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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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SYNONYM |
: | Anemone
Pratensis. |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Wind
Flower. |
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A/F |
: | -Eating
fatty and starchy food, ice-cream, tea,
coffee -Abuse of mercury, quinine, sulphur, chamomile -Abortion -Irregular menses -Ovarian and uterine troubles -Worm affection in children and indigestion -Chill, getting feet wet -Excessive joy -Abuse of iron tonics and after badly managed measles -Ill effects of suppressions |
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MODALITIES |
: | < In a warm, closed room < Getting feet wet < On beginning to move < On the painless side < Lying on the left side < Warm application < Very rich, fat, indigestible food < Heat < Hanging down limbs < Puberty < Thunderstorm < Pregnancy < Sun < Before menses < Tea < Rest < Evening, at twilight > Changing side > Pressure > Rubbing > Lying with head high > In the open air > Lying on the painful side > Cold air or cold room > Eating or drinking cold things > Cold application > Uncovering > Gentle motion > Erect posture > Continued motion > After a good cry |
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MIND |
: | -Mild,
timid, emotional and tearful. -Weeps easily, can hardly give has symptoms without weeping, weeps at everything. -Disgusted at everything. -Discouraged, easily offended. -Timid, irresolute -Whining, craves sympathy. -Children like fuss and caresses. -Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage. Thinks that sexual intercourse is a sinful act. -Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. -Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating. -Religious melancholy. -Fear -to be alone
-of dark -of ghosts in the evening -of insanity -of high places. -Capricious. Miserly. Suspicious. -Very irritable, touchy, feels slighted or fears slight. -Answers yes or no by nodding her head. -Imagines that certain articles of food are not good for the human race. -Sad from disagreeable news. -Mania from suppressed menses -Anxiety about the heart, in the evening, even to suicide. -Anxiety as if in hot air. -Desire to be carried slowly. ->Consolation -Hatred of women. Delusions women are evil, will injure his soul. -Remorse in the evening. -Weeping when disturbed at work, weeping when interrupted while nursing. -Delusion she is alone in the world, she is always alone. -Sees cats, dogs, insects, devils. Sees black forms when dreaming. -Fastidious. -Forsaken feeling in the evening. -Dreams frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, confusion of etc. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Adapted
to person of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic
temperament, with sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, plethoric, the
woman's remedy. -Never well since puberty. -Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no stools, no two attacks, alike, very well one hour, very miserable the next. Changing and contradictory symptoms; having no head or tail to them. -Symptom > moving about slowly in open air. -Pains-drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another. -pains start suddenly, disappear gradually, vice-versa. -pains are accompanied with constant chilliness. -the more severe the pain the move severe the chill. -All discharges from mucous membrane are thick bland greenish yellow, but vaginal discharges, such as leucorrhoea, are sometimes acrid and excoriating causing rawness of the parts. -Chilliness in warm room. Patient though is chilly, seeks the open air, doesnot want to cover. -There is thirstlessness with nearly all complaints, with dry while coated tongue. -Haemorrhage-passive, vicarious, dark, easily cogitating blood. -Head-Headache neuralgic pain, commencing in right temporal region, with scalding lachrymation of affected side. -Headache from over worry. -Headache of school girls at the time of puberty. -Vertigo > in open air. Vertigo before, during, after or suppressed menses. -Cannot lie with head low. -Headache one-sided. -Ears-Otorrhoea, thick bland discharge offensive odour. -External ear swollen and red. -Catarrhal otitis, sensation as if something were being forced outward. -Otalgia worse at night. -Diminishes acuteness of hearing. -Mumps, especially metastatic to the breast or testes. -Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in a car and in a warm room. -Eyes-Itching and burning in eyes. -Profuse lachrymation and section of mucus. -Thick, profuse yellow bland discharges. -Lids inflamed, agglutinated. -Opthalmia neonatrum, gonorrhoeal. -Styes recurrent, mainly on upper eyelid. -Blepharitis. -Veins of fundus greatly enlarged. -Subacute conjunctivitis with dyspepsia < in warm room, from cold. -Paralysis of optic nerve. -Blind attacks before menses. -Nose-Coryza, stoppage of right nostril, mainly in evening. -Yellow mucus abundant in morning. -Large green scabs in nose. -Nose bleed before, and from suppressed menses. -Face-Right sided neuralgia with profuse lachrymation < chewing < talking or with hot or cold things in mouth. -Mouth-Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in the middle. -Licks lips. -Dry mouth without thirst wants it washed frequently. -Yellow or white tongue covered with a tenacious mucus. -Toothache relieved by holding cold water in mouth. -Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. -Much sweet saliva, tenacious, frothy, cotton like. -Alteration of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, foul. -G.I.T.