Ranunculus Sceleratus
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Celery-Leaved Crowfoot. Ranunculaceæ.
Proved by Y., Archiv für Hom., and Schreter, Neues Archiv für Homöopathie.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Inflammation of mouth and tongue, diphtheria , Rittenhouse, A. O., vol. 7, p. 528 ; B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 428 ; Use in aneurism of aorta , Searle, A. O., vol. 7, p. 409 ; Neuralgia , Price, Org., vol. 2, p. 118 ; Pemphigus , Elwert, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 147, from A. H. Z., vol. 30, p. 345 ; Corns , Berridge, Hah. Mo., 1874, p. 111.
MIND [1]
Dullness of head.
Indolence and aversion to mental occupation in morning ; low-spirited, depressed in evening.
SENSORIUM [2]
Vertigo with loss of consciousness.
INNER HEAD [3]
Gnawing pain in a small spot on vertex or either temple.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Sensation as if head were too large and full.
Biting itching on scalp.
Scalp feels tense.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Eyes very weak and watery.
Pain in eyeballs, when moving them quickly.
Pressing in eyeballs, periodically.
Painful pressure in eyeballs.
Smarting in eyes and canthi.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Otalgia with pressing or gnawing pain in head, and drawing pain in teeth.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Lachrymation, with watery nasal discharge.
Ordinary catarrh, with sneezing, fluent coryza, pains in joints, and burning on urination.
UPPER FACE [8]
Sensation as if face were covered with spider web.
Slight drawing with feeling of coldness above right eyebrow, down cheek, as far as corner of mouth.
Face cold, livid.
LOWER FACE [9]
Tremulous sensation around corners of mouth and lower lip, preceding vomiting without inclination to vomit.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Drawing, stinging, jerking in teeth.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Tongue exfoliated in spots, which are raw ; mouth inflamed.
Both sides of tongue denuded, like islands, the remaining parts thickly coated. θ Diphtheria.
Tongue coated white, inflamed, red and burning.
Tongue cracks and peels off.
Shooting in tip of tongue.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Scraping and burning in throat.
Swelling of tonsils, with shooting stitches in them.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Eructations : empty ; after meals, with taste of what has been eaten.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Pain in stomach, with fainting fits.
Pressure and sensation of fulness in pit of stomach, < from external pressure, most violent in morning.
Sensation of soreness and burning in pit of stomach.
Inflammation of stomach.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Dull pressure about liver, < from a long breath.
Stitches in liver, spleen or kidneys.
Long stitches in region of spleen ; < during deep inspiration.
Spleen swollen after intermittent fever and abuse of quinine.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Screwing pressure behind umbilicus ; sensation as if a plug were lodged there, in morning.
Twitching in abdominal integuments.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Frequent sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.
Frequent soft, or watery, fetid stools.
Hard stool, preceded by colic.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Urine burns ; strangury.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Stitches in glans penis.
RESPIRATION [26]
Dyspnœa from gnawing behind sternum.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Burning soreness behind xiphoid cartilage.
Long, frequent stitches behind xiphoid cartilage, in a space as large as palm of hand.
Stitches in chest and intercostal muscles.
Gnawing in chest ; behind sternum (with dyspnœa).
Continual pressure, as from dull instrument, below right false ribs, < from deep inspiration.
Painful sticking in right chest, not < by inspiration.
Violent contracting-pinching pain in chest, behind right nipple.
Whole chest feels weak and bruised.
Aneurism of descending aorta and varicosities ; cold and livid face and ears, with sensation of a cobweb upon face ; lachrymation and discharge of watery mucus from nose (much relieved).
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Stitches in region of heart.
Pulse quick, full, but soft, with heat at night.
OUTER CHEST [30]
Chest feels bruised, with sensation of weakness therein.
Stitches in chest and intercostal muscles.
External chest and sternum painfully sensitive to touch.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Pain in small of back.
Stitch in right lumbar region when walking.
Stitches in region of kidneys.
Sudden violent jerks in lumbar region during a walk in open air, arresting breathing.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Long-continuing boring sticking along whole left forearm to tip of index finger, where it is most violent.
Continual gnawing in palm of left hand.
Itching between fingers, evenings.
Swelling of fingers, mornings.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Stinging, boring and gnawing in legs, especially violent in big toe.
Boring and gnawing in right big toe.
Sudden stitches in forepart of right big toe, as if a needle were thrust in deep, made him cry out.
Sudden stitches in right big toe, passing into a burning.
