Ranunculus Sceleratus

Ranunculus sceleratus, L.

Natural order, Ranunculacete.

Preparation, Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities. 1, Dr. Y., Archiv f. Horn., took tincture, 2 drops, first and second days, 3 drops fifth day, 4 drops tenth and twenty-first days, 6 drops twenty-sixth day, 12 drops seventy-fifth day, 15 drops eighty-first day; 2, Ivrapf, from Gmelin, effects of external application; 3, same, from internal administration ; 4, Schroeder, N. Archiv f. Horn., 3, 3, took a dose at 2 P.M., and another of 10 drops at 5.30 a.m. ; 4a, same, one dose of 10 drops; 4 b, same, a third proving with a dose of 10 drops; 5, Krapf, from Wibmer, effects of eating a leaf and flower ; 6, Scharf, Ephem., Nat. Cur., effects on two persons from eating the herb as a salad, from Wibmer; 7, Tissot, effects of applying the plant to his arm, from Wibmer.

Mind

Delirium

A species of hydrophobia

Sad mood, grief, in the evening

Oppression and anxiety

Disinclination to work, illhumored. Great absent-mindedness, tears a paper, on which he had made some annotations, looks at it, discovers from the pieces that he has torn it, and toys with it with his fingers,4b.

Forgetful, cannot recall what he thought before

Head p. 271

Vertigo, when sitting

Vanishing of thought, giddiness (after three hours)

His head feels dull, especially in the morning, after the characteristic uneasiness, in the afternoon

Dulness of the head, and slight pressure of the temples towards each other (after six hours)

Heaviness and sensation of fulness in the whole head

His head feels as if in a vice

His head feels distended and thick

Inflammation of the brain

Forehead and Temples. Sense of fulness in the fore head, also from the vapor of the juice

Continual pressing above the temples, from without inward

Gnawing, with pressure in the right temples

Pressing in the temples, from within outwards (after half an hour)

Fiue sticking from the right temple to the right superciliary ridge (after eight hours),4a.

Stitches in the left temple (after ten hours)

Vertex and Occiput. Long-continuing, dull, aching-gnawing 'pain in the left vertex, fixed in one point

Pain, like a suddenly coming and speedily disappearing gnawing, at one spot of the vertex

Painful pressure in the region of the vertex, as with a dull instrument (fifth day)

Drawingclawing pressure across the vertex

Jerking in the head, in the region of the vertex

Burning pain in the region of the vertex, continuing a few minutes

Pressing pain on both of the tuberculin infer, osis occipitis, ceasing when pressed upon, but soon returning

Dull pain in the occiput, the whole of the head feeling painful externally (fourth day)

External Head. (Hard blotches above the temples, which do not suppurate), (fourth day)

Contraction in the hairy scalp

Stitches, with drawing, in the skin of the vertex

Itching of the hairy scalp, immediately, that obliges scratching

Biting of the whole of the hairy scalp

Eyes p. 271

Contortion of the eyes

Slight smarting in the corners of the eyes, and recurring periodically for many days

Burning of the margins of the eyes (after ten hours)

Violent smarting in the eyes, while expressing the juice

IAd. Eyelids somewhat agglutinated, white of the eye light-yellow, with the finer vessels visible. (Slight inflammation),4b.

Stinging smarting in the outer canthus of the right eye (after half an hour)

Lachrymal Apparatus. Profuse lachrymation, while expressing the juice

Lachrymation, at night

Conjunctiva. Injected state of the conjunctiva, from the vapor of the juice

Lull. Pain in the eyeballs, when moving them quickly

Pressing in the eyeballs, soon, recurring periodically for many days (four hours)

Painful pressure in the eyeballs, all day, after expressing the juice

Ears p. 271

Boring and drawing in the left outer meatus auditorium, in the evening (second day)

Boring pain behind the right ear, in the evening (fifth day)

Continued drawing along the right outer meatus auditorium

Stitches in the front of the right ear, in the evening (second day)

Long stitches in the right meatus auditorium externus

Otalgia of the right ear, with aching pain in the head and drawing in all the teeth

Stitches in the right ear (second day)

Some earache (after three-quarters of an hour)

Nose p. 271

Frequent sneezing, while expressing the juice

Copious secretion of a watery mucus from the nose (from the vapor of the juice)

Beside the right nostril a red spot as large as a penny, which turns white when pressed, and then causes a sore pain (after ten hours),4b.

