Materia Medica de A a Z

PULSATILLA NIGRICANS = ANEMONE PRATENSIS (puls)

Region

MIND. VEINS. MUCOUS MEMBRANES (TONGUE. STOMACH. BOWELS. FEMALE AND GENITO-URINARY ORGANS). Respiration. One side. Right heart.

Worse

WARMTH (AIR. ROOM. Clothes. BED). Getting feet wet. SUPPRESSIONS. EVENING. REST. BEGINNING MOTION. LYING; one side (L). EATING (RICH FOOD. Long after. FATS. Ices. Eggs). PUBERTY. PREGNANCY. Before menses. Iron. Quinine.

Better

COLD; FRESH, OPEN AIR. Uncovering. ERECT POSTURE. Gentle motion. Continued motion. After a good cry.

General

CHANGEFUL. SHIFTING SYMPTOMS; rising to a certain pitch, then suddenly ceasing; going to part lain on; unilateral. THIRSTLESS, SHORT OF BREATH AND CHILLY; with digestive or menstrual disorders. SUPPRESSIONS; otorrhoa, menses, lochia, milk, etc. Metastases. Alternations. Phlegmasia. Venosity. Hæmorrhage; passive; vicarious. Anæmia. PROFUSE, BLAND, THICK, YELLOW-GREEN DISCHARGES; bitter mucus. Jerking, tearing or ulcerative pain. Numbness; part lain on; hands, feet, etc. Pale, chilly blondes..................... MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL. WEEPY. Discouraged. Whining. Easily offended. Craves sympathy. Can't lie with head low. Headache start in vertex. Occipital ache, agg. coughing. Profuse sweat on scalp. Eyes; fill with tears (acrid) or seem covered; agg. wind; sticky lids; colds affect the; ophthalmia, gonorrhoal. Blepharitis. Styes. Blind attacks; agg. menses. Nightly earache. Foul discharge or bad odor before nose. Coryza; stopped on lying or in room. Anosmia. Pale face. Peeling cracked lips. Licks lips. Crack in center of lower lip. Bad breath. Drawing toothache, amel. cold. Taste bad; in A.M.; bloody; greasy. Slimy mouth or dry, without thirst. Tongue feels scalded. Alternate sides of throat or neck. Food leaves an after-taste or lodges in throat. Averse to water or fats. Craves acids or what disagrees. Sudden loathing, agg. eating. Heart-burn. Nausea. Epigastrium; cutting; pulsation. HEAVY OR DERANGED STOMACH. Abdomen; as of a heavy stone; aching; numb; pains into groins. Stools; changeable; green mucus, agg. after midnight; bilious. Piles, agg. lying. Urination; involuntary on lying; followed by blood. Heavy pressure on or cramp in bladder. Sensation as of a stone rolling in bladder. Nocturnal enuresis. Burning down l. spermatic cord. Enlarged prostate. Orchitis; gonorrhoal. Bloody emissions. Feels like menstruating. MENSES DARK; LATE, at puberty; SCANTY, agg. bathing; irregular; vicarious; absent. Dysmenorrhoa. Weak labor pains. Bearing down, agg. lying. After pains. Retained placenta. Leucorrhoa; milky; acrid. AIR HUNGER; agg. lying on l. side; as if from abdomen; if heated. Loose morning, then dry evening cough; from tickling in epigastrium; must sit up. Expectoration thick; purulent [Cetrar. (Cetr)], slimy, sweet, salt, etc. Asthma from suppressions. Cough; dry hacking; expectorates bitter or salty as it loosens up. Chest oppressed; as by a load. Sore stitch beneath clavicles. Palpitation. Mammæ; milk in virgin; sore, aching lump (r); scanty milk. Swelled joints; backs of feet. Numb elbows. Lower limbs; pains down, alternate sides; heavy legs. Sticking in tibia, agg. lying, amel. cool air and motion. Acute periostitis. Cold sweat on legs. Foul foot-sweat. Swelled glands. Veins full; varicose; painful. Ulcers, with hard, glistening areolæ; varicose. Skin itches on being heated. Measles. Day sleepiness. Lies with hands over head. Disturbed dreams. Awakes confused or tired. Chilly, yet averse to heat; IN A WARM ROOM; with the pain; on lying down at night. One hand cold. Partial sweat.

Complementary: Ars, Kali-bi, Sep, Sil, Zinc.

Related: Ap. (Apis), Cimi. (Cimic), Graph, Ham, Kali-bi, Nat-s.