PULSATILLA NUTTALLIANA.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► *Dull pains in
the right hypochondrium, lasting ten minutes at a time (third
day), [1]. ► *Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (eighth
day), [1]. [190.] ► A
good deal of dull pain in the left hypochondrium (ninth day), [1]. ►
Umbilicus. ► Distress in
the umbilicus (after five hours, second day), [1]. ► Severe
pain in the umbilicus, at 6 A.M., with a desire for stool; dark-colored
stool, covered slightly with mucus, followed by the same pains, for half
an hour (eighth day), [1]. ► Sharp cutting pains in the umbilicus,
followed by a natural stool, at 10 P.M. (third day), [1a]. ► Slight
pain in umbilical region (after ten minutes), [12a]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Rumbling in the
bowels (first day), [1a]. ► After dinner, rumbling of wind in
distended abdomen, moving from epigastrium to hypogastrium, [5a]. ►
Rumbling in abdomen, with colicky pain, much and frequent discharge of
flatus, [5e]. ► Slight distortion of abdomen, in the
afternoon (fourth day), [5d]. ► Constant dull pains in the whole abdomen
(fourth day), [1]. [200.] ►
Aching pain in abdomen in one spot, increased by moving or changing
position (after two hours, second day), [5d].
► Pain and slight looseness of the
bowels, twice in the day; feeling as if diarrhœa would come on; pain in
the bowels, with feeling like approaching diarrhœa, at 9 P.M. (sixth
day), [10]. ►
Slight colicky pains after eating a ripe pear, in the afternoon (second
day), [5c]. ►
Pain in bowels after eating, at 10 P.M. (third day); pain in bowels and
diarrhœa (fifth day), [13]. ► Aching pain in left groin, quite severe
just above the crest of the left ilium, on moving or bending (fifth
day), [5d]. ►
Rheumatic pain above left crest of ilium, continues on moving and
bending the body (sixth day), [5d].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
All the evening and afternoon, have had a feeling as if I must go to
stool immediately, with constant distress in the lower part of the
epigastrium and umbilicus (eighth day), [1].
► Desire to go to stool, as if
diarrhœa were coming; which, however, did not take place, [5e].
STOOL.
►
While riding on horseback, had a sudden attack of diarrhœa, obliging
him to dismount (immediately); in the afternoon had two more
dark-colored, thin, paplike discharges, with urgent desire (first day), [7]. ►
Diarrhœa and pain in bowels (fifth day), [13].
[210.] ►
Bowels operated on in about fifteen minutes, leaving them in a very
loose condition, with a feeling of emptiness in the stomach; during the
day four watery discharges, of light-yellow color, without pain or wind;
during the three following days, four or five discharges each day, thin
and yellow, [8a]. ► Slight looseness of the bowels, with pain
(sixth day); looseness of bowels (seventh day), [10]. ► Bowels
slightly relaxed (sixth day); passages more frequent and moist (seventh
day), [2]. ►
A loose, papescent stool, attended with some gripping in the bowels and
a good deal of chilliness; four similar stools occurred during the day
(after three hours, second day), [3].
► Mushy stool, with hard pains in the
epigastrium, at 6 A.M. (fifth day), [1].
► Mushy stool, followed the severe
pain in the lower portion of the epigastrium, at 7 A.M. (sixth day), [1]. ►
Dark-colored stool, covered slightly with mucus, at 6 A.M.; hard, dry
lumpy stool, at 10 P.M. (eighth day); dry, lumpy stool, at 6 A.M.;
natural one at 6 P.M. (tenth day), [1].
► Small hard stool, at 9 A.M. (second
day); small dry stools each morning (fourth and fifth days); rather
large, dry, lumpy stool at usual time in the morning (sixth day); very
hard, dry, lumpy stool eight hours later than usual (seventh day), [9]. ►
Hard, lumpy stool (second day), [1].
► No desire to go to stool, but a
large evacuation of dry pieces on going at the usual time (second day), [9a]. [220.]
