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General Information

• This lesson focuses on Pulsatilla Pratensis, Apis Mellifica, Chamomilla, and Stramonium.

Sexual Function Remedies

• Remedies like Pulsatilla, Sepia, Lachesis, Cimicifuga or Caulophyllum are considered "female remedies".
• These address sexual hormone issues in both men and women.
• Descriptions in the materia medica are often for women, but use them for boys and men when needed.

Pulsatilla Pratensis

• Also known as Puls.
• Common names include Wind Flower, Easter Flower, Small Pasqueflower, and Anemone.
• It is part of the Ranunculaceae Family.
• The wind flower is known for being anti-spasmodic, anti-neuralgic, anti-migraine, and anti catarrhal.
• Key affinities include mucus membrane (ocular, respiratory, digestive, genital), the genital and venous systems, general behavior encompassing variability of mood, and the onset of illness at puberty.
• Etiologies include getting feet wet or chilled, eating fat or heavy greasy meals (like pork, ice cream, or pastry), and the suppression of discharges.
• Considered the "weather-cock among remedies".
• Keynotes: changeable mood, desires air flow and sympathy, dry lips, thirstless, and yellow discharge.
• Generalities: usually warm but can be chilly, intolerant of heat or stuffy rooms, symptoms move from one location to another and change in character and quality, thirstless even with a dry mouth, and thick bland abundant mucus that is yellow or green.
• Mental Symptoms: Weeps easily, timid, irresolute, likes sympathy, children like fuss and caresses, presents with religious melancholy, is indecisive and highly emotional, and is mentally like an April day.
• Physical Symptoms: Thick profuse yellow bland discharge from eyes and sinuses, styes, dry cough in the evening and at night requiring sitting up in bed for relief, loose cough in the morning, loss of taste or smell, and a yellow or white tongue covered with a tenacious mucus.
• Amenorrhea can occur from getting feet wet or getting cold, often accompanied by cystitis.
• Sleep Position: Often sleeps on back, with hands over head or on abdomen.
• Modalities: Worse from heat, rich fat food, after eating, towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side, and allowing feet to hang down.
• Better from: open air, motion, cold applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.
• Associated Remedies: Kali-sulph is a tissue salt similar to Pulsatilla, more known for its yellow mucus. Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.

Apis Mellifica

• Honeybee.
• Key affinities include tissues of eyes, face, fauces, ovaries, edema (puffiness) or inflammation of skin and mucous or serous membranes, coating of inner organs and surfaces, erysipelatous inflammations, acute inflammation of kidneys (and other parenchyma), brain, bladder, and abdomen.
• General Symptoms: Swelling and edema aggrevated by heat, urticaria/hives (puffy) worse at night and better with cold water, stinging and burning pains, constriction, insect bites, punctured wounds, splinters, anaphylaxis, no or low thirst, and sudden rapidly developing complaints.
• Modalities: Worse from heat (room, weather, fire, hot drink, bath, bed) and touch (even of hair), right side, around 4 or 5 p.m.
• Better from: Cold (air, bathing, applications), uncovering, motion, sitting erect.
• Etiology: Jealousy, rage, vexation, fright, grief, hearing bad news, mental shock, and suppressed eruptions.
• Mental Symptoms: Passionate with intense emotions not easily expressed (simulates good mood when feeling wretched), busy (like a bee!) and cheerful, ambitious, restless, hurried, awkward (clumsy, breaks things, laughs at it), nervous, irritable, quarrelsome, changeable mood (sudden), jealous, ailments from grief, fear of birds, heart disease, death, apathy, indifference, stupor (fever), weepy, shrieking (sudden, piercing, in children, in meningitis).
• Local Symptoms: Skin (urticaria – with edema, vomiting, diarrhea, shortness of breath, during fever/perspiration, after exertion...), sore throat, kidney infection, UTI/Cystitis, and immune system/anaphylaxis.
• Examples of Cases:
  • Sore Throats: Tonsils are swollen ("glazed"); burning, stinging pains that are better from ice cold drinks and sucking on ice. The person does not want anything around neck.
  • Kidneys: Inflammation with low or no urine output.
  • Cystitis: Burning pain with shrieking from pain.
  • Measles: Rash has a swollen appearance like urticaria (rosy, hives). The Stinging pains cause child to cry out and the person desires open air.
  • Mumps: Skin and eyelids become puffy.

