Ranunculus Bulbosus ran-b.

NERVES. Muscles. Eyes. Serous surfaces. THORAX. SKIN. Fingers and toes. Left side.

AIR: Damp. Cold. Open. Drafts. Changing: Weather. Temperature. Position. Alcohol. Evening. Motion: of arms. Breathing. Touch.

PAINS; stitching; stabbing; shooting; extort tears; with shuddering; can't rest. Burning, biting, bruised soreness or as of deep ulceration. Sore spots. Neuralgia. Trembling. Distended feeling.

Quarrelsome. Smarting eyes. Tic (r), to ear (Pul.). Crawling on palate; wants to scratch it. Increased saliva. Scraping-burning down throat. Bruised hypochondria. Tender abdomen. Pinching colic; alternates with chest pains. Anxious, oppressed breathing. SHARP, CUTTING, STITCHING CHEST PAINS; bilateral. Chest is sensitive to air. Pleurodynia. Pleurisy. Pain along inner edge of scapulæ, (l). Itching palms. BLUISH VESICLES. Shingles. Pemphigus. Corrosive ichor. Horny scabs. Herpes. Chilliness.

Related: Canth. Rhus-t.

One of our most effective remedies for the bad effects of alcoholic beverages; spasmodic hiccough; delirium tremens. Day blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting in eyeballs (Phos.). Muscular pains about margins of shoulder blades in women of sedentary employment, often burning in small spots (Agar., Phos.); from needle- work, typewriting, piano playing (Act.). Pains: stitches, sharp, shooting, neuralgic, myaligic or rheumatic in walls of chest, coming in paroxysms; excited or brought on by atmospheric changes; inflammatory; depending upon spinal irritation (Agar.). Pleurisy or pneumonia from sudden exposure to cold, while overheated, or vice versa (Acon., Arn.). Corns sensitive to touch, smart, burn (Salic. ac.). Intercostal rheumatism; chest sore, bruised, < from touch, motion or turning the body (Bry.); in wet, stormy weather (Rhus). Shingles: preceded or followed by intercostal neuralgia (Mez.); vesicles may have a bluish appearance.

Compare: Acon., Arn., Bry., Clem., euphorb., Mez. Incompatible: with Sulph. and Staph.

Contact: motion; atmospheric changes, especially, wet stormy weather (Rhus).

Biting or pungent pain; pain as if parts would burst, were pressed or pushed asunder. Pustulous exanthema, blue-colored. Waking too early in the morning. Affections of any kind of the external angles of the eyes; hypochondrium particularly about the spleen; lower region of the abdomen; palms of the hands.

On entering a cold place; from spirituous liquors; with drunkards; when stretching the limbs; at changes of the temperature, whether from hot to cold, or vice versa.

Bryon., Ignat., Kali carb., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Camphor., Staphis.

Intercostal rheumatism; chest feels sore and bruised, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Neuralgic, arthritic and rheumatic affections. always worse from damp weather, or from change of temperature.

Buttercup

Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia. Bad effects of Alcohol; delirium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic sciatica.

Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp. Pressing pain in forehead from within outward.

Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting 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.

Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Inter-costal 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.

Burning and intense itching; worse, contact. Hard excrescences. Herptic eruptions, with great itching. Shingles, bluish vesicles. Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms. Corns sensitive. Horny skin. Finger-tips and palms chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.

Worse, open air, motion, contact, atmospheric changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all sorts of ailments.

Incompatible: Sulph; Staph.

Compare: Ranunc acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by bending and turning body); Ranunc glacialis-Reindeer flower Carlina--(Pulmonary affections; broncho-pneumonical Influenza-enormous weight 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.

Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delirium tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally. Chronic sciatica, apply tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).

Blister-like eruptions (eczema) in the palms of the hands.

Angry mood and quarrelsome. Obtuseness of the senses. Vanishing of thought on reflection.

Pressing headache in the forehead and on the vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on the eyeballs and sleepiness ; worse in the evening or while entering a room from the cold air or vice versa. Congestion of blood to the head, sensation of fulness and enlargement of the head. Headache with nausea and sleepiness. The headache is caused or aggravated by a change of temperature.

Sensation of soreness and smarting in the eyes and corners of the eyes. Pressure in the eyes.

Stitches in the ears (in the evening). Spasmodic sensation in and around the ears.

Redness and inflammatory swelling of the nose, with tension. Scabs in the nostrils.

Dry heat in the face, with redness of the cheeks. Tingling in the face, especially on the nose and chin. Spasms of the lips.

White saliva in the mouth, tasting like copper. Accumulation of tough mucus in the throat. Scraping burning in the throat, and on the roof of the mouth.

