Ranunculus Sceleratus
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General
Ranunculus Sceleratus.
Ranunculus sceleratus. Marsh crowfoot. Celery-leaved crowfoot. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Aneurism. Anus, itching in. Chest, sternum, pain behind. Corns. Coryza. Diphtheria. Earache. Glossitis. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Herpes; zoster. Liver, pain in. Neuralgia. Nose, ulceration of. Pemphigus. Quinsy. Sternum, pains in. Stomatitis. Toes, affections of. Tongue, peeling, mapped. Varicosis.
Characteristics
The best-known characteristic of R. sc. (which is a well-proved drug) is the mapped or peeled tongue, and when this is associated with smarting, burning, and rawness R. sc. will be the remedy. R. sc. has the acridity of all the Ranunculi, causing burning in mouth, throat, stomach, chest, urethra, and other parts. It causes blisters on the skin which leave a raw surface with acrid discharge.
It has cured pemphigus in a three-months old infant, with continual thirst, weak, intermitting pulse, trembling, with anxious features. After Ars. 4 had caused improvement, R. sc. 3 healed up the resulting ulcers. External sensitiveness is a leading feature of R. sc., especially of region of chest and sternum. These symptoms with others have led to the cure of many chest affections, including aneurism.
A leading Concomitant of R. sc. is arrest of breathing: pains in liver, spleen, chest, or heart, < on deep inspiration and associated with external soreness calls for R. sc. Gnawing and boring are common sensations with the remedy, and most of the symptoms are right-sided; but there is one left-side symptom that is peculiar: continual gnawing in left palm. The right toes, especially the right big toe, are the seat of many acute pains, giving the remedy a high place in acute attacks of gout, and also painful corns.
Among the Sensations of R. sc. are: As if head were too full and too large. As if face covered with cobwebs (this proved a keynote in a case of aneurism which was much relieved by R. sc.). As if a plug were lodged in umbilicus. Pressure as from a dull instrument.
As if diarrhoea would set in As of a needle thrust deep into big toe. With pains in stomach there is fainting. Convulsive twitches of limbs.
The effects of R. sc. (which German shepherds call "cold fire") on horned cattle is. Loss of appetite; trembling and shivering; distention of abdominal veins. A dog poisoned with it became anxious, howled, tossed about, bent double, was very restless at night.
He was killed, and after death the stomach was found contracted, inflamed in several parts, surface corroded; papillae prominent; swelling, pale redness and contraction of pylorus. Mahoney (M. A., xxvi. 110) cured with R. sc. 3 in an aged woman subject to gout aching in dorsa of feet, especially the right, with wakefulness at night. K. ca. 30 had previously removed pain passing downward over the glutei.
The symptoms are: < By touch; pressure; blow. < By motion; deep inspiration; walking; letting limb hang down. < Evening; after midnight; morning. < In open air.
< After a meal.
Relations
Antidoted by: Puls. Wine and Coffee antidote only partially. The ulcers were somewhat relieved by Peruvian Balsam. Follows well: Ars. in pemphigus. Followed well by: Lach. in diphtheria with denuded tongue. Compare: R. bulb. (R. sc. more irritative). Headache, gnawing in small spot at vertex, Puls. Mapped tongue, Nat. m., Ars., Rhus, Tarax. (R. sc. has more burning and rawness than any). Cobweb sensation, Alm., Bar. c., Bor., Bro., Bry., Calc., Con., Graph., Mag. c.
Mind
Indolence, and aversion to (mental) labour, in the morning.—Sadness and melancholy in the evening.
Head
Vertigo, with loss of consciousness
Headache, as if head were compressed in a vice
Gnawing, drawing, spasmodic, dull pressure, often affecting only a very small spot on vertex (or temples)
Compressive and expansive pressure in temples
Heaviness and sensation of fulness in head, which seems to be swollen and increased in size
Contraction of integuments of head
Smarting and itching in scalp.
Eyes
Pain in eyes on moving eyeballs quickly
Biting-gnawing in eyes and corners of eyes
Frequent aching (painful pressing) in eyeballs
Smarting in canthi, from time to time
Eyes convulsed
Lachrymation.
Ears
Otalgia (r. ear), with pressure (or gnawing pain) in head, and drawing in teeth.—Drawing, shooting, and boring at exterior of auditory duct.
Nose
Smarting and tingling in nose
Pricking in point of nose
Frequent sneezing
Much serous mucus in nose
Ulcers or large sores on r. side of nose.
Face
Face as if covered with cobwebs
Drawing in face, with a sensation of coldness
Spasmodic twitchings in facial muscles and extremities, risus sardonicus
Sensation of quivering round commissures of lips, and lower lip.
Teeth
Toothache, with shooting pains, and bluntness of teeth
Jerking and shooting drawings in teeth
Red and painful swelling of gums, which bleed easily.
Mouth
Dryness of mouth
Frothy salivation
Tongue coated white
Shooting in tip of tongue
Inflammation of tongue, with burning sensation, and redness
Desquamation and rhagades on tongue.
