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…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Buttercup 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. Irritable, pains in…”
- 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.)”
- 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.”
