Ranunculus sceleratus, L.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Y., Archiv f. Hom., took tincture, 2 drops, first and second days, 3 drops fifth day, 4 drops tenth and twenty-first days, 6 drops twenty-sixth day, 12 drops seventy-fifth day, 15 drops eighty-first day; 2 , Krapf, from Gmelin, effects of external application; 3 , same, from internal administration; 4 , Schreter, N. Archiv f. Hom., 3, 3, took a dose at 2 P.M., and another of 10 drops at 5.30 A.M.; 4 a , same, one dose of 10 drops; 4 b , same, a third proving with a dose of 10 drops; 5 , Krapf, from Wibmer, effects of eating a leaf and flower; 6 , Scharf, Ephem., Nat. Cur., effects on two persons from eating the herb as a salad, from Wibmer; 7 , Tissot, effects of applying the plant to his arm, from Wibmer.

MIND

Delirium, 7.
A species of hydrophobia, 7.
Sad mood, grief, in the evening, 1.
Oppression and anxiety, 6.
Disinclination to work, ill-humored. Great absent-mindedness, tears a paper, on which he had made some annotations, looks at it, discovers from the pieces that he has torn it, and toys with his fingers, 4b.
Forgetful, cannot recall what he thought before, 4b.

HEAD

Vertigo, when sitting, 1.
Vanishing of though, giddiness (after three hours), 1.
His head feels dull, especially in the morning, after the characteristic uneasiness, in the afternoon, 1. [10.]
Dulness of the head, and slight pressure of the temples towards each other (after six hours), 4.
Heaviness and sensation of fulness in the whole head, 1.
His head feels as if in a vice, 1.
His head feels distended and thick, 1.
Inflammation of the brain, 7.
Forehead and Temples.
Sense of fulness in the forehead, also from the vapor of the juice, 1.
Continual pressing above the temples, from without inward, 1.
Gnawing, with pressure in the right temple, 1.
Pressing in the temples, from within outwards (after half an hour), 1.
Fine sticking from the right temple to the right superciliary ridge (after eight hours), 4a. [20.]
Stitches in the left temple (after ten hours), 1.
Vertex and Occiput.
Long-continuing, dull, aching-gnawing pain in the left vertex, fixed in one point, 1.
Pain, like a suddenly coming and speedily disappearing gnawing, at one spot of the vertex, 1.
Painful pressure in the region of the vertex, as with a dull instrument (fifth day), 1.
Drawing-clawing pressure across the vertex, 1.
Jerking in the head, in the region of the vertex, 1.
Burning pain in the region of the vertex, continuing a few minutes, 1.
Pressing pain on both of the tuberculis infer, ossis occipitis, ceasing when pressed upon, but soon returning, 4.
Dull pain in the occiput, the whole of the head feeling painful externally (fourth day), 1.
External Head.
(Hard blotches above the temples, which do not suppurate), (fourth day), . [30.]

EYE

Contortion of the eyes, 3, 6.
Slight smarting in the corners of the eyes , and recurring periodically for many days, 1.
Burning of the margins of the eyes (after ten hours), 1.
Violent smarting in the eyes, while expressing the juice, 1.
Lid.
Eyelids somewhat agglutinated, white of the eye light-yellow, with the finer vessels visible. (Slight inflammation), 4b.
Stinging smarting in the outer canthus of the right eye (after half an hour), 1.
Lachrymal Apparatus. [40.]
Profuse lachrymation while, expressing the juice, 1.
Lachrymation, at night, 1.
Conjunctiva.
Injected state of the conjunctiva, from the vapor of the juice, 1.
Ball.
Pain in the eyeballs, when moving them quickly, 1.
Pressing in the eyeballs , soon, recurring periodically for many days (four hours), 1.
Painful pressure in the eyeballs , all day, after expressing the juice, 1.

EAR

Boring and drawing in the left outer meatus auditorius, in the evening (second day), 1.
Boring pain behind the right ear, in the evening (fifth day), 1.
Continued drawing along the right outer meatus auditorius, 1.
Stitches in the front of the right ear, in the evening (second day), 1. [50.]
Long stitches in the right meatus auditorius externus, 1.
Otalgia of the right ear, with aching pain in the head and drawing in all the teeth, 1.
Stitches in the right ear (second day), 1.
Some earache (after three-quarters of an hour), 4a.

NOSE

Frequent sneezing, while expressing the juice, 1.
Copious secretion of a watery mucus from the nose (from the vapor of the juice), 1.
Beside the right nostril a red spot as large as a penny, which turns white when pressed, and then causes a sore pain (after ten hours), 4b.
Pricking in the outer parts of the tip of nose, 1.
Tingling and smarting in the nose, from the vapor of the juice, 1.

