PULSATILLA : Overeating Rich food. Fats. Eggs. Whiskey Legumes. Starches.
- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Wind Flower
Region
Mucous membranes
Gastro-intestinal(G.I.)
Genito-urinary (G.U.)
Respiratory (B.-P.)
Lower chest and upper
digestive tract
Blood. Blood-vessels
Venous circulation;
or heart
Solar plexus. Vagus
Glands
Liver.Kidney
Endocrine
Thyroid
Corpus luteum
Adrenal ?
Synovial membranes
One side, r. more
Worse
WARM: Air. Room. Weather Clothes. Bed. Food and drink Spring. SUN
COLD: Wet weather. Sudden spell in hot weather. Chilling or wetting feet. Snowfall
Open air (nausea, colic)
Periodically :
EVENING. Twilight. Alt. evening, night
Morning (eyes, mouth, throat, stomach)
AM: 1,2, 2-5 or daybreak,
3-6 or daybreak,
4,11,12-12 ((<) at 6 PM) PM: 1,2,4,5,6,7,5-9 or 10, 1-2 Every 2,4, weeks EATING: Long after (esp. supper); during digestion. Overeating Rich food. Fats. Eggs. Whiskey Legumes. Starches. Tubers. Sour Sugar. GUR. Tea (abuse or miss- ing). Frozen foods . Anomalous mixed foods. Hydrogenated oil Mushrooms. Sprayed grains High living ? Spoilt foods POISONING: Metals (Nickel in vegetable ghee, tin-containers Stainless steel.Iron. Chromium Zinc plating-galvanizing. Silver Copper. Lead. Mercury. Oxides Sulphur.Sulfurated stuffs, fumes), Quinine. Alkaloids and extracts. Synthetic vitamins.Steroids. Tonics Narcotics. Analgesics. Penicillin Pesticides and Insecticides Talcum powder Sera. Chamomille tea Air pollution. Tobacco Tea. Alcohols. Sorbide Toad stool. (Codliver oil) Suppressions: of (foot)sweat, menses, measles Discharges: eructations, menses ((<) pains); sweat (may (<));stool Excesses: dietetic; sexual, tea Lying; on side (l.); on painless side (Bry.); on painful side (Chel.); pain goes to side lain on Touch Rest. Resting after a prolonged exertion or walking. Sleep Siesta Beg. of motion. Exertion Walking (weakness) (vertigo) Emotions: fright, struggles, cares, unfavourable circumstances ,(silent) grief PUBERTY Better COLD: things, food and drink, fresh open air application Fanning Warmth: to super- ficial pains like face, teeth, abdomen, forehead Uncovering Covering up feet Sitting up Erect posture (vertigo); Lying: on back (pneumonia) with head high Gentle motion; continued (Asaf.) Pressure (rheumatism) (Midnight to noon) Morning to noon Eructations. Flatus Deflation Eating, when Attention; being cared Weeping Talking Diversion? Meditation Hysterical (unstable, capricious, fitful, erratic ) Non-descript. Belated. Slow. Plethoric. Venous Torpid. Rhoeo-rheumatic. Degeneration-oriented Dyspeptic. Calcareous. Warm-blooded, yet chilly A delightfully simple medicine, a polychrest of many uses, virtually a princess in the role of a maid servant; a kindly medicine to all: a boon to the unborn, a blessing to the new born, a comrade to the (growing)adolescent, a comforter to the advanced, a solace to the incurable, and when the end is near, a soother of the rattle; practising well Osler's advice "Aim to cure sometimes, to relieve often and to comfort always." Considering its usefulness in all the three stages of life- childhood, youth and old age, it is pertinent to their three miasms-psora, sycosis, syphillis; yet with an accent on sycosis (catarrhs).A good rejuvinator, developer and restorative. A good remedy to begin with in non-descript chronic cases e.g. diabetes, phthisis, sterility, puberty, dyspepsia, diarrhea, urticaria, fevers etc., serving here to unlock such cases. Make- up: Phlegmatic. Lymphatic. Plethoric (like Asaf.) (Alo.abdominal). Blonde, light brown- haired, blue eyed, doll faced. Delicate, pretty, fair complexion. Shapely plumpness (Cal- c. flabby or formless plumpness). Flaccid musculature. Highly feminine. Either stout, florid, increasing in flesh (yet growing increasingly nervous). Or lean, weak, pale and chilly. Physique fluctuating in weight loss and gain. Soft, sedentary subjects, who can be roused to momentary interest and exertion but speedily relapse to inertia. Anemic, chlorotic, pale persons who have taken much iron, quinine or tonics even years before, giving rise to a host of inexplicable symptoms. Lower lip big and split in centre, swollen veins of hands, late menses- a thyroid, adrenal and ovarian insufficiency. Resemblances between characters of Plant and Remedy PLANT 1.The plant is small and delicate. 2.It has flexible stem. 3.The stem bends according to the direction of prevailing wind (pulsating with wind). 4. Always found in the groups, as if seeking company. 5. The plant grows on dry, sandy soil and has little need for water. 6. The plant appears early, thriving in cool air of first spring and is protected against chill by fine, soft hair. 7.Enormous variety: more than 100 subspecies of the species Pulsatilla are available. 8.Some species of Pulsatilla prefer soil rich in calcium, others avoid it. 9. Changefulness in colours. All colours are represented. 45 varieties according to colour, shape and hair. 10.As to wind and air, the plant opens up to the outer world. Flowers (= sense organs) receive the stimulus of sun rays; sense function highly developed with its colour variations. Organs of reproduction appear more prominent through special hues and colors. 11.Although'pulsating with wind', the roots of Puls. are anchored firmly in the ground; manifesting determination. REMEDY 1. Type more in women and children. Delicate, pretty, fair complexion. 2. Flexibility of body and mind. 3. Changeful; no 'say' of her own. Easily led and persuaded. Even the physique fluctuates between wt. loss and gain. 4. Wants company and sympathy. (<) when alone. 5. Thirstless. Can go for long without drinking. 6.Loves cool air but needs to be covered during chill. (<) warmth, summer ; (>) fresh, open air.
7. Changefulness: emotional symptoms change; sadness changes into laughter, mildness into anger.
8.Changeable flow of menses. Circulation- unstable. Wandering pains.
Symptoms: erratic, metastase.sympathise, associate, intermit or alternate. No two chills, no two stools, no two attacks, no two days , no two menses alike.
9.(<) Sun exposure. Field of action directed towards outer world- the sense organs,eyes, ears,senses of taste and smell, skin and (skin of organs i.e.) M.M. Deep tissues not affected in general. Action over reproductive organs: hypo-ovarian function, testes (orchitis) etc. 10. Pertinacity as to actions: uses technique of mildness, sweetness to get one's way; selfish; pushes several demands; manipulative, stoops to conquer. Mental make-up: Psychopathic. Neuropathic. Sentimental. Inter- personal relations like an 02; gives more value to human relations than mundane needs. Tearful, more weepy than gay and bright. Craving attention and sympathy (Morb.). Conciliatory. Indecisive; passes responsibilities on to others; sluggish in reacting. Or, quick-actioned, sharp and excitable. Or, pretty and fine, coy, shy, sensitive, affectionate, easy to deal with, and always definitely responsive and cooperative (even if without real appreciativeness). Or, shallow persons without drive and though not miser prefer receiving than giving; calculative; intellectual, but uses it for the sake of her emotional needs and desires; make good/shrewd use of others good opinion of them; not introspective (like Sep.; unlike Ign., Nux-v.). Delicacy of feeling; slight emotions cause dyspnea and oppression. However, emotions are ventilated and not suppressed. Recessive, not aggressive (unlike Cimi.); absence of self- righteousness. Non -assertive; unable to say 'no' to others. Meek, uninteresting, insipid, uninspiring, lukewarm, marble-like; inattentive, but not indifferent to surrounding; girls too much protected and brought up in a large family; undeveloped, babyish, desires fondling and stroking (Thuj. is opposite: responsive to favors, conscientious, unselfish, silent and fuss-hating). Credulous. Easily amenable to mesmerism, to surroundings and the people she happens to be with. There is nothing positive or assertive with her (unlike Cimi., Ign.) and the last person's advice is the most welcome one; easily led and persuaded; mob- mentality. No independence of character (unlike Nux-v.); infantile character. A true weathercock. Mild, good-tempered, aggreeable. Touchy, sensitive to slights etc., to social influences (Pallad.). Attention - monger; seeks approval and affection. Fuss-lover; more people, more fussy; but wants somebody about. Importunate, craving for something more, a bit of greediness (fat persons). Flirtatious. Hysterical oscillations of moods (Ign.); unpredicability; fickle-minded (unstable). Given to extremes of pleasure and pain, of sentiments or moods. Lack of stamina, discouragement and dread of occupation (though not ingrained as in Sil.). Persons of bland and obliging disposition becoming vehement without reason. Biography : Bonny-chubby as infant; sweet and compliant (even meek) as a child; "manifests affection by kissing and caressing"; a family pet, sheltered, loving and giving; child glued to parents, clings and refuses to be shaken off (similar to Phos. child; but Phos. child is more active, inquisitive and courageous). Coy and cloy at adolescence, attractive to opposite sex; sleek, calculative and selfish as adult (throughout sexual life); rather miserly but sympathetic when elderly; old people who become milder, rather stingy and turn either egoistic (like Sep.) or altruistic (like Phos.), feel forlorn, forsaken; want a support(but material and physical, unlike Phos.), parasitic. Never rebellious. Common feature in all stages : weepy. Resist senility (like Arg-n. which however has oldish look). Nerves Weakness, esp. after waking while lying in bed in morning with weakness and desire to lie longer but the longer one lies in bed the weakner one gets; becomes more lively as the day gets on (but not when hot) and the veins limber up; but nervous about sunset; again more lively about bed time. In morning the limbs feel weary and heavy. Lameness of r.arm. Weak feet, r. arm. W. of dyspepsia. Paralytic weakness; a neurasthenia. Tremulous W. W. in warm room. Unsteadiness- shakiness (while walking) of aged. Walking infirm, tottering. Weakness of limbs; in morning after rising, with relaxation without feeling weary. Parkinsonism. Tremblings, cold sweat and drawing pains. Frequent trembling of limbs with anxiety. Anxious tremulous sensation; in hand with oppression of chest; from tea, while writing. Tingling in : head, pit of stomach, fingers, feet. Vibrating- fluttering-quivering in: head, pit of stomach, chest. Orgasms. Chorea; at puberty in sensitive boys and girls with functional digestive and cardiac troubles; from dysmenorrhea or amenorrhea. Hysteria; symptoms ever changing. Epilepsy; from suppr. menses; instead of menses (at period). Pains: appear gradually or suddenly but leave gradually. As of (subcutaneous) ulceration. Burning. Jerking. Tearing. Wrenching. Pains (or tightness) become severer and severer and then suddenly let off (with a snap). Come in paroxysms. A drawing tearing sensation as if the nerves were drawn tense. Wandering. Flatulent twinges (or shocks, thrusts) in chest or even head. Cramps in : hands, thighs, legs (evening, on lying down), calves, chest, lumbar (while nursing), thumb, big toe, toes. Numbness: of suffering parts (or afterpains); or tingling of parts (recently) lain on; of r. side of head, mouth, chest and upper arm in headache (r.), being palliated by analgesics; during heat; l. arm (after sleep); hands, during chill; or tingling fingers, morning in bed, night; leg (l.), while sitting; foot, evening, during chill; soles, (>) walking; toes. Paralytic symptoms.
Dyspeptic or congestive collapse, symptoms like acute tobacco poisoning (Eup., Tab.); after quinine. Fainting; blackouts; in afternoon, in a warm room; in attacks.
Tissues
Blood: Poor blood with general relaxation and defective natural heart. Relaxed veins, hence oppressed in warmth (despite chilliness); a passive fulness of lax vessels, not an active congestion (unlike Fer-ph.). Circulation sluggish, or unstable (causing flushings, esp. in petit subjects); diminished motility; weakness of cardiac walls. Distended blood-vessels, esp. in evening, of hands.
Venosity (Alo.). Veins full, painful; varicose (also V.ulcers); with sweat. Tissues of veins: congestion, varicosis, varicocele, inflamed. Phlebitis with chilliness, parts cold. (Vip.). Stagnation, stasis. Fulness and swelling of veins of hands.
Congestions: head, eyes, intestines, hemorrhoidal, meatus.
Blue-purple discoloration ( a mild Lach.); of painful swellings (e.g. felon.); of face from exertion or in apoplexy; of tongue in fever; throat; dark coppery blue (bronze) pigmentation of hands. Also, violet sediment in urine or a violet ring of foam / froth above the sandy sediment.
Hemorrhages: passive; vicarious; intermittent. Blood dark, clotted, changeable. Bloody urine, semen, expectoration. Ecchymoses.Purpura hemorrhagica. Extravasations. Capillary congestion. Cerebral ischaemia. Cerebral embolism. Arteriosclerosis.
