Pulsatilla Nigricans puls.

MIND. VEINS. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: TONGUE. STOMACH. BOWELS. FEMALE AND GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Respiration. One side. Right heart.

WARMTH: AIR. ROOM. Clothes. BED. Getting feet wet. SUPPRESSIONS. EVENING. REST. BEGINNING MOTION. LYING; one side (L). EATING: RICH FOOD. Long after. FATS. Ices. Eggs. PUBERTY. PREGNANCY. Before menses. Iron. Quinine.

COLD; FRESH, OPEN AIR. Uncovering. ERECT POSTURE. Gentle motion. Continued motion. After a good cry.

CHANGEFUL. SHIFTING SYMPTOMS; rising to a certain pitch, then suddenly ceasing; going to part lain on; unilateral. THIRSTLESS, SHORT OF BREATH AND CHILLY; with digestive or menstrual disorders. SUPPRESSIONS; otorrhœa, menses, lochia, milk, etc. Metastases. Alternations. Phlegmasia. Venosity. Hæmorrhage; passive; vicarious. Anæmia. PROFUSE, BLAND, THICK, YELLOW-GREEN DISCHARGES; bitter mucus. Jerking, tearing or ulcerative pain. Numbness; part lain on; hands, feet, etc. Pale, chilly blondes.

MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL. WEEPY. Discouraged. Whining. Easily offended. Craves sympathy. Can't lie with head low. Headache start in vertex. Occipital ache, < coughing. Profuse sweat on scalp. Eyes; fill with tears (acrid) or seem covered; < wind; sticky lids; colds affect the; ophthalmia, gonorrhœal. Blepharitis. Styes. Blind attacks; < menses. Nightly earache. Foul discharge or bad odor before nose. Coryza; stopped on lying or in room. Anosmia. Pale face. Peeling cracked lips. Licks lips. Crack in center of lower lip. Bad breath. Drawing toothache, > cold. Taste bad; in A.M.; bloody; greasy. Slimy mouth or dry, without thirst. Tongue feels scalded. Alternate sides of throat or neck. Food leaves an after-taste or lodges in throat. Averse to water or fats. Craves acids or what disagrees. Sudden loathing, < eating. Heart-burn. Nausea. Epigastrium; cutting; pulsation. HEAVY OR DERANGED STOMACH. Abdomen; as of a heavy stone; aching; numb; pains into groins. Stools; changeable; green mucus, < after midnight; bilious. Piles, < lying. Urination; involuntary on lying; followed by blood. Heavy pressure on or cramp in bladder. Sensation as of a stone rolling in bladder. Nocturnal enuresis. Burning down l. spermatic cord. Enlarged prostate. Orchitis; gonorrhœal. Bloody emissions. Feels like menstruating. MENSES DARK; LATE, at puberty; SCANTY, < bathing; irregular; vicarious; absent. Dysmenorrhœa. Weak labor pains. Bearing down, < lying. After pains. Retained placenta. Leucorrhœa; milky; acrid. AIR HUNGER; < lying on l. side; as if from abdomen; if heated. Loose morning, then dry evening cough; from tickling in epigastrium; must sit up. Expectoration thick; purulent (Cetrar.), slimy, sweet, salt, etc. Asthma from suppressions. Cough; dry hacking; expectorates bitter or salty as it loosens up. Chest oppressed; as by a load. Sore stitch beneath clavicles. Palpitation. Mammæ; milk in virgin; sore, aching lump (r); scanty milk. Swelled joints; backs of feet. Numb elbows. Lower limbs; pains down, alternate sides; heavy legs. Sticking in tibia, < lying, > cool air and motion. Acute periostitis. Cold sweat on legs. Foul foot-sweat. Swelled glands. Veins full; varicose; painful. Ulcers, with hard, glistening areolæ; varicose. Skin itches on being heated. Measles. Day sleepiness. Lies with hands over head. Disturbed dreams. Awakes confused or tired. Chilly, yet averse to heat; IN A WARM ROOM; with the pain; on lying down at night. One hand cold. Partial sweat.

Complementary: Ars. Kali-bi. Sep. Sil. Zin. Related: Ap. Cimi. Grap. Ham. Kali-bi. Nat-s.

Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phelgmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition - the woman's remedy. Weeps easily: almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping (weeps when thanked, Lyc.). Especially, in diseases of women and children. Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and protracted menstruation (Graph.). The first serious impairment of health is referred to puberic age, have "never been well since" - anaemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis. Secretions from all mucus membranes are thick, bland and yellowish- green (Kali s., Nat. s.). Symptoms ever changing: no two chills, no two stools, no two attacks alike; very well one hour, very miserable the next; apparently contradictory (Ign.). Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c., Mang. a.); are accompanied with constant chilliness; the more severe the pain, the more severe the chill; appear suddenly, leave gradually, or tension much increases until very acute and then "lets up with a snap;" on first motion (Rhus). Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints; gastric difficulties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially after pork or sausage; the sight or even the thought of port causes disgust; "bad taste" in the morning. Great dryness of mouth in the morning, without thirst (Nux m. - mouth moist, intense thirst, Mer.). Mumps; metastasis to mammae or testicle. "All-gone" sensation in stomach, in tea drinkers especially. Diarrhoea: only, or usually at night, watery, greenish-yellow, very changeable; soon as they eat; from fruit, cold food or drinks, ice-cream (Ars., Bry.; eating pears, Ver., China; onions, Thuja; oysters, Brom., Lyc.; milk, Cal., Nat. c., Nic., Sul.; drinking impure water, Camp., Zing.). Derangements at puberty; menses, suppressed from getting feet wet; too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermitting flow, with evening chilliness; with intense pain and great restlessness and tossing about (Mag. p.); flows more during day (on lying down, Kreos.). Delayed first menstruation. Sleep: wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed; first sleep restless, sound asleep when it it time to getup; wakes languid, unrefreshed (rev. of, Nux). Styes: especially on upper lid; from eating fat, greasy, rich food or pork (compare, Lyc., Sulph.). Threatened abortion; flow ceases and then returns with increased force; pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must have fresh air. Toothache: relieved by holding cold water in the mouth (Bry., Coff.); worse from warm things and heat of room. Unable to breathe well, or is chilly in a warm room. Nervousness, intensely felt about the ankles.

Complementary: Kali m., Lyc., Sil., Sulph. ac.; Kali m. is its chemical analogue. Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments. Follows, and is followed by, Kali m. One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic case (Cal., Sulph.). Patients, anaemic or chlorotic, who have taken much iron, quinine and tonics, even years before. Ailments: from abuse of chamomile, quinine, mercury, tea-drinking, sulphur.

In a warm close room; evening, at twilight; on beginning to move; lying on the left, or on the painless side; very rich, fat, indigestible food; pressure on the well side if it be made toward the diseased side; warm applications; heat (Kali m.).

In the open air; lying on painful side (Bry.); cold air or cool room; eating or drinking cold things; cold applications (Kali m.).

We may draw many important symptoms from the action of this wind-flower. For, as the flower bobs about with every breath of wind, and changes its position constantly, so do the symptoms which are characteristic of the drug. The pains constantly change their location, flying from one part to another; sometimes existing with intense severity, then suddenly becoming very mild, and vice versa; the diarrhœic stools change their character constantly, no two being alike, etc.

This remedy is particularly applicable for complaints which are found to occur in patients of a mild, yielding, or good-natured disposition; also in those who by their sickness, or naturally, are very easily excited to tears,--they are very apt to burst into tears whenever spoken to, or when they attempt to speak, as in giving their symptoms, etc. Affections of the mind in general; covetous; mistrustful; absent-minded; low-spirited.

Affections in general appearing on the cornea; margins of the eyelids; dimsightedness, with a sensation as though there was something over the eye, which the patient wishes to rub away; amaurosis; cataract.

Tinkling in; hard hearing; otalgia which comes and goes, the pain is sometimes better and sometimes worse, may be accompanied by high fever, etc.; discharge from, one or both, which may come on after measles or any other disease, or may occur spontaneously; hardness of hearing as though the ears were stopped up.

Epistaxis; imaginary smells; old catarrh; often find a profuse discharge of greenish mucus every morning, in mild, pleasant persons; catarrh of, accompanied by special discomfort in the house, can't breath well in a warm room, and experiences great relief by going out into the open air.

Taste bitter; fatty; offensive; putrid; saltish; sour; sweetish; lost; in colds where there is entire loss of taste. Vomiting in general; of bile; of slimy matter.

Diarrhœa, particularly when it is very changeable, and no stools are alike; flatus very fetid, sometimes obstructed, causing much pain. Stools acrid; bloody; green; composed of mucus; may contain tape-worm; hæmorrhoids; diarrhœa during menses, particularly if it comes on at night.

Very scanty; bloody; with mucus; reddish; involuntary discharge of; incontinence of, in bed at night, especially in mild-tempered, tearful people, and in children; complaints before making water, and during: when going to urinate there is a sensation as if it would gush away, and they can scarcely wait. Region over the bladder very sensitive to pressure.

Female: Affections in general of the female genital organs; of the uterus. Pain like labor pain. After-pains, in females of a mild disposition. Menstruation too late; too short; too scanty; suppressed, especially if produced by getting the feet wet; delay of first menses, in mild, gentle girls, low-spirited, etc.; complaints before menstruation and during; menstrual colic; diarrhœa during menses, etc. Leucorrhœa in general; thick; burning; looking like milk, especially frequent in lochial discharges where the flow looks like milk. Scanty supply of milk. Affections of the nipples.

Cough in general; loose; with expectoration in the morning, without expectoration in the evening; with expectoration in the day, without expectoration at night. Expectoration bloody; green; yellow; with bitter taste; with greasy taste; offensive taste; salty taste.

Chilblains, particularly when they turn blue. Exanthema chapped; like measles; rubeola. Blue-black swellings. Ulcers with burning or biting in circumstance; deep or fistulous; with redness extending far around: where there is much swelling around.

Falling asleep very late; complaints preventing sleep; waking frequently at night; sleeplessness before midnight; when sleeping with the arms over the head exists as a symptom; anxious dreams of fatal accidents.

Chilliness of one side only; chilliness without thirst, often followed by fever without thirst; heat on one side; perspiration on one side only; want of thirst; febrile symptoms right side.

Rheumatic pains flying from one part to another; are now in one portion of the body, and suddenly flying off to another. Pain, as if bruised in the inner parts; same in the joints. Sensation of hollowness; of pulsations, knocking or throbbing in inner parts; of extension in size, as if one part, or every part were going too large; of a band around the parts; of buzzing or humming in any part of the body. Jerking or darting pains in outer or inner parts; pain as if sprained in the joints; tension or tightness in the outer parts of joints. Biting or stinging in the skin; itching of the skin unaltered (i.e., not better or worse), by scratching; finger or toe nails painful as if ulcerated.

Affections in general, and of any kind, appearing in the right abdominal ring; right chest; right upper and lower extremity; tongue; increase of saliva; larynx; trachea; nape of the neck; heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart, also with anguish; small of the back; shoulder-joints; fingers; legs; shin-bones; calves, particularly when they are swollen, red, and hot; heel; sole of the foot; ball or under part of the toes; knee-joint; bones of the lower extremities; inflammation of the bones in general. Strong desire for open air, making the patient feel better in every way--headache, toothache, earache, cold in the head, etc., all better in the open air, can breathe better, etc. Bleeding from inner parts; congestion of blood to single parts; apparent deficiency of blood. Chlorosis (in mild, quiet, etc., dispositions). Secretion of mucus increased; nervous debility. Varicose veins, even when inflamed, especially when blue, particularly in pregnant females, which feel more comfortable when walking about.

In the afternoon; in the evening before midnight; from mental affections; on waking; when blowing the nose produces pain in the chest, nose, head, or somewhere else, or a cracking in the ears; before falling asleep; during expiration; after taking cold; from change of position; particularly applicable to the female organism; from loss of fluids; from being frost-bitten; while lying down; lying on the left side; on the painless side; lying with the head low; having the measles; after the measles; before and during menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; on beginning to move; from taking bread; butter; buckwheat; fat food; fruits; ice; pancakes; warm food; abuse of Peruvian bark; can't bear pressure on the well side, if it be made toward the diseased side; in the room, particularly a warm room; from derangement of the stomach; during stool, particularly in dysentery if it gives great pain in the small of the back; while suckling the child; in the sun; in the twilight or evening; before, or during, or after urinating; women in confinement; from having a tape-worm; from surgical injuries in general; from tobacco; during pregnancy.

In the open air; in a cold place; from cold air; lying on right side; with head high; from moving; on rising from bed; from cold things; when walking in the open air; from washing; on wetting the affected parts; after discharge of flatus.

Arsen., Bellad., Bryon, Ignat., Lycop., Nux vom., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Coffea. Sometimes Chamom., Ignat., Nux vom.

