Pulsatilla Pratensis

General

PULSATILLA. [Pulsat.] Wiesen Küchenschelle. Hahnemann. Ranunculaceae.

Mind

► Fancies a naked man is wrapped in her bedclothes ; dreams of men. ► Mania from suppressed menses. ► Religious mania ; sees the devil coming to take her ; the world on fire during night ; fear, rage in spells or weeping ; forgetful during lucid moments. ► Easily moved to tears or laughter. ► Silent mood, disgusted at everything. ► In early morn depressed, full of cares about domestic affairs. ► Dread of men. ► Tremulous anguish, as if death was near. ► Anguish about the heart, even to suicide. ► Mild, gentle, tearful, yielding, timid. ► Peevish, changeable ; pale ; chilly. θ Children. ► Envy ; covetousness. ► Fatigued by mental labor ; head affected. ► After slight emotions, difficult breathing ; bad effects from fright, mortification or excessive joy.

Sensorium

► Confusion of head, with pains, as after intoxication or watching. ► Giddy, as if drunk ; inclination to vomit. ► Faint all the morning ; frequent calls for water. ► Apoplexy, unconscious ; face blue-red, bloated ; violent beating of heat, pulse collapsed, rattling breathing.

Inner Head

► Stupefying headache, running chills, with humming in the head ; worse when lying or sitting quietly or in the cold. ► Soreness, as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples ; worse evening at rest, in warm room ; better when walking in open air. ► Twitching-tearing in temple lain on ; goes to other side when turning on to it ; worse evenings, and on raising eyes upward. ► Headache, as if it would burst ; worse from moving eyes. ► Stinging-pulsating in brain ; worse when stooping. ► Pulsating in evening, and from mental exertion ; throbbing, with catamenia. ► Semilateral headache, also sometimes with nausea and vomiting. ► Violent pain behind, on one side, as if a nail was driven in. ► Beating, jerking, lacerating pains, or as if in a vise. ► Headache from overloaded stomach, from pastry, fats, ice-cream. ► Acute pains in temples, with giddiness. ► Pain as if brain was lacerated, on or soon after awaking. ► Headache worse from abuse of mercury ; in warm room ; better walking slowly in open air and from compression.

Outer Head

► Rheumatic headache, worse on one side, and from 5 to 10 P.M. ; crazing pains into the face and teeth. ► Tingling, biting, itching on scalp, mostly on temples and behind ears, followed by swelling an eruptions ; sore pain ; worse evenings and when undressing ; also, from getting warm in bed. ► Tumors on scalp, suppurating and affecting the skull, worse lying on well side. ► Fetid, often cold, sweat, at times on one side of head and face, great anxiety and stupor ; worse at night and toward morning ; better after waking and rising. ► Disposition to take cold on head, worse when it gets wet ; head sweaty.

Eyes

► Oversensitive to light. ► Flashing of fire, as if slapped in face. ► Like a veil before eyes, better rubbing or wiping them. ► Amblyopia : from suppression of any bloody discharge ; from metastasis of gout or rheumatism ; from gastric derangements ; with heart disease ; with co-existing diminished hearing. ► Dim sight, especially on getting warm from exercise. ► Dryness of eyes and lids, with sensation as if darkened by mucus, which ought to be wiped away. ► Stitches, especially from light and in sunshine. ► Child frequently rubs its eye. ► Pustular conjunctivitis, lachrymation more in open air or wind ; discharge thick yellow, bland, profuse. ► Ophthalmia, with amenorrhoea. ► Lids swollen, itch, burn, not excoriated, better from rubbing ; subject to styes, especially on upper lid. ► Granular lids, dry, or with excessive bland secretion ; better in open air, but not in wind ; granulations very fine. ► Stinging, tearing pains, worse in the evening ; rheumatic ophthalmia. ► Fistula lachrymalis, discharging pus when pressed. ► Ophthalmia neonatorum ; profuse yellow, purulent discharge, gluing the lids. ► Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia ; discharge suddenly suppressed.

