RANUNCULUS BULB [Ran-b]:

-Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Buttercup

Region

Nerves; sensory

spine ; solar plexus

Neuro-musculatures

intercostal

Pectoral muscles; ribs cartilage diaphragm fibrous tissues serous membr.

(pleura, periton.)

Muc. memb.; esp. upper respi. and lower intestines

Liver

Termini. Skin

R.side; or l.(chest)

Worse

COLD; damp; changing weather and temp. alternate heat and cold

Cloudy. Stormy.

Windy. Open air

Drafts

5am. 12am/pm

Evening. Touch

Pressure; lying on painful side; change of position

Any exertion or movement even (deep) respiration, lifting, stretching muscles hurrying

After dinner: long after eating

Alcohol.Sugar

Smoking. Tobacco

Starches. Sour

Psychic trauma

Better

Heat

Lying; on painless side (opp. Bry.) Catharsis; ventilating; working off; weeping diversion; feasting

Pleasant company travelling fast working deflating; belching; stool

Limb hanging down or flexing up

Neurotic. Neuro-rheumatic

Alcoholic. Dyspeptic. Chesty. Skiny

Full of PAINS ; stitches, sore, burning, stabbing, biting, ulcerative; paroxysmal; linear, vertically (Sul.). Bursting; feeling of distension; congestions; inflammations. Pain-caused neurosis, tension, debility and dyspepsia ( Scut. has tension caused pain, neurosis and dyspepsia). Neuritis. Rheumatic neuralgias.

Universal commotion : Shocks / jerks. Twitchings. Creeping, crawling, tingling; in head, nose, palate, fingers. Trembling; limbs, from chagrin; with oppression. "Inner numbness.

Epileptic attacks : of drunkards; reflex, atbeginning of pneumonia, pleurisy; sudden.

Early prostration; walking difficult; even faintness on sitting up, faint when hungry; lassitude, tired and broken down all day. Dread of labor. Weakness (in sudden attacks), feels as if his senses would vanish.; vertiginous and syncopy; with heaviness, and cold1. foot; rising up from pit of S. (like flatulence); with or followed by chest pain. Weak legs, morning on waking. Tottering; inebriates; dyspeptics. No emaciation (usually).

Anomalies : Breathing easier when going uphill or along uneven road than on level. Heavier food better tolerated than light (Nux-v.). Soreness in fauces on inspiration, not from deglutition. Nausea (>) eating.

Malignancy : Lupus. Epithelioma. Epidermolysis bulbosa.

Injuries : Falls. Strained muscles. Neuralgia in stump. Twitsed arm.

A sycotic remedy of Bry. group. It has tubercular stock too.

Mind : Tense, indignant, yet anxious. Fear in evening, esp. of ghosts. Subject to mental traumas : shocks (grief, bad news, fright); vexation, mortification, chagrin; tension, worry, trial. A turmoil anxious, apprehensive or anticipatory; striking on epigastrium or rising up from chest. Neurosis : psychic; bowel; chest; cardiac, or professional. Resultant desentia, dementia. Delirium tremens, with loquacity. Depression, desire to die. Generally better in pleasurable company, by diverting mind, changing place.

Head : Vertigo in open air; with erections. Congestive, pressing-bursting headaches, with nausea, anxiety, weakness, sleepiness; (<) change in temperature, eating, lying ; (>) open air, pressure, lying.

Eyes : Inflammation : soreness, burning, smarting; pressing; lachrymation. Ocular tension increased (glaucoma) or decreased. Herpes-vesicles on cornea.

Vision : Misty. Candle light appears as a bright circle. Hemiopia; during pregnancy. Nyctalopia.

