventh day), [12]. ► *Attack of vertigo while sitting
(ninth day), [12]. ► *Great inclination to vertigo
(thirty-fourth day), [12]. [80.] ►
Attack of dizziness, as if the body were falling to the right or left,
in the morning, on walking in the open air (eighth day), [12]. ► Great
giddiness, with violent acute pain in both temples (after some days), [13]. ►
Dizzy reeling, as from intoxication, with internal heat in the head,
with paleness of the naturally warm face, especially in the evening, [1]. ►
Reeling while walking, as if the head were dizzy, without really being
dizzy, in the evening (after three days), [1].
[Compare S. 976. -Hahnemann.] ►
Sensation of reeling from side to side, [2].
► General Head. ► Heaviness of the head, [1]. [Compare 98, 210, 874. -Hahnemann.] ► Cannot support the head, cannot hold it
upright, must lie down, yet cannot remain in bed, [1]. [A kind of third alternation, which stands
between the appearance of the symptom while sitting and its appearance
while in motion. -Hahnemann.] ►
Heaviness of the head, cannot tolerate the glare of the lamp, [1]. [This excessive sensitiveness of
the eyes to the light is to be compared with 170, 222, 223, 224; it is
an alternation of the symptoms of obscuration of vision, caused by
Pulsatilla; see S. 210, 211, 214, 216, 220. -Hahnemann.] ► *Heaviness and heat of the head followed
chilliness of the body, in the afternoon, [1]. ► *Cannot
hold the head upright, cannot raise it, [1]. [90.] ► *On stooping it seems as though the head were
too heavy, and he could not raise it again, [1]. ► *A
sensation in the head on stooping as if it would fall forward,
[1]. ►►
*Dulness of the head and headache, like a bruised sensation in the
forehead, [1]. ► *Dulness of the head, as if his memory failed
(after two hours), [1]. ► *The head seems dull and heavy, [1]. ►
*The head seems dull, so that the eyes ache in the head, [1]. ►
*Dull headache, especially pressive in the forehead (after
quarter of an hour), [5]. ► It seems as though hot air were blowing
upon him and causing headache, [1].
► Headache from time to time, as if a
sharp wind were blowing through the brain (after forty hours), [1]. [Compare with 253. -Hahnemann.] ► Headache while lying down for the midday
nap, in one half of the brain, in the side upon which he is not lying
(after eighteen hours), [1].
[Compare 150. -Hahnemann.] [100.]
► Boring outward headache, with dull
stitches, [1]. ► Headache extending into the right eye, it
presses in it and tears come out of it, [1].
► Headache; the brain seems
constricted, with boring pain in the crown, [1]. ►►
*Headache in the evening, as if
stopped catarrh; followed by dry heat in bed and an intoxicated sleep,
with delirious fantasies and almost waking dreams, [1]. [Compare 1210, 1307, 1315. -Hahnemann.] ► Headache, so that he was obliged to
incline the head to one side, [1].
► *One sided headache, as if the brain
would burst, and the eyes would fall out of the head, [1]. ►
Headache with obscuration, on coming into a warm room, [1]. [Compare 221. -Hahnemann.] ► Headache, as from intoxication and
night-watching (after twelve hours), [1].
► Headache on waking, and for some
time afterwards; the brain seems confused and torn to pieces, as in
pernicious fever or after intoxication by brandy (after six and twelve
hours), [1]. ►
Headache that disappears and recurs at indefinite times, aggravated
especially on walking in the open air, [1].
[110.] ►►
*Headache as if one had eaten too much, or as if the stomach had been
disordered by being overloaded with too much fat meat, [1]. [Compare 509, 511. -Hahnemann.] ►► *Headache, extending into the eyes, so
that they ache, in the evening, [1]. ► Sick
headache (after six to seven days), [14].
► Pressure in various parts of the
bones of the head (thirty-fourth day), [12].
► *Pressive headache on stooping,
[1]. ►
*Sticking headache, [9]. ► Cutting headache, [1]. ► *Tensive
headache over the brain (after one hour), [5]. ►►
*Throbbing, pressive headache, relieved by external pressure
(after half an hour), [1]. [Relief
by external pressure is also noticed in connection with other pains of
Pulsatilla; compare 998 and 1006. -Hahnemann.] ►
*Headache like a throbbing in the arteries of the brain
(after six hours), [1]. [120.] ►
Throbbing headache, about midnight, [1].
