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Soft. Shy. Weeping. Consolation ameliorates.
Dependence. Mildness.
Changeable.
Craves and ameliorated by open air or in breezes.
Discharges bland, greenish.
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SYNONYM
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Anemone Pratensis.
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COMMON NAME
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Wind Flower.
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A/F
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| - | Eating fatty and starchy food, ice-cream, tea,
coffee |
| - | Abuse of mercury, quinine, sulphur, chamomile |
| - | Ovarian and uterine troubles |
| - | Worm affection in children and indigestion |
| - | Abuse of iron tonics and after badly managed measles |
| - | Ill effects of suppressions |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Very rich, fat indigestible food
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| > | Lying on the painful side
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| > | Eating or drinking cold things
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MIND
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| - | Mild, timid emotional and tearful.
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| - | Weeps easily, can hardly give has symptoms without weeping, weeps at
everything.
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| - | Disgusted at everything.
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| - | Discouraged, easily offended.
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| - | Whining, craves sympathy.
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| - | Children like fuss and caresses.
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| - | Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage. Thinks that sexual intercourse
is a sinful act.
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| - | Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.
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| - | Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating.
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| - | Fear
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to
be alone
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of
the dark
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of
ghosts in the evening
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of
insanity
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of
high places
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| - | Capricious. Miserly. Suspicious.
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| - | Very irritable, touchy, feels slighted or fears slight.
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| - | Answers yes or no by nodding her head.
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| - | Imagines that certain articles of food are not good for the human race.
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| - | Sad from disagreeable news.
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| - | Mania from suppressed menses.
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| - | Anxiety about the heart, in the evening, even to suicide.
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| - | Anxiety as if in hot air.
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| - | Desire to be carried slowly.
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| - | Hatred of women. Delusions women are evil, will injure his soul.
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| - | Weeping when disturbed at work, weeping when interrupted while nursing.
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| - | Delusion she is alone in the world, she is always alone.
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| - | Sees cats, dogs, insects, devils. Sees black forms when dreaming.
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| - | Forsaken feeling in the evening.
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| - | Dreams frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, of confusion, etc. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Adapted to person of indecisive, slow,
phlegmatic temperament, with sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, plethoric, the
woman's remedy.
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| - | Never well since puberty.
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| - | Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no two stools, no two attacks alike,
very well one hour, very miserable the next.
Changing and contradictory symptoms; having no head or tail to them.
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| - | Symptom > moving about slowly in open air.
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| - | Pains - drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to
another.
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| - | Pains start suddenly, disappear gradually, vice-versa.
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| - | Pains are accompanied with constant chilliness.
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| - | The more severe the pain, the more severe the chill.
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| - | All discharges from mucous membranes are thick, bland, greenish yellow, but
vaginal discharges, such as leucorrhoea, are sometimes acrid and excoriating
causing rawness of the parts.
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| - | Chilliness in warm room. Patient though is chilly, seeks the open air, does
not want to cover.
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| - | There is thirstlessness with nearly all complaints, with dry, white coated
tongue.
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| - | Haemorrhage - passive, vicarious, dark, easily cogitating blood.
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| - | Head
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Headache
neuralgic pain, commencing in right temporal region, with scalding
lachrymation of affected side
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Headache
from over worry
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Headache
of school girls at the time of puberty
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| - | Vertigo > in open air. Vertigo before, during, after or suppressed
menses.
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| - | Cannot lie with head low.
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| - | Ears - Otorrhoea, thick, bland discharge, offensive odour.
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| - | External ear swollen and red.
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| - | Catarrhal otitis, sensation as if something were being forced outward.
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| - | Diminishes acuteness of hearing.
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| - | Mumps, especially metastatic to the breast or testes.
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| - | Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in a car and in a warm
room.
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| - | Eyes - Itching and burning in eyes.
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| - | Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus.
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| - | Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges.
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| - | Lids inflamed, agglutinated.
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| - | Opthalmia neonatrum, gonorrhoeal.
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| - | Styes recurrent, mainly on upper eyelid.
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| - | Veins of fundus greatly enlarged.
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| - | Subacute conjunctivitis with dyspepsia < in warm room, from cold.
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| - | Paralysis of optic nerve.
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| - | Blind attacks before menses.
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| - | Nose - Coryza, stoppage of right nostril, mainly in evening.
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| - | Yellow mucus abundant in morning.
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| - | Large green scabs in nose.
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| - | Nose bleed before, and from suppressed menses.
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| - | Face - Right sided neuralgia with profuse lachrymation < chewing <
talking or with hot or cold things in mouth.
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| - | Mouth - Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in the middle.
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| - | Dry mouth without thirst, wants it washed frequently.
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| - | Yellow or white tongue covered with a tenacious mucus.
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| - | Toothache relieved by holding cold water in mouth.
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| - | Food, especially bread, tastes bitter.
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| - | Much sweet saliva, tenacious, frothy, cotton like.
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| - | Alteration of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, foul.
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| - | G.I.T. - Desires for tonics.
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| - | Craves acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring,
cheese.
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| - | Aversion to water, fat food, warm food and drink, butter, pork, bread, milk.
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| - | Eructations; taste of food remains along time; after ices, fruits, party.
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| - | Heartburn, dyspepsia with great tightness after a meal, must loosen clothes.
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| - | Pain in stomach an hour after eating.
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| - | Weight as from stone. Stomach deranged, feels heavy.
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| - | All gone sensation especially in tea drinkers.
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| - | Gastric dyspepsia from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially after pork
or sausage.
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| - | Diarrhoea only or usually at night; rumbling, watery, greenish yellow, very
changeable, as soon as they eat, from fruit, cold food or dunes, ice-cream.
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| - | Blind piles with itching and sticking pains.
