PULSATILLA NIGRICANS uses / Pulsatilla uses [Puls uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Soft. Shy. Weeping. Consolation ameliorates.
Dependence. Mildness
Changeable
Craves and ameliorated by open air or in breezes
Discharges bland, greenish
SYNONYM
Anemone Pratensis
COMMON NAME
Wind Flower
A/F
| - | Eating fatty and starchy food, ice-cream, tea, coffee |
| - | Abuse of mercury, quinine, sulphur, chamomile |
| - | Abortion |
| - | Irregular menses |
| - | Ovarian and uterine troubles |
| - | Worm affection in children and indigestion |
| - | Chill, getting feet wet |
| - | Excessive joy |
| - | Abuse of iron tonics and after badly managed measles |
| - | Ill effects of suppressions |
MODALITIES
| < | In a warm closed room |
| < | Getting feet wet |
| < | On beginning to move |
| < | On the painless side |
| < | Lying on the left side |
| < | Warm application |
| < | Very rich, fat indigestible food |
| < | Heat |
| < | Hanging down limbs |
| < | Puberty |
| < | Thunderstorm |
| < | Pregnancy |
| < | Sun |
| < | Before menses |
| < | Tea |
| < | Rest |
| < | Evening, at twilight |
| > | Changing side |
| > | Pressure |
| > | Rubbing |
| > | Lying with head high |
| > | In the open air |
| > | Lying on the painful side |
| > | Cold air or cold room |
| > | Eating or drinking cold things |
| > | Cold application |
| > | Uncovering |
| > | Gentle motion |
| > | Erect posture |
| > | Continued motion |
| > | After a good cry |
MIND
| - | Mild, timid emotional and tearful |
| - | Weeps easily, can hardly give has symptoms without weeping, weeps at
everything |
| - | Disgusted at everything |
| - | Discouraged, easily offended |
| - | Timid, irresolute |
| - | Whining, craves sympathy |
| - | Children like fuss and caresses |
| - | Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage. Thinks that sexual intercourse
is a sinful act |
| - | Given to extremes of pleasure and pain |
| - | Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating |
| - | Religious melancholy |
| - | Fear
|
| - | Capricious. Miserly. Suspicious |
| - | Very irritable, touchy, feels slighted or fears slight |
| - | Answers yes or no by nodding her head |
| - | Imagines that certain articles of food are not good for the human race |
| - | Sad from disagreeable news |
| - | Mania from suppressed menses |
| - | Anxiety about the heart, in the evening, even to suicide |
| - | Anxiety as if in hot air |
| - | Desire to be carried slowly |
| - | > Consolation |
| - | Hatred of women. Delusions women are evil, will injure his soul |
| - | Remorse in the evening |
| - | Weeping when disturbed at work, weeping when interrupted while nursing |
| - | Delusion she is alone in the world, she is always alone |
| - | Sees cats, dogs, insects, devils. Sees black forms when dreaming |
| - | Fastidious |
| - | Forsaken feeling in the evening |
| - | Dreams frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, of confusion, etc |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Adapted to person of indecisive, slow,
phlegmatic temperament, with sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, plethoric, the
woman's remedy |
| - | Never well since puberty |
| - | 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 |
| - | Symptom > moving about slowly in open air |
| - | Pains - drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to
another |
| - | Pains start suddenly, disappear gradually, vice-versa |
| - | Pains are accompanied with constant chilliness |
| - | The more severe the pain, the more severe the chill |
| - | 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 |
| - | Chilliness in warm room. Patient though is chilly, seeks the open air, does
not want to cover |
| - | There is thirstlessness with nearly all complaints, with dry, white coated
tongue |
| - | Haemorrhage - passive, vicarious, dark, easily cogitating blood |
| - | Head
|
| - | Vertigo > in open air. Vertigo before, during, after or suppressed
menses |
| - | Cannot lie with head low |
| - | Headache one-sided |
| - | Ears - Otorrhoea, thick, bland discharge, offensive odour |
| - | External ear swollen and red |
| - | Catarrhal otitis, sensation as if something were being forced outward |
| - | Otalgia worse at night |
| - | Diminishes acuteness of hearing |
| - | Mumps, especially metastatic to the breast or testes |
| - | Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in a car and in a warm
room |
| - | Eyes - Itching and burning in eyes |
| - | Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus |
| - | Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges |
| - | Lids inflamed, agglutinated |
| - | Opthalmia neonatrum, gonorrhoeal |
| - | Styes recurrent, mainly on upper eyelid |
| - | Blepharitis |
| - | Veins of fundus greatly enlarged |
| - | Subacute conjunctivitis with dyspepsia < in warm room, from cold |
| - | Paralysis of optic nerve |
| - | Blind attacks before menses |
| - | Nose - Coryza, stoppage of right nostril, mainly in evening |
