Ranunculus Glacialis
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. II, p. 952
R. gladalis. Carlina or Cacline (mountaineers of Viq). N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Cerebellum, pain in. Dyspnoea. Headache. Night-«weat. Thighs, sweat on.
Characteristics
Dr. Codd6, of Spoleto, proved the f tincture, and 3rd and pth 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 > by rising ; dyspnoea < lying down, and compression of chest ; intolerance of weight of coverlet (the < by touch and pressure of R. bulb,) ; coldness of thighs ; general copious night-sweat, especially abundant on thighs.
Head
Towards 9.30 a.m., when walking in open air, enormous weight in head, vertigo ; as if seized with incipient apoplexy ; > cafi au lan. — Behind head in region of cerebellum, sense of tension, — Just before daybreak, headache, < r. side, ceased on getting up.
Respiratory Organs
When lying in bed breathing became difficult.
Chest
On turning in bed, internal pain in infer-posterior chest. — Compression in whole chest, evening. — A little before midnight could not endure coverlet on chest. — Stitches r. chest.
Sleep
Sleeplessness at night. — Broken sleep.
Fever
Coldness, even on thighs. — General and copious nocturnal sweat, < on thighs. — At daybreak, slight general sweat.