Ranunculus Bulbosus

Franz reports a number of symptoms experienced from preparing the juice of

this plant. The symptom of phantasmagoria appears in brackets as though there were a doubt

about it, and I therefore leave it so. There is quoted in Jahr an account of the effects of eating R.

rep. observed in a flock of sheep. Several fell down as if struck by lightning; eyes rolled;

breathing hurried. Some reeled and died with their heads bent towards left groin. Mucous

membranes of eyes injected; mouth dry; abdomen slightly distended; ruminations ceased. Some

raised themselves, reeled, fell down again, bleated piteously; most were in profound coma.

• ▸Bleeding <; ether in milk gave much >.
• ▸Great weakness in feet remained behind.
• ▸R.
• ▸rep.
• ▸has

furrowed flower-stalks like R. bulb., but it has a spreading calyx and creeping scions.

Anger (slightest fit of, = trembling and dyspnsa). Change of temperature or

weather. Injury. Alcohol.

(In evening, in bed, he dreams while yet awake that he is in a large city, and sees well-

dressed people, masquerades, Turks, &c.).—Profound coma (sheep).

Fell as if struck by lightning (sheep).—Died with heads bent towards |. groin

(sheep).—Raised themselves, reeled, fell again, bleated piteously (sheep).

Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp. Pressing pain in forehead from within outward.

Evening in bed, crawling sensation on forehead and region of hair, > sitting up.

• ▸Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting in eyes, as from smoke.
• ▸Pain over right eye; better, standing and walking.
• ▸Herpes on cornea.
• ▸Vesicles on cornea, with intense pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.

Smarting in eyes; profuse lachrymation.—Eyes rolled; conjunctiva injected (sheep).

Troublesome and painful tingling in nose.—Nose red, swollen, and inflamed, with

tensive pain and many scabs in interior—Hay-fever.—Obstruction of nose, esp. in a room, with

pain as from excoriation.—Copious discharge of viscid mucus from nose.—Blood flows from

nose.—Internal tingling and upward pressure.

(Dry) heat in face, with bright redness of cheeks.—Vesicular eruption on face as from a

burn; smarts as if scalded; eruption in clusters —Tingling in face, principally in chin and

nose.—Spasmodic and whirling neuralgic pains in face and jaws.—Cramps (spasms) in lips.

Accumulation of much (tough) mucus in throat.—Spasmodic sensation, of something

which ascends ssophagus and passes into throat.—Inflammatory burning pains (scraping burning)

in throat and palate.

10. Appetite-—Mawkish, sweetish taste, or taste of a sour bitterness.—Butter tastes too

sweet.—Bitter, empyreumatic taste while eating, or after having eaten dry food.—Thirst

augmented in afternoon.—Feeling of hunger and rumbling in stomach early in morning.

Frequent risings.—Spasmodic hiccough.—Frequent nausea in afternoon or

• ▸evening, sometimes with headache.
• ▸—Pains in stomach.
• ▸—Pressure on scrobiculus.
• ▸—Pain as from

excoriation and burning sensation in pit of stomach, as also in cardiac orifice of stomach, esp.

when the parts are touched.—(Inflammation of stomach.)

Abdomen sligthly distended (sheep).—Reeled and died with heads bent towards

1. groin (sheep).

Slow and hard evacuations.—Frequent, easy, and profuse evacuations; natural stool in

afternoon.

Frequent urging to urinate—The scanty urine soon becomes turbid and

cloudy.—Dysuria.—Ulcers in bladder.

Acrid and gnawing leucorrhsa.—Ovarian neuralgia always excited

by atmospheric changes.

Frequent erections towards morning and dizziness in

head.—Emissions towards morning.

• ▸Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria.
• ▸Inter-costal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air.
• ▸Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring, moving.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration.
• ▸Tenderness of abdomen to pressure. Muscular pain along lower margin of the shoulder-blade; burning in small spots from sedentary employment.

