SPHERE OF ACTION
This remedy seems to have a specific action upon the renal plexus, exciting the kidneys to undue action, increasing the excretion of urine to a great extent, and has been found of great utility in dropsy, and urinary calculi. It also seems to be capable of producing a rheumatic diathesis.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
Much smarting and burning in the urethra during urination.- Dr. DRESSER.
Constant desire to urinate, passes but a few drops at a time, and is obliged to make the effort often.-Dr. DRESSER.
Suppression of urine, with restlessness and moaning.- Dr.
DRESSER.
Burning distress in the bladder.-Dr. DRESSER.
Deep, dull aching pains in the bladder.
Profuse urination.-Dr. DRESSER.
Urine mixed with mucus.- Dr. DRESSER.
Dull aching pains in the region of the kidneys.-Dr. DRESSER.
Rheumatic pains in the lumbar region.
Renal dropsy; body and extremities enormously swollen; scanty secretion of urine and distressing dyspnoea.-Dr. DRESSER.
The lower part of the belly swollen and hot, in suppression of urine.-Dr. DRESSER.
Excessive irritation of the bladder, with large deposits of lithates.-HALE.
Catarrhus vesicae, attended with ulceration.-HALE.
Fever.-Intermittent fever, chill commences in the back, and then spreads over the body.-HALE.
Violent shaking, with but little coldness.-HALE.
No thirst during the chill, but much frontal headache.-HALE.
Fever for several hours; nausea and vomiting, with thirst.
Not much sweat; on moving during the sweat, a chilliness would pass through the body.Dr. DRESSER.
Paroxysms come on at different times of the day, every other day.-Dr. DRESSER.
Nausea as the chill is leaving, and desire to eat immediately after the fever.-S. SWAN, M.D.
Head feels light; cannot get rid of the sensation as if the head was falling to the left side.-Dr. DRESSER.
A heavy, furred tongue; brown along the centre, and a bitter pappy taste, with the chill. Weak, tired feeling, which seems insupportable.
Numbness of the legs.-Dr. DRESSER.
Severe bone pains.-Dr. VON TAGEN.
All the symptoms are worse on the left side of the body.-Dr.
DRESSER.
This remedy should be more thoroughly tested in rental dropsy.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881