Pulsatilla
Wind-Flower
Abdomen
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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
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Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. [Phos.] Smothering sensation on lying down.
Ears
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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