Ranunculus bulbosus
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Buttercup
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Keynotes
Ranunculus bulbosus
Buttercup. Ranunculaceae.
One of our most effective remedies for the had 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, type writing, piano playing (Act).
Pains : stitches, sharp, shooting, neuralgic, myalgic 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 (Salyc. 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.
Euphorb., Mez.
Incompatible : with Sulph. and Staph.
changes, especially, wet stormy weather (Rhus).
What the other books say about Ranunculus bulbosus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ranunculus bulbosus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ranunculus bulbosus in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Ranunculus bulbosus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Ranunculus bulbosus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Ranunculus bulbosus — Keynotes, pp. 239–240. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/ranunculus-bulbosus. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.