Pulsatilla Nuttalliana


Pulsatilla Nuttalliana signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Pulsatilla Nuttalliana is used…


      American Pulsatilla. Pasque Flower (American). Anemone Ludoviciana. A. nuttalliana. *N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.

Clinical

Amenorrhoea. Clavus. Cold, liability to. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Feet, fidgety. Home-sickness. Knees, rheumatism of. Liver, pains in. Measles, prophylaxis of. Menses, retarded. Ptosis. Rheumatism, wandering. Sciatica. Shoulder, r., pain in. Tinnitus. Uterus, pains in.

Characteristics

The American *Pulsatilla approaches more nearly to *P. vulgaris than to *P-nig. in its botanical characters. It flourishes especially in the dry and sandy bluffs which form the bed of the Mississippi. The flower is pale purplish. “The odour of the *dried plant is rather faint, being slightly *camphoraceous, the taste of the dried flowers simply sweetish and herbaceous, that of the leaves more astringent with very slight acrimony. The *taste and to some extent the odour of the fresh plant are both acrid and irritating” (Hale). ***A. W. Miller, a pharmaceutist (referred to by Hale), analyzed *P. nutt. The extracted substances had an acrid, almost caustic taste, and well-marked camphoraceous odour. When volatilized they produced an irritating, pungent vapour, affecting the eyes and causing sneezing. The analysis revealed the following constituents: (1) organic Grape-sugar, gum, resin, an alkaloid and anemonic acid. (2) Inorganic Sulphate of potash, carbonate of potash, chlorate of potassium, carbonate of lime, magnesia, and “a proto-salt of iron.” Dr. ***W. H. Miller (brother of ***A.W. M.), an allopathists, claimed to have used *P. nutt. With success in many chronic eye affections, particularly catarrh, amaurosis, and

corneal opacities, cutaneous eruptions, and secondary syphilis. Hale instituted the first homoeopathic research, and Burt was the first prover. The symptoms have a strong resemblance to those of *P. nig., and cases cured with *P. nutt. are mostly such as would be amenable to *P. nig. A patient of mine was incidentally cured of a tendency to catch colds by taking *P. nutt. for some weeks as a prophylactic against measles. Burnett cured with it a case of deafness and oedema of left upper eyelid. The proving showed a powerful effect on the menstrual function, and Hale reports many cures of retentio mensium: (1) A young lady, formerly subject to retardation of menses, had: Constant chilliness, cold hands and feet, loss of appetite, sour eructations, nausea after meals, hemicrania, toothache, melancholy, general malaria. Menses two weeks late, took a chill at the time they were due, when she had precursory symptoms, no symptoms of menses now. *P. nutt. 1 in water every two hours. After the first dose the menses came on and the constitutional symptoms cleared off. (2) Plethoric, usually healthy young woman, had menses delay two weeks. Continual severe headache, a heaviness and fullness, worse moving or stooping, sight dim, complete blindness on stooping or rising suddenly, weight in uterine region severe aching extending to back, worse evening. Hands and feet cold, weakness in lower limbs. *Actea r. failed to relieve. *P. nutt. Ix, 5 drops every three hours, brought speedy improvement. Next day menses came on profusely but without pain, two days before the expiration of the eighth week. The *Pulsatilla flying pains were very noticeable in the proving. Hale reports this case: strong, healthy looking man had wandering rheumatic pains chiefly in dorsum of right foot, loins, thighs, chest, arms, head. The head pain was a dull, heavy pressure in vertex, nearly constant, with occasional sharp pains. Some fever but no local inflammation of joints or muscles. Urine scanty, depositing lithates. Acidity of stomach. Appetite good. Bowels normal. *P. nutt. Ix cured in three days. Some *Peculiar Symptoms are: Home-sick feeling. Trembling weakness, weariness, heaviness, Snapping noise in ears. Fidgety feet. Colic before and after stool. Colic after eating a pear. Stiffness of fingers. Hands hot and dry (a constant symptom). The symptoms are worse coming in from open air, after eating, eating a pear, at night, by warmth, by reading, on urinating, on walking. better Walking in open air, rubbing with flesh-brush, scratching.

Relations

See Pulsatilla *Antidoted by: Antim crud. *Compare: In fidgety feet, Zn., Causticum

Mind

Sad, gloomy, with frequent eructations. Home-sick, despondent. Anxiety, at night. Irritable, quick, nervous motions. Dull, disinclined for work.

