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Ranunculus Repens

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Ranunculus Repens · Creeping Buttercup · "The Crawling-Scalp Buttercup"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and mucous membranes, producing symptoms of sudden collapse, intense congestion, and peculiar sensory disturbances.
📖 Clarke writes:
Ranunculus repens. Creeping Buttercup. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of whole plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Profound coma
Great weakness in feet
Sudden collapse (as if struck by lightning)
Phantasmagoria (symptom noted with doubt)
Physical Profile & Physiological Effects
Eyes: rolled; mucous membranes injected
Mouth: dry
Abdomen: slightly distended
Respiratory: breathing hurried
Digestive: ruminations ceased
Motor: reeling; falling; inability to stand
Postural: heads bent towards left groin
Vocal: bleating piteously
Modalities & Clinical Observations
Bleeding WORSE (worse)
Ether in milk BETTER (better)
Furrowed flower-stalks
Spreading calyx
Creeping scions
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sudden collapse as if struck by lightning.
Clarke
Vivid, dream-like states while awake, seeing phantasmagoria.
Clarke
Crawling sensation on the forehead and hair region in the evening.
Clarke
Profound coma or loss of consciousness.
Clarke
Strong, full pulsation in the sacral region.
Clarke
Dryness of the mouth.
Clarke
Profuse lachrymation and smarting of the eyes.
Clarke
Great weakness remaining in the feet after acute episodes.
Clarke
Feeling extremely well and wide awake in the morning after little sleep.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Consider for states of profound coma or vivid, dream-like hallucinations while awake.
(In evening, in bed, he dreams while yet awake that he is in a large city, and sees well-dressed people, masquerades, Turks, &c.).
Profound coma (sheep).
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
crawling sensation on forehead
pulsation in sacral region
dreaming while awake
Better from
Sitting up
crawling sensation on forehead
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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