Pulsatilla Nigricans puls.
Mind
Fancies a naked man is wrapped in her bedclothes; dreams of men.
Mania from suppressed menses.
Religious mania; sees the devil coming to take her; the world on fire during night; fear, rage in spells or weeping; forgetful during lucid moments.
Easily moved to tears or laughter.
Silent mood, disgusted at everything.
In early morn depressed, full of cares about domestic affairs.
Dread of men.
Tremulous anguish, as if death was near.
Anguish about the heart, even to suicide.
Mild, gentle, tearful, yielding, timid.
Peevish, changeable; pale; chilly. θ Children.
Envy; covetousness.
Fatigued by mental labor; head affected.
After slight emotions, difficult breathing; bad effects from fright, mortification or excessive joy.
Sensorium
Confusion of head, with pains, as after intoxication or watching.
Giddy, as if drunk; inclination to vomit.
Faint all the morning; frequent calls for water.
Apoplexy, unconscious; face blue-red, bloated; violent beating of heat, pulse collapsed, rattling breathing.
Inner Head
Stupefying headache, running chills, with humming in the head; worse when lying or sitting quietly or in the cold.
Soreness, as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples; worse evening at rest, in warm room; better when walking in open air.
Twitching-tearing in temple lain on; goes to other side when turning on to it; worse evenings, and on raising eyes upward.
Headache, as if it would burst; worse from moving eyes.
Stinging-pulsating in brain; worse when stooping.
Pulsating in evening, and from mental exertion; throbbing, with catamenia.
Semilateral headache, also sometimes with nausea and vomiting.
Violent pain behind, on one side, as if a nail was driven in.
Beating, jerking, lacerating pains, or as if in a vise.
Headache from overloaded stomach, from pastry, fats, ice-cream.
Acute pains in temples, with giddiness.
Pain as if brain was lacerated, on or soon after awaking.
Headache worse from abuse of mercury; in warm room; better walking slowly in open air and from compression.
Outer Head
Rheumatic headache, worse on one side, and from 5 to 10 P.M.; crazing pains into the face and teeth.
Tingling, biting, itching on scalp, mostly on temples and behind ears, followed by swelling an eruptions; sore pain; worse evenings and when undressing; also, from getting warm in bed.
Tumors on scalp, suppurating and affecting the skull, worse lying on well side.
Fetid, often cold, sweat, at times on one side of head and face, great anxiety and stupor; worse at night and toward morning; better after waking and rising.
Disposition to take cold on head, worse when it gets wet; head sweaty.
Eyes
Oversensitive to light.
Flashing of fire, as if slapped in face.
Like a veil before eyes, better rubbing or wiping them.
Amblyopia: from suppression of any bloody discharge; from metastasis of gout or rheumatism; from gastric derangements; with heart disease; with co-existing diminished hearing.
Dim sight, especially on getting warm from exercise.
Dryness of eyes and lids, with sensation as if darkened by mucus, which ought to be wiped away.
Stitches, especially from light and in sunshine.
Child frequently rubs its eye.
Pustular conjunctivitis, lachrymation more in open air or wind; discharge thick yellow, bland, profuse.
Ophthalmia, with amenorrhœa.
Lids swollen, itch, burn, not excoriated, better from rubbing; subject to styes, especially on upper lid.
Granular lids, dry, or with excessive bland secretion; better in open air, but not in wind; granulations very fine.
Stinging, tearing pains, worse in the evening; rheumatic ophthalmia.
Fistula lachrymalis, discharging pus when pressed.
Ophthalmia neonatorum; profuse yellow, purulent discharge, gluing the lids.
Gonorrhœal ophthalmia; discharge suddenly suppressed.
Ears
Deafness: as if ears were stopped up; after suppressed measles; with otorrhœa; from cold after cutting hair; with hard, black cerumen.
Can hear better on the cars.
Severe pain in ear, continuing through night, with paroxysms of increasing severity, but causing little concern during day; bland, nearly inoffensive, discharge of mucus and pus.
Roaring in ears, better out-doors; also, humming or tingling.
Phlyctenulæ (to prevent ulceration).
Otalgia, with darting, tearing pains, and pulsating at night.
External ear and meatus red and swollen; scabs on tragus.
Nose
Loss of smell, with catarrh.
Smell of old catarrh; objective stench from nose.
Nosebleed: with suppressed menses; with dry coryza; in anæmia; blood coagulated.