Spasmodic hiccough. Nausea in the afternoon and evening, sometimes with headache. Sensation of soreness and burning in the pit of the stomach, especially to the touch. Sensation of soreness in the hypochondria, especially to the touch. Stitches in the region of the liver, extending up into the chest. Pulsations in the left hypochondrium. Colic and cutting pains in the abdomen, and when pressing on it the sensation as if every thing were sore and bruised. Burning soreness in the abdomen (chronic inflammation). Great tenderness of the abdomen to the touch.

Ulcers in the bladder.

Women. Acrid, corroding leucorrhœa.

Breathing short and oppressed, with pains in the chest, and inclination to draw a long breath. Pains in the chest as if sore, as from subcutaneous ulceration, or rheumatic soreness of the intercostal muscles. Stitches in the chest (right side of the chest extending to the liver). The external soreness of the chest is aggravated by touch, motion, and from stretching the body. Adhesion of the lungs (after inflammation).

Stitches in and between the shoulder-blades.

Upper. Spasmodic, rheumatic pains in the arms. Stitches in the arms and hands. Herpes in the palms of the hands. Herpes or blue blisters on the fingers. Tingling in the fingers. Cold hands. Lower. Cracking in the joints (knee). Drawing pains in the thighs, extending downwards. Stinging and soreness in the feet and toes.

Rheumatic and arthritic soreness, with stitches over the whole body. Trembling of the limbs, with dyspnœa (after anger). Twitching of the muscles. Epileptic attacks. Sudden weakness, with fainting.

Sleeplessness often from dyspnœa, heat and ebullitions. Cannot lie on the side.

Pulse full, hard and rapid in the evening ; slower in the morning ; chill predominates, with heat in the face ; worse in the afternoon and evening. Chilliness and heat in the face after dinner. He feels the chilliness especially in the open air, and on the well-covered chest. The fever consists only of a chill. Heat in the evening, especially on the face ; frequently only on the right side, with cold hands (and feet). Heat, with internal chill at the same time. Perspiration very scanty, and only in the morning on waking.

Vesicular eruptions, as from burns. Burning, itching, dark-blue vesicles in clusters, and a herpetic scurf, like horn. Flat, burning, stinging ulcers, with ichorous discharge. Horny excrescences. Herpes over the whole body.

Aggravation in the evening, and after eating ; from change of temperature, from touch, motion, from stretching the body.

Ranunculus bulbosus. Buttercup. Bulbous Crowfoot. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of whole plant.

Alcoholism. Breast, pain below. Chest, pains in . Chilblains. Corns. Delirium tremens. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Dyspnœa. Eczema. Epilepsy. Feet, pains in . Gastralgia. Hay-fever. Herpes zoster. Hiccough. Hydrocele. Jaundice. Liver, pain in. Neuralgia . Nyctalopia. Ovaries, neuralgia of. Pemphigus. Pleuritic adhesion. Pleurodynia. Rheumatism. Spinal irritation. Warts. Writer's cramp.