Tendency to pyemia at the end of an acute disease (as in pneumonia) (like Sul-i.). Pus bland, copious, thick. Broncheopyra. A mild post-operative (e.g.cancer of testes ) infection.
Mucous membranes: Usually DRY: lips, mouth (sans thirst), tongue (morning on waking), fingers (evening). But not so skin (cp.Op. to which it is an antidote).
Discharges do not give satisfactory relief: eructations, menstrual flow, sweat, expectoration. When they appear they are: profuse, thick, yellow-green, sweetish, bland (except leucorrohea and perhaps tears).
Glands: Painful, hot, swollen.
Growths: Bleeding tumors. Lipoma on back after removal of uterine fibroid; lipoma in a solar plexus youth with h/o scabies and dysentery and lead poisoning. Cerebral tumor. Recurring tarsal tumors.
Emaciation; esp. of suffering parts; with insanity; marasmus.
Swelling; dropsies: from menstrual troubles (at puberty, climaxis); after peritoneal dialysis. Hydrocephalus. Ascites. Hydrocele. Anasarca. Angio-neurotic oedema (<) before menses. Oedema. of ankles, feet. Bones: Jerking boring in bones; incipient inflammation. Scraping or tingling in periosteum. Joints: Gout. Rheumatic fever. Polyarthritis. Injuries: Fractures, for pains. Painful traumatic orchitis. Reaction: Catarrh. Diarrhea. Peculiarities 1. Changeful, shifting, erratic symptoms; change both location and time, also character (incessantly): no stools alike, no two chills alike, no two days alike, no two menses alike. Wandering pains, chills, thoughts, moods; very well one hour, miserable next. No head no tail to symptoms, even thoughts. In fever temperature is erratic. Circulation unstable. 2. Symptoms metastase; but 'stick to the text' : change location but not form or class, (e.g. see Mumps). Incarcerated flatulence leaves chest and seizes head ; when another set of symptoms comes on the earlier one vanishes. The earlier syndrome gives place to another. 3. Symptoms refer or sympathise: nausea, vomiting, palpitation from uterine troubles; toothache, vertigo, headache, dyspnea etc. from causes remote / distant from the apparent location of disease. Reflex aphonia. Reflex heart symptoms of indigestion; of chest pain ? 4. Symptoms associate: other symptoms with : vertigo, nausea, dyspnea, chilliness or sleepiness (all or some or one). 5. Symptoms intermit, are paroxysmal in fits or gushes: weeping, pains, weakness, fainting, bleeding, indigestion, hoarseness, fever, (leucorrhea), (sweat). Paroxysms increase in severity. 6. Chilly, with pains etc.; yet likes open air; wraps up feet (and head) and sits under or before a fan. More pain, more chilly (Cham. more pain, more hot). Chilled easily esp. through feet or head. 7. Belated. Everything late. Deferred effects of shock. Symptoms late to appear. Menses late. Indigestion or flatulence; two (or more even seven) hours after meals. Symptoms appear at once but disappear gradually; or they take time to increase but disappear suddenly. Coryza etc. in late stages. Late sleepers and wakers. 8. Poised for organic changes. Incipient locomotor ataxia. Incipient inflammation. Borderline hearts. Early diabetes. Incipient arteriosclerosis. I.H.D. Cataract. 9. Unilateral symptoms: pains, coldness, numbness, chill, heat, sweat. 10. Sluggish functions: digestion, peristalsis, circulation (with chilliness, soft pulse, palpitation, suffocative attacks, L.B.P.). Inertia,when demand is made on her energies for action (not the fatigue of Arn.); e.g in labor. 11. Saccharine: make up and nature,artificially and mawkishly sweet, coy. Sweet: saliva, taste in mouth, urine, expectoration, sweat. Yet not so friendly with sugar, esp. gur (which causes a toothache with pulsating in temples, scanty, high colored, burning urine etc.). Mentally too Puls. is not all sugar. 12. Anomalies: Lying more (in morning) agg. weakness; also walking, though it amel. in general; restless aching amel. rest; deep sleep when it is time to wake; chilled (milk etc.) cause trouble, yet afford a relief. More heat less thirst, at highest fever no thirst; will ask for warm drink. Coryza fluent in open air; but sneezing (>) open air.
13. Symptoms alternate, sometimes contradictorily: Chilliness and warmness. Deafness and otorrhea. Pains in head and chest / loins/ limbs (Alo. which is a close-up of Puls. in intestines). Gastric symptoms (<) morning, mental symptoms (<) evening. Select Particulars Mind: ANXIETY; often but not always; quiet in later stage, even carefree; during chill; during fever; about future, about salvation (religious anxiety); suicidal. With tremulousness; as if in a hot atmosphere; as if death were imminent, obliged to throw off covers or even clothes ;(<) in house; lying; on going to sleep; on walking; (>) (walking) in open air.
Infant does not suck, cries day and night; or cries all night and sleeps all day.
APPREHENSIVE. Weeps readily and involuntarily; while narrating her illness; when looked at; when disturbed; at sight of blood; over accidents; about future; after bad dreams. Fears; in evening and twilight; alone being of ; starvation; dark; ghosts; people; crowds; narrow places; misfortune; insanity; looking up.Morbid dread of the opposite sex; averse to marriage. Apprehension in pit of stomach. Hates suspense; hurried.
Tendency to self pity. Melancholia. Inclined to gloomy and too full of cares. Clings to her illness; hypochondriasis. "No one realises how ill I feel." Discontended, satisfied with nothing (yet not vexed); waggish; tendency to blame others. Illhumor, sometimes with a dread of labor and disgust / loathing and contempt for everything; cross even with herself. After fright (her child badly burnt) becomes diffident, joyless and self- reproaching; anorexia. Religious melancholia; at puberty. Religious monomania; fixed ideas about scriptures; insanity with a fixed idea ('call the grand-mother'). Nymphomania.
Nervous shock : of anticipation; of bad news; in the new-born, cries day and night, does not take to breast, no discoverable cause except the mother was upset by some domestic reverses; from unfavourable change in circumstances (e.g.unemployment or estrangement, including early weaning), in later life a constant feeling of forlornness. Ailments due to somatic conversion of stored-up neuroses and inhibitions. Attacks of vanishing of thoughts (amentia, dementia), or of senses.
Unconsciousness: during chill; transient, in warm room; during headache.
Head: Vertigo a frequent accompaniment; ocular; gastric; with asthma; with (or after suppressed) menses; with low atmospheric pressure; with HBP; reeling; staggering as if intoxicated; (<) evening, while walking, warmth, letting feet hang down; motion; rising; sitting; turning in bed, looking up (>)open air; lying; eructations.
Tingling. Crackling. Buzzing. Vibrating. Sparkling. Humming. Gloomy sensation in head. Twanging. Flatulent twinges in head. Painful shock or thrust in head, from incarcerated flatus; heaviness rather than pain.
Headache from overwork; of school girls (who are about to menstruate) ; from ice-cream; sour, mercury; from being in the sun; overloading stomach; eating; esp. with fats; (>) cold; as from suppr. catarrh; as from loss of sleep; as in putrid fever; as from alcohol (intoxicated feeling) with vanishing of sight and hearing (Bell.), then chill. Sticking after dinner, till bed time with shivering and faint attacks. Stupefying headache (<) morning in bed, walking in open air, (>) meditation. Throbbing pain; (>) pressure, eating warm hand on forehead. H. starts in vertex. Neuralgic pains commencing in r. temporal region with scalding lachrymation on affected side. Occipital ache (<) coughing. Wandering stitches about head, pains extend to face and teeth. A Sun headache, pulsating in both temples and sore bone of forehead (catarrhal 'flu in spring) at changing period between 7am to 7 pm, (>) frowning, not (>) any otherwise. Sunstroke: high fever, stupefaction, reeling.
Meningitis: from suppr. otorrhea or any other discharges, even leucorrhea.
Apoplexy: With loss of consciousness, purple bloated face, loss of motion, violent beating heart, collapse-feeble pulse, rattling breathing. Attack after full meal or too much tea. Preceded by drowsiness. Esp. in women at climacteric or about menses (vicarious). Venous A. Nervous A. No paralysis; apoplexy minor.
Cerebral tumour; or rheumatic metastasis.
Eyes : Cold affects the eyes. Mucous discharges bland, but tears acrid (bland-Lilienthal). Lachrymation: during fever or ushers in a (catarrhal) fever; worse in morning, cold open air and wind, reading. Agglutination of eyelids in morning.
Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged.
Ophthalmia : neonatorum; gonorrheal; after or with measles; after abuse of silver nitrate or penicillin; rheumatic; after suppr. menses. Sub- acute conjuctivitis, with dyspepsia. Blepharitis. Blepharadenitis. Photophobia less.
Burning and itching in eyes. Pains (<) in warm room; coughing; straining at stool; mental exertion; stooping. (>) rubbing, cold applications, open air, washing (even warm).
Styes. Subject to highly inflammed repeated styes. After spoiling stomach. Tumours on lids.
Congested, infl. opt. nerve. A great remedy for early stages of paralysis of optic nerve. Progressive cataract. Cataracts are also associated with non- assimilation (or abuse) of fats (cp. Mag-c.). Gouty keratitis ulcerosa. Hyperaemia of retina after suppr. acne or menses. H/o choroiditis in a tea-fiend.
Amblyopia : from suppr. menses etc.; metastasis of gout; gastric derangement; after hydrogenated oil; heart disease; dim vision as from accumulation of mucus, with vertigo and nausea, (<) warm room. Weak accomodation. Blind attacks (<) menses. Blindness due to fever. Ears: Cold affects ears. Catarrhal infl. from suppr. nasal cold. Catarrhal otitis. Earache, nightly; children, recurring; non- descript otalgia of mild children; after measles; ext. to face and teeth, even throat, causing dysphagia. Deafness due to cold, (after cutting hair) or following measles or scarlet fever. Noises: buzzing, chirping, cracking, crackling, fluttering, humming, music, reverberating, ringing, roaring, tinkling, whistling, wind(rush of), rushing, synchronous with pulse (Nat-ars.), bellowing, snapping (<) movements; suppr. menses. With vertigo (meniere's). Nose: One of our most frequent remedies for an ordinary cold in the nose, esp. ripe cold; with greenish yellow thick discharge and hoarse cough. Coryza: in evening; (in morning, yellow mucus); with loss of smell and taste (chronic) and sneezing; stopped on lying or in room; pressing pain at root of nose; allergic to dust (e.g. from old books), pollen ? Nasal bones sore. Ozaena. Sneezing: constant, violent, (>) in open air; but coryza more fluent in open air (All-c.).
Epistaxis: in warm room; vicarious; dark, clotted (Lach.).
Face: Red, (<) evening. Flushes. Greasy. Lips: full. Dry; licks but does not drink; after sugar. Peeling. Cracked lips; swelling of lower lip which is cracked in middle. Neuralgia; one sided; 11 a.m. to 4. p.m.; towards evening, till midnight; with hyperacidity caused by refined and starchy food and pastry; or gur; with chilliness; (>) warmth; with lachrymation. Sharp and contractive (constrictive) pain in jaws. Tearing (drawing) pain in lower jaw.
Mumps : metastasis to breasts or testes (Carb-v.).
Acne, at puberty. Moles or freckles in young girls. Erratic erysipelas.
Mouth: Teeth: drawing toothache, (<) cold water in mouth but warm water (<) very much more; (>) by both cold and warm drinks; (>) walking (slowly) ; (>) open air. L. sided toothache with pulsating in l. temple; (<) stooping and straining at stool; after gur (which contains iron and sulphur). In evening till midnight. Neuralgic T. Teeth shake up after 'flu, a sulphurised pt. Tartar ? Mouth dry or slimy, but no thirst. Much sweetish saliva. Dry, in morning. Bad breath. Tongue : yellow or white, covered with tenacious mucus. Feels scalded. Cracks and painful vesicles. Taste: bad, in morning. Bloody. Greasy. Bitter more to water, esp. after eating and smoking, though food tastes natural; food, esp. bread tastes bitter; on waking at night (malarial). Sour to everything (except water). Changing taste. Throat: Alternate sides of throat or neck. Evening (<). Sensation of a warm squirming or a skin-tag hanging in throat. Throat pain: after condensed oils (which require metals as catalytic agents during processing). Scraping sensation in oesophagus (and stomach), like heartburn; raw- ulcerative feeling, with salivation. Pain in sterno-mastoid. Stomach: All symptoms here are but a gloss on one word : 'indigestion'. I. from almost any item, esp. fats (in ice-creams it is its richness that matters not as in Ars. its coldness), tea and starches (rice etc.), eggs, sour, bananas, pancakes, onions, mixed diet, unwholesome combinations; from lack of mastication, loss of teeth. Distress comes a long time- not before one hour-after meals. Great tightness after meals, must loosen clothing. Persistent indigestion in fits with great weight on chest and sickish feeling from mental and physical upset. Pain in S. from irritating nature of contents rather than from mere bulk and weight (which is Nux.); pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Compressive pain in S.and precordial region, produced by incarcerated flatus; oppression in chest and pressure in S. with cold hands and feet. Soreness in epigastrium (and chest) with cough; tenderness about lesser curvature (or rectus muscle over it). Erratic pains (twinges) in chest with gastric symptoms (stitches in l. side). Solar plexus people who are readily affected by unpleasant emotions (apprehension in pit, urging to stool etc.) and by anticipation or suspense. They have to face all the difficulties of incarcerated flatulence. Frequent attacks of anguish, esp. at night, with diarrhea, flatus, moves about and causes painful sensations about chest. Disordered digestion with vertigo on rising, heavily furred tongue and pain between shoulders. Gastralgia with copious sweat on face. Distress in oesophagus as if food lay there. Supper- sufferers (troubles after midnight till day break).(Poor breakfasters, Nux.). All gone sensation, esp. in tea drinkers. Gnawing like a ravenous hunger. Gnawing-clawing. Scraping. Emptiness in pit with fulness in chest. Heart beats in pit of stomach, as if. Anorexia nervosa; before complaints (e.g. hemorrhoidal phlebitis) (rev. Nux.); with complaints, e.g. headache. Averse to : fat food (Morb., rev. Nux-v.), butter, milk, bread, warm cooked food and drink; fluids. Desires : sour, refreshing things (beer etc.), tonics, cold food and drinks, disagreeable things, cattle cakes with maple syrup, sweets only before menses; likes butter but no other fats, relishes ice-cream however; sugar ( as an acute of Arg-n.); dry foods. Worse after : 1. FATS; butter; bread. Dainties. Rich food. Pastry. Doughnut. 2. Proteins: beans; bengal gram; milk, cold; butter milk. 3. Starches: bread; durra- sorghum; tubers (onions, turnips, radishes, garlics, potatoes occastonally cabbage (including postum, sauerkraut); sweets (including gur, which contains sulphur. 4. Foods: sour; raw; hot (and drinks esp. tea); vegetables, brinjal, cabbage, fruits. (esp. apples, banana); frozen; stale (esp. juice). Heartburn; acidity. But Farrington says " Waterbrash is more characteristic of Puls., heartburn of Nux-v." "W. with a foul taste in morning; as if a warm were rising up." Eructations constant, but (<) evening and night; bitter; of food; tastes; loud; sour. Presistent nausea with nearly all complaints; (<) lying ( Nux- v. (>)); (<) /(>) open air; in chest and hypogastrium. Qualmish nausea. Qualmishness with chilliness. Ineffectual efforts to vomit (Nux-v.).
Vomiting : of food eaten long before; nervous, at the proposal for marriage. V. after taking cold in stomach, warm food and drinks, suppr. menses. Hematemesis.
Gastric troubles after abdominal surgery : 1. After operation for hernia, pain about umbilicus soon after or even while eating, esp. fats. 2. Six years after removal of uterine tumour and uterus, nausea soon after or even while eating, (>) vomiting; dry mouth, no thirst. 3. After operation for gastric ulcer, nausea and various pains, (>) eating, resting, vomiting, with a calcified gland in abdomen (complemented by Stann.). 4. Colic after removal of malignant uterus. 5. After tonsillectomy.
Abdomen : Catarrh of pancreatic ducts in girls. Passive venous congestion of the abdomen. Liver enlarged with dropsy ((<) evening). Ascites. "Jaundice in consequence of chronic susceptibility to hepatitis and derangement of secretion of bile, with looseness of bowels; duodenal catarrh; disordered digestion; feverishness and thirstlessness; after quinine.'' Colic is (<) in open air, (>) heat, vomiting. Colic with chilliness, in evening after dinner or night; after iron tonics and purgatives. Pains settle in groins ( or move into groins).
As of a heavy stone in. Numbness.
Burning in umbilicus ext. down central line, due to excessive tea; worst after urination, (>) walking; dry mouth. Cramps in A.; (and back) everytime child nurses; or without any modifying factors; in paroxysms; that formerly required Lyco.
Rectum : Constipation, no desire, or ineffectual urging. Two natural stools in morning (like Podo.), second after breakfast. No stool in morning; has to go after dinner.
Diarrhea: after fats, cold milk, pastry, fruit, gur, (in infant) mother taking gur, after excitement, fright, bananas, during and after menses. Usually at night. Forcible, spurting (like Crot- t.). On attempting to eat or drink. Worse usually at night, after midnight. No special prostration.
Stools : changeable; bilious; hot; green, mucus; watery; mixed with blood. Ulcerative mucous colitis, patient a late sleeper. Dysentery : (green) mucus and blood (like Merc-d.), with lumbar pains, rectal burning, chilliness, tenesmus only after stool, colic not amel. after stool (contra Nux-v.); tenesmus from anus up along sacrum; great difficulty of breathing; in cholera times; mucus after D. ( Merc-c. is intensified Puls.).
Hemorrhoids : blind, with itching, burning and sticking pains; preceded by pain in lumbar back; (>) lying. H. associated with gastric derangements; after abuse of gur; after eggs.
Urinary : Kidneys (from Rep.) : Inflammation; suppurative. Pain: burning. soreness. Catarrh of bladder; from suppressed gonorrhea.
Involuntary micturition : from sudden joy or shock; in day on lying; while passing flatus sneezing or coughing; at night (mild girls who kick off covers in bed); urine escapes if she is off her mint to it, e.g. on sleeping; after gur; from jealousy; after spinal injury.
Difficulty of passing water during pregnancy. Frequent urging from pressure of flatus. Congestion at meatus after gur. Heavy pressure on or cramp in bladder. As of a stone rolling in bladder. After urinating spasmodic pain in bladder. Burning pain down l. spermatic cord. Burning in urethra; due to excess of tea; (>) cold compresses; in urethral orifice during or after micturition (seems like a mild Ap. case).
Enlarged prostate with flattened stool. Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus. Urine in spurts, with cutting pains on urinating, (>) lying on back.
Urine: turbid from exposure to cold; loaded with urates of ammonia esp. in young children; scanty and high-coloured, after gur or dhals; saccharine, from assimilating disorders or malfunction of corpus luteum (obesity at climacteric or from anemia etc.), suppr. gonorrhea; blood after urine; not much thirst, or thirst only after urination; calculus (pain in r. ureter and in r. kidney-back, burning, (<) standing (but intermittent while sitting), (>) occupied in work , lying or r. side, feels unsatisfied and as if a drop falling and that gives pain; more tartar on r. molars, no gout; elderly mild straight- forward unselfish person; after Puls. 200 quick relief with a slight return in the evening-Puls. time); adherent sand; oxalates.
Male : Cold settles in testes. Orchitis : gonorrheal; pain from abd. to testes; from sitting on cold stones; from metastasis of mumps. Gonorrhea: late stage. Thick greenish yellow discharge with no pain or other symptoms to contraindicate. Usually for female gonorrhea. 'Ripe gonorrhea.'
Stricture : urine passed only in drops and stream interrupted. Bloody emissions; burning during E. No erection after steriods. Sarcocele. Varicocele. Spermatocele.
Female: A great developer of girls at puberty. The first serious impairment of health is referred to the pubertic age, has never been well since; anemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis; neurosis.
Menses : late, at puberty; dark; scanty; irregular; clotted; changeable; intermittent, slimy; flow more during day; with pain, more flow more pain; (pain (>) as flow begins, Lach.); with chill, more pain more chilly; pain (>) lying flat on back and warm applications, with back-pain, tired feeling and nausea; in older women where menses are accustomed to appear at full moon; too early and too scanty and too short, history of diphtheria, tonsillitis, pneumonia, leucorrhea and otorrhea.
Hypo - ovarianism; estrogen deficiency (dysmenorrhea).
Leucorrhea: acrid; creamy; milky. "A milky L. which becomes watery, acrid and burning from being retained in the vagina" (Dewey).
Pregnancy; molar pregnancy. Abortion: pains and hemorrhage alternate; H. in gushes; complication with malaria; desires fresh air. Aborts easily and early (5th week). Distress and fever after A., bearing down feeling , (<) lying. Labour : uterine inertia, esp. with palpitation, suffocation, must have fresh air. Weak or irregular; very slow; too weak or two strong but no progress (ineffectual), a do nothing case; worse in back; with sleepiness, no thirst, chilliness up and down back, weeping, dyspnea with every pain; even convulsions. It has the power to rectify abnormal (e.g. breech) presentations. "The child lies so queer'' she complaints. After pains : intermittent; worse twards evening. Sub- involution. Suppression of lochia. Retained placenta; metrorrhagin. Prolapsus (<) lying down. Uterus flabby. Climacteric: diabetic; pudendal itching, (>) cold.
Mammae : Milk in virgins and non-pregnant women from tight clothing; scanty ; during M.,suppressed; copious; scanty. Sore aching lump; (r.). Hard lumps in breasts; of school girls. Ailments from weaning.
Respiratory : Hoarseness : capricious, comes and goes (intermittent). Reflex aphonia; with head or chest pain or genital troubles.
Symptoms in other parts- parts that properly belong to respiration as well as distant parts not directly related-cause a dyspnea. D. on lying down, esp. on l. side, when heated, on being in the sun. Asthma : from suppressions : rash, gonorrhea, menses, etc; allergic, pollen or dust allergy ; at puberty or climacteric: (<) exercise, ascending evening; lying on side; of children. Dyspnea with sensation of stone in stomach, esp. early on walking or after a meal; (<) 3 am. Rattling (euthanasia). Irregular respiration. Air hunger. Asthma sysmptoms not found in Rep. : (<) during sleep, (>) bending forward, fan. Asthma every 2 weeks, preceded by insomnia and dreams of black animals chasing her.
Cough : loose in morning, dry in evening and night; must sit up. Variable; after pneumonia; after meals. Whooping cough; with suffocative attacks; desires open air; with itching in chest. Barking. Croupy. Wet weather dry cough after chilled water, in single paroxysm.
Expectoration: copious, bland, thick, slimy, greenish; variable; bitter, salty, sour or sweet; taste of old catarrh; putrid; greasy, nauseous; burnt, as of dregs of an old (tobacco) pipe.
Bronchitis: from diesel fumes. (Puls. antidotes Sul. ac. fumes too). Bronchiectasis. Bronchorrhea. Pneumonia : from suppr. menses, catarrhal. Congestion of lungs esp. in phthisis. Threatened t.b. Catarrhal phthisis of chlorotic girls at puberty. Phthisis of a non-descriptive type, evening (<) (complem. Stan.). Hemoptysis: with suffocation, lungs sore, hacking cough, better in A.M. Anxious spasmodic tightness of chest and oppression from venous congestion of chest; oppressed respiration as if from stagnancy of diaphragm; in liver trouble; with flatulent dyspepsia; as if from abdomen (Carbo-v.). Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Pain in lower chest and upper abdomen (upper chest and lower abdomen Ran-b., Rumx). Wandering pain in chest with oppression (Olean.), but sinking in stomach (<) lying, (>) walking (after tonsillectomy). Pectoral girdle pains.Pains as if bruised. Intercostal neuralgia- pleurodynia; with gastric trouble, flatulence. Pain l. side : infra-mammary; between hip and lower margin of the ribs (on flank) or a little above, with menstrual derangement; from cold change in weather, (>) lying on l. side (Bry.; opposite Chel.), eructations (flatulent twinges).While lying anxiety, nausea, rapid breathing, oppression, anguish and an indescribable distress in chest with heavy beating of heart; must sit up ( a heart patient, after exertion); Spon. complementary.
Heart : Heart symptoms (stitches, twinges, etc.) are reflex from indigestion and incarcerated flatulence. Cardioneurosis : great anguish and inquietude mostly in precordia, attacks at night (liver-trouble); from heavy work (like lifting, pushing, pulling, screwing), dropping things or sudden emotions; irritable heart also from hysteria or abuse of tea, with leucorrhea.
Pseudo-angina pectoris from irritable heart; (Pseudo) anginoid pains, due to increase in lactic acid after a series of depressive factors (like shock, grief, disappointment). Rheumatic (irritation of) heart, pains rapidly change place.
