Pulsatilla pratensis
par H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Rheumatism, rarely highly inflammatory; joints may be swollen with sharp stinging pains which are usually erratic; they constantly change from place to place; pains mostly tearing, < by pressure and by moving slowly about, > from cold and < by warmth and in the evening.
Often called for in gouty symptoms from over-eating, gonorrhœal rheumatism, or from suppressions of any kind.
Pulsatilla is one of our greatest remedies in metastases of all kinds when the indications call for it—and the indications are pronounced to those who would see.
HEAD
RHEUMATIC HEADACHE < ON ONE SIDE, AND FROM 5 TO 10 P.M., CRAZING PAINS EXTENDING INTO FACE AND TEETH.
EYES
EYES AFFECTED CAUSING BLINDNESS DURING INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM.
AMBLYOPIA FROM METASTASIS OF GOUT OR RHEUMATISM.
Subacute cases of choroiditis in patients subject to arthritis vaga, venous hyperæmia of capillaries, tearing and throbbing pains in head, photophobia and fiery circles before eyes.
Rheumatoid ophthalmia with stinging, tearing pains.
GONORRHŒAL INFLAMMATION OF EYES FROM SUPPRESSION.
THROAT
Rheumatic pharyngitis of a catarrhal type with severe pains in back and limbs.
HEART
RHEUMATIC IRRITATION OF HEART, PAINS CONSTANTLY SHIFTING RAPIDLY FROM ONE PART OF THE BODY TO ANOTHER.
HEAVINESS, PRESSURE OR SENSATION OF FULLNESS ABOUT HEART, ESPECIALLY EVENINGS.
PALPITATION IN VIOLENT PAROXYSMS WITH CARDIAC ANGUISH.
NECK AND BACK
STIFFNESS AND PAIN IN LEFT CERVICAL MUSCLES.
RHEUMATIC DRAWING, TENSIVE PAIN IN NAPE OF NECK.
RHEUMATIC PAIN AS IF HE HAD LAIN IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION.
BACK PAINFUL AND STIFF AS A BOARD.
FINE STICKING PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.
PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK ON MOTION AS IF SPRAINED.
CONSTRICTED PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.
DRAWING TENSIVE PAINS IN LOINS.
LUMBAGO COMPELLING HIM TO MOVE, YET MOVING BRINGS NO RELIEF.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
SEVERE PAINS IN BOTH SHOULDER JOINTS.
HEAVINESS IN WHOLE ARMS FROM SHOULDERS TO FINGERS.
ARMS FEEL AS IF BROKEN AND DISLOCATED.
DRAWING TEARING, JERKING PAINS IN SHOULDER JOINTS AND ARMS.
DRAWING PAINS EXTENDING FROM SHOULDER TO WRIST IN RECURRENT ATTACKS.
TEARING PAINS IN SHOULDER JOINT COMPELLING HIM TO MOVE.
ARM PAINFUL WHEN AT REST, EXTENDING DOWN INTO THUMB.
TENSIVE PAIN IN TENDONS, IN BEND OF ELBOWS ON MOVING ARMS.
Wrist slightly swollen and reddened, pain increased until midnight then decreased.
RHEUMATIC SWELLING IN JOINTS OF THE HAND, WITH REDNESS.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
HIP JOINT PAINFUL AS IF DISLOCATED.
SCIATIC PAIN WITH CONSTANTLY CHANGING POSITION.
BRUISED PAIN IN AND BELOW KNEE, UNABLE TO MOVE LEG.
ACUTE DRAWING IN LEGS AS FAR AS KNEE.
BRUISED PAIN IN THIGHS AS IF IN BONES, UNABLE TO BEND KNEE OR KNEEL DOWN.
DRAWING AND TENSION IN THIGHS AND LEGS.
PAINLESS SWELLING OF KNEE.
PAINFUL STIFFNESS OF RIGHT KNEE WHEN WALKING, AS IF THIGH WERE STRETCHED.
TEARING, JERKING AND DRAWING PAIN IN KNEES.
HOT INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATIC PAINS IN KNEE.
KNEE INFLAMED, SWOLLEN, WITH SHOOTING PAINS; KNEES SOFT, WHITE, SHINING SWELLING OF KNEES.
Jerking lancinating pain through left leg and foot, soon becoming œdematous and numb, extreme sensitiveness to jars, touch or pressure.
Pain in calf of right leg.
FEET RED, INFLAMED AND SWOLLEN.
TEARING PAIN EXTENDING ACROSS BACK OF FOOT AND HEEL.
BORING, STICKING PAIN IN HEEL; BORING PAINS IN HEELS.
Tearing stitching pains in feet, ankles swollen and red.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
DRAWING, TEARING IN LIMBS WITH CHILLINESS.
DRAWING STICKING PAINS IN LIMBS, ESPECIALLY THE JOINTS.
WANDERING PAINS SHIFT RAPIDLY FROM ONE PART TO ANOTHER WITH SWELLING AND REDNESS OF THE JOINTS.
DRAWING TEARING IN MUSCLES SHIFTING RAPIDLY FROM PLACE TO PLACE.
Inflammatory rheumatism with racking pains in upper and lower limbs, without swelling or redness, but very sensitive to touch.
Drawing tearing pains first in one knee then the other, then arms and hands, nape of neck or feet.
Acute twitching pains with numbness of joints.
Chronic rheumatism brought on by working in hot rooms and cold vaults.
Acute rheumatic fever going from joint to joint.
RHEUMATISM CAUSED BY GETTING WET, ESPECIALLY THE FEET.
RHEUMATISM CAUSED BY PROTRACTED HOT WEATHER.
AGGRAVATIONS
MOTION.
AFTER SITTING AND ATTEMPTING TO RISE.
FROM LONG STOOPING.
LYING ON SIDE.
TOWARD NIGHT.
IN A WARM ROOM.
AMELIORATIONS
LYING ON BACK.
IN OPEN AIR.
CONCOMITANTS
PAINS APPEAR SUDDENLY AND LEAVE GRADUALLY.
WANDERING PAINS SHIFT RAPIDLY FROM PART TO PART.
SYMPTOMS EVER CHANGING.
SYMPTOMS APT TO BE WORSE EVERY ALTERNATE EVENING.
PAROXYSMS INCREASE TO AN INTENSE POINT OF SEVERITY THEN DECREASE TO COMPLETE CESSATION.
PERSONS OF INDECISIVE, SLOW, PHLEGMATIC TYPE, EASILY MOVED TO TEARS.
FEVER WITHOUT THIRST.
DESIRE FOR OPEN AIR.