► An insufficient hard evacuation, at
9 P.M. (second day), [5c]. ► No stool in the morning as usual; hard
insufficient stool in the evening (fourth day); no stool (fifth day), [5d]. ►
A natural stool, the first since I commenced the proving, after the
sharp, cutting pains in the umbilicus, at 10 P.M. (third day); natural
stool at 9 P.M. (fourth day); natural stool at 8 A.M. (fifth day), [1a]. ►
*Bowels constipated (fourth day), [4].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Pain in end of
urethra on urinating, at 12 P.M. (third day), [12]. ► After
retaining urine for several hours, marked pain on urinating; increasing
pain during evening and until going to sleep (fourth day), [12]. ►
Micturition and Urine. ►
Nearly all day had frequent inclination to urinate, soon passing off
without urination, but recurring frequently; actual urination was too
frequent, however, about every three hours, an unusual thing, as she
habitually urinated only three times daily; the urine had a natural
appearance, but was rather above the usual quantity (second day), [3]. ►
During afternoon, frequent desire to micturate, urine clear (second
day); frequent and urgent desire to micturate, although no great
quantity to urine passes (third day); frequent inclination to pass water
towards evening; during evening, increased desire to micturate (fourth
day); frequent desire to urinate (fifth day); frequent inclination to
micturate (seventh day); (towards evening, after drinking ale, had great
desire to pass water), (eighth day); strong desire to urinate (fifteenth
day), [12]. ►
(Two successive days unusual desire to pass water, about 12 o’clock each
day), (third day), [5c]. ► In the afternoon and night, a frequent
desire to urinate (third day), [6].
[230.] ►
Very frequent urination; four times while walking, in the evening
(second day); passed water more frequently than usual for five days, [7]. ►
Had to rise in the night on account of urgent desire to urinate (first
day); copious discharge of urine, light-colored (second day), [9a]. ►
Have to get up to urinate in the night (second night), [5b]. ►
Urinary organs normal for several days; specific gravity of urine, at 7
A.M., 1.018-20; at 10 P.M., 1.026-30. Amount voided daily, 30 to 36
ounces. At 2 A.M., woke with great urging to urinate (this was something
unusual); voided 10 ounces of very light-colored urine; specific gravity
1.010 (after four hours); at 8 A.M., great urging to urinate; voided
only 7 ounces, this was darker in color, but still not normal; specific
gravity 1.014 (after ten hours); some pain, or rather uneasiness, in the
kidneys and bladder, 35 ounces of urine voided during the twenty-four
hours; specific gravity of the last 1.030 (second day). At 7 A.M., great
urging to urinate; voided 7 ounces of dark, yellow urine; specific
gravity 1.027; with every evacuation of urine, some tenesmus and
strangury; the uneasiness of the kidneys has been more marked to-day;
specific gravity 1.031; voided in the last twenty-four hours, 25 ounces
of urine (third day). At 7 A.M., specific gravity 1.025; 10 P.M.,
tenesmus has been more marked, extending up the ureters, increasing the
uneasiness of the kidneys; the amount of urine passed to-day was 23
ounces; specific gravity 1.030 (fourth day). At 7 A.M., urine quite
light in color; specific gravity 1.014. 10 P.M., urine has been copious
to-day; have but little of the tenesmus (fifth day). At 7 A.M., specific
gravity of urine 1.016, copious, light-colored; feel about all right;
just a little uneasiness at the kidneys (sixth day). The urine was at
first (second day) of a light straw-color; after standing some time
(forty-eight hours), it began to smell putrid, owing to the destruction
of the large amount of albumen in it, epithelium, serum, etc. While
under the influence of the additional 3 drachms, my urine was of a
dark-yellow color; the uriniferous odor was not so strong as in normal
urine; after standing some time it would deposit a light cloudy
precipitate. The urine of the fifth and sixth days returned to the light
straw-color, with but little smell, and soon threw down a light-colored,
fleecy sediment. A careful analysis of the light-colored urine revealed
the presence of albumen and the phosphates in excess; urine feebly acid;
the dark-colored urine revealed an excess of uric acid and the
