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.
- Inter-costal 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 flammula (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).
