Ranunculus Acris

Tremulous, faint, anxious, restless, small, rapid pulse, red face——Awoke at

night with most violent pains.

Eyes contained a quantity of fluid blood and showed several livid spots of hard texture

(in dog poisoned with the juice).

• ▸Red face.
• ▸—Violent tearing in r.
• ▸cheek, towards temples, evening.
• ▸—Skin of r.
• ▸cheek has

peculiar feeling as though touched here and there with a cold, thin body; later in 1. cheek.

• ▸Copious fluid stool without pain at 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸and at 7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Two loose stools,

morning.

Tearing in muscles, r. side of chest behind nipple, < during inspiration; next day

similar pain r. chest.—Lungs red and congested (dog).

Pain several times in lumbar muscles on bending and turning the body; and in joints;

also when sitting or in motion.

Heaviness and weakness in legs on walking; also in bed in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Tearing in front of tibi¢ and in temples.
• ▸—Drawing pains in ankle-joints; tearing in 1.
• ▸,

walking and at rest.

Obstinate ulcers.—Skin (of legs) hot, red, painful, blistered in places; next day

gangrenous.

Violent erethistic fever, with intolerable pains in legs and feet, which were burned,

• ▸blistered, and gangrenous.
• ▸—Intolerable heat and faintness.
• ▸—Head hot and heavy.
• ▸—Heat in

head.—Skin somewhat moist in morning.—Forehead damp.

• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Ulcers.

Characteristics——Ranunculus acris is distinguished from R. bulbosus by its slender cylindrical

• ▸flower-stalk, that of R.
• ▸bulb.
• ▸being furrowed.
• ▸Both are common "buttercups," and have acrid and

poisonous properties. R. acris was proved by Franz and Lembke, and the chief skin symptoms

were observed in a woman of seventy who applied a handful of the herb to her limbs, with the

result of setting up violent constitutional symptoms and fever and intense inflammation, going on

to gangrene of the skin of the legs. In the provers a pain of a rheumatic character was

experienced in the muscles and joints, especially ankles and wrists, which occurred when

walking and also when at rest. Lumbar pains < on bending or turning the body. Heat, faintness,

and fever.

• ▸Joints sore.
• ▸—Boring and drawing pain in r.
• ▸tibia and in elbow.
• ▸—Violent pressing

pain in joints of elbow, ankle, and knee when sitting; > motion.—Tearing in wrists, ankle, and

thumb, in walking and resting —Tearing in joint of wrist, ankle, and shoulder, in forehead and in

muscles of r. chest.—Tearing in hip, shoulder, and ankle-joint—Wandering pains in limbs, in

joints of hands, knees, feet, and toes.