(Buttercup)
Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like pleurodynia. BAD EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL; DELIRIUM TREMENS. Spasmodic hiccough. Hydrothorax. Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic sciatica.
Head
Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs. Creeping sensation in scalp. Pressing pain in forehead from within outward.
Eyes
Day-blindness; mist before eyes; pressure and smarting 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 STERNUM, ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria. INTERCOSTAL RHEUMATISM. CHILLINESS IN CHEST WHEN WALKING IN OPEN AIR. Stitches in chest, between shoulder-blades; worse, inspiring, moving. Rheumatic pain in chest, as from subcutaneous ulceration.TENDERNESS OF ABDOMEN TO PRESSURE. MUSCULAR PAIN ALONG LOWER MARGIN OF THE SHOULDER-BLADE; burning in small spots from sedentary employment.
Skin
BURNING AND INTENSE ITCHING; WORSE, CONTACT. Hard excrescences. HERPETIC ERUPTIONS, with great itching. SHINGLES; BLUISH VESICLES. Itching in palms. Blister-like eruption in palms. Corns sensitive. Horny skin. Finger-tips and palms chapped. Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
Modalities
WORSE, open air, motion, contact, atmospheric changes, wet, stormy weather, evening. Cold air brings on all sorts of ailments.
Relationship
Incompatible: SULPH.; STAPH.
Compare: RANUNC. ACRIS (pain in lumbar muscles and joints by 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 forehead and scalp in evening in bed); RANUNC. FIAMMULA (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; third to thirtieth potency generally. Chronic sciatica, apply tincture to heel of affected leg (M. Jousset).