FACE

Convulsion in the face, in the outer parts of the abdomen and the limbs, 3. [60.]
Spasmodic twitchings of the facial muscles and extremities, risus sardonicus, 6.
Slight drawing, with feeling of coldness above the right eyebrow, down the cheek, as far as the corner of the mouth, for half an hour , evening, 1.
Sensation as if the face were covered with cobweb, in the evening (second day), 1.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Teeth on edge, and afterwards stinging pains in the same, 3.
Toothache, burrowing under some roots of the left lower double teeth, as if pushed up from below (after eight hours, all the afternoon), 4a.
Drawing pains in the molar teeth, the whole afternoon and evening, 1.
Painful drawing in the upper right molar tooth, 1.
Drawing pain in the right upper molars, 1.
Drawing pain in the upper left molar tooth (after seven hours), 1.
Tearing pains in the lower right molar tooth, early in the morning (sixth day), 1. [70.]
Stinging gnawing in the front teeth, in the evening (second day), 1.
Stinging drawing in all the teeth, 1.
Drawing and jerking in all the teeth , in the morning (second day), 1.
Very transient jerking in the incisors, 1.
The teeth are sensitive all day (second day), 1.
Gums.
Pain, swelling, and redness, and bleeding of the gums, 3.
Tongue.
White-coated tongue and sweetish taste in the mouth in the morning, for several days, 1.
White-coated tongue (after fifteen hours), 4a.
Obstinate pains, burning, redness, inflammation of the tongue, 3.
Peeling off of the cuticle of the tongue, and cracking of the tongue, 3.* [80.]
Smarting at the tip of the tongue (after ten hours), 1.
Shootings in the tip of the tongue (third day), 1.
Violent burning at the tip of the tongue, while chewing the fresh herb, 1.
General Mouth.
Tremulous sensation around the corners of the mouth and the lower lip, preceding the vomiting, but without any inclination to vomit, 1.

THROAT

Thick mucus in the throat, that is difficult to hawk up (after seven hours), 4.
Choking in the throat, at night, 1.
Mornings, dry throat (after twenty-one hours), 4b.
Contractive sensation in the throat, frequently before breakfast, increased by eating bread, 1.
Continued sticking in the skin of the pit of the throat, 1.
Scratchy-scrapy sensation in the throat (after half an hour); the scratchy sensation grows somewhat burning (after two hours), 4.
Throat scratchy, with sensation of soreness (after a quarter of an hour), 4b.
Scratchy sensation in the throat, as if sore, with occasional dry cough, that increases the sore pain (after fifteen hours), 4.
Scraping in the throat, immediately, 1.
Tonsils.
Swelling of the tonsils, with shooting stitches in the same ; in the evening (second day), 1. [100.]
Stitches in the tonsils, 1.
Pharynx.
Burning in the pharynx, 1.
Burning continuous, and sometimes convulsive arthritic pains of the pharynx and œsophagus, 2 . [From 2 drops of the juice continued for six days.]
The fumes arising from the plant while boiling it irritate the pharynx, eyes, and nose, and occasion a flow of mucus and tears, 3.
Is impelled to swallow several times (after fifteen hours), 4b.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Strong sensation of hunger, without real appetite (after three hours and a half), 4b.
After eating, sensation of hunger, and yet eructations with it (after eleven hours), 4b.
Want of appetite, in the evening, 1.
Little appetite at dinner, followed by a turn of nausea, 1.
He wakes after midnight with great thirst, and heat of the whole body, 1.
Eructations. [110.]
Frequent empty eructations , immediately after taking the drug; returning for many days before breakfast, 1.
Frequent eructations tasting of the ingesta, after a meal, 1.
Rancid, sour eructations, in the evening, 1.
Several prolonged eructations after eating bread and butter (after five hours), 4.
Hiccough and Heartburn.
Hiccough (after half an hour), 1, 3.
Heartburn, 1.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Turn of nausea, while expressing the juice, 1.
Nausea, especially after midnight, 1.
Transient nausea, almost vomiting (after a quarter of an hour), 4a.
Desire to vomit, returning periodically, in the morning, 1.
Stomach. [120.]
Complete inactivity of the stomach, 3.
Troublesome sensation of fulness in the stomach, 1.
Tension in the pit of the stomach, while expressing the juice, 1.
Constriction of the stomach, 1.
Pressure and sensation of fulness in the pit of the stomach, increased by external pressure, most violent in the morning, 1.
Horrid pains in the stomach, and fits of anxiety, 3.
Pains in the stomach, .

