Pulsatilla Nuttaliana
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General EN
Pulsatilla Nuttaliana.
American Pulsatilla. Pasque Flower (American). Anemone Ludoviciana. A. nuttaliana. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical EN
Amenorrhoea. Clavus. Cold; liability to. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Feet, fidgety. Home-sickness. Knees; rheumatism of. Liver, pains in. Measles; prophylaxis of. Menses, retarded. Ptosis. Rheumatism; wandering. Sciatica. Shoulder, r., pain in. Tinnitus. Uterus, pains in.
Characteristics EN
The American Pulsatilla approaches more nearly to P. vulgaris than to P. nig. in its botanical characters. It flourishes especially in the dry and sandy bluffs which form the bed of the Mississippi. The flower is pale purplish. "The odour of the dried plant is rather faint, being slightly camphoraceous, the taste of the dried flowers simply sweetish and herbaceous, that of the leaves more astringent with very slight acrimony.
The taste and to some extent the odour of the fresh plant are both acrid and irritating" (Hale). A. W. Miller, a pharmaceutist (referred to by Hale), analysed P. nutt.
The extracted substances had an acrid, almost caustic taste, and well-marked camphoraceous odour. When volatilised they produced an irritating, pungent vapour, affecting the eyes and causing sneezing. The analysis revealed the following constituents: (1) Organic—Grape-sugar, gum, resin, an alkaloid and anemonic acid. (2) Inorganic—Sulphate of potash, carbonate of potash, chlorate of potassium, carbonate of lime, magnesia, and "a proto-salt of iron," Dr.
W. H. Miller (brother of A. W.
M.), an allopathist, claimed to have used P. nutt. with success in many chronic eye affections, particularly catarrh, amaurosis, and corneal opacities, cutaneous eruptions, and secondary syphilis. Hale instituted the first homoeopathic research, and Burt was the first prover. The symptoms have a strong resemblance to those of P. nig., and cases cured with P. nutt. are mostly such as would be amenable to P. nig. A patient of mine was incidentally cured of a tendency to catch colds by taking P. nutt. for some weeks as a prophylactic against measles.
Burnett cured with it a case of deafness and oedema of left upper eyelid. The proving showed a powerful effect on the menstrual function, and Hale reports many cures of retentio mensium: (1) A young lady, formerly subject to retardation of menses, had: Constant chilliness, cold hands and feet, loss of appetite, sour eructations, nausea after meals, hemicrania, toothache, melancholy, general malaria. Menses two weeks late; took a chill at the time they were due, when she had precursory symptoms; no symptoms of menses now.
P. nutt. 1 in water every two hours. After the first dose the menses came on and the constitutional symptoms cleared off. (2) Plethoric, usually healthy young woman, had menses delay two weeks. Continual severe headache, a heaviness and fulness, < moving or stooping; sight dim, complete blindness on stooping or rising suddenly; weight in uterine region severe aching extending to back, < evening.
Hands and feet cold; weakness in lower limbs. Act. r. failed to relieve. P. nutt. 1x, 5 drops every three hours, brought speedy improvement. Next day menses came on profusely but without pain, two days before the expiration of the eighth week.
The Puls. flying pains were very noticeable in the proving. Hale reports this case: Strong, healthy-looking man had wandering rheumatic pains chiefly in dorsum of right foot, loins, thighs, chest, arms, head. The head pain was a dull, heavy pressure in vertex, nearly constant, with occasional sharp pains. Some fever but no local inflammation of joints or muscles.
Urine scanty, depositing lithates. Acidity of stomach. Appetite good. Bowels normal.
P. nutt. 1x cured in three days. Some Peculiar Symptoms are: Home-sick feeling. Trembling weakness, weariness, heaviness. Snapping noise in ears.
Fidgety feet. Colic before and after stool. Colic after eating a pear. Stiffness of fingers.
Hands hot and dry (a constant symptom). The symptoms are < coming in from open air; after eating; eating a pear; at night; by warmth; by reading; on urinating; on walking. > Walking in open air; rubbing with flesh-brush; scratching.
