Materia medica


Homeopathic Materia medica for gonorrohea and sycosis by J.H.Allen….


ACONITE

Aconite is seldom indicated outside of psoric or pseudo-psoric states, yet I have used it a number of times in febrile conditions in young people in the beginning of the disease, where there was high fever, hot dry skin, dry mouth, much thirst, great restlessness and mental anxiety. Burning in the neck of the bladder when not urinating; urine urging with passing of dark, feeling hot as it passes. Painful anxious urging with passing of dark, scanty, hot urine; acute gonorrhoeal orchitis; testicles hot, hard and swollen.

CASE 1. Mr. L., age 18, had gonorrhoea for four or five days; discharge suppressed by medicated lotions. I found him suffering with a high temperature, skin dry, hot; great restlessness with much tossing about the bed with active delirium; much thirst; frequent, painful urging to urinate, passing only a few drops of bloody urine, with much suffering. Temperature passed away during the night and the gonorrhoeal discharge was re-established, and a case of acute cystitis avoided.

AGARICUS

This is another remedy which had cold shrunken organs in the male. It has many special reflexes due to sexual excesses. It acts also in the cure of cold chronic gleet or gonorrhoea. The erections and the organs are painful, often violent chordee. In Dr.Kent’s Materia Medica we find this symptom, constant itching and tingling along the urethra. It has the last drop of the discharge prolonged like Sepia. Like Nux vomica or Medorrhinum, it is often the remedy to follow much local treatment. The urinary flow is intermittent or dribbling after urinating. it is occasionally milky, with burning in the urinating. It is occasionally milky, with burning in the urethra after urinating and much itching in the hairy parts.

Case I. Johm C., age 50, tall, spare of flesh, despondent, low spirited, fears death; has had gonorrhoea for six months; discharge yellowish, mucous, with aching along the spermatic cord; complete impotence; penis relaxed, small; organs generally cold and flaccid. He has seminal emissions twice a week; fears he will die or that he is incurable. Cured by this remedy. AMMONIUM MURIATICUM

Urinary organs. In this remedy we have almost the tenesmus of Nux vomica, Mercurius and Canth; indeed it is not far behind Cantharis in its tenesmus, although it has not the strangury of that remedy, great urging while but a few drops pass. This tenesmus is confined principally to the neck of the bladder.

Urine, Copious, strong smelling, moldy, musty, ammoniacal.

Gonorrhoea or leucorrhoeal discharge like the whites of eggs, or brownish or slimy; worse after urination; colicky or griping pains accompanies the discharge in the female.

ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS

Urinary Organs. Nephritic colic; urging to urinate; urine has strong odor (Nit., ac. Benz, ac.); discharge frequent, scanty, with sensation as if something were sticking in the urethra, with slight burning. Frequent urinations with fine stinging in the meatus. Urine scanty, straw-colored, offensive, followed by cutting and burning in the urethra, < from 6 to 8 A.M., sensation as if something was still passing after urination; red lithic deposits on side of vessel (Sepia) or a greasy deposit.

Male Organs. Sexual excitement, with stitches on side of penis, with urging to urinate, swelling and erection.

ALUMINA

This is a remedy for chronic gleet in men who are debilitated both with old age and with the disease. While it is not very frequently indicated, it does good work when the symptoms call for it.

Urine. The urine is passed frequently and in small quantities, often bloody or mixed with clay-like deposit. Alumina may be thought of as a remedy in the tertiary stage of the disease, especially when Bright’s disease or diabetes has developed from suppression and the symptoms point to this remedy. The urine is very slow to start in this remedy, urinates ((>)) in a standing position. The vaso-motor paralysis is seen all throughout the action of its proving.

Male Sexual Organs. Gonorrhoeal discharge yellowish, painless, and bland. The gleety discharge are yellow, never becoming white as in other remedies. Other symptoms might be mentioned as prostatic irritation, and enlargement; sensation of fullness in the perineum; paralytic weakness or paresis of the sexual sphere in general; voice weak, low, feeble; skin dry; no perspiration.

ARUNDO MAURITANICA

Urinary Organs. Nephritic pains. Pricking in bladder.

Urine red with sand like sediment Phosphorus Lyc, Kali phos. Sepia) Red sand (compare with Lycopodium).

After urination, weight, burning, itching, in urethra.

Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire; increased lascivious ideas; frequent erections.

