Pulsatilla



Stool and Anus

Constipation and difficult evacuations, sometimes with painful pressure on rectum and pains in back. Constipation, especially if faeces are hard and large, after intermittent fever suppressed by Chininum sulph. Frequent want to evacuate, even at night. Involuntary and unperceived evacuations during sleep. Stools frequent soft, diarrhoeic, consisting of yellow mucus or mixed with blood, preceded by cutting in abdomen, or with pains in small of back. Nightly diarrhoea, discharges watery or green like bile, after previous rumbling in abdomen. Stools consisting only of mucus, or acrid, or bloody, or very offensive, or white. (Diarrhoea, white, cream-coloured stools, involuntary. ***R.T.C.) (White, clayey liverish stools resume their normal colour. ***R.T. C.). Dysentery, with pain in back. Loose evacuations, even at night, and sometimes with colic and cuttings, shiverings and shudderings, and pains in anus. Diarrhoea, particularly when it is very changeable and no two stools are alike, flatus very fetid, sometimes obstructed, causing much pain. Diarrhoea during menses, particularly if it comes on at night. Frequent evacuations of whitish, yellowish, sanguineous mucus, or of greenish, minced, bilious, or watery, and sometimes corrosive matter (may contain tapeworm). Before and after evacuations, burning, smarting, and pains as from excoriation in anus and rectum. During stool congestions of blood to anus. Discharge of blood from anus even when not at stool. Blind and bleeding haemorrhoids, with itching, smarting, and pain as from excoriation. Protrusion to haemorrhoids. Haemorrhoidal tumours with great soreness.

Urinary Organs

Urine very scanty, bloody, with mucus, reddish, complaints before making water and during, when going to urinate there is a sensation as if it would gush away, and patients can scarcely wait. Retention of urine, with redness and heat in region of bladder, anxiety, and troublesome pains in abdomen. Tenesmus of bladder and frequent want to urinate, with painful pressure on bladder and drawing pain in abdomen. Involuntary micturition, at night in bed, especially in little girls. Involuntary emission of some drops of urine when coughing, walking, sitting down, expelling flatus (or during sleep). Wetting the bed (at night, especially in mild-tempered, tearful people, and in children). Enuresis of old people with distended colon (***R.T.C.) Profuse emission of watery urine, with weakness in loins and diarrhoea, or scanty red or brown urine, sometimes with a violet-coloured froth. Urine, with sediment, red, or of the colour of brick-dust, or violet, or mucous, or gelatinous. Sanguineous urine with purulent deposit and pains in loins. Haematuria with burning at orifice of urethra, and with constriction in region of navel. Haematuria in cows and in human beings (***R.T.C.) Discharge (thick) from urethra as in gonorrhoea. Contraction of urethra with a very small stream of water. During micturition burning in urethra. Burning during and after emission of urine. Pulling and pressure in urethra, neck of bladder, and also in the bladder. Pressure and constriction in bladder, with soreness (sensitiveness) in that region. Swelling near neck of bladder, with soreness when touched, intermittent stream of urine, and spasmodic pain in pelvis and thighs after urinating. Urine watery, colourless, brown, bloody.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching and tickling in prepuce and scrotum, worse morning and evening. Itching-burning on the inner and upper side of the prepuce. Inflammatory swelling of testes and spermatic cords (sometimes only on one side), with pressive and drawing pains, extending into abdomen and loins, redness and heat of scrotum (from a contusion or after suppressed gonorrhoea), nausea and inclination to vomit. Burning in testicles, without swelling. Testicles hang low down. Dropsical swelling of scrotum of a whitish blue colour. Excessive increase of sexual passion, almost like priapismus, with frequent and prolonged erections, ardent desire for coition, and frequent pollutions. Flow of prostatic fluid. Inflammation of prostate gland.