Relations EN
See Puls. Antidoted by: Ant. c. Compare: In fidgety feet, Zn., Caust.
Mind EN
Sad, gloomy; with frequent eructations
Home-sick, despondent
Anxiety; at night
Irritable; quick, nervous motions
Dull, disinclined for work.
Head EN
Dizziness on entering house from open air; sudden, in afternoon with fulness of head
Dull. heavy headache, mornings;
> by active exercise before breakfast
Flying pains in head and feet
Dull, oppressive, frontal headache; on waking
Hard pains in upper forehead pass in a wave to occiput, involving whole brain
With headache cutting pains in epigastrium
Hard pain over l. eye; as if a nail being pressed into forehead
Pain over r. eye, afternoon, > walking in open air, < in warm room, with sense of heat, fulness in head, and dryness of eyes
Sharp, shooting pains through both temples; in r. temple
Dull pain in r. temple; in vertex
Severe throbbing on vertex
Full, hot feeling at cerebellum
Headache arising from nape of neck and upwards.
Eyes EN
Profuse secretion of mucus from eyes
Dull pain deep in eyes, with smarting
Dryness; smarting; profuse flow of tears
Twitching: of l. brow and upper lid for half an hour after going to bed; r. lids < reading
Paralysis of lids
Oedema of l. upper lid
Tarsal edges red, dry, irritable
Lids agglutinated; profuse secretion of soft, yellow, or White matter
Profuse lachrymation with dull pains in eyeball extending to malar bone
Neuralgic pains in eyeballs, while walking, < r.
Ears EN
Hard, drawing pains along r.
Eustachian tube
With the pains in head and eyes, frequent drawing pains in ears from within out
Sharp pains in r. ear and temples
L. ear feels closed; later both
Snapping noises in ears; fluttering in r
Deafness, with oedema of l. upper eyelid (cured).
Nose EN
Dryness and heat in nose.
Face EN
Face red, hot, flushed
Complexion at first rough; later very clear after disappearance of rash
After eating, flushed, pressure of blood in face
Painful drawing in l. cheek-bone and jaw
Lips dry.
Mouth EN
Tongue: coated white, with flat, pappy taste on rising; covered with tough slime, red, rather dry and swollen, teeth indented; yellowish coat along centre; unusually red after eating
Breath offensive, to self and others; after eating
Mouth and lips dry
Smarting of velum palati
Mouth filling with saliva
On awaking, dry, pappy taste in mouth, as if tongue thickly coated (which it was not)
Taste: flat; flat bitter; flat rough; sweetish; bad
Awoke after afternoon sleep with vinegar-like acidity in mouth and dull, pressing pain in stomach.
Throat EN
Frequent inclination to clear throat
After eating slight irritation in throat, with easy expectoration of white, tough mucus
Throat dry, smarts on waking, contains much tough mucus hard to dislodge
Scratchy, husky feeling in throat
Sensation of plug in lower throat.
Stomach EN
Great hunger; rapidly returned after eating
Loss of appetite
More thirst than usual; cold water extremely grateful
Eructations: tasting of Puls.; while riding belches up food hot and tasteless; of hot, tasteless wind; of sour air
Thick gulping
Heartburn
Nausea; and dull headache, then faintness at stomach; on entering house
Fulness in stomach preventing eating in spite of appetite (cured in the proving)
Painful emptiness, pressure, then rising towards oesophagus like heartburn
Emptiness: after action of bowels after eating
Gnawing, empty sensation
Weight and pressure in stomach after eating; with faintness
Distress: with severe cutting pains in epigastrium
Feeling as if needles being pressed through stomach
Heat in stomach gradually increasing to pain, < in spots under sternum; burning; pricking burning.
