PULSATILLA


Pulsatilla homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common names, Wiesen-Kuchenschelle.

Introduction

Anemone pratensis, Linn. (Pulsatilla pratensis, Millefolium), officinal “Herb Pulsatilla nigricans. Natural order, Ranunculaceae. Preparation, Tincture of the whole fresh plant.

Mind

Nervous excitement. After eating he seems intoxicated. Careless ease, such as is often produced by a small dose of hashish.

When evening comes he begins to dread ghosts, four evenings in succession; during the day anxiety and flushing heat over the whole body, though the hands and face are cold and pale. He wishes now for this, now for that employment, but when given to him he will have nothing to do with it (after ten hours).

Satisfied with nothing, yet not vexed. The child longs now for this, now for that, even with a good humor. Extremely capricious and peevish at everything, even at himself. Envious, avaricious, unsatisfied, greedy, he would gladly have everything, to himself. Everything disgusts him; he seems averse to everything. Anxiety at night, as from heat. Nightly anxiety on waking, as if he had committed a crime. Anxiety in the evening, after going to sleep, with a rush of ideas and determination of blood to the head, that forces him to get up (after five hours).

A tremulous anxiety, aggravated during rest, while sitting and lying, relieved by motion. Anxiety; does not know what to do (before an hour). Anxiety, thinks to die (after one hour).

Anxiety in the region of the heart, even to suicide, in the evening, associated with a sensation of qualmishness in the pit of the stomach. Anxiety, as if he would have apoplexy, in the evening, after lying down, with chilliness, sounds in the ears like music, with twitching in the fingers of the right hand (after half an hour). Tremulous anxiety, as if death were imminent (after one hour). Anxiety in the afternoon, with trembling of the hands, that are spotted red, but not hot.

Anxiety, as if he were in a hot atmosphere. Anxious solicitude about his health. Solicitude about his household matters, in the morning. He was very quiet. It seems so quiet in her head and everything feels so empty that she seems alone in the house and in the world; she will speak to no one, just as if her surroundings did not exist, and she paid attention to no one.

Very discontented, weeps a long time, in the morning, after waking. She cried a good deal, and was very low spirited (naturally she is quite the contrary). He sinks into a condition of sadness and despondency from disagreeable news (after twenty hours). A gloomy, melancholy mood set in (after four hours).-30 Hypochondriac moroseness; is out of sorts with everything.

Morose, lachrymose, anxious. Extremely morose, will not answer, takes everything in bad part, in the evening towards sundown.

Morose mood, breaking out into weeping, whenever interrupted in his business, about 4 P.M. (after thirty-six hours). Extreme peevishness (after six or seven days). Extremely ill-humored and fretful. Ill-humored and discontented all day, without cause (after twenty-four hours). Ill-humor (after several hours).

Fretful and without appetite, after walking about the room (after forty-eight hours). Fretful, dread of work (after one hour). Confused, fretful, very chilly. Fretful, everything said to him makes him ill-humored (after half an hour). Hasty. Extreme irresolution. Shuns business, is irresolute, with sighing respiration and a feeling as if he were beside himself. He is not indifferent to his surroundings, but he will pay attention to nothing (after one hour). More inclined to mental labor in the evening than at any other time. He cannot at all get rid of a thought that he once grasped. Cannot think of his business without grief, in the morning (after eight hours).

A great many wandering thoughts in his head. Could only with great effort express himself correctly, while talking.

Mental labor affects him most of all. When writing he omits letters. Inattentive, does things hurriedly, does something different from what he intended to do (after two hours). Stops talking, it frets him to answer.

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head and pain in the forehead, as if it were beaten to pieces. Confusion and a hollow feeling in the head, the head felt like a lantern. Confusion and pain in the head, as on the day after a debauch. Confusion of the head; the thoughts vanish. Confusion of the head and vertigo, caused by motion. Vertigo. Excessive vertigo, like intoxication. Vertigo, as if one had turned in a circle a long time, associated with nausea. Vertigo, he thought he was unable to stand (during the first hours). A kind of vertigo, on looking upward, as if he would fall, or as if he were dancing. Vertigo, he thought he was unable to grasp an object (during the first hours). Vertigo on stooping, as if would fall down, as though intoxicated; followed by inclination to vomit (after six hours).

