Pulsatilla nuttalliana

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Common names, Pasque flower (American).

 Anemone Nuttalliana, DC., A. Patens var Nuttalliana, Gray (Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, Gray). Natural order, Ranunculaceae. Preparation, Tincture of the whole plant.

 Sad, gloomy state of mind, with frequent eructations of sour air (after fifteen hours); sad and gloomy (after thirteen hours, second day); with languor (fourth day). Depression of spirits (seventh day). Great depression of spirits, in the afternoon; a kind of homesickness, with despondency (fourth day). Anxiety (second night). Felt very irritable, cross; could not bear to be spoken to; noise vexed her; felt like weeping at trifling annoyances (second day). Irritability, wants to keep moving about; quick, nervous motions. Dulness of mind and disinclination to work (after three hours, fifth day).

 After being out in the open air, on entering the house, a dizziness in the head (sixth day). In the afternoon felt a sudden dizziness and fullness in the head, lasting only a few minutes (first day). Dulness and heaviness about the head (seventh day). Dull headache, slight, lasted half an hour (six hours after first dose, second day); dull headache in the morning, passed away after active exercise before breakfast (third day). Some headache in the morning (fourth day). Severe headache all the afternoon (fourth day). Dull, heavy feeling in the head, in the morning, less in the afternoon (fifth day). Dull headache (fifth day); (third and fourth days). Dull headache and nausea, till about 11 o’clock (second day). Slight headache (first night).
 Dull headache and slight nausea nearly all day; better about noon, but increased towards night (second day). Headache and miserable feeling the first half of the day (third day). Headache at intervals all day, accompanied with habitual backache (fourth day). Headache after having been actively occupied all night), (eleventh day). Slight headache (after eleven hours, eighth day).
 Flying pains in the head and feet (sixth day). Forehead. Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in epigastrium (first day); slight frontal headache all the morning (eighth day). At noon dull, oppressive frontal headache (which I have not had for months), (third day). Several times have had hard pains in the whole upper forehead, that would pass to the back of the head, like a wave, affecting the whole brain (after nine hour). Severe frontal headache, caused by a sour stomach, during the restless night (third night). Severe, dull frontal headache (eighth day).
 On waking in the night, dull frontal headache (second night).
 Dull headache all the afternoon, in the upper part of the forehead, with paralysis of the eyelids (first and second days).
 Slight, dull frontal headache, with the pricking sensation in the center of the epigastrium, and feeling of distension in the abdomen (after two hours), with the severe, sharp, cutting pains in the epigastrium (after one hour, second day); slight, dull, frontal headache, all day (third day). Slight headache in left frontal ache in forehead (third and seventh days). Slight headache in left frontal protuberance (after three hours, fifth day). During afternoon slight pain over right eye, better when walking in the open air, worse in warm room, with sense of heat, fullness in head, and dryness of eyes (third day). Temples. Dull pain in the right temple (fourth day). After taking the Pulsatilla, sharp, shooting pains through both temples, which were not very frequent before, were very frequent and more severe). Frequent sharp pains in the right temple and ear (fourth day). Sharp pains in the right temple, with the drawing pains in the ears (third day). Vertex. Same dull feeling on top of head, but in a less degree (fourth day). Dull pain on top of head, worse at noon; a feeling as if her head were too heavy for her neck (seventh day). Awoke in the morning with dull pain, extending over the top of head; continued all day (second, third, and fourth days); less severe (fifth day). Throbbing pain on top of head, very severe (after first and second doses); worse (after third dose). Parietals and Occiput. Arose in the morning with right side of head aching, and feeling generally languid and sick (second day). Slight headache on the right side of the head; afterwards it was a confused feeling rather than an ache (sixth day). Full, hot feeling at cerebellum (about an hour after 3 drachms).
 Eye.
 Profuse secretion of the mucus of the eyes through the night (fifth night). Slight secretion of mucus in the eyes (tenth day).
