PULSATILLA PRATENSIS

Pulsatilla pratensis

Generalities

• On account of its Changing; Shifting Symptoms this remedy is known as a weather cock remedy.

• It affects the Mind; Veins; Mucous membranes; respiration and one side.

• Symptoms rise to a certain pitch, then suddenly cease.

• It is a remedy for females, of mild, gentle, plethoric yielding disposition, who cry readily and weep when talking.

• Symptoms appear on one side or go to side lain on.

• Thirstlessness; Chilliness and Shortness of Breath; with digestive or menstrual disorders.

• Chilliness; with pains but burning, with stitching pains; with numbness.

• Mucous Discharges are Profuse; Bland, Thick; Yellowish-Green.

• Changing and contradictory symptoms having no head or tail to them.

• Alternations.

– Metastasis.

• Haemorrhages; passive; vicarious; blood dark, easily coagulating.

• Venocity, varicose veins.

• Heaviness.

• Scraping, jerking, tearing, ulcerative pains; wandering pains.

– Numbness; partial; hands, feet etc.; of the part lain on; of suffering parts.

• Ill effects of Suppressions, otorrhoea, menses, lochia, milk etc.

• Eating ice-cream; pork, fats; pastry; mixed diet.

• Chilly but craves for open air.

• Pale chilly blondes.

• Anaemia.

• Never well since puberty.

• Chorea; from amenorrhoea or dysmenorrhoea.

• The longer he lies in the morning the longer he wishes to lie.

• Can not lie with head low.

– Child wants to be carried slowly.

• Symptoms in distant parts of the body cause dyspnoea.

• Sensation of distension in size, as if one part or every part were growing too large; during pain.

• Bandaged sensation.

• Wearing of flannels or woolen clothes cause itching and eruptions.

• Prophylactic for measles.

• Epilepsy with absent or irregular menses.

• Emaciation of suffering parts.

• Pulsation through whole body.

Worse

• Warmth, of Air; of Room; Clothes; Bed.

• Getting feet wet.

– EVENING.

• REST.

• BEGINNING MOTION.

• LYING, on one side (left).

– EATING; long after; RICH FOODS, fats, ices, eggs.

• PUBERTY.

• PREGNANCY.

• Before menses.

– Iron.

• Quinine.

• Hanging down limbs.

• Tea.

• Thunderstorms.

• Sun.

• Twilight.

Better

• Cold; Fresh, Open Air; food, drinks.

• Uncovering.

• Gentle motion.

– Erect Posture.

• Continued motion.

• After a good cry.

– Changing sides.

• Pressure.

• Rubbing.

• Lying with head high.

Mind

• MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL, AND TEARFUL.

• Disgusted at everything.

• Discouraged.

• Easily offended.

• 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; therefore wants to hide or run.

• 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.

Head

• Aches; from overwork; suppressed sexual excitement; indigestion; starts in vertex.

• Occipital ache agg. coughing.

• Semilateral headaches, pulsating, bursting; with scalding lachrymation of the affected side.

• Vertigo; agg. sitting looking up; with nausea and gastric or menstrual disturbances; before, during after or suppressed menses.

• Profuse sweat on scalp.

• Headache of school girls at the time of puberty.

• Headache amel. walking in open air.

• Head seems heavy.

• Can not hold upright, can not raise it.

Eyes

• Dimness of vision, with a sensation as though there were something covering the eyes which the patient wishes to rub or wipe; agg. wind.

• Thick, yellow, profuse bland discharge.

• Ophthalmia; neonatorum; gonorrhoeal; from amenorrhoea.

• Fistula lachrymalis discharging pus on pressure.

• Acrid lachrymation.

• Styes; recurrent.

• Blepharitis.

• Conjunctivitis from cold.

• Blind attacks, before menses.

• Amaurosis, paralysis of the optic nerve.

• Itching, burning in eyes, causing rubbing.

• Weeping eyes.

Ears

• Ache agg. night.

• Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in car; and in a warm room.

• Otorrhoea; discharge of pus, of blood; thick yellow humour, offensive; after exanthemata.

• External ear red and swollen and feels as if something pushed out from the ear.

• Mumps, esp. metastatic to the breast or testes.

• Lobes or ear swollen.

Nose

• Loss of smell, with catarrh.

• Foul discharge or odour before the nose.

• Coryza; obstruction of nose agg. lying down or in a room; amel. going out in the open air.

• Green; orange coloured, foetid, urinous, nasal discharge; chronic bland yellow discharge.

• Nose bleed, before, during and from suppressed menses.

Face

• Pale.

• Neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation, agg. chewing, talking, or with hot or cold things in the mouth.

• Lips cracked; peeling; swollen.

• Licks lips.

• Crack in centre of lower lip.

– Acne in young girls.

Mouth

• Breath offensive.

• Dry or slimy; without thirst.

– Drawing toothache amel. cold.

• Taste; bad in a.m. ; loss of; from coryza; greasy, bloody; sweet; alternating.

• Tongue; yellow white; feels scalded.

• Much sweet saliva.

• Food; leaves an after taste.

• Taste bitter esp. for bread.

• Diminished taste to all food.

• Saliva; tenacious; frothy cotton like.

Throat

• Food lodges in.

– Dry; sore with sense of dysphagia.

