Pulsatilla nigricans (2)

Source Vegetable kingdom
Common Name Anemone, Wind flower,
Pasque flower,
Pulsatilla Pratensis
Family Ranunculaceae
Proved By Dr Hahnemann in 1805
Duration of Action 40 Days
Parts Used Entire Fresh Plant

HABIT AND HABITAT
 Found in Scandinavia, Denmark,
Germany, France, Russia .
 First cultivated in England in 1731 by
Mr. Miller.
 Stem is 1.5 meters high and is simple,
erect and rounded.
 Leaves are feather like, bipinnatifid
with linear segments.
 Flowers are numerous, bell-shaped
colour vary from dark violet to light
blue, appearing from March to May.
 Root is thick and short and sends of
several strong fibers.
 The whole plant is covered with silky
hairs.

DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
 As the plant grows in deserts, patient has a dry mouth.
 As the plant needs less water to grow, patient is thirst less.
 As the flowers of the plant are drooping downwards, patient is very
shy.
 As the flowers are so delicate that they change their direction by a draft
of wind, changeability of signs & symptoms is marked.
 As the flowers are always present in groups, patient likes to be in a
group (likes company) dose not want to be alone.
 As the stem of the plant is delicate & is covered by small hair like
structures to protect it from the wind, in the chilly phase, the patient
likes to go into the open air by covering himself.

"Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum positivis sive in
sano corpore humano observatis" which is the first
pharmacographic work of Dr Samuel Hahnemann
written in Latin.
Dr. Hahnemann recorded maximum
symptoms in Pulsatilla (280)

CONSTITUTION
Physical Make up:
ladies who are fair and beautiful-looking but
inclined to be fleshy with fine hair and blue eyes,
soft and lax muscles, anaemic and chlorotic with
pale face at puberty.
Pulsatilla patient can be compared to the race
of Sheep; as Antim Crud to Swine and
Arsenic to Race OF Horse.
Temperament: Tearful ,slow, phlegmatic and
indecisive.

SHE IS THE MOST INNOCENT OF THE
CONSTITUTION TYPES.
Thermal Relationship: Chilly (by Dr Kent)
OR
Hot (by Dr. ML Tyler, Dr.
William Boerick , Dr. Farrington, Dr. HC Allen)
Miasmatic Background: Psora and Sycosis

SPHERES OF ACTION (PHARMACODYNAMICS)
 Mind
 Veins
 Mucous membranes- Tongue,
Stomach,
Bowels,
Female genital organ
 Eyes and Ears.

Mental Generals
Ailments after-
 Grief, Mortification and sorrow
 Mania from suppressed menses.
 The mental symptoms are often associated with the
ovarian and uterine difficulties.

Mildness - She is Mild, Gentle and Soft hearted.
 CAN NEVER BE AGGRESSIVE.(George vithoulkas)
 Does want to impose.
 She will usually give way silently .she will play the role of a
peace maker.
 They shape themselves around whatever is presented.

Imaginative- Imagines that certain articles of diet are not
good for the human race. Imagines that milk is not good to
drink, so they will not take it.
Fears : in evening, to be alone, of darkness, of
ghosts.

WEEPING TENDENCY- tearful blondes .Tearful,
plethoric, and generally has little credit for being sick from
her appearances(kent).
• Weeps easily(Boericke, kent).
• Almost impossible to detail her ailments without
weeping(weeps when thanked, Lyco) (H.C.Allen).
• Melancholic, sadness, weeping, despair,.
• WEEPING DISPOSITION (Clarke)

Aversion to marriage: is the strong symptom.
Imagines the company of the opposite sex a
dangerous thing to cultivate, and that it is
dangerous to do certain things well established in
society as good for the human race.
Dr kent says “A man takes it into his head that it
is an evil thing to have sexual intercouse with
his wife and abstains from it.”