On turning in bed, internal pain in infero-posterior chest—Compression in whole

• ▸chest, evening.
• ▸—A little before midnight could not endure coverlet on chest.
• ▸—Stitches r.
• ▸chest.

Spasmodic (rheumatic) tearing, shooting, and jerking pains in arm (stitches

• ▸in the arms and hands).
• ▸—While writing lie feels sudden tearings (stitches, jerkings?
• ▸) in r.
• ▸forearm

and between thumb and index finger —Rheumatic pain in both elbow and shoulder-joints early in

morning.—(Chronic stiffness of r. wrist with shoots up arm and down to thumb, which is also

• ▸stiff—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Visible spasmodic contraction in region of styloid process of 1.
• ▸ulna.
• ▸—Coldness

• ▸of hands.
• ▸—Itching in hands and fingers.
• ▸—Crawling in single parts of fingers.
• ▸—Tetters on palms of

hands.—Tingling in fingers.—Tetters, blisters, and ulcers on fingers; penetrating down to flexor

tendons.—Shining red, loose swelling of fingers, with inflammation, &c., changing to flat,

• ▸spreading ulcers.
• ▸—Cauliflower-like wart on outer side of terminal phalanx of r.
• ▸thumb.
• ▸—Pain

under nail of r. index finger as from a splinter.

• ▸Burning and intense itching; worse, contact.
• ▸Hard excrescences.
• ▸Herptic eruptions, with great itching.
• ▸Shingles, bluish vesicles.
• ▸Itching in palms.
• ▸Blister-like eruption in palms.
• ▸Corns sensitive.
• ▸Horny skin.
• ▸Finger-tips and palms chapped.
• ▸Vesicular and pustular eruptions.

Frequent and violent itching in different parts of skin —Lancinations in skin, which

change to itching.—Vesicular eruptions, like blisters after a burn.—Deep blue vesicles, small,

deep, transparent, thickly grouped, with burning itching and hard and tettery scabs.—Horny

excrescences.—Flat, corrosive ulcers, with sharp edges, and burning and lancinating

• ▸itching.
• ▸—Callous and other excrescences.
• ▸—Tetters over whole body.
• ▸—Chilblains; of amputated

stump of leg.

Wide awake and feeling extremely well in morning, though he slept only a few

hours.

Coldness, even on thighs —General and copious nocturnal sweat, < on thighs.—At

daybreak, slight general sweat.

Ranunculus Repens.

• ▸Ranunculus repens.
• ▸Creeping Buttercup.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Ranunculaceé.
• ▸Tincture of whole plant.

• ▸Back, pulsation in.
• ▸Eyes, smarting of; inflammation of.
• ▸(Feet, weakness of.
• ▸) Sleep,

short but refreshing.

• ▸Antidoted by: Bry.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rhus.
• ▸Incompatible: Sul.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸sp.
• ▸d.
• ▸,

• ▸Alcohol, Wine, Vinegar.
• ▸Compare: R.
• ▸acris, R.
• ▸scl.
• ▸Smarting and pressure in eyeballs, Pho.

• ▸Burning in spots in back, Aga.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Spinal irritation, Agar.
• ▸Exposure to cold or heat, Aco.
• ▸, Arn.

• ▸Corns sensitive, smart, burn, Sal.
• ▸ac.
• ▸< Touch and motion, Bry.
• ▸(Bry.
• ▸> lying on painful side, R.

• ▸bulb.
• ▸<).
• ▸< Wet, stormy weather, Rhus.
• ▸Effects of alcohol, Querc.
• ▸Headache at vertex as if

pressed asunder; < evening; < going from cold to warm air, and vice versa; tearful mood; acidity;

sore spots in chest after pneumonia, feeling of subcutaneous ulceration, Puls. Pain along inner

edge left scapula, at times extending below inferior angle and through left chest, Chel.

