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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulsatilla \Pul`sa*til"la\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in {Anemone}. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several plants, of the former genus ''Pulsatilla'', now often considered a subgenus of ''Anemone'', including the pasque flower, some of which are used as medicinal herbs
Wikipedia
The genus Pulsatilla contains about 33 species of herbaceous perennials native to meadows and prairies of North America, Europe, and Asia. Common names include pasque flower (or pasqueflower), wind flower, prairie crocus, Easter Flower, and meadow anemone. Several species are valued ornamentals because of their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads. The showy part of the flower consists of sepals, not petals.
The genus Pulsatilla is sometimes considered a subgenus under the genus Anemone or as an informally named "group" within Anemone subgenus Anemone section Pulsatilloides.
The flower blooms early in spring, which leads to the common name Pasque flower, since Pasque refers to Easter ( Passover). In South Dakota in the center of North America, the flower sprouts from late March through early June.
Pulsatilla patens is the provincial flower of Manitoba, Canada and (as the synonym P. hirsutissima) is the state flower of the US state of South Dakota. Pulsatilla vulgaris is the County flower for both Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire in England. Pulsatilla vernalis is the county flower of Oppland, Norway.
Usage examples of "pulsatilla".
Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona.
A case is reported on the page before me of a soldier affected with acute inflammation in the chest, who took successively aconite, bryonia, nux vomica, and pulsatilla, and after thirty-eight days of treatment remained without any important change in his disease.
In homeopathy the Anemone and the Forget-me-not are known as Pulsatilla and Myosotis, and chemists accustomed to the Latin names may be shocked to find Taraxacum under Dandelion, Podophyllum under Mandrake, and Calendula under Marigold.
Plus some peppermint oil and sulphur and pulsatilla homeopathic stuff for the runs.
For mucous indigestion following a heavy or rich meal the tincture of Pulsatilla is almost a specific remedy.
Anemonin, or Pulsatilla Camphor, which is the active principle of this plant, is prepared by the chemist, and may be given in doses of from one fiftieth to one tenth of a grain rubbed up with dry sugar of milk.
A case is reported on the page before me of a soldier affected with acute inflammation in the chest, who took successively aconite, bryonia, nux vomica, and pulsatilla, and after thirty-eight days of treatment remained without any important change in his disease.
No wonder they believe in the efficacy of a similar attenuation of bryony or pulsatilla.
Varieties of pulsatilla when cultivated in this country like a well- drained, light, but deep soil, and will flourish in a peat or leaf soil, with the addition of lime rubble.