 Profuse secretion of mucus in the eyes, in the morning (second and third days). Dull pains deep in the eyes, with smarting of the eyes (after six hours, ninth day). Eyes, which are usually very weak, feel stronger (seventh day). A number of times have had a hard pain over the left eye, feeling as if a nail were being pressed into the forehead (after five hours, second day).
 Occasional sharp pains in the eyes, with the drawing pains in the ears (third day). Dryness of eyes (third day). Sensation of dryness and heat in the eyes and nose (third day). Smarting of the eyes, with profuse flow of tears (third day). Smarting of the eyes (fifth and eighth days). Smarting of the eyes, with the deep dull pains in the orbits (ninth day). вrow and Lid. Twitching of left eyebrow and upper lid, lasted fro half an hour, after going to bed (ten minutes after second dose, fifth day). сonstant twitching of the right eyelids, all the forenoon, especially when reading, and at intervals, all day, more while reading (fourth day). Paralysis of the eyelids; almost impossible to keep the eyes open, with the dull headache (first day). The eyes, which are habitually sensitive, became worse; redness of the edges of the lids, dryness and irritation make it impossible to use them, especially in the evening. On waking in the night, found it impossible to open the eyes for nearly five minutes (sixth day).
 About 8 my eyelids commenced smarting and itching, and on retiring the lids felt very hot to the eye (fifth day); in the morning the eyes were slightly sealed by a soft yellow matter; in an hour morning the eyes were slightly sealed by a soft yellow matter; in an hour I noticed a thick white substance on the edge of the lower lid, next to the eyeball (sixth day). Eyelids agglutinated (third and seventh days). Slight agglutination of the eyelids, in the morning (eleventh day). Smarting of the eyelids (after five hours, second day); (first day). Slight smarting of edges of eyelids from the action of the air (fifth day). вurning sensation of the eyelids, with a slight headache (after three hours). Lachrymation. Profuse secretion of tears, with dull pains in the eyeball, extending to the malar bone (after one hour). вall. Neuralgic pains in the eyeballs, while walking, more in the right, in the morning (second day).
 Ear.
 Hard, drawing pains along the right Eustachian tube, for half an hour (fifth day). Frequent pains in the ears, of a drawing character, from the inside outwards, with the pains in the head and eyes (after three hours, second day). Frequent drawing pains in the ears all day, with occasional sharp pains in the right temple and eyes (third day). Frequent sharp pains in the right ear and temple (fourth day). Feeling in the left ear as if it were closed (first day); as if both were closed (second day).
 Frequent snapping noises in the ears (after five hours, second day). For two hours after taking the medicine, had a constant fluttering noise in the right ear (third day).
 Nose.
 Sensation of dryness and heat in nose and eyes, for an hour, after taking medicine (third day).
 Face.
 Complexion at first rough, after taking medicine; became very clear after disappearance of the rash. After eating, flushed face, pressure of blood in the face (after three hours, fifth day). Painful drawing in left cheek-bone and jaw (after second dose, fifth day).

 Tongue. Arose with tongue coated white, and with flat, pappy taste in mouth (fourth day). Tongue covered with tough slime, red, rather dry, and swollen, showing the impressions of the teeth along the edges (sixth day). Yellowish coating along the center of the tongue (third, fourth, ninth, and tenth days).
 Tongue unusually red after eating (fifth day). General Mouth.
 Offensive breath in the morning, noticed by myself and others, continued all the following day (fourth day); offensive breath after eating (fifth day). Mouth and lips dry (sixth day).
 Smarting of the velum palati, during the day (fifth day).
 Saliva. Mouth filling with saliva (third night). Taste. Flat taste in the mouth (third day). Flat, bitter taste (fourth day).
