Remedy

Pulsatilla pratensis

Wind flower

68 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • The weather-cock among remedies.
  • The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla.
  • It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition.
  • Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory.
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  • Mucous membranes are all affected.
  • Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles.
  • When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty.
  • Great sensitiveness.
  • Wants the head high.
  • Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow.
  • Lies with hands above head.

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Mind & mood

  • Weeps easily.
  • Timid, irresolute.
  • Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost.
  • Likes sympathy.
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  • Children like fuss and caresses.
  • Easily discouraged.
  • Morbid dread of the opposite sex.
  • Religious melancholy.
  • Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.
  • Highly emotional.
  • Mentally, an April day.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

From heatRich fat foodAfter eatingTowards eveningWarm roomLying on left or on painless side when allowing feet to hang down

Better

Open airMotionCold applicationsCold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Symptoms by body part

Head

Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; dizziness; better in open air. Frontal and supra-orbital pains. Neuralgic pains, commencing in rigth temporal region, with scalding watering eyes of affected side. Headache from overwork. Pressure on vertex.

Ears

Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Ear discharge. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. With mucus otitis. Earache, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of hearing.

Eyes

Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse watering eyes and secretion of mucus. Lids inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Eye inflammation neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with indigestion; worse, in warm room.

Nose

Runny nose (cold); stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old mucus discharge. Nasal bones sore.

Face

Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse watering eyes. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Mouth

Greasy taste. Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. Crack in middle of lower lip. Yellow or white tongue, covered with a tenacious mucus. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in mouth. Offensive odor from mouth. Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much sweet saliva. Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul. Loss of taste. Desire for tonics.

Stomach

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink. Belching; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pasty. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Gas. Dislikes butter. Heartburn. Indigestion, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling. Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers.

Abdomen

Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with feeling cold in evening.

Stool

Rumbling, watery; worse, night No two stools alike. After fruit. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with feeling cold. Two or three normal stools daily.

Urine

Increased desire; worse when lying down. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Female

Absent periods. Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent. Feeling cold, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. White vaginal discharge acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhoea during or after menses.

Male

Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. Acute prostatitis. Pain and constant urge to pass stool in urinating, worse lying on back.

Respiratory

Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous phlegm coughed up. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great soreness of epigastrium. Urine emitted with cough. Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Phlegm coughed up bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. Smothering sensation on lying down.

Sleep

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over head.

Back

Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Extremities

Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and feeling cold. Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap. Numbness around elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering worse from letting the affected limb hang down. Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Skin

Hives, after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Fever

Feeling cold, even in warm room, without thirst. Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 p.m. Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during sweat. External heat is intolerable, veins are distended. During apyrexia, headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, nausea.

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