Ranunculus bulbosus, L.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common name , Bulbous Crowfoot.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities. (Nos.

1 to 6 , from Franz, Archiv fur Hom., 7, part 3.)

1 , Dr. Franz, took the first day 8 drops tincture, in water; the second, third, and fifth days each 12 drops, in the morning; 2 , a woman, aged twenty-nine, took 8 drops in water, one dose; 3 , "Sd.," a man took 5 drops; 3 a , same, fourteen days later, took 15 drops; 3 b , same, nine days later, took 20 drops; 3 c , same, took within twelve hours 60 drops; 4 , Stapf, symptoms observed in a healthy woman; 5 , Ephem. Nat. Cur., Dec. III, ann. 2, Obs. 87, effects of the roots of R. palustris (?) (bulbosus), cooked with chicken-broth; 6 , Krapf, experimenta de nounull, Ranunc. ven. qualitate, Viennae, 1766, effects of applying the flowers and leaves to warts.

MIND

Fearfulness in the evening, she does not want to remain alone, she is afraid she may be haunted by ghosts, 1.
Vexed and inclining to be angry; quarrels and scolds when the slightest cause is offered (after two hours), 1.
Ill-humored, and disposed to quarrel and scold the first forenoon; in the evening he is desponding, apprehensive, sensitive, discontented; on the second day he again inclines to be provoked by the innocent jests of his friends, etc.; this continues for several days, and recurs frequently during the action of Ranunc., 1.
Extremely ill-humored, nothing was able to cheer him up (second and third days), 3c.
Fretful when with a patient, in the afternoon (first day), 7.
(Dread of labor; he has to make a great effort to bring himself to note down the observations which he has gathered), 1.
(The objects of his feelings, for instance, chagrin, occupy his mind long after the occurrence took place; one sees that he is thinking of those things; he talks to himself, gesticulates in his anger, in the forenoon), (second day), 1.
Vanishing of thought when reflecting; he stares at one point for a long time (after one hour), 3a.
Obtuseness of the senses, for weeks, as long as the herpes lasted; nothing made a strong impression upon him; even his painful herpes did not affect him as vividly as it ought to have done, and he finds it difficult to furnish an exact description of it from beginning to end, 1.

HEAD

Vertigo. [10.]
Vertigo, as if he would fall, upon leaving the room and going into the air (after eight hours), 1.
Vertigo while walking (after ten hours), 1.
Sudden attack of vertigo in the occiput, when walking, as if he would fall, followed by violent tearing in the right temple (after five hours), 1.
Dizziness of the head and sensation as if the head would be enlarged and distended (immediately), 3a.
Dizziness in the head, making it difficult to think (after half an hour), 3.
General Head.
Heaviness of the head (after one hour and a half), 2.
The whole head feels distended (after one hour), 3.
Head and body feel quite weak, the whole forenoon (second day), 1.
Congestion of blood to the head, especially in the vertex, when walking in the open air (after three hours), 2.
Forehead.
Transient feeling of dizziness in the forehead, followed immediately by transitory pressure in that part (after nine hours), 1. [20.]
Headache over the right eye, aggravated by lying down, relieved by walking and standing , with heat in the face and cold hands (after eight hours), 1.*
Headache over the right eye (frontal cavity?), thence pressing downward into the nose, with vertigo, as if he would fall forward, and beating in the right frontal eminence, the whole day until evening (first day), (in a female liable to similar attacks), 1.*
Headache over the right eye ; with disposition to weep and mental oppression, which seemed to emanate from the chest, in the evening (third day), 1.*
The day after drinking a glass of wine he has headache in the forehead and constant nausea, pressure in the upper part of the chest, and stitches in the left side of the chest (seventh day), 1.
Pressure in both frontal eminences, when entering the room from the open air, early in the morning (second day), 1.
Pressing pain in the forehead, from within outward , in the afternoon (first day), 3a.*
Pressing pain in the forehead and eyeballs, early in the morning, when in bed, abating after rising , whereas the pain in the chest increased (third day), 3a.
Drawing pressure in the upper part of the frontal bone and in the front of the forehead, with sensation as if the hairs of the sinciput stood on end, shortly after supper (after thirteen hours), 1.
Sore pain of the hairy portion of the forehead, in the afternoon, per se , not when touched, 1.
Temple.
Upon entering the room, when coming out of the open air, he experiences suddenly an aching pain in both temples and in the nape of the neck, with vertigo, apparently deep in the brain (evening), (after eleven hours), 1. [30.]
Pain in the region where the right malar and temporal bones unite, about noon (sixth day), 1.
Pain in the temples, drawing and pressure, in the evening, while walking, with feverish restlessness and difficulty of breathing, in the evening (eighth day), 1.
Aching pain in a small spot, where the left temporal bone unites with the parietal (before dinner), (after seven days), 1.
Violent tearing in the right temple, preceded by vertigo in the occiput (after eight hours), 1.
Acute stitches in the left temple, only superficial; after they had disappeared, stitches in the left ear, and tearing in the left side of the occiput (fifth day), 1.
Vertex.
Pain in the vertex, as if the parts were pressed asunder, in the evening, when entering the room on coming out of the open air, accompanied with pressure in the eyeball, near the outer canthus (after fourteen hours), 1.
Pain in the sinciput, in the afternoon, as if filled with blood (thirteenth day), 1.
Tearing in the vertex, when writing, while standing, in the morning (second day), 1.
Occiput.
Pain in the occiput after slight chagrin, in the morning (fourth day), 1.
Drawing-sticking pain in the occiput (fourth day), 1. [40.]
Violent tearing in the evening, first in the left side of the occiput, as far as the nape of the neck, afterwards along the left lower jaw, from behind forward (fifth day), 1.
Transitory (beating?), pain, while sitting, in the right side of the occiput, with general debility (after nine hours), 1.
Occasional subdued, soft beats, not like pulsations, but at longer intervals, in the left side of the occiput (after two hours), 1.
External Head.
Crawling and creeping in the hairy scalp, in the evening, in bed (from the vapor while preparing the juice), (after eight hours), 1.
Burning prickings in the outer and right side of the hairy scalp, accompanied with a sensation as if the blood rushed into the brain (without any heat being felt on the outside), and incipient obtuseness of the head (vanishing of thought), (after two hours), 1.