RELIGIOUS FREAKS- An especial tendency to dwell on
religious notions;
• fixed ideas concerning the scripture;
• he misuses and misapplies the scriptures to his own
detriment; religious despair, fanatical; full of notions and
whims.
• dwells on sanctification until he becomes fanatical and
insane.
• Thinks she is in a wonderfully sanctimonious state of mind,
or that she has sinned away her day of grace.

CHANGEABLENESS - The key features of the Pulsatilla
profile mirrors both this changeability and the need or
desire to be outdoors. The changeability is as unpredictable
as the wind itself.
• MENTALLY, AN APRIL DAY.(William boericke)
• Pulsatilla is most Nervous, Fidgety, Changeable, Easily led
and Easily persuaded.(Kent)
• Capricious(S.r pathak)
Boericke begins his entry about Pulsatilla with the words:
“The weathercock among remedies”

TIMID AND EMOTIONAL- Timid, irresolute. with a
tendency to INWARD (J.H.CLARKE).
• GRIEF and SILENT PEEVISHNESS
• Likes sympathy
• Easily discouraged. Emotionally easily arousable.
SLOWNESS- Slow and gentle motion is
characteristic.
 Adapted for SLOW and PHLEGMATIC
temperaments.(J.H.CLARKE)

 IRRITABLE- Disgusted at everything.
Easily offended.
 Children like fuss and caress. Very
irritable, touchy, feels slighted or fears
slight
 She is remarkably Irritable, not in the
sense of pugnacity, but easily irritated,
extremely touchy, always Slighted ; sensible
to every social influence. (kent)

P – Phlegmatic temperament.
U – Unnatural Brooding.
L – Lachrymal ( least affair throws her
off the balance )
S – Silent Peevishness.
A – Amelioration from consolation.
T – Timid, Taciturn.
I – Indecisive.
L – Like April Day, Changeable mood.
L – Low-spirited – fears.
A – Amiable.

PULSATILLA CHILD
 They tend to demand instant gratification and if they
feel deprived they will cry until demands are met with.
 Children like fuss and caress. She is simply fussy like a
spoilt child – DR WILLIAM BOERICKE.
 She will get jealous of anyone who takes up her
parents time, she is apt to behave petulantly.

If the pulsatilla child gets hurt, she cries whether
the hurt is emotional or physical

Child demonstrates affection through
hugs and kisses, climbs on mother’s
lap, cuddles there & sits quietly .
Fears :in evening, to be
alone, of darkness, of ghosts.
-( by DR WILLIAM BOERICKE)

Puls Puberty – resistance to psychological
maturation
acquires host of unexplained little
aches & pains.
reliant on parents support.
In Children – resistance to growing up is
manifested as fear of looking up., which
causes vertigo.

PULSATILLA MEN
 Irresolute
 Shyness
Dr kent says “A man takes it into his head that it is an evil
thing to have sexual intercouse with his wife and abstains
from it.”

GUIDING SYMPTOMS
Thirstlessness - Thirstlessness often associated with
nearly all complaints.Great dryness of mouth in the
morning without thirst (Nux-mosch)
 Metastatasis - Metastasis of mumps to breasts or testicles
 Chilliness - Constant internal chilliness even in warm
room, but aversion to cover, pains are associated with
chilliness.
 Changeability of symptoms- Symptoms are always
changeable. No two chills, no two stools, no two attacks are
alike. It has an ever-changing character of symptoms.Very
well one hour, very miserable the next. Haemorrhages flow
and stop and flow again.No head or tail to the case-mixed
(E.B. NASH)

Pains-
 Drawing, tearing, erratic, pains rapidly shifting
from one part to another (Apis, Kali-bi,kalmia lat., Lac-
can, Mang- act).
 Pain comes gradually and disappears suddenly or
pain appears suddenly and goes gradually.
 Pains accompanied with constant chilliness, and
the more severe the pain the harder the chill .(with
profuse sweating, cham., with fainting hepar sulph., with
frequent micturition thija., with delirium, verat.alb)
Discharges- Thick, bland, yellowish green (kali-sulph,
Nat-sulph) discharge from mucous membranes. But
discharges such as leucorrhoea are acrid and
excoriating.