Nose : Rhinitis; smarting in nose, eyes, fauces (Ars.); tingling- crawling in nostrils, or from tip to root and brow to temple,(>) blowing nose, in open air; crawling, itching in palate; a feverish coldness; tenacious mucus "running down in torrents", (<) eating, reading, studying, the "old man's pearl" (Thuja). Discharge (acrid) thick, ropy, albuminous, (<) morning. Colds after spoiling stomach, after ice-cream, sweet sops, cold exposure or bath,with chills and shuddering in chest, (<) at every change of weather; epistaxis. Hay fevers (Wye.). Face : Heat and dryness ( of lips) with chilliness after dinner. Tingling. Spasms of lips. Tic,r., ext. to ear. Fever blisters. Mouth : Sensitive teeth. White coated tongue; bitter, sour, or sweetish taste; like copper; with salivation. Throat : Inflammatory burning-scraping (on palate and) down throat. Tenacious mucus hawked. Fauces sore on inspiration, not from deglutition. Stomach : Gastric neurosis : spasmodic hiccough, or such eructations after dinner. Gastralgia burning, pressing, sore; with precordial anxiety or angina, pulsating abdominal aorta (a "working"); faintness ( with nausea, colic); chilliness; stray stitches in l. chest, beating pressing in the sternum; all this during digestion. A nervous dyspepsia, painful and distressing ( Carb-ac.), after tensions or shocks which immobilize flatus. Gastro-pectoral or splenic flexure syndromes. Abdomen : Liver : soreness. Stitches ext. to chest or vice versa; to chest and r. shoulder; to back (scapula). Jaundice; of alcoholics (Rumx.). Colics : Cutting pains. Pinching; alternating with or simulating pleurodynia; or burning (in hypogastrium), after a meal. Tender soreness; in hypochondria (r.), with pain in back. Stitches; in r. side (<) shake-up; in l. side; with periodic pulsation in splenic region.; in liver. Burning; in hypogastrium, then deflation (fetid). Rumbling. Peritonitis. Diaphragmitis with pains in epigastrium or around hypochondria to back. Rectum : Periodical pinching in. Constipation. Diarrhea watery, painless. Inflammatory dysentery; with pain in region of lower ribs; chronic serous discharges after, with stabbing pains in abdomen and (or alternating with)chest. Urinary : Burning in neck of bladder; ulcers in; dysuria. Urine : sugar (Alcohol is a byproduct of sugar; Ran-b. is worse both from alcohol and sugar). Male: Frequent erections; emissions (<) morning. Hydrocele. Female : Leucorrhea, first bland, then acrid. Chronic ovaralgia, (<)cold change in weather. Swelling of mammae; with pleurodynia; l. inframmamary pain (Cimi.), or suprapapillary. Chest : The main target esp. l. Psychic dyspnea, with oppression or chest pain,(<) change in weather. Inflammation : of serous membranes (pleura, peritoneum), diaphragm, cartilage. Pleurisy, pneumonia : after sudden cooling down. Hydrothorax. Pleural effusion, stitches or soreness. Followed by acute pains suggestive of adhesions. Dry pleruisy, pain (<) inspiring, motion or lying on painful side, with catching respirations. Oppression, with pain and anxiety, headache, from incarcerated flatulence. Fulness in chest with goneness in epigastrium (Carb- v., Raph.). Chest pain accompanies several complaints : neurotic or muscular, neuralgic or rheumatic. Inflammatory, diaphragmitis, costochondritis, pleuritis, pneumonia, spondylitis, herpes zoster, spinal irritation; traumatic. Soreness; in spots. Ulcerative. Burning. Pressing. Stitches; from every change of weather (Rumx.); chest colds.Beating in sternum on rising or stooping. Most pains in l. chest; subclavicle, alternating with colic (esp. l. inguinal); alternating with splenic flexure pain; biting or sore pain after anger, exertion (after meals) or hurrying upstairs; (>) diversion, deflation, stool, walking. Pseudo-angina pectoris.

Heart : Vasomotor flushes, ebullitions, orgasms, arterial pulsations. Cardio-neurosis; excited ( or disorderly ) action of heart and circulation. Precordial anxiety; with burning in epigastrium (a dyspeptic reflex). Pulse: slow in morning, rapid in evening; full, hard; irregular.

Back : Wry neck; with twitching. Pains of spinal irritation or neuralgias (Agar.). Professional neuroses; scapular pains (burning etc.) from sedentary employments (like typewriting, needle-work, piano- playing).

Lumbago; through to abdomen; (>) sitting bent; (<) walking. Locomotor : Arms : pain, (>) hanging down; tingling (in spondylitis, pleurodynia); jerking, in upper (or fore-) arm, when writing, in professional neurosis (cp. Plb.). Palms (and fingertips) dry, cracked, itching, blistery.