Coryza, fluid or dry, with loss of taste and smell, sore nostrils, later, a yellowish-green discharge. Pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone, with disposition of lower limbs to go to sleep when sitting. sometimes Ineffectual desire for stool Greatly troubled with dryness in the mouth and throat while sleeping, always awakes with a dry tongue, but without thirst. Stomach disordered from rich foods, cakes. pastry, etc., particularly fat of pork. Thirstlessness with all complaints. Wandering pains shift rapidly from one place to another, also with swelling of the joints. Bad taste in the mouth, especially in the morning, or nothing tastes good, or no taste at all. Menstrual colic with great restlessness, tossing in every possible direction. Noctural enuresis, particularly In little girls. Menses too late and scanty, or suppressed from getting the feet wet. Mild, gentle yielding disposition, cries at anything, is sad and desponding, can hardly give her symptoms on account of weeping. Sandy hair, blue eyed, pale face, inclined to silent grief with submissiveness.

Wind Flower (PULSATILLA)

The weather-cock among remedies.

The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory. The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles. Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.

Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost. Likes sympathy. Children like fuss and caresses. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex. Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Highly emotional. Mentally, an April day.

Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; vertigo; better in open air. Frontal and supra-orbital pains. Neuralgic pains, commencing in right temporal region, with scalding lachrymation of affected side. Headache from overwork. Pressure on vertex.

Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhœa. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. Catarrhal otitis. Otalgia, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of hearing.

Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus. Lids inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.

Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.

Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Greasy taste. Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. Crack in middle of lower lip. Yellow or white tongue, covered with a tenacious mucus. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in mouth (Coff). Offensive odor from mouth (Merc; Aur). Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much sweet saliva. Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul. Loss of taste. Desire for tonics.

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink. Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pasty. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Flatulence. Dislikes butter (Sang). Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating (Nux). Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling (Abies c). Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach (Asaf). All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers. Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning.

Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.

Rumbling, watery; worse, night No two stools alike. After fruit (Ars; Chin). Blind hæmorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness (Merc; Rheum). Two or three normal stools daily.

Increased desire; worse when lying down. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Amenorrhœa (Cimicif; Senec; Polygon). Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhœa during or after menses.

Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhœa. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted (Clemat). Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.

Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous expectoration. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great soreness of epigastrium. Urine emitted with cough (Caust). Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side (Phos). Smothering sensation on lying down.

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over head.

Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness. Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap. Numbness around elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering worse from letting the affected limb hang down (Vipera). Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhœa, from delayed menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Chilliness, even in warm room, without thirst. Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 pm. Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during sweat. External heat is intolerable, veins are distended. During apyrexia, headache, diarrhœa, loss of appetite, nausea.

Worse, from heat, rich fat food, after eating, towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side when allowing feet to hang down. Better, open air, motion, cold applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.

Penthorum, often indicated after Pulsatilla in later colds. Ionesia Asoca-Saraca indica--(Amenorrhœa. Menorrhagia-acts powerfully on female organs. Abdominal pain). Atriplex (Uterine symptoms, amenorrhœa; hysteria, coldness between shoulders, dislike of warm food, craves strange foods, palpitation, sleeplessness). Pulsatilla Nuttaliana, identical effects.

Compare: Cyclamen; Kali bich; Kali sulph; Sulphur. Pimenta-Allspice--(one-sided neuralgias, parts of body hot and cold).

Anagyris (headache, amenorrhœa).

Complementary: Coffea; Chamom; Nux.

Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Mild, gentle, yielding disposition; sad and despondent, weeps easily, sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, muscles soft and flabby.

Changeable remedy, pains travel from one joint to another; hæmorrhages flow and stop and flow again, no two stools alike, no two chills alike, no head nor tail to the case-mixed.

Bad taste in the mouth, < mornings, with great dryness, but no thirst.

Stomach easily disturbed, especially by cakes, pastry or rich fat foods.

Thick bland discharges from all mucous membranes.

Catamenia too late, scanty or suppressed, particularly by wetting the feet.

Pains accompanied with constant chilliness, and the more severe the pain the harder the chill (with profuse sweating, Cham.; with fainting, Hepar sulph.; with frequent micturition, Thuja; with delirium, Verat. alb.).

The mental picture of Pulsatilla is almost the opposite of that of Nux vomica. Nux vomica is called the man's remedy and Pulsatilla the woman's remedy. This means simply that the complaints of one are found oftener with men, while those of the other are found oftener with women.

Now to call attention to another of Hering's characteristics, and I know of no one who has expressed them better, we have -"Mild, gentle and yielding disposition; cries et everything; is sad and desponding; creeps about everything; can hardly give her symptoms on account of weeping.") And again: "Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to silent grief with submissiveness." (Silicea is its chronic). Here we have a description of the Pulsatilla temperament as near as words can express it, and it is a fact that when you find it in a patient, no matter what the pathological condition, Pulsatilla will almost surely help. There are few exceptions. So we learn not to put too much stress on pathological states to the neglect of symptomatological conditions.

Pulsatilla is a remedy of wide range of action. Farrington mentioned its use in seventy-three different affections, and has not by any means exhausted them all; and if you study Pulsatilla in Hughes' Pharmacodynamics you will notice that, although he recommends it in many diseases, he does not, and evidently is not able to, talk as much from a pathological standpoint especially from the provings of the drug as he does of many other remedies. It seems to me like folly to undertake to pose as either an exclusive pathologist or symptomatologist. Both pathology and symptomatology are valuable and inseparable; neither can be excluded. Pathology is what the doctor can tell (sometimes); symptomatology is what the patient can tell.

There is another condition of Pulsatilla which may be considered Characteristic, and which Hering does not mention in his cards, viz., changeableness of symptoms (Ignat., Nux mosch.). All that Hering said was "wandering pains shift rapidly from one part to another, also with swelling and redness of the joints. " Now if this occurs in rheumatism (Manganum acet., Lac caninum, Kali bichrom., Kalmia lat.), and especially if in the Pulsatilla temperament we may perform a miracle of curing with this remedy. But this shifting or changeableness is not confined to the pains, which may be either rheumatic or neuralgic, but is found in the disposition. The patient is now irritable, then tearful again, or mild and pleasant; but, even with the irritableness, is easily made to cry. The hæmorrhages flow, and stop, and flow again; continually changing. The stools in diarrhœa Constantly change in color; they are green, yellow, white, watery or slimy; as Guernsey expresses it -"no two stools alike." (Sanicula). This is often found in the so-called cholera-infantum or entero-colitis of children in hot weather.

We sometimes have patients come into the office, and find, in trying to take their case, no "head to tail" to it. It is mixed. The suffering and pain is now here, now there. The symptoms are contradictory, as we term them. This condition should always call attention to Pulsatilla and it will often clear up and cure the case. Ignatia also has these ever-changing, hysterical and contradictory symptoms, both pre-eminently woman remedies.

Pulsatilla like Nux vomica is a great remedy for disorders. of digestion. Symptoms -"Bad taste in the mouth, especially early in the morning, or nothing tastes good, or no taste at all." (Bryonia, bad taste with coated tongue and thirst; Pulsat., no thirst).

"Great dryness of the mouth in the morning, without thirst. Stomach disordered from cakes, pastry, rich food; particularly fat pork." (I would say -fat meats generally). These are reliable symptoms, as given in Hering's cards, and are not very much like the symptoms of Nux vomica, which is not disturbed by fats, but on the contrary likes them and they agree. With Nux vomica warm food agrees best; with Pulsatilla, cold things.

The bad taste in the mouth is persistent and the loss of taste is frequent, as is also the loss of smell. How peculiar that Pulsatilla should have dry mouth and no thirst, while Mercurius should have characteristically moist mouth with intense thirst. There is no accounting for taste, as the man said when he saw a fellow kiss his mother-in-law.

I do not know that I could give a satisfactory pathological reason for this. Is it not a good thing that we do not have to give the pathological explanation for such a symptom before we can use it to cure our patients? To be sure there is always a reason for these things, but we do not need to know what it is before we can utilize the symptom.

The merest tyro in prescribing could hardly mistake the symptoms of Pulsatilla for those of Nux vomica and yet I have found physicians prescribing these remedies in alternation, at intervals of two or three hours.

Having called attention to the action of Pulsatilla on the digestive organs, which are lined with mucous membranes, we now wish to notice that it has a peculiar action on mucous surfaces generally. This peculiarity consists in the character of the discharges from them. They are thick, bland and yellowish green. These are found in nasal catarrh; leucorrhœa; expectoration; gonorrhœa; in ulcers; from the ears and eyes; in short, from every mucous outlet of the body.

The expectoration of pulsatilla, which is thick, green and bland, tastes bitter, while that of Stannum is sweet and that of Kali hydroiodicum and Sepia salty. One of Schuessler's tissue remedies (Kali sulphuricum) greatly resembles Pulsatilla in the character of its discharges, and not only that, but also in its wandering pains, evening aggravations and ameliorations in cool, open air. Kali hydroiodicum is also ameliorated in open air and worse in a warm room. Now that we are on the subject of greenish discharges, especially the expectoration, we will mention also Carbo veg. Lycopodium, Paris, Phosphorus and Sulphur. Of course, the other symptoms must decide the choice between several remedies having one symptom in common.

A certain physician in Albany, N. Y., was called in consultation on a so-called case of phthisis pulmonalis. The case was in allopathic hands. After carefully examining the case, he was asked: "What is your diagnosis, doctor?" "Stannum," said the doctor. "What!" "Stannum," replied the doctor. Stannum was the diagnosis of the remedy, not the disease. It was given and cured the patient.

Now we come to the curative action of Pulsatilla in affections of the female genital organs. The fact that it has such a decided action upon these, added to the womanish disposition of this remedy, is additional reason why it is called the woman's remedy, as we said when writing upon the disposition and temperament. "Catamenia too late and scanty, or suppressed, particularly by getting feet wet," and "Painful menstruation with great restlessness, tossing in every possible direction," and we have already mentioned the changeable characteristics in the flow of the menses, viz., they stop, and flow, stop and flow again, etc. So, also, the menorrhagia.

In these menstrual troubles of Pulsatilla the wetting or chilling of the feet is of prime importance and, acting upon it, you may save your patient from consumption as a result of such exposure and suppression. Now don't pour down mother tincture of Pulsatilla by the ten-drop doses, as is the manner of those who do not believe in potentized remedies. You may give Pulsatilla in the high, higher, and highest potencies, and confidently expect the best results. I have often seen the delayed menses of young girls of Pulsatilla temperament appear promptly and naturally under the M. M. of Swan and C. M. of Fincke (also with Kali carbonicum, Tuberculinum, and others). so also have I seen them restored after suppression, by the same. Now if you should try one of these very high potencies in a case of menstrual difficulty, and it should not succeed, don't jump to the conclusion that I have been mistaken, for Pulsatilla is not the only remedy for such cases. Homœopathy is too often blamed when the blame lies in the stupidity and malpractice of the prescriber. Magnesia phos. will relieve more cases of painful menstruation than Pulsatilla, and that is not a cure-all, either. Study up your case.

But after all, the prime characteristic of this wonderful remedy lies in its modality. "Better in cold air and from cold applications." The patient is not only better generally in the open, cool air and worse in a warm, closed room, but local affections also, as, for instance, the vertigo; pain in head, eyes, ears; itching of eyelids; roaring; coryza; pain in face; toothache; colic; labor pains; sciatica; ulcers, are all better in open air. These affections that are > in cold air are also especially > while walking or moving slowly about (Ferrum) in open or cool air. Remember that Pulsatilla as well as Rhus toxicodendron is ameliorated by motion, but Pulsatilla in cold or cool open air, while Rhus tox. wants motion in warm dry air.

With Pulsatilla warm applications aggravate, warm room oppresses, heat of bed aggravates itching (Mercurius) and chilblains; cold drinks retained, warm vomited.

Other remedies have aggravations from heat; but Pulsatilla leads them all. The relief from cold and cool, open air is as positive as that of warmth or heat is for Arsenicum.

Now to close our remarks on Pulsatilla we will give a few choice symptoms without any particular comments upon them.

"Affections consequent on the abuse of Iron." "Chronic affections following cases of badly managed measles." "Pressure, or tying up tightly, relieves the headaches." (Argentum nit., Apis mellifica). "Increased inclination to micturate, < when lying." "Metastasis of gonorrhœa to testicles." "Chilliness, with pains, yet wants cool room." "One-sided sweats." "Inflamed parts bluish," (Lachesis, Tarantula Cub.) "Pulsations through the whole body." "Metastasis of mumps to mammæ or testicles." In any of these local affections we should expect to find the mind and modality of this remedy present or not be very confident of a brillant cure.

Modalities: < in warm room, warm applications, abuse of Iron; chilliness with the pains, > by cool open air, walking slowly around, cold food or drink, tying up tightly > the headache.

Mild, bashful, yielding disposition, with inclination to weep. Peevishness, which increases to tears, with chilliness thirstlessness. Gloomy, melancholy, full of cares. Mistrust ; anthropophobia. Anguish about the heart, even to desire for suicide. Tremulous anguish, as if death were near. Covetousness.