EYE

Pressure in the eyes , as if a hair had got in, going off by rubbing (after one hour), 1.
Smarting in the eyes , nose, and fauces; the eyes run and are very painful, so that he has to rest them for half an hour, because he is unable to see anything; the whites are slightly inflamed; the mucus runs in torrents from the nose; the fauces are painful, as if sore, during an inspiration, less during deglutition, 1 . [From preparing the juice.]*
Sore smarting within the right eye, 1 . [This symptoms, and likewise 43, 67, 89, 276, 277, arose from preparing the juice, the acrid vapor touching the parts.]*
Smarting in the eyes, as from smoke , in the evening (after fourteen hours), 1.*
Itching of the eyes in the room, she had to rub them, with constant stretching and yawning, afterwards eructations, in the afternoon (first day), 1.
Brow. [50.]
Painful pressure in the region of the right eyebrow, while making a moderate mental effort, in the evening (second day), 1.
Lid.
Swelling and redness of the left outer canthus, with painful soreness (fourteenth day), 1.
Sensation of burning soreness in the right lower eyelid (third and following days), 1.*
Smarting and feeling of soreness in the outer canthus of the right eye (third day), 1.*
Ball.
Aching in the eyeballs, when moving them (eighth day), 1.
Pressure as with a dull point in the right eyeball, from above downward (after nine hours), 1.
Violent pressing pains in the eyeballs, at times in one, at times in the other (third and following days), 3a.
Pressure in the eyeballs for several days, 3a.
Pressure in the eyeballs, especially in the left (soon), 3.
Slight pressure upon and in both eyeballs, as if they were being pressed out, with slight sensation of vertigo in the forehead (after half an hour), 1. [60.]
Painfulness of the right eyeball (ninth day), 1.*
Pupil.
Immobility of the pupils (soon), 3a.
Vision.
Mist before the eyes (immediately), 3.*

EAR

Cramp feeling in the inner and outer left ear, in the evening (fourth day), 3a.
Sticking in the right ear, in the region of the tympanum (after two hours), 1.*
Stitches through the right ear, extending into the right parietal bone, in the evening (second day), 1.
Stitches in the left ear, in the evening (second day), 3a.

NOSE

Profuse flow of tenacious mucus from the nose; from the vapor while preparing the juice, 1.
Sore nose ; it was red and swollen externally, with tensive pain internally; a quantity of scurf forms in the nose, only on the right side, the nose is dry all the time, continuing five weeks (after fourth day), 1.
In the evening the nose becomes stopped up again, after having been free the whole day, with painful soreness extending high up in the nose (third day), 2. [70.]
Pressure in the region of the root of the nose (when seating himself), (after five hours), 1.
Tingling, pressing upward from the tip of the nose to the root, and from the right eyebrow to the temple, internally (after seven hours), 2.
Painful crawling in the region of the lower turbinated bone, in the nose, internally; another paroxysm of painful crawling in the nose, with a sort of pressure; she had to blow her nose frequently, during which she discharged some blood; after blowing the nose, the crawling sensation in the nose, with pressure, disappeared, and the right nostril became stopped up; became open again in the open air, and stopped again in the room (second day), 2.

FACE

Spasmodic paralytic sensation in the upper and lower jaw, after lying down, in the evening (second day), 3b.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Sensation in the sound and lower molars of the right side, as if a foreign body, a knife had got between them and forced them asunder (after four hours), 1.
(Toothache early in the morning, upon waking), (fifth day), 1.
General Mouth.
Scraping burning sensation in the velum palati (first and third days), 1.
Stitches near the right corner of the mouth (after fifteen hours), 1.
Saliva.
Accumulation of white saliva, tasting like copper (second day), 4.
Frequent accumulation of water in the mouth (fifth day), 1.
Taste. [80.]
Flat taste in the mouth, early in the morning, and white-coated tongue (second day), 3.
(Butter tastes too sweet), 1.
Bitterish, pungent taste in the mouth, during and after eating dry food, the food having its natural taste (third and following days), 1.
Bittersour taste in the mouth, half an hour before dinner, afterwards the food has a natural taste (fifth day), 1.
Sweetish taste on the tip of the tongue, with accumulation of water (third and following days), 1.

