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Ranunculus Glacialis

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Ranunculus Glacialis · Glacier/Reindeer Buttercup · "The Reindeer Flower — Pulmonary Buttercup"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the head, chest, and thermoregulation, causing sensations of pressure and nocturnal disturbances.

📖 Clarke writes:

R. glacialis. Carlina or Cacline (mountaineers of Viq). N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Enormous weight in the head

•Vertigo

•Feeling as if apoplexy were impending

•Dyspnoea WORSE lying down

•Compression of chest

•Intolerance of weight of coverlet

•General copious night-sweat

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Headache: right-sided, early morning, BETTER by rising

•Head symptoms BETTER by Coffee

•Intolerance of weight of coverlet (the WORSE by touch and pressure of R. bulb.)

•Coldness of thighs

•General copious night-sweat, especially abundant on thighs

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Enormous weight in the head with vertigo and a feeling of impending apoplexy.

Clarke

Headache on the right side occurring before daybreak, relieved by rising.

Clarke

General and copious nocturnal sweat, especially abundant on the thighs.

Clarke

Intolerance to the weight of the coverlet on the chest.

Clarke

Headache symptoms relieved by drinking coffee.

Clarke

Dyspnea or difficulty breathing when lying down.

Clarke

Sensation of coldness affecting the thighs.

Clarke

Compression in the chest occurring in the evening.

Clarke

Stitches in the right side of the chest.

Clarke

Sleeplessness and broken sleep at night.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Use for heavy, congestive headaches with vertigo, particularly those occurring early in the morning.

BETTER café au lait.

Just before daybreak, headache, WORSE r. side, ceased on getting up.

Towards 9.30 a.m., when walking in open air, enormous weight in head, vertigo

as if seized with incipient apoplexy

Behind head in region of cerebellum, sense of tension.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Lying down

dyspnea

↑Better from

Coffee

headache

vertigo

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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