Coryza, fluid or dry, loss of taste and smell, nostrils sore; wings raw; later yellow-green discharge; worse in-doors; chilliness, face pale, head confused; frontal headache.
Green, fetid, nasal discharge, with diminished taste and smell; chronic, thick, yellow, bland discharge.
Face
Red every evening; alternately red and pale; pale or yellowish, with sunken eyes; puffed, blue, red; cheeks and nose puffed.
Flushes in the face.
Facial neuralgia, nervous excitation coming at irregular intervals; worse when chewing, talking, or from hot or cold things in mouth.
Facial erysipelas, with stinging, pricking pain, skin peels off.
Skin of face painfully sensitive.
Lower Face
Gnawing, smarting around the mouth.
Lower lip swelled and cracked in the middle.
Teeth
Looseness of painful teeth.
Drawing, jerking, as if a nerve was put on the stretch and then let loose; shooting in gums.
Left side of face sensitive; stinging in decayed teeth.
Throbbing, digging in hollow teeth, with drawing extending to the eye; also, with otalgia.
Toothache worse in Spring; at night; from picking teeth; in warm room; in warmth of bed; when eating, but not from chewing; when sitting; from cold water, or from anything warm in the mouth; also during pregnancy; better walking around in open air.
Tongue, etc
Loss of taste, with catarrh; nothing tastes good.
Taste: foul, especially in early morning; clammy, wants to rinse mouth often; of putrid meat, with inclination to vomit, in morning; bitter mostly after swallowing food or drink, also, evening and morning.
Tongue: white or yellow, and coated with tenacious mucus; parched, dry, no thirst; feels in middle as if burned, even when moist, night and morning; feels too broad, too large.
Edges of tongue feel sore and as if scalded.
Mouth
Dry in morning, without thirst.
Putrid smell from mouth, especially in morning.
Flow of sweetish saliva.
Constant spitting of frothy, cotton-like mucus.
Throat
As if raw and sore; stinging, with pressure and tension on swallowing; cutting, burning, during swallowing; stitches between acts of swallowing; as if swollen, or a lump in it, when swallowing.
Veins distended, throat inflamed, bluish-red.
Throat dry, worse mornings with tough mucus in throat, especially in night and morning; much tenacious mucus in throat, like potash-salts.
Sore throat, with sense of dysphagia; she feels as though she would be choked.
Worse swallowing saliva and after food.
Desires and Aversions
Hunger: but knows not for what; eats greedily, followed by vomiting.
Food tastes too salt.
Appetite for: strong alcoholic drinks, beer; sour, refreshing things; herring.
Aversion to: fat food, pork, meat, bread, milk.
Thirst rare; when thirsty drinks often, but little at a time, it provokes inclination to vomit.
Thirstlessness, with moist or dry tongue.
Eating and Drinking
While eating: 10. After eating: 13, 16, 26, 29, 37. Hot or cold food: 8, 10. Cold fruit: 16. After drinking: 16.
Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough: after cold fruit; after drinking.
Eructations: tasting and smelling of food; bitter, bilious; rancid, sour.
Nausea, with colic, ceasing after vomiting.
Nausea at throat as from a worm crawling.
Vomiting: of blood, from a cold on stomach, or suppressed menses; of bilious matter; sour, green; chronic, after eating; caused by fruits, fats, pastry; ices; with pale face and chilliness.
Stomach
Pain in pit of stomach, during an inspiration; also, on pressure.
Weight as from a stone, early morning on waking; also an hour after eating, better by eating again.
Pressure in pit of stomach after every meal, vomiting of food.
Stitching pains, worse when walking or making misstep.
Crampy pains before breakfast or after meals.
Gnawing, distress when stomach is empty; pressure and pinching after eating.
Stomach bloated, hard; flatulency.
Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach.
Gastric catarrh, from ice-cream, fruit and pastry; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration.
Tension from stomach to chest.
Hypochondria
Darting, tensive pains in hepatic region.
Sticking in region of liver, also, particularly when walking.
Feeling of lassitude in hypochondria.
Abdomen
Flatulent colic, evening after supper, or at night; oppressive flatulence in upper abdomen and hypochondria; shifting of flatus.
Colic: from cold, with diarrhœa; from ices, fruits pastry; from getting feet wet.
Pain in lower chest and abdomen, obliging her to bend forward.
Abdomen and stomach distended; she must unlace.
Pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone; lower limbs go to sleep when sitting; ineffectual desire for stool.
Cutting and dragging in hypogastric region around to loins, making her feel faint.
Painful sensitiveness of abdomen to touch.