Ears

► Deafness : as if ears were stopped up ; after suppressed measles ; with otorrhoea ; from cold after cutting hair ; with hard, black cerumen. ► Can hear better on the cars. ► Severe pain in ear, continuing through night, with paroxysms of increasing severity, but causing little concern during day ; bland, nearly inoffensive, discharge of mucus and pus. ► Roaring in ears, better out-doors ; also, humming or tingling. ► Phlyctenulae (to prevent ulceration). ► Otalgia, with darting, tearing pains, and pulsating at night. ► External ear and meatus red and swollen ; scabs on tragus.

Nose

► Loss of smell, with catarrh. ► Smell of old catarrh ; objective stench from nose. ► Nosebleed : with suppressed menses ; with dry coryza ; in anaemia ; blood coagulated. ► Coryza, fluid or dry, loss of taste and smell, nostrils sore ; wings raw ; later yellow-green discharge ; worse in-doors ; chilliness, face pale, head confused ; frontal headache. ► Green, fetid, nasal discharge, with diminished taste and smell ; chronic, thick, yellow, bland discharge.

Face

► Red every evening ; alternately red and pale ; pale or yellowish, with sunken eyes ; puffed, blue, red ; cheeks and nose puffed. ► Flushes in the face. ► Facial neuralgia, nervous excitation coming at irregular intervals ; worse when chewing, talking, or from hot or cold things in mouth. ► Facial erysipelas, with stinging, pricking pain, skin peels off. ► Skin of face painfully sensitive.

Lower Face

► Gnawing, smarting around the mouth. ► Lower lip swelled and cracked in the middle.

Teeth

► Looseness of painful teeth. ► Drawing, jerking, as if a nerve was put on the stretch and then let loose ; shooting in gums. ► Left side of face sensitive ; stinging in decayed teeth. ► Throbbing, digging in hollow teeth, with drawing extending to the eye ; also, with otalgia. ► Toothache worse in Spring ; at night ; from picking teeth ; in warm room ; in warmth of bed ; when eating, but not from chewing ; when sitting ; from cold water, or from anything warm in the mouth ; also during pregnancy ; better walking around in open air.

Tongue, Etc

► Loss of taste, with catarrh ; nothing tastes good. ► Taste : foul, especially in early morning ; clammy, wants to rinse mouth often ; of putrid meat, with inclination to vomit, in morning ; bitter mostly after swallowing food or drink, also, evening and morning. ► Tongue : white or yellow, and coated with tenacious mucus ; parched, dry, no thirst ; feels in middle as if burned, even when moist, night and morning ; feels too broad, too large. ► Edges of tongue feel sore and as if scalded.

Mouth

► Dry in morning, without thirst. ► Putrid smell from mouth, especially in morning. ► Flow of sweetish saliva. ► Constant spitting of frothy, cotton-like mucus.

Throat

► As if raw and sore ; stinging, with pressure and tension on swallowing ; cutting, burning, during swallowing ; stitches between acts of swallowing ; as if swollen, or a lump in it, when swallowing. ► Veins distended, throat inflamed, bluish-red. ► Throat dry, worse mornings with tough mucus in throat, especially in night and morning ; much tenacious mucus in throat, like potash-salts. ► Sore throat, with sense of dysphagia ; she feels as though she would be choked. ► Worse swallowing saliva and after food.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger : but knows not for what ; eats greedily, followed by vomiting. ► Food tastes too salt. ► Appetite for : strong alcoholic drinks, beer ; sour, refreshing things ; herring. ► Aversion to : fat food, pork, meat, bread, milk. ► Thirst rare ; when thirsty drinks often, but little at a time, it provokes inclination to vomit. ► Thirstlessness, with moist or dry tongue.