Angina pectoris: catching pain in precordia ((>) pressure). Mild anginoid symptoms after throbbing in temples ((<) 6 am to 10 pm), after sour fruits in spring. Heart's action generally feeble, often irregular, suggestive of an early stage of Carb-v. Palpitation: with anxiety and dyspnea; at puberty, after suppr. menses, in anemia, in mitral insufficiency; rapid pulse, breathing and beats with oppression, must throw off clothes; after emotions, on seeing a woman; after meals; talking, ascending, exertion, lying (on l.), after supper, from fast walking. Pulsations through the whole body in violent paroxysms from chagrin, fright, joy; with loss of vision; with pain in bladder-vesical irritation- due to stones in an old man. Heart beat felt in stomach. Orgasms; with flushes of heat (glow). General sluggish circulation. Full of venous congestion. Phlebitis. It acts on the r. (i.e. venous) heart, vascular system, veins, capillaries; whatever weakens the venous portion of circulation, whatever retards the return of blood to the heart. Varicose veins; varicose ulceration. Pain (<) letting limb hang down. I.H.D.? L.B.P with diminished red cells, hemoglobin and excess of white cells; after sorbitrate; weak heart, mitral incompetence. H.B.P. from indigestion, from disrespecting calls of nature; with vertiginous heaviness of head. Endocarditis, with phlebitis of leg. Hypertrophy or dilatation of r. ventricle. Mitral murmur. Spasms of mitral valve (causing faintings). Mitral insufficiency (anguish, palpitation, clear systolic murmurs at apex of l. ventricle). Arterio-venous aneurysm. Puls. patients and tea-addicts and overeaters are very much prone to arteriosclerosis (both are syphilitic). Back : Pain in back; (<) during menses; with dysentery. Pain in small of back; going from side to side as if bandaged tightly; before stool; with diarrhea, dysentery, with epididymitis, (<) lying on back, (>) lying on side. Spinal irritation; from masturbation.
Spinal curvature. Aching along spine (mushroom poisoning). Spinal curvature, lateral (scoliosis) with lumbo-sacral pain, (>) lying on back.
Extremities: Nervousness intensely felt about the ankles. Rheumatism: after suppr. of catarrhal discharge; from bananas, sour, indigestion; alternates with gastric symptoms; from menstrual irregularities, l. sided; seldom of a highly inflammatory character; pains shift rapidly; (>) pressure, lying on affected side, slow walking, cold application.
Joints: Rheumatoid arthritis. Hip joint painful as if dislocated. After injections for foul lochia; wandering stiffness (>) motion (see fever). Swelled. Knee swollen with tearing drawing pain (<) lying on painless side. Gouty symptoms from indigestion. Gouty, rheumatic and blenorrhagic synovitis. Acute periostitis. Felon, (>) cold water. Drawing pain; in r. (or l.) little finger. Shooting pain in heels, soles, toes. Lower limbs: pains down; alternate sides.Drawing tensive pain in thighs of legs with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness.
Tensive pain letting off with a snap sciatica; more pain, more chilly (Cham.: more pain, more heat) ; (<)afternoon, (>) cool air and motion (slow); milder forms, due to venous stasis or uterine. Sticking in tibia (<) lying, (>) cool air and motion. Catches cold through feet. Boring pain in heels towards evening; (<) hanging down ( Vip.); heels and soles sore while walking. Legs feel heavy and weary. Cramps in : thighs, legs, calves, hands. Sleep: Sleeps with hands over head and high double pillow; arms crossed over abdomen and legs drawn up. Children throw off covers at night. (Cannot sleep on back with legs stretched out). Kent Rep. says legs stretched out ( 2 marks). Must cover legs (or chest) or cannot sleep. Sleepy during labour; before chill; during fever; during sweat; with deliriousness. Late sleeping late rising ( opp. Nux-v.). Slow in sleeping but once asleep continues late in slumber. Sleeps sound when it is time to wake up. Insomnia of neurasthenic young women with menstrual irregularities; after tea, quinine, iron, strychnine, chloral. First sleep restless. Dreams: confused; frightful; anxious; of day's business; black animals (cats, buffaloes); disgusting; exhausting; of falling; of misfortune; pleasant; amorous; of quarrels; sad; troublesome and tiresome; laborious. Skin: Gastric (metabolic) skins. Urticaria after rich food with diarrhea, (>) cold bath, (<) heat, of bed; night. (<) summer, undressing; from delayed menses. Non-descript urticaria. Erratic smarting of skin; after abuse of tea. After eating pork or fatty things, eruptions like varicella. Angioneurotic odema before menses. Inflammed parts bluish.Purple swelling. Erysipelas; erratic; bluish, spreading rapidly. Areas (e.g hands) turn bluish-black. Chillblains unbearable when hot (opp. Agar.); turn blue. Psoriasis : chronic, little brownish flat patches that itch. Measles: not much fever or, fever remaining after brain symptoms. Exanthema chapped. Erythema multiforme with dyspnea after Penicillin. Ulcers: with hard glistering areolae; surrounded by varicose veins; blood black tarry, offensive, clotty. Lepra vulgaris, large patches, itching at night by heat of bed. Boils: axillary boil, pain (>) walking in open air, about to suppurate. "Puls. will empty the majority of pus tubes" (Boger). Suppuration following an acute disease.
Gangrene in a finger abscess, last phalange necrosed.
Thermic: Cold arms, knees, hands and feet; when excited; cold feet after a bath. One side cold or colder. Chilliness; esp. in warm room with aversion to heat; wandering; worse evenings on lying down at night; with pains (the severer the pains the chillier he becomes; stitching pains do not cause chilliness but burning); in spots or places (with heat in other parts); with oppression of chest and nausea or deathly anxiety; (>) motion (opp. Bry., Nux., Rhus-t.).
Fever after chilling (e.g. bathing or drinking cold) after being heated (e.g. after playing) thereby suppressing sweat (Bry., Sil.).
Intolerable burning heat at night with distended veins, anxious, with burning hands, that of whole body, except limbs or hands which are cold. Heat on 1. knee but outer thigh cold. One-sided fever; r. heat. Erratic temperature. Fever at sunset.
Dry heat of body in evening,with distended veins and burnings that seek out cool places. Sudden heat (esp. cheeks) with sweat of face with attacks of anxiety, trembling, faintness and obscuration of vision. Heat of r. side.
Sweat: Drenching night sweats. Ague without sweat. Sometimes dryness. On: head, face (offensive, during heat), back, feet (cold, offensive), soles, (between) toes.
Paroxysms of increasing severity and ever- changing symptoms (after abuse of quinine); no two attacks alike. Stages: not marked and apt to run into each other. Long chill, little heat, no thirst. Thirst before chill; during heat if it be both internal and external; in beginning of heat; after heat; morning paroxysms are attended with thirst; thirst begins as chill is over, decreases as heat increases, entire absence of fever, then begins again as heat subsides and continues during sweat (i.e. thirst in inverse ratio to fever). P. of fever and sweat after use of talcum powder on rash in an infant, playful.
Prodrome: spoiled stomach; thirst; drowsy; diarrhea.
Fever is unpronounced and (non-descript) or ambulatory (as in paratyphoid), is symptomatic (catarrhal as a rule) and is not attended with thirst or nervous excitement.Fevers with playfulness. Inspite of high fever she was calm and answered questions cheerfully. Febrile movement with stupor or loss of consciousness or comatose sleep. Loquacity during stupefied slumber. Drowsy, can be easily roused, answers in an embarrassed manner.
Bilious, remittent, intermittent, continued. Fleeting or continued moderate fevers. Influenza. Congestive collapse, had taken much quinine; cold blue nose, cold hands and feet, no pulse for hours, paralysis of optic and auditory nerves, of deglutination; chill began at about 6 p.m. Catarrhal. Gastric. Gastro-catarrhal.
Relations: Antidoted by: Arg-m.,Calc-p. (chilly analogue), Cham., Coff., Ign., Nux-v., Sul.
Antidote to : Aco., Ant-t., Bell., Cham. (mutually inimical), Chin., Chi-sul., Coffee., Colch., Fer., Gels., Iron., Lyc., Mag- c., Lyc., Plat., Quinine, Sabad., Sabi., Stram., Sul., Sul-ac., Tea., Vapours of mercury and copper, Vinegar, Whisky.
Compatible: Angu., Ars., Bell., Bry., Ign., Kali-bi., Lyc., Nux- v., Phos., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Stan., Sul., Sul-ac., Zinc.
Inimical: Cham., Con., Nux-m.,Sep.
Complementary: Arg-n., All-c., Ant-a.,Ars., Bry., Cocc., Coty., Ip., Kali-bi., Kali-m., Kali-s., Lach., Mag-m., Nat-m., Nux-v., Penth-s., Phos., Plat., Psor., Rhus., Sabi., Sep., Sil., Stan., Sul., Sul-i., Syco-co., Tub., Zinc.
Counterparts: Ant-c., Calc-c., Con., Cyel., Iod., Lach., Lyc., Nux-v., Val.
Intensified: Agar., Ambr., Apis., Arg-m., Arg-n., Aris-c., Card., Carb-v., Crot-h., Dig., Kali-bi., Kali-s., Lach., Merc(- c)., Medo., Pen., Sec., Tereb., Thuja, Tub., Vip.
Trios:
1. Bell-Puls.-Colch. 7. Pul.-Nat-m.-Sep.
2. Ars.- Phos.-Puls. 8. Pul.-Sil.-Thuja
3. Pul.-Arg-n.-Nat-m. 9. Pul.-Fl-ac.-Thuja
4. Pul.-Lach.-Sul. 10. Pul.-Ars-i.- Thuja
5. Pul.-Sil.-Kali-s. 11. Pul.-Sul.-Syph.
6. Pul.-Sil.-Fl-ac. 12. Penic.-Pul.-Syph. or Medo.
13. Pul.-Sep.-Lyc. (Pul. is sycotic first. Sep. is psoric first. Lyc. is syphilitic first).
Acute of : Aur., Arg-n., Con., Fl-ac.,Sil., Sul., Tub.
Nux-m. is a 'hotted up' Puls. and incompatible too.
Garlic, radish and onion-intolerators require All-s., Colo., Lach., Lyc., Pul., Sul., Sumb., Syph.
Ambr. is an intensified, negative and morning Puls.
Graph. is a chronic, overgrown or climacteric Pul.
Pul. is a mild Lyc., a mild snake, a mild Syph. and a mild Sil. (and its counterpart too).
Card., Pul., Sul., Ust. are mild snakes.
Ant-c. is morning Pul.
Ant-t. can be called old man's Pul.
Alo. is a close-up of Pul. in intestinal troubles.
Val. is the Pul. of Tarn. people.
Bry. Plus Pul. = Kali-s. (Pul. contains potassium sulphate.) Ferr. is Bell., Chin. Plus Puls. with some Calc. (Pul. contains iron). Ferr-i. is a metallic Puls.
Tabac. is intensified Puls.
Puls. is the antithesis of Nux-v. Carb-v. is the aged person's Puls.,its intensified close-up.
Merc-c. is Puls. Plus Rhus. combined but intensifed.
Arist-c. is midway between Puls. and Sep. A chimera of Puls. body and Sep. mind.
Compare: Apis. ((>) cold; burning; whinning; thirstlessness. Pul. is compl. to Ap. It seems to be an intensified Pul. and therefore one of its monochrests).
Lach. (purple congestion and cold (>); but in Lach.
discharges (>) and sleep (<), opp. of Pul. and Agar.; in Phos. both discharge and sleep (>)).
Nux-v. (Puls. and Nux-v. are antipodal, though they follow each other well; Puls. has (>) lying on back, (<) turning to either side; Nux-v. has (<) lying on back, (>) turning to either side; both have (<) bread, coffee, ice, onions, pungents, tea; both are thirstless; Nux-v. chilly, Plus. inclines towards hot). Iod. (warm, irritable, full of motions; but Pul. is more sad, tearful, whimsical, is not hungry nor thirsty and puts on flesh; thin Puls. may lead to Iod.). Cycl. ( a doublet of Pul., close to Sep. and camouflages Plat. Is more oblate, possessive, sthenic, mature and less passive and demanding than Puls. Cycl. has profuse menses, flow (<) sitting and (>) walking; Puls. (<) during day; Cycl. (<) open air, Puls. (>) open air).
Kali-s. {soft and gentle; but Puls. is more demanding and attention seeking; more hot than Puls. Kali-s. thirsty; Puls. thirstless; Kali-s. more obstinate and irritable than Puls.; Puls. more shy; Kali-s. may be tense in temperament (like Nux- v.) but sluggish and inactive (like Puls.)).
Tarn-h. (intensified Puls.; but Tarn-h. is aggressive, active; Puls. opposite, it is selfish but passively. Puls. is also religious but more as a victim).
Asafoetida Pulsatilla
(<) Warmth (<) Warmth (<) Night and PM (<) Evening (>) Walking in open air (>) Walking in open air
(>) Slow motion (>) Slow motion
(>) Immed. after discharge (>) Sometimes after of flatus discharge of flatus
Venous Less venous
Plethoric Less plethoric
Sensitive. Apprehensive Tranquil
Bone syphilis MM and gland syphilis
(<) Fats, warm food (<) Fats, warm food
Reverse peristalsis Hyperperistalsis
More appetite Less appetite
Taste greasy Taste greasy and also food
(See Bry. for further relations.).
