RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Buttercup
Acts in particular upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most attribute results are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia. Bad results of Alcohol; delirium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks in the course of the total body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic sciatica.
Head.–Irritable, pains in brow and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp. Pressing ache in brow from inside outward.
Eyes.–Day-blindness; mist earlier than eyes; strain and smarting in eyes, as from smoke. Pain over proper eye; better, standing and walking. Herpes on cornea. Vesicles on cornea, with excessive pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.
Chest.–Various types of pains and soreness, as if bruised in sternum, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Inter-costal rheumatism. Chilliness in chest when on foot in open air. Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring, moving. Rheumatic ache in chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Tenderness of stomach to pressure. Muscular ache alongside decrease margin of the shoulder-blade; burning in small spots from sedentary employment.
Skin.–Burning and severe itching; worse, contact. Hard excrescences. Herptic eruptions, with exquisite itching. Shingles, bluish vesicles. Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms. Corns sensitive. Horny skin. Finger-tips and fingers chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
Modalities.–Worse, open air, motion, contact, atmospheric changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all varieties of ailments.
Relationship.–Incompatible: Sulph; Staph.
Compare: Ranunc acris (pain in lumbar muscle mass and joints by way of 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 brow and scalp in night 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; 1/3 to thirtieth efficiency generally. Chronic sciatica, observe tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).