The caustic and pain-producing properties of the Ranunculaceæ reach their highest expression in the Buttercups themselves. R. bulb . forms a constituent of some arsenical plaisters used to disperse cancers. R. bulb . was proved by Franz, and some effects of its external application have been observed, and results of inhaling the fumes whilst preparing the plant, or when it has been burned. The last caused headache, and in one instance epilepsy, followed by cachexia, nodous gout, headache, and death. In a child who was cured of ague with subsequent dropsy and hydrocele by applying R. bulb . to the wrist, ulcers of the fingers penetrating down to the flexor tendons were produced. In one prover the effect of expressing the juice with the fingers was to cause a long-lasting and recurrent eruption of vesicles on the fingers, a characteristic feature of which was the blueness of the vesicles and the horny nature of the scabs: "Small, deep, transparent, dark blue little elevated blisters of the size of an ordinary pin's head, crowded together in oval-shaped groups of the size of a shilling, with intolerable burning itching, emitting when opened a dark yellow lymph, afterwards becoming covered with a herpetic, horny scurf"; — a complete picture of herpes. The pains as well as the appearance of herpes are met with in the pathogenesis of R. bulb . — Pains in nerves, serous membranes, muscles, tendons, joints, eyes, and internal organs. The pains are lancinating, pressing and out-pressing, jerking and sticking, as if bruised with external sensitiveness. From the acrid vapour arising whilst the juice of the plant was being prepared these symptoms arose: "Smarting from eyes as from smoke in evening. Smarting in eyes, nose, and fauces; the eyes run and are very painful, so that he has to stop using them for half an hour because he cannot see anything; whites slightly inflamed; mucus runs in torrents from nose; fauces painful as if sore during an inspiration , less during deglutition " — symptoms which have led to many cures of hay-fever with R. bulb . The " < during inspiration" is part of the general sensitiveness of R. bulb . to air, to cold air, and to change, which is the grand keynote of the remedy, and which will serve to indicate it in a large number of the cases to which it is otherwise appropriate. Another keynote is sensitiveness to touch: sore, bruised sensation; soreness of parts affected. These symptoms make R. bulb . an important vulnerary. Hering mentions "hemeralopia" as having been cured with R. bulb . in a woman during pregnancy, and in her three-year old son. The word "hemeralopia" has been used to denote both day -blindness and night -blindness. Hering uses it in the latter (and rarer) sense, for he says of the woman, she "can see well during the day." H. C. Allen speaks of "day-blindness" as an indication, probably, translating "hemeralopia" literally. The concomitant symptoms were: Heat, biting, and pressure in eyes; redness of conjunctiva and lids, especially inner surface of lower lids; lachrymation; pus in canthi; pustules on eyes; eyes look weak; pupils dilated; candle-light appears as a bright circle; can see well during day." With the concomitant symptoms R. bulb . would probably cure either day- or night-blindness. "Pressure and smarting in eyeballs" is very characteristic. R. bulb . causes a very painful form of indigestion: White-coated tongue; bitter, sour, or sweetish taste, with accumulation of saliva; scraping burning in throat; spasmodic hiccough; spasmodic feeling in œsophagus and pharynx, ascending; eructations; nausea, pressure on sternum with laboured breathing; violent burning in cardiac end of stomach; hunger early in morning, thirst in evening." Conversely R. bulb . has proved one of the most effective agents for removing the bad effects of alcoholic drinks: hiccough; epileptiform attacks; delirium tremens. In the last case the quarrelsome, angry mood on the one hand, and the abject fear of ghosts on the other, further point to its appropriateness. Pains in liver and spleen region < by touch. In pleurisy, pleurodynia, intercostal neuralgia and spinal neuralgia and herpes the pains are — sharp, stitching, shooting, come in paroxysms, are induced by atmospheric changes, sudden exposure to cold or heat, < in wet, stormy weather; from touch, motion, or turning the body. The chest is particularly the seat of these pains. "Muscular pains about margins of shoulder-blades in women of sedentary employment, often burning in small spots, from needlework, typewriting, piano playing" (H. C. Allen). "Jerks and shocks; and sudden tearings in right forearm and between thumb and index finger while writing," point to R. bulb . as one of the remedies in writer's cramp and professional neuroses. Sensations of R. bulb . are: Confusion of head as if intoxicated. As if head would be enlarged. As if head pressed asunder. Hypochondria in lowest ribs painful as if bruised. As if everything in abdomen sore and bruised. As if there were subcutaneous ulceration. Burning in left side of chest; in region of short ribs. As if something tearing in chest. As if cold wet cloths applied. As if a full breath could not be drawn. As of a knife thrust through side and into back. Muscles as if pounded. The "cold-water feeling" occurred in a patient of Burnett's (quoted by A. C. Pope in a lecture reported H. W ., xviii. 308). A woman, 30, had had a fall two years before Burnett saw her, and ever since had this peculiar sensation: Whenever she goes out of doors she feels as if wet cloths were applied to three different parts of the anterior walls of thorax — both infraclavicular fossæ, and under left breast. Never felt indoors, but constant as long as she is out. Guided by this symptom, "Unusual chilliness of outer parts of chest when walking in open air," with the general " < in open air" and " < walking in open air," Burnett gave R. bulb . In two days the patient was better; in three weeks the sensation had completely gone and the general health very much improved. Dudgeon reports this case ( B. J. H ., xxiv. 160): Lady, 27, three weeks after confinement went for a drive. The day was cold, and an accident occurred to the carriage which frightened her. In the evening she had a slight rigor, and complained of pain in left side about sixth and seventh ribs. < Slightest movement; > sitting rather bent forward and leaning a little to the left. Pulse 120, no heat of skin. No signs of lung or pleural involvement. Bry ., and later Arn ., gave no relief, and for two days the symptoms grew worse; the patient having to be propped up with pillows, leaning forward and to the left, her head resting on her breast, not daring to breathe at all deeply. R. bulb . 1 relieved her in ten minutes, when she "felt a wrench in her side and the pain was gone." She was able to lie down, slept all night, and made a rapid recovery. There were some slight returns of pain, now on one side, now on the other, but R. bulb . Soon removed them. The symptoms are < by touch; by pressure (consequence of falls). < Motion; walking; lying down; lying on side (affected); sitting up; change of position; < evening and morning. < Change of temperature; sudden exposure to cold or heat; open air. < Inspiring. < When temperature becomes lower; draught of air; rainy, stormy weather. < After eating. < From anger.

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Vanishing of thought on reflection ; stares at one point.
Obtuseness of senses.
Quarrelsome, angry mood, easily provoked.
Afraid of ghosts ; does not like to remain alone.
At the beginning of delirium tremens, with talkative mania ; unusual exertions and powerful efforts to escape from bed ; convulsions of facial and cervical muscles ; risus sardonicus ; stitches in liver ; long-lasting gastralgia, burning
changing to a dull pressure, with nausea ; vertigo ; confusion of head, as if intoxicated.

Vertigo, with danger of falling, when going from room into open air.
Dizziness of head ; sensation as if head would be enlarged and distended, making it difficult to think.

Headache over right eye ; < lying down ; > walking and standing.
Pressing headache in forehead and on vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on eyeballs and sleepiness ; > in evening and when entering a room, from cold air, or vice versa.
Pain in temples ; drawing and pressure in evening while walking, with feverish restlessness and difficulty of breathing.
Congestion of blood to head, sensation of fulness and enlargement of head.
Headache, with nausea and sleepiness.
Headache is caused or aggravated by a change of temperature.

Head feels too large.
Crawling, creeping, or burning pricking in scalp.

Mist before eyes.
Hemeralopia during pregnancy ; heat, biting and pressure in eyes ; redness of conjunctiva and lids, especially inner surface of lower lids ; lachrymation ; pus in canthi ; pustules on eyes ; eyes look weak ; pupils
dilated ; candlelight appears to her as a bright circle ; can see well during day.
Sudden hemeralopia in a boy æt. 3 3/4 years ; pupils but slightly dilated ; mother similarly affected.
Pressure and smarting in eyeballs.
Painfulness of right eyeball.
Sensation of burning soreness in right lower eyelid.
Smarting and soreness in outer canthus of right eye.
Herpes zoster supraorbitalis, with bluish-black vesicles, high fever and usual pains.

Sticking in right ear in region of tympanum.
Stitches in ears, principally in evening.

Redness and inflammatory swelling of nose, with tension.
Scabs in nostrils ; sore nose.
Hay fever ; smarting in eyes ; eyelids burn and feel sore ; nose stuffed up, especially toward evening, with pressure at root of nose and tingling and crawling sensation within its cavity ; sometimes this sensation attacks posterior nares,
causing patient to hawk and swallow and endeavor in every way to scratch affected part ; hoarseness ; sharp, stitching pains in and about chest ; general muscular soreness ; neck of bladder may be affected, producing some burning in passing water.

Dry heat in face, with redness of cheeks, evenings.
Tingling in face, especially on nose and chin.
Vesicular eruption on face, as from a burn ; smarts as if scalded ; eruption in clusters. θ Eczema.

Spasms of lips.

White saliva in mouth, tasting like copper.

Much viscid phlegm in throat.
Scraping, burning in throat and roof of mouth, inflammatory.

Increased thirst in afternoon.

One of our most effective agents for the removal of bad effects of alcoholic beverages ; hiccough ; epileptiform attacks ; delirium tremens.

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This buttercup gives off an acrid ethereal vapor very poisonous to such as are sensitive to it, and has been many times mistaken for Rhus poisoning.

This common field buttercup is not used as often as it is indicated, and it must be that it is not as well known as many other remedies. It is a rheumatic remedy of great usefulness when the chest muscles are involved. Pain in the spinal nerves, pleura and costal muscles always with extreme soreness. It is as sensitive to motion as Bryonia, and to the cold, damp weather as Dulcamara.

It has sudden weakness even to fainting, and it has cured epilepsy. It is extremely excitable, and resembles the much broken state of sensitive invalids; hence it has complaints from fright and vexation.

Its complaints are worse in the evening and after any change in the weather, especially from warm to cold. The evening aggravations are quite marked; the headache, ear pain, the nasal symptoms, the fever, soreness in the short ribs, dyspnœa, oppression of chest and heart, tightness of chest, increased pulsation, trembling, chilliness, are all worse in the evening. He is extremely sensitive to cold and cold, open air. Cold air brings on headaches, rheumatism, neuralgia of chest, spine and ovaries, vertigo.

Sudden exposure while overheated will bring on febrile symptoms, pleurisy or pneumonia. After exposure to cold air, his chest muscles are sore as if bruised. I)raft of cold air causes sore pains in many parts.

He is extremely sensitive to rainy and stormy weather. He is sore and bruised in many parts. Stitching pains in liver, ears, chest, abdomen, shoulder and other joints, spine, lumbar region to abdomen, between the shoulders in the back, stitching, burning pains radiating from the dorsal spine.

Burning pains in cardiac orifice of stomach; in pit of stomach, neck of bladder, in cornea; in eruptions; in ulcers. Pressing pain in forehead; vertex; eyes; temples; root of nose; pit of stomach; shoulder; across the lower part of chest; middle of chest. It has creeping crawling, tingling. Inflammation of the pleura with dropsy of adhesion. With pleural effusion it is a very useful remedy when there is extreme soreness along the ribs, especially the lower ribs. It has cured lupus and epithelioma. jaundiced.

It has great depression of spirits and desire to die.

Fear of ghosts and very irritable, even quarrelsome.

Confusion of mind.

Vertigo when going into the cold air.

Sensation of enlargement of the head.

Cerebral hyperemia with heat of the face.

Headache with change of temperature, pressing headache in forehead and vertex worse when changing temperature, either to cold or warm room. Violent pains over right eye, worse lying, and better when walking and standing. All other pains worse from motion. This is a notable exception.

Pressure and burning in the eyes.

Great pains in the eye, especially the right. Soreness and burning in right lower lid. Burning and soreness in outer canthus of the right eye. Bluish-black herpetic vesicles over the eye. it has cured hemiopia during pregnancy.

Stitching pains in the ears, especially the right, worse in the evening.

It has cured hay fever with burning in eyes and itching of the soft palate (like Wyethia), worse in the evening, pressing in the root of the nose. The skin of the nose is red much inflamed.

It has caused vesicular eruption on the face with great burning. It has caused epithelioma of the face. Prickling of the face, nose and, chin. Twitching of the lips.

Burning and soreness and redness in the throat, smarting and itching of the soft palate.

There is much thirst in the afternoon. It hag cured many times the weak and tottering condition of patients suffering from prolonged use, of stimulants, such as whisky and brandy. It is a great remedy for weak and tottering condition of patients suffering from prolonged use delirium tremens when he is besotted, has hiccoughs and is more or less convulsive. Epileptiform convulsions from alcoholic liquors. The hiccough is violent and convulsive Frequent eructations.

Burning in the stomach and especially in the region of the cardiac orifice. Stomach is very sensitive to touch. Paroxysms of neuralgia of the stomach.

Sore bruised feeling in the short ribs, stitching pains in the liver, jaundiced. Soreness in liver on deep pressure; symptoms worse in the evening.

In the abdomen there is much flatulence, colic, burning and great soreness on pressure. Stitching pain in right side of abdomen under the ribs. The pains are much worse from motion, breathing and walking. Many stitching pains in abdomen. It has a watery diarrhoea and dysentery. It has herpes zoster with violent pains.

Excoriating leucorrhoea and sharp pains in the ovaries every cold change in the weather, from motion, and in the evening.

Heavy, short breathing with oppression of chest in the evening. Sighing breathing. Pressure and constriction of the chest. Pressing pains in the walls of the chest. Violent stitching pains in the chest walls. Stitching pains in the region of fifth and sixth ribs. Painful soreness on touch or pressure on the floating ribs. Rheumatic pains in the chest.

Chronic costal rheumatism. Soreness describing the attachments of the diaphragm. Inflammation of the diaphragm and pleura. Hydrothorax pains in chest from adhesions of the pleura. Sensitive as if inner parts were adhered. Pain worse from motion, in cold air, from becoming cold, on inspiration. Sensation of a cold wet cloth on going into cold air. Stitching pains every change of the weather from warm to cold. Sore spots here and there on the ribs.

Pain in the region of heart from motion and inspiration and lying on left side. Rheumatic swelling of pectoral muscles with extreme soreness to touch. Pleurodynia with most violent cutting pains from inspiration, pressure, turning the body and cold air. Pulse full, hard and rapid in the evening and slow in the morning.

Sore spots in the spine.

Pain along the inner margin of the left scapula. Stitching pains in the spine between the scapulae. Pains in lower and inner margin of scapula in shoemakers, needle workers and writers from sitting bent. One scapula often becomes adhered to the back and it is immovable, and later burning pain comes on. Weak spine and great lassitude. Vesicular eruptions form upon the back and chest with blue contents, with severe pain.

Rheumatic pains, paroxysmal in character in the upper limbs.

Stitching pains along the nerves in arms and hands. Tearing pains in forearm and hand. The pains are worse from cold, and worse from Motion. Bluish vesicles in the palms and fingers. Seed warts on the, thumb.

Great weakness in lower limbs in forenoon. Stitching burning from the spine along the sciatic nerve in cold, wet weather and in stormy weather, worse from motion and in cold air. Drawing pain in the thighs. Rheumatic pain in knees, stinging and soreness in foot and toes. Corns very painful, sore to touch, sting and burn. He suffers from complaints like chilblains.

He is late falling asleep. Sleepless from difficult breathing, from heat, and orgasms of blood.

Dark blue vesicles upon the skin. Horny scurf forms after the vesicles have opened. It has been used for vesicular eruptions; for burns; for herpes zoster; for pemphigus; for eczema. Flat burning, stinging, ulcers. Horn-like excrescences.

Vanishing of thought on reflection.
Obtuseness of the senses.
Angry mood; quarrelsome.

Vertigo, with danger of falling, when going from room into open air.