One-sidedness - One-sided complaints. One-sided
headache. One-sided sweat (bar.c.,nux.,phos., petrol.,
sulph., thuja). One sided pains.
Derangements – Especially at puberty. “NEVER BEEN
WELL SINCE THAT TIME” says the patient referring to
puberty or menarche.
 Desire- Desire for open air. So much desire that during
her delivery wants windows opened.Unable to breathe well
or is chilly in a warm room.

Sleep - Does not want to go to bed;
 first sleep restless, sound sleep when it is time to get up;
awakes languid, unrefreshed (reverse of, Nux-vom)
 sleeps with hands over head.
Dreams- Dreams of black animals, of business,
exhausting, frightful, ghosts, naked men, murder, of
misfortune and accidents.

AILMENTS FROM
Eating fatty and starchy food.
Ice- cream
Tea and coffee
Abuse of mercury, quinine, sulphur, chamomilla.
Chill from getting feet wet
Worm affection in children and indigestion.

HEAD HEADACHE
CAUSATION- from overwork, overloading the stomach, fatty diet.
LOCATION- 1.Neuralgic pains commencing in right temporal
region, with scalding lachrymation of affected side.
2.Shifting type of headache
CHARACTER-Throbbing, congestive, pressive (Bell., Bry.)
AGGRAVATION-lying and sitting quiet,from stooping,motion of
the eyes, evening.
AMELIORATION- by sitting, in morning, walking slowly
about(Ferr- met) in the morning ,by application of cold, by
external pressure or tight bandaging.(Apis, Arg-nit, Lac-defl)
Headache associated with suppressed menses, with menstrual
disorders.

EARSCatarrhal otitis.
Ottorhoea- thick yellow purulent bland
discharge, offensive odor.
External ear swollen and red.
Otalgia worse-at evening and at night.
better-by walking slowly about the room
Sensation as if something were being forced
outword.

EYES
 Conjunctivitis with PROFUSE, THICK ,YELLOW,
BLAND DISCHARGE
 BURNING AND ITCHING in the eyes
 LIDS INFLAMMED, AGGLUTINATED.
 STYES: on upper eyelids; from eating fat, greasy, rich
food or pork.
 Veins of fundus oculi are greatly enlarged.
 Opthalmia neonatorum (arg- nitr) .
 Subacute conjunctivitis with dyspepsia; worse in warm
room.

NOSE
Repeated attacks of coryza, with sneezing and stuffing of
the nose with a febrile state. There is pain on the face
through the nose.
 In the evening there is a considerable watery discharge
with sneezing. In the morning stuffing of the nose with
thick yellow greenish discharge which is bland and
offensive.
Large bloody, thick, yellow crust accumulates in the nose,
hardens down and is blown out in the morning
accompanied by thick yellow pus. There is also a loss of
smell. The patient himself feels better in open air and
worse in a warm room.

Gastro-intestinal tract
Mouth
Great dryness of mouth in the morning without
thirst(Nux- mosch). Wants it washed frequently.
Offensive odor from mouth.(Merc., aur)
Crack in middle of lower lip.(amm- carb., hepar- sulph,
nat-mur)

Tongue
•She always has a very bad taste in the mouth,
early in the morning.
•Yellow or white tongue, covered with a
tenacious mucus.
•Food ,especially bread tastes bitter.
•Much sweet saliva
•Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy,
salty, foul

Toothache
Relieved by holding cold water in the
mouth (bism., bry., caust., coffe., nat-sulph., sepia)
Worse from warm things and heat of room (bry.)

Ailments from:
 Eating fatty and rich foods-cake, pastry, after pork or
sausage;(nux vom-likes fatty rich foods and able to digest
them easily) the sight or even the thought of pork causes
disgust.
 Fruits
 Ice-cream
 Tea
 Worms in case of children
 Warm food and drink

 Eructations; taste of food remains a long time
 Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration.
 Flatulence
 Dyspepsia with great tightness after a meal; must
loosen clothing.
 “All-gone” sensation especially in tea drinkers.
 Gnawing hungry feeling.(abies c.)
 THIRSTLESSNESS with nearly all complaints.

NAUSEA
Nausea,and retchings after greasy food, with sour
eructations.
Sensation as if the food were lodged undigested above the
stomach.
Morning sickness,
VOMITING
Vomiting of food taken long before.
 vomiting of mucus.

EPIGASTRIC PAIN
 Pain in stomach an hour after eating
 Weight as from a stone (Bry.,Nux vom.), especially in
morning on awakening.
 Pulsations in the pit of the stomach.(Asaf.)
 She cannot sit a long at a time, must walk about to relieve
her pains.
 Gastrodynia, of the most violent kind, in mild tearful
women, inclined to be fleshy, with scanty menstruation;
brought on by fat, greasy food.

DIARRHOEA
Causation – fruit, cold food or drnks, ice cream.
Time - only, or usually at night.
Character of stool – watery, greenish- yellow and slimy.
NO TWO STOOLS ARE ALIKE. Very changeable.
TWO OR THREE NORMAL STOOLS DAILY.

 Dysentry; mucus and blood with chilliness.
 Haemorrhoids - “painful, protruding, blind, with
itching and stitches in anus.”

Urine
Increased desire; worse when lying down.
 Burning in orifice of urethra during after micturition.
 Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing
(caust., squil., verat) or passing flatus.
 After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Female reproductive system
MENSES
 Derangements at puberty.The first serious impairment of
health is referred to puberic age, have “never been well
since” -anaemia, chlorosis,bronchitis, phthisis.
 Amenorrhoea ( cimicif., senec., polygon.)
 Menses suppressed from getting the feet wet, nervous debility
or chlorosis.
 Tardy menses
 Too late, scanty, thick, dark ,clotted, changeable, intermittent
flow.
 Menses with intense pain and great restless and tossing about (
Mag- phos., Viber- opulus)
 Flow more during the day
 Diarrhoea during or after menses.(Amm-carb,Bov., Verat alb.)

LEUCORRHOEA
Acrid,. burning creamy .
It is milky white in colour with
swollen vulva. Cutting pain in
abdomen.
It is excoriating and corrodes the
vulva.
Pain in back, tired feeling.

 Exaggerated sexual desire; nymphomania; wild,
beside herself with sexual thoughts, uncontrollable
sexual desire.
 J.T. Kent says that he has seen Pulsatilla cure a great
many girls of 16 or 18 years.

LABOUR PAIN
o Difficult and irregular, slugish labour pain.
o During labour pain the patient wants doors and
windows open.
o Cannot bear stuffy warm room. Feels suffocated.
Dr Hughes praises pulsatilla for its spontaneous version
in case of abnormal presentation; useful in retained
placenta, postpartum haemorrhage etc.

ABORTION
Threatened abortion, the flow ceases and starts again
with increased force,
Pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must
have fresh air.

PROLAPSE- There may be prolapse of uterus.(sepia,
helon., murex.,lil tig., podo) There is a dragging down
sensation. She cannot stand on her feet or walk around
much because of the weight and dragging down
sensation.

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
ACUTE ORCHITIS- the testicles and spermatic cord
swollen and painful;
caused from suppressed gonorrhoea.
THICK, GREENISH- YELLOW DISCHARGE (Nat-suplh)
FROM URETHRA.
Boys Testicles - Pulsatilla is the common remedy for
enormously SWOLLEN TESTICLES FROM MUMPS
in a boy.

ACUTE PROSTATITIS
Pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.