Pricking in the outer parts of the tip of nose

Tingling and smarting in the nose, from the vapor of the juice

Face p. 272

Convulsion in the face, in the outer parts of the abdomen and the limbs

Spasmodic twitchings of the facial muscles and extremities, risus sardonicus

Slight drawing, with feeling of coldness above the right eyebrow, down the cheek, as far as the corner of the mouth, for half an hour, evening

Sensation as if the face were covered with cobweb, in the evening (second day),1. ....

Mouth p. 272

Teeth. Teeth on edge, and afterwards stinging pains in the same

Toothache, burrowing under some roots of the left lower double teeth, as if pushed up from below (after eight hours, all the afternoon),4*.-

Drawing pains in the molar teeth, the whole afternoon and evening

Painful drawing in the upper right molar tooth

Drawing pain in the right upper molars

Drawing pain in the upper left molar tooth .(after seven hours)

Tearing pains in the lower right molar tooth, early in the morning (sixth day)

Stinging gnawing in the front teeth, in the evening (second day)

Stinging drawing in all the teeth

Drawing and jerking in all the teeth, in the morning (second day)

Very transient jerking in the incisors

The teeth are sensitive all day (second day)

Gums. Pain,swelling, and redness, and bleeding thegums

Tout/ue. White-coated tongue and sweetish taste in the mouth, in the morning, for several days

White-coated tongue (after fifteen hours)

Obstinate pains, burning, redness, inflammation of the tongue

* Peeling off of the cuticle of the tongue, and cracking of the tongue

Smarting at the tip of the tongue (after ten hours)

Shootings in the tip of the tongue (third day)

Violent burning at the tip of the tongue, while chewing the fresh herb

General Mouth. Tremulous sensation around the corners of the mouth and the lower lip, preceding the vomiting, but without any inclination to vomit

Excessive dryness of the mouth, at night

Stinging pains in the parts of the soft palate

Smarting-drawing pain in the region of the palate (third day)

Smarting in the region of the palate and fauces, while expressing the juice

Saliva. Ptyalism (after half an hour)

While expressing the juice, a large quantity of frothy mucus accumulates in the mouth, obliging him to spit frequently

Taste. Loss of taste

Throat p. 272

Thick mucus in the throat, that is difficult to hawk up (after seven hours)

Choking in the throat, at night

Mornings, dry throat (after twenty-one hours),4b.

Contractive sensation in the throat, frequently before breakfast, increased by eating bread

Continued sticking in the skin of the pit of the throat

Scratchy-scrapy sensation in the throat (after half an hour) ; the scratchy sensation grows somewhat burning (after two hours)

Throat scratchy, with sensation of soreness (after a quarter of an hour),4b.

Scratchy sensation in the throat, as if sore, with occasional dry cough, that increases the sore pain (after fifteen hours)

Scraping in the throat, immediately

Tonsils. Swelling of the tonsils, with shooting stitches in the same; in the evening (second day)

Stitches in the tonsils

Fhartjnx. Burning in the pharynx

Burning continuous, and sometimes convulsive arthritic pains of the pharynx and oesophagus,2.]

The fumes arising from the plant while boiling it irritate the pharynx, eyes, and nose, and occasion a flow of mucus and tears

Is impelled to swallow several times (after fifteen hours),V

Stomach p. 273

Appetite and Thirst. Strong sensation of hunger, without real appetite (after three hours and a half )

After eating, sensation of hunger, and yet eructations with it (after eleven hours)

Want of appetite, in the evening

Little appetite at dinner, followed by a turn of nausea

He wakes after midnight with great thirst, and heat of the whole body

Eructations. Frequent empty eructations, immediately after taking the drug; returning for many days before breakfast

Frequent eructations tasting of the ingesta, after a meal

Rancid, sour eructations, in the evening

Several prolonged eructations after eating bread and butter (after five hours)

Hiccough and Heartburn. Hiccough (after half an hour)

Heartburn

Nausea and Vomiting. Turn of nausea, while expressing the juice

Nausea, especially after midnight

Transient nausea, almost vomiting (after a quarter of an hour)