phosphates; urine strongly acid. The light-colored urine voided on the
second day, in the field of the microscope, six hundred diameters,
revealed quite a number of epithelia, and after standing, a large amount
of phosphates, earthy and triple; in the dark-colored urine was seen
many crystals of uric acid, and especially of the phosphates. The
light-colored urine, voided on the fifth and sixth days, showed a large
amount of epithelia, renal casts of the tubule uriniferi and mucus
corpuscles, [4]. ► Copious discharge of pale, yellow urine,
three times in the night (first night); passed water more frequently and
more copiously through the next day (second day), [5a]. ► Passed
large quantity of urine, at 12 P.M. (third day), [12]. ► Urine
clear (second day); urine has dark sediment, and bottom of vessel is
thickly coated with light-brown urates of ammonia (third night); at 5
P.M., urine has a slight ammoniacal odor; at 12 P.M., smells very
strong, resembling smell of skunk. The odor is so strong that it fills
the whole room (third day); slight ammoniacal smell (fourth day), [12].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Distressing
erection, soon subsiding, at 4 A.M. (eighth day), [12]. ► On
passing water, irritation in end of penis (fourth day), [12]. ► Slight
pressing-drawing pain in right side of penis, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), [12]. [240.]
► Pain in penis on waking, quite
severe; increased when passing water; continues all day, and at 4 P.M.
is pressing and drawing (fifth day); slight pain on passing water,
decreases and disappears towards evening (sixth day); towards evening,
slight pressing-drawing pain on right side of penis, with frequent
inclination to micturate (seventh day); (towards evening, after drinking
ale, and after retaining urine for several hours, slight return of pain
in penis), (eighth day), [12]. ► Three times have had hard stitching pains
in the left spermatic cord, lasting from five to ten minutes each time
(ninth day), [1]. ► Hard stitching pain in the left spermatic
cord and testicle, at 11 A.M. (ninth day), [1]. ► A
number of times had stitching-drawing pains along the left spermatic
cord (ninth day), [1]. ► Drawing pains in the testicles once
(fifth day), [1a]. ► Dull distress in the testicles, with
drawing pains along the left spermatic cord (eighth day), [1]. ► Twice
had dull pains in the testicles, more in the right one (ninth day), [1]. ►
Slight seminal emission (first day), [9a].
► Female. ► Stinging-darting pains passing through
the uterine region, from side to side (after one hour, second day), [3]. ►
Fluor albus of a mild kind, but so profuse and combined with so great
depression of spirits and weakness that she refused to make further
trials; although the medicine removed a pleuritic or pulmonary pain from
which she was suffering at the time. Since that time she has
occasionally taken it with good effects, for the same pain, which she
has had frequently for years. The first, or at most the second dilution
have always removed the pain very speedily (in one-quarter of an hour,
and sooner), [12]. [250.] ►
At 4 P.M., had a flow of whites, about a teaspoonful, without pain
(third day), [16a]. ► Leucorrhœa, slightly, in the evening (a
symptom she never had before), (fourth day); still more of leucorrhœa
(fifth day), [16]. ► Feeling as if menstruation (which has
been irregular of late) was coming on (sixth day), [10]. ►
(Menses have been more regular since the proving), (after two months and
a half), [2a]. ► Catamenia one week too soon; this never
occurred before, but the discharge formerly had been too dark, with
considerable pain; this time there was no pain, and the discharge was
natural, [14]. ► The monthly discharge, which is always
copious, at once became very profuse, amounting to hæmorrhage, and
continued with violence for three days, [6a].
► In the morning, on awakening, found
menses had appeared for the first time since weaning her babe (two
months), (eighth day), [16a].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Coughed a good deal every day, for two or three days (after taking one
or two powders, morning and night), [10].
► *Coughed a good deal to-day; constant inclination to cough (third day), [10]. ►
A small sore spot in the upper part of the windpipe; continues all day
(fifth and sixth days); grew better during the day (seventh day), [16a].
CHEST.