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| - | Two or three normal stools daily.
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| - | Urinary system - Urine increased desire, worse when lying down.
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| - | Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus, hearing
sudden noise, after pleasurable surprise, shock.
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| - | After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.
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| - | Urine dribbles when angry.
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| - | Female genitalia - Amenorrhoea from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia.
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| - | Delayed first menstruation.
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| - | Menses - too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermittent flow,
with evening chilliness, with intense pain, and great restlessness and
tossing about. Pains spasmodic excite suffocation and fainting, must have
fresh air.
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| - | Diarrhoea during or after menses.
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| - | Feels like menstruating.
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| - | Leucorrhoea milky thick like cream, acrid, with pain in back and exhaustion.
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| - | Mammae sore; aching lumps in; in girls before puberty.
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| - | Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty.
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| - | Post partum secondary haemorrhage from retained placenta.
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| - | Weeps every time the child is put to breast.
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| - | Swelling of breast after weaning.
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| - | Secretion of milk during menses.
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| - | Threatened abortion - flow ceases and then returns with increased force.
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| - | Male genitalia - Orchitis.
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| - | Thick yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoeal stricture,
urine passed only in drops and stream interrupted.
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| - | Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus > lying on back.
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| - | Respiratory system - Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes.
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| - | Dry cough in evening and at night, must sit up in bed to get relief.
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| - | Loose cough in the morning with copious mucous expectoration.
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| - | Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish.
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| - | Short breath < lying on left side.
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| - | Smothering sensation on lying down.
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| - | Cough after measles, cough in and paroxysms.
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| - | Extremities - Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly.
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| - | Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness
and chilliness.
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| - | Legs feels heavy and weary.
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| - | Veins full varicose, painful milk leg, veins in forearm and hands swollen
< letting the affected limb hang down.
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| - | Skin - Urticaria after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse
undressing.
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| - | Fever - Chilliness in warm room, without thirst, yet averse to heat.
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| - | Chilly, with pain in spots, worse evening.
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| - | Feverish body, temperature normal.
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| - | Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins.
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| - | Heat in parts of body, coldness in other.
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| - | One sided sweat; pains during sweat.
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| - | During apyrexia - headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite.
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| - | Sleep - Sleepless in the first of night; from ideas crowding in the mind,
and sleeps late in the morning when it is time to get up.
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| - | Lies with hand overhead.
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| - | Great sleepiness during day.
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| - | Confused, languid, unrefreshed, talks whines screams during sleep. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Weeps easily, almost impossible to detail her
ailments without weeping.
- Symptoms ever changing.
- Pains rapidly shifting, tearing, drawing, erratic, are accompanied with
constant chill, appear suddenly, leave gradually.
- Thirstlessness, with dryness in mouth with nearly all complaints.
- Though chilly, craves fresh, open air.
- Dry cough in the evening, and at night; loose cough in the morning.
- Diarrhoea usually at night.
- Nervousness felt intensely about the ankle.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- A/F - Fat, rich food, ice-cream, pork, etc.
- Mild, gentle, yielding, nervous, affectionate, undecissive females.
- Weeps easily, almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping.
- Thirstlessness with all complaints.
- Symptoms ever changing.
- Pains shifting from one part to another, attended with chilliness.
- Though patient is chilly, patient seeks open air.
- < Evening > Walking or gentle motion.
- Delayed menarche, menses late, scanty.
- Discharges are thick, bland and yellowish greenish, except leucorrhoea
which is acrid.
- Dry cough in the evening and at night, loose cough in the morning.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Amenorrhoea, Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Conjunctivitis, Cough, Cystitis, Dementia, Depression,
Dysmenorrhoea, Eczema, Endometriosis, Food allergy, Gastritis, Menstrual
disorders, Menopause, Metrorrhagia, Migraine, Mumps, Orchitis, Otiyis media,
Premenstrual syndrome, Prostatitis, Psoriasis, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Urethral
stricture, Urethritis, Uterine prolapse, Varicose veins, Vertigo.
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| - | Pulsatilla may empty the majority of pus tuber - Dr. Boger.
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| - | Pulsatilla is a better antidote to whisky then even Nux-v - Dr. Hering.
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| - | One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic
case.
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| - | Patients who are anaemic, chlorotic, and have taken much iron, quinine and
tonics, even years before.
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| - | Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Arg-n, Lyc, Stann, Sul-ac
Follows Well: Ars, Bell, Bry, Ign, Kali-bi, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos, Rhus-t,
Sep, Sulph
Compare: Abies-n, Acon, Agar, Agn, Alet, All-c, Am-c, Am-m, Anac,
Ant-c, Ant-t, Apis, Apoc, Arg-n, Ars, Bar-c, Bell, Berb, Bor, Bov, Brom, Bry,
Calc, Camph, Cann-i, Canth, Carb-an, Carb-v, Caul, Caust, Cham, Cinch, Cob,
Cocc, Coll, Cup, Cycl, Dig, Fl-ac, Gels, Glon, Graph, Ham, Helon, Hydras,
Ign, Iod, Ip, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Lach, Lil-t, Lob, Lyc, Merc, Morbill, Mosch,
Mur-ac, Nux-m, Nux-v, Pen, Phos, Puls, Ran-b, Rhod, Rhus-t, Ric, Rob, Sabin,
Sec, Sel, Sep, Sil, Spig, Stram, Sulph, Thuj, Urt-u, Valer, Verat, Xan, Zinc
Antidoted By: Cham, Coff, Ign, Nux-v
It Antidotes: Ant-t, Bell, Cham, Chin-s, Cinch, Coff, Colch, Ferr,
Gels, Lyc, Mag-c, Plat, Sabad, Stram, Sul-ac, Sulph
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