Lumps in both groins, hard and painful.
Stool, etc
Stools: watery, only, or usually at night, sometimes unconsciously evacuated; greenish-yellow, slimy, very changeable; like bile, following rumbling in abdomen; offensive, corrosive; of white and bloody mucus.
Dysenteric stools, of clear yellow, red or green slime; pain in back, straining; tenesmus, from anus up along sacrum.
Dysentery during cholera times.
Discharge of blood and mucus during stool; face pallid; fainting; dysuria; frequent stools of mucus only, after dysentery.
Obstinate constipation, nauseous, bad taste in morning, must wash out her mouth; costive stools hard and large, after suppressed intermittent fever by quinine.
Desire for stool, insufficient or no evacuation of feces, but instead yellowish, sometimes blood-mixed mucus.
Painful protruding piles, with smarting and soreness.
Piles (blind) with menses; though generally with this remedy, they bleed.
Urine
Tenesmus and stinging in neck of bladder.
Continued pressure on bladder, without desire to urinate.
Ischuria, with redness and heat in region of bladder.
Frequent, almost ineffectual, urging to urinate, with cutting pains.
Desire to urinate, with drawing in abdomen.
Cannot retain urine; it is passed in drops, sitting or walking; involuntary when coughing, passing wind, or during sleep, the latter especially in little girls.
Urine increased, watery, colorless; or, scanty, red-brown.
Sediment reddish, bloody or mucous, jelly-like, sticking to vessel.
Hæmaturia, with burning at orifice of urethra and constriction in region of navel.
Burning in urethra.
After urination, spasmodic pain in neck of bladder, extending into thighs.
At end to urination, dropping of blood.
Male Sexual Organs
Desires too strong, almost priapism.
Long-lasting morning erections; emissions after onanism.
Sexual excesses resulting in headache; backache; limbs heavy.
Burning of testicles, without swelling.
Orchitis, with swelling of scrotum; from cold, contusion or checked gonorrhœa.
Spermatic cord inflamed by a badly-fitting truss.
Drawing, tensive pains, from abdomen through cords into testicles.
Hydrocele.
Prostate enlarged; feces flat, small in size; also acute prostatitis.
Gonorrhœa, with thick, yellow, or yellow-green discharge.
Itching burning on inner and upper side of prepuce.
Female Sexual Organs
Tensive, cutting pain in uterus, which is very sensitive to touch and during coitus.
Pains in uterus, with amenorrhœa.
Prolapsus uteri, with pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone; limbs tend to go to sleep; ineffectual urging to stool.
Metrorrhagia, blood changeable, stops and flows; profuse at times, at others intermittent, mixed with clots; at climaxis; in chlorosis; after abuse of quinine and iron.
First menses delayed.
Menstruation, too late, scanty and short duration; flow thick, black, clotted, or thin, watery; or changeable in appearance; flows more during day while walking.
Menses suppressed or flow intermittently; after getting feet wet; in chlorosis; from nervous debility; with throbbing headache; pressure in stomach; pain in uterus; dysuria; ophthalmia; morning nausea; or bad taste in mouth.
Crampy constriction of vagina; indurations; fistula; polypus.
Leucorrhœa: milky, thick, with swollen vulva; acrid, burning, painless, or with cutting in abdomen.
Pregnancy
Threatened abortion; flow ceases and then returns with double force, ceases again, and so on.
Promotes expulsion of moles.
Labor-pains: deficient, irregular or sluggish; spasmodic; excite suffocation and faint spells, must have doors and windows open.
Retained placenta, want of action or spasmodic contraction.
Post-partum secondary hemorrhages from retained placenta or coagula.
After-pains too long or too violent; worse toward evening.
Lochia scanty, becoming milky; feverish, but no thirst.
Convulsions following sluggish or irregular labor-pains; unconscious; cold, clammy, pale face; stertorous breathing and full pulse.
Milk leg.
Mammæ: lumps in breasts of girls before puberty; or, escape of thin milk-like fluid.
Breasts swollen, rheumatic pains extend to muscles of chest, also to shoulders, neck, axillæ and down the arms, change from place to place; during nursing.
Milk suddenly suppressed; lochia becomes milky, white.
After wearing: beasts swell, feel stretched, tense, intensely sore; milk continues to be secreted.
Larynx
Hoarseness and roughness of throat; cannot speak loud; hoarseness coming and going.
Aphonia nervosa returns at every motion; last cervical vertebra feels sore, burning.
