Ranunculus Bulbosus



Causation

Anger (slightest fit of, causes trembling and dyspnoea). Change of temperature of weather. Injury. Alcohol.

Mind

Pusillanimity and inquietude, especially in evening.-Fear of ghosts in evening, dares not be alone. Hasty, irritable, and quarrelsome humor, especially in morning. Oppression, with much weeping. Loss of ideas. Difficulty in meditating. Vanishing of thought on reflection. Obtuseness of intellect.

Head

Weakness, giddiness, and confusion of head, as if intoxicated. Whirling vertigo, to such an extent as to cause falling, when passing from a room into open air. Headache with anxiety and weakness during a meal. Semilateral headache above eye, with dejection and desire to weep. Compression and expansive pressure in sinciput and vertex. Sensation of puffiness all over head (as if head were too large and distended). Tearing and pressure in temples. Blows in occiput. Rush of blood to head. Pressing headache (neuralgic) in forehead and on vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on eyeballs and sleepiness. Headache with nausea and sleepiness. The headache is induced or worse by a change of temperature. The headache, for the most part, appears when passing from a hot to a cold place, and vice versa. Crawling, creeping, or burning-sticking in scalp.

Eyes

Itching in eyes. Aching in eyeballs. Pressure in eyes. Balls sore on moving them. Pupils insensible. Burning, soreness, and smarting in lids. Smarting and burning pain in canthi, as from excoriation. Smarting and sore feeling in right outer canthus. Smarting in eyes as from smoke. Mist before eyes. Nyctalopia. Inflammation of eyes and lachrymation.

Ears

Shootings in ears, especially in evening. Cramp-like sensation in and on ears.

Nose

Troublesome and painful tingling in nose. Nose red, swollen, and inflamed, with tensive pain and many scabs in interior. Hay- fever. Obstruction of nose, especially in a room, with pain as from excoriation. Copious discharge of viscid mucus from nose. Blood flows from nose. Internal tingling and upward pressure.

Face

(Dry) heat in face, with bright redness of cheeks. Vesicular eruption on face as from a burn, smarts as if scalded, eruption in clusters. Tingling in face, principally in chin and nose. Spasmodic and whirling neuralgic pains in face and jaws. Cramps (spasms) in lips.

Mouth

Toothache on waking in morning. Incisive pains in molars as if being torn out. Accumulation of much water in mouth. Salivation. White saliva with metallic taste (like copper).

Throat

Accumulation of much (tough) mucus in throat. Spasmodic sensation, of something which ascends oesophagus and passes into throat. Inflammatory burning pains (scraping burning) in throat and palate.

Appetite

Mawkish, sweetish taste, or taste of a sour bitterness. Butter tastes too sweet. Bitter, empyreumatic taste while eating, or after having eaten dry food. Thirst augmented in afternoon. Feeling of hunger and rumbling in stomach early in morning.

Stomach

Frequent rising. Spasmodic hiccough. Frequent nausea in afternoon or evening, sometimes with headache. Pains in stomach. Pressure on scrobiculus. Pain as from excoriation and burning sensation in pit of stomach, as also in cardiac orifice of stomach, especially when the parts are touched. (Inflammation of stomach.).

Abdomen

Contusive pain in hypochondria, sometimes when touched, evenings, pain in back and ill-humor. Pain as from excoriation in left hypochondrium, principally on moving the trunk. Lancinations (stitches) in hepatic region, arresting the breathing, with stitches and pressure on top of right shoulder. Stitches in left side of abdomen. Pinching colic, sometimes alternating with pain in chest. Immediately after eating violent stitches from left lumbar region transversely through abdomen, especially below umbilicus and towards right groin. Intestines painful when abdomen pressed upon, pains as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pulsations in left hypochondrium. Dull pains in abdomen, with sensibility of intestines during a walk. Pinching (colic) pains in abdomen (sometimes alternating with pains in chest), with rotatory movements, and a sensation, on external pressure, as if contents of abdomen were bruised and ulcerated. Burning pain in abdomen as from excoriation, as in chronic inflammation. Frequent expulsion of very fetid flatus.

Stool

Slow and hard evacuations. Frequent, easy, and profuse evacuations, natural stool in afternoon.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urging to urinate. The scanty urine soon becomes turbid and cloudy. Dysuria. Ulcers in bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

Frequent erections towards morning and dizziness in head. Emissions towards morning.

