Adonis Vernalis – Pheasant’s Eye

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh plant, gathered when in flower, without the roots. N.O. Raununculaceae.

This remedy has action similar to that of Digitalis, without the cumulative effects. It energises the auditory muscle. Arrhythmia. Endocarditis. Exophthalmic goitre. Rheumatism with cardiac involvement.

Adonis Vernalis was proved by Gisevius. The characteristic symptoms from the proving are: irritability, difficulty in falling asleep, restless at night with terrifying dreams; in the evening coughing and violent left-sided headache with cold feet and hands, heat in the head and perspiration.

Spinal irritation with pains in the nape of the neck, in the back and sacrum, stiff- ness along the length of the spine, pains in the left shoulder and especially in the left upper arm, aggravated by turning movements of the arm, and also in the elbow-joint with loss of sensation in the hands. Tearing pains in the hips, thighs and left knee, less so on the right. Bones feel as if beaten. Weakness and pains in all the limbs.

In the heart, sensation of pressure, palpitations, pains, air-hunger and anxiety, pressure towards the sternum; pulse is changeable, decelerated or accelerated, or ir- regular. Pains in the left arm with crawling sensation.

In the upper abdomen there are eructations, nausea, periodic shooting pains and distension.

The urine is increased, with stabbing pains on urination, strong urging, and in women a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Adonis vernalis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for adonis vernalis: cardiac insufficiency.