Wind Flower
Region
Mucous membranes
Gastro-intestinal(G.I.)
Genito-urinary (G.U.)
Respiratory (B.-P.)
Lower chest and upper
digestive tract
Blood. Blood-vessels
Venous circulation;
or heart
Solar plexus. Vagus
Glands
Liver.Kidney
Endocrine
Thyroid
Corpus luteum
Adrenal ?
Synovial membranes
One side, r. more
Worse
WARM: Air. Room. Weather Clothes. Bed. Food and drink Spring. SUN
COLD: Wet weather. Sudden spell in hot weather. Chilling or wetting feet. Snowfall
Open air (nausea, colic)
Periodically :
EVENING. Twilight. Alt. evening, night
Morning (eyes, mouth, throat, stomach)
AM: 1,2, 2-5 or daybreak,
3-6 or daybreak,
4,11,12-12 ((<) at 6 PM) PM: 1,2,4,5,6,7,5-9 or 10, 1-2 Every 2,4, weeks EATING: Long after (esp. supper); during digestion. Overeating Rich food. Fats. Eggs. Whiskey Legumes. Starches. Tubers. Sour Sugar. GUR. Tea (abuse or miss- ing). Frozen foods . Anomalous mixed foods. Hydrogenated oil Mushrooms. Sprayed grains High living ? Spoilt foods POISONING: Metals (Nickel in vegetable ghee, tin-containers Stainless steel.Iron. Chromium Zinc plating-galvanizing. Silver Copper. Lead. Mercury. Oxides Sulphur.Sulfurated stuffs, fumes), Quinine. Alkaloids and extracts. Synthetic vitamins.Steroids. Tonics Narcotics. Analgesics. Penicillin Pesticides and Insecticides Talcum powder Sera. Chamomille tea Air pollution. Tobacco Tea. Alcohols. Sorbide Toad stool. (Codliver oil) Suppressions: of (foot)sweat, menses, measles Discharges: eructations, menses ((<) pains); sweat (may (<));stool Excesses: dietetic; sexual, tea Lying; on side (l.); on painless side (Bry.); on painful side (Chel.); pain goes to side lain on Touch Rest. Resting after a prolonged exertion or walking. Sleep Siesta Beg. of motion. Exertion Walking (weakness) (vertigo) Emotions: fright, struggles, cares, unfavourable circumstances ,(silent) grief PUBERTY Better COLD: things, food and drink, fresh open air application Fanning Warmth: to super- ficial pains like face, teeth, abdomen, forehead Uncovering Covering up feet Sitting up Erect posture (vertigo); Lying: on back (pneumonia) with head high Gentle motion; continued (Asaf.) Pressure (rheumatism) (Midnight to noon) Morning to noon Eructations. Flatus Deflation Eating, when Attention; being cared Weeping Talking Diversion? Meditation Hysterical (unstable, capricious, fitful, erratic ) Non-descript. Belated. Slow. Plethoric. Venous Torpid. Rhoeo-rheumatic. Degeneration-oriented Dyspeptic. Calcareous. Warm-blooded, yet chilly A delightfully simple medicine, a polychrest of many uses, virtually a princess in the role of a maid servant; a kindly medicine to all: a boon to the unborn, a blessing to the new born, a comrade to the (growing)adolescent, a comforter to the advanced, a solace to the incurable, and when the end is near, a soother of the rattle; practising well Osler's advice "Aim to cure sometimes, to relieve often and to comfort always." Considering its usefulness in all the three stages of life- childhood, youth and old age, it is pertinent to their three miasms-psora, sycosis, syphillis; yet with an accent on sycosis (catarrhs).A good rejuvinator, developer and restorative. A good remedy to begin with in non-descript chronic cases e.g. diabetes, phthisis, sterility, puberty, dyspepsia, diarrhea, urticaria, fevers etc., serving here to unlock such cases. Make- up: Phlegmatic. Lymphatic. Plethoric (like Asaf.) (Alo.abdominal). Blonde, light brown- haired, blue eyed, doll faced. Delicate, pretty, fair complexion. Shapely plumpness (Cal- c. flabby or formless plumpness). Flaccid musculature. Highly feminine. Either stout, florid, increasing in flesh (yet growing increasingly nervous). Or lean, weak, pale and chilly. Physique fluctuating in weight loss and gain. Soft, sedentary subjects, who can be roused to momentary interest and exertion but speedily relapse to inertia. Anemic, chlorotic, pale persons who have taken much iron, quinine or tonics even years before, giving rise to a host of inexplicable symptoms. Lower lip big and split in centre, swollen veins of hands, late menses- a thyroid, adrenal and ovarian insufficiency. Resemblances between characters of Plant and Remedy PLANT 1.The plant is small and delicate. 2.It has flexible stem. 3.The stem bends according to the direction of prevailing wind (pulsating with wind). 4. Always found in the groups, as if seeking company. 5. The plant grows on dry, sandy soil and has little need for water. 6. The plant appears early, thriving in cool air of first spring and is protected against chill by fine, soft hair. 7.Enormous variety: more than 100 subspecies of the species Pulsatilla are available. 8.Some species of Pulsatilla prefer soil rich in calcium, others avoid it. 9. Changefulness in colours. All colours are represented. 45 varieties according to colour, shape and hair. 10.As to wind and air, the plant opens up to the outer world. Flowers (= sense organs) receive the stimulus of sun rays; sense function highly developed with its colour variations. Organs of reproduction appear more prominent through special hues and colors. 11.Although'pulsating with wind', the roots of Puls. are anchored firmly in the ground; manifesting determination. REMEDY 1. Type more in women and children. Delicate, pretty, fair complexion. 2. Flexibility of body and mind. 3. Changeful; no 'say' of her own. Easily led and persuaded. Even the physique fluctuates between wt. loss and gain. 4. Wants company and sympathy. (<) when alone. 5. Thirstless. Can go for long without drinking. 6.Loves cool air but needs to be covered during chill. (<) warmth, summer ; (>) fresh, open air.
7. Changefulness: emotional symptoms change; sadness changes into laughter, mildness into anger.
8.Changeable flow of menses. Circulation- unstable. Wandering pains.
Symptoms: erratic, metastase.sympathise, associate, intermit or alternate. No two chills, no two stools, no two attacks, no two days , no two menses alike.
9.(<) Sun exposure. Field of action directed towards outer world- the sense organs,eyes, ears,senses of taste and smell, skin and (skin of organs i.e.) M.M. Deep tissues not affected in general. Action over reproductive organs: hypo-ovarian function, testes (orchitis) etc. 10. Pertinacity as to actions: uses technique of mildness, sweetness to get one's way; selfish; pushes several demands; manipulative, stoops to conquer. Mental make-up: Psychopathic. Neuropathic. Sentimental. Inter- personal relations like an 02; gives more value to human relations than mundane needs. Tearful, more weepy than gay and bright. Craving attention and sympathy (Morb.). Conciliatory. Indecisive; passes responsibilities on to others; sluggish in reacting. Or, quick-actioned, sharp and excitable. Or, pretty and fine, coy, shy, sensitive, affectionate, easy to deal with, and always definitely responsive and cooperative (even if without real appreciativeness). Or, shallow persons without drive and though not miser prefer receiving than giving; calculative; intellectual, but uses it for the sake of her emotional needs and desires; make good/shrewd use of others good opinion of them; not introspective (like Sep.; unlike Ign., Nux-v.). Delicacy of feeling; slight emotions cause dyspnea and oppression. However, emotions are ventilated and not suppressed. Recessive, not aggressive (unlike Cimi.); absence of self- righteousness. Non -assertive; unable to say 'no' to others. Meek, uninteresting, insipid, uninspiring, lukewarm, marble-like; inattentive, but not indifferent to surrounding; girls too much protected and brought up in a large family; undeveloped, babyish, desires fondling and stroking (Thuj. is opposite: responsive to favors, conscientious, unselfish, silent and fuss-hating). Credulous. Easily amenable to mesmerism, to surroundings and the people she happens to be with. There is nothing positive or assertive with her (unlike Cimi., Ign.) and the last person's advice is the most welcome one; easily led and persuaded; mob- mentality. No independence of character (unlike Nux-v.); infantile character. A true weathercock. Mild, good-tempered, aggreeable. Touchy, sensitive to slights etc., to social influences (Pallad.). Attention - monger; seeks approval and affection. Fuss-lover; more people, more fussy; but wants somebody about. Importunate, craving for something more, a bit of greediness (fat persons). Flirtatious. Hysterical oscillations of moods (Ign.); unpredicability; fickle-minded (unstable). Given to extremes of pleasure and pain, of sentiments or moods. Lack of stamina, discouragement and dread of occupation (though not ingrained as in Sil.). Persons of bland and obliging disposition becoming vehement without reason. Biography : Bonny-chubby as infant; sweet and compliant (even meek) as a child; "manifests affection by kissing and caressing"; a family pet, sheltered, loving and giving; child glued to parents, clings and refuses to be shaken off (similar to Phos. child; but Phos. child is more active, inquisitive and courageous). Coy and cloy at adolescence, attractive to opposite sex; sleek, calculative and selfish as adult (throughout sexual life); rather miserly but sympathetic when elderly; old people who become milder, rather stingy and turn either egoistic (like Sep.) or altruistic (like Phos.), feel forlorn, forsaken; want a support(but material and physical, unlike Phos.), parasitic. Never rebellious. Common feature in all stages : weepy. Resist senility (like Arg-n. which however has oldish look). Nerves Weakness, esp. after waking while lying in bed in morning with weakness and desire to lie longer but the longer one lies in bed the weakner one gets; becomes more lively as the day gets on (but not when hot) and the veins limber up; but nervous about sunset; again more lively about bed time. In morning the limbs feel weary and heavy. Lameness of r.arm. Weak feet, r. arm. W. of dyspepsia. Paralytic weakness; a neurasthenia. Tremulous W. W. in warm room. Unsteadiness- shakiness (while walking) of aged. Walking infirm, tottering. Weakness of limbs; in morning after rising, with relaxation without feeling weary. Parkinsonism. Tremblings, cold sweat and drawing pains. Frequent trembling of limbs with anxiety. Anxious tremulous sensation; in hand with oppression of chest; from tea, while writing. Tingling in : head, pit of stomach, fingers, feet. Vibrating- fluttering-quivering in: head, pit of stomach, chest. Orgasms. Chorea; at puberty in sensitive boys and girls with functional digestive and cardiac troubles; from dysmenorrhea or amenorrhea. Hysteria; symptoms ever changing. Epilepsy; from suppr. menses; instead of menses (at period). Pains: appear gradually or suddenly but leave gradually. As of (subcutaneous) ulceration. Burning. Jerking. Tearing. Wrenching. Pains (or tightness) become severer and severer and then suddenly let off (with a snap). Come in paroxysms. A drawing tearing sensation as if the nerves were drawn tense. Wandering. Flatulent twinges (or shocks, thrusts) in chest or even head. Cramps in : hands, thighs, legs (evening, on lying down), calves, chest, lumbar (while nursing), thumb, big toe, toes. Numbness: of suffering parts (or afterpains); or tingling of parts (recently) lain on; of r. side of head, mouth, chest and upper arm in headache (r.), being palliated by analgesics; during heat; l. arm (after sleep); hands, during chill; or tingling fingers, morning in bed, night; leg (l.), while sitting; foot, evening, during chill; soles, (>) walking; toes. Paralytic symptoms.
Dyspeptic or congestive collapse, symptoms like acute tobacco poisoning (Eup., Tab.); after quinine. Fainting; blackouts; in afternoon, in a warm room; in attacks.
Tissues
Blood: Poor blood with general relaxation and defective natural heart. Relaxed veins, hence oppressed in warmth (despite chilliness); a passive fulness of lax vessels, not an active congestion (unlike Fer-ph.). Circulation sluggish, or unstable (causing flushings, esp. in petit subjects); diminished motility; weakness of cardiac walls. Distended blood-vessels, esp. in evening, of hands.
Venosity (Alo.). Veins full, painful; varicose (also V.ulcers); with sweat. Tissues of veins: congestion, varicosis, varicocele, inflamed. Phlebitis with chilliness, parts cold. (Vip.). Stagnation, stasis. Fulness and swelling of veins of hands.
Congestions: head, eyes, intestines, hemorrhoidal, meatus.
Blue-purple discoloration ( a mild Lach.); of painful swellings (e.g. felon.); of face from exertion or in apoplexy; of tongue in fever; throat; dark coppery blue (bronze) pigmentation of hands. Also, violet sediment in urine or a violet ring of foam / froth above the sandy sediment.
Hemorrhages: passive; vicarious; intermittent. Blood dark, clotted, changeable. Bloody urine, semen, expectoration. Ecchymoses.Purpura hemorrhagica. Extravasations. Capillary congestion. Cerebral ischaemia. Cerebral embolism. Arteriosclerosis.
Tendency to pyemia at the end of an acute disease (as in pneumonia) (like Sul-i.). Pus bland, copious, thick. Broncheopyra. A mild post-operative (e.g.cancer of testes ) infection.
Mucous membranes: Usually DRY: lips, mouth (sans thirst), tongue (morning on waking), fingers (evening). But not so skin (cp.Op. to which it is an antidote).
Discharges do not give satisfactory relief: eructations, menstrual flow, sweat, expectoration. When they appear they are: profuse, thick, yellow-green, sweetish, bland (except leucorrohea and perhaps tears).
Glands: Painful, hot, swollen.
Growths: Bleeding tumors. Lipoma on back after removal of uterine fibroid; lipoma in a solar plexus youth with h/o scabies and dysentery and lead poisoning. Cerebral tumor. Recurring tarsal tumors.
Emaciation; esp. of suffering parts; with insanity; marasmus.
Swelling; dropsies: from menstrual troubles (at puberty, climaxis); after peritoneal dialysis. Hydrocephalus. Ascites. Hydrocele. Anasarca. Angio-neurotic oedema (<) before menses. Oedema. of ankles, feet. Bones: Jerking boring in bones; incipient inflammation. Scraping or tingling in periosteum. Joints: Gout. Rheumatic fever. Polyarthritis. Injuries: Fractures, for pains. Painful traumatic orchitis. Reaction: Catarrh. Diarrhea. Peculiarities 1. Changeful, shifting, erratic symptoms; change both location and time, also character (incessantly): no stools alike, no two chills alike, no two days alike, no two menses alike. Wandering pains, chills, thoughts, moods; very well one hour, miserable next. No head no tail to symptoms, even thoughts. In fever temperature is erratic. Circulation unstable. 2. Symptoms metastase; but 'stick to the text' : change location but not form or class, (e.g. see Mumps). Incarcerated flatulence leaves chest and seizes head ; when another set of symptoms comes on the earlier one vanishes. The earlier syndrome gives place to another. 3. Symptoms refer or sympathise: nausea, vomiting, palpitation from uterine troubles; toothache, vertigo, headache, dyspnea etc. from causes remote / distant from the apparent location of disease. Reflex aphonia. Reflex heart symptoms of indigestion; of chest pain ? 4. Symptoms associate: other symptoms with : vertigo, nausea, dyspnea, chilliness or sleepiness (all or some or one). 5. Symptoms intermit, are paroxysmal in fits or gushes: weeping, pains, weakness, fainting, bleeding, indigestion, hoarseness, fever, (leucorrhea), (sweat). Paroxysms increase in severity. 6. Chilly, with pains etc.; yet likes open air; wraps up feet (and head) and sits under or before a fan. More pain, more chilly (Cham. more pain, more hot). Chilled easily esp. through feet or head. 7. Belated. Everything late. Deferred effects of shock. Symptoms late to appear. Menses late. Indigestion or flatulence; two (or more even seven) hours after meals. Symptoms appear at once but disappear gradually; or they take time to increase but disappear suddenly. Coryza etc. in late stages. Late sleepers and wakers. 8. Poised for organic changes. Incipient locomotor ataxia. Incipient inflammation. Borderline hearts. Early diabetes. Incipient arteriosclerosis. I.H.D. Cataract. 9. Unilateral symptoms: pains, coldness, numbness, chill, heat, sweat. 10. Sluggish functions: digestion, peristalsis, circulation (with chilliness, soft pulse, palpitation, suffocative attacks, L.B.P.). Inertia,when demand is made on her energies for action (not the fatigue of Arn.); e.g in labor. 11. Saccharine: make up and nature,artificially and mawkishly sweet, coy. Sweet: saliva, taste in mouth, urine, expectoration, sweat. Yet not so friendly with sugar, esp. gur (which causes a toothache with pulsating in temples, scanty, high colored, burning urine etc.). Mentally too Puls. is not all sugar. 12. Anomalies: Lying more (in morning) agg. weakness; also walking, though it amel. in general; restless aching amel. rest; deep sleep when it is time to wake; chilled (milk etc.) cause trouble, yet afford a relief. More heat less thirst, at highest fever no thirst; will ask for warm drink. Coryza fluent in open air; but sneezing (>) open air.
13. Symptoms alternate, sometimes contradictorily: Chilliness and warmness. Deafness and otorrhea. Pains in head and chest / loins/ limbs (Alo. which is a close-up of Puls. in intestines). Gastric symptoms (<) morning, mental symptoms (<) evening. Select Particulars Mind: ANXIETY; often but not always; quiet in later stage, even carefree; during chill; during fever; about future, about salvation (religious anxiety); suicidal. With tremulousness; as if in a hot atmosphere; as if death were imminent, obliged to throw off covers or even clothes ;(<) in house; lying; on going to sleep; on walking; (>) (walking) in open air.
Infant does not suck, cries day and night; or cries all night and sleeps all day.
APPREHENSIVE. Weeps readily and involuntarily; while narrating her illness; when looked at; when disturbed; at sight of blood; over accidents; about future; after bad dreams. Fears; in evening and twilight; alone being of ; starvation; dark; ghosts; people; crowds; narrow places; misfortune; insanity; looking up.Morbid dread of the opposite sex; averse to marriage. Apprehension in pit of stomach. Hates suspense; hurried.
Tendency to self pity. Melancholia. Inclined to gloomy and too full of cares. Clings to her illness; hypochondriasis. "No one realises how ill I feel." Discontended, satisfied with nothing (yet not vexed); waggish; tendency to blame others. Illhumor, sometimes with a dread of labor and disgust / loathing and contempt for everything; cross even with herself. After fright (her child badly burnt) becomes diffident, joyless and self- reproaching; anorexia. Religious melancholia; at puberty. Religious monomania; fixed ideas about scriptures; insanity with a fixed idea ('call the grand-mother'). Nymphomania.
Nervous shock : of anticipation; of bad news; in the new-born, cries day and night, does not take to breast, no discoverable cause except the mother was upset by some domestic reverses; from unfavourable change in circumstances (e.g.unemployment or estrangement, including early weaning), in later life a constant feeling of forlornness. Ailments due to somatic conversion of stored-up neuroses and inhibitions. Attacks of vanishing of thoughts (amentia, dementia), or of senses.
Unconsciousness: during chill; transient, in warm room; during headache.
Head: Vertigo a frequent accompaniment; ocular; gastric; with asthma; with (or after suppressed) menses; with low atmospheric pressure; with HBP; reeling; staggering as if intoxicated; (<) evening, while walking, warmth, letting feet hang down; motion; rising; sitting; turning in bed, looking up (>)open air; lying; eructations.
Tingling. Crackling. Buzzing. Vibrating. Sparkling. Humming. Gloomy sensation in head. Twanging. Flatulent twinges in head. Painful shock or thrust in head, from incarcerated flatus; heaviness rather than pain.
Headache from overwork; of school girls (who are about to menstruate) ; from ice-cream; sour, mercury; from being in the sun; overloading stomach; eating; esp. with fats; (>) cold; as from suppr. catarrh; as from loss of sleep; as in putrid fever; as from alcohol (intoxicated feeling) with vanishing of sight and hearing (Bell.), then chill. Sticking after dinner, till bed time with shivering and faint attacks. Stupefying headache (<) morning in bed, walking in open air, (>) meditation. Throbbing pain; (>) pressure, eating warm hand on forehead. H. starts in vertex. Neuralgic pains commencing in r. temporal region with scalding lachrymation on affected side. Occipital ache (<) coughing. Wandering stitches about head, pains extend to face and teeth. A Sun headache, pulsating in both temples and sore bone of forehead (catarrhal 'flu in spring) at changing period between 7am to 7 pm, (>) frowning, not (>) any otherwise. Sunstroke: high fever, stupefaction, reeling.
Meningitis: from suppr. otorrhea or any other discharges, even leucorrhea.
Apoplexy: With loss of consciousness, purple bloated face, loss of motion, violent beating heart, collapse-feeble pulse, rattling breathing. Attack after full meal or too much tea. Preceded by drowsiness. Esp. in women at climacteric or about menses (vicarious). Venous A. Nervous A. No paralysis; apoplexy minor.
Cerebral tumour; or rheumatic metastasis.
Eyes : Cold affects the eyes. Mucous discharges bland, but tears acrid (bland-Lilienthal). Lachrymation: during fever or ushers in a (catarrhal) fever; worse in morning, cold open air and wind, reading. Agglutination of eyelids in morning.
Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged.
Ophthalmia : neonatorum; gonorrheal; after or with measles; after abuse of silver nitrate or penicillin; rheumatic; after suppr. menses. Sub- acute conjuctivitis, with dyspepsia. Blepharitis. Blepharadenitis. Photophobia less.
Burning and itching in eyes. Pains (<) in warm room; coughing; straining at stool; mental exertion; stooping. (>) rubbing, cold applications, open air, washing (even warm).
Styes. Subject to highly inflammed repeated styes. After spoiling stomach. Tumours on lids.
Congested, infl. opt. nerve. A great remedy for early stages of paralysis of optic nerve. Progressive cataract. Cataracts are also associated with non- assimilation (or abuse) of fats (cp. Mag-c.). Gouty keratitis ulcerosa. Hyperaemia of retina after suppr. acne or menses. H/o choroiditis in a tea-fiend.
Amblyopia : from suppr. menses etc.; metastasis of gout; gastric derangement; after hydrogenated oil; heart disease; dim vision as from accumulation of mucus, with vertigo and nausea, (<) warm room. Weak accomodation. Blind attacks (<) menses. Blindness due to fever. Ears: Cold affects ears. Catarrhal infl. from suppr. nasal cold. Catarrhal otitis. Earache, nightly; children, recurring; non- descript otalgia of mild children; after measles; ext. to face and teeth, even throat, causing dysphagia. Deafness due to cold, (after cutting hair) or following measles or scarlet fever. Noises: buzzing, chirping, cracking, crackling, fluttering, humming, music, reverberating, ringing, roaring, tinkling, whistling, wind(rush of), rushing, synchronous with pulse (Nat-ars.), bellowing, snapping (<) movements; suppr. menses. With vertigo (meniere's). Nose: One of our most frequent remedies for an ordinary cold in the nose, esp. ripe cold; with greenish yellow thick discharge and hoarse cough. Coryza: in evening; (in morning, yellow mucus); with loss of smell and taste (chronic) and sneezing; stopped on lying or in room; pressing pain at root of nose; allergic to dust (e.g. from old books), pollen ? Nasal bones sore. Ozaena. Sneezing: constant, violent, (>) in open air; but coryza more fluent in open air (All-c.).
Epistaxis: in warm room; vicarious; dark, clotted (Lach.).
Face: Red, (<) evening. Flushes. Greasy. Lips: full. Dry; licks but does not drink; after sugar. Peeling. Cracked lips; swelling of lower lip which is cracked in middle. Neuralgia; one sided; 11 a.m. to 4. p.m.; towards evening, till midnight; with hyperacidity caused by refined and starchy food and pastry; or gur; with chilliness; (>) warmth; with lachrymation. Sharp and contractive (constrictive) pain in jaws. Tearing (drawing) pain in lower jaw.
Mumps : metastasis to breasts or testes (Carb-v.).
Acne, at puberty. Moles or freckles in young girls. Erratic erysipelas.
