Ranunculus Bulbosus

Buttercup

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia. Bad effects of Alcohol; delirium tremens . Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic sciatica.

Head

Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp. Pressing pain in forehead from within outward.

Eyes

Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting in eyes, as from smoke. Pain over right eye; better, standing and walking. Herpes on cornea. Vesicles on cornea, with intense pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.

Chest

Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum , ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Inter-costal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air . Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring, moving. Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Tenderness of abdomen to pressure. Muscular pain along lower margin of the shoulder-blade ; burning in small spots from sedentary employment.

Skin

Burning and intense itching; worse, contact . Hard excrescences. Herptic eruptions , with great itching. Shingles, bluish vesicles . Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms. Corns sensitive. Horny skin. Finger-tips and palms chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.

Modalities

Worse , open air, motion, contact, atmospheric changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all sorts of ailments.

Relationship

Incompatible: Sulph; Staph .

Compare: Ranunc acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by bending and turning body); Ranunc glacialis -Reindeer flower Carlina--(Pulmonary affections; broncho-pneumonical Influenza-enormous weight in head with vertigo and sensation as of impending apoplexy; night-sweats-more on thighs); Ranunc repens (crawling sensation in forehead and scalp in evening in bed); Ranunc flammula (ulceration; gangrene of arm). Compare, also: Bry; Croton; Mez; Euphorb .

Antidotes: Bry; Camph; Rhus .

Dose

Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delirium tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally. Chronic sciatica, apply tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).

Ranunculus Bulbosus across the other classic books

Ranunculus Bulbosus appears in 12 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Buttercup. (Ranunculaceae.) One of our most effective remedies for the bad effects of alcoholic beverages ; spasmodic hiccough; delirium tremens. Day blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting in eyeballs (Phos.). Muscular pains about margins of shoulder blades in women of sedentary employment, often burning…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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.) Fearfulness in the evening, she does not want to remain alone, she is afraid she may be haunted by ghosts, 1. Vexed and…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BREATHING, DEEPLY, Agg. CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE, weather, seasons, oncoming storms, etc. Agg. CHEST, internal CHEST, left RAISING arms, Agg. SORENESS, bruised, smarting, etc. (Comp. Rawness.) STITCHES VESICLES, blisters, etc. (Comp. Eruption.)”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES. Muscles. Eyes. Serous surfaces. THORAX. SKIN. Fingers and toes. Left side. AIR: Damp. Cold. Open. Drafts. Changing: Weather. Temperature. Position. Alcohol. Evening. Motion: of arms. Breathing. Touch. PAINS; stitching; stabbing; shooting; extort tears; with shuddering; can't rest. Burning, biting, bruised…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Buttercup. Bulbous Crowfoot. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of whole plant. Alcoholism / Breast, pain below / Chest, pains in / Chilblains / Corns / Delirium tremens / Diarrhœa / Dropsy / Dyspnœa / Eczema / Epilepsy / Feet, pains in / Gastralgia / Hay-fever / Herpes zoster / Hiccough / Hydrocele / Jaundice / Liver, pain…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The Common Field Buttercup. Ranunculaceæ. Provings by Franz, Archiv für Homœopathische Heilkunst, vol. 7. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Hemeralopia (2 cases), Billig, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 149 ; Neuralgia of stomach , Custis, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 403 ; Jaundice , Custis, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 403 ; Diarrhœa …”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“This buttercup gives off an acrid ethereal vapor very poisonous to such as are sensitive to it, and has been many times mistaken for Rhus poisoning. This common field buttercup is not used as often as it is indicated, and it must be that it is not as well known as many other remedies. It is a rheumatic remedy of great…”
Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Shocks through the whole body. The whole body feels as if beaten. Trembling of the limbs after anger. Burning and stinging pains. Burning and itching vesicular eruptions. There is an aggravation morning and evening. Aggravation from change of temperature, from motion and from stretching.”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Angry mood and quarrelsome. Obtuseness of the senses. Vanishing of thought on reflection. Pressing headache in the forehead and on the vertex, as if pressed asunder, with pressure on the eyeballs and sleepiness; worse in the evening or while entering a room from the cold air or vice versa. Congestion of blood to the…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: butter cup. One of our most effective remedies for the bad effects of alcoholic beverages (A.). Pleurisy or pneumonia from sudden exposure to cold, while over-heated (Acon., Arn.) (A.). Shocks through the whole body. The whole body feels as if beaten (Arn., Bapt., Pyrog.). Burning and stinging pains…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Blister-like eruptions (eczema) in the palms of the hands.”

Ranunculus Bulbosus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Ranunculus Bulbosus in 1,312 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (210), GENERALITIES (178), HEAD (166), CHEST (146), SKIN (118).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - sore,bruised,tenderness,etc - Hypochondria - evening
CHEST - COLDNESS - external
CHEST - COLDNESS - walking in open air
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - change of weather
CHEST - PAIN - weather changing
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - crusty - hard
STOMACH - HICCOUGH - alcoholic drinks,after
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - scapulae - between - morning
BACK - PAIN - sore - bruised - beaten - Lumbar region - last rib
CHEST - PAIN - sore - bruised - turning in bed,on
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - touched,when
CHEST - PAIN - turning
CHEST - COLDNESS - air,cold,breathing
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - crusty - horny
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - transparent
CHEST - COLDNESS - Sternum
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - turning,by
CHEST - PAIN - sore - bruised - Costal cartilages
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching (Sticking,etc.) - Sides - inspiration,on
CHEST - PAIN - sore - bruised - Costal cartilages - cartilages of short ribs

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