Ranunculus Glacialis
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General
Ranunculus Glacialis.
R. glacialis. Carlina or Cacline (mountaineers of Viq). N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Cerebellum, pain in. Dyspnoea.
Headache
Night-sweat. Thighs, sweat on.
Characteristics
Dr. Coddé, of Spoleto, proved the Ø tincture, and 3rd and 9th dilutions of this plant. It produced an enormous weight in the head with vertigo and feeling as if apoplexy were impending, > by Coffee; a right-sided early morning headache > by rising; dyspnoea < lying down, and compression of chest; intolerance of weight of coverlet (the < by touch and pressure of R. bulb.); coldness of thighs; general copious night-sweat, especially abundant on thighs.
Head
Towards 9.30 a.m., when walking in open air, enormous weight in head, vertigo; as if seized with incipient apoplexy;
> café au lait
Behind head in region of cerebellum, sense of tension
Just before daybreak, headache, < r. side, ceased on getting up.
Respiratory Organs
When lying in bed breathing became difficult.
Chest
On turning in bed, internal pain in infero-posterior chest
Compression in whole chest, evening
A little before midnight could not endure coverlet on chest
Stitches r.
Sleep
Sleeplessness at night.—Broken sleep.
Fever
Coldness, even on thighs
General and copious nocturnal sweat, < on thighs
At daybreak, slight general sweat.