Homeopathy Remedy Pulsatilla


Pulsatilla homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Pulsatilla…


      A tincture is made of the fresh plant of Anemone pratensis, L (Pulsatilla nigricans).

General Action

      Most extensive action on mucous membranes, eyes, ears, nose and respiratory tract, mouth and digestive tract, vagina and urinary apparatus. It affects the testicles and spermatic cord, the female sexual organs, the veins of the lower extremities and the joints. Its action on the disposition is very marked and important. Its fever is unpronounced, is symptomatic (catarrhal as a rule) and is not attended with thirst or nervous excitement.

Allies – Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Ferrum, Cyclamen; Kali-bi., Euphras.

Generalities

      Lies upon back with hands above head when sleeping; upon back in sleep, with hands crossed upon abdomen and feet drawn up; most comfortably upon back with feet drawn up, if he lies upon either side spasmodic symptoms occur, for example, haemorrhoidal pains in anus, headache as if skull would burst, pain in joints, tightness in chest, anxiety. Child grunts and groans if it is carried and during urging to stool. Trembling; with cold sweat; anxious, with drawing pain in limbs and over whole body.

Sticking in a fresh wound in evening. Drawing tearing here and there in frequent attacks. Pain in sacrum and knees as if beaten, in bed. Jerking drawing pains in muscles, as if they were stretched on one side. Pressure in l. hip and in head, in forenoon, (>) motion. Smarting as from an internal wound in lumbar region and in wrist. Discomfort in morning after rising; (>) moving about. Distress in whole body, causing despair, he cannot sleep nor become quiet. Distressing throbbing in all arteries, (<) motion. Everything about body seems too tight, she wishes to throw off her clothes (Lycopodium). Tension of face and fingers ( (<) taking hold of anything), as if the parts would swell. Sensation in whole body as if he had been awake all night, with emptiness of head as after intoxication. Inclination to stretch.

Weakness; weaker the longer he lies in morning, and the more he wishes to lie, he desires to sleep again; at noon after walking, the more he tries to keep awake the sleepier he becomes; from a short walk; and necessity to lie down; tremulous; so that he could scarcely walk a few minutes, then necessity to sleep for hours, and so alternately all day. Faintness all the morning. Heaviness; with chilliness in arms and legs. Impairment of motor power. Numbness of integuments, then general anaesthesia. Painful paralytic sensation about ligaments of joints, (<) evening, with pain all joints of limbs as in beginning of a paroxysm of intermittent fever, with chilliness. Stiffness; in a child, from fretfulness. Troubles in open air, he dreads it. Symptoms occur mostly in evening, next in succeeding hours till midnight (Lycopodium, Cyclamen, Euphras., Valer., Phosphorus), rarely about 4 A.M. and still more rarely in morning, etc. Aggravation every other evening. Amelioration in open air; A. of pains when lying on back (Sanguinaria, Bryonia, Calcarea c., Lycopodium), aggravation from lying on side.

Clinical Rheumatism, rarely highly inflammatory, joints may be swollen, with sharp stinging pains, these pains are usually erratic, they constantly change from place to place, mostly tearing, (>) pressure and by moving about slowly, (>) cold, (<) warmth and in the evening. Useful for gouty symptoms caused by indigestion (Lycopodium,). Gonorrhoeal rheumatism (Thuja). Paralytic symptoms, especially with disordered menstruation, with numbness of the extremities. Occasionally indicated in chorea and in epilepsy. Neuralgia of various parts, pains wandering, with the characteristic aggravations and ameliorations. Chlorosis, with chilliness, burning heat at night without thirst, palpitation, longing for fresh air, etc. Various forms of hysteria. In general, aggravation in the evenings, on beginning to move, from lying on the left side (Phosphorus), lying on the painless side. Amelioration from slow motion, cold place, lying on painful side (Bryonia), from cold drink.

Mind

      Excitement. 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 wants to speak to no one, just as if her surroundings did not exist and she belonged to no one. Careless ease, such as is often produced by a small dose of hashish. Indolence and constant desire to sit or lie. Longs for fresh air, though colic and nausea are (<) open air. Hypochondriae moroseness. Ill humor; in morning when thinking of his business; all day, with discontentment; about 4 P.M., weeping when interrupted in his business; in evening, will not answer and takes everything in bad part; at everything said to him; after walking about the room, with loss of appetite; even with himself, and capricious mood; with dread of work; with confusion and chilliness. Disgust with everything. Satisfied with nothing, yet not vexed. Disconnected in morning after walking, and weeping. Envious, avaricious, dissatisfied, greedy. Hasty.