Vertigo, as if intoxicated, when rising from a seat ; when stooping ; after eating ; when lifting up the eyes. Giddiness, with heat, with nausea and loss of sight, in the evening. Intellectual labor fatigues him. Frightful visions, delirium. Stupefaction in the evening, in the warm room, with chilliness. Fright, followed by diarrhœa, with internal heat and external coldness of the body. Stupefying headache, with humming in the head, worse when lying or sitting quiet, or in the cold. Soreness as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples ; worse in the evening, when at rest, and in the warm room ; relieved by walking in the open air. Pulsation in the head in the evening ; worse from mental exertion and stooping. Twitching-tearing in the temple on which one lies, and going to the other side when turning on it ; worse in the evening and on raising the eyes upwards. Tension in the forehead, as if it were in a vice. Stitches in one side of the head, generally in one temple or in the back part of the head, with vertigo, ringing in the ears, and vanishing of sight. Pain in the head, as if the brain were lacerated, on or soon after waking. Congestion of blood to the head, with stinging pulsation in the brain, especially when stooping. Pain, as if the head would burst. Headache from the abuse of mercury or after eating fat food. The headache is worse in the evening, after lying down ; is aggravated by lifting up the eyes, by meditation, in the warm room, and is ameliorated from compression, and when walking slowly in the open air. Tumors on the scalp, suppurating and affecting the skull ; more painful when lying on the opposite well side. Tingling, biting-itching on the scalp, mostly on the temples and behind the ears, followed by swelling and eruptions, paining sore, worse in the evening when undressing and on getting warm in bed. Fetid, frequently cold perspiration, at times only on one side of the head and face, with great anxiety and stupor ; worse at night and towards morning, better after waking and rising. Disposition to take cold on the head, which is exclusively perspiring, especially on the head becoming wet. Drawing pain in the scalp on brushing the hair backwards.

Pressing, tearing and stinging in the eyes. Painful inflammation of the eyes and of the meibomian glands. Styes, especially on the upper eyelid. Swelling and redness of the eyelids. Lachrymation in the open air and in the wind. Burning and itching in the eyes, inducing rubbing and scratching. Dryness of the eyes and lids, with the sensation as if it were darkened by some mucus hanging over the eye which ought to be wiped away. Inflammation of the eye, with secretion of large, thick mucus and nightly agglutination. Stitches in the eyes, especially from light and in the sunshine. Fistula lachrymalis, discharging pus on pressing upon it. Dimness of sight, especially on getting warm from exercise. Over-sensitiveness to light. Obscureness of the cornea. Like a veil before the eyes, better on rubbing and wiping them. Incipient cataract. Amaurosis ; paralysis of the optic nerve.

Otalgia, with darting, tearing pains. Inflammation of the external and internal ear, with redness, heat and swelling. Flow of mucus or thick pus from the (left) ear. Hardness of hearing, as if the ears were stopped up, especially from cold, from having the hair cut or after suppressed measles. Hardened, black cerumen. Humming and tingling in the ears.

The nose feels sore internally and externally. Ulceration of the external wing of the nose, emitting a watery humor. Bleeding of the nose-blood coagulated ; with dry coryza. Green fetid discharge from the nose (like old catarrh). Smell before the nose as from old catarrh. Coryza, with loss of smell and taste, or of long standing, with a heavy yellowish-green discharge.

Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Color of the face pale or yellowish, with sunken eyes. Face bloated, purple. Puffiness of the cheeks and nose. Sweat in (one side of) the face and on the hairy scalp. Erysipelas in the face with pricking pain. Painful sensitiveness of the skin in the face. Gnawing and smarting around the mouth. Lower lip swelled and cracked in the middle.

Toothache, tearing jerking, as if the nerve were strung and suddenly released. Jerking and stinging in the teeth, extending to the ears and eyes. Looseness of the painful teeth. Toothache from cold (in the first warm spring days), with otalgia, paleness of the face and chilliness. Toothache aggravated in the evening and at night, from the heat of the bed, from warm air, in the warm room, from taking warm things in the mouth ; relieved in the cool open air ; from taking cold water in the mouth. Pulsating and stinging in the gums, aggravated by the heat of the stove ; gums pain as if they were sore. Putrid smell from the mouth, especially in the morning. Dryness in the mouth in the morning. Ptyalism, the increased saliva tastes sweet. Tongue coated yellow or white, and covered with tough mucus. The tongue feels dry and clammy ; feels in the middle as if burned. Pain in the throat, as if sore and raw ; stinging, with pressing and tension, or empty swallowing. Inflammation of the throat, with veins distended. Dryness of the throat in the morning, with tough mucus in the throat, especially in the night and morning.

Taste, putrid, bitter, especially after swallowing food or drink ; sweetish (beer tastes sweet). Thirstlessness, with moist tongue, or thirst for beer and strong, alcoholic drink. Aversion to fat food (butter), meat, bread and milk. Hunger and desire to cat, without knowing what. Eructations ; tasting and smelling of what has been eaten ; like bile in the evening. Nausea felt in the upper part of the abdomen, especially in the evening, after eating and drinking, with rumbling in the abdomen. Morning sickness (during pregnancy). Vomiting of mucus ; of bile ; of bitter-sour fluids ; of ingesta after each meal, especially in the evening and at night ; of blood. Disordered stomach (digestion) from eating fat food (pork). Cold in the stomach from ice cream and fruit. Colic, with nausea, ceasing after vomiting. Pressure in the pit of the stomach after each meal, with vomiting of the ingesta. Sensible pulsation in the pit of the stomach. Inflammation of the abdomen, with great sensitiveness of the integuments to pressure. Stitches and cutting in the abdomen in the evening ; worse on sitting still. Colic and labor-like pains in pregnant women. Colic with chilliness, while the menstruation is suppressed. Sensitiveness and inflammation of the abdominal walls. Incarcerated flatulence, and from it colic in the evening. Colic and rumbling of wind, especially in the upper abdomen. Painless rumbling of flatulence in the upper abdomen.

Constipation, especially if the feces are hard and large, after suppressed intermittent fever by Chininum Sulph. Frequent soft, diarrhœic stools, consisting of yellow mucus or mixed with blood, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, or with pains in the small of the back. Nightly diarrhœa, discharges watery or green like bile, after previous rumbling in the abdomen. Difficult soft stool, with straining and backache. Stools consisting only of mucus, or acrid, or bloody, or very offensive, or white. Dysentery, with pain in the back. Daring stool, congestions of blood to the anus. Hæmorrhoidal tumors, with great soreness.

Ischuria, with redness and heat in the region of the bladder. Incontinence of urine ; the urine is discharged by drops when sitting or when walking ; involuntary discharge of urine when coughing, when passing wind, during sleep. Tenesmus vesicæ. Hæmaturia, with burning at the orifice of the urethra, and with constriction in the region of the navel. During micturition burning in the urethra. Scanty red-brown urine. Sediment of the urine reddish, bloody or mucous. Thick gonorrhœic discharge from the urethra.

Men. Sexual desire too strong. Itching-burning on the inner and upper side of the prepuce. Inflammation and swelling of the testicles, with swelling of the scrotum (from a contusion or after suppressed gonorrhœa). Burning in the testicles, without swelling. Hydrocele. Inflammation of prostate gland. Women. Menstruation too late and too scanty, and of too short duration, with cramps in the abdomen ; blood thick, black, clotted, or thin and watery. Suppressed menstruation, especially from cold, getting the feet wet. First menstruation delayed. Metrorrhagia (discharge now stopping, and then stronger again) of coagulated, clotted blood, or with false labor-pains. Labor-pains too weak, spasmodic or ceasing. After-pains of long duration. Suppression of the lochial discharges. Suppression of or very scanty secretion of milk. Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, like milk, and painless.

Hoarseness, which does not permit one to speak a loud word. Breathing, groaning or rattling. Dyspnœa, especially when lying on the back, at night with giddiness and weakness in the head. Difficulty of breathing when walking. Asthma at night, as from vapors of sulphur. Dyspnœa, as from spasmodic tension in the lower part of the chest, below the false ribs. Tickling on the sternum. Short dry cough, as soon as he gets warm. Dry cough, whenever he wakens from sleep, disappearing while sitting up in bed, and returning as soon as lying down again. Dry, severe cough, mostly in the morning, with retching and desire to vomit, and sensation as if the stomach wen turned inside out. Cough, with expectoration of black, clotted blood (during the suppression of the menstruation). Cough, with copious expectoration of yellow, bitter mucus. Cough caused by dryness and scraping in the chest, with nausea and straining to vomit. Expectoration salty, offensive, tasting like the discharge in chronic catarrh. Acute suppuration of the lungs. Cough, with expectoration in the morning or during the day only, without expectoration at night. Anxious and spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if it were too full, and the larynx constricted, especially in the evening and at night. Violent spasmodic hooping-cough, in two consecutive coughs, caused by itching, scraping, with dryness, as from the vapors of sulphur, in the larynx and chest. Pain in the chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Tension in the chest, especially on drawing a long breath. Stitches in the chest, especially when coughing and drawing a long breath. Attacks of burning in the chest. Violent attacks of palpitation of the heart, often accompanied by anguish and vanishing of sight. Burning pain in the heart.

Curvature of the spine (upper part). Stitches in the small of the back. Pains in the back and chilliness from suppressed menstruation.

Upper. Pressing heaviness or tearing and drawing in the shoulder-joint, extending to the fingers. Swelling of the elbow after a contusion. Swelling of the veins on the forearms and on the hands. Itching chilblains on the hands. Lower. Coxalgia. Hot, inflammatory swelling of the knee. Drawing pain in the tibia. Varices on the lower extremities. Red-hot swelling of the feet extending up to the calf, with stinging pain. Swelling of the top of the foot. Sensation of soreness in the soles of the feet. Chilblains. The complaints are worse when one allows the feet to hang down.

Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration or as from inward festering. Tension in inner parts or in the joints. Burning-stinging pains. Rheumatic red-hot swelling, with stinging pains. Pains (rheumatic) shifting from one place to another. Congestions to single parts. Inflammation of internal organs, with disposition to suppurate. Diseases (inflammation) of the mucous membranes. Pulsations through the whole body. Frequent anxious trembling of the limbs. Hysterical complaints. Chlorosis. Attacks of fainting, with great paleness of the face. Epileptic attacks (after suppressed menstruation), with violent beating of the limbs ; later they become relaxed, with nausea and eructations.

Pulse weak and small, but accelerated. During the evening, heat ; the veins are enlarged. Coldness predominates. Continuous internal chilliness, even in the warm room. Increased chilliness towards evening. Chilliness with the pains. Sensation of coldness and numbness on one side of the body. Thirst before the chill or heat, seldom during the hot gage. The chill is followed by heat, with anxiety and heat of the face. Internal general dry heat without external heat, in the evening or at night. Heat of the face or heat of one hand, with coldness of the other. Heat of the body with coldness of the extremities. Profuse perspiration at night or in the morning. Perspiration during sleep, soon ceasing when waking. Perspires easy during the day. One-sided perspiration, sometimes only in the face and the head. Night-sweat with stupor. Smell of the perspiration sour, musty, like musk. Perspiration at times cold. Perspiration only on (one side of the) face and scalp. Intermittent fever, chilliness without thirst, then slight thirst, then heat without thirst, accompanied by vertigo and stupor. First heat ; afterwards violent chilliness. Chilliness (4 P.M.) without thirst, accompanied by anxiety and dyspnœa ; this is followed by a drawing pain extending from the back into the head, three hours later heat of the whole body without any thirst, with sweat on the face, drowsiness without any sleep and unconsciousness ; in the morning perspiration over the whole body. Intermittent fevers, with the prevalence of gastric and bilious symptoms or consequent upon the abuse of Chinin., with bitter taste of the food and constipation. Vomiting of mucus when the cold stage comes on, absence of thirst during the hot stage and during the perspiration. Mucous diarrhœa during the apyrexia, with nausea and low of appetite.

Pale skin. Eruptions from satin, much pork, itching violently in bed. Eruptions like measles. Exanthemata ; itching-stinging, chapped. Chilblains, inflamed, itching. Rhagades. Suppurating wounds, -pus thick and too profuse. Ulcers ; bleeding easily, burning or stinging in the circumference, itching, or very hard or red around the ulcers. Fistulous ulcers. Pus copious and yellow. Inflamed varices.

Especially suitable for slow, phlegmatic, good-natured, timid temperaments ; for women, and especially during pregnancy. The symptoms are often accompanied by chilliness, thirstlessness and oppression of the chest. The more severe the pain the stronger is the chill. Serves as an antidote for the abuse of China, Chinin., Mercury, Sulphur, or Chamomilla tea. Aggravation in the evening ; in twilight ; when rising after sitting long ; on beginning to move ; from changing the position ; while lying on the left or on the painless side ; when lying with the head low or in a warm room ; while exhaling ; from having eaten fruit, ice-cream, pork, pastry or warm food. Amelioration from slow motion, in the open air ; in a cold place ; while lying on the painful side ; from eating cold things. After Pulsatilla follow well Sepia, Kali bichr., Sulphur.