Chamomilla

• Part of Compositae (Asteraceae) family.
• Main sensations of the family include injured, hurt or insulted, burnt or scalded, fear of being touched, hurt or approached; emotionally, as if being wounded or needled.
• The herb is widely used for many ailments.
• The tea and essential oil are beneficial.
• Uses include sleep aids, skin creams, and bath oils
• It is a nervine and carminative, and helps skin eruptions.
• It can cause allergies, especially in people allergic to ragweed or daisies, but also helps allergies as an anti-inflammatory
• Active principals include flavonoids with a sedative and anti-spasmodic effect
• Essential oil: A lactone (Matrich), sequiterpens (camazulene, alpha-bisabobol, coumarins).
• Key affinities are the nervous system (hyperalgesia syndrome due to hyperesthesia to pain), behavior and personality disorders with anger, agitation, irritability, digestive and respiratory systems, and the ears.
• Toothache is worsened by heat and improved by cold.
• For colic, patients need to bend double
• Watery diarrhea looks like scrambled eggs or spinach and is very foul smelling (rotten eggs).
• Mental state: peevish, restless, whiny, and difficult.
• Not for the mild, calm, gentle patient, nor for a sluggish and constipated patient; they are agitated.
• Only quiet when carried and caressed constantly; very difficult to soothe, capricious, snappish, spiteful, and hostile
• Intolerance to pain: impatient, averse to being spoken to
• Piteous moaning because she cannot have what she wants.
• Always complaining; spiteful, snappish, and hostile.
• Intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted.
• Has an angry, accusatory response to pain.
• May strike or kick the parent and/or doctor.
• Presents with breath-holding in angry children.
• General Symptoms: Numbness after pain (on awakening), repeated spasms, (face, arms, legs...), neuralgic or gouty rheumatic diathesis.
• Presents hot and thirsty (hot sweat with pains), alternating heat and chills during fever.
• Fever: One part cold, one part hot, worsens with uncovering
• Pain goes from side to side or upward; after anger.
• Modalities:
• Improved by being carried, warm wet weather, sweating, and cold application.
• Aggravated by heat (earache; warm bed), coffee, anger, cold open air, wind, at night, teething, and touch; being looked at.
• Physical Symptoms: earaches, toothaches, or colic with intolerable pains, shrieking, intolerance to wind, with one cheek red and hot, one pale and cold.
• Has colic, diarrhea (green), jaundice, or convulsions after anger, during teething.
• May have migraines, wants to bend head backward; hot sweat on head during facial neuralgia.
• Dysmenorrhea, pains after delivery, while nursing, etc.
• Peculiar Symptom: One cheek red and hot, one pale and cold

Stramonium

• Also known as Datura stramonium, Thornapple or Jimson weed.
• Part of the Solanaceae family.
• Main sensation/themes of Solanaceae include sudden violence, spasm, and darkness.
• Pharmacology includes: Parasympatholytic, Antispasmodic, Muscle relaxant, Antineuralgic, Hallucinogenic (used in traditional societies in Africa and Mexico)
• Key affinities affect the brain, spinal nerves, muscles, circulation, and sexual organs.
• This is used for the effects of high fever, fright, sun, and shock and also during Childbirth.
• It can cause a great fear of darkness and sudden symptoms.
• Destructive, wild, possibly violent and/or threatening.
• A remedy of terror, hallucinations, and delirium, as well as PTSD.
• Has Light - Darkness.
• Desire for light, but reacts badly to direct light.
• Strong desire for company but imagines he is alone and is afraid.
• Violence and fears or convulsions, with sudden rage, kicking, and striking.
• Lives under the impression of some immediate danger (acute miasm).
• May awaken at night screaming.
• Has ailments from fright.
• May have post-traumatic stress disorder and/or religious obsession.
• Fears the dark (and fears falling in the dark), water, and violence.
• May also fear animals (dogs), strangers, black things/animals, suffocation, and being alone.
• Modalities:
• Aggravated by shiny, glistening objects (light); fright, darkness, after sleep; cloudy days, autumn, suppressions, intemperance, alone, swallowing, being touched.
• Improved by light (ambient), company, and warmth
• General Symptoms:
• Restlessness
• Feeling of falling (real or delusional)
• PTSD
• Spasmodic affections from fright (twitch, tic, convulsion)
• Suppressed secretions (urine, stool, menses, sweat)
• Painlessness of complaints usually painful
• Physical Symptoms:
• Stammering, facial distortion / spasms / sardonic grin
• Twitching, spasms, trembling of limbs; they fall asleep
• Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward.
• Throat very dry
• Congestion, great delirium, but little fever or pain
• Colds, pneumonia, meningitis