Restless mood, as if he had not done his duty satisfactorily. Irresolute; and shuns business, sighs and loses composure. Longing now for this, now for that, even with good humor (in a child). Wishes now for this, now for that employment, but when it is given to him he will have nothing to do with it. Melancholy; from disagreeable news; with much crying. Anxiety; during the day, with trembling and flushing heat over whole body though hands and face are cold and pale, and when evening comes dread of ghosts; in afternoon, with trembling of hands, that are spotted red; in evening after going to sleep, with rush of ideas and determination of blood to head, forcing him to rise; and lachrymose mood; at night as from heat; as if in a hot atmosphere; tremulous, as if death were imminent; tremulous, (<) rest, (>) motion; thinks that he shall be ruined; as if he had committed a crime, at night on waking; about his household matters, in morning; about his health; as if he should have apoplexy, in evening after lying down, with chilliness sounds in ears like music and twitching of r. fingers.

Hesitates when talking, it frets him to answer. Difficulty in expressing himself correctly when talking. Omits letters when writing. Many wandering thoughts. He cannot get rid of a thought that he has once grasped. Inattentive, does things hurriedly, does something different from what he intended to do; I., but not indifferent to his surroundings. Disinclination to mental labor, (<) evening. Mental labor affects him most of all.

Clinical This drug is generally indicated for persons who have a mild, yielding disposition, inclined to weep, or for those who are inclined to be very gloomy and too full of care. This sad weeping mood is an almost constant accompaniment of every form of disease requiring Pulsatilla Religious melancholia. (Compare mental symptoms with Ignatia and Lycopodium)

Head

      Sticking; through brain from after dinner till bedtime, with shivering and attacks of faintness; with boring outward; and tearing, (<) temples. Cutting. Aching on stooping; A. on entering a warm room, with obscuration; in various parts of bones; extending into eyes in evening; extending into r. eye, it presses in it and tears come out of it; intermittent, (<) walking in open air; as from eating too much or as from too much fat (Cyclamen, Ferrum); as in stopped catarrh in evening, then dry heat in bed, and sopor, with delirious fantasies and almost waking dreams; as if in a hot wind; intermittent, as from a sharp wind through brain; as from intoxication and night-watching; on waking and for some time afterwards, as if brain were confused and torn to pieces, as in putrid fever or after intoxication by brandy; sick; so that he must incline head to one side; tensive, over brain; drawing, with lachrymation of one eye; drawing, with heaviness and crawling in brain and vanishing of vision and hearing, the chill. Throbbing pain; (>) pressure; about midnight.

Constriction in brain, with boring in crown. Crackling in brain synchronous with pulse, on walking. Bubbling at night, he heard the beating of the pulse in it. Roaring, and more in ears, so that he must lie down earlier than usual. Dullness; in evening, and on moving eyes pain deep in orbits as if forehead would fall out and as if frontal bone were too thin; caused by motion, with vertigo; when sitting, with whirring in it and sleepiness; with bruised sensation in forehead; with pain in forehead as if it would be torn to pieces; with feeling as if hollow and as if intoxicated; with vanishing of thought; so that eyes ache; as if his memory failed. Heaviness; on stooping, it seems as if he could not raise it again; with intolerance of the glare of the lamp. On stooping sensation as if it would fall forward. Cannot hold it upright, cannot rise it; cannot hold it upright, must lie down, yet cannot remain in bed.

Vertigo; in morning on rising, forcing him to lie down again (Bryonia, Lycopodium); at 2 P.M., when walking; after eating; when walking over a high bridge; when walking in open air, (>) sitting; on stooping so that she could scarcely rise again; (>) sitting; with nausea; and he thought that he was unable to comprehend a subject; in paroxysms, with heat; as from intoxication; as from drinking brandy; as from heaviness of head, on walking and stooping, with some whirling even when lying; as if he would fall, on stooping, then inclination to vomit; as if he would fall or as if he were dancing, looking upward; as if falling to right or left in morning on walking in open air; as if blood mounted to head, it surged therein.

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.