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Ranunculus bulbosus (Ran-b.)

Ranunculus bulbosus (Ran-b.) appears in 289 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 18 are single rubrics in which only this remedy appears, and 18 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Irritability, Quarrelsomeness, Timidity and Cares. Almost all specific rubrics are built as alternations. The picture is that of a person whom his mind throws back and forth between attack and retreat, anger and worry.

Quarrel and shyness

Two attitudes replace one another. Quarrelsomeness alternates with timidity ("Quarrelsome – alternating with – timidity"), and timidity in turn alternates with quarrelsomeness ("Timidity – alternating with – quarrelsomeness"). Irritability occurs alternating with timidity, cowardice and anxiety, and anger too alternates with timidity. Attack and shyness thus appear not as two natures but as two answers to the same insecurity: one who feels crowded flares up and in the next moment draws back.

Worry and anger

The second alternation leads from worry into anger: "Cares, full of – alternating with – anger." Cares likewise alternate with irritability and quarrelsomeness, irritability with solicitude, quarrelsomeness with discouragement and dissatisfaction. Irritability thus evidently arises less from strength than from burden; it is the loud form of a tension that can also show itself as worry. In time the forenoon is emphasized, with quarrelsomeness and with insulting and abusive behavior: "Quarrelsome – forenoon." Anguish, likewise listed in the forenoon, forms the quiet side of it.

Fear and brooding

Beside the alternations stand individual, unusual rubrics. Fear concerns electricity and eating. Ailments arise from meditation and from reflection, as if the pausing that calms others had a burdening effect here. The mind knows uneasiness in fever and in heat, and there is the delusion that the senses are vanishing. Speech too suffers when air is lacking and is difficult in dyspnea. Common to these rubrics is a sensitivity that reaches from the outside into the body and from there back into the mind.

Summary

In the repertory Ran-b. shows a mind without a firm center. It tips between rebelling and recoiling, between worry and anger, and the alternation rubrics carry the real content: not a single mood characterizes the remedy, but the switching itself.

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