Materia Medica
Ranunculus Bulbosus
Buttercup
Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls. like pleurodynia. Bad effects of Alchohol: deli- rium tremens. Spasmodic hiccough. .Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body.
Head
Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp.
Eyes
Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smartng in eyes, as from smoke. Pain over right eye; better, standing and walking. Herpes on cornea. Vesicles on cornea, with intense pain, photophobia, and lachrymation.
Chest
Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in steruusn, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. Intercostal rheuinatism. Chilliness in chest when walking in open air. Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring, moving. Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous ulcera- tion. Tcndcrncss of abdomen to pressure. Muscular pain along lower margin of the shoulder-blade; burn- ing in small spots from sedentary employment.
Skin
Burning and intense itching; worse, contact. Hard excrescences. Herpetic eruptions, with great itch- mg. Shingles; bluish vesicles. Itching in palms. Blis- ter-like eruption in palms.( Corns sensitive. Horny Finger-tips and palims chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
Modalities
W'ors, open air, motion, contact, atmos- pheric changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all sorts of ailments.
Relationships
Incompatible; Sulph.; Staph. Compare: Ranunc. acris (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by bending and turning body) ; Ranunc. glacialis —- Carlina - (enormous weight t in head with vertigo and sensation as of impending apoplexy; night-sweats -more on thighs); Ranunc. repens (crawling sen- sation in forehead and scalp in evening in bed) ; Ranunc. fammula (ulceration; gangrene of arm). Compare, also: Bry.; Croton; Mez.: Euphorb. Antidotes: Bry.; Camph.; Rhus.
Dose
Mother tincture, in ten to thirty drop doses in delisium tremens; third to thirtieth potency generally. 629