• Sensation of worm wriggling up.

• As of a sulphur vapour when coughing.

Stomach

• Aversion; to water, fats, pork, bread, milk, smoking, warm food and drink.

• Craves; acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring, cheese.

• Food taste too salty.

• Onions disagree.

• Sudden loathing; agg. eating.

• Eructations, taste of food, remain a long time.

• Nausea.

• heartburn.

• Thirstlessness; with nearly all complaints.

• Vomiting of food eaten long before.

• Visible pulsations in the pit of stomach.

• Stitching pain agg. walking or misstep.

• Weight as from a stone.

– Stomach DERANGED; FEELS HEAVY.

• Hiccough when smoking tobacco.

• Hunger; but does not know for what.

Abdomen

• Cutting; pulsation; in epigastrium.

• Painful, distended; loud rumbling.

• Pressure as from a stone.

• Feeling of numbness.

• Pains extend into groins.

• Stools; changeable, not two stools alike; green, bilious; agg. after midnight.

• Two or three normal stools daily.

• Hard painful lumps in both groins.

• Blind piles, agg. menses, lying down.

• Diarrhoea in jaundice, with sensation of heat.

• Discharge of blood from rectum even when not at stool.

• Diarrhoea after fright.

Urinary

• Urination; involuntary of lying down, laughing, coughing; sneezing; hearing sudden noise; after pleasurable surprise; shock; passing flatus; during sleep esp. in little girls.

• Haematuria after urination.

• Heavy pressure or cramp in bladder, after urination.

• Sensation as of a stone rolling in the bladder.

• Urine dribbles when angry.

• Urging to urinate when lying on back.

• Stricture of urethra, urine comes in drops or stops and starts.

Male

• Burning down left spermatic cord.

• Acute prostatitis; enlarged prostate.

• Orchitis; gonorrhoeal; or from sitting on cold stones.

• Epididymitis.

• Testicles hang low down.

• Bloody emissions.

• Thick yellow discharge, late stage of gonorrhoea.

Female

• Amenorrhoea; from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia.

• Feels like menstruating.

• Menses; dark thick; Too Late Scanty; after bathing; clotted, changeable, intermittent, irregular, vicarious; Delayed at puberty.

• Dysmenorrhoea.

• Leucorrhoea; milky, thick like cream, with pain in the back and exhaustion, acrid.

• Weak labour pains.

• Bearing down agg. lying.

• After pains; too long and too violent.

• Mammae; sore aching; lumps in; in girls before puberty.

• Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty;.

• Milk; suppressed, scanty.

– Post-partum secondary haemorrhages from retained placenta.

• Weeps every time, the child is put to breast.

• Swelling of breasts after weaning.

• Galactorrhoea.

• Secretion of milk during menses.

• Maldisposion of foetus.

Respiratory

• Short Breath agg. lying on left side; smothering sensation on lying down; agg. if heated, open air.

– Cough; loose in the morning, dry in the evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief.

– Expectoration thick, purulent, slimy; sweet, saltish, bitter as it loosens up.

• Cough dry, hacking from tickling in epigastrium.

• Chest oppressed; as by a load.

• Soreness, or stitch beneath clavicles.

• Hoarseness comes and goes.

• Asthma from suppressions.

• Cough after measles.

Heart

• Palpitation; agg. lying on left side, anxious; with amenorrhoea; from emotions; after dinner.

• Catching pain, with short breath amel. by pressure of a hand and walking.

Back

• As if cold water was poured down the back.

• Pain in back land small of back as from prolonged stooping.

• Curvature of the upper part of the spine.

• Shooting pain in the nape and back.

• Backache agg. lying on back, amel. lying on sides or changes of position, esp. so during pregnancy.

• Back feels bandaged.

• Pain in sacrum on sitting.

Extremities

• Rapidly shifting pains in limbs.

• Arms feel broken and dislocated.

• Elbows numb.

• Joints; swollen; red.

• Dorsum of foot swollen, oedematous.

• Pains down lower limbs, alternating sides.

• Legs heavy.

• Sticking in tibia agg. lying amel. cool air and walking.

• Cold sweat on legs.

• Foul foot sweat.

• Veins full, varicose, painful.

• Milk leg.

• Periostitis.

• White swelling of knee.

• Inclination to stretch the feet.

• Numbness in legs when remaining long standing.

Skin

• Glands swollen.

• Ulcers; with hard, red glistening areolae.

• Varicose.

• Itches on being heated.

• Urticaria; after rich food; with diarrhoea; from delayed menses; after undressing.

• Measles.

Sleep

• Great sleepiness during day, wakes confused; languid, unrefreshed.

• Lies; with hands over head or crossed on abdomen, and feet drawn up.

• Dreams; frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, confused of cats, etc.

• Chattering in sleep.

• Talks, whines or screams during sleep.

Fever

• Chilly; yet averse to heat; in Warm Room; with pain; on lying down at night.

• One sided coldness with numbness.

• Pains during sweat.

• One hand cold.

• Partial sweat.

• Feverish, hot, body temperature normal.

• Erratic temperature in fevers.

Complementary

– Ars; Kali-bi; Sep; Sil; Zinc.

Related

• Apis; Cimic; Graph; Ham; Kali-bi; Kali-s; Nat-s.

Source: Phatak materia medica