[260.]
► Sharp stabbing pains in the
pectoralis major muscles for five minutes, followed by a burning
distress where the pains were (eighth day), [1]. ► During
the evening, pain in left side, under the arm, nearer the back, severe,
lasted till bedtime (after last dose), [14].
► Aching pain (slight) in the chest
all the forenoon (fifth day), [5d].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Audible pulsation of the heart for half an hour (after second dose,
fifth day), [3d]. ► Pulse 80 (generally 60) for two hours
(fifth day), [5d].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Stiffness in right side of neck, in the morning (fifth day), [10]. ►
Habitual backache, with headache at intervals (fourth day), [13]. ►
Lameness of back and loins particularly (second night), [5b]. ► After
a long walk, felt a shooting pain across the lower part of back for
about half an hour (after eight hours); pain then settled in the left
side, where it remained during the evening (first day), [13]. ► Dull
pains in the lumbar region (eighth day), [1].
[270.] ►
Pains in the lumbar region (ninth day), [1].
► Wake up frequently during the night
with some lameness in lumbar region (third night), [5b]. ► Awoke
frequently with aching in the loins and hips, causing frequent change of
position in bed, which seemed too hard, after 1 o’clock (second night), [5c]. ►
Weakness in the loins, and a general feeling as if menses were coming
on, which ought not to appear for five days (after one hour); sensation
like approaching menstruation continues (second day), [6].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Awake frequently with aching of the limbs, lameness of back and loins
particularly (second night), [5b].
► Frequent flying pains in the hands,
feet, and toes (eighth day), [1]. ► Stiffness of the fingers, with dull pains
in the ankles and toes (third day), [1].
► Slight drawing pains, by spells, in
the fingers and toes (fourth day), [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatism in right shoulder (seventh
day), [10]. ►
Lameness of the muscles of the right upper arm (after two days), [13]. [280.]
► The muscles of the arms ache, and
are quite stiff (especially the flexors); passed off in a short time
after moving them (ninth day), [1].
► Frequent pains in the wrists and
fingers, lasting but a moment (after six hours), [1]. ► Drawing
pains in the left metacarpal bones (fifth day), [1]. ► Fingers
stiff (ninth day), [1]. ► Sharp pains in the first joint of the
right fore-finger (third day), [1].
► All the forenoon have had hard
(drawing pains from the first to the second joint of the right middle
finger (second day), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Hip and Thigh. ►
Sharp neuralgic pains, passing from the hip-joint down to the middle of
the thigh, along the great ischiatic nerve (after nine hours), [1]. ►
Drawing pains in the sartorius muscle (left), when walking (after three
hours), [1]. ► Knee. ►
Pain in both knees, aching, worse in left (third day), [9]. ► For two
hours, while in bed, had severe pain in the whole right knee, of a dull
aching character (fourth day), [1].
[290.] ►
Sharp drawing pains along the outside of the left knee, half way down
the leg (eighth day), [1]. ► Some rheumatism in right knee (sixth
day), [10]. ► Leg. ►
Great heaviness of legs, while walking (fifth day), [5d]. ► At
noon, began to feel great weakness in the legs; could scarcely stand,
and walking became difficult; it was a “trembling weakness,”
she said, with a sensation of great weariness and heaviness; this
continued till she went to bed (after five hours, second day), [3]. ►
Nervous pains in the legs, particularly the left one. Felt as if she
could not sit still (fifth day), [16a].
► Slight soreness in left calf (after
two days), [15]. ► Soreness in calf of right leg; slight
pain while walking; very painful on going down stairs; the soreness is
like that following cramp in leg (after third dose); the soreness
continued about three days, and then the other symptoms disappeared at
the same time, [15]. ► Ankle. ►
Dull pains in the ankles (second day), [1a].
► Dull pains in the right ankle-joint
(third day), [1]. ► Severe pain in left ankle, extending to
the hip, continuing for some hours (fourth and fifth days), [9]. [300.]
