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A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Ranunculus glacialis ran-g.

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902 · 210 words · Ranunculus glacialis in every book →

General

R. glacialis. Carlina or Cacline (mountaineers of Viq). N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of whole plant.

Clinical

Apoplexy. Cerebellum, pain in. Dyspnœa. Headache. Night-sweat. Thighs, sweat on.

Characteristics

Dr. Coddé, of Spoleto, proved the Ø tincture, and 3rd and 9th dilutions of this plant. It produced an enormous weight in the head with vertigo and feeling as if apoplexy were impending, > by Coffee; a right-sided early morning headache > by rising; dyspnœa < lying down, and compression of chest; intolerance of weight of coverlet (the < by touch and pressure of R. bulb .); coldness of thighs; general copious night-sweat, especially abundant on thighs.

Head

Towards 9.30 a.m., when walking in open air, enormous weight in head, vertigo; as if seized with incipient apoplexy; > café au lait . ─ Behind head in region of cerebellum, sense of tension. ─ Just before daybreak, headache, < r. side, ceased on getting up.

Respiratory Organs

When lying in bed breathing became difficult.

Chest

On turning in bed, internal pain in infero-posterior chest. ─ Compression in whole chest, evening. ─ A little before midnight could not endure coverlet on chest. ─ Stitches r. chest.

Sleep

Sleeplessness at night. ─ Broken sleep.

Fever

Coldness, even on thighs. ─ General and copious nocturnal sweat, < on thighs. ─ At daybreak, slight general sweat.