Constriction in throat, feels something there preventing speech; cannot eat, weeps.
Breathing
Asthma: especially of children after suppression of rash; in hysteria, or with suppressed menses; in the evening, especially after a meal.
Dyspnœa and vertigo, with weakness in head, when lying on the back; at night, in bed, as if throat or chest were constricted; or as if fumes of sulphur had been inhaled; morning, low down in chest.
Oppression of chest on walking fast, ascending an eminence, or exercising.
Cough
From irritation in pit of stomach; shattering, spasmodic, often in paroxysms of two coughs each; excited by itching, scratching, and dry feeling, as from vapor of sulphur in trachea and chest; dry at night, going off when sitting in bed; loose by day; dry after every sleep; evening after lying down, when warm in bed; loose, vomits mucous; diarrhœa; worse at night; with yellow mucus sputa, bitter or greenish; with purulent expectoration; with expectoration of pieces of dark, coagulated blood; menses suppressed.
Spitting of dark, coagulated blood; pain in lower part of chest; anguish, shuddering; qualmishness.
Lungs
Phthisis florida, suppurative stage; chlorotic girls.
Soreness in chest; under clavicles.
Pain in chest, as if ulcerated.
Stitches in side only when lying, particularly at night.
Sticking in chest, worse from deep breath, or coughing.
Paroxysms of burning in chest.
Obstinate bronchial catarrh.
Congestion to chest and heart at night; with anxious dreams.
Heart and Pulse
Beating through chest interrupts sleep; old maids.
Catching pain in cardiac region, better for a time from pressure of hand; pains, with but little or no anxiety.
Burning in region of heart.
Heaviness, pressure or sensation of fulness every evening.
Palpitation: in violent paroxysms, often with anguish and obscuration of sight; trembling of limbs; from chagrin, fright, or joy; with catamenia, chlorosis; strong with suppressed pulse; after dinner.
Pulse: accelerated, small and weak; frequent in evenings; with distended blood-vessels, slower in morning; often scarcely perceptible.
Outer Chest
Chest pains as if bruised.
Neck and Back
Swelling of cervical glands.
Interscapular pain, worse by inspiration.
Curvature of upper part of spine.
Like cold water poured down back.
Stitches in small of back.
Pain in back and small of back, as from stooping long, or as if weary.
Upper Limbs
Severe pains in both shoulder-joints.
Hard, painful throbbing; glandular swelling in the right axilla.
Heaviness in arm from shoulders to fingers, numb feeling.
Arms feel as if broken and dislocated; worse on pressure and from movement.
Elbow swollen after a contusion.
Veins in forearms and hands swollen.
Lower limbs
Pain as from festering, in muscles of buttocks, legs and soles.
Jerking pain in hip-joint, extending to knee.
Drawing, heaviness, weariness, in legs.
Legs hot, swollen, with tensive, burning pains.
Knees inflamed, swollen, with shooting pains.
Soft, white, shining swelling of knees.
Jerking, lacerating through left leg and foot, which becomes numb and œdematous; sensitive to touch; better from changing position.
Aching in calves, which are swollen.
Varices on legs.
Feet red, inflamed, swollen; also the soles.
Swelling of top of foot.
Chilblains inflamed, bluish, itching.
Limbs in General
Redness and swelling of joints, with stinging pains.
Jerking, tearing, drawing in muscles, shifting rapidly from place to place; worse at night, from warmth; better from uncovering; towards evening pains more fixed with swelling of parts, when pains abate some.
Rheumatism: caused by getting wet, especially the feet; from protracted wet weather.
Position, etc
Motion: 19, 32, 33, 40. Exercise: 5, 26. Walking: 3, 10, 18, 21, 23, 16, 46. Rising: 4. Ascending: 26. Stooping: 3. Must bend forward: 19. Lifting eyes: 2, 3. Moving eyes: 3. Rest: 3. Sitting: 3, 10, 19, 21, 27. Lying: 3, 27, 29; on back: 26. Parts lain on: 3, 4, 43.
Pains worse changing from a long-maintained position.
Nerves
Hysteria; symptoms ever changing.
Epileptic convulsions, violent tossing of limbs, followed by relaxation, disposition to vomit, eructations; from suppressed menses.
Fainting fits, great paleness of face; shivering, coldness.
Violent trembling all over.
Tired, worn out feeling, as from fatigue, but not better resting.
Nervous debility, with amenorrhœa.
Sleep
Yawning; drowsy by day; feverish somnolence.