ABDOMEN

Stitches in the hepatic region, 1.
Acute stitches in the region of the gall-bladder, 1. [130.]
Long stitches in the region of the spleen, worse during a deep inspiration, 1.
Pinching colic, especially in the region of the navel, as after taking cold (after half an hour), 4b.
Screwing pressure behind the umbilicus , at night, 1.
Sensation as if a plug were lodged behind the umbilicus , especially in the morning, for several days, 1.
Rumbling and pinching in the abdomen, immediately, 1.
Passage of flatus after a frugal meal, 4a.
The abdominal walls are painful, 1.
Torpor of the intestinal canal, 6.
Long-continued, violent pains in different parts of the abdomen, which cannot be compared with any known pains, accompanied with slight fainting turns; a sort of convulsive pains in the intestines, 2.
Violent and peculiar pain in the bowels; two drops of juice excited even a still more troublesome feeling, the entire œsophagus seemed inflamed, 5. [140.]
Cutting in the intestines, at night (second day), 1.
Aching pain in the groins, 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Hæmorrhoidal symptoms, especially itching of the anus (second day), 4b.
Several fine stitches into the rectum (eleventh hour), 4b.
Evenings itching and forcing in the rectum, violent, for some hours, 4b.
Moisture in the anus (after eleven hours), 4b.
Tickling burning by the anus, 1.
Itching of the anus and forcing-out sensation, as if premonitions of hæmorrhoids, worse when walking (after one hour), 4b.
Frequent urging and loose stools, for several days, 1.
Urgency to stool after usual breakfast (after a quarter of an hour), 4b. [150.]
Urgency to stool, without evacuation, appears to be alternate action with the frequent evacuations, 4b.
After dinner great urgency to stool, as if he could not retain it, with merely passage of flatus, and after excessive straining some soft stool, 4b.
Urgency to stool at an entirely unusual time (after three hours and a half). As he was detained from going to stool, some flatus escaped. When he went to stool four hours after, feeling unable to wait longer, there was only passage of some flatus, and evacuation would not follow, 4.

STOOL

Three watery evacuations in rapid succession (five hours after 4 drops), 1.
Frequent loose stools the same days, 1.
Liquid and very fetid stools, for three or four days, 1.
Besides the usual morning stool, two more within a short time, soft, of the usual color and form, some pressure in the rectum with the last, 4a.
Frequent sensation as if diarrhœa would set in , whereas a natural evacuation takes place, 1.*
Delayed stool (after 2 drops), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

A short time after urinating, burning pain in the forepart of the urethra (after three hours), 4a. [160.]
A tickling-crawling sensation at the orifice of the urethra (after seven hours and a half), 4.
Frequent desire to urinate, nearly every fifteen minutes, five times in succession; every time a little light-yellow urine, 4.
Drops pass some time after urinating making the shirt wet, 4b.
Frequent passages of little light-yellow urine (after two hours), 4b.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Drawing pains in the penis, 1.
Sudden stitches in the forepart of the glans, 1.
Smarting about the scrotum, 1.
Seminal emission, without any lascivious dreams, after midnight, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Dry and hacking cough, rarely and without any effort, 1.
Tight and deep breathing (after seven hours), 1. [170.]
Frequent involuntary sighing, 1.

CHEST

Oppression of the chest, immediately and continuing the whole day, 1.
Chest somewhat oppressed; is compelled to inhale deeply several times; it seems as if something lay on the sternum (after six hours), 4.
Sensation of great weakness in the chest for several days, 1.
Violent contracting-pinching pain in the chest, behind the right nipple , several evenings in succession, 1.
The whole chest feels weak and bruised , several evenings, 1.
His chest feels bruised, in the evening, 1.
Great sensitiveness of the integuments of the chest, 1.
Front and Sides.
Violent continued gnawing behind the lowest portion of the sternum, arresting the breathing , in the evening (third day), 1.
External painfulness of the sternum ; pressure upon the sternum causes painful stitches through the chest, 1. [180.]
Burning soreness behind the xiphoid cartilage, 1.
Long frequent stitches behind the xiphoid cartilage, in a space of the size of the palm of the hand , in the morning (first day), 1.
Painful drawing in the pectoral muscles, 1.
Frequent stitches in the pectoral muscles, 1.
Continual pressure, as of a dull instrument, below the right false ribs , increased by a deep inspiration, 1.
Frequent but subdued stitches in the right chest (after two hours), 1.
Painful sticking in the right chest, not increased by inspirations, 1.
Continued dull sticking in the left chest and below the false ribs, 1.
Very painful pinching around the left nipple, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

Pressure, as from a blunt piece of wood, in the region of the heart (after a quarter of an hour), 4a. [190.]
Stitches in the region of the heart, 1.
Sticking-contracting pinching in the region of the heart, causing tightness of breath, at night, 1.
Somewhat accelerated, sometimes more rapid, sometimes slower beating of the heart (after six hours), 4.
Pulse somewhat accelerated, while the radial artery feels somewhat thinner than usual, 4.