Eating And Drinking

► While eating : 10. After eating : 13, 16, 26, 29, 37. Hot or cold food : 8, 10. Cold fruit : 16. After drinking : 16.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough : after cold fruit ; after drinking. ► Eructations : tasting and smelling of food ; bitter, bilious ; rancid, sour. ► Nausea, with colic, ceasing after vomiting. ► Nausea at throat as from a worm crawling. ► Vomiting : of blood, from a cold on stomach, or suppressed menses ; of bilious matter ; sour, green ; chronic, after eating ; caused by fruits, fats, pastry ; ices ; with pale face and chilliness.

Stomach

► Pain in pit of stomach, during an inspiration ; also, on pressure. ► Weight as from a stone, early morning on waking ; also an hour after eating, better by eating again. ► Pressure in pit of stomach after every meal, vomiting of food. ► Stitching pains, worse when walking or making misstep. ► Crampy pains before breakfast or after meals. ► Gnawing, distress when stomach is empty ; pressure and pinching after eating. ► Stomach bloated, hard ; flatulency. ► Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. ► Gastric catarrh, from ice-cream, fruit and pastry ; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. ► Tension from stomach to chest.

Hypochondria

► Darting, tensive pains in hepatic region. ► Sticking in region of liver, also, particularly when walking. ► Feeling of lassitude in hypochondria.

Abdomen

► Flatulent colic, evening after supper, or at night ; oppressive flatulence in upper abdomen and hypochondria ; shifting of flatus. ► Colic : from cold, with diarrhoea ; from ices, fruits pastry ; from getting feet wet. ► Pain in lower chest and abdomen, obliging her to bend forward. ► Abdomen and stomach distended ; she must unlace. ► Pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone ; lower limbs go to sleep when sitting ; ineffectual desire for stool. ► Cutting and dragging in hypogastric region around to loins, making her feel faint. ► Painful sensitiveness of abdomen to touch. ► Lumps in both groins, hard and painful.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : watery, only, or usually at night, sometimes unconsciously evacuated ; greenish-yellow, slimy, very changeable ; like bile, following rumbling in abdomen ; offensive, corrosive ; of white and bloody mucus. ► Dysenteric stools, of clear yellow, red or green slime ; pain in back, straining ; tenesmus, from anus up along sacrum. ► Dysentery during cholera times. ► Discharge of blood and mucus during stool ; face pallid ; fainting ; dysuria ; frequent stools of mucus only, after dysentery. ► Obstinate constipation, nauseous, bad taste in morning, must wash out her mouth ; costive stools hard and large, after suppressed intermittent fever by quinine. ► Desire for stool, insufficient or no evacuation of feces, but instead yellowish, sometimes blood-mixed mucus. ► Painful protruding piles, with smarting and soreness. ► Piles (blind) with menses ; though generally with this remedy, they bleed.

Urine

► Tenesmus and stinging in neck of bladder. ► Continued pressure on bladder, without desire to urinate. ► Ischuria, with redness and heat in region of bladder. ► Frequent, almost ineffectual, urging to urinate, with cutting pains. ► Desire to urinate, with drawing in abdomen. ► Cannot retain urine ; it is passed in drops, sitting or walking ; involuntary when coughing, passing wind, or during sleep, the latter especially in little girls. ► Urine increased, watery, colorless ; or, scanty, red-brown. ► Sediment reddish, bloody or mucous, jelly-like, sticking to vessel. ► Haematuria, with burning at orifice of urethra and constriction in region of navel. ► Burning in urethra. ► After urination, spasmodic pain in neck of bladder, extending into thighs. ► At end to urination, dropping of blood.

Male Sexual Organs

► Desires too strong, almost priapism. ► Long-lasting morning erections ; emissions after onanism. ► Sexual excesses resulting in headache ; backache ; limbs heavy. ► Burning of testicles, without swelling. ► Orchitis, with swelling of scrotum ; from cold, contusion or checked gonorrhoea. ► Spermatic cord inflamed by a badly-fitting truss. ► Drawing, tensive pains, from abdomen through cords into testicles. ► Hydrocele. ► Prostate enlarged ; feces flat, small in size ; also acute prostatitis. ► Gonorrhoea, with thick, yellow, or yellow-green discharge. ► Itching burning on inner and upper side of prepuce.

