Small Pasque Flower

See also Pulsatilla (genus)

Pulsatilla pratensis is a flowering plant in the buttercup family. It is also known as the small pasque flower or Hungarian Anemone. It is native to central and eastern Europe, from southeast Norway and western Denmark to Bulgaria.

Pulsatilla is a toxic plant. Misuse can cause diarrhea, vomiting, convulsions, hypotension, and coma. Fresh pulsatilla can irritate the skin and mucous membranes, and if ingested, it can irritate the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, or urinary tract.

Pulsatilla has been used as a medicine by Native Americans for centuries. Blackfoot Indians used it to induce abortions and childbirth. It is also used for:

Tension headaches, Hyperactivity, Insomnia, Boils, Asthma and other lung diseases, Earache, Migraines, Nerve pain, General restlessness, Gastrointestinal disorders, Urinary tract disorders.

Pulsatilla is also used as a first aid kit medicine in homeopathy. It treats the common cold, persistent dry cough, earache, eye inflammation, and insomnia