Pulsatilla nigricans. Anemone pratensis. Pulsatilla pratensis. Pasque Flower. (Sunny, sandy pastures in Central and Northern Europe and parts of South of England.) N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant when in flower (it flowers in spring and again in autumn).

Acne. Amaurosis. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Appetite, depraved. Bladder, catarrh of. Blepharospasm. Breasts, pain behind. Bronchitis . Cataract. Catarrh . Chaps. Chest, pains in. Chilblains. Clavus. Cold. Cough. Diarrhœa ; of phthisis. Distension . Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Earache . Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Eyes, lachrymal sac, inflammation of; granular ophthalmia. Fear. Feet, soles painful . Fœtus, mal-position of. Freckles. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Hands, pains in. Heart, palpitation of. Heartburn. Hydrocele ; congenital. Hysteria. Intermittent fever. Joints, synovitis of. Labour, spurious pains of. Lactation, disorders of. Leucorrhœa. Measles. Menstruation, abnormal ; vicarious. Moles. Mumps. Neuralgia . Nymphomania. Ovaries, Pain in; inflammation of. Phlegmasis alba dolens. Pregnancy; bladder trouble of; sickness of; heartburn of; diarrhœa of . Priapism. Prostate, inflammation of . Prostatorrhœa. Puerperal convulsions. Puerperal fever. Puerperal mania. Retained placenta. Rheumatism ; gonorrhœal. Side, pain in. Smell, illusions of . Spine, curvature of. Stye . Synovitis. Tape-worm. Taste: depraved; lost. Tongue, coated. Toothache. Urine, incontinence of . Uterus; inflammation of; prolapse of. Veins, inflammation of ; varicose. Whitlow.

As some confusion has arisen as to the Pulsatilla of homœopathic use, I will give Jahr's description of the plant: "Stems simple, erect, rounded, 3 to 5 inches high; leaves radical bipennatifid, oblong; flowers solitary, terminal, having folioles of calyx campanulate, bent at the point, the odour of the herb but slightly evident, taste acrid and pungent. The fresh plant contains an acrid and, vesicating principle, and furnishes a corrosive oil, as well as a kind of tannin, which colours iron green; in the dry state it is entirely deprived of this acrid quality. Grows in sandy pasture grounds, on hills and declivities exposed to the sun." He further distinguishes this Black Pulsatilla from the Common Pulsatilla ( Pulsatilla vulgaris, Anemone Pulsatilla ) which "grows only on dry and sterile hills and flowers in spring only, whilst the black-coloured Pulsatilla flowers a second time in August and September." P. vulg . is much less downy than P. nig .: "Its flowers clear violet or pale red, straight and not hanging; seeds surmounted by a long silky tail." It is called Pasque Flower because it is in bloom at Easter, and its flowers are used for colouring Easter eggs. The Anemone is a medicine of ancient date, and its affinity for the eyes seems to have been noted from the first. Perhaps its tearful propensities gave rise to the legend that it sprang from the tears of Venus. Dioscorides mentions it as a remedy for headache and ophthalmia . Stœrck was the forerunner of Hahnemann in the modern use of Pulsatilla , which he employed especially in chronic affections of the eyes (catarrh, amaurosis, spots on cornea). A young girl who had had amaurosis of both eyes since infancy he cured in two months, administering an extract internally, and insufflating a dry powder. The latter "caused at first an acute pain and profuse flow of tears; after which the pains, which had existed previous go the lachrymation, diminished as soon as it commenced , and finally disappeared with it" (Teste). Other cures by Stœrck are: ( 1 ) Foul ulcers on foot with serpiginous tetters on neck and shoulder. ( 2 ) Paralysis of right arm of five years' standing. ( 3 ) Paralysis of thighs. ( 4 ) White swelling of knees. ( 5 ) Melancholia. Hahnemann quotes Stœrck's experiences in the proving of Puls . in M. M. P . "Of the numerous provings left us by Hahnemann," says Teste, "that of Puls . seems to be the one to which he has contributed himself more than any other; it is one of the most interesting and most characteristic provings of his materia medica." Teste himself has given a very luminous account of the remedy. He puts it at the head of a group with Silic., Calc., Hep . as its chief members ( Graph., Phos . in less degree, with Fer., Cham ., and Gadus as analogues). These drugs act principally, says Teste, on the vascular apparatus. All the symptoms which they have in common depend upon a small number of primordial symptoms ( e.g ., impeded respiration, engorgement of air passages, irregular beating of heart), indicating vascular disturbance. Hence arise — ( 1 ) Throbbings here and there synchronous with the pulse. ( 2 ) Blackness and diminished fluidity of the blood. ( 3 ) Swelling of veins, capillary engorgement, a sort of ill-conditioned plethora. ( 4 ) Diminished vital heat and action. ( 5 ) Congestion of blood to head and engorgement of the sinuses. ( 6 ). Sensation of heaviness and fulness of brain; and ( 7 ) the same kind of pain sometimes with apoplectic shocks, in centre or (more usually) on right side of brain. ( 8 ) Vertigo and cloudiness as in complete apoplexy, especially when atmospheric pressure is low , as at the approach of storms, and on heights. [Others follow from which I make a selection. — J. H. C.] Soft stools, and a passive diarrhœa without colic, which seems to ease the patient rather than weaken him, and continues for an indefinite period, e.g., in phthisical patients. Sort of numbness, torpor of the genital organs, with absence of erections and pleasurable sensation (especially among women) during an embrace; or else permanent sexual excitement, "probably from compression of the cerebellum by the blood which flows to it in excessive quantity and remains there, as is the case in certain forms of asphyxia; this is the cause of the sexual excitement with which phthisicy persons are so often troubled." Delay of menses in spite of evident symptoms of a flow of blood towards the uterus; the menstrual blood is black, coagulated, impoverished if menses either too early or too late. One is obliged to lie with the head much higher than the rest of the body. Pains which manifest themselves principally in the parts on which one is not lying, but on changing position aggravated breaking out of those pains on the parts on which one has just been lying. — This idea of vascular engorgement usefully strings together many of the leading characteristics of Puls ., which will serve to indicate its use in a great variety of disorders. The leaves of the recent herb have an acrid, burning, and nauseous taste. Its juice draws blisters "to the extent, it is said, of causing gangrene, if allowed to remain in contact with the part for a sufficient length of time; but these properties are, in a great measure, lost by dessication; and ruminating animals, such as sheep and goats, eat the dry Pulsatilla, if mixed with other herbs, without aversion or inconvenience." An active principle, Anemonin , has been isolated; it is inflammable and crystallises in colourless, odourless neutral needles. Hahnemann says of Puls .: "This powerful plant produces many symptoms on the healthy human body which often correspond to the marked symptoms commonly met with; hence, also, they admit of frequent homœopathic employment, and often do good. We can therefore unquestionably reckon it as a remedy of many uses (polychrest). It is useful in acute as well as in chronic diseases, as its action, even in small doses, lasts from ten to twelve days. . . The homœopathic employment of this, as of all other medicines, is most suitable when not only the corporeal affections of the medicine correspond in similarity to the corporeal symptoms of the disease, but also when the mental and emotional alterations peculiar to the drug encounter similar states in the disease to be cured, or at least in the temperament of the subject of treatment." Hahnemann now gives in masterly fashion the picture of the Puls . disposition and temperament: "A timid, lachrymose disposition, with a tendency to inward grief and silent peevishness, or at all events a mild and yielding disposition, especially when the patient in his normal health was good-tempered and mild (or even frivolous and good-humouredly waggish). It is therefore especially adapted for slow, phlegmatic temperaments; on the other hand, it is but little suitable for persons who form their resolutions with rapidity and are quick in their movements, even though they may appear to be good-tempered. It acts best where there is a disposition to chilliness and adipsia. It is particularly suitable for females when their menses come on some days after the proper time; and especially when the patient must lie long in bed at night before he can get to sleep, and when the patient is worse in the evening. It is useful for the ill effects caused by eating pork." Hering gives these additional touches to the Puls . type: Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, timid, gentle, yielding disposition; women and children; women inclined to be fleshy; the pregnant state. The behaviour of the "Wind Flower," the sport of every gust, has been said to typify the action of the remedy. Changeableness is one of its most important keynotes: Erratic temperatures in fevers. Wandering pains shift rapidly from one part to another, also with swelling and redness of the joints. Hæmorrhages apparently stop and in a few hours return. Stools constantly changing colour; no two stools alike. Alternate pallor and redness of face. When one set of symptoms comes on another vanishes. A patient of mine, after a mental strain and fright, had severe occipital pain. I gave Puls . 30. Each dose caused the pain to fly from the occiput to the left leg; the mental balance was soon restored. Metastasis of mumps to testes or mammæ. Nash says Puls . will often clear up those cases which have no "head or tail" to them; in which the symptoms are always changing and contradicting, pains run here and there. The Puls . patient is chilly, but at the same time there is extreme aversion to heat. The chief of all the keynotes of Puls . is < by warmth; in warm, close room; by warm coverings; warm applications; and > in open air; cold air or cool room; eating or drinking cold things; cold applications. Another keynote of Puls . is thirstlessness, and Teste gives a useful clue to that in suggesting that it depends on the congestive action of the remedy. The loss of thirst and even aversion to liquid food is "as if one had an instinctive dread of increasing the excessive fulness of the vessels." The wandering pains of Puls . are generally distensive , again suggesting congested vessels; and the headaches are congestive < on stooping forward; > by tightly bandaging; as if the brain would burst and the eyes would fall out of the head. The three characters, "chilly; < by warmth; thirstless," serve to define the fever of Puls . in whatever form it may be met — measles, mumps, typhoid, bilious, catarrhal, intermittent, rheumatic, &c. The chilliness may be one-sided, and associated with numbness; it may be flitting , in spots now here, now there. With the heat there are distended veins and burring hands that seek cool places, and still there is no thirst. In the rheumatic the pains shift from joint to joint. The sweat is profuse, may be one-sided, sour, sweetish sour, or musty in odour. The last completes the similarity of Puls . to the " mousey " odour of measles; the cough, catarrhal symptoms, and rash giving other strong points of correspondence. The ear trouble which is a common sequela and complication of measles or other fever is frequently met by Puls ., which also meets the consequences of suppressed exanthemata and metastases, as of mumps to testes or mamma. As a prophylactic against measles Puls . has a reputation almost equal to that of Bell . against scarlatina: I generally give Puls . 3 three times a day. The generative organs of both sexes are strongly acted on by Puls ., which may almost be regarded as an organ-remedy in relation to them. Gonorrhœa, with thick, purulent secretion; and the effects of suppressed gonorrhœa, orchitis, and cystitis; prostatitis; sarcocele, varicocele, hydrocele — all come within the sphere of Puls . In the female Puls . ranges over the whole sexual period, from puberty to the climacteric, including disorders of menstruation, pregnancy, the puerperium and lactation — all of which present many points of correspondence with the symptoms of Puls . Epilepsy with absence or irregularity of menses has been cured with Puls . Bojanus ( B. J. H ., xxxix. 218) relates two cases: ( 1 ) Girl, 18, of good constitution, with no hereditary predisposition, had amenorrhœa for six months, and a fit occurred at the time each period was due. Aura: sad, pale as death; chewing movements. Puls . 6 one dose a day. Next month menses returned and there were no more fits. ( 2 ) Robust girl, 14, with no hereditary predisposition. Fits twelve months. Exciting cause: non-appearance of menses. One great fit per month, small fits daily. Aura: self-willed, angry, stands on one spot, stares into vacancy, stamps her foot. In fit: cries, deathly paleness, biting tongue, flow of urine, continuing the occupation she was engaged with at commencement of fit. Puls . 30 one dose a day. Some weeks after a slight fit. Month later menses came on for first time, no great fits, small ones rare. Puls . 30 one dose a week. Month later a great fit. Puls . once a day. No more great fits, only a few small ones. Cure permanent. A patient to whom I was giving Puls . 3 for some heart affection complained that she could not take it because it caused her to wake up in the night with a dry cough, and she was compelled to sit up in bed to get relief. That is a characteristic cough of Puls ., and I have frequently cured it in other patients. Puls . has a cough with copious expectoration, and this is the more usual; but they may be alternating conditions. The congesting action of Puls . is well shown in the respiratory symptoms. Remarking on this symptom, "Pressure upon the chest and soreness," Hahnemann says that in the catarrhal condition they refer to, "the glands of the air passages appear to be swollen and inflamed, and unable to secrete the mucus necessary to moisten them; hence the sensation of dryness, rawness, painfulness, and the illusory sensation as if the air passages were internally constricted by an excessive amount of tenacious and firm mucus which could not be loosened ." Commenting on another symptom of Puls . ("dyspnœa or vertigo, with weakness of the head on lying outstretched upon the back, wholly disappearing on sitting upright"), Hahnemann elucidates some of its Conditions: "The symptoms of Puls . caused by lying down, sitting up, rising from sitting, by walking and by standing, consist of varying alternate conditions, all of which belong to the primary action of the drug, but which vary in their character. Usually the symptoms of Puls . which occur while lying still upon the back are > by sitting upright, seldom the reverse; frequently the symptoms that appear while sitting still are > or removed by gradual motion and by walking, seldom the reverse. Yet the act of rising, before one begins to walk, = symptoms more numerous and more severe the longer the sitting has continued; so also longer continued and more violent motion = aggravation no less long than sitting still, which, however, are only really felt and noticed after one has sat down and become quiet." Other leading indications of Puls . are: First serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty, "never been well since" — anæmia, bronchitis, phthisis. Secretions (of eye, ear, nose, vagina, &c.) are generally thick, bland, and yellowish green. The pains appear suddenly and leave gradually; or tension much increases till very acute, then "lets up with a snap." Great dryness of mouth without thirst. All-gone sensation in stomach, especially in tea-drinkers. < At twilight; in evening (the wide-awakeness on first going to bed comes within this modality). Suffering parts emaciate. Peculiar Sensations are: As if beside himself. As if in a hot atmosphere. As if death were near. As if looking through a sieve. Limbs as if bruised; as if asleep. As if one had turned in a circle a long time; as if he would fall; as if he were dancing. As if brain would burst and eyes fall out of head. As if skull of forehead too thin. As if skull were lifted up. As if one had eaten too much. As if a nail driven into occiput. As if head between screws. As if gimlet piercing skull. As if eyes tightly bound by cloth. As if foreign body pressing in eye; sand in eye; thick body forcibly driven into ear; something crawling out of ear; worm creeping into throat. As if nose would be forced asunder. As if face being drawn tighter and tighter, then suddenly let loose as if a string cut. As if a nerve in tooth put on stretch and then let loose. As if he had to swallow over a lump. As of stone in stomach. As if bladder too full; as if it would fall to side on which he is lying; as of a stone in bladder or in abdomen or chest. As if joints would be easily dislocated. Small of back as if sprained. As if a hand passed through back and everything were constricted. Chill as if drenched with cold water. As if head would burst on coughing. Tongue as if burnt. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. As of a hot coal above ulcer. The symptoms are < by touch; > by hard rubbing and pressure (but stomach, bladder, uterus, very sensitive to pressure). > Uncovering. Aversion to and < from meat, butter, fat food, pork, bread, milk, buckwheat, ice cream, smoking. Desire for: sour, refreshing things; herring; lemonade. > From cold, < from warm foods. Rest < ( > pain in testes; labour-like pains; weakness in joints). Cannot rest though motion < . The longer he lies in the morning the longer he wishes to lie. > Lying with head high. < Lying on l. side; on sound side. Pains which come on when lying on back are > by turning to either side (also vice versâ ); must sit up and turn. When rising up the red face turns deathly pale. Great inclination to stretch feet. Gentle motion > , slow walking > . Violent motion < . Mis-step < stitching pains in stomach. Intellectual labour, or watching will = headache; meditation will sometimes > . Most symptoms < evening and night. < Twilight: "As evening comes on begins to fear ghosts"; all symptoms < alternate evenings. < Before thunderstorm. Sun < . < Hot food; is vomited immediately; < toothache. < Changes of weather. < Getting wet. Wind < . Draught of air > toothache.