► Drawing pains in the right ankle
(fourth day), [1]. ► Flying pains in the ankles (ninth day), [1]. ►
Foot. ► Accompanying the
desire to urinate, in the afternoon and night, was a nervous sensation
in the feet, a constant, irresistible desire to move the feet, almost
impossible to control (third day); this continued through the next day,
and was worse at night. The continued sensation in the feet was felt on
the fifth day, [6].
GENERALITIES.
►
Great debility, with a feverish feeling, in the evening (first day), [1a]. ►
Great debility (second day), [1a].
► Weakness on waking (third day), [3]. ►
Arose in the morning feeling generally languid and sick, with right side
of head aching (I am almost always very well in the morning), (second
day), [10]. ►
Feeling very languid, in the morning (second day), [1a]. ► Very
tired from a hard day’s work (after thirteen hours, second day), [1]. ►
Languid, with a gloomy state of the mind (fourth day), [1]. [310.] ► Very languid and feverish (eighth day), [1]. ►
Very languid, with great depression of spirits (tenth day), [1]. ►
Went to bed feeling much exhausted (first evening), [8a]. ► Little
dulness in the morning after good rest (fifth day), [10]. ►
Disinclination to move during the forenoon, with great fatigue after
walking (eighth day), [12]. ► More miserable at night; feel as if I had
taken cold (sixth day), [10]. ► Always more miserable at bedtime, [10]. ►
Anxious miserable feeling (second day); same feeling, with headache, the
first half of the day (third day), [10].
► Bruised feeling, [15]. ► On
waking in the night, feeling of general discomfort, like that preceding
fever (second night), [5b]. [320.] ►
Has not felt well since the third day (eighth day), [3]. ►
Although quite severe in its effects, they disappeared wholly after a
night’s sleep (second night), [3].
► Symptoms not so strongly marked
(after thirteen hours, second day), [1a].
► The effect lasted six days,
gradually decreasing during that time, [5c].
SKIN.
►
There is an eruption breaking out on my ankles, itching severely at
night (eleventh day). The eruption has extended half way up to my knees,
and several large blotches are on my back; the eruption is as large as a
three-cent piece, and from that down to a fine eruption; the color is a
dark-red; it itches more or less all the times but at night the itching
is most intolerable; the eruption stands out from the skin very
prominently, and is exceedingly hard; the last two days it is commencing
to pass away. This eruption may not be the effects of the Pulsatilla,
but I never had anything like it before, and I shall attribute it to the
Pulsatilla until it is proven otherwise (twenty-second day), [1]. ►
Slight rash on back and shoulders, lasting about two days (after one
dose), [7]. ►
Itching on right side of chest; small scattered pimples and red points;
skin assumed a roselike redness on slight friction; itching was quite
intense at times, chiefly on right breast, in the evening, while
undressing, also in bed, and occasionally in the day; it lasted five
days (twenty-second day), [5d]. ► *In four weeks itching
blotches, light-red and rashlike, on right breast, itching
severely at night. In three days it spread all over the chest in little
red dots or stipples, lasting a week; relieved by scratching; worse on
being heated, [6a]. ► In eight weeks much itching on back and
shoulders, small stipples, and general erythematous redness (never had
the slightest skin eruption), [6a].
► *Red rash over the body,
face, neck, back, chest, arms, legs, abdomen; most on chest and abdomen;
red blotches, and in some places red points running together making
blotches (after sixteen days). Three days later, erythema still very
severe. Small and large spots on face, with white skin between,
resembling measles; spots grow red, and itch severely when body becomes
warm. The eruption gradually changes into a kind of nettlerash; modular,
white, hard elevations on red base; nodules of irregular form, round,
elongated, and angular; turn white after scratching, like
mosquito-bites; lasted ten days, and was relieved by Antim. crud. 200, [8a]. [330.]
► *Great itching over all parts of the
body (after seven days); after another interval of eight
days, incessant itching again in daytime, and mostly towards evening;
itching worse at night before bedtime; continued also in the night;
rubbing with fleshbrush relieved it; most free from itching in the
morning; riding in cold air increases the itching, which returned at
longer intervals and in less degree all through the winter, [8a]. ►
In the evening itching over all parts of the body, [7].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness; sleep not refreshing (fifth day), [5d]. ► Very
sleepy all the afternoon (eighth day), [1].