 Flat, rough taste in the mouth (ninth day); (fourth day). On awaking, dry, pappy taste in the mouth, as if the tongue was thickly coated (which was not the case), (sixth day). Sweetish bitter taste, not unpleasant (third day). After sleeping in the afternoon (in consequence of fatigue), awoke with vinegar-like acidity in the mouth, and dull pressing pain in the stomach. вad taste in the mouth (first day).
 Throat.
 Frequent inclination to clear the throat (seventh day). After eating, slight irritation in throat, with expectoration of white, tough mucus, which is raised with ease throughout the forenoon (third day); slight irritation in throat, occasionally with trifling expectoration, raised without much effort (fourth day); irritation of throat, with slight expectoration (fifteenth day).
 Throat is dry, smarts n waking, and contains much tough mucus, which is very hard to dislodge (sixth day). Slight sensation of scratching and huskiness (immediately, second day). Husky feeling in throat until noon, and at intervals throughout the afternoon (after one hour and half). Slight huskiness and dryness of throat for an hour, after taking medicine (third day). At 6 , a sensation as if there was a plug in the lower part of the throat, remaining until retiring (third day); in the morning it had disappeared; but reappeared, following a raw, tickling sensation in the throat (fourth day).
 Eructations. Eructation with taste of medicine (third day). While riding, belching up of food, hot and tasteless, followed by frequent eructations of wind (second day). Eructation of hot tasteless wind, several times, in the forenoon (second day).
 Frequent eructations of sour air, with a sad, gloomy state of mind (after fifteen hours). In two hours after eating, eructation with taste of food (after second dose). Thick gulping (first day). Heartburn. One hour after supper, slight heartburn and hot tasteless eructations, several times (fifth day). Nausea. During the afternoon, an intense nausea was felt after each dose, for half an hour but she could not vomit (second day). Nausea, lasting about one minute, at two different times (second day).
 Nausea and dull headache till about 11 o’clock; after that faintness at the stomach; uncomfortable sensation in the stomach all day, with nausea, like that after taking tartar emetic (second day). Nausea in the stomach, in the morning (fourth day).
 Slight nausea, all the forenoon (third day). Slight nausea, and dull headache, nearly all day (second day). Inclination to nausea on entering the house, after being out in the open air (sixth day). Stomach. Before taking pulsatilla, I had been troubled with wind in the stomach, feeling bloated; had a good appetite, or rather wanted to eat, but could not eat much for this fullness in the stomach; it has disappeared, and has not returned up to the present time), (after two weeks). Fullness in epigastrium and abdomen, in consequence of eating too much; relieved by loosening clothes, at 8 (fifth day). Fullness of the stomach, like a great weight, with faintness all over, but particularly referable to the stomach (second day). Full and uncomfortable feeling in stomach, with chilliness (first night). Painful emptiness, gradually increased to pressure (after five minutes); pressure increased after breakfast (after one hour); some sensation (second day); for five days subsequently at various times, painful pressure in the stomach. While riding, in the forenoon, emptiness and coldness in stomach, extending to abdomen, with sensation as if diarrhoea was about to set in; also while sitting. Painful emptiness, pressure, and then rising in stomach towards oesophagus, like heartburn (after thirty minutes); same feeling as last night, repeated at intervals of an hour, throughout the day, gradually increasing in severity, amounting to a cramp like sensation, running up to the fauces from cardiac orifice of stomach (second day). Great emptiness of stomach, in the afternoon (first day). Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, after operation of bowels (after fifteen minutes); same feeling after eating, which continued all the afternoon (first day).