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Absent-minded.
Mental labor fatigues and affects the head.
Great difficulty in speaking to find the right expression ; fixed ideas. θ Typhoid.
A great many wandering thoughts in head.
Fancies a naked man is wrapped in her bedclothes ; dreams of men.
When closing eyes sees all sorts of strange sights, and hears all kinds of operatic airs.
Frightful visions, delirium.
In early morn depressed, full of cares about domestic affairs.
Shuns business ; irresolute ; sighing respiration ; feels as if he were beside himself.
Cannot think of his business without grieving, in morning.
Morose mood, bursts into tears when interrupted in his business.
Satisfied with nothing, yet not vexed ; everything disgusts him.
Extremely capricious and peevish about everything, himself included.
Hypochondriac moroseness ; out of sorts with everything.
Gloomy, melancholic mood.
Restless and changeable ; easily moved to tears or laughter ; well one hour, miserable the next.
Child longs for this, now for that, even with good humor.
Mild, bashful, gentle, yielding disposition.
Silent mood ; inclined to silent grief with submissiveness.
Gloomy, melancholy, full of care.
Continuous crying with great melancholy and fear of losing her reason, or that she might commit suicide.
Weeping : sad, bursting into tears very easily ; can hardly tell her symptoms for weeping ; at every nursing ; at everything, whether joyful or sad ; at answering a question ; with almost all her sufferings.
Disposition mild and gentle, never cross. θ Habitual constipation.
The pain is so violent that she tosses in every direction, with cries and tears.
Weary of life ; thinks with pleasure of drowning.
Anxiety : thinks to die ; does not know what to do ; as if in a hot atmosphere ; in region of heart ; even to suicide ; in evening, with sensation of qualmishness in pit of stomach ; in evening after going to sleep, with a rush of ideas and
determination of blood to head that forces him to get up ; at night, as from heat.
Anguish in region of heart, sometimes increasing to a desire for suicide.
Tremulous anguish : as if death were near ; < during rest, while sitting and lying ; > by motion.
When evening comes he begins to dread ghosts.
Hypochondriac peevishness.
Confused, fretful, very chilly.
Ill-humored, fretful, easily enraged.
Children are peevish, changeable, pale and chilly.
Fretful and without appetite ; dread of work.
Taciturn, morose, aversion to talking.
Mistrust ; envy ; covetousness ; dislike to people.
Mild, cold and phlegmatic.
Patient seeks consolation.
Children are extremely affectionate, which they manifest by kissing and caressing.
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.
Mania from suppressed menses.
Tearful, easily discouraged ; full of anxiety, forebodings of impending disaster ; anxiety from epigastrium, likely to be associated with indigestion ; chattering teeth ; palpitation ; flushes.
Sleepless nights on account of great fear and anxious restlessness ; despairs of her salvation and seeks aid in constant prayer ; irregular catamenia ; heat and congestion to head and face ; headache, precordial weight and backache.
Throbbing pain in brain ; dimness of vision, as if looking through a sieve ; frightful visions in the dark, or when closing eyes ; strikes at them and holds up the cross.
Insanity ; he was continually crying ; ran about the streets at night.
Dark, suspicious and reserved manner ; disturbed look on face ; sleepless ; looks for her bed in the yard ; hides in a corner to escape from a little grey man who wanted to pull out her leg ; in eighth month of pregnancy.
Unquiet look ; lips bluish-red ; weak memory ; pangs of conscience about religion and the female sex ; violent palpitation in the presence of women ; abhors and hates the sex ; must go out of their way for fear of injuring them ; looks upon them as evil
beings and is afraid ; considers their presence injurious to his soul ; respiration short and difficult ; painful pressure in chest.
Sleepless at 2 A. M. ; pulsating, beating headache proceeding from vertex ; lamentations ; despaired of her soul's salvation ; did not believe she would be restored to health ; irresolute disposition ; taciturn. θ Melancholy.
Gasping breathing ; inconsolable.
After slight emotions, difficult breathing ; bad effects from fright, mortification or excessive joy.
Sinks into a condition of sadness and despondency from disagreeable news.
After mortification, sad, gloomy and weary of life ; frequent pain in forehead, earthy face ; dark rings around eyes ; bitter, sapid taste in mouth ; dislikes meat and bread ; nausea, with pain in stomach ; occasional bitter, slimy vomiting ;
frequent, profuse nosebleed ; stitches in side, when coughing, with frothy, bloody expectoration ; palpitation ; labored breathing ; hard, scanty stools ; frequent cutting pain in bowels ; heaviness of legs ; limbs feel bruised ; swelling on upper part
of foot ; anxious dreams ; is anxious, sad ; weary of life, thinks of drowning with great pleasure ; bursts into tears ; dissatisfied with everything ; easily enraged ; reticent ; very easily frightened.
After vexation, mental depression ; is in constant dread ; palpitation ; afraid of everybody ; considers every one her enemy, despairs of everything ; cries easily ; trusts no one ; pale, earthy complexion, with dim, desponding look ; no appetite,
much thirst ; limbs feel as if asleep ; is weak and weary ; cannot sleep at night on account of fear and dread.
Fright, followed by diarrhœa, with internal heat and external coldness of body.
Dread of people.
Hysterical laughter, after meals.

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It is said to be a very good medicine for women, for blondes, especially for tearful blondes.

It is one of the polychrests and one of the medicines most frequently used, as well as often abused.

The Pulsatilla patient is an interesting one, found in any household where there are plenty of young girls.

She is tearful, plethoric, and generally has little credit for being sick from her appearances; yet she is most nervous, fidgety, changeable, easily led and easily persuaded. While she is mild, gentle and tearful , yet she is remarkably irritable, not in the sense of pugnacity, but easily irritated, extremely touchy, always feels slighted or fears she will be slighted; sensible to every social influence.

Melancholia, sadness, weeping, despair, religious despair, fanatical; full of notions and whims; imaginative; extremely excitable. She imagines the company of the opposite sex a dangerous thing to cultivate, and that it is dangerous to do certain things well established in society as good for the human race.

These imaginations belong to eating as well as thinking. They imagine that milk is not good to drink, so they will not take it. They imagine that certain articles of diet are not good for the human race. Aversion to marriage is a strong symptom. A man takes it into his head that it is an evil thing to have sexual intercourse with his wife and abstains from it.

Religious freaks; an especial tendency to dwell on religious notions; fixed ideas concerning the Scripture; he misuses and misapplies the Scriptures to his own detriment; dwells on sanctification until he becomes fanatical and insane; thinks he is in a wonderfully sanctification state of mind, or that he has sinned away his day of grace.

This goes no until he becomes insane on other subjects, and then the tendency is to sit day after day in a taciturn way. He will not answer questions unless hard pressed, when all he will say is "Yes" or "No," or be will merely shake his head. Puerperal insanity in a woman who was mild, gentle and tearful, later sad and taciturn, and then she sits in her chair all day answering nothing or merely nodding her head for "Yes" or "No."

Many of the complaints are associated with weakness of the stomach and indigestion, or with menstrual disorders. Women who abort; various irregularities of the menstrual flow; false conception. The mental symptoms are often associated with the ovarian and uterine difficulties.

With such a mental state the general state of the body is worse in a warm room and, relieved by motion. Tearful, sad and despondent, ameliorated walking in the open air, especially when it is crisp, cool, fresh and bright.

Suffocation and an increase of the pains, and even chilliness in a warm room; a nervous chilliness when the patient perspires from the heat of a room. The inflammatory symptoms, neuralgias and rheumatisms are relieved by a cold, by eating and drinking cold things, by cold applications, or cold hands. Cold drinks relieve, even though the patient is not thirsty. Cold foods are digested while hot food make the body warm from which symptoms are worse. Ice cold water feels good going down the oesophagus, and is retained in the stomach, though there is not thirst.

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Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition—the woman’s remedy.

Weeps easily; almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping (weeps when thanked, Lyc.).

Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and protracted menstruation (Graph.).

The first serious impairment of health is referred to puberic age, have “never been well since”—anæmia, chlorosis, bron- chitis, phthisis.

Secretions from all mucous membranes are thick, bland and yellowish-green (Kali s., Nat. s.).

Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another (Kali b., Lac c.); are accompanied with con- stant chilliness, and the more severe the pain the harder the chill; appear suddenly, leave gradually, or tension, which in- creases until very acute, and then “lets up with a snap” (toothache, neuralgia); on first moving (Rhus).

Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no two stools, no two attacks alike; very well one hour, miserable the next.

Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints.

Gastric difficulties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, espe- cially fat pork or sausage; the sight or even thought of pork causes disgust; “bad taste” in the morning.

"All-gone" sensation in stomach, in tea drinkers especially.

Diarrhœa: only, or usually at night; watery, greenish-yellow, very changeable; soon as they eat; from fruit, cold drinks, ice-cream (Ars., Bry.—eating pears, Ver., China; onions, Thuja; oysters, Brom., Lyc.; milk, Cal., Nat. c., Nic., Sul.; drinking impure water, Camp., Zing).

Derangements at puberty; catamenia, suppressed from getting the feet wet; too late, scanty, slimy, intermitting flow, with evening chilliness; flows more during the day (Lil.—on lying down, Kreos.; only at night or when lying, Mag. c.).

Sleep: wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed, first sleep restless, sound asleep when it is time to get up; wakes languid and unrefreshed (rev. of Nux).

Styes, especially on upper lid, from eating fat, greasy, rich food or pork (compare, Lyc., Staph.).

Threatened abortion: flow ceases and then returns with increased force; pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must have fresh air; during chill.

Complementary: Kali m., Lyc., Sil., Sulph. ac.

Follows well: after Kali bi., Lyc., Sep., Sil., Sul.

Ailments: from Cham., Quinine, Mer., Sul., tea-drinking.

