PULSATILLA NIGRICANS 6

Action of Medicine:

• Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition - the woman's remedy.
• Weeps easily, almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping.
• The first serious impairment of health is referred to pubertic age, have "never been well since" - anaemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis.
• Secretions from all mucous membranes are thick, bland and yellowish-green.
• Symptoms ever changing. Pains: drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another.
• Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints. Great dryness of mouth in the morning, without thirst.
• Delayed first menstruation.
• The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly.
• Worse- in a warm close room; evening, at twilight; on beginning to move; lying on the left; or on the painless side; very rich fat, indigestible food; heat.
• Better- in the open air; lying on the painful side; cold air or cool room; eating or drinking cold things; cold applications.

Reference: Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen