Pulsatilla

Wind-Flower

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening. Stool. — Rumbling, watery ; worsi^ night. No tzvo stools alike. After fruit. ; Chin.] Blind hsemorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness. ( Merc.; Rheum.] Tzvo or three normal stools daily. Urine. — Increased desire; zvorse zvhen lying dozvn. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Back

William Boericke 1922

tired feeling. Diarrhoea during or after menses.

William Boericke 1922

Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Chest

William Boericke 1922

Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. [Phos.] Smothering sensation on lying down.

Ears

William Boericke 1922

Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhoea. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. Catarrhal otitis, (^lalgia, worse at night.

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness. Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap. Numbness around elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering worse from letting the affected limb hang down. [Vipera.] Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Thick, p} of use, yelloze, bland discharges. Itching and burning in

William Boericke 1922

Profuse laebrymation and secretion of mucus. JAd^ inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.

Face

William Boericke 1922

Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse lachryination. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Female

William Boericke 1922

Amenorrhoea. [Cimicif.; Senec.; Polygon.] Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, iniermiitent. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. 620

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding .symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is preeminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory. The patient seeks the open air ; always feels better there. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-pianaged measles. Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow.

William Boericke 1922

Aur.] Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much szvcet saliva. Alterations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul. Loss of taste.

William Boericke 1922

Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in

Head

William Boericke 1922

Wandering stitches about

William Boericke 1922

pains exevening and by warmth. Bursting, scniilatcral headache, with nausea and vomiting, from overloaded tend to face and

Male

William Boericke 1922

Qjchitis: pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoea. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. [Clemat] Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, wors e lying on*$a€k.

Mind

William Boericke 1922

Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Likes sympathy. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex. Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Highly emotional. 618

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

fCoff.] Offensive odor from

William Boericke 1922

Greasy taste. Dry mouth, without thirst. Frequently licks the dry lips. Crack in middle of lozver lip. Yellozv or white tongue, covered with a tenacious mucus. Toothache ; relieved by holding cold water in

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.

William Boericke 1922

Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of

William Boericke 1922

Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucus expectoration. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great soreness of episgastrium. Urine emitted with cough. [Co«jf.] Pain as from ulcer in middle of

Skin

William Boericke 1922

Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at jpnberty. Varicose veins.

Sleep

William Boericke 1922

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Averse to fat food,ivarm food, and drink. Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pastry. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Di.slikes butler. Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. Thirst- Icssness, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. [NuAf.] Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling. [Abies c.] Perceptible pulsation in pit of

William Boericke 1922

[Asaf ] All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers. Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning.

Teeth

William Boericke 1922

vertigo ; better in open air. Frontal and supraorbital pains mostly; worse in the stomach, A^uw] Neuralgic pains, commencing in right teinpornf region, zvith scalding lathrymation of affected side. Headache from overzvoik. Pressure on vertex.

References

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