Female Sexual Organs

Acrid and gnawing leucorrhoea. Ovarian neuralgia always excited by atmospheric changes.

Respiratory Organs

Short and obstructed respiration, with oppression of chest, as after grief or vexation, with want to take a full inspiration and to weep much.

Chest

Aching in chest. Rheumatic pain in chest, or pain as of subcutaneous ulceration. (Rheumatism of either side of chest with pains in circumscribed areas. Pain with some constriction of entire chest, with some bronchial catarrh in an old gouty subject. Rheumatism of left chest which sets in suddenly, worse on inspiration, with headache over left eye and in vertex. **R.T.C.) Burning pressure on chest. Lancinations in chest and in right side of chest, frequently deeply seated, and extending to liver. Painful external sensibility of lower parts of chest and of epigastrium. Painful sensibility of all the external parts of chest, intercostal muscles, pleura, &c., which manifests itself or is worse especially by movement, touch, and stretching the body. Pain in chest as from adhesion of pleura. Adhesion of the lungs after inflammation). Immediately she goes out of doors a sensation as if she had cold wet cloths applied to three different parts of front of chest, viz., both infraclavicular fossae and just under left breast, sensation remains as long as she is out, and disappears as soon as she re-enters the house, prevents conversation while out (from a fall two years before). Acute pain principally in shoulder, axilla, and breast, so severe in breast she dreaded cancer.

Back

Contusive rheumatic pains in whole trunk and between shoulder- blades. Pain along whole inner edge of left scapula, at times extending behind inferior angle and through left chest.

Upper Limbs

Spasmodic (rheumatic) tearing, shooting, and jerking pains in arm (stitches in the arms and hands). While writing he feels sudden tearings (stitches, jerkings?) in right forearm and between thumb and index finger. Rheumatic pain in both elbow and shoulder-joints early in morning. (Chronic stiffness of right wrist with shoots up arm and down to thumb, which is also stiff.- ***R.T.C.) Visible spasmodic contraction in region of styloid process of left ulna. Coldness of hands. Itching in hands and fingers. Crawling in single parts of fingers. Tetters on palms of hands. Tingling in fingers. Tetters, blisters, and ulcers on fingers, penetrating down to flexor tendons. Shining red, loose swelling of fingers, with inflammation, &c., changing to flat, spreading ulcers. Cauliflower-like wart on outer side of terminal phalanx of right thumb. Pain under nail or right index finger as from a splinter.

Lower Limbs

Drawing pains along thighs (extending downwards). Spasmodic, piercing pains, and itching in middle of thighs. Great weakness in lower limbs when walking, forenoons. Cracking in knee-joints. Painful stiffness in joints of feet. Cramps in instep. Pulsative lancinations in heels (1., when standing). Pain in heels as if pinched by boots (when boots were off). Violent stitches in. left fourth toe. Sore pain and stitches in tips of toes, between the toes, on dorsa of toes. Pains as from excoriation and lancinations in toes. Corns sensitive to touch, smart or burn.

Generalities

(Biting or pungent pain, pain as if parts would burst, were pressed or pushed asunder. Waking too early in morning. Affections of external angles of eyes, hypochondrium, particularly about spleen, lower region of abdomen, palms of hands. Contusive pains, shootings, or tearing, rheumatic, and arthritic pains in limbs and muscles. Jerking of muscles. Shocks through out the body. Epileptic fits. (Indurations. Icteric affections.) Pains excited by touch, movement, stretching, or change of position, especially in trunk and extremities. Many symptoms appear also on a change of temperature, also in morning and evening, and after a meal. Worse on entering a cold place, from spirituous liquors, with drunkards, when stretching the limbs, at changes of temperature, whether from hot to cold, or vice versa. H.N.G.) Lassitude, and pain as from having been beaten, in all the limbs. Trembling in limbs (with dyspnoea) after the slightest fit of passion. Sudden weakness, as if about to faint. Fainting with the pains in stomach.

Skin

Frequent and violent itching in different parts of skin. Lancinations in skin, which change to itching. Vesicular eruptions, like blisters after a burn. Deep blue vesicles, small, deep, transparent, thickly grouped, with burning itching and hard and tettery scabs. Horny excrescences. Flat, corrosive ulcers, with sharp edges, and burning and lancinating itching. Callous and other excrescences. Tetters over whole body. Chilblains, of amputated stump of leg.

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