 Heavy sensation in stomach; faint at stomach (sixth day). Weight and pressure in the stomach (third night). Slight heaviness of food after meals, with sour eructations (third day). Pressure from food after each meal, with cramp like rising, preceded by painful emptiness, for about two days (after one day). Painful pressure in stomach, while riding (half an hour after first dose, second day). Painful pressure in left portion of epigastric region, with frequent eructations, lasting about two hours (immediately after first dose); same painful pressure like heartburn, in epigastrium (after first dose, second day); same for half an hour (after second dose, second day). In the afternoon, the painful pressure in the stomach extends all over the abdomen (second day). Slight gastric pressure several times during the day (third day). Feeling of weakness with the emptiness in the stomach, all the afternoon (first day). Slight weakness in stomach; an emptiness at periods throughout the day (first day). Distress in the whole epigastrium, with severe cutting pains passing through the stomach to the spine, lasting half an hour (after three hours). сonstant dull distress in the lower part of the epigastrium, all the afternoon and evening (fourth day). Dull distress in the lower portion of the epigastrium, all day (sixth day). Frequent spell of distress in the lower part of the stomach (seventh day). A number of spells of severe distress in the epigastrium, with dull pains in the right hypochondrium (eighth day). Distress in the epigastrium (after six hours, ninth day). сonstant distress in the epigastrium, with frequent, hard, drawing pains in the left side, just below the stomach (first day). сonstant distress in the epigastrium, in the morning (second day). Frequent spells of dull drawing pains in the epigastrium, and right hypochondrium (third day). Dull pains, by spells, in the hypogastrium (fourth day).
 After sleeping in the afternoon, awoke with dull pressing pain in stomach, and vinegar-like acidity in the mouth. Dull pain in epigastrium, with dull frontal headache (first day). Hard pains in the epigastrium with the mushy stool, at 6 p.m (fifth day). A number of times through the day had hard cutting pains in the lower part of the epigastrium (fifth day). Hard colicky pains after midnight in the epigastrium (fourth night). Severe pain in the lower portion of the epigastrium, at 7 p.m, followed by a mushy stool (sixth day). The pain in the lower part of the epigastrium has been very severe, all the evening (first day).
 Pinching pain in great curvature of stomach, repeated several times (after fifteen minutes). Pain in stomach, while eating (fifth day). Painful feeling in epigastrium, while sitting (after four hours). Slight pains, by spells, in the epigastrium, all the afternoon (third day). Severe cutting pains in the lower part of the epigastrium and right hypochondrium, (Second day), -Severe, sharp, cutting pains in the epigastrium, with slight frontal headache (after one hour, second day). Sharp pains in the stomach every few moments, for the last two hours (after six hours). A number of times have had sharp pains in the stomach (after five hours, second day). Uneasy sensation in stomach (ten minutes after first dose, third day). Gnawing empty sensation in stomach (second day). Feeling as if needles were being pressed through the stomach (after six hours). Heat in the stomach, gradually increasing to pain; most severe in one spot under the sternum (a few minutes after first dose, fifth day). Severe burning in the stomach (after one hour). For the last half hour have had a pricking burning sensation in the center of the epigastrium, with a feeling of distension in the abdomen, accompanied by a slight dull frontal headache (after two hours).

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Dull pains in the right hypochondrium, lasting ten minutes at a time (third day). Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (eighth day). A good deal of dull pain in the left hypochondrium (ninth day). Umbilicus. Distress in the umbilicus (after five hours, second day). Severe pain in the umbilicus, at 6 p.m, with a desire for stool; dark-colored stool, covered slightly with mucus, pains in the umbilicus, followed by a natural stool, at 10 (third day). Slight pain in umbilical region (after ten minutes). General Abdomen. Rumbling in the bowels (first day). After dinner, rumbling of wind in distended abdomen, moving from epigastrium to hypogastrium. Rumbling in abdomen, with colicky pain, much and frequent discharge of flatus. Slight distortion of abdomen, in the afternoon (fourth day). сonstant dull pains in the whole abdomen (fourth day).
 Aching pain in abdomen in one spot, increased by moving or changing position (after two hours, second day). Pain and slight looseness of the bowels, twice in the day; feeling as if diarrhoea would come on; pain in the bowels, with feeling like approaching diarrhoea, at 9 (sixth day). Slight colicky pains after eating a ripe pear, in the afternoon (second day).
