Kent's cases 52: Pain in heels Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla-Mrs. P., aged forty-two, has been a most able sufferer for several
years, trying to have comfort through allopathy.
 

Symptoms: Pain in the heels like the pricking of tacks or nails; hot flushes,
followed by chilliness; menstrual flow black and clotted; puts feet out of
bed to cool them, they burn so; she must put her shoes on before she can
walk, "heels ache so;" vertigo mostly before menses; she has been deaf
since childhood, from scarlet-fever; constipation, character not ascertained;
open air is grateful, craves open air; warm room is oppressive, she
suffocates and must go out into the air; church oppressive; watery
discharge from eyes and nose; purplish appearance of the skin of the heel;
sprained feeling in the ankles, weak ankles.
May 23rd-Puls. 51m, one dose, and plenty of Sac. lac.
June 30th-Puls. cm and Sac. lac.
She needed no medicine until April 13th, the next year, when she consulted
me with the following symptoms:
Rattling cough; loses her urine when coughing; feels stopped up in a warm
room,; menses every two weeks, profuse, dark, offensive; urine offensive,
strong; sharp pains in rectum; toe joints very sore; hot flushes; limbs tire
easily when walking.
Puls. cm. one dose.
April 26th-Felt so much heat in vulva that she was compelled to apply a
cold cloth; no appetite; sleepless; burning heat all over body; throws covers
all off the bed; "I feel no two days alike," "I am so fidgety."
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She got more Sac. lac.
May 3d-Says she is well;
plenty of Sac. lac.
June 20th-Loses her urine when coughing.
July 10th-The same symptom continues to bother her.
Puls. cm. finished the cure and she remains well.