PULSATILLA


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Pulsatilla and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Pasque-flower.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Nausea bitter or sour eructations, white-coated tongue. Great mental depression with weeping Venous congestion with chilliness. Suppression of menses. Amenorrhoea or menstrual headaches in delicate women. Delayed menstruation in young girls. Sub-acute gouty inflammations in delicate persons. Tearing pains with swelling of the testicles and spermatic cords.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Venous congestion with chilliness. Great mental depression. Stitching, tearing pains in the vertex and forehead. Obscuration of sight. 1. Painful pressure in the eyes. Catarrhal conjunctivitis. 2. Tearing and stitching pain in the ears. 3. Nausea bitter or sour eructations, white-coated tongue Catarrhal gastro-enteritis, with mucous diarrhoeal discharges. 4. Rheumatic pains and swellings especially affecting the dorsum of the foot 5.Tearing pains with swelling of the testicles and spermatic cords.6. The action of the hart is depressed and feeble.

DOSE

      Good results have been obtained from one and two drop doses of the tincture but the first to the fourth decimal dilutions are believed to be more effective.

THERAPEUTIC USES

      Dimness of vision accompanied by luminous vibrations, hemicrania, vomiting of sour fluid and weak digestion. 1-4.

Gastric headaches nausea, greasy taste in the mouth, acrid risings. 1-4.

Nervous headaches in persons with delicate digestive organs and disposition to sadness. 1-4.

Menstrual headaches in delicate women. 1

Hypochondriasis with gastric derangement, in delicate, nervous women. 1-4.

Delayed menstruation in young girls who are pale languid and inclined to be chilly. 1.

Amenorrhoea in delicate women with nausea venous congestions and chilliness. 1-4.

Dysmenorrhoea with water-brash and obscuration of the sight. 1-4.

Catarrhal gastritis, white-coated tongue, nausea, foul- tasting eructation. 4.

Diarrhoea; watery, mucous discharge. 4.

Bronchial catarrh in delicate persons.

Catarrhal conjunctivitis. 2.

Inflammation and increased secretion of the glands of the lids.2

Otalgia in persons of a delicate constitution. 3.

Sub-acute inflammation of the middle ear. 3.

Gouty swellings accompanying menstrual derangements in delicate women.

Rheumatic swelling of the dorsum of the foot. 5.

Epididymitis. 6.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.