-Desire for tonics. -Craves acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring, cheese. -Aversion to water, fat food, warm food and drink, butter, pork, bread, milk. -Eructations; taste of food remains along time; after ices, fruits, party. -Heartburn, dyspepsia with great tightness after a meal, must loosen clothes. -Pain in stomach an hour after eating. -Weight as from stone. Stomach deranged, feels heavy. -All gone sensation especially in tea drinkers. -Gastric dyspepsia from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially after pork or sausage. -Diarrhoea only or usually at night; rumbling, watery, greenish yellow, very changeable, as soon as they eat, from fruit, cold food or dunes, ice-cream. -Blind piles with itching and sticking pains. -Two or three normal stools daily. -Urinary system-Urine increased desire, worse when lying down. -Involuntary micturation at night, while coughing or passing flatus, hearing sudden noise, after pleasurable surprise shock. -After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder. -Urine dribbles when angry. -Female genitalia-Amenorrhoea from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia. -Derangement at puberty. -Delayed first menstruation. -Menses- too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermittent flow, with evening chilliness, with intense pain, and great restlessness and tossing about. Pains spasmodic excite suffocation and fainting, must have fresh air. -Diarrhoea during or after menses. -Feels like menstruating. -Leucorrhoea milky thick like cream, acrid, with pain in back and exhaustion. -Leucorrhoea in infant. -Mammae sore; aching lumps in; in girls before puberty. -Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty. -Post partum secondary haemorrhage from retained placenta. -Weeps every time the child is put to breast. -Swelling of breast after weaning. -Secretion of milk during menses. -Malposition of foetus. -Threatened abortion- flow ceases and then returns with increased force. -Male genitalia-Orchitis. -Thick yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoeal stricture, urine passed only in drops and stream interrupted. -Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus > lying on back. -Respiratory system-Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. -Dry cough in evening and at night, must sit up in bed to get relief. -Loose cough in the morning with copious mucous expectoration. -Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. -Short breath < lying on left side. -Smothering sensation on lying down. -Cough after measles, cough in and paroxysms. -Extremities-Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly. -Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness. -Joints swollen red. -Legs feels heavy and weary. -Veins full varicose, painful milk leg, veins in forearm and hands swollen < letting the affected limb hang down. -Skin-Urticaria after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. -Measles. -Fever-Chilliness in warm room, without thirst, yet averse to heat. -Chilly, with pain in spots, worse evening. -Chill about 4. p.m. -Feverish body temperature normal. -Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins. -Heat in parts of body, coldness in other. -One sided sweat; pains during sweat. -During apyrexia- headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite. -Sleep-Sleepless in the first of night; from ideas crowding in the mind, and sleeps late in the morning when it is time to get up. -Lies with hand overhead. -Great sleepiness during day. -Confused, languid, unrefreshed, talks whines screams during sleep. |
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KEYNOTES |
: | -Weeps
easily, almost impossible to detail her
ailments without weeping. -Symptoms ever changing. -Pains rapidly shifting, tearing, drawing, erratic, are accompanied with constant chill, appear suddenly leave gradually. -Thirstlessness, with dryness in mouth with nearly all complaints. -Though chilly, craves fresh open air. -Dry cough in the evening, and at night loose cough in the morning. -Diarrhoea usually at night. -Nervousness felt intensely about the ankle. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -A/F
- Fat, rich food, ice-cream, pork etc. -Mild, gentle, yielding, nervous, affectionate, undecissive females. -Weeps easily, almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping. -Thirstlessness with all complaints. -Symptoms ever changing. -Pains shifting from one part to another, attended with chilliness. -Though patient is chilly, patient seeks open air. -< Evening > Walking or gentle motion. -Delayed menarch, menses late scanty. -Discharges are thick, bland and yellowish greenish, except leucorrhoea which is acrid. -Dry cough in the evening and at night, loose cough in the morning. |
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CLINICAL |
: | -Amenorrhoea,
Anxiety, Arthritis, asthma,
Bronchitis, Conjunctivitis, Cough, Cystitis, Dementia, Depression,
Dysmenorrhoea, Eczema, Endometriosis, Food allergy, Gastritis,
Menstrual disorders, Menopause, Metrorrhagia, Migraine, Mumps,
Orchitis, Otiyis media, Premenstrual syndrome, Prostatitis, Psoriasis,
Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Urethral stricture, Urethritis, Uterine prolapse,
Varicose veins, Vertigo. -Pulsatilla may empty the majority of pus tuber- Dr. Boger. -Pulsatilla is a better antidote to whisky than even Nux-v- Dr. Hering. -One of the best remedy with when to begin the treatment of a chronic case. -Patients who are anemic, chlorotic, and have taken much iron, quinine and tonics, even years before. -Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Arg-n,
Bar-c, Caps, Kali-s, Lyc, Med,
Merc, Phos, Sep, Staph, Sulph. -Complementary-Kali-m, Lyc, Sil, Sulph-ac, Kali-m its chemical analogue. -Follows and is followed by- Kali-m. -Follows well after- Kali, Lyc, Sep, Sil, Sulph. |