Respiratory system
Cough
CAUSATION- caused by irritation in pit of stomach,
by taking ice cold things, fatty and starchy food, ice-
cream or due to suppressed menses.
SENSATION- pressure and soreness upon the chest.
Smothering sensation on lying down.
CHARACTER- dry cough in evening and at night; and
loose cough in the morning.
Cough is shaking and spasmodic; in
paroxysms of two coughs.

AGGRAVATION: warmth of bed, night evening, after
every sleep, after lying down.
AMELIORATION: sitting up in bed.
CHARACTER OF SPUTA: expectoration of bland,
thick, bitter, greenish- yellow mucus.
CONCOMITANT: urine emitted with cough.(caust.)
.

 Asthma of girls from suppressed menses.
 In children from suppressed rash or in chronic catarrh of
chest.
 It is also useful in phthisis in suppurative stage in
chlorotic girls.

Back
 Kent says that in curvature of the spine
Puls. Is of great value.
 Shooting pain in the nape and back,
between shoulders; in sacrum after
sitting.
 Sensation of cold water poured down
back

Extremities Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly from one part to
another, unattended with any great swelling or redness.
 Tensive pain, letting up with a snap.
 Drawing, rheumatic pain in thighs and legs, with
constant chilliness. Greater the pain more severe is the
chill.
 Suffering worse from letting the affected limb hang
down.(vipera)

 Veins in forearms and hands swollen.
 Chronic cases, with weakness, rigidity, coldness, and
weight in the diseased tissues.
 Numbness around elbow.
 Hip joint painful.
 Knees swollen with tearing, drawing pains.
 Nervousness, intensely felt about the ankles.
 Heaviness in legs with bruised feeling.

SKIN
URTICARIA - worse nights, caused by fat rich
food. Urticaria after every exertion.
INTOLERABLE ITCHING.
Measles
Dirty dingy look. Dry, lustreless, rough hair.
Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints
with itching. Worse from warmth of bed.(mercurius)
Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin

Fever
 Chilliness, even in warm room, without thirst.
 External heat is intolerable.
 Chill about 4 p.m.
 Intolerable burning heat at night with distended veins.
 Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening.
 During apyrexia, headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite,
nausea.
 one- sided sweat; pains during sweat.

MODALITIES
AGGRAVATION
 Heat (kali-mur)
 Rich fat food
 After eating
 Towards evening
 Warm room
 Lying on left or on painless side
 When allowing feet to hang down
 During menses (Actea-rac.)

AMELIORATION
 Open air
 Walking slowly about (Ferr-met)
 Cold applications (kali-mur)
 Cold food and drinks. Though not thirsty
 Erect position
 Lying on painful side (Bry.,Amm-carb,Ptelea)

RELATIONSHIP
COMPLEMENTARY: kali mur, lycopodium, silicea,
sulphuric acid, allium cepa, stannum.
Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all
ailments.
REMEDIES THAT FOLLOW WELL: Ac nitric, Anac,
Ant-tart, Asaf., Ars.,Bell., Bry., kali mur, Lyco.,
Phos, silicea, sulph.,, kali sulph.

" One of the best remedies with which to begin the
treatment of a chronic case ( Calc., sulph.)" - H. C.
Allen. Pulsatilla grows well in soils rich in Silica.
Pulsatilla can be used in patients who are anaemic or
chlorotic, who have taken much iron, quinine and
tonics, even years before.
ANTIDOTES
Asafoetida, coffea, chamomilla, ignatia, nux vom,
stannum, sulphur.

Cyclamen- Remedy of Plant kingdom.
Situation of cyclamen is that of a women who feels
that she has done something wrong or that she
hasn’t done her duty and something bad has
occurred as a result.
She feels solely responsible for what has happened
and feels like a criminal. She cannot reveal the
crime to anyone keeps everything within her and
tries to rectify things as much as possible. She
avoids all social contact, does not talk to anyone
and feels totally alone.