► Spasmodic shuddering and jerking in
the head and whole body, on falling asleep, twice in succession during
the afternoon nap (after eighty-six hours), [1]. ►
Whirring and a dulness in the head and a sleepy feeling, only while
sitting, [1]. ► *Bubbling in the head at night; he distinctly
heard the beating of the pulse in it, [1]. ► Buzzing
in the head, [1]. ► Crackling in the brain, synchronous with
the pulse, on walking, [1]. ► Roaring in the head and still more
violent roaring in the ears, so that he was obliged to lie down in the
evening earlier than usual, [2]. ► *Stitches as if extending through the whole
brain, after dinner, lasting until going to sleep in the evening,
associated with shivering and attacks of faintness (after
sixteen hours), [1]. ► Forehead. ►
Violent frontal headache, [24c]. ► Severe frontal headache, coming on in the
afternoon, with much languor, prostration, and desire to yawn, some
feverishness also accompanied it (after some days), [16]. [130.] ► Sharp frontal headache, [13]. ►
Headache in forehead and vertex (after some days), [19]. ► *Frequent
boring in the right side of the forehead (eleventh day), [12]. ►
Pressive headache, involving the whole forehead at the same time, only
while walking, [1]. ►► *Pressive pain in the forehead above the
orbits, involving the whole head,
[5]. ►
*A constrictive headache above the eyes, aggravated by looking intently
at anything, [1]. ► *Tensive drawing pain in the forehead above the
orbits, aggravated on raising the
eyes, [1]. [Compare
180. -Hahnemann.] ► *Tearing in the left
side of the frontal bone, in the evening (twelfth day), [12]. ►
Stitches extending outward at the forehead, in the evening, [1]. ►
Crawling headache in the forehead (after one hour), [1]. [Compare 210, 874. -Hahnemann.] [140.] ►
Throbbing headache in the forehead, on stooping and on exerting the
mind, disappearing on walking, in the evening, [1]. ► Temples.
► Violent acute pain in both temples,
with great giddiness (after some days), [15].
► *Violent pressure in the left temple
(ninth day), [12]. ► *Headache in the temples, as if constricted,
[6]. ►
Jerking tearing in both temples, as if they would be torn asunder, [1]. ►
Sticking and tearing in the head, especially in the temples, [2]. ►
*Stitches in the temples, [1].
► Parietals. ► Tearing in left parietal bone (twelfth
day), [12]. ► *Frequent tearing in the right side of the head
(first and second days), [12]. ► Some sharp thrusts or jerks in the right
half of the brain (after one hour), [1].
[150.] ►
Tearing headache in the side on which he does not lie, after lying down
to sleep, [1]. [Compare 99.
-Hahnemann.] ► Stitches in one side
of the head, [2]. ► Occiput. ►
Drawing headache in the occiput, above the nape of the neck, in the
morning (after sixty hours), [1].
[Compare 196, 210. -Hahnemann.] ►
Pressive, tearing pain in the left side of the occiput, in the morning
(after sixty hours), [1]. ► Pressive pain in the occiput; with
frequent heat of the body, and constant perspiration, [1]. ►
Headache in the occiput, a rhythmical throbbing, [3]. ► Tearing
in the left side of the occiput (fourteenth day), [12]. ►
Headache; stitches extending from the occiput through the ears, [1]. ►
Stitches in the occiput, aggravated on lying down, disappearing on
rising up, [1]. ► Violent pulsation in the left side of the
occiput, externally (sixth day), [12].
► External Head. [160.] ►
(A small pimple on the forehead), [1].
► A large pimple or pustule, filled
with matter, on the scalp, in the region of the occiput, with fine
tearing pains, [3]. ► Small swellings on the scalp, with pains
as from suppuration, [1]. ► Pain on the scalp on brushing the hair, a
kind of drawing pain, [1]. ► *Biting itching on the scalp (after
nine hours), [1]. [Compare 162,
164 with 161. -Hahnemann.]® 2000
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