Sleep.- The pulsatilla patient is sleepy in the afternoon and early evening, but later on is wide awake and cannot get to sleep for a long time after going to bed, he sleeps late into the morning and does not want to get up. His position in sleep is often on the back with the hands over the head. Pulsatilla antidotes the result of overdosing with iron and quinine.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) People of mild, easy-going, wayward, tearful disposition.
(2) People with light hair, blue eyes, inclined to adiposity.
(3) Changeableness of symptoms and mood.
(4) Amelioration from cold and open air, and aggravation from warmth.
(5) Mucous discharges are greenish-yellow and bland.
(6) Venous relaxation, varicosis.
(7) Symptoms are ameliorated by slow movement.
(8) Menses scanty and delayed, delayed first menses.
(9) Metastases of mumps and gonorrhoea.
(10) Increased inclination to micturate, and backache both worse when lying on the back.
(11) Occurrence and aggravation of symptoms in the evening and first part of the night.
(12) Tendency to loose stools, especially at the menses.
(13) Bursting or expanding pains and sensations relieved by pressure.
(14) Palpitation from lying on the left side.
(15) Chilliness, but worse from warmth.
(16) One-sided sweats.
(17) Affections from abuse of iron and quinine.
(18) Ear affections, especially in children.
(19) Inflammation and eruptions tend to be of a purplish colour.
(20) Measles and chronic sequelae of measles.
(21) Absence of thirst.
(22) Gastric disorders from fat, rich food-pork, fruit and pastry.
(23) Cough : dry at night, loose in the morning, worse lying down.
AGGRAVATION :
From warmth, warm room, in the Spring, at the oncoming of warm weather; from resting long in one position; from fat and rich food, pork, fruit and pastry, hot food; in the evening and until midnight; lying on the left side; a close room, wind, damp, especially getting the feet wet, lying down.
AMELIORATION :
From cold, cold applications, open air, slow movements, cold food and drink (phos.), lying on the painful side, pressure, sitting up (cough), uncovering.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,