THROAT

Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (second day), 3a.
Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, the whole afternoon, he had to hawk frequently (second day), 1.
Increased secretion of tenacious mucus in the throat, in the evening, for several evenings (third, fourth, and seventh days), 1.
Roughness and tenacious mucus in the throat (first day), 3b.
Scraping burning sensation in the throat, increased during an inspiration and by the smoke of tobacco (after half an hour), 1. [90.]
Spasmodic feeling in the pharynx and œsophagus, ascending, soon, 3b.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Feeling of hunger and rumbling in the stomach, early in the morning (second day), 3c.
Increased thirst, in the afternoon , for several days, 3.
Eructations.
Several eructations (first day), 3.
Frequent eructations before breakfast, after taking the dose (second day), 1.
Frequent eructations and great hunger, before dinner, still he eats less than usual (third day), 1.
Empty rising (second day), 4.
Frequent eructations , in the evening (seventh day), 1.
Hiccough.
Hiccough four hours after dinner (first day), 1.
Hiccough (third day), 1.
Nausea. [100.]
Nausea, drowsiness (after three hours), 1.
Nausea in the afternoon, sometimes with headache (second day), 1.
Nausea, in the evening, pressure upon the sternum, and labored breathing; he fetches breath frequently and sometimes very deeply, as if he could not take in a sufficient quantity of air (fifth day), 1.
Nausea in the evening, especially when smoking tobacco as usual, relieved by eating (sixth day), 1.
Nausea in the evening, pressure upon the sternum, and labored breathing; he frequently takes a deep breath, and he feels nevertheless as if he could not take in a sufficient quantity of air (ninth day), 1.
Nausea and eructations, towards noon (twelfth day), 1.
Transient nausea (after one hour), 3.
Stomach.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach (after half an hour), 1.
Painful soreness in the pit of the stomach, when touched (second, and following days), 3c.
Burning sore pressure in the pit of the stomach (after two hours), 1. [110.]
Violent burning in the region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach , with great anxiety about the heart, 3 . [In four persons who had eaten the root of the Ranunc. bulb. boiled in chicken.]

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
*Pain in both hypochondria, accompanied by painfulness of these regions when touched (third day), 1.
*In the evening, both hypochondria and the lowest ribs in the chest feel painful, as if bruised (eighth day), 1.
Periodical pulsations in the left hypochondrium (second to sixth days), 1.
Umbilicus and Sides.
Violent colic; drawing and pinching below and around the umbilicus, in the evening, while going to bed and moving about (second day), 1.
Colic around the umbilicus, whence a coldness ascends her back and arms (after two hours), 2.
Violent pinching in the umbilical region, while walking, at noon (after seven hours, and on thirteenth day), 1.
After dinner, pinching below the umbilicus , with sensation as if the bowels would fall out; the pinching spread to the right and left side of the abdomen, in the shape of a drawing-aching pain; it then rose to the pit of the stomach (after eight hours), 1.
When standing, he feels a pressure in the right side of the abdomen, deep in the region of the liver, increased by pressure (after two hours), 1.
*Stitching, with pressure in the right side of the abdomen, in the region of the last true rib (liver?), arresting the breathing, with stitches and pressure on the top of the right shoulder, when walking, after having been seated (third, and following days), 1. [120.]
Immediately after supper, he feels a sore pain and stitches in the left side of the abdomen (after twelve hours), 1.*
Pain in the left side of the abdomen, in the morning (eighth day), 1.
Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, in the forenoon, when walking (second day), 1.*
General Abdomen.
Frequent emission of fetid flatus (fifth day), 1.
Rumbling and movements in the abdomen, 3b.*
Slight movements and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening, when lying down (first day), 3a.
Colic and rumbling in the abdomen in the evening after lying down (first day), 3.
When walking, he feels constantly a subdued colic in the whole tract of the intestines; they are painful when pressing upon the integuments of the abdomen (after ten hours), 1.
Now concealed, now sharp colic and pinching, with some burning sore feeling below the umbilicus, sometimes accompanied with stitches in the side of the abdomen; at the same time the intestines are painful, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing with the hand upon the abdomen (second day), 1.
The whole day he feels a subdued pinching colic, sometimes alternating with pain in the chest (third day), 1. [130.]
Colic, followed by an evacuation (after five hours), 3a.
Sensitiveness of the intestines, when walking, and dull pain (eighth day), 1.
When pressing with the abdomen against the sharp edge of a table, the intestines feel painful, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration, followed by a colicky pinching below the umbilicus (after nine hours), 1.
Jerking in the abdomen and arm (after twelve hours), 1.
Immediately after dinner, he feels violent stitches from the left lumbar region transversely through the abdomen, especially below the umbilicus and towards the right groin (second day), 1.*
Hypogastrium.
Pinching in the hypogastrium, followed by emission of flatus, 1.
Pinching in the hypogastrium, shortly after a meal (after six hours), 2.
During the pinching in the abdomen, both groins and the pit of the stomach are painful when touched (after eight hours), 1.
Pain deep in the hypogastrium (seventh day), 1.
About two hours after supper, he feels a pinching deep in the hypogastrium, for several evenings in succession (third to fifth days), 1. [140.]
When stretching the body, he feels a pain from the spinous process of the right ilium to the flank (after nine hours), 1.
Violent stitches near the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium in the groin, when walking, 2.