Pressing headache in forehead and on vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on eyeballs and sleepiness; worse in evening or when entering a room from cold air; or vice versa.
Congestion of blood to head, sensation of fulness and enlargement of head.
Headache, with nausea and sleepiness.
The headache is caused or aggravated by a change of temperature.

Head feels too large.

Hemeralopia, with heat, biting and pressure in eyes; lids and conjunctiva slightly red, lachrymation; pus in the canthi.
Pressure in eyeballs.
Smarting and sore feeling in eye or canthus.

Stitches in ears, principally in evening.

Redness and inflammatory swelling of nose, with tension.
Scabs in the nostrils.

Dry heat in face, with redness of cheeks, evenings.
Tingling in face, especially on nose and chin.

Spasms of the lips.

White saliva in mouth, tasting like copper.

Much viscid phlegm in throat.
Inflammatory burning pains in throat and on palate.

After eating: 36.

Spasmodic hiccough.
Nausea in afternoon and evening, sometimes with headache.

Sensation of soreness and burning in pit of stomach, worse from touch.
Pressure in pit of stomach.

Sensation of soreness in hypochondria, especially to touch.
Stitches in region of liver, extending up into chest.
Pulsations in left hypochondrium.

Colic and cutting pains in abdomen, and when pressing on it sensation as if everything were sore and bruised.
Burning soreness in abdomen.
Great tenderness of abdomen to touch.

Ulcers in the bladder.

Leucorrhœa, at first mild, then acrid, corroding.

Short and oppressed, with pains in chest, and inclination to draw a long breath.

Stitches in chest.
Small, sore spot, as from subcutaneous ulceration. θ After pneumonia.
Adhesions of the lungs (after inflammation).

Pulse full, hard, rapid in evening, slower in morning.

Chest feels sore, bruised; worse from touch, motion, or turning body (many cases of pleurodynia).

Pain along inner edge of left scapula, often extending below its inferior angle, or through lower half of left side of thorax.

Spasmodic, rheumatic pain in arms.
Stitches in arms and hands.
Blister-like eruption in palms of hands.

Drawing pain in the thighs, extending downward.
Cracking in joints (knee).
Corns sensitive to touch, smart and burn.

Motion: 30. Turning body: 30. Cannot lie on side: 37.

Twitching of muscles.
Epileptic attacks.
Sudden weakness, with fainting.
Trembling of limbs, with oppression of breathing after fright or anger; aggravated in evening, and sometimes after eating, from change of temperature, especially from heat to cold.

Sleeplessness often with dyspnœa, heat and ebullitions; cannot lie on the side.

Morning: 29, 40. Afternoon: 16, 40. Evening: 3, 6, 8, 29, 36, 40.

Room to open air: 2, 3. Open air to room: 3. Change of temperature: 36. Open air: 40.

Chilly, with heat in face, worse afternoon and evening, the well-covered chest is chilly out of doors.
Heat in evening, worse on right side of face, with cold hands and general uncomfortableness.
Heat, with internal chill at same time.
Sweat scanty and only in morning on awaking.

Right: 18, 40. Left: 18, 31. Behind forward: 31. Above downward: 33.

Touch: 17, 18, 19, 30, 33. Pressure: 19.

Horn-like excrescences.
Vesicular eruptions, as from burns.
Shingles and intercostal neuralgia.
Flat, burning, stinging ulcers, with ichorous discharge.
Pemphigus.
Chilblains (external application).

Antidotes to Ran. bulb.: Bryon., Camphor., Pulsat., Rhus.
Inimicals: alcohol, Spir. nitr. dulc., Staphis, Sulphur, vinegar, wine.

A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant.

The "butter-cups" seem to typify the acrid properties of the Ranunculaceæ in general; their pathogeneses are remarkably free from the mental symptoms found in most of their botanical allies. ▶ Vesicular eruptions which are very painful, and violent neuralgic pains without these eruptions characterize these plants.

Aconite, Cimicif., Clem.

Twitchings; in abdomen and arms. ▶ Epilepsy. ▶ Pain in posterior part of thigh, in wrist, thumb and scapula. ▶ Bruised feeling, agg. hypochondriac region. ▶ Rheumatic pains, here and there. ▶ Smarting of eyes, nose and fauces, running from eyes, inability to see, whites inflamed, mucus running in torrents from nose, fauces painful during inspiration, less during deglutition. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Weakness; all day, with sleepiness; all day, head feels as if he had not slept enough, but he performs his occupation with ease if he chooses; during afternoon walk, with trembling of limbs; with heaviness; with trembling; sudden, in morning when writing and standing; in sudden attacks in afternoon when sitting, arising from head, with feeling as if his senses would vanish. ▶ Many symptoms caused by change of temperature, for example going from a warm room into cold air, or the reverse. ▶ Aggravation morning and evening.

Rheumatic neuralgia, agg. damp weather or change of temperature.

Delirium tremens. ▶ Effects of intoxicating drinks in general.