Female Sexual Organs

► Tensive, cutting pain in uterus, which is very sensitive to touch and during coitus. ► Pains in uterus, with amenorrhoea. ► Prolapsus uteri, with pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone ; limbs tend to go to sleep ; ineffectual urging to stool. ► Metrorrhagia, blood changeable, stops and flows ; profuse at times, at others intermittent, mixed with clots ; at climaxis ; in chlorosis ; after abuse of quinine and iron. ► First menses delayed. ► Menstruation, too late, scanty and short duration ; flow thick, black, clotted, or thin, watery ; or changeable in appearance ; flows more during day while walking. ► Menses suppressed or flow intermittently ; after getting feet wet ; in chlorosis ; from nervous debility ; with throbbing headache ; pressure in stomach ; pain in uterus ; dysuria ; ophthalmia ; morning nausea ; or bad taste in mouth. ► Crampy constriction of vagina ; indurations ; fistula ; polypus. ► Leucorrhoea : milky, thick, with swollen vulva ; acrid, burning, painless, or with cutting in abdomen.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion ; flow ceases and then returns with double force, ceases again, and so on. ► Promotes expulsion of moles. ► Labor-pains : deficient, irregular or sluggish ; spasmodic ; excite suffocation and faint spells, must have doors and windows open. ► Retained placenta, want of action or spasmodic contraction. ► Post-partum secondary hemorrhages from retained placenta or coagula. ► After-pains too long or too violent ; worse toward evening. ► Lochia scanty, becoming milky ; feverish, but no thirst. ► Convulsions following sluggish or irregular labor-pains ; unconscious ; cold, clammy, pale face ; stertorous breathing and full pulse. ► Milk leg. ► Mammae : lumps in breasts of girls before puberty ; or, escape of thin milk-like fluid. ► Breasts swollen, rheumatic pains extend to muscles of chest, also to shoulders, neck, axillae and down the arms, change from place to place ; during nursing. ► Milk suddenly suppressed ; lochia becomes milky, white. ► After wearing : beasts swell, feel stretched, tense, intensely sore ; milk continues to be secreted.

Larynx

► Hoarseness and roughness of throat ; cannot speak loud ; hoarseness coming and going. ► Aphonia nervosa returns at every motion ; last cervical vertebra feels sore, burning. ► Constriction in throat, feels something there preventing speech ; cannot eat, weeps.

Breathing

► Asthma : especially of children after suppression of rash ; in hysteria, or with suppressed menses ; in the evening, especially after a meal. ► Dyspnoea and vertigo, with weakness in head, when lying on the back ; at night, in bed, as if throat or chest were constricted ; or as if fumes of sulphur had been inhaled ; morning, low down in chest. ► Oppression of chest on walking fast, ascending an eminence, or exercising.

Cough

► From irritation in pit of stomach ; shattering, spasmodic, often in paroxysms of two coughs each ; excited by itching, scratching, and dry feeling, as from vapor of sulphur in trachea and chest ; dry at night, going off when sitting in bed ; loose by day ; dry after every sleep ; evening after lying down, when warm in bed ; loose, vomits mucous ; diarrhoea ; worse at night ; with yellow mucus sputa, bitter or greenish ; with purulent expectoration ; with expectoration of pieces of dark, coagulated blood ; menses suppressed. ► Spitting of dark, coagulated blood ; pain in lower part of chest ; anguish, shuddering ; qualmishness.

Lungs

► Phthisis florida, suppurative stage ; chlorotic girls. ► Soreness in chest ; under clavicles. ► Pain in chest, as if ulcerated. ► Stitches in side only when lying, particularly at night. ► Sticking in chest, worse from deep breath, or coughing. ► Paroxysms of burning in chest. ► Obstinate bronchial catarrh. ► Congestion to chest and heart at night ; with anxious dreams.