RECTUM AND ANUS

(Profusely flowing hæmorrhoids), 1.
Stitches in the anus (after twelve hours), 2.

STOOL

Two evacuations daily instead of one, as usual; for many days, 3.
The alvine evacuations take place more frequently and easily (first day), 3.
After several urgings, he has a hard stool, in the morning, and a natural one in the afternoon, for several days, 3a.
The stools, which had been soft heretofore, became hard and more scanty, dark-brown (second, and following days), 1.
Stools very hard and painless, although apparently larger in size than the anus (third day), 1.
Stools delayed and hard (fifth day), 1. [150.]
The stools have delayed every day for eight days past, and are very hard (in one who had regular and soft evacuations), (eleventh day), 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Frequent erections towards morning, and dizziness in the head (second day), 3.
Nocturnal emission and slight erections (first night), 3.
Emissions towards morning (second day), 3c.
Female.
Increase of leucorrhœa; having been mild at first, it now becomes acrid and corrosive (second day), 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

The pain in the chest is accompanied with some cough (seventh day), 1.
Heavy, short breathing, in the evening; he has to take a deep breath frequently, with burning and fine stitches in the left side of the chest (seventh day), 1.*

CHEST

Oppression of the chest (after half an hour), 3.
Oppression of the chest, with much weeping, in the evening, and sore pain in the eyes, especially the right (third day), 1.*
Oppressive sensation in the chest, as after deep chagrin; he had to take a deep breath frequently ; continuing the whole evening (fifth day), 1. [160.]
Oppression of the chest when walking and going up hill, 1.
In the evening when walking or standing, in the open air and in the room, he experiences a pressure and tightness across the lower part of the chest, with fine stitches, which seem to be felt in the outer parts of the chest first, but then extend deep into the chest, now in the right, now in the left side of the chest; increased by moving, stooping, or taking an inspiration (eighth day), 1.
Pain and oppression of the chest (soon), 3a.
Pressing-dragging pain in the chest for many days; it is rather external, and only impedes the breathing when walking, 3b.
Pressing pain in the outer parts of the chest, 3.*
Violent pressive pain in the chest several days, 3c.*
Violent pressive pain in the chest, beginning in the evening and lasting the whole night, not aggravated by deep breathing (first day), 3.
Violent pains in the chest the whole forenoon (first and fourth days), 1.
Pressure in the chest and shortness of breath when walking on level ground, but no oppression of breath when going up hill (third day), 1.
Pains in the chest, stitches in the right side, and pressure in the middle of the chest, continuing uninterruptedly almost all day, with painful inspiration (second day), 1. [170.]
Pain in the whole chest; early in the morning, when rising, a sort of rheumatic pain and as of subcutaneous ulceration on slight motion of the trunk (second day), 1.*
Pain of the whole chest, in the evening, when in bed, especially in the left side; he is not able to lie on either side, owing to the painfulness of the outer parts of the chest; accompanied with anxiety, tightness of breathing, accelerated pulse (third day), 1.*
Constant pain in the chest the whole afternoon, mostly in the left side, and partly as if in the pectoralis major, where a rheumatic pain is felt when turning the body, and as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; at first the pain is felt externally, afterwards the pain seems to recede to the internal and posterior surface of the sternum and the pit of the stomach ; the pain frequently disappears, and gives place to an aching pain as of subcutaneous ulceration below the liver in the right lumbar region; the pain is frequently preceded by a bitter pungent taste in the mouth and a necessity to hawk (fourth day), 1.*
The pain extends from the left into the right side of the chest, the sticking pain being felt in both sides of the chest at the same time , however he is able to take a deep breath while bending forward, in the forenoon (thirteenth day), 1.*
Pain in the chest, in the evening; pressure on the upper and left side of the chest, complicated with stitches; the breathing is painful, even contact is painful; in the evening (thirteenth day), 1.*
Pain in the chest as soon as he wakes, in the morning, as if the parts were bruised, and stitches in the left side above the nipple, in a space of the size of the hand, worse during contact and motion, every day for eight days past (after fifteen days), 1.*
Pain in the chest and restless nights, continuing for weeks, 3.*
After dinner he feels a violent beating in the chest, as if caused by congestion of blood, with inclination to lie down (second day), 3.
Front and Sides.
Violent aching pain in the middle of the chest, on the upper half of the sternum, in the evening, while writing (first day), 1.
Aching pain on both sides of the xiphoid cartilage, when walking (eighth and following day), 1. [180.]
When stooping he feels a pressure on the lower half of the sternum, in the region of the xiphoid cartilage; when rising up he feels a beating there, which disappears again soon, after which the place is painful to touch (after four hours); the pressure on the lower part of the sternum, in the space of the size of a hand, spreads towards the right side of the chest and the pit of the stomach; the pit and sternum are painful to touch, and even when stooping; the whole of the outer chest becomes so painful that even buttoning the coat gives him pain; this continues for three hours, without interruption, in the first six hours (first day), 1.
Pressure on both sides of the xiphoid cartilage, as if upon the cartilages of the ribs, most violent and painful on the right side (third and following days), 1.
Violent pressure in the middle of the chest and in the left side, in the evening, for several hours, with increase of phlegm in the throat (eleventh day), 1.
Sticking in the side of the sternum, towards the left side, with sensation as if bruised, while going up hill (fourth day), 1.
*Violent fine stitches in the middle of the left chest, in front, during an inspiration, in the forenoon (eighth day), 1.
Beating in the sternum (eighth day), 1.
*Pain, as if bruised, in the region of the short ribs, with pain in the back, lassitude, ill-humor (third and fourth days), 3b.
Pressing and pushing in the lowest part of the right side of the chest, towards the liver, in the forenoon (second day), 1.*
Single stitches in the right side of the chest (after sixteen hours), 2.*
Violent stitches all day in the right and less frequently in the left side of the chest; in the evening a pressure is felt on the middle of the sternum (second day), 1.* [190.]
*Violent sticking in the right side of the chest, in the region of the fifth to the seventh ribs, arresting the breathing, with stitches and pressure on the top of the right shoulder, while walking, after having been seated (third and following days), 1.
Violent sticking pains in the whole of the right side of the chest, early in the morning, during a walk in the open air (seventh day), 1.*
*Sticking pain in the right side of the chest, in the region of the fifth and sixth ribs, in the forenoon (eighth day), 1.
Painfulness of the left chest the whole day, worse in the evening, with quantities of tenacious mucus in the throat (twelfth day), 1.
Painful soreness under the short ribs of the left side, especially when moving the trunk for several days, 3b.*
In the forenoon, when walking or standing, he feels a pain as if bruised, or as of subcutaneous ulceration in the region of the left lowest true rib, accompanied with mild stitches (third day), 1.*
Sharp pressure in the upper part of the left side of the chest (after a quarter of an hour), 3.
Light pressure on the left chest, transient, 1.
Violent pressure and sensation, as if bruised, over the whole left half of the chest, immediately after rising, in the morning; every movement of the shoulder causes pain; the pain spreads over the whole chest, with shortness of breath; he is unable to speak long sentences on account of his want of breath (twelfth day), 1.*
Pain, in the morning, as if bruised, or as if one had been lying in a wrong position, in the region of the lowest true rib, in the left side (eleventh day), 1.* [200.]
Pain in the left side of the chest, a few hours, in the morning; no more during the day (fourteenth day), 1.
Pain in the left side of the chest, in the morning, in the region of the pectoralis major, near the axilla, worse during every motion (sixteenth day), 1.*
Early in the morning, while walking, he feels a sticking in the region of the fifth and sixth true ribs of the left side, with great sensitiveness of that spot to the touch and great debility (second day), 1.*
Sticking pain in the left chest and as if there were subcutaneous ulceration, increased by motion and by turning the trunk ; it continues the whole afternoon and evening with scarcely any interruption; in the evening an aching pain is felt in the right scapula (third day), 1.*
*Stitches in the interior of the left side of the chest, when walking in the open air, in the region of the nipple; the stitches disappear when he continues to walk, after which a pain is felt below the last true rib in the right side of the abdomen (splenetic stitch?), (after forty-seven hours), 1.
*Stitches in the left chest when talking, in the forenoon (seventh day), 1.
Violent sticking pain above the left nipple, near the axilla, in the morning, when rising; he dares not move his arm or raise it; he dares not even raise the trunk lest he should scream with pain; he has to sit or stand stooping, with head and chest forward to the left side (thirteenth day), 1.*
Sticking pain and as of subcutaneous ulceration in the left chest (fifteenth day), 1.*
Jerking (violent pulsating) in the region of the left short ribs over night, also several times in the daytime (fourth day), 3b.

