H2 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



parts of England administering vomits, which operated almost 



the instant they were swallowed; the juice of R. flammula, in 



distilled water, proved his medicine. 



Ranunculus acm.— Curtis (London Bot, fasc. i.) says that 



even plucking this plant, and carrying it some distance, has 



produced considerable inflammation in the palm of the hand. 



Applied to the temples, it produces headache, intolerable heat, 



and fainting. Applied to the joints, soreness of the joints, and 

 obstinate ulcers. 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Stapf says that the H. 

 bulbosus, from the symptoms it produces, must be useful in 

 affections of the eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, liver, and skin. 

 It has also been used with advantage in epileptic convulsions, 

 scrofulous affections, indurations, jaundice, vesicular eruptions, 

 flaccid phagedena, ulcers, spots over the entire body, and in 

 cases of dyspepsia and rheumatism. 



R. bulbosus has a very long action, the dynamic effects 

 lasting upwards of five weeks, and the external symptoms 

 (which make their appearance after the dynamic symptoms), the 

 cutaneous eruptions, herpes, and ulcers, continuing for many 

 months It is therefore especially adapted to chronic maladies, 

 and it may, without stretch of imagination, be placed among 

 the antipsorics, considering its specific action on the skin. 



Ranunculus sceleratus. —The symptoms of R. sceleratus, as 

 well as R. bulbosus, seem to correspond to various chronic affec- 

 tions of the chest and liver, to acute and chronic gout, malig- 

 nant ulcers on the extremities, and to fever and ague. 



Antidotes. — Smelling of Camphor, and, in some cases, 

 drinking large quantities of cold water (iced water would be 

 better). Slimy and oily substances have proved most successful 

 in antidoting the action of Ranunculus. The Rumex acetosa 

 and unripe currants have relieved the caustic acidity of 

 Ranunculus. The best homoeopathic remedies are Bryonia 

 and Rhus Tox. Pulsatilla will likewise prove a most useful 



