Ranunculus bulbosus

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.

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

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

Related: Canth. Rhus-t.

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).

Lecture XXXII — Actea racemosa, Ranunculus bulbosus and Ranunculus sceleratus

Ranunculus Bulbosus.

Serous membranes.

Ranunculus , Muscles, bulbosus. Effects of alcohol.

^ Skin.

Compare with Aconite, Arnica, Cactus, Bryonia, Rhustox., Arsenicum, Mezereum.

We have two varieties of the Ranunculus to consider to day. These are the Ranunculus bulboszcs and the Ranunculus sceleratus. Both of these plants possess a juice or sap which is exceedingly irritating to the skin. When applied locally, it produces erythema followed later by an eruption which is at first vesicular in character and attended with burning, smarting and itching. If the symptoms continue, by reason of the intensity of the action of the drug ulceration and even gangrene of the parts may follow, the gangrene being associated with fever and delirium. This is an extreme picture, yet it is one which may follow the prolonged use of some of the species of Ranunculus. We shall now consider Ranunculus bulbosus. First as to its action on serous membranes: we may think of Ranunculus bulbosus in inflammation of serous membranes, particularly of the pleura or peritoneum, , when there are acute stabbing pains, accompanied by an effusion of / serum into the serous sac. Accompanying this effusion we find great I anxiety, dyspnoea and distress, caused partly by the accumulation of fluid and partly by the anxiety from the pains themselves. Now these are symptoms not commonly known among physicians, yet you will find that here Ranunculus will serve you as well as Apis, Bryonia or Sulphur or even better than these, if the pains are of the character just described.

The second heading in our schema is " Muscles." We find Ranunculus acting here as a curative agent. It is especially indicated in rheumatism of the muscles, particularly in muscles about the trunk. /Intercostal rheumatism yields far more quickly to this drug than to any other. There is usually a great deal of soreness to touch, and the muscles have a bruised feeling, as if they had been pounded. I know that Aconite, Arnica or Bryonia is often given when Ranunculus is indicated.

Aconite may be the remedy in pleurodynia when there is high fever (which is not often), especially if you can trace the trouble to exposure to cold after being overheated.

Ranunculus bulbosus may also be used in the case of persons who are - subject to stitches about the chest in every change of weather. Again, it may be used for sore spots remaining in and about the chest after pneumonia. The characteristic sensation attending the Ranunculus soreness is a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration, which is purely subjective. This symptom is also characteristic of Pulsatilla. Again, Ranunculus may be used for pains about the lungs from adhesions after pleurisy.

The rheumatic pains of Ranunculus are worse in damp weather and particularly from a change of weather or change of temperature. Even a rheumatic headache having this aggravation, may call for Ranunculus.

We may find it indicated also in diaphragmitis, when there are sharp shooting pains from the hypochondria and epigastrium through to the back.

Another remedy that I have found of service in this latter disease is Cactus grandijlorus, which is an excellent remedy for sharp pains in the diaphragm, particularly if there is a feeling as though a band were tied around the waist marking the attachments of the diaphragm to the borders of the ribs.

You should remember Ranunculus bulbosus as a remedy for the bad effects of excess in drink, in hiccough and even in epileptiform attacks and delirium tremens.

Ranunculus bulbosus is useful in herpes zoster or zona. Vesicles appear on the skin and are filled with serum. Sometimes these vesicles have a bluish-black appearance. There is marked burning. Especially is Ranunculus indicated when the trouble follows the course of the supra-orbital or intercostal nerves and is followed by sharp stitching pains. Here you may compare Rhus tox., Arsenicum and Mezereum.

Ranunculus may also produce pemphigus. Large blisters form, which burst and leave raw surfaces.

Again, you may use Ranwiculus in eczema, attended with thickening of the skin and the formation of hard horny scabs. Here it is similar to Antimonium crudum, which has also horny excrescences or callosities on the soles of the feet.

The ulcers which Ranunculus causes are flat and are attended with a great deal of stinging pain. The discharge is ichorous. Lastly, we may mention the action of Ranunculus on mucous membranes. It is one of the remedies useful in hay fever. You will find that there is smarting in the eyes; the eyelids burn and feel sore; the nose is stuffed up, especially toward evening, with pressure at the root of the nose and tingling, crawling sensation within its cavity. Sometimes this sensation attacks the posterior nares, causing the patient to hawk and swallow, and endeavor in every way to scratch the affected part. Arsenicum and Silicea also have this symptom. You will notice, too, that there is with this hay fever, hoarseness, general muscular soreness and very likely sharp stitching pains in and about the chest. The neck of the bladder may be affected, producing some burning on urinating.

Ambrosia artemisicefolia should be compared in hay fever. The provings by Dr. E. E. Holman contain the following: stuffed sensation in the nose and chest; oppressive pain in the left chest, must sit up to breathe comfortably; worse in the evening until midnight; awakens suddenly with pertussis-like cough; face dark red; eyes congested, smarting, watery; nose, red, swollen; watery coryza.

Sulphur does not follow Ranunculus well.

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.

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

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.

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).

Ranunculus Bulbosus

Generals: 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, dyspnúa, 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.

Mind: 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.

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.

Eyes: 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.

Chest: 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.

Back: 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.

Limbs: 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.