Throat
Contraction, with choking in throat, < by eating bread
Burning sensation in throat
Scraping in throat
Swelling of tonsils, with lancinations
Smarting and shootings in gullet.
Appetite
Sweetish taste in the morning, with white and loaded tongue
Anorexia
Violent thirst with the fever-heat.
Stomach
Risings, with taste of the food, after a meal
Frequent, empty risings
Sour, rancid risings, in evening
Nausea, esp. after midnight, or in morning, with inclination to vomit
Pain in stomach, with fainting fits
Violent pains in stomach, with uneasiness
Sensation of fulness, of pressure, and of tension in epigastrium, < by external pressure, with < in the morning
Constrictive pains in stomach
Lancinations in epigastrium
Pain as from excoriation, and burning sensation in epigastrium.—(Inflammation of stomach.)
Abdomen
Dull aching in hepatic region, < by taking a deep inspiration
Lancinations in hepatic region
Pressure and shootings in splenic region (in liver and kidneys), < by breathing deeply
Shootings, shocks, and pressure in lumbar region
Pains in abdomen, with syncope
Dull pressure, as from a plug, or a sensation of twisting behind navel, at night, or in morning
Spasmodic pains in abdomen
Pinching and cutting in abdomen
Jerks in abdomen (in abdominal integuments).
Stool And Anus
Itching, tickling, burning of anus
Fine stitches into rectum
Moisture in anus
Itching and pressing-out sensation at anus, as if premonitory of haemorrhoids, < walking
Great urging after a meal; only flatus passes
Retarded evacuations
Frequent and urgent want to evacuate, with soft faeces
Serous, fetid diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Strangury
Burning in fore part of urethra a short time after urinating
Tickling crawling at meatus
Drops pass after urinating, wetting sheet
Frequent desire.
Male Sexual Organs
Pullings in penis
Lancinations in glans
Smarting in scrotum
Pollutions.
Respiratory Organs
Small dry cough, seldom recurring, and without effort
Obstructed and deep respiration
Involuntary sighs.
Chest
Pain in chest as if beaten, with sensation of fatigue in that part, esp. in evening
Oppressive pressure on chest
Pinching and shootings in chest, and region of heart, sometimes with suspended respiration. esp. in evening, or at night
Stitches in chest and intercostal muscles
Gnawing behind sternum, which suspends respiration
Painful sensibility of exterior of chest, esp. of sternum
Burning soreness behind xiphoid cartilage
Painful drawing in pectoral muscles
Constant pressure as of a dull instrument below r. false rib, < inspiration
Painful sticking in r. chest
Very painful pinching around l. nipple.
Heart
Pressure as from a blunt piece of wood in region of heart
Stitches in region of heart
Sticking-contracting pinching in heart-region causing tightness of breath.
Back
Pain in loins, as if bruised or paralytic
Pricking and tingling in back and chest
Aching between scapulae
Sudden violent jerks in loins during walk in open air, arresting breathing.
Limbs
Gout in fingers and toes.
Upper Limbs
Soreness under r. arm in armpit
Boring shootings in forearms, extending to fingers
Gnawing in r. elbow-joint
Stitch in elbow
Boring in bones of hands
Gnawings in palm
Gnawing, boring, and shooting jerks in bones of fingers
Swelling of fingers.
Lower Limbs
Gnawing and boring throughout legs and feet, esp. in toes
Gnawing pains in l. heel
Burning and smarting on dorsum of r. foot
Jerking shootings, and tingling in great toes
Sudden stitches in forepart of r. big toe as if needle thrust in deep, causing him to cry out
Sudden stitches in r. big toe, passing into a burning
Lancinations and burning pains in corns.
Generalities
Under this drug the symptoms usually appear on the r. side; on crown of head; toes.—Boring sensation; gnawing pains in inner or outer parts; prickling in outer parts.—< Evening; before midnight.—(Arthritic affections.).—Piercing, gnawing, shooting, tingling pains, which manifest themselves, or are <, towards the evening.—Pressive and drawing pains.—Periodical affections.—Convulsive jerks (twitches of the limbs).—Syncope.—Fainting with the pains.
Skin
Vesicular eruptions, with acrid, thin, yellowish discharges
Obstinate ulcers
Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of body, now here, now there, < evening
Pemphigus
Large isolated blisters which burst and leave ulcers.
Sleep
Sleeplessness after midnight, with anxiety, heat and thirst; or with restlessness and tossing about
Imperfect sleep after midnight; with anxious, frightful dreams, of corpses, serpents, beetles, &c
Early waking (3 a.m.), with prolonged watchfulness.
Fever
Pulse quick, full, but soft, with heat at night
Chill and chilliness (shivering) during meals
Heat in the evening in the room after walking in the open air
Dry heat at night, with violent thirst and ebullition, mostly after midnight
Waking after midnight, many nights in succession, with heat over whole body, violent thirst, pulse accelerated, full, soft
Heat predominates
Perspiration after the heat, towards morning, mostly on forehead
Intermittent fever, after midnight; heat and violent thirst, with full, soft, quick pulse, followed by general perspiration, mostly on forehead.