| - | Yellow mucus abundant in morning |
| - | Large green scabs in nose |
| - | Nose bleed before, and from suppressed menses |
| - | Face - Right sided neuralgia with profuse lachrymation < chewing <
talking or with hot or cold things in mouth |
| - | Mouth - Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in the middle |
| - | Licks lips |
| - | Dry mouth without thirst, wants it washed frequently |
| - | Yellow or white tongue covered with a tenacious mucus |
| - | Toothache relieved by holding cold water in mouth |
| - | Food, especially bread, tastes bitter |
| - | Much sweet saliva, tenacious, frothy, cotton like |
| - | Alteration of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, foul |
| - | G.I.T. - Desires for tonics |
| - | Craves acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring,
cheese |
| - | Aversion to water, fat food, warm food and drink, butter, pork, bread, milk |
| - | Eructations; taste of food remains along time; after ices, fruits, party |
| - | Heartburn, dyspepsia with great tightness after a meal, must loosen clothes |
| - | Pain in stomach an hour after eating |
| - | Weight as from stone. Stomach deranged, feels heavy |
| - | All gone sensation especially in tea drinkers |
| - | Gastric dyspepsia from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially after pork
or sausage |
| - | 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 |
| - | Blind piles with itching and sticking pains |
| - | Two or three normal stools daily |
| - | Urinary system - Urine increased desire, worse when lying down |
| - | Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus, hearing
sudden noise, after pleasurable surprise, shock |
| - | After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder |
| - | Urine dribbles when angry |
| - | Female genitalia - Amenorrhoea from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia |
| - | Derangement at puberty |
| - | Delayed first menstruation |
| - | 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 |
| - | Diarrhoea during or after menses |
| - | Feels like menstruating |
| - | Leucorrhoea milky thick like cream, acrid, with pain in back and exhaustion |
| - | Leucorrhoea in infant |
| - | Mammae sore; aching lumps in; in girls before puberty |
| - | Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty |
| - | Post partum secondary haemorrhage from retained placenta |
| - | Weeps every time the child is put to breast |
| - | Swelling of breast after weaning |
| - | Secretion of milk during menses |
| - | Malposition of foetus |
| - | Threatened abortion - flow ceases and then returns with increased force |
| - | Male genitalia - Orchitis |
| - | Thick yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoeal stricture,
urine passed only in drops and stream interrupted |
| - | Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus > lying on back |
| - | Respiratory system - Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes |
| - | Dry cough in evening and at night, must sit up in bed to get relief |
| - | Loose cough in the morning with copious mucous expectoration |
| - | Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish |
| - | Short breath < lying on left side |
| - | Smothering sensation on lying down |
| - | Cough after measles, cough in and paroxysms |
| - | Extremities - Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly |
| - | Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness
and chilliness |
| - | Joints swollen, red |
| - | Legs feels heavy and weary |
| - | Veins full varicose, painful milk leg, veins in forearm and hands swollen
< letting the affected limb hang down |
| - | Skin - Urticaria after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse
undressing |
| - | Measles |
| - | Fever - Chilliness in warm room, without thirst, yet averse to heat |
| - | Chilly, with pain in spots, worse evening |
| - | Chill about 4 p.m. |
| - | Feverish body, temperature normal |
| - | Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins |
| - | Heat in parts of body, coldness in other |
| - | One sided sweat; pains during sweat |
| - | During apyrexia - headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite |
| - | 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 |
| - | Lies with hand overhead |
| - | Great sleepiness during day |
| - | Confused, languid, unrefreshed, talks whines screams during sleep |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | 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 |
| - | Pulsatilla may empty the majority of pus tuber - Dr. Boger |
| - | Pulsatilla is a better antidote to whisky then even Nux-v - Dr. Hering |
| - | One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic
case |
| - | Patients who are anaemic, chlorotic, and have taken much iron, quinine and
tonics, even years before |
| - | Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: 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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