Sleepless: after late supper, or eating too much; from ideas crowding on the mind; first part of night, sleeps late in morning.
Starts, talks, weeps, cries out in sleep.
Dreams: confused, frightful; anxious.
Talking, whining and screaming during sleep.
Time
Early morning: 1, 11. Morning: 2, 11, 12, 13, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 37, 40. 4 P.M.: 40. 5-10 P.M.: 4. Evening: 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 19, 24, 26, 27, 29, 40. Night: 4, 6, 10, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 34, 40, 46.
Temperature and Weather
Warmth: 5, 34; of bed: 4, 10, 26, 27. Warm room: 3, 10, 40. In-doors: 7. Sunshine: 5. Spring: 10. Cold: 46. Wet weather: 34. Open air: 3, 5, 10. Undressing: 4. Uncovering: 34. Washing: 40. Getting head wet: 4. Wetting feet: 19, 23, 34.
Generally pains better cool air; abdominal pains better warmth.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Cold chills all over; chilly all the time, even in a warm room; chilly with the pains.
Chilly at lower abdomen and small of back; sleepy but no sleep.
One-sided coldness, with numbness.
Flitting chilliness; chills in spots, now here, now there; worse evening.
Chill 4 P.M., no thirst; anxiety, dyspnœa; vomiting of mucus when the chill comes on.
Heat, with red face, or one cheek red and one pale.
Internal dry heat, evening or night, without external heat.
Heat of right side or on upper part of body; lessened by moving or washing.
Heat of face or of one hand, with coldness of the other; body hot, limbs cold.
Attacks of anxious heat, as if water was poured over him.
Sweat: one-sided; only on face and head; more at night and in morning; soon ceasing when waking; sour, musty, at times cold; sweetish acid odor to sweat; at night, with stupid slumber.
Pains during sweat.
During apyrexia; headache; mucous diarrhœa, nausea and loss of appetite; enlarged spleen.
Attacks
Paroxysms of increasing severity.
Pains appear suddenly, leave gradually.
Wandering pains shift rapidly from part to part.
Symptoms ever changing.
Sides
Right: 10, 32, 40. Left: 10, 29, 33. Above downward: 21.
Sensations
Tension in inner parts, or in joints.
Sensation of subcutaneous ulceration.
Tingling in parts lain on.
Pulsations through the whole body.
Tissues
Hemorrhages, blood dark, easily coagulating.
Varicose veins; inflamed.
Circulation weak, sluggish, with paleness and constant chilliness; anæmia.
Inflammations of internal, with disposition to suppurate.
Affections of mucous surfaces; discharges thence are usually bland, yellowish-green, thick.
Emaciation, especially of suffering parts.
Chlorosis, especially after large doses of iron.
Glands swollen, painful, hot.
Scraping or tingling in periosteum; jerking boring in bones; incipiency of inflammation.
Anasarca.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Part touched feels bruised, ulcerated; skin sensitive.
Child wants to be carried slowly.
Better from trying clothes tightly.
Concussions; bruises, especially with injury of bones, sore pain when touched.
Touch: 19, 23, 33. Rubbing or wiping: 5. Pressure: 5, 29, 32; of clothes: 19; of truss: 22. Contusion: 22, 32. Riding in cars: 6.
Skin
Pale; burning-itching here and there.
Urticaria, with diarrhœa; also in the summer; itching worse at night; from pastry or pork; from delayed menses; worse undressing, cool bath, etc.
Moles or freckles on young girls.
Erysipelas bluish, spreads rapidly; especially about buttocks and thighs; smooth skin.
Intertrigo, chafing, after abuse of chamomile tea.
Rhagades.
Chaps.
Bleeding tumors; changeable blood, most while walking during the day.
Measles even with typhoid symptoms; catarrh prominent; eruption tardy; earache; ophthalmia; short, dry cough, with pain in chest; or, rattling loose cough, which is prone to remain as a sequelæ.
Ulcers: bleed easily, with burning, stinging or itching around them; with hard or red areolæ; better from cold.
Wound suppurate; pus thick, bland, too profuse.
Stages and States
Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to grief and submissiveness.
Often indicated with women and children.
Relationship
Complementary to Sulph. ac. Lycop., Pulsat.
It antidotes: Cinchon., Iron, Sulphur, Sulph. ac., vapor of mercury, or of copper, Coffea, Chamom., Bellad., Colchic., Lycop., Platin., Stramon., Sabad., Ant. tart.
Pulsat. as antidoted by Chamom., Coffea, Ignat., Nux vom.