Heart And Pulse

► Beating through chest interrupts sleep ; old maids. ► Catching pain in cardiac region, better for a time from pressure of hand ; pains, with but little or no anxiety. ► Burning in region of heart. ► Heaviness, pressure or sensation of fulness every evening. ► Palpitation : in violent paroxysms, often with anguish and obscuration of sight ; trembling of limbs ; from chagrin, fright, or joy ; with catamenia, chlorosis ; strong with suppressed pulse ; after dinner. ► Pulse : accelerated, small and weak ; frequent in evenings ; with distended blood-vessels, slower in morning ; often scarcely perceptible.

Outer Chest

► Chest pains as if bruised.

Neck And Back

► Swelling of cervical glands. ► Interscapular pain, worse by inspiration. ► Curvature of upper part of spine. ► Like cold water poured down back. ► Stitches in small of back. ► Pain in back and small of back, as from stooping long, or as if weary.

Upper Limbs

► Severe pains in both shoulder-joints. ► Hard, painful throbbing ; glandular swelling in the right axilla. ► Heaviness in arm from shoulders to fingers, numb feeling. ► Arms feel as if broken and dislocated ; worse on pressure and from movement. ► Elbow swollen after a contusion. ► Veins in forearms and hands swollen.

Lower Limbs

► Pain as from festering, in muscles of buttocks, legs and soles. ► Jerking pain in hip-joint, extending to knee. ► Drawing, heaviness, weariness, in legs. ► Legs hot, swollen, with tensive, burning pains. ► Knees inflamed, swollen, with shooting pains. ► Soft, white, shining swelling of knees. ► Jerking, lacerating through left leg and foot, which becomes numb and oedematous ; sensitive to touch ; better from changing position. ► Aching in calves, which are swollen. ► Varices on legs. ► Feet red, inflamed, swollen ; also the soles. ► Swelling of top of foot. ► Chilblains inflamed, bluish, itching.

Limbs In General

► Redness and swelling of joints, with stinging pains. ► Jerking, tearing, drawing in muscles, shifting rapidly from place to place ; worse at night, from warmth ; better from uncovering ; towards evening pains more fixed with swelling of parts, when pains abate some. ► Rheumatism : caused by getting wet, especially the feet ; from protracted wet weather.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 19, 32, 33, 40. Exercise : 5, 26. Walking : 3, 10, 18, 21, 23, 16, 46. Rising : 4. Ascending : 26. Stooping : 3. Must bend forward : 19. Lifting eyes : 2, 3. Moving eyes : 3. Rest : 3. Sitting : 3, 10, 19, 21, 27. Lying : 3, 27, 29 ; on back : 26. Parts lain on : 3, 4, 43. ► Pains worse changing from a long-maintained position.

Nerves

► Hysteria ; symptoms ever changing. ► Epileptic convulsions, violent tossing of limbs, followed by relaxation, disposition to vomit, eructations ; from suppressed menses. ► Fainting fits, great paleness of face ; shivering, coldness. ► Violent trembling all over. ► Tired, worn out feeling, as from fatigue, but not better resting. ► Nervous debility, with amenorrhoea.

Sleep

► Yawning ; drowsy by day ; feverish somnolence. ► Sleepless : after late supper, or eating too much ; from ideas crowding on the mind ; first part of night, sleeps late in morning. ► Starts, talks, weeps, cries out in sleep. ► Dreams : confused, frightful ; anxious. ► Talking, whining and screaming during sleep.