Ill humor; in afternoon, when with a patient. ▶ Vexed, quarrels and scolds. ▶ Quarrelsome and disposed to scold in forenoon, in evening desponding, apprehensive, sensitive, discontented, next day inclined to be provoked by innocent jests of his friends, etc. ▶ Gloominess. ▶ Anxiety, with headache and faintness. ▶ Fear in evening, she does not wish to remain alone, she is afraid of ghosts. ▶ (Dread of labor.). ▶ (The objects of his feelings, for instance, chagrin, occupy his mind long in forenoon, one sees that he is thinking of those things, he talks to himself, gesticulates in his anger.). ▶ Absent-minded and talking to himself. ▶ Knows not where he is. ▶ Obtuseness of senses during the herpes, even the painful herpes did not affect him as vividly as it ought to have done. ▶ Thought vanishes when reflecting, he stares at one point.

Aching in morning; A. when eating, with anxiety and weakness. ▶ Confusion; in forenoon, with weakness of it and of body. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Distended feeling. ▶ Congestion when walking in open air, agg. vertex. ▶ Rush of blood. ▶ Vertigo; when walking; on going into open air (Clem.); deep in brain when walking in open air, with stiffness in right tarsal joint and whole right leg; making it difficult to think.

▶ Pain, and in eyes; above right eye; in eminences in morning on entering house; in morning after a glass of wine, with nausea, pressure in upper part of chest and stitches in left side of chest; in F. and eyeballs in morning, amel. rising, whereas pain in chest increased; over right eye in evening, with disposition to weep and mental oppression, which seemed to emanate from chest; in F. and parietal bone from a slight blow upon nape; over right eye, agg. lying down, amel. walking and standing, with heat in face and cold hands; in sinciput in afternoon, as if filled with blood; sore, in hairy part in afternoon, per se, not when touched; drawing, in front of F. and upper part of frontal bone after supper, with sensation as if hair of sinciput stood on end. ▶ Pressure outward in afternoon. ▶ Vertigo, then pressure.

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Bruised feeling over the whole body.
Symptoms < evening and after eating, also by changes of temperature and alternations of warmth and cold, also touch, moving about and stretching the body.

Pain over the right eye, like a pressing asunder; < lying down, > walking and standing.
Headache particularly < changes of temperature.
The whole head feels enlarged and distended.
Smarting and burning in the eyes and canthi, as from smoke.
Eyeballs sore on moving them.

Nose swollen and inflamed, red.
Nostrils scabby.
Profuse discharge of tenacious mucus.
Tingling internally from the tip to the root, even extending to the right temple.

Clinical:
Attack like hay fever, smarting and burning in the eyes, stuffy nose, aggravated in evening; particularly tingling and crawling, which the patient tries to relieve by hawking and blowing the nose.

Scraping burning from the palate through the throat to the stomach.
Obstruction by tough mucus in the throat and œsophagus, especially in the evening.
Increased thirst.
Nausea and eructations, < afternoon and evening.
Burning at the cardiac orifice of the stomach.
Aching and sore pain at the pit of the stomach when touched.
Gastritis from alcohol.

Sore, bruised pain in the hypochondrium, and shooting pains from the liver into the right side of the chest.
Sticking in the right ribs, arresting breath, even extending to the top of the right shoulder.
Bruised pain in the region of the liver, sore to touch.
Sharp, pinching pains below umbilicus after eating.
Sensitiveness to touch.

Diarrhœa, watery, painless, (dysentery, with pains in the lower rib-regions).

Sharp, sticking pains, particularly in the lower right ribs, extending even to shoulder, or at times, above left nipple, all < touch and motion, with bruised pain; cannot move the arms or body.
Locality of pain sensitive to touch.
The region of the lower ribs on both sides becomes extremely painful to touch, with sharp, sticking pains on motion or inspiration, with tightness.
Pain in the muscles of the chest as from subcutaneous ulceration, with soreness and difficult breathing.
Violent bruised pain in the region of the short ribs, with backache, lassitude and ill humor; the pain spreads over the whole chest, with short breath, can hardly speak, < moving the arms or body or breathing.

Clinical:
Intercostal neuralgia.
Inflammation of the diaphragm.
Pneumonia and pleurisy, with the above peculiar pains, aggravated by changes of weather; always with great soreness to touch, as if bruised.
The pains seem rather external, as if in the muscles.

Stitches in and between the scapulæ.

Sudden jerking or tearing pains in the forearms.
Sticking burning pains in the sciatic region; < morning and stormy weather.

Vesicular eruption; blisters, often dark blue, in groups or along the course of nerves, with burning, shooting pains (herpes zoster).

Frequent chilliness after dinner.
Chill in the evening, with heat of the face, but without general fever.

Ran. b. / The Ranchman.

