Pulsatilla nigricans
puls-nigPulsatilla Nigricans (Ranunculaceae)
Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition—the woman’s remedy. Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and protracted menstruation (Graph.). Especially in diseases of women and children. The first serious impairment of health is referred to puberic age, have “never been well since”—anemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis. Secretions from al
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Pulsatilla nigricans — mind · James Tyler Kent
It is one of the polychrests and one of the medicines most frequently used, as well as often abused. The Pulsatilla patient is an interesting one, found in any household where there are plenty of young girls. She is tearful, plethoric, and generally has little credit for being sick from her appearances; yet she is most nervous, fidgety, changeable, easily led and easily persuaded. While she is mild, gentle and tearful, yet she is remarkably irritable, not in the sense of pugnacity, but easily irritated, extremely touchy, always feels slighted or fears she will be slighted; sensible to every social influence. Melancholia, sadness, weeping, despair, religious despair, fanatical; full of notions and whims; imaginative; extremely excitable. She imagines the company of the opposite sex a dangerous thing to cultivate, and that it is dangerous to do certain things well established in society as good for the human race. These imaginations belong to eating as well as thinking. They imagine that milk is not good to drink, so they will not take it. They imagine that certain articles of diet are not good for the human race. Aversion to marriage is a strong symptom. A man takes it into his head that it is an evil thing to have sexual intercourse with his wife and abstains from it. Religious freaks; an especial tendency to dwell on religious notions; fixed ideas concerning the Scripture; he misuses and misapplies the Scriptures to his own detriment; dwells on sanctification until he becomes fanatical and insane; thinks he is in a wonderfully sanctification state of mind, or that he has sinned away his day of grace. This goes no until he becomes insane on other subjects, and then the tendency is to sit day after day in a taciturn way.
Pulsatilla nigricans — general · James Tyler Kent
It is said to be a very good medicine for women, for blondes, especially for tearful blondes.
Pulsatilla nigricans — peculiar · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Hahnemann says, “ This very powerful plant produces many symptoms on the healthy, which often correspond to the morbid symptoms commonly met with.” Hence the smallest homoeo pathic medicine chest, even one of a dozen remedies only, invariably contains Pulsatilla. . He says that ” this, like all other medicines, is most suitably employed when not only the corporeal affections correspond but also when the mental and emotional alterations peculiar to the drug encounter similar states in the disease to be cured, or at least in the temperament of the subject of treatment ” . Therefore “ Pulsatilla will be the more efficacious when the patient exhibits a timid, lachrymose disposition, with a tendency to inward grief and silent peevishness, or at all events a mild and yielding disposition, especially when the patient in normal health was good-tempered and mild (or even frivolous and waggish).” " Pulsatilla is especially adapted,” he says, ” for slow phlegmatic temperaments ; and little suited for persons who form their resolu tions with rapidity, and are quick in their movements, even though they may appear to be good tempered.” He tells us : “ It acts best when there is a disposition to chilliness and adipsia. It is particularly suitable for females when their menses come on some days after their proper time ; especially also when the patient must lie long in bed at night before he can get to sleep, and when the patient is worse in the evening.” ” Useful for ill-effects from eating pork.” He suggests the 30th potency. Chilliness !... One looks upon Pulsatilla as one of the " warm remedies ”.
Pulsatilla nigricans — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
This is not only one of the easiest of drugs to realize and learn, but it is also one of Hahnemann’s Polycrests, or “ drugs of many uses”. Inits provings it establishes symptoms on every part of the body and may be prescribed on its striking mental and
Pulsatilla nigricans — modalities · James Tyler Kent
Many symptoms worse after eating. It is often only a lump in the stomach, but the mental and nervous symptoms also are worse after eating. The stomach symptoms are worse in the morning, the mental symptoms worse in the evening. Aggravation from fats and rich foods. Complaints brought ort by eating fat, pork, greasy things. cakes, pastries and rich things. The Pulsatilla stomach is slow to digest. Hours after eating there is a sense of fullness in the stomach, a lump in the stomach, ameliorated by slow walking in the open air. The patient is commonly relieved from slow motion in the open air, becomes frantic when trying to keep still, worse during rest, ameliorated by doing something, generally slow, moderate motion. This relief from motion and aggravation from rest, relief in the open air, and aggravation in a warm room give us a good summary of this beautiful remedy. In Pulsatilla patients the skin feels feverish and hot, while the temperature of the body is normal, There is aggravation from much clothing; she wants to wear a thin dress even in moderately cold weather. Does not need to dress warmly. Much clothing and covering aggravate. Often be cannot wear flannels or woolen clothing because they irritate the skin, causing itching and eruptions like Sulphur, and this is not surprising, as Pulsatilla and Sulphur are antidotes. There is no remedy like Pulsatilla to antidote Sulphur when it has been used every Spring to "cleanse the blood." Some people use Sulphur until the skin becomes red, hot, easily irritated, and aggravated by clothing. Pulsatilla is the antidote.
Pulsatilla nigricans — head · James Tyler Kent
Pulsatilla has violent headaches. Headaches in school girls who are about to menstruate. Headache accompanying menstruation. Headache associated with suppressed menses, with menstrual disorders; not caused from them, but associated with them. Pains through the temples and sides of the head are common Pulsatilla headaches. Headaches before, during and after menstruation; but more commonly before, when there is a general state of congestion, stasis, and tumefaction of the veins, and amelioration of the headache when the menses set in if the flow is normal. It is common to have the head and nervous symptoms through the menses, because the flow is so scanty, often little more than a leucorrhoea, and for a single day a little clot of dark blood. One-sided headaches and one-sided complaints are peculiar to Pulsatilla. Perspiration on one side of head and face; fever on one side of the body; one side cool and normal and the other side hot. I remember a case of puerperal fever with sweat on one side of the body and dry heat on the other and confusion of other symptoms. Pulsatilla was given and the patient recovered. The Pulsatilla headache is a throbbing congestive headache; much, heat in the head, ameliorated by the application of cold, by external pressure, and sometimes by slow motion, aggravated by lying and sitting quiet, ameliorated by walking slowly in the air; becomes worse towards evening and gradually increases through the evening and night, worse from the motion of the eyes and from stooping. The pains are often constricting, throbbing and congestive. Periodic sick headaches, with vomiting of sour food. Headache when be overeats. Though he likes ice cream, he has headache and congestion of the stomach after eating ice cream. Eyes. Catarrhal symptoms.
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