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments.

One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic case (Cal., Sulph.).

Patients, anæmic or chlorotic, who have taken much iron, quinine and tonics, even years before.

In a warm, close room; evening, at twilight; lying on the left or painless side; indigestible food, fats, pork, ice cream, etc.; on beginning to move; heat, warm applications (< Kali m.).

In open air; lying on painful side (Bry.); cold room; eating or drinking cold things; cold applications.

Every type; simple and compound. Quotidian; tertian; quartan. Monthly (Nux, Sep.); every fourteen days (Ars., Cinch., Plan.). Irregular type; irregular stages; long chill, little heat, no thirst (short chill, long heat, no thirst, Ipec.); stages not marked and apt to run into each other (Ars., Nux, Pod.). Bilious, remittent, continued.

1, 8 and 11 A. M. 1 and 4 P. M. Afternoon and evening. The 4 o'clock paroxysm predominates. Evening paroxysm lasts all night (Lyc., Nux, Rhus).

Dietetic irregularities. Eating rich, fat food, pastries, pork, often originates an attack, or during convalescence produces a relapse (Ant. c., Ipec.).

Thirst; drowsy and sleepy all day, with mucous diarrhœa; nausea or vomiting of mucus. If morning chill diarrhœa previous night without thirst.

Cold chills all over; chilliness all the time; feels cold even in a warm room, in the evening. Chilliness the whole evening before bedtime, even while walking. Chilliness; on going from a warm room into the cold air; with pains in the evening. Chill at 4 P. M., no thirst; vomiting of mucus when the chill comes on; anxiety; dyspnœa; flitting chilliness; in spots, now here, now there; worse in the evening. One-sided coldness, with numbness (Bry., Nat. right side;—Caust., Carbo v., Lyc., Thuja—the left). Chilliness over the abdomen extending around the sacrum and back. Shivering on the back extending into the hypochondria, especially into the anterior portion of the arms and thighs, with a coldness of the limbs, and a feeling as if they would fall asleep, about 4 P. M. Shivering running up the back all day; creeping-shivering over the arms, with heat of the cheeks; the air of the room seems hot. Cold hands and feet, they seem dead (Lyc., Sep.—whole body numb, Ced.). Hand and foot of one side cold and red; the other side hot, in the evening. The morning paroxysm at 8 A. M. has nausea, vomiting, headache and vertigo; chilliness, heat and sweat intermingled, or simultaneous (Ars), and usually much thirst during entire attack. Evening paroxysm; violent chill, with external coldness, without shivering or thirst; in the morning sensation of heat, as if sweat would break out, without thirst or external heat, though with hot hands and aversion to uncovering.

With thirst; with red face, or one cheek red and one pale (Acon, Cham.). Heat of right side (left side and left arm, Rhus), or on upper part of body, lessened by motion or washing (Caps.—increased by motion, Nux); heat of face, or of one hand, with coldness of the other; body hot, limbs cold (Bell., Carbo v.). Anxious heat, as if dashed with hot water (Rhus). Intolerable burning heat at night in bed with uneasiness. Dry heat of the body in the evening, with distended veins and burning hands, that seek out cool places (Opium). He is hot, wishes to be uncovered (Apis, Camph., Sec.). Moans and groans, licks the lips, but does not drink. Heat of the whole body, except the hands, which are cool, with pressive headache above the orbits. Internal dry heat with thirst; flushes of heat; with clothes on was too warm, on taking them off was chilly. External warmth is intolerable (heat of room is intolerable, Apis); the veins are enlarged (Bell., Cinch.). Fever; thirst at 2 P. M., followed by chill at 4 P. M., without thirst, with coldness of the face and hands; anxiety and oppression of the chest; afterward, when lying down, drawing pains in the back, extending to the occiput, and thence into the temples and vertex; after three hours, heat of the body, without thirst; the skin was burning hot, but there was sweat only on the face, trickling down in large drops like pearls, sleepiness without sleep, and restlessness; next morning sweat over whole body.

"The intermittent fever that Pulsatilla is able to excite has thirst only during heat (not during chill), seldom after the heat or before the chill. When there is only a sensation of heat, without externally perceptible heat, the thirst is wanting."—HAHNEMANN.

"When heat follows the chilliness, if it be only a sensation of heat with no objective warmth, there is no thirst; but if the heat be, as it sometimes is, both objective and subjective, it is then at- tended by thirst. Remember this, because absence of thirst is said to be a characteristic of Pulsatilla, and presence of thirst, there- fore, to contra-indicate. This is true with the limitation stated."

—DUNHAM.

One-sided; only on the left, or only on the right side of the body; sweat on the right side of the face (sweat on the side on which he lies, Acon., Chin. s.—on the side not lain upon,

Benz., Sanicula—on single parts only, Bry.); sweat worse at night or in the morning, ceases when waking (see Samb.) Per- spiration on the head, face, and scalp. Sweat all night, with loquacity during stupefied slumber (loquacity during chill,

Pod.—during heat, Lach. and Pod.). Pains continue during sweat (Eup., Lach., Nat., Nux—worse during sweat, Ipec.).

Coated white or yellow, and covered with a tenacious mucus; too large, too broad. Taste foul, of putrid meat; dis- gusting; bitter, slimy, bilious taste after eating, drinking and smoking. Desire for beer, alcohol, stimulants, sour, refreshing things. Aversion to fat pork, milk, bread.

Weak, small, but accelerated. Pulsations through the whole body; in violent paroxysms; from chagrin, fright, joy; with anæmia, chlorosis; great anxiety, was obliged to throw off his clothes.

Spleen enlarged and sensitive. Constant chilliness during apyrexia. Headache, moist cough, painful oppression of the chest, somnolence, loss of appetite, bitterness of the mouth, sour eructations, nausea and vomiting of mucus, diarrhœa of glairy, watery stools, with prevalence of gastric and bilious symptoms.

After abuse of Quinine, with bitter taste of food and clean tongue. Suppression of menses, or irregular menses (Sep.).

Slightest derangement of the stomach will cause a relapse (Ipec.).

Mild, tearful disposition of women and children often becomes converted into a peevish, irritable, fretful mood; symptoms of threatened abortion during paroxysm in early months of preg- nancy. Paroxysm of increasing severity and ever chang- ing symptoms; no two attacks alike.

Chill; evening, 4 P. M.; cold all over; one-sided.

Heat; of single parts, or heat of one hand, coldness of the other, or body hot, limbs cold; thirst and < from external warmth.

Sweat; one sided; of single parts; with loquacity during stupefied sleep.

No two paroxysms alike, ever changing symptoms; increasing severity.

Abuse of Quinine; relapse from slight errors in diet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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A tincture is made of the fresh plant of Anemone pratensis, L. (Pulsatilla nigricans).

Most extensive action on mucous membranes, eyes, ears, nose and respiratory tract, mouth and digestive tract, vagina and urinary apparatus. ▶ It affects the testicles and spermatic cord, the female sexual organs, the veins of the lower extremities and the joints. ▶ Its action on the disposition is very marked and important. ▶ Its fever is unpronounced, is symptomatic (catarrhal as a rule) and is not attended with thirst or nervous excitement.

Lyc. , Phos., Ferr., Cycl ., Kali bi., Euphras.

▶ Lies upon back with hands above head with sleeping; upon back in sleep, with hands crossed upon abdomen and feet drawn up; most comfortably upon back with feet drawn up, if he lies upon either side spasmodic symptoms occur, for example, hæmorrhoidal pains in anus, headache as if skull would burst, pain in joints, tightness in chest, anxiety. ▶ Child grunts and groans if it is carried and during urging to stool. ▶ Trembling; with cold sweat; anxious, with drawing pain in limbs and over whole body.

Sticking in a fresh wound in evening. ▶ Drawing tearing here and there in frequent attacks. ▶ Pain in sacrum and knees as if beaten, in bed. ▶ Jerking drawing pains in muscles, as if they were stretched on one side. ▶ Pressure in left hip and in head, in forenoon, amel. motion. ▶ Smarting as from an internal wound in lumbar region and in wrist. ▶ Discomfort in morning after rising; amel. moving about. ▶ Distress in whole body, causing despair, he cannot sleep nor become quiet. ▶ Distressing throbbing in all arteries, agg. motion. ▶ Everything about body seems too tight, she wishes to throw off her clothes (Lyc.). ▶ Tension of face and fingers (agg. taking hold of anything), as if the parts would swell. ▶ Sensation in whole body as if he had been awake all night, with emptiness of head as after intoxication. ▶ Inclination to stretch.

▶ Weakness; weaker the longer he lies in morning, and the more he wishes to lie, he desires to sleep again; at noon after walking, the more he tries to keep awake the sleepier he becomes; from a short walk; and necessity to lie down; tremulous; so that he could scarcely walk a few minutes, then necessity to sleep for hours, and so alternately all day. ▶ Faintness all the morning. ▶ Heaviness; with chilliness in arms and legs. ▶ Impairment of motor power. ▶ Numbness of integuments, then general anæsthesia. ▶ Painful paralytic sensation about ligaments of joints, agg. evening, with pain in all joints of limbs as in beginning of a paroxysm of intermittent fever, with chilliness. ▶ Stiffness; in a child, from fretfulness. ▶ Troubles in open air, he dreads it. ▶ Symptoms occur mostly in evening, next in succeeding hours till midnight (Lyc., Cycl., Euphras., Valer., Phos.), rarely about 4 A.M. and still more rarely in morning, etc. ▶ Aggravation every other evening. ▶ Amelioration in open air; A. of pains when lying on back (Sang., Bry., Calc. c., Lyc.), aggravation from lying on side.

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Jerking-tearing in muscles as if they were pulled; < night and during rest.
Pains rapidly jump from place to place, with swelling of the affected part.
Attacks of weakness, particularly on lying in bed in the morning, with desire to sleep longer.
Tremblings, with cold sweat and drawing pains.
Pains are usually associated with chilliness, but without thirst; a feeling as though the painful part were dashed with cold water.
Generally profuse secretions, particularly from mucous membranes; discharges not excoriating.
Aggravation of all symptoms in the evening before midnight, also during rest and when warm, especially in a warm room.
Amelioration in the open air; from lying on the back and on moderate exercise.

A very depressed and weeping mood; at times ill humored and morose, even to hypochondria.
A restless, irresolute mood.
Generally indicated for persons having a mild, yielding disposition; inclined to weep.
Thoughts wander.

Vertigo on stooping, or in the morning on rising, with nausea; as if intoxicated, with whirling, even when lying down, with nausea.
General confused dullness of the head; < warm room.
Head very heavy.
Dull aching, extending into the eyes in the evening; as from eating too much.
Pulsating pain; > pressure.
Pains < in temples and occiput.
Shooting pain in the temples.
Pain as if the brain were torn.
A feeling of emptiness in the head.
Headaches < evening and in a hot room.

General inflammation, with burning and itching, at times with dryness, but usually with free secretion of bland mucus; agglutinated lids when asleep.
Lachrymation in the open air.
Inflammation of the margins of the lids, with development of styes; with biting or burning itching in the evening.
Vision dim, as from accumulation of mucus; with vertigo and nausea, particularly during menses; < a warm room.

Forcing-outward pain; at times jerking or shooting.
Sensation of stoppage and roaring; difficult hearing.

Clinical:
Inflammation and swelling of the outer ear, with profuse, thick, purulent discharge, not excoriating, with pains, aggravated in evening.
Severe earache, not ameliorated by warm applications; pain involves the whole side of the head and throat.

A feeling of stoppage, < evening before midnight, with discharge of thick, yellow mucus.
Sneezing.
Pains in the bones, as if they would be forced asunder.
Very free mucous discharge, at times offensive, usually bright yellow, with disordered smell, as in old catarrh.
The discharge is not excoriating, is generally thick.

Boring pains in the left malar bone.
Painful sensitiveness of the skin of the face.
Swelling of the lower lip, which is cracked in the middle, with tensive pain.

Jerking and tearing toothache, < the warmth of the bed and warm air, > cold and cold water.
Gums sore, with gnawing pain.
Tongue covered with tenacious mucus.
Blisters on the sides and tip of the tongue.
Tongue feels burnt and insensible.
Whole mouth and throat dry and covered with insipid mucus, with offensive breath.
Increased saliva, of sweet taste or watery saliva.
Taste bitter, especially after eating and smoking, though food tastes naturally.
Slimy taste in the morning, with nausea.
Disgusting taste in the morning, with white tongue and nausea.

Throat covered with tenacious mucus.
Rawness and scraping, with dryness in the mouth.
Scraping causes coughing.
Feeling of a worm crawling in the œsophagus, with nausea and retching.