Female Sexual Organs

Affections in general of the female genital organs, of the uterus. Nymphomania. Drawing, pressive pain extending towards uterus with qualmishness, towards morning. Contractive pain in left side of uterus, like labour pains, obliging her to bend double. Spasmodic pains, or drawing tension in uterus, and pains like those of labour. A burning (sticking) pain in vagina and pudenda. Metrorrhagia (discharge now stopping, and then stronger again, of coagulated, clotted blood, or with false labour-pains). Menstrual blood black, with clots of mucus, or pale and serous. Catamenia irregular, tardy, or premature, of too short or too long duration, or entirely suppressed (especially if produced by getting the feet wet), with colic, hysterical spasms in abdomen,

hepatic pains, gastralgia, pain in loins, nausea and vomiting, shivering and paleness of face, megrim, vertigo, moral affections, tenesmus of anus and bladder, stitches in side, and many other sufferings before, during, or after period. Suppression of menses (especially in elderly women in whom they usually occur at full moon). Delay of first menses in mild, gentle girls, low-spirited, &c., diarrhoea during menses. Leucorrhoea, thick, like cream (especially frequent in lochial discharges where the flow looks like milk), or corrosive and burning, principally at period of catamenia (before, during or after), and sometimes with cuttings ( worse when lying down, with swollen vulva). After-pains in females of a mild disposition. False pregnancy. During pregnancy: nausea, morning sickness, varicose veins, bluish, worse towards evening. Lame pelvis, worse warm in bed, must change position frequently, threatened abortion, flow now ceasing, now returning. During labour: intense inertia, weeps because she is not delivered, malpositions of fetus, postpartum haemorrhage, convulsions, following sluggish or irregular pains, lochia scanty, milky, or suppressed, puerperal fever, phlegmasia dolens. Labour-pains too weak, spasmodic, or ceasing. Swelling of breasts, with tensive pain as if the milk rushed into them and caused pressure, while nursing. Lumps on breasts of girls before puberty, or escape of thin, milk-like fluid. Scanty supply of milk. Affections of nipples. Weeps every time child is put to breast, pain extends into chest, neck, or down back, changes from place to place. Milk suddenly suppressed, lochia becomes milky white. Galactorrhoea especially in women who do not nurse their children. After weaning, breasts swell.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, which does not permit one to speak a loud word. Breathing, groaning, or rattling. Catarrh, with hoarseness, roughness, dryness, scraping, and pain as from excoriation, in larynx and chest. Attacks of constriction in larynx, principally at night, when lying in a horizontal posture. Dyspnoea, especially when lying on back at night, with giddiness and weakness in head. Difficulty of breathing when walking. Short, dry cough as soon as he gets warm. Dry cough whenever he wakens from sleep, disappearing while sitting up in bed, and returning as soon as lying down again. Dry, severe cough, mostly in morning, with retching and desire to vomit, and sensation as if stomach were turned inside out. Violent spasmodic whooping-cough, in two consecutive coughs, caused by itching, scraping, with dryness as from vapours of sulphur in larynx and chest. Shaking cough, principally in evening, at night, or in morning, excited by a sensation of dryness or a scraping and tickling in throat, worse when lying down, and often accompanied by an inclination to vomit, with retching and vomiting, or by a choking, as from the vapour of sulphur, with bleeding of nose and rattling respiration. Cough, with shootings in chest or sides, and palpitation of heart. Moist cough, with expectoration of white, green, tenacious mucus, or of thick, yellowish matter of a bitter, greasy, salty, or putrid taste (loose cough, with expectoration in morning, without expectoration in evening, with expectoration in day, without expectoration at night). Expectoration of black and clotted blood during cough (during suppression of menstruation). Shootings in right shoulder or in back when coughing.

Chest

Respiration accelerated, short, and superficial (during the fever), or rattling and anxious. Dyspnoea, as from spasmodic tension in lower part of chest, below false ribs. Tickling on sternum. Attacks of burning in chest. Respiration impeded, shortness of breath, choking as from vapour of sulphur, and fits of dyspnoea and of suffocation, with anxiety, spasmodic constriction of chest or larynx, violent hiccough, cough, headache, and vertigo, principally in evening, after a meal, or at night when reclining horizontally. Movement, quick walking, the open air, and cold worse the asthmatic symptoms. Cramp-like and constrictive tension in chest, principally on breathing (on drawing a long breath), and sometimes with internal heat and ebullition of blood. Pain as from (subcutaneous) ulceration, or sharp and incisive pain in chest. Acute suppuration of the lungs. Shootings in chest and in sides, principally at night and when lying down, and sometimes with difficulty in drawing a full inspiration, inability to remain lying on the side affected, short cough, and paroxysm of suffocation. (Pain in left side under heart as if a string were pulling there. ***R. T. C.).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica