Pulsatilla

Characteristic symptoms

Aggravations while lying down, in the beginning of exercise, during rest, in a warm room, from mental emotions, after warm food, in the afternoon and evening ; improvement on lying on the right side, on motion, in the open air, by cold ; pains in recumbent position are lessened by motion ; pains in the limbs ; tearing, drawing or jerking in the muscles, with numbness, lameness and swelling of the affected parts, stitches and feeling of coldness when the weather changes ; rheumatism from exposure to protracted wet weather ; erratic pains, shifting rapidly from one part to another, with swelling and redness of the joints ; consequences of bruises and contusions, with soreness to the touch ; semilateral pains and affections ; paroxysms of pain, with chilliness, oppression of the chest and paleness of the face ; aggravation of the pains when sitting, rising from a seat or during rest, or when lying on one side; the pains are worse before midnight or every other evening ; excessive heaviness in the whole body, with chilliness in the extremities ; fainting turns, with cadaverous paleness of the face : epileptic convulsions, with violent tossing of the limbs, followed by relaxation, disposition to vomit and eructations; emaciation ; chicken-pox ; erysipelas, with swelling ; cracking of the skin on wetting it ; boils ; flat putrid ulcers ; chlorosis ; chilblains, with blue red swelling, heat and burning or throbbing ; disposition to blenorrhœa ; drowsiness in day-time, sleep at night prevented by ideas crowding upon him ; restless sleep with tossing about ; nightmare ; coldness and shuddering, with chilly feeling internally / chilliness when uncovering ; melancholy, with crying, moroseness and fear of death ; solitude ; despair of his salvation ; fear of ghosts when alone in the dark ; timid, whining mood ; suspicion and distrust ; gloomy, ill-humor, chilly ; gastric, mucous or bilious fevers ; intermittents, with long chill, little heat and absence of thirst, no stage strongly marked and they are apt to run into each other ; disposition to sweat in the morning ; hypochondriacal peevishness; hysterical laughter and crying ; intellectual labor fatigues him ; gloominess of the head, with vertigo, as after intoxication or night- watching ; vertigo when sitting, worse by talking or meditating ; drawing and stitching pains in the head, in the teeth and ears ; redness and swelling of the eyelids, with styes ; lachrymation in the open and in cold air ; dimness of sight, as if through mist ; otorrhœa ; coryza, with copious mucus discharge ; green fetid discharge from the nose ; paleness of the face ; alternate redness and paleness ; toothache, with otalgia ; foul taste, as of putrid meat ; absence of thirst, with complete loss of appetite ; bitter taste of all kinds of food ; aversion to meat and longing after sour things ; white or yellow coating of tongue, adhesive and difficult to remove ; sensation in the middle of the tongue as if it were burnt and insensible ; desire for spirits; eructations tasting of the ingesta; bitter bilious eructations ; gulping up of a bitter fluid ; the region of the stomach not distended, the patient complaining only of uncomfortable feeling ; shivering after every meal ; colic as if diarrhœa would come on, with natural stool ; flatulent colic of hysteric females ; frequent mucous stools, every evacuation being preceded by colic ; white mucous diarrhœa, with pain before passage and much rumbling in the bowels ; dysenteric stools of clear yellow or red or green slime, with or without severe aching pains and tenesmus, extending up from the anus along the sacrum ; watery, greenish-yellow diarrhœa in the night, with rumbling in the abdomen ; soft, acrid stools towards morning, with smarting in the anus ; retention of urine ; difficult emission of urine, drop by drop ; excessive Sexual desire, like priapisms ; emission after onanism ; amenorrhœa ; uterine spasms, resembling labor pains ; distress during the menses, especially chilliness and paleness of the face, with thick and black blood ; metrorrhagia ; leucorrhœa, burning, thin, acrid ; milky, painless leucorrhœa ; utter prostration during labor ; cough only on lying down ; cough with saltish taste ; cough, with expectoration of thick mucous ; asthma in a horizontal position, as if the throat would be constricted ; paroxysms of 2>palpitations of the heart, with anguish.