Aversion to bread and butter.
No thirst.
Food and drink have a diminished taste.
Bitter taste after eating or drinking or vomiting.
Eructations, tasting of food or bilious and bitter in the evening, tasting rancid, or like bad meat, with nausea.
Desire for alcoholic drinks (thirst, with foul eructations).
Persistent nausea (with nearly all symptoms), < night, in women during menses, with retching and uprisings.
Vomiting, especially at night, of food that had long been eaten, with chilliness or with distention and pain as of flatulence.
Distention in the stomach, coming on an hour or more after eating.
Scraping and burning in the stomach and œsophagus.
Gnawing like a ravenous hunger; sensation as if one had eaten too much: the food rises up, with nausea and vomiting.
General indigestion from fat food.
Pressure in the stomach, especially from bread.
A feeling of coldness in the stomach.

Rumbling, gurgling, flatulent colic moving about.
Cutting or drawing, tensive pain, often dragging downward.
Abdominal pains, flatulent or neuralgic, with nausea, especially with chilliness, extending to the back.
Abdominal walls sensitive and swollen.
Drawing pains, extending through the spermatic cords to the testicles, which seem relaxed.
Cutting pains in the lower part of abdomen, extending into pelvis.
Constriction, extending into bladder as from a cold stone.

Hæmorrhoids; both internal and external, with itching, especially in the evening.
Hæmorrhoids protruding and painful, often bleeding during stool.
Frequent need to evacuate the rectum, but with only mucous discharge.
Profuse bleeding from the anus during or after stool.

Diarrhœa, with much mucus; green, acrid, watery, green mucus, preceded by flatulent pains, with pressure and backache.
Constipation and diarrhœa alternate.
Dysentery, with bloody and mucous stools at night burning like fire.

Sharp pressure at the neck of the bladder as from flatulence.
Tenesmus, with frequent desire, often ineffectual.
Involuntary micturition at night or when coughing; sometimes dribbling when sitting or walking.
Urine usually profuse, at times acrid, causing cutting; brown or bloody.

Pain and swelling in the testicles and spermatic cords, especially on the right side.
Tearing pains in the testicles, extending upward.
Nocturnal emissions, without dreams.
Menstruation too late and too scanty, discharge thick, or, at times thin and watery.
Menses suppressed.
Drawing pains in the pudenda, extending toward uterus, with nausea.
Labor-like pains in the uterus; must bend double.
Leucorrhœa; milky, or thin and acrid, with swelling of pudenda, < lying down.

Clinical:
Orchitis.
Epididymitis.
Pains not ameliorated by warm applications, with pains in the small of the back, chilliness and nausea.
Dysmenorrhœa, especially from cold and wet, with concomitant symptoms.
Irregular uterine contractions during labor.
Uterine inertia, palpitation, nausea.

Tickling and scraping in the larynx, causing dry cough, lachrymation.
Cough short, dry, < becoming warm and after sleeping.
Morning cough with expectoration, but day and night without.
Cough caused by dryness in the larynx and trachea, < eating and evening after lying down, preventing sleep, with dryness of the throat, > sitting up.
Cough, with much yellow expectoration, tasting bitter or with bloody expectoration.
Dry cough, often associated with palpitation, nausea, retching, headache, backache and shocks in abdomen.
Dyspnœa, especially in the lower part of the chest, < eating.
Chest symptoms < lying on the painful side.
Constriction and soreness in the chest.

Palpitation, anxious, < lying on the left side.
Sticking pains in the region of the heart, > walking about and pressure.
Heart's action generally feeble, often irregular.

Drawing, tensive pain in the nape of the neck and between the scapulæ.
Pain and stiffness in the muscles, as if he had been lying in an uncomfortable position; can move the neck with difficulty.
Sprained pain in the sacral region; < moving.
Dragging pain, as from constriction or stiffness, as from a band, lying down.
Pain after sitting, can scarcely rise; rather > bending forward and backward; generally < lying on the back and > change of position.

General pains, especially in the joints; < morning in bed, must stretch; the limbs feel beaten or bruised.
Weakness in the morning after rising, with weariness.
The limbs on which he lies fall asleep easily, with crawling.
Tearing pains in shoulder joints; must bend the arm.
Pain in the middle of the upper arm, as if beaten, extending to the hand.
Pain in the hip joint, as if dislocated.
Drawing pain in the muscles of the thigh; must move about, with sleeplessness, tossing about and coldness.
Pain as though the thigh bone would break, extending from the hips to the knees; > walking.
Painless swelling of the knee.
Tearing and drawing pains in the knee.
Stiffness of the right knee when walking.
Pain in the bones of the leg, below the knee; > pressure.
Swelling of the veins of the leg, with great soreness and burning heat.
Boring pains in the heel towards evening.
Red, hot swelling of the feet, extending up the calves, with shooting pain.
Swelling of the back of the feet.

Biting, itching; < evening in bed; not > scratching.
Burning over the whole body on becoming warm in bed; < scratching and returning after becoming heated from walking or rubbing.

Sleeplessness in the evening, falls asleep very late; at times with nausea and heat; restless sleep at night on account of heat, but very sleepy and heavy in the morning; cannot wake.
At times, irresistible sleepiness in the afternoon.
Dreams numerous and confused, at times frightful, with startings.

Chilliness, with thirst from 2 to 4 P. M., or without thirst; with coldness of face and hands and oppression of the chest, backache, headache, and nausea.
Chilliness in the evening, with external coldness.
Chilliness with pains; with menses.
Heat at night without thirst; internal, with desire to be covered, or at times, with intolerance of external warmth mingled with shivering.
Anxious heat, with distended veins and burning hands, especially at night in bed.
Sweat only on the face and scalp or partial on the right or left side of the body.

Pul. / (1st P.) / The Lady.

Pulsatilla,- Tearful maiden
With distress of spirit laden.
Thirstless, though in fever heat
Numb of limb, on taking seat.
Sleepless early in the night,
Forced to cough or set upright.
Hoarse with cough, that bringeth tears
-None for measle cough thy peers-
Ever chilly with thy pain,
Yet from heat no help can gain.
Mucus yellow, green, is thine,
'Tis thy true catarrhal sign.
In thy nose foul odors dwell,
Or thou hast no taste or smell.
Sore, and pleghmy are thy eyes,
Subject to afflicting styes.
Keen the aching in thy ears,
Which at enen most appears.
IN the morning vertigo,
Foul and bitter taste also.
Teeth that ache when victuals hot
Touch upon the tender spot.
Gnawing hast thou at the pit,
Or a stony weight in it.
Vomiting and eructation,
Hinting gastric ulceration.
Noisy painful flatulence,
With a downward pressing sense.
Stools that my the bedding stain,
Or impel with urging vain.
Changing symptoms, knotted veins,
Knee joint swelling, sacral pains.
Pains of gout, and pains rheumatic,
Pains of character erotic.
Menses dark, secretion slight,
Or suppressed by cold or fright.
Leucorrhoea, falling womb,
Bearing down, a pending doom.
Worse at eve, and early night,
Worse at dawn of morning light,
Worse from warmth, and ease denied,
Lying on the left hand side.

The Lady,-Has shifting pains.

The Lady, Phyllis Bell, called on DeKalb to lead in buying laurel for Lily Rhodes.

This Lady,-Who is subject to Tearful Moods,- Is at Ida Kip's, with the black and blue negro, Lily Lob, one of the cycle club.

Shifting Pains: Pul., Phyt., Bell., Caul., Kal. b., Led., Bry., Apis, Kalm., Lil. t., Rhod.

Tearful Mood: Pul., Iod., Kal. p., Sep., Indigo, Hell., Lil. t., Lob., Nat. m., Cyc., Lyco.

Indicated in many affections of women and children or in persons of mild disposition; in women of light complexion, inclined to plumpness, with scanty, delayed menstrual flow; derangements of puberty; delay of the first menstruation; threatened abortion. Frequently used in treatment of indigestion, diarrhoea, functional nervous affections, catarrh of different parts (eyes, ears, nose, respiratory tract, vagina); measles; rheumatic pains etc.

Mild, gentle, changing disposition; easily moved to laughter or to tears.

Intolerance of pain.

Thirstlessness.

Chilliness in warm room, without thirst.

Face pale, with sensation of internal heat (head).

Pains drawing, tearing; as from an internal ulcer; worse from touch.

Pains gradually increases until very acute, then lets up with a snap (toothache).

Pains worse in the evening, up to 11 o'clock or midnight; with chilliness, without thirst; better form motion and cool air.

Pains shift from place to place; with chilliness (rheumatism).

All the discharges are bland, thick, yellowish-green (eyes, nose, expectoration, leucorrhoea).

Perceptible pulsations in the pit of the stomach.

Menses retarded, scanty; amenorrhoea.

Tongue coated white; taste bitter, sour, foul; taste of food remains in the mouth for a long time after eating.

Aversion to fat and to warm food.

Coryza with loss of smell and taste; yellowish-green discharge; cannot breathe in a warm room.

Hoarseness coming and going without cause.

Cough: dry in the evening and night, loose in the morning; expectoration bland, thick.

Pain in the middle of the thorax as from an internal ulcer (cough).

Diarrhoea: no two stools alike.

Leucorrhoea thick, like cream or milk.

Worse in warm, close room; at twilight; in the evening up to midnight; from eating rich food or pastry.

Better in the open air; in a cool room; from eating cold food or drink.

Distraction. Unconsciousness. Full of numerous, but very changeable ideas. Delirium. Anxiousness, restlessness and fear of death. Secret anguish, even to self - destruction, by drowning. Melancholy and sadness. anthropophobia. Mild, timid, yielding disposition. Tearful mood. Inclination to inward grief and silent vexation. full of care concerning his domestic affairs. Covetous and dissatisfied. Mistrust.

Vertigo as though' intoxicated, with nausea, headache and vanishing of sight and hearing in evening when looking up or stooping. Stupefying confusion of head. Mental obtusion and chaotic condition of head, as after a debauch or night watching, worse in a warm room. Mental fatigue from exertion of mind. Fainting attacks with a deathly pale face, on entering a warm room.

Congestion to. Twitching tearing pain, going to temple upon which he turns and lies. Crackling in, after each impact of the pulse. One - sided stitches in one temple or in occiput, with vertigo, roaring in ears and vanishing of sight. Aching as though' brain were torn. Empty feeling in. Sore pain in one or both temples. Bursting pressure in forehead, with pressure on eyes and nausea. Great heaviness of. throbbing in. cutting in. Tension in forehead as though' screwed together. Twitching jerks in one side, like a tight drawing which suddenly lets go. Worse: Evening, lying on painless side, at rest, in a warm room, hot air, mental exertion. Better: Walking in cool open air, tight bandaging, external pressure, raising up.

- Exostoses, tending to suppurate and ending in necrosis of bones. Feeling as if frontal bones were too thin. Twitching tearing or crawling biting, sticking and itching on, most on temples and behind ears, unchanged or worse from scratching. followed by swelling and eruptions which pain as if ulcerated. Drawing pain in when brushing hair back. Takes cold in, from getting it wet. Worse: Undressing, getting warm in bed, touching hair. Better: Open air, gentle motion, washing head.

Inflammation with nightly agglutination. Lachrymation. Redness of conjunctiva, without swelling of lids. Sticking in, especially from light and sunshine. Dryness of, and of lids. Lachrymal fistula which discharges pus when pressed upon. Styes, especially on upper lids. Dim vision, when becoming heated, Like gauze before, by wiping. Incipient paralysis of optic nerve and gray cataract. Obscuration of cornea.

Twitching tearing or sticking in. Inflammation of. Hardened, black cerumen. discharging pus. Pain in, as though' something were forced out, Deafness, as from stoppage, after taking cold. Nightly earache and toothache.

Nosebleed of dark blood. Ulceration and moisture on wings. Green, stinking or purulent discharge. Coryza with constant chilliness and loss of smell and taste, dry in evening, fluent in morning.

Pale yellow complexion with deeply sunken eyes. Erysipelas, with sticking pains then desquamation of skin. Shivering on one side. Painful sensitiveness of skin. Biting and gnawing about mouth. Swelling of under lip, of submaxillary glands. Tearing in lower jaw.

Ache in evening. Jerking. Jerking, tearing ache, warmth of bed or room and by cool air or cold water. Jerking from teeth into ear. Throbbing in upper jaw and sticking in gum, heat of stove. Toothache from taking cold (when the weather first turns warm in spring), with tearing in ears, pale face and chill. Looseness of painful teeth.

Putrid odor from, especially in morning. Dark redness or varicose swelling of throat. Sore throat, as though' it were raw. Sticking sore throat when swallowing. Pressure and tension in throat during empty swallowing. Tenacious mucus in throat early in morning. Increased flow of sweetish saliva. Tongue covered with mucus.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger. constant hunger, but knows not for what, entire loss of. Aversion to bread and butter and rich food. Thirstless. Craving for refreshing, alcoholic drinks. Thirst, with foul eructations.

Taste: Diminished, to food and drink, Bitter, after eating, drinking, chewing and vomiting. Like putrid meat, in mouth, early in morning. Bread tastes bitter, sour or too dry. Meat gray tastes putrid.

Eructations: Tasting of ingesta, Tasting like spoiled food. Putrid or bitter.