• ▸Diaphragmitis, Cact.
• ▸Zona, Rhus, Mez.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸Eczema with horny scabs, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸(Act.
• ▸c.
• ▸callosities

• ▸on feet).
• ▸Hay-fever, Pso.
• ▸, K.
• ▸iod.
• ▸, Saba.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸Fear of ghosts, Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bro.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸,

• ▸Coccul.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸Hunger in early morning, Aga.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Asar.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Rhus, Saba.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸Sleeplessness from dyspn§a, Cad.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Grind.
• ▸,

Lach.

Incompatible: Sulph; Staph.

Compare: Ranunc acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by bending and turning body); Ranunc glacialis-Reindeer flower Carlina--(Pulmonary affections; broncho-pneumonical Influenza-enormous weight in head with vertigo and sensation as of impending apoplexy; night-sweats-more on thighs); Ranunc repens (crawling sensation in forehead and scalp in evening in bed); Ranunc flammula (ulceration; gangrene of arm). Compare, also: Bry; Croton; Mez; Euphorb.

Antidotes: Bry; Camph; Rhus.

Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delirium tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally. Chronic sciatica, apply tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).

This buttercup gives off an acrid ethereal vapor very poisonous to

such as are sensitive to it, and has been many times mistaken for Rhus

• ▸poisoning.
• ▸This common field buttercup is not used as often as it is indicated, and it must be that it is not as well known as many other remedies.
• ▸It is a rheumatic remedy of great usefulness when the chest muscles are involved.
• ▸Pain in the spinal nerves, pleura and costal muscles

always with extreme soreness. It is as sensitive to motion as Bryonia,

and to the cold, damp weather as Dulcamara, It has sudden weakness

even to fainting, and it has cured epilepsy. It is extremely excitable,

and resembles the much broken state of sensitive invalids ; hence it has

complaints from fright and vexation. Its complaints are worse in the

evening and after any change in the weather, especially from warm

to cold. The evening aggravations are quite marked ; the headache,

ear pain, the nasal symptoms, the fever, soreness in the short ribs,

dyspnoea, oppression of chest and heart, tightness of chest, increased

pulsation, trembling, chilliness, are all worse in the evening. He is

extremely sensitive to cold and cold, open air. Cold air brings on

headaches, rheumatism, neuralgia of chest, spine and ovaries, vertigo.

Sudden exposure while overheated will bring on febrile symptoms,

pleurisy or pneumonia. After exposure to cold air, his chest muscles

are sore as if bruised. Draft of cold air causes sore pains in many

parts. He is extremely sensitive to rainy and stormy weather. He is

sore and bruised in many parts. Stitching pains in liver, cars, chest,

abdomen, shoulder and other joints, spine, lumbar region to abdomen,

between the shoulders in the back, stitching, burning pains radiating

from the dorsal spine. Burning pains in cardiac orifice of stomach ;

in pit of stomach, neck ot bladder, in cornea ; in eruptions ; in ulcers.

Pressing pain in forehead ; vertex ; eyes ; temples ; root of nose ; pit of

stomach ; shoulder ; across the lower part of chest ; middle of chest.

It has creeping crawling, tingling. Inflammation of the pleura with

dropsy of adhesion. With pleural effusion it is a very useful remedy

when there is extreme soreness along the ribs, especially the lower ribs.

It has cured lupus and epithelioma. Jaundiced.

It has great depression of spirits and desire to die. Fear of ghosts

and very irritable, even quarrelsome. Confusion of mind.

Vertigo when going into the cold air. Sensation of enlargement

of the head.

Cerebral hyperaemia with heat of the face. Headache with change

of temperature, pressing headache in forehead and vertex worse when

changing temperature, either to cold or warm room. Violent pains

over right eye, worse lying, and better when walking and standing.

All other pains worse from motion. This is a notable exception.

Pressure and burning in the eyes. Great pains in the eye, especially

the right. Soreness and burning in right lower lid. Burning and

soreness in outer canthus of the right eye. Bluish-black herpetic vesicles over the eye. It has cured hemiopia during pregnancy.

Stitching pains in the ears, especially the right, worse in the evening.