Desire to vomit, returning periodically, in the morning

• Stomach. Complete inactivity of the stomach

Troublesome sensation of fulness in the stomach

Tension in the pit of the stomach, while expressing the juice

Constriction of the stomach

Pressure and sensation of fulness in the pit of the stomach, increased by external pressure, most violent in the morning

Horrid pains in the stomach, and fits of , anxiety

Pains in the stomach

Stitches in the pit of the stomach, causing an acute pain

Abdomen p. 273

Stitches in the hepatic region

Acute stitches in the region of the gall-bladder

Long stitches in the region of the spleen, worse during a deep inspiration

Pinching colic, especially in the region of the navel, as after taking cold (after half an hour)

Screwing pressure behind the umbilicus, at night

Sensation as if a plug were lodged behind the umbilicus, especially in the morning, for several days

Rumbling and pinching in the abdomen, immediately

Passage of flatus after a frugal meal

The abdominal walls are painful

Torpor of the intestinal canal

Long-continued, violent pains in different parts of the abdomen, which cannot be compared with any known pains, accompanied with slight fainting turns ; a sort of convulsive pains in the intestines

Violent and peculiar pain in the bowels; two drops of juice excited even a still more troublesome feeling, the entire oesophagus seemed inflamed

• Cutting in the intestines, at night (second day)

Aching pain in the groins

Rectum and Anus p. 273

Hemorrhoidal symptoms, especially itching of the anus (second day)

Several fine stitches into the rectum (eleventh hour)

Evenings itching and forcing in the rectum, violent, for some hours

Moisture in the anus (after eleven hours)

Tickling burning by the anus

Itching of the anus and forcing-out sensation, as if premonitions of haemorrhoids, worse when walking (after one hour)

Frequent urging and loose stools, for several days

Urgency to stool after usual breakfast (after a quarter of an hour)

Urgency to stool, without evacuation, appears to be alternate action with the frequent evacuations

After dinner great urgency to stool, as if he could not retain it, with merely passage of flatus, aud after excessive straining some soft stool

Urgency to stool at an entirely unusual time (after three hours and a half). As he was detained from going to stool, some flatus escaped. When he went to stool four hours after, feeling unable to wait longer, there was only passage of some flatus, and evacuation would not follow

Stool p. 273

Three watery evacuations in rapid succession (five hours after 4 drops)

Frequent loose stools the same days

Liquid aud very fetid stools, for three or four days

Besides the usual morning stool, two more within a short time, soft, of the usual color and form, some pressure in the rectum with the last

* Frequent sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, whereas a natural evacuation takes place

Delayed stool (after 2 drops)

Urinary Organs p. 274

A short time after urinating, burning pain in the forepart of the urethra (after three hours)

A tickling-crawling sensation at the orifice of the urethra (after seven hours and a half)

Frequent desire to urinate, nearly every fifteen minutes, five times in succession ; every time a little light-yellow urine

Drops pass some time after urinating making the shirt wet,4b.

Frequent passages of a little light-yellow urine (after two hours)

Sexual Organs p. 274

Drawing pains in the penis

Sudden stitches in the forepart of the glans

Smarting about the scrotum

Seminal emission, without any lascivious dreams, after midnight

Respiratory Organs p. 274

Dry and hacking cough, rarely and without any effort

Tight and deep breathing (after seven hours)

Frequent involuntary sighing

Chest p. 274

Oppression of the chest, immediately and continuing the whole day

Chest somewhat oppressed ; is compelled to inhale deeply several times; it seems as if something lay on the sternum (after six hours)

Sensation of great weakness in the chest for several days

Violent contracting-pinching pain in the chest, behind the right nipple, several evenings in succession

The whole chest feels weak and bruised, several evenings

His chest feels bruised, in the evening

Great sensitiveness of the integuments of the chest

Front and Sides. Violent continued gnawing behind the lowest portion of the sternum, arresting the breathing, in the evening (third day)

External painfulness of the sternum; pressure upon the sternum causes painful stitches through the chest

Burning soreness behind the xiphoid cartilage

Long frequent stitches behind the xiphoid cartilage, in a space of the size of the palm of the hand, in the morning (first day)

Painful drawing in the pectoral muscles

Frequent stitches in the pectoral muscles

Continual pressure, as of a dull instrument, below the right false ribs, increased by a deep inspiration

Frequent but subdued stitches in the right chest (after two hours)

Painful sticking in the right chest, not increased by inspirations

Continued dull sticking in the left chest and below the false ribs

Very painful pinching around the left nipple

Heart and Pulse p. 274

Pressure, as from a blunt piece of wood, in the region of the heart (after a quarter of an hour)

Stitches in the region of the heart

Sticking-contracting pinching in the region of the heart, causing tightness of breath, at night

Somewhat accelerated, sometimes more rapid, sometimes slower beating of the heart (after six hours)

Pulse somewhat accelerated, while the radial artery feels somewhat thinner than usual

Neck and Back p. 274

Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised

Compressive drawing in the region of the scapulae

Aching pain between the scapulae

Sudden violent jerks in the lumbar region during a walk in the open air, arresting the breathing

Continual pressure in the right lumbar region

Paralytic pains in the small of the back (after six hours)

Superior Extremities p. 274

Shoulder and Arm. Extending downward under the right shoulder, a sensation as if the muscles for sitting erect had been overtaxed, and as if they were now relaxed

Drawing in the region of the right shoulder

Stitches in the left shoulder

Soreness under the right arm, in the armpit

Stinging itching in some parts of the upper arms

Elbow and Forearm. Gnawing in the right elbow-joint

Long stitch in the elbow

Long-continuing boring sticking along the whole of the left forearm to the tip of the index finger, where it is most violent

Paralytic drawing in the forearm, immediately,1. •

Stitches in the forearm

Stinging burning in one spot of the forearm

Hand and Fingers. Drawing, with pressure, in the metacarpal bones of the right hand

Transient drawing sticking in the hall of the right hand

Continual gnawing in the palm of the left hand, in the evening (fourth and sixth days)

Frequent stitches in the dorsum of the hand

Swelling of the fingers (second morning)

Aching pain in the right middle finger

Sticking boring in the last phalanges of the index fingers (fourth day)

Boring in the metacarpal bones of the thumbs

Gnawing in the last phalanx of the left ring finger

Gnawing and boring in the phalangeal bones of the right fingers (after seven hours)

Darting in the bones of the left index finger

Violent long stitch between the left middle and index fingers, in the evening (fifth day)

Fleeting stitches in the tips of the ring and index fingers, with gnawing in the bones of the same

Inferior Extremities p. 275

Drawing-gnawing pressure in the right lower limb

Knee. Gnawing and boring pains in the right knee

Biting in the bends of the knees

Teg. Painful drawing, with pressure, along the leg

Jactitation of the muscles of the right calf

Stinging burning in a small spot in the right calf

Gnawing in the region of the outer malleolus of the right foot

Foot and Toes. Weak in the feet, as after a journey on foot (after seven hours)

Gnawing pains in the left heel (fifth day)

Gnawing in the region of the ball of the left foot

Painfulness and stitches in the corn on the ball of the right foot; intolerable burning in this corn (after six days)

Sticking-boring pains along the whole of the sole of the right foot

Stinging boring in the ball of the right foot

Gnawing in the ball of the right great toe

Boring and gnawing in the right great toe

Tingling and jerking in the left great toe (after seven hours)

* Sudden stitches in the forepart of the right great toe, as if a needle were thrust in deep, that made him cry out, recurring at short intervals (after one hour)

* Sudden stitches in the right great toe, vassina into a burning (after ten hours)

Itching stitches in the toes of the left foot

Generalities p. 275

Prostration with the perspiration

Laziness, want of disposition to perform any mental labor, in the morning

Slight fainting turns

Finally gangrene

Skin p. 275

Dry skin and dry mouth, without thirst, at night (after sixteen hours)

Vesicles upon the skin, emitting a thin acrid yellowish ichor,2.f

Obstinate ulcers,2.|

On the red spot by the nostril a vesicle had formed, with sore pain (second day),4b.

They soon drew a blister, which spread over the whole arm

Hard blotch below the left eyebrow, which does not suppurate

Burning of the skin of the fingers from being touched by the juice

Prickling and furious smarting of the dorsum of the right foot

Stitches in the skin of the pit of the stomach

Prickling and formication on the chest and back

Tickling sensation in the skin between the fingers, immediately and after 7 p.m.,1.

Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of the body, now here, now there, especially towards evening

Itching, pain, burning, redness of the skin

Itching stinging below the right nipple

Itching under the right lower lid, relieved by cold (after ten hours),4b.

Fine itching in the skin between the fingers of the right hand (third evening)

Itching of the lower half of the legs, not relieved by scratching, in the evening

Intolerable itching and prickling in the feet

Itching stinging of the dorsum of the left foot

Itching and furious smarting of the soles of the feet

Itching prickling in the right heel

Sleep p. 276

Afternoons, yawning several times

Sleepiness, the eyelids want to close, must make an effort to keep them open (after three hours)

Sleepy in the evening, discouraged and disinclined to any occupation (after six hours)

Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams about corpses, dead bodies, serpents, battles, etc.; constant tossing avoid in bed,,1.

He passed the whole night in a state of half sleep and waking, with imperfect consciousness ; he was not sleepy in the morning

He wakes after midnight, is wide awake, and remains so for a long time (third, fourth, and fifth nights)

He awoke suddenly half an hour after going to sleep without cause, and was wide awake, but soon fell asleep again, then, for the whole night, slept well, without dreams

Restless sleep after midnight, many nights in succession

Sleeplessness, after 3 A.M., the first nights, accompanied with anxiety, uncommon debility, gloomy, thoughtless brooding of the mind ; his limbs felt bruised ; in the morning the mind feels worn out; he is not able to fix his thoughts upon one object

Fever p. 276

Chilliness. Evenings, several chills, with thirst and pressive pain in the forehead, from without inward (after six hours)

Chilliness while eating (after six hours)

Feeling of coldness in the face

Mornings, after rising, sensation of cold, beginning especially in the nape of the neck, extending down the back (after fifteen hours)

Heat. Fever; he wakes after midnight, many nights in succession, with heat over the whole body and violent thirst; the pulse is full, soft, accelerated, 80 ; afterwards sweat over the whole body, especially on the forehead

Fever

Heat, a quarter of an hour afterwards perspiration, with prostration

Heat in the head and face, in the evening, when entering the house, on coming out of the open air

Heat evenings, especially in the face, with thirst (after thirteen hours)

Flushing heat in the face (after six hours)

Occasional flushes of heat in the face (after four hours)

Sweat. Gold sweats, followed by death

Cold sweat

Conditions p. 276

Aggravation.

(Morning), Dulness of head ; pain in lower right molar teeth ; drawing and jerking in all the teeth ; white-coated tongue ; sweetish taste in mouth ; desire to vomit; pressure in pit of stomach ; after rising, coldness, beginning in nape of neck, extending down back.

(Afternoon), Pains in molar teeth; yawnings.

(Toward evening), Itching in various parts of the body.

(Evening), Sad mood ; grief; boring in left outer meatus auditorium ; pain behind right ear; pains in molar teeth ; gnawing in front teeth ; swelling of the tonsils, with stitches in the same; want of appetite ; rancid eructations; itching and forcing in the rectum ; pinching pain in chest, behind right nipple; chest feels weak and bruised ; chilliness; when entering house, heat in head.

(Night), Lachrymation ; dryness of the mouth; choking in throat; pressure behind urnbilious; cutting in the intestines; pinching in region of heart; dry skin.

(After midnight), Woke with thirst and heat of whole body; nausea; seminal emissions; restless sleep.

(Before breakfast), Eructations.

(Eating bread), Contractive sensation in throat.

(After eating bread and butter), Eructations.

(After eating), Chilliness.

(Deep inspiration), Stitches in region of spleen; pressure below right false ribs.

(After a meal), Eructations, tasting of the ingesta.

(Moving eyeballs quickly), Pain in eyeballs.

(External pressure), Pressure in pit of stomach.

( When sitting), Vertigo.

(After urinating), Burning in forepart of urethra.

While walking in the open air), Jerks in lumbar region.

(Walking), Itching of the anus.

Footnotes p. 272

† From 2 drops of the juice continued for six days.

† These vesicles do not heal till the ichor becomes thick and purulent; if the vesicle is not opened, the red border gradually disappears and the vesicles dry up ; they do so likewise after being opened.—Krapf. % These ulcers resist all consolidating agents; the Balsam of Peru is of some avail.—Krapf.