Nausea., etc. - Inclination to vomit, seeming to come from upper abdomen. Chronic vomiting of ingesta after every meal. Vomiting of food every evening and night. Bitter vomit early in morning. Vomits ingesta, then bitter mucus.

Disordered by fat food or pork. Pressure, especially after bread. Chilled by frozen things, fruit, etc. Cramp, with nausea which ceases after vomiting. Sensible pulsation in pit.

Hypochondria: Sticking in hepatic region when walking. Sense of lassitude in. Pressure in spleen.

Sticking and cutting in, in evening, especially when sitting still. Thrusts in. Painless gurgling in upper. Inflammation of. Sensitiveness and swelling of walls. Spasmodic colic and labor - like abdominal pains during pregnancy. Pains in belly, with chilliness at time menses should appear.

Flatulence. - flatulent colic every evening. Rumbling in abdomen.

Diarrhoeic, with much mucus. Diarrhoea from fright. White. Difficult, altho' soft, with urging and backache. Nightly, greenish, watery diarrhoea. Foul smelling diarrhoea. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Violent bleeding from, during stool. Anal hemorrhoids with smarting pain.

Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, during pregnancy, with drawing in abdomen. Ischuria, tenesmus vesicae. Nocturnal anuresis. Haematuria, with burning at meatus and contraction in umbilical region. Dark urine, with a ring of violent froth.

Painful swelling of testes and spermatic cords, with prostatic discharge. Burning in testes, without swelling. Inflamed testes, especially after contusions. Hydrocele. Inflammation of prostatic gland. Greatly excited sexual desire. Labor - pains, too feeble, wanting, with violent pains in lumbar region. After - birth delayed. After pains.

Menses: Of thick, black, lumpy or thin, watery blood, too late and too scanty. Suppressed, especially after taking cold. Appear with difficulty and are delayed at puberty. Non - appearing lochia.

Uterine hemorrhage, with false labor pains. Thin burning or thick painless leucorrhoea.

Groaning or rattling. Constriction and tightness of chest, especially when lying on back. Difficult, when walking. Nightly asthma, as from sulphur vapor. tightness from spasmodic tension in lower part of chest, under false ribs.

Short, dry, e., on becoming warm. Dry, after every nap. Early in morning and during day with, but in evening and night without expectoration. With copious, yellow or greenish. Variously tasting mucus expectoration. with copious, yellow or greenish, variously tasting mucus expectoration, or e., of dark clotted blood. Excited by dryness, as of sulphur vapor and itching, scratching in trachea and chest, with retching and inclination to vomit. Paroxysms of dry, short, c., with pains in chest. Headache, thrusts in abdomen and pains in lumbar region during. Hemoptysis of black, coagulated blood with suppressed menses.

Hoarseness, inability to utter a loud word. Tickling in thyroid cartilage.

Spasmodic constriction and tension. Stitches, especially when coughing and taking of deep breath. Pains in, or upon sternum, as from an ulcer. Painful, as if bruised. Attacks of burning and piercing in. Anxious palpitation. Disappearance of milk from breasts of nursing mothers. Painful, sticking swelling in the nipple less breasts, with discharge of thin, acrid milk, in girls before puberty.

Prominence and curvature f upper spinal and cervical vertebrae. Backache when pressing hand on chest. Lumbar pains after sitting. Ache in lumbar region when labor - pains cease. Lumbar pains with chilliness at time menses should appear. Stitches in, and in sides.

Neck: Drawing, tensive pain in nape. Swelling and pain in neck and nape, as from an ulcer.

Paralytic sensation in shoulder joints when raising arms, Jerking tearing thro' arms. Heaviness of arms, with numb hands, Swelling of elbow after contusions. Swelling of blood vessels of forearms and hands. Stiff wrist. Itching frost bites on fingers.

Jerking in legs. Trembling of legs, especially during pains. Hot, inflammatory swelling of knee, with sticking pains, especially over patella. Heaviness of lower legs. Drawing in fibulae. Varicose veins on lower legs Red hot swelling of feet, extending up to calf, with sticking pains. When walking there is a sticking, when sitting a jerking in ankles. Swelling dorsum of foot. Ulcerative pain in soles of feet.

Emaciation. Jerking tearing in muscles, as though' they were suddenly pulled, especially at night and during rest. Swollen limbs, with numb sensation or sticking pains. pains which rapidly shift to other parts, with swelling of affected region. Tearing in limbs, like a slight tension, which always lets go with a tearing jerk. Pain, as of something sore or an internal parts, with inclination to ulceration. After effects of blows, falls or contusions. Fainting attacks, with cadaverous paleness of face. Epileptic attacks, with cadaverous paleness of face. Epileptic attacks after suppressed menses, with violent beating about of limbs, then relaxation of same, eructations and inclination to vomit. Pains are generally accompanied by thirstlessness and chilliness, as though, affected parts were dashed with cold water, (but no shaking). the symptoms are intensified in the evening and in the hours before midnight, also when resting and from warmth, especially in warm air of a room, they are in the open air, when lying on back and during gentle motion.

Inflammation of the mucous membranes.

Bruised pain in cylindrical bones. Curvature of. Caries.

Biting itching, like the biting of ants. Itching in evening (and at night) from warmth of bed, by scratching/ Eruption (like chicken - pox) after bacon and fat pork. Painful soreness when grasping affected parts. Chappped, from moistening in. Dropsical swelling. Ulcers, flat, foul, bleed easily, sticking. Frost bites on hands and feet.

Late falling asleep in evening. Somnolency. Nightly sleeplessness before midnight, on account of anxiety, restlessness and beat with unrefreshing sleep in the morning.

Pulse: Weak and small, often hardly perceptible, but quickened, seldom slow. Throbbing in blood vessels, in evening. Swollen blood vessels during the evening heat. Chill: Increase toward evening. With the pains. coldness and shuddering predominate. Thirst before e., and before heat, seldom with either. Constant chilliness, as if dashed with water, even in a warm room. Chilliness, with overrunning heat. One - sided coldness, with sensation of numbness. Cold drawings thro' back in evening. After anger. In evening and before midnight, constant chilliness overrunning the body, without shivering. the stronger the pains, the more violent the chill. Chillness yet artificial heat is insupportable. Heat, After the chill, with anxiety and red face. General internal, dry without external heat, in evening and at night. Of face, or one hand with coldness of the other. Of body, with cold extremities. Attacks of anxious heat, as if dashed with hot water. Sweat: Copious, at night and in morning. During sleep, disappears on awaking. Easy, during day. One - sided, sometimes only on face and hairy scalp. At night, with stupefying slumber. Often smells sweetish, sour, mouldy or like musk, and is sometimes cold.

Allied Remedies: Aco, Agar., Ag - c., Alum., Ambr., Am-m., Ant - c., Ant-c., A.P., Arn., Aur., BELL., BRY., Calc-c., Cann., CANTH., Caps., carb. v., Caust., CHAM., chel., Chin., coff., Colch., Con., CUPR., Cycl., dig., dulc., euphor., Ferr., Gel., GRAPH., Ign., Ip., KALI-BL., KALI-C., LACH., Led., LYC., M - arct., Mag-c., Mang., Merc., MILLEF., NAT-C., NAT-M., Nat-s., NIT-AC., Nux-c., NAT-M., Nat-s., NIT-AC., Nux-v., Petr., Phos., PLAT., sil., Spig., STANN., Sul., SUL AC., Valer., Verbas.

Complementary. - Arz., Bry., Kali-b., Sep., Sil., Zinc.

Especially adapted to females, with blue eyes, very affectionate, easily excited to tears and and of a very yielding disposition.

The forms of her symptoms are very changeable; she is very well one hour, and very miserable the next.

She is timid and fearful, extremely mild and gentle, and sometimes silent and melancholic.

Weeps very easily: can hardly give her symptoms without weeping.

Very tearful: she weeps at everything, whether it is juyful or sorrowful.

Easily moved to laugher or tears.

Throbbing, pressive headache, relieved by external pressure or by tying up tighly.

Violent pain in the ear, as of something forcing outward.

Affections of ears, as sequelae of measles.

Is specially called for women who are inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and protrated menstruation.

Secretions from all the mucous membranes are thick, bland and yellowish green.

Sick headache, from suppression of the menses, or from some menstrual or gastric disorder.

Semilateral headache.

Dizzy, when rising from a chair.

Obstruction in the nose, especially in the evening.

Foul discharge or bad odour from the nose.

Coryza, much worse every evening.

Cough very loose, with vomiting of mucus.

Hard, racking cough that makes the stomach sore; and water escapes the bladder, during every cough.

Loose cough through the day, but dry at night, worse towards evening, and in the recumbent position.

Asthma, from deranged menstruation or suppressed urticaria.

Cloudiness of vision, with a kind of flashing fire, as if she had received a slap in the face.

Profuse lachrymation in the wind or open air.

Catarrhal ophtalmiam with profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus.

Styes, especially on upper-eyelid.

Agglutination of the lids in the morning.

Rheumatism: Pains shift rapidly from one part to another, unattended with any great swelling or redness; chronic cases, with weakness, rigidity, coldness and weight in the diseased tissues.

Urticaria worse at night, caused by fat, rich food.

Chlorosis from abuse of iron.

Chronic otorrhoea.

Much pain in the ears, with deafness; the meatus is red and swollen.

Mumps with metastasis to the mammae or to the testicle.

Bad taste in the mouth, every morning on awaking; she has to wash it out soon; it is so bad she cannot bear it.

Nothing tastes good to her.

Tongue thickly-coated, white or yellow.

Great dryness of the mouth (in the morning), without thirst.

Licks the lips, but does not drink.

Toothache relieved by holding cold water in the mouth; worse from warm things and heat of the room.

Toothache on one side fo the face; always ceases on going into the open air, but returns in a warm room, and gets worse: the pains are throbbing or shooting, accompanied with much swelling; worse evenings; in mild, tearful females.

Sensation as if the food were lodged undigested above the stomach.

Loathing nausea and retchings after greasy food.

Morning sickness, with vomiting of mucus.

Absence of thirst or thirstlessness with nearly all complaints.

Pulsations in the pit of the stomach.

Repugnance to food.

Gastric disturbances from rich or fat food.

The sight or even the thought of pork causes disgust.

All-gone sensation in the stomach, in tea drinkers espacially.

Distension of the stomach after eating.

Rumbling and gurgling especially in the evening.

Incarcerated flatus in the abdomen, pressing here and there.

Pressure in the abdomen and small of back, as from a stone.

Colicky pains in the abdomen.

She cannot sit long at a time; must a walk about to relieve her pains.

Drawing, cutting pains around the navel.

Diarrhoea only or usually at night; watery, greenish-yellow, very changeable; as soon as one eats; from fruits, cold food or drinks, or ice-cream.

Constipation attended with innefectual desire for stool.

Discharge of blood and mucus during stool.

After urinating, spasmodic pain in the neck of the bladder, extending to the pelvis and thighs.

Frequent and almost ineffectual urging to urinate, with cutting pain.

Retention of urine, with redness, heat and soreness of the vesical region externally.

Involuntary emissions of urine when sitting, coughing or walking.

Constant pressure on the bladder without desire to urinate.

Scanty and high coloured-urine.

Milky leucorrhoea, with swelling of the vulva, particularly after the menses.

Thick, white, albuminous leucorrhoea.

Menses: suppressed from getting the feet wet; too late, scanty, slimy, painful; irregular, intermittent flow, with evening chilliness; with intense pain and great restlessness and tossing about; flow more during the day.

Delayed first menstruation.

Morning sickness.

Threatened abortion; flow ceases and then returns with increased force; pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must have fresh air.

Labour: the pains excite palpitations; suffocating and fainting spells, unless the doors and windows are open; feels as though she must have them open.

Acute inflammation of testicles.

Orchitis caused from cold or suppressed gonorrhoea.

The testicles and spermatic cord swollen and painful.

Hemorrhage from the urethra after suppressed gonorrhea, or after urination.

Gonorrhea discharge greenish-yellow or yellow-looking.

Chordee.

Hydrocele, especially of the boys.

Sexual passion increased.

Stricture; pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.

Acute prostatitis.

Very useful in intermittent fevers, where chilliness predominates.

Fever just at sunset.

There is little heat and no thirst.

Chilliness even in the summer, when warmly clad, with vertigo, throbbing headache, pressure in the stomach, etc.

Chilly, yet averse to heat.

Irregular types of malarial fever.

Anxious heat as if dashed with hot water.

Intolerable, dry, burning heat, evening or night; with distended veinsand burning hands that seek out cool places; without thirst.

Moaning during heat.

Unable to breathe well, or is chilly in a warm room.

Craves fresh, cool air.

Very sluggish circulation, manifested by constant chilliness, coldness and paleness of the skin.

Symtoms ever-changing.

Pains on first motion.

Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another; are accompanied with constant chilliness; the more severe pain, the more severe chilll appear suddenly, leave gradually, or tension much increases until very acute and then lets up with a snap.

Cannot sleep in the early part of the night, but sleeps late in the morning.

Awakes languid, unrefreshed.