RELATIONSHIPSimilarities – Cyclamen and Pulsatilla.
 Both are predominantly female remedies.
 Both are suited to blondes – pale & anaemic.
 Both are thirstless.
 Both are weepy & dislike company.
 Both present changeability of mental symptoms.
 Both desire lemonades & to both pork disagrees.
 Both are late sleepers.

dissimilarities
Cyclamen
 < open air.
 Mentally peevish,
irritable.
 < cold & > warmth.
 Menses – too early, too
profuse, black & clotted.
 Better during flow.
Pulsatilla
 > open air.
 Mild, Gentle, timid,
yielding disposition.
 > Cold & < warmth
 Menses – too late, pale &
scanty
 Worse during flow

Kali-sulph - Mineral remedy
Sulphate of potassium K2SO4, occurs in lavas.
Schussler’s Pulsatilla.
•Main feeling of Kali Sulph person of being disgraced and insulted
by the family or group whose support he seeks.
•Therefore he constantly makes effort to win their esteem and
respect.
•He wants that his value in their eyes should rise.
•He is industrious and helpful, caring towards and supportive of the
group.
•He seems independent of the opinion of others. At the same time,
he has anger towards the family or group, because he feels insulted
by them.

Similarities – Kali. Sulph & Puls.
< symptoms in warm room & evening.
> Open air.
Discharges – yellow, purulent in character.
Pressure & feeling of fullness in stomach.
Pain in limbs worse at night & from warmth better
in cool open air.
Migratory or Shifting & wandering Rheumatic
pains.
Dissimilarity
Kali Sulph – Burning Thirst.
Puls – Thirstless.

BRYONIA AND PULSATILLA
SIMILARITIES
►Both have agg from heat
►Both have amel from pressure
►Both have amel from cold
bathing(Puls may
have agg from wet cold)
►Both have gastric and rheumatic
affections

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Irritable and angry
people
►Dark hair and
complexion
►Muscular, slender
robust body
►Man’s remedy
►Affectionate and gentle
people, mild yet
irritable, tearful
►Light hair and
complexion
►Fleshy body
►Woman’s remedy

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Ailments from anger
►Jaundice
►Generally thirsty
►Generally constipation
►Menses profuse and
long lasting
►Ailments from grief
►Chlorosis
►Generally thirst less
►Generally diarrhea
►Menses scanty and
short duration

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Mucous membranes
mostly dry, from lips to
anus
►Coryza dry
►Coated tongue with
thirst
►Motion agg
►Discharges from
mucous membranes
thick, bland yellowish
green
►Coryza fluent
►Coated tongue without
thirst
►Motion amel

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Aversion open air
►Redness of diseased
parts
►Acute rheumatism, agg
motion
►Inclination for open air
►Blueness of diseased
parts
►Wandering acute
rheumatism, agg
during rest

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Children dislike to
be
carried
►Complaints during
day
►Better in evening
►Agg from vegetable
food
►Children like to be
carried
evening and night
►Worse in evening
►Agg from fat food

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Rheumatism does not
shift
►Rarely chilly
►Rarely restless
►Frequently weak
► Rheumatism shift from
joint to joint
►Rarely chest pain
►Frequently restless
►Rarely weak

Bryonia Pulsatilla
Differences
►Rarely feet coldness
►Acts more on
arteries
and synovial
membranes
►Indicated in gout
►Rarely indicated in
septic states, e.g
typhoid
►Acts more on veins
►Indicated in
hemorrhoids

Dose
Third to thirtieth trituration.

Reference
1. Lectures on homoeopathic materia medica J.T. KENT
2. Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica and repertory
WILLIAM BOERICKE
3. A dictionary of practical materia medica- J.H.CLARKE
4. Homoeopathic drug pictures by Dr M.L. TYLER
5. Materia of homoeopathic medicines- DR S.K. PATHAK
6. Essence of materia medica- GEORGE VITHOULKAS.
7. BAILEY PHILIP M.Homeopathic psychology.
8. Allen’s keynotes rearranged and classified with leading remedies
of the materia medica with bowel nosodes
9. www.google.com
10. www.similima.com

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