Time

► Early morning : 1, 11. Morning : 2, 11, 12, 13, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 37, 40. 4 P.M. : 40. 5-10 P.M. : 4. Evening : 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 19, 24, 26, 27, 29, 40. Night : 4, 6, 10, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 34, 40, 46.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 5, 34 ; of bed : 4, 10, 26, 27. Warm room : 3, 10, 40. In-doors : 7. Sunshine : 5. Spring : 10. Cold : 46. Wet weather : 34. Open air : 3, 5, 10. Undressing : 4. Uncovering : 34. Washing : 40. Getting head wet : 4. Wetting feet : 19, 23, 34. ► Generally pains better cool air ; abdominal pains better warmth.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Cold chills all over ; chilly all the time, even in a warm room ; chilly with the pains. ► Chilly at lower abdomen and small of back ; sleepy but no sleep. ► One-sided coldness, with numbness. ► Flitting chilliness ; chills in spots, now here, now there ; worse evening. ► Chill 4 P.M., no thirst ; anxiety, dyspnoea ; vomiting of mucus when the chill comes on. ► Heat, with red face, or one cheek red and one pale. ► Internal dry heat, evening or night, without external heat. ► Heat of right side or on upper part of body ; lessened by moving or washing. ► Heat of face or of one hand, with coldness of the other ; body hot, limbs cold. ► Attacks of anxious heat, as if water was poured over him. ► Sweat : one-sided ; only on face and head ; more at night and in morning ; soon ceasing when waking ; sour, musty, at times cold ; sweetish acid odor to sweat ; at night, with stupid slumber. ► Pains during sweat. ► During apyrexia ; headache ; mucous diarrhoea, nausea and loss of appetite ; enlarged spleen.

Attacks

► Paroxysms of increasing severity. ► Pains appear suddenly, leave gradually. ► Wandering pains shift rapidly from part to part. ► Symptoms ever changing.

Sides

► Right : 10, 32, 40. Left : 10, 29, 33. Above downward : 21.

Sensations

► Tension in inner parts, or in joints. ► Sensation of subcutaneous ulceration. ► Tingling in parts lain on. ► Pulsations through the whole body.

Tissues

► Hemorrhages, blood dark, easily coagulating. ► Varicose veins ; inflamed. ► Circulation weak, sluggish, with paleness and constant chilliness ; anaemia. ► Inflammations of internal, with disposition to suppurate. ► Affections of mucous surfaces ; discharges thence are usually bland, yellowish-green, thick. ► Emaciation, especially of suffering parts. ► Chlorosis, especially after large doses of iron. ► Glands swollen, painful, hot. ► Scraping or tingling in periosteum ; jerking boring in bones ; incipiency of inflammation. ► Anasarca.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Part touched feels bruised, ulcerated ; skin sensitive. ► Child wants to be carried slowly. ► Better from trying clothes tightly. ► Concussions ; bruises, especially with injury of bones, sore pain when touched. ► Touch : 19, 23, 33. Rubbing or wiping : 5. Pressure : 5, 29, 32 ; of clothes : 19 ; of truss : 22. Contusion : 22, 32. Riding in cars : 6.

Skin

► Pale ; burning-itching here and there. ► Urticaria, with diarrhoea ; also in the summer ; itching worse at night ; from pastry or pork ; from delayed menses ; worse undressing, cool bath, etc. ► Moles or freckles on young girls. ► Erysipelas bluish, spreads rapidly ; especially about buttocks and thighs ; smooth skin. ► Intertrigo, chafing, after abuse of chamomile tea. ► Rhagades. ► Chaps. ► Bleeding tumors ; changeable blood, most while walking during the day. ► Measles even with typhoid symptoms ; catarrh prominent ; eruption tardy ; earache ; ophthalmia ; short, dry cough, with pain in chest ; or, rattling loose cough, which is prone to remain as a sequelae. ► Ulcers : bleed easily, with burning, stinging or itching around them ; with hard or red areolae ; better from cold. ► Wound suppurate ; pus thick, bland, too profuse.

Stages And States

► Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to grief and submissiveness. ► Often indicated with women and children.

Relationship

► Complementary to Sulph. ac. Lycop., Pulsat. ► It antidotes : Cinchon., Iron, Sulphur, Sulph. ac., vapor of mercury, or of copper, Coffea, Chamom., Bellad., Colchic., Lycop., Platin., Stramon., Sabad., Ant. tart. ► Pulsat. as antidoted by Chamom., Coffea, Ignat., Nux vom.