► Want to sleep all the time (tenth
day), [1]. ►
Slept soundly till 1 o’clock; had to arise to urinate (second night), [5c]. ►
Unusual wakefulness for an hour, at 4 A.M. (eighth day), [12]. ► Very
wakeful for two hours (first night); some wakefulness (third night), [11]. ►
Very wakeful for a time (very unusual for me), with slight headache
(first night), [10]. ► Lay awake one night for several hours,
waking up at intervals; restless, could not lie still; slept well on the
following nights, [8]. [340.] ►
Could not sleep on account of having eaten too much (bread, butter, and
milk), (third day), [5c]. ► Restless night, with severe frontal
headache, caused by a sour stomach (third night), [1]. ► Sleep
somewhat disturbed; slight seminal emission (first day), [9a]. ►
Restlessness (second night), [5b].
► Sleep restless all night; many
dreams (first night); confused dreams all night (second night), [5b].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilliness,
with full and uncomfortable feeling in stomach (first night), [11]. ►
For one hour after taking the medicine was very chilly, with a constant
inclination to yawn (eighth day), [1].
► A good deal of chilliness for an
hour, with a loose papescent stool and some griping in the bowels (after
three hours, second day), [3]. ► *In the evening felt very chilly, at
times shaking as if with ague (ninth day), [2]. ► In the
evening very cold feet, remaining until retiring (second day), [2a]. ►
Heat. [350.] ► Heat (second night), [5b]. ► After
sleep, feverish heat of the body (sixth day), [5d]. ► *Feeling
feverish, with great debility, in the evening (first day), [1a]. ►
Skin hot and flushed, at 2 A.M. (after four hours), [4]. ► Cool
blustering wind is very refreshing to the hot face (sixth day), [5d]. ►
Face became red and hot, lasting till bedtime (six hours after first
dose), [14]. ►
Face hot and flushed (eighth day), [1].
► Hot face and very cold feet, so
that she had to put them into the oven to get them warm again (four
hours after last dose), [14]. ► Hands hot, feeling feverish, but the
pulse is not affected any (second day), [1a].
► Hands hot and dry, with stiffness
of the fingers (first day), [1a]. [360.] ►
Hands hot and dry (fourth, eighth, and ninth days), [1]. ► Hands
dry and hot all day (fifth day), [1a].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Mucus in eyes; offensive breath;
stiffness in right side of neck; languid; on waking, weakness. ► (Afternoon),
Depression of spirits; after eating a ripe pear, colicky pains. ► (Evening),
Thirst; pain in left side; chilliness; cold feet; feverish. ► (Night),
Woke with pain in lumbar region; nervous sensation in feet; the
symptoms; on waking, general discomfort; itching; 2 A.M., skin hot. ► (12 o’clock),
Desire to pass water. ► (After eating), Redness of tongue; offensive
breath. ► (Bending),
Pain in left groin. ► (After dinner), Rumbling of wind. ► (Entering house
after being in open air), Dizziness; inclination to nausea. ► (Going down
stairs), Soreness in calf of right leg. ►
(Heat), Itching blotches. ► (After meals),
Pressure from food. ► (Motion), Pain in abdomen; pain in left groin.
► (Reading),
twitching of eyelids. ► (While riding), Eructations; emptiness and
coldness in stomach; pressure in stomach; in cold air, itching. ► (While sitting),
Emptiness and coldness in stomach. ►
(On urinating), Pain in end of
urethra; irritation in end of penis. ►
(Walking), Pains in eyeball; pain in
sartorius muscle; heaviness of legs; soreness in calf of right leg. ► (Warm room),
Pain over right eye. ► Amelioration.
► (Walking
in open air), Pain in over right eye. ►
(Rubbing with fleshbrush), Itching. ► (Scratching),
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