PULSE

The pulse is accelerated towards evening, 85 to 90 beats, and rather hard (third day), 1. [210.]
Pulse full and strong, 72 (after half an hour), 1.
Small hard pulse (first day), 3a.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Aching pain in the nape of the neck; a slight blow upon the nape causes a pain in the forehead and in the parietal bone (second day), 2.
Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck (evening), which could be felt in the left shoulder early in the morning (second day), 3.
Back.
Pain, as if bruised, in the back and hypochondriac region, especially perceptible during motion , for many days, 1.
Pain in the back, lassitude, and pain as if bruised, in the region of the short ribs, with ill-humor (third to fourth day), 3b.*
Pain in the back, early in the morning , when rising (second day), 3b.
Dorsal.
Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ, early in the morning, when waking (fourth day), 7b . [From blossoms and leaves laid upon warts, which had been cut off until they bled, but were not removed in spite of all that.]
Sticking between the scapulæ, early in the morning, in the region of the third and fourth dorsal vertebræ (fifth day), 1.
Stitches in the right scapula, early in the morning, while walking (second day), 1.
Lumbar. [220.]
Early in the morning he feels a pain in the small of the back and an indolence through the whole body, after a restless night, disturbed with dreams and seminal emissions, 3a.
Stitches in the right lumbar region when walking, with a slight burning sensation (third and following days), 1.*

EXTREMITIES

Trembling of the limbs when he has the least cause for chagrin (fourth day), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Inflammation of the arm from the finger to the shoulder, 6

[From blossoms and leaves laid upon warts, which had been cut off until they bled, but were not removed in spite of that.]