 Pain in bowels after eating, at 10 (third day): pain in bowels and diarrhoea (fifth day). Aching pain in left groin, quite severe just above the crest of the left ilium, on moving or bending (fifth day). Rheumatic pain above left crest of ilium, continues on moving and bending the body (sixth day).
 Rectum & Anus.
 All the evening and afternoon, have had a feeling as if I must go to stool immediately, with constant distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and umbilicus (eighth day). Desire to go to stool, as if diarrhoea were coming; which, however, did not take place.
 Stool.
 While riding on horseback, had a sudden attack of diarrhoea, obliging him to dismount (immediately); in the afternoon had two more dark-colored, thin, pap like discharges, with urgent desire (first day). Diarrhoea and pain in bowels (fifth day). вowels operated on in about fifteen minutes, leaving them in a very loose condition, with a feeling of emptiness in the stomach; during the day four watery discharges, of light-yellow color, without pain or wind; during the three following days, four or five discharges each day, thin and yellow. Slight looseness of the bowels, with pain (sixth day); looseness of bowels (seventh day). вowels slightly relaxed (sixth day);passages more frequent and moist (seventh day). A loose, papescent stool, attended with some griping in the bowels and a good deal of chilliness; four similar stools occurred during the day (after three hours, second day). Mushy stool, with hard pains in the epigastrium, at 6 p.m.
 (fifth day). Dark-colored stool, covered slightly with mucus, at 6 p.m; hard, dry, lumpy stool, at 10 (eighth day); dry, lumpy stool, at 6 p.m; natural one at 6 (tenth day). Small hard stool, at 9 p.m (second day); small dry stools each morning (fourth and fifth days); rather large, dry, lumpy stool at usual time in the morning (sixth day); very hard, dry, lumpy stool eight hours later than usual (seventh day). Hard, lumpy stool (second day). No desire to go to stool, but a large evacuation of dry pieces on going at the usual time (second day). An insufficient stool in the evening (fourth day); no stool (fifth day). A natural stool, the first since I commenced the proving, after the sharp, cutting pains in the umbilicus, at 10.

 Appetite. Increased appetite, while eating; one hour after eating very hungry all the evening, particularly at bedtime (after second dose). Increased appetite. Great desire to eat, although directly after breakfast (soon). Very great hunger before usual time; could scarcely eat enough to satisfy appetite (second day).
 In the evening, great hunger; not to be relieved by eating; the hunger increased with eating (third day); no appetite for breakfast, food relished however (fourth day); good appetite for dinner, which I took about 1 o’clock, away from home; ate a sufficient quantity, without being satisfied. Hungry after eating; arriving home in about an hour and a half, found dinner waiting, and ate again as much as if I had eaten nothing all day; could have eaten more, felt hungry again after eating. сoncluded not to eat supper; but while driving in the evening felt very hungry; had to go home, when I ate two slices of bread with a tumbler of mild. Desired to eat more but abstained; decided desire to eat, at 10 (fifth day). Felt renewed appetite after hearty breakfast; hunger and emptiness of stomach, an hour after breakfast, lasting till dinner (seventh day); great feeling of hunger and emptiness (eighth day). Indifferent appetite, with a feeling as if I were going to have fever; anxious, miserable feeling (second day). Very little appetite, in the morning (fifth day). Indisposition to eat (fourth day). вut little appetite (fourth day). No appetite for dinner (fifth day); (first day).
 Not the least appetite for breakfast, notwithstanding exercises in the open air (sixth day). Loss of appetite, could not eat breakfast, do not want any dinner (fourth day). Thirst. For two days afterward, more thirst for cold water than usual; the same feeling during the three following days, with four or five discharges each day. More thirst than usual, in the morning (sixth day). During the evening very frequent thirst, drank freely of cold water, which was extremely grateful (fifth day).
 Unusual thirst for cold water, in the evening (fifth day).