Mouth: Teeth: drawing toothache, (<) cold water in mouth but warm water (<) very much more; (>) by both cold and warm drinks; (>) walking (slowly) ; (>) open air. L. sided toothache with pulsating in l. temple; (<) stooping and straining at stool; after gur (which contains iron and sulphur). In evening till midnight. Neuralgic T. Teeth shake up after 'flu, a sulphurised pt. Tartar ? Mouth dry or slimy, but no thirst. Much sweetish saliva. Dry, in morning. Bad breath. Tongue : yellow or white, covered with tenacious mucus. Feels scalded. Cracks and painful vesicles. Taste: bad, in morning. Bloody. Greasy. Bitter more to water, esp. after eating and smoking, though food tastes natural; food, esp. bread tastes bitter; on waking at night (malarial). Sour to everything (except water). Changing taste. Throat: Alternate sides of throat or neck. Evening (<). Sensation of a warm squirming or a skin-tag hanging in throat. Throat pain: after condensed oils (which require metals as catalytic agents during processing). Scraping sensation in oesophagus (and stomach), like heartburn; raw- ulcerative feeling, with salivation. Pain in sterno-mastoid. Stomach: All symptoms here are but a gloss on one word : 'indigestion'. I. from almost any item, esp. fats (in ice-creams it is its richness that matters not as in Ars. its coldness), tea and starches (rice etc.), eggs, sour, bananas, pancakes, onions, mixed diet, unwholesome combinations; from lack of mastication, loss of teeth. Distress comes a long time- not before one hour-after meals. Great tightness after meals, must loosen clothing. Persistent indigestion in fits with great weight on chest and sickish feeling from mental and physical upset. Pain in S. from irritating nature of contents rather than from mere bulk and weight (which is Nux.); pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Compressive pain in S.and precordial region, produced by incarcerated flatus; oppression in chest and pressure in S. with cold hands and feet. Soreness in epigastrium (and chest) with cough; tenderness about lesser curvature (or rectus muscle over it). Erratic pains (twinges) in chest with gastric symptoms (stitches in l. side). Solar plexus people who are readily affected by unpleasant emotions (apprehension in pit, urging to stool etc.) and by anticipation or suspense. They have to face all the difficulties of incarcerated flatulence. Frequent attacks of anguish, esp. at night, with diarrhea, flatus, moves about and causes painful sensations about chest. Disordered digestion with vertigo on rising, heavily furred tongue and pain between shoulders. Gastralgia with copious sweat on face. Distress in oesophagus as if food lay there. Supper- sufferers (troubles after midnight till day break).(Poor breakfasters, Nux.). All gone sensation, esp. in tea drinkers. Gnawing like a ravenous hunger. Gnawing-clawing. Scraping. Emptiness in pit with fulness in chest. Heart beats in pit of stomach, as if. Anorexia nervosa; before complaints (e.g. hemorrhoidal phlebitis) (rev. Nux.); with complaints, e.g. headache. Averse to : fat food (Morb., rev. Nux-v.), butter, milk, bread, warm cooked food and drink; fluids. Desires : sour, refreshing things (beer etc.), tonics, cold food and drinks, disagreeable things, cattle cakes with maple syrup, sweets only before menses; likes butter but no other fats, relishes ice-cream however; sugar ( as an acute of Arg-n.); dry foods. Worse after : 1. FATS; butter; bread. Dainties. Rich food. Pastry. Doughnut. 2. Proteins: beans; bengal gram; milk, cold; butter milk. 3. Starches: bread; durra- sorghum; tubers (onions, turnips, radishes, garlics, potatoes occastonally cabbage (including postum, sauerkraut); sweets (including gur, which contains sulphur. 4. Foods: sour; raw; hot (and drinks esp. tea); vegetables, brinjal, cabbage, fruits. (esp. apples, banana); frozen; stale (esp. juice). Heartburn; acidity. But Farrington says " Waterbrash is more characteristic of Puls., heartburn of Nux-v." "W. with a foul taste in morning; as if a warm were rising up." Eructations constant, but (<) evening and night; bitter; of food; tastes; loud; sour. Presistent nausea with nearly all complaints; (<) lying ( Nux- v. (>)); (<) /(>) open air; in chest and hypogastrium. Qualmish nausea. Qualmishness with chilliness. Ineffectual efforts to vomit (Nux-v.).
Vomiting : of food eaten long before; nervous, at the proposal for marriage. V. after taking cold in stomach, warm food and drinks, suppr. menses. Hematemesis.
Gastric troubles after abdominal surgery : 1. After operation for hernia, pain about umbilicus soon after or even while eating, esp. fats. 2. Six years after removal of uterine tumour and uterus, nausea soon after or even while eating, (>) vomiting; dry mouth, no thirst. 3. After operation for gastric ulcer, nausea and various pains, (>) eating, resting, vomiting, with a calcified gland in abdomen (complemented by Stann.). 4. Colic after removal of malignant uterus. 5. After tonsillectomy.
Abdomen : Catarrh of pancreatic ducts in girls. Passive venous congestion of the abdomen. Liver enlarged with dropsy ((<) evening). Ascites. "Jaundice in consequence of chronic susceptibility to hepatitis and derangement of secretion of bile, with looseness of bowels; duodenal catarrh; disordered digestion; feverishness and thirstlessness; after quinine.'' Colic is (<) in open air, (>) heat, vomiting. Colic with chilliness, in evening after dinner or night; after iron tonics and purgatives. Pains settle in groins ( or move into groins).
As of a heavy stone in. Numbness.
Burning in umbilicus ext. down central line, due to excessive tea; worst after urination, (>) walking; dry mouth. Cramps in A.; (and back) everytime child nurses; or without any modifying factors; in paroxysms; that formerly required Lyco.
Rectum : Constipation, no desire, or ineffectual urging. Two natural stools in morning (like Podo.), second after breakfast. No stool in morning; has to go after dinner.
Diarrhea: after fats, cold milk, pastry, fruit, gur, (in infant) mother taking gur, after excitement, fright, bananas, during and after menses. Usually at night. Forcible, spurting (like Crot- t.). On attempting to eat or drink. Worse usually at night, after midnight. No special prostration.
Stools : changeable; bilious; hot; green, mucus; watery; mixed with blood. Ulcerative mucous colitis, patient a late sleeper. Dysentery : (green) mucus and blood (like Merc-d.), with lumbar pains, rectal burning, chilliness, tenesmus only after stool, colic not amel. after stool (contra Nux-v.); tenesmus from anus up along sacrum; great difficulty of breathing; in cholera times; mucus after D. ( Merc-c. is intensified Puls.).
Hemorrhoids : blind, with itching, burning and sticking pains; preceded by pain in lumbar back; (>) lying. H. associated with gastric derangements; after abuse of gur; after eggs.
Urinary : Kidneys (from Rep.) : Inflammation; suppurative. Pain: burning. soreness. Catarrh of bladder; from suppressed gonorrhea.
Involuntary micturition : from sudden joy or shock; in day on lying; while passing flatus sneezing or coughing; at night (mild girls who kick off covers in bed); urine escapes if she is off her mint to it, e.g. on sleeping; after gur; from jealousy; after spinal injury.
Difficulty of passing water during pregnancy. Frequent urging from pressure of flatus. Congestion at meatus after gur. Heavy pressure on or cramp in bladder. As of a stone rolling in bladder. After urinating spasmodic pain in bladder. Burning pain down l. spermatic cord. Burning in urethra; due to excess of tea; (>) cold compresses; in urethral orifice during or after micturition (seems like a mild Ap. case).
Enlarged prostate with flattened stool. Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus. Urine in spurts, with cutting pains on urinating, (>) lying on back.
Urine: turbid from exposure to cold; loaded with urates of ammonia esp. in young children; scanty and high-coloured, after gur or dhals; saccharine, from assimilating disorders or malfunction of corpus luteum (obesity at climacteric or from anemia etc.), suppr. gonorrhea; blood after urine; not much thirst, or thirst only after urination; calculus (pain in r. ureter and in r. kidney-back, burning, (<) standing (but intermittent while sitting), (>) occupied in work , lying or r. side, feels unsatisfied and as if a drop falling and that gives pain; more tartar on r. molars, no gout; elderly mild straight- forward unselfish person; after Puls. 200 quick relief with a slight return in the evening-Puls. time); adherent sand; oxalates.
Male : Cold settles in testes. Orchitis : gonorrheal; pain from abd. to testes; from sitting on cold stones; from metastasis of mumps. Gonorrhea: late stage. Thick greenish yellow discharge with no pain or other symptoms to contraindicate. Usually for female gonorrhea. 'Ripe gonorrhea.'
Stricture : urine passed only in drops and stream interrupted. Bloody emissions; burning during E. No erection after steriods. Sarcocele. Varicocele. Spermatocele.
Female: A great developer of girls at puberty. The first serious impairment of health is referred to the pubertic age, has never been well since; anemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis; neurosis.
Menses : late, at puberty; dark; scanty; irregular; clotted; changeable; intermittent, slimy; flow more during day; with pain, more flow more pain; (pain (>) as flow begins, Lach.); with chill, more pain more chilly; pain (>) lying flat on back and warm applications, with back-pain, tired feeling and nausea; in older women where menses are accustomed to appear at full moon; too early and too scanty and too short, history of diphtheria, tonsillitis, pneumonia, leucorrhea and otorrhea.
Hypo - ovarianism; estrogen deficiency (dysmenorrhea).
Leucorrhea: acrid; creamy; milky. "A milky L. which becomes watery, acrid and burning from being retained in the vagina" (Dewey).
Pregnancy; molar pregnancy. Abortion: pains and hemorrhage alternate; H. in gushes; complication with malaria; desires fresh air. Aborts easily and early (5th week). Distress and fever after A., bearing down feeling , (<) lying. Labour : uterine inertia, esp. with palpitation, suffocation, must have fresh air. Weak or irregular; very slow; too weak or two strong but no progress (ineffectual), a do nothing case; worse in back; with sleepiness, no thirst, chilliness up and down back, weeping, dyspnea with every pain; even convulsions. It has the power to rectify abnormal (e.g. breech) presentations. "The child lies so queer'' she complaints. After pains : intermittent; worse twards evening. Sub- involution. Suppression of lochia. Retained placenta; metrorrhagin. Prolapsus (<) lying down. Uterus flabby. Climacteric: diabetic; pudendal itching, (>) cold.
Mammae : Milk in virgins and non-pregnant women from tight clothing; scanty ; during M.,suppressed; copious; scanty. Sore aching lump; (r.). Hard lumps in breasts; of school girls. Ailments from weaning.
Respiratory : Hoarseness : capricious, comes and goes (intermittent). Reflex aphonia; with head or chest pain or genital troubles.
Symptoms in other parts- parts that properly belong to respiration as well as distant parts not directly related-cause a dyspnea. D. on lying down, esp. on l. side, when heated, on being in the sun. Asthma : from suppressions : rash, gonorrhea, menses, etc; allergic, pollen or dust allergy ; at puberty or climacteric: (<) exercise, ascending evening; lying on side; of children. Dyspnea with sensation of stone in stomach, esp. early on walking or after a meal; (<) 3 am. Rattling (euthanasia). Irregular respiration. Air hunger. Asthma sysmptoms not found in Rep. : (<) during sleep, (>) bending forward, fan. Asthma every 2 weeks, preceded by insomnia and dreams of black animals chasing her.
Cough : loose in morning, dry in evening and night; must sit up. Variable; after pneumonia; after meals. Whooping cough; with suffocative attacks; desires open air; with itching in chest. Barking. Croupy. Wet weather dry cough after chilled water, in single paroxysm.
Expectoration: copious, bland, thick, slimy, greenish; variable; bitter, salty, sour or sweet; taste of old catarrh; putrid; greasy, nauseous; burnt, as of dregs of an old (tobacco) pipe.
Bronchitis: from diesel fumes. (Puls. antidotes Sul. ac. fumes too). Bronchiectasis. Bronchorrhea. Pneumonia : from suppr. menses, catarrhal. Congestion of lungs esp. in phthisis. Threatened t.b. Catarrhal phthisis of chlorotic girls at puberty. Phthisis of a non-descriptive type, evening (<) (complem. Stan.). Hemoptysis: with suffocation, lungs sore, hacking cough, better in A.M. Anxious spasmodic tightness of chest and oppression from venous congestion of chest; oppressed respiration as if from stagnancy of diaphragm; in liver trouble; with flatulent dyspepsia; as if from abdomen (Carbo-v.). Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Pain in lower chest and upper abdomen (upper chest and lower abdomen Ran-b., Rumx). Wandering pain in chest with oppression (Olean.), but sinking in stomach (<) lying, (>) walking (after tonsillectomy). Pectoral girdle pains.Pains as if bruised. Intercostal neuralgia- pleurodynia; with gastric trouble, flatulence. Pain l. side : infra-mammary; between hip and lower margin of the ribs (on flank) or a little above, with menstrual derangement; from cold change in weather, (>) lying on l. side (Bry.; opposite Chel.), eructations (flatulent twinges).While lying anxiety, nausea, rapid breathing, oppression, anguish and an indescribable distress in chest with heavy beating of heart; must sit up ( a heart patient, after exertion); Spon. complementary.
Heart : Heart symptoms (stitches, twinges, etc.) are reflex from indigestion and incarcerated flatulence. Cardioneurosis : great anguish and inquietude mostly in precordia, attacks at night (liver-trouble); from heavy work (like lifting, pushing, pulling, screwing), dropping things or sudden emotions; irritable heart also from hysteria or abuse of tea, with leucorrhea.
Pseudo-angina pectoris from irritable heart; (Pseudo) anginoid pains, due to increase in lactic acid after a series of depressive factors (like shock, grief, disappointment). Rheumatic (irritation of) heart, pains rapidly change place.