Violent inflammation about the arm, with fever and delirium, followed by gangrene of the arm, 1.
Jerking of the arms, 2.
Shoulder and Arm.
Stitches and pressure on the top of the right shoulder (third day), 1.
Jerking pain in the right upper arm (third day), 3a.
Rheumatic pain in both elbow and shoulder-joints, early in the morning (fifth day), 3a.
Forearm.
Visible spasmodic contraction of the skin and muscles in the region of the styloid process of the left ulna (after twelve hours), 2. [230.]
While writing he feels sudden tearings (stitches, jerkings?)

in the right forearm and between the thumb and index finger (tenth day), 1.

Violent stitches dart through the forearm; some time after they are likewise felt in the left thumb (second day), 4.
Wrist.
Tearing in the left wrist-joint, extending along the dorsum of the hand, in the forenoon (second day), 1.
Hand and Fingers.
The hands tremble while threading a needle (first day), 2.
Jactitation of some muscular parts of the hands (first and second days), 3.
Jerking of the left hand while it is lying quiet (fourth day), 3a.
Tearing in the ball of the left thumb; the place is afterwards sensitive to touch; in the afternoon (second day), 1.
Pain under the nail of the right index finger, as if a splinter had been thrust in there and had produced suppuration, in the afternoon (third day), 1.
Frequent tingling in single parts of the fingers (first day), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Great weakness in his lower limbs, in the forenoon, when walking (fifth day), 1.
Hip and Thigh. [240.]
Drawing pain in the right hip when walking, in the evening (third day), 1.
Painful drawing in the posterior and inner sides of both thighs down into the calves, especially perceptible in the region of the inner hamstring, in the afternoon, while sitting (third day), 1.
Tearing boring in the middle of the left thigh, early in the morning in bed and afterwards when standing (seventeenth day), 1.
While walking, in the evening, he feels a cramplike tearing in the outer side of the right thigh, from the centre downwards, skipping the bends of the knees and commencing again in the calves (fifth day), 1.
Knee and Leg.
Tearing in the inner sides of both knees when walking (second and following days), 1.
Weakness in the bends of the knees; they give way involuntarily (second and following days), 1.
Cracking in the patella when going up hill, as if it would become sprained (third and following days), 1.
Tension in the right tend Achillis when walking (third day), 1.
Foot and Toes.
Stiffness in the right tarsal joint and the whole of the right leg, with vertigo deep in the brain, when walking in the open air (after three hours), 1.
Violent and constant pain in the tarsal joint, in the evening, when rising from a seat (seventh day), 1. [250.]
Tearing in the left tarsal joint, in the evening, when sitting (tenth day), 1.
Pain in the tarsal joint, extending half way up the tibia, as if the tendons were too short, when walking (after twelve hours), 2.
Drawing aching continuous pain in the dorsum of the right foot (eighth day), 1.
Cramp in the dorsum of the foot when walking, suddenly in the articulations of all the toes, as if he had sprained them in making a misstep (after eight days), 1.
Stitches in the dorsum of the left foot when sitting (thirteenth and following days), 1.
Acute pain in the heels for two evenings, as if the boots pinched him, which however he had taken off (fourth and fifth days), 1.
Pulsative stitches in the left heel when standing, in the afternoon (second day), 1.
Sore pain and stitches in the tips of the toes, in the evening (fifth day), 1.
Feeling of soreness and stitches between the toes (after twelve hours), 1.
Violent stitches in the fourth toe of the left foot, when entering the room and coming out of the open air (after four hours), 1. [260.]
Stitches in the dorsa of the toes, in the evening (after fourteen hours), 1.
Stinging pain in the toes when walking (second and following days), 1.

GENERALITIES

Physical uneasiness (first day), 3.
Frequent turns of sudden weakness, in the afternoon, when sitting down; they seem to arise from the head; he feels as if his senses would vanish (after ten hours), 1.
Great weakness all day, his head feels as if he had not slept enough, although he performs his occupation with ease if he chooses (second day), 1.
Weak and debilitated during an afternoon walk; trembling of the limbs (fourth day), 1.
Tired and broken down all day , he would like to sleep all the time (after ten days), 1.*
In the morning, while writing and standing, he feels so weak all of a sudden that he comes near falling, 1.
Lassitude, ill-humor, with pain in the back, and pain as if bruised in the region of the short ribs (third to fourth day), 3b.*
Great heaviness and lassitude in the whole body , in the forenoon (after seven days), 1.* [270.]
Jerks through the whole body, in the evening, when lying down to sleep (second day), 2.
The whole body feels bruised , especially in the hypochondriac region (second day), 3c.*
The symptoms of Ranunculus bulb. are especially perceived in the morning, and evening, 1.
Changes of temperature, for example, on going from a warm room into the cold air, or the reverse, cause many symptoms, 1.

