Ranunculus Glacialis
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
R. glacialis. Carlina or Cacline (mountaineers of Viq). N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Apoplexy / Cerebellum, pain in / Dyspnœa / Headache / Night-sweat / Thighs, sweat on
Characteristics
Dr. Coddé, of Spoleto, proved the Ø tincture, and 3rd and 9th dilutions of this plant. It produced an enormous weight in the head with vertigo and feeling as if apoplexy were impending, > by Coffee; a right-sided early morning headache > rising; dyspnœa < lying down, and compression of chest; intolerance of weight of coverlet (the < touch and pressure of R. bulb.); coldness of thighs; general copious night-sweat, especially abundant on thighs.
2. Head
Towards 9.30 a.m., when walking in open air, enormous weight in head, vertigo; as if seized with incipient apoplexy; > café au lait. Behind head in region of cerebellum, sense of tension. Just before daybreak, headache, < r. side, ceased on getting up.
17. Respiratory Organs
When lying in bed breathing became difficult.
18. Chest
On turning in bed, internal pain in infero-posterior chest. Compression in whole chest, evening. A little before midnight could not endure coverlet on chest. Stitches r. chest.
26. Sleep
Sleeplessness at night. Broken sleep.
27. Fever
Coldness, even on thighs. General and copious nocturnal sweat, < on thighs. At daybreak, slight general sweat.