Abdomen EN
Dull pains in r. hypochondrium; in l
Severe pain in umbilicus 6 a.m., with desire for stool, stool dark, covered with mucus, severe pains for half an hour after
Rumbling; after dinner of wind in distended abdomen moving from epigastrium to hypogastrium
Aching in one spot < by moving
Colicky pains after eating a ripe pear
Aching in l. groin; above l. iliac crest on moving or bending
Dull pains: in whole abdomen; by spells in hypogastrium.
Stool And Anus EN
Evening and afternoon, feeling as if must go to stool immediately, with constant distress in lower epigastrium and umbilicus
Sudden attack of diarrhoea whilst riding on horseback
Stools: dark, thin, pap-like; watery, light yellow, painless; mushy; dark, slightly covered with mucus; dry, hard, lumpy
Constipation.
Urinary Organs EN
Pain on urinating; at end of urethra
Frequent micturition
Tenesmus, extending up ureters; uneasiness in kidneys
Urine: pale; albuminous; excess of water; skunk-like odour.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Distressing erection, soon subsiding
Pain in penis on waking, < on micturating
Hard, sticking pains in (l.) spermatic cord and testes
Dull pains in testes, < r
Emission.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Stinging, darting pains passing through uterus from side to side
Leucorrhoea, bland but so profuse, and with so great depression that the prover refused to take more of the drug although it removed a pleuritic pain
Leucorrhoea, painless, 4 p.m
Feeling as if menses coming on.—(Menses became more regular.)
Menses weak, too soon (never before; but discharge, which had been formerly too dark and with pain, was this time natural in colour and painless)
Menses, always copious, became increased to flooding and lasted three days
In morning on awaking found menses had returned first time since weaning babe (two months).
Respiratory Organs EN
Coughed much
Constant inclination to cough
Small sore spot in upper trachea.
Chest EN
Sharp, stabbing pain in pectoralis major muscle, followed by burning distress therein
During evening severe pain under l. arm nearer back
Aching pain in chest all forenoon
Itching blotches on r. breast; r. side chest.
Heart EN
Audible pulsation of heart.—Pulse accelerated.
Neck And Back EN
Stiffness r. side neck, morning
Backache
Lameness in back, esp. loins
Woke frequently with backache
Weakness of loins; feeling its if menses coming on.
Limbs EN
Aching in limbs and loins wakes him frequently.—Frequent flying pains in hands, feet, toes.
Upper Limbs EN
Rheumatism of r. shoulder
Lameness in muscles of r. upper arm
Muscles stiff
Frequent momentary pains in wrists and fingers
Fingers stiff
Hands dry and hot all day.
Lower Limbs EN
Sharp neuralgic pains along sciatic nerve from hip-joint to middle of thigh
Drawing in (l.) sartorius muscle, when walking
Pain in both knees;
< l.; severe, dull in r. for two hours in bed; rheumatic
Legs heavy while walking; trembling weakness; nervous pains, < l
Cramp
Dull pain in ankles; flying pains
With desire to urinate, afternoon, and at night, nervous sensation is felt, irresistible fidgets, < night
Elevated eruption on ankles and half-way up leg, several large blotches on back, dark red; itches all the time, < night
Very cold feet, evening.
Generalities EN
Great debility; on rising; in evening.—Languid, feverish, depressed.
Skin EN
Elevated blotchy eruption on legs and back
Slight rash on back and shoulders
Itching scattered pimples r. side of chest; light red, rash-like blotches on r. breast, itching severely at night;
< when heated
Red rash on body, face, neck, back, chest, abdomen, limbs, < chest and abdomen; later erythema; later nodules, turn white after scratching (> Ant. c. 200)
Itching: intense all over;
< night before bedtime;
> rubbing;
< riding in cold air; returned repeatedly throughout the winter.
Sleep EN
Sleepy; sleep not refreshing
Sleepless: for an hour 4 a.m.; for several hours; from over-eating
Restless, with frontal headache
Many dreams; confused.
Fever EN
Chilly; with full, uncomfortable feeling in stomach; with inclination to yawn; with papescent stool; shaking
Heat; feverish with debility; skin hot, flaccid;
> cool, blustering wind
Hot face, cold feet; hands hot and feverish.