SKIN

Eruptions.
In the first quarter of an hour the powdered bulbs, when applied to the fingers, cause an itching of the same, which is always followed by a blister, even if the skin should not be changed, 6.
On applying a piece of the bulb between the fingers, a burning was experienced after the lapse of two minutes, which soon ceased after the removal of the bulb; after the lapse of two hours the place became red, and in ten hours a blister was formed, emitting a large quantity of thin, yellowish, burning fluid, 6.
Vesicles on the fingers , especially those of the right hand, as if caused by burns or a blister (of the size of a hazelnut and still larger); after being opened with a pin, so that the skin of the blister was preserved, they emitted for eight days a yellowish lymph, with burning pains, the bright-red skin shining through the blister (from the skin being touched by the juice while expressing it). After the blisters had been healed for a fortnight, and the new skin which had been excoriated had likewise been healed again, small, deep, transparent, dark-blue, little elevated blisters, of the size of an ordinary pin's head, are formed (as if the pores were raised in the shape of small, blue, transparent vesicles ); they are crowded together in oval-shaped groups of the size of a shilling, with intolerable burning itching (as if felt in the spots caused by nettles upon the skin, which the vesicles resembled); when the vesicles are opened they emit a dark-yellow lymph, and afterwards became covered with a herpetic horny scurf , itching intolerably, and emitting a clear fluid when scratched or even of itself. (These dark-blue vesicles reappeared periodically, even for six months, the former healing up and new ones forming in their places). After the horny scurf, which had formed after the vesicles had been scratched open, had crumbled away of itself within eight or ten days, new blue vesicles appeared again, with intolerable burning itching, inducing frequent scratching; the scratching brought on a shining-red, loose swelling of the fingers (they felt like sheepskin), with inflammation , and intolerable burning stinging itching. On applying hart's grease to the swollen fingers, to suppress the itching, the horny scurf no longer formed, but, in places of the size of a shilling, crowded groups of small holes, of the size of a pin's head (as if they were the pores), were formed, emitting a yellow lymph in the shape of drops of sweat, and changing to small, flat, spreading ulcers, healing with difficulty, with corroded sharp borders and intolerable burning-stinging itching, depriving him of rest for weeks, day and night, 1 . [The affection described in the latter part of the symptoms came on a fortnight after the vesicles on the fingers, caused by the juice while expressing it, had been healed; first the affection appeared on the index and middle fingers, which had been covered with vesicles, by being touched by the juice, and afterwards it spread from finger to finger, and from hand to hand, although no vesicles had existed on these parts. Rhus and Bryonia were the best antidotes; Sulphur and Staph, did injury. Drs. Schweikert and Hanboldt, guided by these facts, have healed herpes on the fingers and in the palm of the hand, by giving the Ranunculus bulb, internally, and causing at the same time the herpes to be washed externally with a drop of the tincture diluted in water.]*
Ulcers of the fingers, penetrating down to the flexor tendons, 1 . [In a child, which was cured of fever and ague, with subsequent dropsy and hydrocele, by applying the Ranunc. bulb. to the wrist.]
Sensations.
Creeping in the face, especially about the chin and nose (first day), 3.
Crawling in the skin of the fingers (after six hours), 2. [280.]
Prickings, terminating in itching, in various parts of the skin, in the upper arm, thigh, etc., 2.
Frequent and violent itching of the forearm, which he frequently had had in his healthy days, especially at night, 3c.
Coarse itching in the hollow of the hand (after four hours), 1.
Stinging itching in the palm of the right hand (eighth day), 1.
Burning itching of the palm of the left hand, passing off soon (fourth day), 3.
Itching of several parts of the hands, sometimes slight and passing off soon, with redness, 3c.
Violent itching in the inner side of the knee, in the tarsal joint, in the evening (second day), 1.

SLEEP

Great drowsiness in the evening, he falls asleep over his work; nevertheless he is unable to sleep several hours after going to bed (third day), 1.
Great drowsiness in the afternoon; he sleeps three hours after dinner, and has done so for three days past (eighth day), 1.
Irresistible desire to sleep two afternoons (third and fourth days), 1. [290.]
Sleep before midnight; remains afterwards wide awake until 5 A.M., when he fell into a sleep full of dreams (third day), 3b.
Awoke early in the morning with perspiration (third day), 1.
Frequent waking at night, he remains awake a long while, owing to want of sleep and anxiety in the chest (third day), 1.
Wakes up earlier than usual, and is wider awake (second day), 1.
Falls asleep late in the evening, and wakes early in the morning, with perspiration (second day), 1.
Falls asleep late in the evening and wakes several times at night, not from any pain, but because he is not sleepy (fourth day), 1.
Falls asleep late in the evening, is not sleepy, is unable to lie on the right side, wakes early in the morning (seventh day), 1.
Falls asleep late several nights, 3a.
Disturbed sleep at night, 3.*
Very restless sleep, with increase of pain in the chest and heat, 3a. [300.]
Restless sleep, with emission, with pain in the small of the back, in the morning, and indolence the whole day, 3b.
Restless nights, unrefreshing sleep, with frequent flushes of heat, 3.
Restless sleep, with violent aching of the chest and oppression (first day), 3c.
Lies awake several hours in the evening, although he is very tired, owing to an intolerable itching of the thighs and internal uneasiness; his skin is moist, he rises four times to urinate, although he had not taken more than the usual quantity of liquid in the evening (fifth day), 1.
Anxious dreams that he is near drowning, etc. (fifth day), 3a.
Vivid dreams, such as that he is swimming, etc., 1.
Voluptuous dreams at night, without seminal emission (fourth day), 3a.

FEVER

Chilliness.
An hour after dinner , in the warm room, chills creep over his body, the hair stands on end, shuddering across the scapulæ, hands, and thighs, and shortly after pinching in the hypogastrium, with stitches resembling pushes, which dart towards the hypochondriac region (after seven hours), 1.
Frequent chilliness, after dinner, for two hours, with gooseflesh on the calf and forearms (second day), 1.
Chilliness after dinner , with cold tips of the fingers and hot face (fourth day), 1. [310.]
Chilliness after dinner, with cold hands and hot face (first day), 2.
Chilliness for two hours, in the evening, with general external coldness of the body (fifth day), 1.
She felt chilly all over, her teeth chattered and she shook; with heat in the face, dryness, and mucus in the mouth; this lasts an hour, in the open not cold air (the chilliness was less in the room), 4.
Unusual chilliness in the outer parts of the chest, when walking in the open air, in spite of being clad more warmly than usual, 1.
Uncommon chilliness of the outer parts of the chest, when walking in the open air, although he is clad more warmly than usual (after three hours), 1.
After supper chilliness over the shoulders, upper arms, and thighs (after twelve hours), 1.
She has cold hands all day (first day), 2.
Cold feeling in the great toe, in the evening, as if a current of air were rushing through it (third day), 1.
Heat.
Great dry heat in the face, with bright redness of the cheeks, the feet being icy cold; during the heat they felt chilly; the mouth is dry, viscid, so that she is scarcely able to speak, at 8 P.M. (after nine hours), 4.
Heat in the face in the evening, with burning of the ears, especially on the right side, with cold hands and general discomfort (second day), 1. [320.]
Heat in the face in the evening, especially on the right side, with cold hands, quick pulse, and eructations (third day), 1.
Heat in the face, in the evening, and redness, with internal chilliness (second day), 3c.
Warmth about the forehead, in the evening, when writing, with sensation as if sweat would break out in that region (after fifteen hours), 1.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Early, pain in forehead and eyeballs; while writing, tearing in vertex; after slight chagrin, pain in occiput; toothache; flat taste in mouth and white-coated tongue; hunger and rumbling in stomach; pain in left side of abdomen; pain in chest; when rising, sticking above left nipple; pain in nape of neck; pain in back; sticking between scapulæ; while walking, stitches in right scapula; pain in small of back; pain in elbow and shoulder-joints; sudden weakness; the symptoms.
( Forenoon ), When walking, stitches in left side of abdomen; pain in chest; when talking, stitches in left chest; tearing in left wrist-joint; while walking; weakness in lower limbs; heaviness and lassitude in whole body.
( About noon ), Pain at union of malar and temporal bones.
( Noon ), While walking, pinching in umbilical region.
( Afternoon ), Fretful; sore in hairy portion of forehead; pressive pain in forehead; pain in sinciput; in the room, itching of the eyes; thirst; nausea; pain in chest; tearing in ball of left thumb; pain under nail of right index finger; while sitting, drawing in thighs; when standing, stitches in left heel; weakness; drowsiness.
( Evening ), Fearfulness; headache over right eye; pain in temples; tearing at occiput; in bed, crawling and creeping in hairy scalp; smarting in the eyes; while making mental effort, pressure in region of right eyebrow; cramp in inner and outer ear; stitches through right ear; stitches in left ear; nose stopped; after lying down, paralytic sensation in upper and lower jaw; secretion of tenacious mucus; eructations; nausea; pain in hypochondria and chest; on going to bed, colic; when lying down, colic and rumbling in abdomen; two hours after supper; pain in hypogastrium; heavy, short breathing; oppression of chest; in bed, pain in chest; while walking, pain in right hip, cramp in thigh; pain in tarsal joint; tearing in tarsal joint; pain in heels; pain in tips of toes; when lying down, jerks through whole body; the symptoms; heat in face; when writing, warmth about forehead.
( Night ), Toward morning, erections; emissions; itching of forearms; on going into the open air, vertigo.
( While walking in the open air ), Congestion of blood to head; stitches in left side of chest; chilliness in outer part of chest.
( Changes of temperature ), The symptoms.
( After dinner ), Chilliness.
( During and after eating dry food ), Bitterish taste in mouth.
( Entering room from open air ), Pressure in both frontal eminences; pain in temples, etc.; in the evening, pain in vertex; stitches in fourth toe of left foot.
( On going up hill ), Oppression of chest; sticking in side of sternum; cracking in patella.
( Inspiration ), Burning sensation in throat.
( Lying down ), Headache over right eye.
( Motion ), Pain in left side of chest.
( Moving eyeballs ), Aching.
( Pressure ), Pressure in right side of abdomen.
( While sitting ), Pain in occiput; stitches in dorsum of left foot.
( While standing ), Pressure in right side of abdomen.
( Stooping ), Pressure on sternum.
( Tobacco smoke ), Burning sensation in throat.
( While walking ), Vertigo; after having been seated, sticking in right side of abdomen; sensitiveness of intestines; oppression of chest; sticking in right side of chest; on level ground, pressure in the chest; pain in both sides of xiphoid cartilage; stitches in lumbar region; tearing in inner sides of both knees; tension in right tendo Achillis; stiffness in right tarsal joint; cramp in dorsum of foot; pain in toes.
Amelioration.
( Eating ), Nausea.
( Rubbing ), Pressure in eyes.
( Standing and walking ), Headache over right eye.

Ranunculus Bulbosus