Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla patens, Anemone occidentalis, Anemone tuberosa) is one of the earliest spring wildflowers across it’s range. It is helpful for nervousness and a generally agitated emotional state paired with gloom and distress. It is for the wan and chilly, not hot and flushed. For those it helps, it acts very quickly to calm and soothe from 3 to 10 drops on the tongue or in water.
Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla patens, Anemone occidentalis, Anemone tuberosa) Full FOLIO HERE
Indications: Insomnia, nervousness, and a generally agitated emotional state with gloom and distress.
FRESH HERB from spring flowering to early seeding. PREPARATION: Tincture of the fresh plant [1:2]. DOSAGE: 3-10 drops, to 4X a day. USE WITH CARE. Not for use in pregnancy. “Large amounts(usually over 30 drops) may produce strong effects on the autonomic nervous system, with a sense of cold, a clammy sweat and even dizziness…the small doses produce NO side effects.” – Michael Moore, from the folio
For the historical research minded, an excerpt from the Pulsatilla entry in The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D. published in 1922 and posted, along with other historical texts, on SWSBM.org: “Pulsatilla, though a remedy of wide applicability, is particularly adapted to conditions in which the depressed mind is a prominent factor. A gloomy mentality, a state of nerve depression and unrest, a disposition to brood over real or imagined trouble, a tendency to look on the dark side of life, sadness, mild restlessness, and a state of mental unrest generally denominated in broad terms “nervousness”, are factors in the condition of the patient requiring pulsatilla. As stated before, the pulsatilla patient weeps readily, and the mind is inclined to wander-to be unsettled.”
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