Head

Dizziness on entering house from open air, sudden, in afternoon with fullness of head. Dull heavy headache, mornings, better by active exercise before breakfast. Flying pains in head and feet. Dull, oppressive, frontal headache, on waking. Hard pains in upper forehead pass in wave to occiput, involving whole brain. With headache cutting pains in epigastrium. Hard pain over left eye, as if a nail being pressed into forehead. Pain over right eye, afternoon, better walking in open air, worse in warm room, with sense of heat, fullness in head, and dryness of eyes. Sharp, shooting pains through both temples, in right temple. Dull pain in right temple, in vertex. Severe throbbing on vertex. Full, hot feeling at cerebellum. Headache arising from nape of neck and upwards.

Eyes

Profuse secretion of mucus from eyes. Dull pain deep in eyes, with smarting. Dryness, smarting, profuse flow of tears. Twitching: of left brow and upper lid for half an hour after going to bed, right lids worse reading. Paralysis of lids. Edema of left upper lid. Tarsal edges red, dry, irritable. Lids agglutinated, profuse secretion of soft, yellow, or white matter. Profuse lachrymation with dull pains in eyeball extending to malar bone. Neuralgic pains in eyeballs, while walking, worse r.

Ears

Hard, drawing pains along right Eustachian tube. With the pains in head and eyes, frequent drawing pains in ears from within out. Sharp pains in right ear and temples. L. ear feels closed, later both. Snapping noises in ears, fluttering in r. Deafness, with oedema of left upper eyelid (cured).

Nose

Dryness and heat in nose.

Face

Face red, hot, flushed. Complexion at first rough, later very clear after disappearance of rash. After eating, flushed, pressure of blood in face. Painful drawing in left cheek-bone and jaw. Lips dry.

Mouth

Tongue: coated white, with flat, pappy taste on rising, covered with tough slime, red, rather dry and swollen, teeth indented, yellowish coat along centre, unusually red after eating. Breath offensive, to self and others, after eating. Mouth and lips dry. Smarting of velum palati. Mouth filling with saliva. On awaking, dry, pappy taste in mouth, as if tongue thickly coated (which it was not). Taste: flat, flat bitter, flat rough, sweetish, bad. Awoke after afternoon sleep with vinegar-like acidity in mouth and dull, pressing pain in stomach.

Throat

Frequent inclination to clear throat. After eating slight irritation in throat, with easy expectoration of white, tough mucus. Throat dry, smarts on waking, contains much tough mucus hard to dislodge. Scratchy, husky feeling in throat. Sensation of plug in lower throat.

Stomach

Great hunger, rapidly returned after eating. Loss of appetite. More thirst than usual, cold water extremely grateful. Eructations: tasting of Pulsatilla, while riding belches up food hot and tasteless, of hot, tasteless wind, of sour air. Thick gulping. Heartburn. Nausea, and dull headache, then faintness at stomach, on entering house. Fullness in stomach preventing eating in spite of appetite (cured in the proving). Painful emptiness, pressure, then rising towards oesophagus like heartburn. Emptiness: after action of bowels, after eating. Gnawing, empty sensation. Weight and pressure in stomach, after eating, with faintness. Distress: with severe cutting pains in epigastrium. Feeling as if needles being pressed through stomach. Heat in stomach gradually increasing to pain, worse in spots under sternum, burning, pricking burning.

Abdomen

Dull pains in right hypochondrium, in l. Severe pain in umbilicus 6 a.m., with desire for stool, stool dark, covered with mucus, severe pains for half an hour after. Rumbling, after dinner of wind in distended abdomen moving from epigastrium to hypogastrium. Aching in one spot worse by moving. Colicky pains after eating a ripe pear. Aching in left groin, above left iliac crest on moving or bending. Dull pains: in whole abdomen, by spells in hypogastrium.

Stool

Evening and afternoon, feeling as if must go to stool immediately, with constant distress in lower epigastrium and umbilicus. Sudden attack of diarrhoea while riding on horseback. Stools: dark, thin, pap-like, watery, light yellow, painless, mushy, dark, slightly covered with mucus, dry, hard, lumpy. Constipation.

Urinary Organs

Pain on urinating, at end of urethra. Frequent micturition. Tenesmus, extending up ureters, uneasiness in kidneys. Urine: pale, albuminous, excess of water, skunk-like odour.

Male Sexual Organs

Distressing erection, soon subsiding. Pain in penis on waking, worse on micturating. Hard, sticking pains in (left) spermatic cord and testes. Dull pains in testes, worse r. Emission.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica