Condensed Materia Medica

Ranunculus Bulbosus ran-b.

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Mind

Vanishing of thought on reflection.
Obtuseness of the senses.
Angry mood; quarrelsome.

Sensorium

Vertigo, with danger of falling, when going from room into open air.

Inner Head

Pressing headache in forehead and on vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on eyeballs and sleepiness; worse in evening or when entering a room from cold air; or vice versa.
Congestion of blood to head, sensation of fulness and enlargement of head.
Headache, with nausea and sleepiness.
The headache is caused or aggravated by a change of temperature.

Outer Head

Head feels too large.

Eyes

Hemeralopia, with heat, biting and pressure in eyes; lids and conjunctiva slightly red, lachrymation; pus in the canthi.
Pressure in eyeballs.
Smarting and sore feeling in eye or canthus.

Ears

Stitches in ears, principally in evening.

Nose

Redness and inflammatory swelling of nose, with tension.
Scabs in the nostrils.

Face

Dry heat in face, with redness of cheeks, evenings.
Tingling in face, especially on nose and chin.

Lower Face

Spasms of the lips.

Mouth

White saliva in mouth, tasting like copper.

Throat

Much viscid phlegm in throat.
Inflammatory burning pains in throat and on palate.

Eating and Drinking

After eating: 36.

Nausea and Vomiting

Spasmodic hiccough.
Nausea in afternoon and evening, sometimes with headache.

Stomach

Sensation of soreness and burning in pit of stomach, worse from touch.
Pressure in pit of stomach.

Hypochondria

Sensation of soreness in hypochondria, especially to touch.
Stitches in region of liver, extending up into chest.
Pulsations in left hypochondrium.

Abdomen

Colic and cutting pains in abdomen, and when pressing on it sensation as if everything were sore and bruised.
Burning soreness in abdomen.
Great tenderness of abdomen to touch.

Urine

Ulcers in the bladder.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa, at first mild, then acrid, corroding.

Breathing

Short and oppressed, with pains in chest, and inclination to draw a long breath.

Lungs

Stitches in chest.
Small, sore spot, as from subcutaneous ulceration. θ After pneumonia.
Adhesions of the lungs (after inflammation).

Heart and Pulse

Pulse full, hard, rapid in evening, slower in morning.

Outer Chest

Chest feels sore, bruised; worse from touch, motion, or turning body (many cases of pleurodynia).

Neck and Back

Pain along inner edge of left scapula, often extending below its inferior angle, or through lower half of left side of thorax.

Upper Limbs

Spasmodic, rheumatic pain in arms.
Stitches in arms and hands.
Blister-like eruption in palms of hands.

Lower limbs

Drawing pain in the thighs, extending downward.
Cracking in joints (knee).
Corns sensitive to touch, smart and burn.

Position, etc

Motion: 30. Turning body: 30. Cannot lie on side: 37.

Nerves

Twitching of muscles.
Epileptic attacks.
Sudden weakness, with fainting.
Trembling of limbs, with oppression of breathing after fright or anger; aggravated in evening, and sometimes after eating, from change of temperature, especially from heat to cold.

Sleep

Sleeplessness often with dyspnœa, heat and ebullitions; cannot lie on the side.

Time

Morning: 29, 40. Afternoon: 16, 40. Evening: 3, 6, 8, 29, 36, 40.

Temperature and Weather

Room to open air: 2, 3. Open air to room: 3. Change of temperature: 36. Open air: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly, with heat in face, worse afternoon and evening, the well-covered chest is chilly out of doors.
Heat in evening, worse on right side of face, with cold hands and general uncomfortableness.
Heat, with internal chill at same time.
Sweat scanty and only in morning on awaking.

Sides

Right: 18, 40. Left: 18, 31. Behind forward: 31. Above downward: 33.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 17, 18, 19, 30, 33. Pressure: 19.

Skin

Horn-like excrescences.
Vesicular eruptions, as from burns.
Shingles and intercostal neuralgia.
Flat, burning, stinging ulcers, with ichorous discharge.
Pemphigus.
Chilblains (external application).

Relationship

Antidotes to Ran. bulb.: Bryon., Camphor., Pulsat., Rhus.
Inimicals: alcohol, Spir. nitr. dulc., Staphis, Sulphur, vinegar, wine.