Ranunculus Bulbosus
Buttercup
Chest
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Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Intercostal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air. Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades ; worse, inspiring, moving. Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Tenderness of abdomen to pressure. Muscular pain along lower margin of the shoulder-blade ; burning in small spots from sedentary employment.
Compare
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Ranunc. acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by bending and turning body) ; Ranunc. glacialis — Carlina — (enormous w^eight in head with vertigo and sensation as of impending apoplexy; night-sweats — more on thighs) ; Ranunc. repens (crawling sensation in forehead and scalp in evening in bed) ; Ranunc. flammula (ulceration; gangrene of arm). Compare, also: Bry.; Croton; Mez.; Euphorb. Antidotes: Bry.; Camph.; Rhus.
Dose
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Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delirium tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally.
Eyes
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Day-blindness; mist before
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pressure 628
Guiding symptoms
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Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia. Bad effects of Alchohol: delirium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body.
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and smartng in eyes, as from smoke. Pain over right eye; better, standing and walking. Herpes on cornea. Vesicles on cornea, with intense pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.
Head
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Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp.
Modalities
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Worse, open air, motion, contact, atmospher’c changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all sorts of ailments.
Relationships
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Incompatible; Sulph.; Staph.
Skin
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Finger-tips and palms chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
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Burning and intense itching; worse, contact. Hard excrescences. Herpetic eruptions, with great itching. Shingles; bluish vesicles. Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms. Corns sensitive. Horny
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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