Angina pectoris: catching pain in precordia ((>) pressure). Mild anginoid symptoms after throbbing in temples ((<) 6 am to 10 pm), after sour fruits in spring. Heart's action generally feeble, often irregular, suggestive of an early stage of Carb-v. Palpitation: with anxiety and dyspnea; at puberty, after suppr. menses, in anemia, in mitral insufficiency; rapid pulse, breathing and beats with oppression, must throw off clothes; after emotions, on seeing a woman; after meals; talking, ascending, exertion, lying (on l.), after supper, from fast walking. Pulsations through the whole body in violent paroxysms from chagrin, fright, joy; with loss of vision; with pain in bladder-vesical irritation- due to stones in an old man. Heart beat felt in stomach. Orgasms; with flushes of heat (glow). General sluggish circulation. Full of venous congestion. Phlebitis. It acts on the r. (i.e. venous) heart, vascular system, veins, capillaries; whatever weakens the venous portion of circulation, whatever retards the return of blood to the heart. Varicose veins; varicose ulceration. Pain (<) letting limb hang down. I.H.D.? L.B.P with diminished red cells, hemoglobin and excess of white cells; after sorbitrate; weak heart, mitral incompetence. H.B.P. from indigestion, from disrespecting calls of nature; with vertiginous heaviness of head. Endocarditis, with phlebitis of leg. Hypertrophy or dilatation of r. ventricle. Mitral murmur. Spasms of mitral valve (causing faintings). Mitral insufficiency (anguish, palpitation, clear systolic murmurs at apex of l. ventricle). Arterio-venous aneurysm. Puls. patients and tea-addicts and overeaters are very much prone to arteriosclerosis (both are syphilitic). Back : Pain in back; (<) during menses; with dysentery. Pain in small of back; going from side to side as if bandaged tightly; before stool; with diarrhea, dysentery, with epididymitis, (<) lying on back, (>) lying on side. Spinal irritation; from masturbation.
Spinal curvature. Aching along spine (mushroom poisoning). Spinal curvature, lateral (scoliosis) with lumbo-sacral pain, (>) lying on back.
Extremities: Nervousness intensely felt about the ankles. Rheumatism: after suppr. of catarrhal discharge; from bananas, sour, indigestion; alternates with gastric symptoms; from menstrual irregularities, l. sided; seldom of a highly inflammatory character; pains shift rapidly; (>) pressure, lying on affected side, slow walking, cold application.
Joints: Rheumatoid arthritis. Hip joint painful as if dislocated. After injections for foul lochia; wandering stiffness (>) motion (see fever). Swelled. Knee swollen with tearing drawing pain (<) lying on painless side. Gouty symptoms from indigestion. Gouty, rheumatic and blenorrhagic synovitis. Acute periostitis. Felon, (>) cold water. Drawing pain; in r. (or l.) little finger. Shooting pain in heels, soles, toes. Lower limbs: pains down; alternate sides.Drawing tensive pain in thighs of legs with restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness.
Tensive pain letting off with a snap sciatica; more pain, more chilly (Cham.: more pain, more heat) ; (<)afternoon, (>) cool air and motion (slow); milder forms, due to venous stasis or uterine. Sticking in tibia (<) lying, (>) cool air and motion. Catches cold through feet. Boring pain in heels towards evening; (<) hanging down ( Vip.); heels and soles sore while walking. Legs feel heavy and weary. Cramps in : thighs, legs, calves, hands. Sleep: Sleeps with hands over head and high double pillow; arms crossed over abdomen and legs drawn up. Children throw off covers at night. (Cannot sleep on back with legs stretched out). Kent Rep. says legs stretched out ( 2 marks). Must cover legs (or chest) or cannot sleep. Sleepy during labour; before chill; during fever; during sweat; with deliriousness. Late sleeping late rising ( opp. Nux-v.). Slow in sleeping but once asleep continues late in slumber. Sleeps sound when it is time to wake up. Insomnia of neurasthenic young women with menstrual irregularities; after tea, quinine, iron, strychnine, chloral. First sleep restless. Dreams: confused; frightful; anxious; of day's business; black animals (cats, buffaloes); disgusting; exhausting; of falling; of misfortune; pleasant; amorous; of quarrels; sad; troublesome and tiresome; laborious. Skin: Gastric (metabolic) skins. Urticaria after rich food with diarrhea, (>) cold bath, (<) heat, of bed; night. (<) summer, undressing; from delayed menses. Non-descript urticaria. Erratic smarting of skin; after abuse of tea. After eating pork or fatty things, eruptions like varicella. Angioneurotic odema before menses. Inflammed parts bluish.Purple swelling. Erysipelas; erratic; bluish, spreading rapidly. Areas (e.g hands) turn bluish-black. Chillblains unbearable when hot (opp. Agar.); turn blue. Psoriasis : chronic, little brownish flat patches that itch. Measles: not much fever or, fever remaining after brain symptoms. Exanthema chapped. Erythema multiforme with dyspnea after Penicillin. Ulcers: with hard glistering areolae; surrounded by varicose veins; blood black tarry, offensive, clotty. Lepra vulgaris, large patches, itching at night by heat of bed. Boils: axillary boil, pain (>) walking in open air, about to suppurate. "Puls. will empty the majority of pus tubes" (Boger). Suppuration following an acute disease.
Gangrene in a finger abscess, last phalange necrosed.
Thermic: Cold arms, knees, hands and feet; when excited; cold feet after a bath. One side cold or colder. Chilliness; esp. in warm room with aversion to heat; wandering; worse evenings on lying down at night; with pains (the severer the pains the chillier he becomes; stitching pains do not cause chilliness but burning); in spots or places (with heat in other parts); with oppression of chest and nausea or deathly anxiety; (>) motion (opp. Bry., Nux., Rhus-t.).
Fever after chilling (e.g. bathing or drinking cold) after being heated (e.g. after playing) thereby suppressing sweat (Bry., Sil.).
Intolerable burning heat at night with distended veins, anxious, with burning hands, that of whole body, except limbs or hands which are cold. Heat on 1. knee but outer thigh cold. One-sided fever; r. heat. Erratic temperature. Fever at sunset.
Dry heat of body in evening,with distended veins and burnings that seek out cool places. Sudden heat (esp. cheeks) with sweat of face with attacks of anxiety, trembling, faintness and obscuration of vision. Heat of r. side.
Sweat: Drenching night sweats. Ague without sweat. Sometimes dryness. On: head, face (offensive, during heat), back, feet (cold, offensive), soles, (between) toes.
Paroxysms of increasing severity and ever- changing symptoms (after abuse of quinine); no two attacks alike. Stages: not marked and apt to run into each other. Long chill, little heat, no thirst. Thirst before chill; during heat if it be both internal and external; in beginning of heat; after heat; morning paroxysms are attended with thirst; thirst begins as chill is over, decreases as heat increases, entire absence of fever, then begins again as heat subsides and continues during sweat (i.e. thirst in inverse ratio to fever). P. of fever and sweat after use of talcum powder on rash in an infant, playful.
Prodrome: spoiled stomach; thirst; drowsy; diarrhea.
Fever is unpronounced and (non-descript) or ambulatory (as in paratyphoid), is symptomatic (catarrhal as a rule) and is not attended with thirst or nervous excitement.Fevers with playfulness. Inspite of high fever she was calm and answered questions cheerfully. Febrile movement with stupor or loss of consciousness or comatose sleep. Loquacity during stupefied slumber. Drowsy, can be easily roused, answers in an embarrassed manner.
Bilious, remittent, intermittent, continued. Fleeting or continued moderate fevers. Influenza. Congestive collapse, had taken much quinine; cold blue nose, cold hands and feet, no pulse for hours, paralysis of optic and auditory nerves, of deglutination; chill began at about 6 p.m. Catarrhal. Gastric. Gastro-catarrhal.
Relations: Antidoted by: Arg-m.,Calc-p. (chilly analogue), Cham., Coff., Ign., Nux-v., Sul.
Antidote to : Aco., Ant-t., Bell., Cham. (mutually inimical), Chin., Chi-sul., Coffee., Colch., Fer., Gels., Iron., Lyc., Mag- c., Lyc., Plat., Quinine, Sabad., Sabi., Stram., Sul., Sul-ac., Tea., Vapours of mercury and copper, Vinegar, Whisky.
Compatible: Angu., Ars., Bell., Bry., Ign., Kali-bi., Lyc., Nux- v., Phos., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Stan., Sul., Sul-ac., Zinc.
Inimical: Cham., Con., Nux-m.,Sep.
Complementary: Arg-n., All-c., Ant-a.,Ars., Bry., Cocc., Coty., Ip., Kali-bi., Kali-m., Kali-s., Lach., Mag-m., Nat-m., Nux-v., Penth-s., Phos., Plat., Psor., Rhus., Sabi., Sep., Sil., Stan., Sul., Sul-i., Syco-co., Tub., Zinc.
Counterparts: Ant-c., Calc-c., Con., Cyel., Iod., Lach., Lyc., Nux-v., Val.
Intensified: Agar., Ambr., Apis., Arg-m., Arg-n., Aris-c., Card., Carb-v., Crot-h., Dig., Kali-bi., Kali-s., Lach., Merc(- c)., Medo., Pen., Sec., Tereb., Thuja, Tub., Vip.
Trios:
1. Bell-Puls.-Colch. 7. Pul.-Nat-m.-Sep.
2. Ars.- Phos.-Puls. 8. Pul.-Sil.-Thuja
3. Pul.-Arg-n.-Nat-m. 9. Pul.-Fl-ac.-Thuja
4. Pul.-Lach.-Sul. 10. Pul.-Ars-i.- Thuja
5. Pul.-Sil.-Kali-s. 11. Pul.-Sul.-Syph.
6. Pul.-Sil.-Fl-ac. 12. Penic.-Pul.-Syph. or Medo.
13. Pul.-Sep.-Lyc. (Pul. is sycotic first. Sep. is psoric first. Lyc. is syphilitic first).
Acute of : Aur., Arg-n., Con., Fl-ac.,Sil., Sul., Tub.
Nux-m. is a 'hotted up' Puls. and incompatible too.
Garlic, radish and onion-intolerators require All-s., Colo., Lach., Lyc., Pul., Sul., Sumb., Syph.
Ambr. is an intensified, negative and morning Puls.
Graph. is a chronic, overgrown or climacteric Pul.
Pul. is a mild Lyc., a mild snake, a mild Syph. and a mild Sil. (and its counterpart too).
Card., Pul., Sul., Ust. are mild snakes.
Ant-c. is morning Pul.
Ant-t. can be called old man's Pul.
Alo. is a close-up of Pul. in intestinal troubles.
Val. is the Pul. of Tarn. people.
Bry. Plus Pul. = Kali-s. (Pul. contains potassium sulphate.) Ferr. is Bell., Chin. Plus Puls. with some Calc. (Pul. contains iron). Ferr-i. is a metallic Puls.
Tabac. is intensified Puls.
Puls. is the antithesis of Nux-v. Carb-v. is the aged person's Puls.,its intensified close-up.
Merc-c. is Puls. Plus Rhus. combined but intensifed.
Arist-c. is midway between Puls. and Sep. A chimera of Puls. body and Sep. mind.
Compare: Apis. ((>) cold; burning; whinning; thirstlessness. Pul. is compl. to Ap. It seems to be an intensified Pul. and therefore one of its monochrests).
Lach. (purple congestion and cold (>); but in Lach.
discharges (>) and sleep (<), opp. of Pul. and Agar.; in Phos. both discharge and sleep (>)).
Nux-v. (Puls. and Nux-v. are antipodal, though they follow each other well; Puls. has (>) lying on back, (<) turning to either side; Nux-v. has (<) lying on back, (>) turning to either side; both have (<) bread, coffee, ice, onions, pungents, tea; both are thirstless; Nux-v. chilly, Plus. inclines towards hot). Iod. (warm, irritable, full of motions; but Pul. is more sad, tearful, whimsical, is not hungry nor thirsty and puts on flesh; thin Puls. may lead to Iod.). Cycl. ( a doublet of Pul., close to Sep. and camouflages Plat. Is more oblate, possessive, sthenic, mature and less passive and demanding than Puls. Cycl. has profuse menses, flow (<) sitting and (>) walking; Puls. (<) during day; Cycl. (<) open air, Puls. (>) open air).
Kali-s. {soft and gentle; but Puls. is more demanding and attention seeking; more hot than Puls. Kali-s. thirsty; Puls. thirstless; Kali-s. more obstinate and irritable than Puls.; Puls. more shy; Kali-s. may be tense in temperament (like Nux- v.) but sluggish and inactive (like Puls.)).
Tarn-h. (intensified Puls.; but Tarn-h. is aggressive, active; Puls. opposite, it is selfish but passively. Puls. is also religious but more as a victim).
Asafoetida Pulsatilla
(<) Warmth (<) Warmth (<) Night and PM (<) Evening (>) Walking in open air (>) Walking in open air
(>) Slow motion (>) Slow motion
(>) Immed. after discharge (>) Sometimes after of flatus discharge of flatus
Venous Less venous
Plethoric Less plethoric
Sensitive. Apprehensive Tranquil
Bone syphilis MM and gland syphilis
(<) Fats, warm food (<) Fats, warm food
Reverse peristalsis Hyperperistalsis
More appetite Less appetite
Taste greasy Taste greasy and also food
(See Bry. for further relations.).
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