Vertigo on stooping, so that she could scarcely rise up again.

Vertigo, as from heaviness in the head, on walking and stooping, with some whirling that was notice even while lying down.

Vertigo (immediately, still more severe the next day). Vertigo especially while sitting. Vertigo when walking in the open air, disappearing while sitting. Vertigo, as if the blood mounted to the head; it beat and surged therein. Vertigo, as if caused by intoxication. Paroxysm of vertigo, intoxication, heat. Vertigo, as from drinking brandy. Vertigo in the morning, on rising from bed, on account of which he was obliged to lie down again.

Vertigo, while walking over a high bridge (eleventh day). Attack of vertigo while sitting (ninth day). Great inclination to vertigo (thirty-fourth day). Attack of dizziness, as if the body were falling to the right or left, in the morning, on walking in the open air (eighth day). Great giddiness, with violent acute pain in both temples (after some days). Dizzy reeling, as from intoxication, with internal heat in the head, with paleness of the naturally warm face, especially in the evening. Reeling while walking, as if the head were dizzy, without really being dizzy, in the evening (after three days).

Sensation of reeling from side to side. General head. Heaviness of the head. Cannot support the head, cannot hold in upright, must lie down, yet cannot remain in bed. Heaviness of the head, cannot tolerate the glare of the lamp. Heaviness and heat of the head followed chilliness of the body, in the afternoon. Cannot hold the head upright, cannot raise it. On stooping it seems as though the head were too heavy, and he could not raise it again. A sensation in the head on stooping as if it would fall forward. Dulness of the head and headache, like a bruised sensation in the forehead. Dulness of the head, as if his memory failed (after two hours). The head seems dull and heavy. The head seems dull, so that the eyes ache in the head. Dull headache, especially pressive in the forehead (after quarter of an hour). It seems as though hot air were blowing upon him and causing headache. Headache from time to time, as if a sharp wind were blowing through the brain (after forty hours). Headache while lying down for the midday nap, in one half of the brain, in the side upon which he is not lying (after eighteen hours).

Boring outward headache, with dull stitches. Headache extending into the right eye, it presses in it and tears come out of it.

Headache; the brain seems constricted, with boring pain in the crown. Headache in the evening, as in stooped catarrh; followed by dry heat in bed and an intoxicated sleep, with delirious fantasies and almost waking dreams. Headache, so that he was obliged to incline the head to one side. One-sided headache, as if the brain would burst, and the eyes would fall out of the head. Headache, with obscuration, on coming into a warm room.

Headache, as from intoxication and night-watching (after twelve hours). Headache on waking, and for some time afterwards; the brain seems confused and torn to pieces, as in pernicious fever or after intoxication by brandy (after six and twelve hours).

Headache that disappears and recurs at indefinite times, aggravated especially on walking in the open air. Headache as if one had eaten too much, or as if the stomach had been disordered by being overloaded with too much fat meat. Headache, extending into the eyes, so that they ache, in the evening. Sick headache (after six to seven days). Pressure in various parts of the bones of the head (thirty- fourth day). Pressive headache on stooping. Sticking headache. Cutting headache. Tensive headache over the brain (after one hour). Throbbing, pressive headache, relieved by external pressure (after half an hour).

Headache like a throbbing in the arteries of the brain (after six hours). Throbbing headache, about midnight. Spasmodic shuddering and jerking in the head and whole body, on falling asleep, twice in succession during the afternoon nap (after eighty-six hours).

Whirring and a dulness in the head and a sleepy feeling, only while sitting. Bubbling in the head at night; he distinctly heard the beating of the pulse in it. Buzzing in the head. Crackling in the brain, synchronous with the pulse, on walking. Roaring in the head and still more violent roaring in the ears, so that he was obliged to lie down in the evening earlier than usual. Stitches as if extending through the whole brain, after dinner, lasting until going to sleep in the evening, associated with shivering and attacks of faintness (after sixteen hours). Forehead. Violent frontal headache. Severe frontal headache, coming on tin the afternoon, with much languor, prostration, and desire to yawn, some feverishness also accompanied it (after some days).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.