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Pulsatilla Pratensis

30C / 200CPulsatilla
Wind Flower · Pasque Flower · "The Weeping Wind Flower"
puls.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on mucous membranes, female reproductive system, and circulation, characterized by shifting symptoms and a mild, yielding temperament.
📖 Boericke writes:
(PULSATILLA)
The weather-cock among remedies.
The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory. The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles. Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.
👤 Constitution
•Typically mild, gentle, and yielding in disposition; often female, with a tendency toward sadness, weepiness, and a need for constant reassurance and sympathy.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly.
introduction
Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green.
introduction
Symptoms ever changing.
introduction
Thirstless, peevish, and chilly.
introduction
Headache from overwork.
head
Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges.
eyes
Lids inflamed, agglutinated.
eyes
Styes.
eyes
Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently.
mouth
Crack in middle of lower lip.
mouth
Yellow or white tongue, covered with a mucus.
mouth
Alternations of taste, bitter, , greasy, salty, foul.
mouth
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for emotional states characterized by weepiness, a need for sympathy, and rapidly changing moods.
Weeps easily.
Timid, irresolute.
Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost.
Likes sympathy.
Children like fuss and caresses.
Easily discouraged.
Morbid dread of the opposite sex.
Religious .
Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.
Highly emotional.
Mentally, an April day.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Coffea Cruda →Chamomilla →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Sulphur →Kalium Bichromicum →Cyclamen Europaeum →Penthorum Sedoides →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Pulsatilla Pratensis is listed in 977 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 448 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System127Stomach100Locomotor System72Respiratory System70Abdomen55Eyes54Urinary System52Modalities51Head49Fever45Nervous System43Mind42Male Sexual System41Ears32Generalities26Nose22Circulatory System16Teeth16Mouth13Skin13Taste12Face11Throat9Tongue5Gums1

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