NECK AND BACK

Pain in the small of the back as if bruised, 1.
Compressive drawing in the region of the scapulæ, 1.
Aching pain between the scapulæ, 1.
Sudden violent jerks in the lumbar region during a walk in the open air, arresting the breathing, 1.
Continual pressure in the right lumbar region, 1.
Paralytic pains in the small of the back (after six hours), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Shoulder and Arm. [200.]
Extending downward under the right shoulder, a sensation as if the muscles for sitting erect had been overtaxed, and as if they were now relaxed, 1.
Drawing in the region of the right shoulder, 1.
Stitches in the left shoulder, 1.
Soreness under the right arm, in the armpit, 4b.
Stinging itching in some parts of the upper arms, 1.
Elbow and Forearm.
Gnawing in the right elbow-joint, 1.
Long stitch in the elbow, 1.
Long-continuing boring sticking along the whole of the left forearm to the tip of the index finger, where it is most violent, 1.
Paralytic drawing in the forearm, immediately, 1.
Stitches in the forearm, 1. [210.]
Stinging burning in one spot of the forearm, 1.
Hand and Fingers.
Drawing, with pressure, in the metacarpal bones of the right hand, 1.
Transient drawing sticking in the ball of the right hand, 1.
Continual gnawing in the palm of the left hand , in the evening (fourth and sixth days), 1.
Frequent stitches in the dorsum of the hand, 1.
Swelling of the fingers (second morning), 1.
Aching pain in the right middle finger, 1.
Sticking boring in the last phalanges of the index fingers (fourth day), 1.
Boring in the metacarpal bones of the thumbs, 1.
Gnawing in the last phalanx of the left ring finger, 1. [220.]
Gnawing and boring in the phalangeal bones of the right fingers (after seven hours), 1.
Darting in the bones of the left index finger, 1.
Violent long stitch between the left middle and index fingers, in the evening (fifth day), 1.
Fleeting stitches in the tips of the ring and index fingers, with gnawing in the bones of the same, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Drawing-gnawing pressure in the right lower limb, 1.
Knee.
Gnawing and boring pains in the right knee, 1.
Biting in the bends of the knees, 1.
Leg.
Painful drawing, with pressure, along the leg, 1.
Jactitation of the muscles of the right calf, 1.
Stinging burning in a small spot in the right calf, 1. [230.]
Gnawing in the region of the outer malleolus of the right foot, 1.
Foot and Toes.
Weak in the feet, as after a journey on foot (after seven hours), 4.
Gnawing pains in the left heel (fifth day), 1.
Gnawing in the region of the ball of the left foot, 1.
Painfulness and stitches in the corn on the ball of the right foot; intolerable burning in this corn (after six days), 1.
Sticking-boring pains along the whole of the sole of the right foot, 1.
Stinging boring in the ball of the right foot, 1.
Gnawing in the ball of the right great toe, 1.
Boring and gnawing in the right great toe, 1.
Tingling and jerking in the left great toe (after seven hours), 1. [240.]
Sudden stitches in the forepart of the right great toe, as if a needle were thrust in deep, that made him cry out , recurring at short intervals (after one hour), 1.*
Sudden stitches in the right great toe, passing into a burning (after ten hours), 1.*
Itching stitches in the toes of the left foot, 1.

GENERALITIES

Prostration with the perspiration, 4b.
Laziness, want of disposition to perform any mental labor, in the morning, 1.
Slight fainting turns, 3.
Finally gangrene, 7.