Sciatica : burning-stitching pains. Drawing pain in thighs, (<) morning, motion (but not (>) lying), stormy weather. Knee joints weak in morning, cracking. Heel sticking (<) standing, pinching as from tight boots (Paeon.). Sleep : Disturbed, restless; from anxiety, oppression and pains in chest. Late sleep, or sleepless from midnight to 5 am, from orgasms. Sleeps with limbs outstretched. Dreams : drowning in water, lascivious. Skin : Herpes zoster, typical; with horny scurf; terrible sharp stitching, burning pains; nerves involved intercostal or supra- orbital (with pain and iritis ); (<) touch (Mez.) ;(>) warmth (Hep.); a near specific. Herpes encephalitis.

Pricking-itching-burning-redness, then blistery eruptions like pin's head, thickly graped; as from burn or vesicles; pain (burning) along nerve, transparent, bluish.

Runarounds : red streaks up arm, fever, delirium, followed by gangrene; splinter-like pain in r. index finger. Corns sensitive to touch,smart and burn (Salicyl-ac.). Chilblains; on amputated stump. Pustular eruptions. Pemphigus, esp. in children, ( exanthem), blue. Ulcers : flat, burning - stinging, discharging ichorous, malignant, phagadenic.Corns: soles; painful (Ant-c.); (<) touch. Skin horny; callous; horny excrescences (Thuja ); flaccid, easily indented (after pleurisy); tettery. Seed warts on tongue. Eczema, with thickening (Ant-c.). Thermic : Cold air brings on all sorts of complaints (Kali-c.). Chilliness, shuddering, cold extremities, heat in forehead, eyes and face, sleepiness, after dinner. Feverish coldness in evening. Chilliness in chest, as if from wet covers, in open air; must have extra sheet on chest in bed; likes cold water on eyes and face, but not a cold bath (after a fall or pleurisy). Cold upper arms, thighs, knees, feet; after taking cold, excitement or depressing emotions, during digestion. Legs or knees need additional covering in bed. Cold hands and feet during fever. Chill predominates, or fever paroxysm consists only of chill. Intermittent fevers, after midnight (Ars.). Catarrhal fevers (like Bry.). Heat, (<) evening; mainly (r. side) of face and cold extremities (after dinner); general discomfort, ebullitions and sleepiness. Sweat scanty, morning on waking, clammy with chest pain; feels as if appearing. Relations : Ran-b. is rheumatic acute and Bapt. septic acute of Cal-c.; just as Bry. is rheumatic acute and Echi. septic acute of Sul. Pyro. is septic acute both of Sul. and Calc. Ascl-t. and Ran-b. lead to Kali-c. (all stitches). A remarkable blend of Bry., Arg-n. and Kali-c. Is a close-up of Bry., Nux-v. Ran-b. is psoric Rhus-t. Complementary : Acet-ac., Arg-n., Ars., Asaf., Bry., Cal-c., Caus., Colch., Graph., Ign., Kali-c., Kali-n., Lyc., Nux-m., Nux-v., Pho., Psor., Pul., Rhus-t., Sabad., Sep., Sul. Antidotes : Anac., Bry., Cam., Clem., Crot-t., Pul., Rhus-t., Staph. Incompatible : Nil-s-d., Staph.,Sul., alcohol, vinegar. Similar : Bry., Cimi., Dul., Eosin, Grin., Lob-s., Mag-c.,Mang- gr., Merc-c., Mez., Nux.-v., Rumx. Ran-sceleratus is more irritating in its action than Ran-b. Colch. has no neurosis; is gouty. Ran-b. has no flatulence and metabolic failure.Both are indeed symbiotic. The apprehensive diad : Kali-c., Ran-b. The touchy triad : Kali-c., Mag-c; Ran-b. The pleurisy tetrad : Ascl-t., Bry., Kali-c., Ran-b. The sugar pentad : Arg-n., Ars., Mag-c., (Pul.), Ran-b., Sul. The dyspeptic sextad : Cal-c., Carb-v., Kali-c., Mag-c., Ran- b., Rumx. The alcohol septad : Abs., Aven., Carb-v., Cypr., Pass., Ran-b., Rumx. Ran-b. Bry. 1. (<) Touch (<) Touch 2. (<) Motion (<) Motion 3. (<) Lying on painful side (>) Lying on painful

4. more anxious side more irriable

5. (>) Pleasant company (>) When alone

6. (<) Cold damp weather (<) Hot damp weather