Coition; pain in spermatic cord after.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM

Urinary Organs. Cutting pain in the urethra while urinating, and backache during the emission of the urine, are quite positive symptoms of this remedy. The majority of the symptoms center, as we know, about the stomach and digestive tract. It is a much prized remedy when we come to sycotic gastric disturbances and marked gouty states of the system. It is also to be used in the sycotic snuffles of infants, that are aggravated when the room becomes warm, like Pulsatilla The gonorrhoeal discharge is copious, thick mucus resembling Nux vomica

AMMONIUM CARB

The ammoniums are seldom indicated in sycotic troubles. Occasionally we find symptoms calling for this form if the drug in women who have a weak heart, with a marked tendency to faint. This is more marked in elderly women or in old maids. They have usually a tubercular diathesis with a hemorrhagic tendency. the blood will not coagulate and is very dark. The heart symptoms are aggravated in a warm room or by over exertion.

It may be considered before Lachesis in hysterical affections.

Urine. Pressure in bladder especially at night. The urine excoriates the parts it comes in contact with, producing biting and itching.

Male Organs. Pain in testicles and seminal cords, violent sexual desire without erection; < in the morning.

Gonorrhoeal discharges in women, thin, acrid, scanty or profuse, producing itching, swelling and burning of the pudenda or perineum. This remedy like Pulsatilla is ameliorated by lying on the stomach and its aggravations are similar to Rhus. tox., namely, wet weather, washing, and during menses. Sometimes the discharge has an ammoniacal odor.

ARGENTUM METALLICUM

Like all minerals this is a deep acting remedy. It is found very useful in both sycotic and psoric disease. @It is said to act more especially upon nerves and cartilages, but we may safely say it affects every cell and fiber of the organism. The patient grows more emaciated as he grows more nervous. Argentum patients look careworn, tired pale, and sickly.

Urinary Organs. Urine Pale, fetid, often of a sweetish odor; often very profuse in nervous patients; nervous conditions relieved by passing large quantities of urine. The nervousness passes off in that way. (Ignatia has this symptom also.)

Sexual Organs; chronic Orchitis with much infiltration and hardness of the testicle, after gonorrhoea. The pain is spoken of as if the parts were being crushed. Urine diabetic.

The gonorrhoeal discharge is yellowish-green and thick even in old chronic cases. This is an unusual symptom as the discharge usually grows thinner as the disease grows chronic and painless. In women it is apt to be purulent, ichorous, bloody, accompanied with more or less pain in the left ovary and a bearing down sensation in the inner parts. It differs largely from Argentum nitrate in its nervous symptoms.

The cachexia of Sycosis is often very marked in this remedy. The fact is pale or bluish, cheeks sunken, sallow, dirty looking, and prematurely old.

Urinary Organs. An ulcerative or splinter-like pain along the center of the urethra is peculiar to this remedy; urine burns when passing; passage feels swollen with a sensation as if a drop remained behind. (Thuja, Kali, iod. Medorrhinum). Urine dark or dark yellow in color. Quick urging to pass urine; passes frequently and a little at a time; office quite sensitive; orifice swollen, puffy, in which it resembles Medorrhinum. In fact it resembles Medorrhinum in many ways in its action upon the urinary organs.

Male Organs. Chordee with bloody urine; contusive pain in the testicles with enlargement and hardness. Discharge in gonorrhoea copious, yellowish, green mucus. In fact all the discharges of this remedy, the diarrhoeas, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, and catarrhal difficulties have that same copious, dirty-greenish, or yellowish green mucus. Its ophthalmia is a type of this remedy. The diseased mucous surface is always red, puffy, swollen and covered with this peculiar discharge. The discharges have a musty, old hay or stale fish odor. The gonorrhoeal discharges of Medorrhinum are more scant, but they are of a similar odor and consistency. Often we find strings of mucus in its discharges. It excoriates and produces erythema as if passes over healthy skin or mucous membrane. The fact that this remedy in the crude state is a powerful suppressive agent in the hands of the old school proves to us how efficient it becomes as a curative agent in gonorrhoea.

John Henry Allen
Dr. John Henry Allen, MD (1854-1925)
J.H. Allen was a student of H.C. Allen. He was the president of the IHA in 1900. Dr. Allen taught at the Hering Medical College in Chicago. Dr. Allen died August 1, 1925
Books by John Henry Allen:
Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin 1902
The Chronic Miasms: Psora and Pseudo Psora 1908
The Chronic Miasms: Sycosis 1908