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BEHAVIOURAL
MATERIA MEDICA:
PULSATILLA
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)
Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.
Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom
Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K
Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)
Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute
Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England
“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,
CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND
Tel & Fax No. 44 (0) 1245 505859
E. Mail: allencollege@btconnect.com
Web: https://allencollege.co.uk www.homoeopathy-course.com
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EYE
• Fair hair;
blue eyes.
PULSATILLA
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FACE
• Attractive, makes
you to look again
and again.
• One sided
perspiration in
face.
• Swelling lower,
which is cracked in
the middle.
• Expression of
facial suffering.
PULSATILLA
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NAILS
•Thick &
ridge
(Sycotic).
•Can be
glossy
(Tubercular).
•Twitching
sensation.
PULSATILLA
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VOICE
•Pleasing,
soft and
tender.
•Speech:
hesitant.
•Speech –
hesitating,
wandering.
PULSATILLA
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MAKING APPOINTMENT
• Extremely
amiable and will
try to please you.
• Whatever time
you give will be
OK, may be
6 a.m. on Sunday
morning!!
• Will appear on
time on the day of
appointment.
PULSATILLA
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DRESS
•Attractive.
•Pleasing to
the eyes
(eye-
catcher).
PULSATILLA
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GESTURE
• Clingy, oversensitive.
• Bashful.
• “Poor me” (demands
attention, better by
consolation).
• Forsaken (needs
approval, tenderness,
nurturing).
• Gives to receive.
• Clingy: asks repeatedly:
“tell me, that you love me”!
• Pleasing (yielding).
PULSATILLA
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TONGUE
• Yellow stripe down the
centre.
• Food, especially bread,
tastes bitter. Much
sweet saliva.
Alternations of taste,
bitter, bilious, greasy,
salty, foul. Loss of taste.
• Greasy taste. Dry
mouth, without thirst;
wants it washed
frequently.
• Yellow or white tongue,
covered with a
tenacious mucus.
PULSATILLA
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APPEARANCE
•Plump.
•Pretty, blonde,
feminine.
•Softness.
•Flushes and
blushes easily.
•Red, plethoric;
lips red and
cracked.
PULSATILLA
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SIT & BEHAVE
•Eager,
weepy,
`poor me’
pleasing.
PULSATILLA
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PERSONALITY
• Emotional
(tearful).
• Pleasing
perceptive.
• Mild.
• Forsaken,
worrier.
• Affectionate,
caring.
• Changeable
mood.
PULSATILLA
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BEHAVIOURAL
• Bashful.
• Needs
tenderness.
• Needs
approval,
anchor.
• Clingy.
• Child: wants
to carried
slowly.
PULSATILLA
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NATURE
• Disposition:
Yielding.
• Disposition:
Contradictory.
• Disposition:
Lachrymal.
• Disposition:
Moody.
• Disposition:
Emotional.
• Disposition:
Changeable.
PULSATILLA
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SLEEP
• Wide awake.
• Sound sleep in the
morning, wakes up
un-refreshed.
• Sleeps with hands
above the head.
• Position during sleep:-
On abdomen, on back.
Hands are over the
head; hands are
crossed over the
abdomen; lower limbs
drawn up & spread
apart on sitting.
PULSATILLA
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LOOK AND DIAGNOSE
•Amiable, yielding.
•Clingy, demanding.
•Weepy.
•Beautiful blondes.
•Mild & private.
•Eager to please
PULSATILLA
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REACTION TO EMOTIONS
• Grieving or sad mood:
Forsaken.
• Anxious mood: Fears:
death, dark, disaster,
misfortune, opposite sex.
• Aggressive mood:
Disgust.
• Personality: Mild and
Private.
• Envious mood:
Mistrustful.
• Miserable nature:
Weeping, tearful:
causeless.
PULSATILLA
• Plump.
• Pretty, blonde,
feminine.
• Softness.
• Flushes and
blushes easily.
• Red, plethoric;
lips red and
cracked.
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APPEARANCE
PULSATILLA
Yielding
Chan-
geable
Emo-
tional
Contra-
dictory
Lachrymal
Moody
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NATURE
Dispo-
sition
PULSATILLA
• Bashful.
• Needs
tenderness.
• Needs
approval,
anchor.
• Clingy.
• Child:
wants to be
carried
slowly.
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BEHAVIOURAL
PULSATILLA
• Attractive,
makes you to
look again and
again.
• One sided
perspiration in
face.
• Swelling lower,
which is
cracked in the
middle.
• Expression of
facial suffering.
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FACE
PULSATILLA
• Behaviour
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Pulsatilla
Through
Pulsatilla
P = Pains
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U = Unable
to
breathe
well
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L = Lachrymal
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S = Symptoms 
Changeable
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A = All gone
sensation
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T = Thirst-
less
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I = Impairment
of health
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L = Laughter
& Tear
alternates
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A = Affec-
tionate
PULSATILLA
Thick
Yellow Bland
Secretions
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PULSATILLA
• Mumps 
Metastasis
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PULSATILLA
• Taste
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PULSATILLA
• Sleep
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PULSATILLA
• N.B.W.S.
Puberty
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PULSATILLA
• Pains
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PULSATILLA
• Pains
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PULSATILLA
• Changea-
bility
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PULSATILLA
• Adoptability
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PULSATILLA
• Headache
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PULSATILLA
• Anaemic
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PULSATILLA
• Wet =
Cold
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PULSATILLA
• Diarrhoea
at night
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PULSATILLA
• One hand
cold other
warm
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PULSATILLA
• Vertigo
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PULSATILLA
Abused
Loss
Changeable
Emo-
tional &
tearful
Demanding
& clingy
(Needs an
anchor)
MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS
“Poor
me”
Needs
support &
reassurance
Mental
Aetiologies
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Forsaken
Soft  
Rigid
Tender  
Stubborn
Emotion Rejection
Betrayal
Weepy   Closed
Excess
Excite-
ment
Appre-
hension
Humi-
liation
Unloved
Love dis-
appointment
Unwanted
PULSATILLA
Forsaken
Fanatic
&
religious
Pleasing
(wants to
please)
Conso-
lation
craver
Emo-
tional &
tearful
Self-pity
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PULSATILLA
Mild   irritable
Soft  
rigid
Tender
 
stubborn
Weepy  
Closed
Romantic
 
Withdrawn
Emotional  
demanding
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Change-
ability
PULSATILLA
• Amiable
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PULSATILLA
Soft & tender
Open,
amiable &
malleable
Affec-
tionate,
mild, easily
dominated,
dependent
Shy &
timid
Submi-
ssive;
wants to
please
Sympathetic (but gives to
receive: consolation >)
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Needs
support
&
reassura
nce
(asks:
tell me
that you
love me)
PULSATILLA
• Sulky
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PULSATILLA
• Depressed
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PULSATILLA
• Grieving
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PULSATILLA
Law-abiding
Needs
approval,
tenderness,
nurturing
Clingy
Needs an
Anchor
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PULSATILLA
• Sympathetic
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PULSATILLA
Shy
Timid Reserved
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PULSATILLA
• Smiley
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PULSATILLA
• Weepy
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PULSATILLA
• Sensitive
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PULSATILLA
THANK YOU!
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