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Ranunculus Bulbosus

30CRanunc Bulb
Bulbous Buttercup · "The Shingles Intercostal Remedy"
ran-b.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the muscular tissue and skin, specifically targeting the chest walls and nerves.
📖 Boericke writes:
Acts especially upon the muscular tissue and skin, and its most characteristic effects are upon the chest walls, like . Bad effects of Alcohol; . Spasmodic . . Shocks throughout the whole body. Sensitive to air and touch. Chronic .
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are sensitive to atmospheric changes, cold air, and touch, often suffering from or pains.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Bad effects of Alcohol; .
introduction
Various kinds of pains and soreness, as if bruised in , ribs, intercostal spaces, and both hypochondria.
chest
Inter-costal rheumatism.
chest
Chilliness in chest when walking in open air.
chest
Tenderness of abdomen to pressure.
chest
Burning and intense itching; worse, contact.
skin
Shingles, bluish .
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for characterized by internal pressure and scalp sensitivity.
Irritable, pains in forehead and eyeballs.
Creeping sensation in scalp.
Pressing pain in forehead from within outward.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 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.

Mother tincture
Mother Tincture
📝ten to thirty drop doses in delirium tremens
Primary Dosage
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →
🔄 Compare With
Ranunculus Acris →Ranunculus Repens →Mezereum →Ranunculus Flammula →Bryonia Alba →
⚠️ Inimical
Sulphur →Staphysagria →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Ranunculus Bulbosus is listed in 111 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 38 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System23Locomotor System21Skin14Nervous System13Modalities13Eyes8Abdomen7Nose4Generalities3Fever1Head1Female Sexual System1Mind1Stomach1

See all 111 rubrics for Ranunculus Bulbosus →