It has cured hay fever with burning in eyes and itching of the soft

palate (like Wyethia), worse in the evening, pressing in the root of the

nose. The skin of the nose is red much inflamed.

It has caused vesicular eruption on the face with great burning. It

has caused epithelioma of the face. Prickling of the face, nose and

chin. Twitching of the lips.

Burning and soreness and redness in the throat, smarting and itching of the soft palate.

There is much thirst in the afternoon. It has cured many times the

weak and tottering condition of patients suffering from prolonged use

of stimulants, such as whisky and brandy. It is a great remedy for

weak and tottering condition of patients suffering from prolonged use

delirium tremens when he is besotted, has hiccoughs and is more or

less convulsive. Epileptiform convulsions from alcoholic liquors*

The hiccough is violent and convulsive Frequent eructations.

Burning in the stomach and especially in the region of the cardiac

orifice. Stomach is very sensitive, to touch. Paroxysms of neuralgia

of the stomach. i

Sore bruised feeling in the short ribs, stitching pains in the liver,

jaundiced. Soreness in liver oO /deep pressure ; symptoms worse in

the evening.

In the abdomen there is much flatulence, colic, burning and great

soreness on pressure. Stitching pain in right side of abdomen under

• ▸the ribs.
• ▸The pains are much worse from motion, breathing and walking.
• ▸Many stitching pains in abdomen.
• ▸It has a watery diarrhaea

and dysentery. It has herpes zoster with violent pains.

Excoriating leucorrhoea and sharp pains in the ovaries every cold

change in the weather, from motion, and in the evening.

Heavy, short breathing with oppression of chest in the evening.

Sighing breathing. Pressure and constriction of the chest. Pressing

pains in the walls of the chest. Violent stitching pains in the chest

walls. Stitching pains in the region of fifth and sixth ribs. Painful

soreness on touch or pressure on the floating ribs. Rheumatic pains

in the chest. Chronic costal rheumatism. Soreness describing the

attachments of the diaphragm. Inflammation of the diaphragm and

pleura. Hydrothorax pains in chest from adhesions of the pleura.

Sensitive as if inner parts were adhered. Pain worse from motion, in

cold air, from becoming cold, on inspiration. Sensation of a cold wet

cloth on going into cold air. Stitching pains every change of the

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weather from warm, to cold. Sore spots here and there on the ribs.

Pain in the region of heart from motion and inspiration and lying on

• ▸left side.
• ▸Rheumatic swelling of pectoral muscles with extreme soreness to touch.
• ▸Pleurodynia with most violent cutting pains from inspiration, pressure, turning the body and cold air.
• ▸Pulse full, hard

and rapid in the evening and slow in the morning.

Sore spots in the spine. Pain along the inner margin of the left

scapula. Stitching pains in the spine between the scapulae. Pains in

lower and inner margin of scapulae in shoemakers, needle workers and

writers from sitting bent. One scapula often becomes adhered to the

back and it is immovable, and later burning pain comes on. Weak

spine and great lassitude. Vesicular eruptions form upon the back

and chest with blue contents, with severe pain.

Rheumatic pains, paroxysmal in character in the upper limbs.

Stitching pains along the nerves in arms and hands. Tearing pains in

forearm and hand. The pains are worse from cold, and worse from

motion. Bluish vesicles in the palms and fingers. Seed warts on the

thumb.

Great weakness in lower limbs in forenoon. Stitching burning from

the spine along the sciatic nerve in cold, wet weather and in stormy

weather, wrose from motion and in cold air. Drawing pain in the

thighs. Rlieumatic pain in knees, stinging and sorsness in foot and

toes. Corns very painful, sore to touch, sting and burn. He suffers

from complaints like chilblains.

He is late falling asleep. Sleepless from difficult breathing, from

heat, and orgasms of blood.

Dark blue vesicles upon the skin. Horny scurf forms after the vesicles have opened. It has been used for vesicular eruptions ; for burns ;

for herpes zoster ; for pemphigus ; for eczema. Flat burning, stinging,

ulcers. Horn-like excrescences.