For four months two corns on ball of first and second left toes, sensitive to touch or pressure, smart and burn, and occasionally shock very painful, when letting leg hang down, when they also throb, and especially painful by flexing toes ; > by extending them ; > by wearing a thick-soled boot ; at times numbness in corns ; knocking toe against anything so as to cause boot to grate against corns causes great pain and burning.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Gout in fingers and toes.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Letting leg hang down : corns painful.
Flexing toes : corns painful.
Extending toes : corns >.
Motion : of eyeballs causes pain.
Walking : stitch in right lumbar region ; jerks in lumbar region.
NERVES [36]
Neuralgia of head, back and cardiac region, with extreme tenderness of whole spinal column ; patchy appearance of tongue.
Convulsive twitches of limbs.
Fainting with the pains in stomach.
SLEEP [37]
Wakes after midnight, is wide awake and remains so for a long time.
Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams about corpses, dead bodies, serpents, battles, etc. ; constant tossing about in bed.
TIME [38]
Morning : aversion to mental labor ; fullness and pressure in pit of stomach ; sensation of plug behind umbilicus.
Evening : low-spirited and depressed ; heat ; itching, biting, tingling <.
Night : heat.
After midnight : wakeful ; heat and thirst <.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Open air : violent jerks in lumbar region while walking ; after walking, heat.
FEVER [40]
Chill or chilliness during meals.
Heat, in-doors evening, after walking in open air.
Dry heat at night, with violent thirst, mostly after midnight.
Fever ; wakes after midnight, many nights in succession, with heat over whole body and violent thirst ; pulse full, soft, accelerated, 80 ; afterward sweat over whole body, especially on forehead.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Periodical : pressing in eyeballs.
During meals : chilly.
Many nights in succession : wakes after midnight.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : coldness and drawing above eyebrows ; pressure below false ribs ; painful sticking in chest ; pinching behind nipple ; stitch in lumbar region ; gnawing in big toe ; stitches in big toe.
Left : continual gnawing in palm of hand.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if head were too full and too large ; as if face were covered with spider webs ; as if a plug were lodged in umbilicus ; as if diarrhœa would set in ; pressure as from a dull instrument ; as if a needle were thrust deep into big toe.
Pain : in eyeballs ; in joints ; in stomach ; in small of back ; in corns.
Violent contractive pinching pain behind right nipple.
Shooting : in tip of tongue.
Shooting stitches : in tonsils.
Stitches : in liver, spleen and kidneys ; in glans penis ; behind xiphoid cartilage ; in chest ; in region of heart ; in right lumbar region ; in region of kidneys ; in big toe.
Gnawing pain : in a small spot on vertex or either temple ; behind sternum ; in palm of left hand ; in legs ; in big toe.
Long-continued boring, sticking : along whole left forearm to tip of index finger.
Boring : in legs ; in big toe.
Neuralgia : in head, back and cardiac region.
Drawing pain : in teeth.
Violent jerks : in lumbar region.
Jerking : in teeth.
Stinging : in teeth ; in legs.
Smarting : in eyes and canthi ; of corns.
Burning : of tongue ; in throat ; in pit of stomach ; of corns.
Burning soreness : behind xiphoid cartilage.
Soreness : in pit of stomach.
Scraping : in throat.
Bruised feeling : in chest.
Biting, itching : on scalp.
Drawing : above right eyebrow down cheek to corner of mouth ; in teeth.
Pressure : in pit of stomach ; about liver ; behind umbilicus ; below false ribs.
Pressing : in eyeballs ; in head.
Fullness : in pit of stomach.
Tense feeling : on scalp.
Tremulous sensation : around corners of mouth and lower lip.
Weakness : in chest.
Numbness : of corns.
Itching : between fingers.
Coldness : above right eyebrow.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : external chest and sternum sensitive ; first and second toe sensitive.
Pressure : fullness in pit of stomach <.
Knock against boot : corns very painful.
SKIN [46]
Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of body, now here, now there, especially toward evening.
Vesicular eruptions, with acrid, thin, yellowish discharges.
Blisters which leave a raw surface with acrid discharges.
The body of an infant about three months old was covered all over with pemphigus ; continual thirst ; very frequent, weak and intermitting pulse ; trembling with anxious features ; Arsen. [4] caused improvement for six days, blisters decreased ; here and there ulcers formed on parts covered with blisters, discharging a yellowish fluid ; Ran. scel. [3] healed them up.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Infant, æt. 3 months ; pemphigus.
RELATIONS [48]
Compatible : After Arsen . in pemphigus ; Laches . follows in diphtheria with denuded tongue.