Ranunculus bulbosa,-Best
Of drugs for pains about the chest,
Rheumati and neuralgic kind,
That twixt the ribs a lodging find.
Chest pains of phthisis-pains that near
Beneath the mammary glands appear.
And pleurodynia is full sway
And shingles, and sciatica.

The Ranchman,-Has Shingles.

The Ranchman, Croton Mez, has his eye on a swarm of bees.

This Ranchman,-Who is subject to pains in the muscles of the chest,-Is at Bryo-Cim's, with the "royal Kid," Kalmi.

Shinges-Zoster: Ran. b., Crot. t., Mez., Apis, Sul., Rhus, Mer.

Chest Pains-Pleurodynia: Ran. b., Bry., Cimi., Rhus., Arn., Kal. i., Kalm., etc.

Indicated in rheumatic and neuralgic affections, particularly in diaphragmitis and pleurodynia; in affections of the nerves associated with burning eruptions of the skin, as herpes zoster.

Severe sticking and bruised pain in lower ribs, rendering breathing difficult and painful, with sense of great, deep soreness.

Severe sticking pain in different parts of the chest, interfering with breathing, worse from pressure, motion, change of weather.

Sharp, shooting pain, extending to hypochondria and back.

Herpes; vesicles are filled with bluish-black serum and follow the course of the nerves; accompanied with severe burning and itching.

Worse from sudden change of temperature, from damp weather.

When reflecting his thoughts vanish. Dull senses. Irritable and quarrel some. Fear of ghosts in evening.

From congestion of blood to head.

Congestion to. Sense of enlargement and distension of entire head distensive or bursting pressure, more in forehead and vertex, with pressure on eyeballs. Headache: With qualmishness and sleepiness, as though' the brain were bruised, with faint - like weakness. The pains are especially excited and intensified by changes of temperature. Worse: Toward evening, going from a warm room into the cold, or the reverse. Better: Rising from bed, in an even temperature.

Excoriative biting in and in canthi. Pressure in.

Stitches in. Spasmodic earache.

Red, tensive, inflammatory swelling. Scurfy nostrils.

Dry heat of, with red cheeks. Crawling, especially about chin and nose. Spasms of lips.

Sensation in molars, as though' they were forced asunder.

Scratching burning on palate and in throat. Increased secretion of tenacious mucus in throat in evening. Accumulation of much coppery - tasting saliva. Salivation.

Burning in cardiac orifice. Pressure and excoriative pain in pit when touched.

Hypochondriac: Excoriative or bruised pain in. Sticking pains in liver, extending into right chest.

Thirst Increased in afternoon.

Eructations: Spasmodic hiccough.

Nausea: Mostly in afternoon and evening.

Pinching bellyache alternating with pains in chest. Burning, excoriative pain in. Festering pain in intestines.

Soft, light, without pain.

Leucorrhoea: Acrid, corrosive.

Shortness of, with oppression of chest in evening. Violent oppression, as after deep mortification, he seems unable to inhale sufficient air and must frequently take a deep breath.

Suppurative pain in entire c., from least motion of upper part of body and when touched. Festering pain with stitches, extending downward into sides of abdomen. Violent stitches in right c., extending downward into hepatic region. the chest pains are mostly external and are intensified by motion and touch.

Stitches in, and between scapulae.

Stitches in arms and hands. Herpes on palms of hands. Herpes or blue vesicles on fingers. Ulcerated fingers.

Drawing extending from thighs downward. Podagra and sticking in feet and toes.

Bruised sensation in entire body. Trembling of limbs, with oppression of breathing after vexation. Epileptic attacks. Symptoms are intensified in evening, (in evening), in certain cases also after eating. Changes of temperature and alternations of heat or cold, as well as touch, motion and stretching of body, many symptoms, especially those of trunk. Effects of taking cold.

Blistery eruption like that of a burn. Burning, itching, dark blue vesicles in closely aggregated groups. Flat, burning, sticking ulcers, with corrosive ichor. Horny growths. Herpes.

Late falling to, in evening. Sleeplessness, as if from too great activity. Frequent awaking at night and difficult falling to sleep again.

Pulse: Hard, full and accelerated in evening, slower in morning. Chill: predominating, with heat of face, mostly in afternoon and evening. Chilliness with heat of face after dinner. In open air he chills mostly on the outside of (covered) chest. The fever often consists of chill only. Heat: In evening, especially on face, often on r. side only, with cold hands (and feet). With concomitant internal chill. Sweats very little, and only in morning on awaking.

Allied Remedies: Bry., Puls., RHUS-T., Staph., Sul., Verbas.

Shocks through the whole body.

The whole body feels as if beaten.

Trembling of the limbs after anger.

Burning and stinging pains.

Burning and itching vesicular eruptions.

There is an aggravation morning and evening.

Aggravation from change of temperature, from motion and from stretching.