SKIN

Dry skin and dry mouth, without thirst, at night (after sixteen hours), 1.
Vesicles upon the skin, emitting a thin acrid yellowish ichor, 2 . [The vesicles do not heal till the ichor becomes thick and purulent; if the vesicle is not opened, the red border gradually disappears and the vesicles dry up; they do so likewise after being opened. -KRAPF.]
Obstinate ulcers, 2 . [These ulcers resist all consolidating agents; the Balsam of Peru is of some avail. -KRAPF.] [250.]
On the red spot by the nostril a vesicle had formed, with sore pain (second day), 4b.
They soon drew a blister, which spread over the whole arm, 7.
Hard blotch below the left eyebrow, which does not suppurate, 1.
Burning of the skin of the fingers from being touched by the juice, 1.
Prickling and furious smarting of the dorsum of the right foot, 1.
Stitches in the skin of the pit of the stomach, 1.
Prickling and formication on the chest and back, 1.
Tickling sensation in the skin between the fingers, immediately and after 7 P.M., 1.
Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of the body, now here, now there, especially towards evening, 1.
Itching, pain, burning, redness of the skin, 3. [260.]
Itching stinging below the right nipple, 1.
Itching under the right lower lid, relieved by cold (after ten hours), 4b.
Fine itching in the skin between the fingers of the right hand (third evening), 1.
Itching of the lower half of the legs, not relieved by scratching, in the evening, 1.
Intolerable itching and prickling in the feet, 1.
Itching stinging of the dorsum of the left foot, 1.
Itching and furious smarting of the soles of the feet, 1.
Itching prickling in the right heel, 1.

SLEEP

Afternoons, yawning several times, 4a.
Sleepiness, the eyelids want to close, must make an effort to keep them open (after three hours), 4. [270.]
Sleepy in the evening, discouraged and disinclined to any occupation (after six hours), 4.
Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams about corpses, dead bodies, serpents, battles, etc.; constant tossing about in bed, 1.
He passed the whole night in a state of half sleep and waking, with imperfect consciousness; he was not sleepy in the morning, 1.
He wakes after midnight, is wide awake, and remains so for a long time (third, fourth, and fifth nights), 1.
He awoke suddenly half an hour after going to sleep without cause, and was wide awake, but soon fell asleep again, then, for the whole night, slept well, without dreams, 4.
Restless sleep after midnight, many nights in succession, 1.
Sleeplessness, after 3 A.M., the first nights, accompanied with anxiety, uncommon debility, gloomy, thoughtless brooding of the mind; his limbs felt bruised; in the morning the mind feels worn out; he is not able to fix his thoughts upon one object, 1.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Evenings, several chills, with thirst and pressive pain in the forehead, from without inward (after six hours), 4.
Chilliness while eating (after six hours), 1.
Feeling of coldness in the face, 1. [280.]
Mornings, after rising, sensation of cold, beginning especially in the nape of the neck, extending down the back (after fifteen hours), 4.
Heat.
Fever; he wakes after midnight, many nights in succession, with heat over the whole body and violent thirst; the pulse is fall, soft, accelerated, 80; afterwards sweat over the whole body, especially on the forehead, 1.
Fever, 7.
Heat, a quarter of an hour afterwards perspiration, with prostration, 4b.
Heat in the head and face, in the evening, when entering the house, on coming out of the open air, 1.
Heat evenings, especially in the face, with thirst (after thirteen hours), 4b.
Flushing heat in the face (after six hours), 4b.
Occasional flushes of heat in the face (after four hours), 4.
Sweat.
Cold sweats, followed by death, 3.
Cold sweat, 6.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Dulness of head; pain in lower right molar teeth; drawing and jerking all the teeth; white-coated tongue; sweetish taste in mouth; desire to vomit; pressure in pit of stomach; after rising, coldness, beginning in nape of neck, extending down back.
( Afternoon ), Pains in molar teeth; yawnings.
( Toward evening ), Itching in various parts of the body.
( Evening ), Sad mood; grief; boring in left outer meatus auditorius; pain behind right ear; pains in molar teeth; gnawing in frontal teeth; swelling of the tonsils, with stitches in the same; want of appetite; rancid eructations; itching and forcing in the rectum; pinching pain in chest, behind right nipple; chest feels weak and bruised; chilliness; when entering house, heat in head.
( Night ), Lachrymation; dryness of the mouth; choking in throat; pressure behind umbilicus; cutting in the intestines; pinching in region of heart; dry skin.
( After midnight ), Woke with thirst and heat of whole body; nausea; seminal emissions; restless sleep.
( Before breakfast ), Eructations.
( Eating bread ), Contractive sensation in throat.
( After eating bread and butter ), Eructations.
( After eating ), Chilliness.
( Deep inspiration ), Stitches in region of spleen; pressure below right false ribs.
( After a meal ), Eructations, tasting of the ingesta.
( Moving eyeballs quickly ), Pain in eyeballs.
( External pressure ), Pressure in pit of stomach.
( When sitting ), Vertigo.
( After urinating ), Burning in forepart of urethra.
( While walking in the open air ), Jerks in lumbar region.
( Walking ), Itching of the anus.

Ranunculus Sceleratus