ANTHROKOKALI
Urinary Organs. Copious evacuations of pale, colorless urine, with no sediment, of alkaline reaction. Itching, slight burning and tickling at the orifice when urinating.
Male Organs. Long lasting, painful erections; skin eruptions, and many symptoms increased by sweating. Diarrhoea, with increased secretions of urine, an unusual symptom. A more complete proving of this remedy should be made.
BARYTA CARB
Urinary Organs. Irritation of the bladder, increases at night; constant irritation cannot retain the urine (old people.) Urine clear, abundant; before urination, great desire; during, burning in the urethra; after, renewed straining with dribbling.
Male Organs. Impotence, diminished sexual desire, penis relaxed, erection only in the morning. Prostate gland hypertrophied. Gleet or gonorrhoeal discharge, purulent with pain in the fossa navicularis on pressure; sweat about the scrotum with soreness.
Female Organs. During menses pinching colic with cutting in the abdomen; feeling of weight over the pubic region; bruised pain in the small of the back; lameness, weight and heaviness in the small of the back. Flow of a bloody, mucous nature. Leucorrhoea, bloody, mucus-like, with tearing in the pudendum, attended with anxiety and palpitation of the heart, found in obese elderly women, or weak, dwarfish, undeveloped young girls.
BENZOIC ACID
Benzoic acid has many symptoms of Sycosis in the hereditary and tertiary stages of the disease. Like Lycopodium, Lithia carb., Nitric acid and other sycotic remedies, it meets especially well the urinary symptoms and the uric acid diathesis. It has the true gouty and the lithic constitution, which as we all know is one of the persistent sycotic states so difficult to cure. We have frequent recourse to this remedy to relieve the acute lithic expression of chronic Sycosis. When these gouty waves reach their maximum, the offending debris is eliminated or thrown off through the urine, and are made manifest in the urinary secretions.
Its symptoms are spasmodic and changeable. Just as these gouty stages are influenced by the course of living, diet and weather changes.
Urinary Organs. Urine suddenly changes from a clear to a dark beer color. When the urine is scanty, the patient suffers with gouty secretions in the joints, or gouty states of the heart, liver, stomach and intestinal tract. As soon as the urine becomes profuse, the suffering is relieved. Urine strong-smelling, like horse’s urine; scanty, dark, full of a brick-like or red pepper deposit and very offensive smelling. Dr.Kent very wisely says we are not to check the excessive output of the kidneys, for it would be as harmful to the patient as suppressing any other discharge. When the urine is full of these lithic deposits the patient feels well and vice versa. The urine is often of such as strange pungent odor, that it meets your nostrils as soon as you enter the patient’s room. We find this often in children or even infants whose parents have acquired Sycosis. (Nitric acid., Ammonium, mur.) The bloody and clothing of these children has a urinous odor.
Discharge muco-purulent; urine dark, often of a deep red color.
Sexual Organs. Sexual desire depressed both in men and women, often completely gone in women; great prostration after coition; cutting pains after sexual intercourse; great excitability and weakness in the morning after coition. Burning in the urethra after coition, or burning pain in the spermatic cord extending to testicles in the male.
Gonorrhoea. Penis hard, contracted around upper surface. Burning in the glans of the penis in kidney troubles; cold sensation in the prepuce and glans of the penis. Great weakness in the parts is noticed after urination. Constant urging to urinate with pain in neck of bladder, or pains extending to hips and thighs.
BERBERIS
Urinary Organs. This remedy may be studied and carefully compared with Benzoic acid Lithium carb. in its action upon the urinary tract. It has its gouty and lithic phenomena like these remedies. Dr. Kent says “it is indicated in anaemic, feeble constitutions, especially in elderly people who are pale, sickly and constantly chilly.” Urine is either very scanty or profuse, clear in color or full of lithic deposits. It has red sandy deposits like Lycopodium, Sepia, and Phosphorus This is more apt to come from the left kidney. The pains are sharp, sticking, the majority of which radiate about the region of the kidneys or from the kidneys.
Bladder. Crampy contraction, or aching pain in the bladder, whether full or empty.Cutting pains, deeply seated; violent, sticking pains in bladder, with desire to urinate; great urging, with pain in the neck of the bladder, burning with scanty urination. These cutting pains are invariably < in the left side of the bladder or pelvis. Chronic sycotic catarrhal troubles of the bladder of long standing, (similar to Thuja or Sarsa.), with pains shooting about the loins, or pelvis. Pains in the hips and thighs before urinating; ((>)) by urinating. These pains awaken the patient about every two hours during the night, relieved by urinating; sent to sleep as soon as she urinated and pains ceased. Cutting and burning in the urethra, < when urinating; violent burning and shooting pain in the orifice of the urethra. Urine often blood bed; urine filled with a copious, grayish-white or reddish sediment, yellowish-red crystals, small calculi. Sometimes urine flows very slowly, with much pain and pressure in the bladder; violent urging, < in the morning, accompanied with pain in the loins and hips. In gouty conditions there are pains in the spermatic cords and testicles. These pains may be stitching or burning, and are < in the left cord with sexual weakness. Pain in spermatic cord extending into the abdominal ring or into the testicles. Drawing from the left testicle to the spermatic cord. Sexual organs cold; shrunken with shooting or burning pains in spermatic cord.
CANNABIS SATIVA
Urinary Organs. Very painful swellings of the penis with painful erections; shooting or cutting pains on urinating; sexual desire greatly increased during an attack of gonorrhoea.Its action is quite similar to Cann. ind., Cantharis, and Petros. Burning, smarting in the urethra; it feels sore and inflamed the whole length during erection, a tensive drawing pain as if urethra were drawn up in knots. Pains extending from orifice of urethra back to the neck of the bladder; painful spasmodic closing of the sphincter, with urging to stool when urinating. (Nux. vom.) Pain < at the close of urination. (Sarsa.)
Male Sexual Organs. Priapism with copious, mucous discharge in acute gonorrhoea. Urination accompanied with shooting pains (Cann. ind.); penis swollen; prepuce dark red; red, lentil-sized spots on the glans of the penis; indicated in the acute inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea, where the inflammation is deep seated. Gonorrhoea, where the inflammation is deep seated. Gonorrhoea, acute, with stitching pains on urinating; frequent prolonged erections with shooting, stitching pains; much swelling of the prepuce; when walking, penis feels very sore; walks with legs wide apart.
CAPSICUM
The aromatics and the peppers are all good anti-sycotic remedies. They all, as a rule aggravate the disease in any stage when employed as seasoning in food. The allopathic school is very exacting in prohibiting their use to all patients afflicted with this disease; often as much so as they are in prohibiting the use of stimulants, for the same reason that they aggravate the discharge and prevent or hinder to a very great degree the suppression of the disease. Strange to note, however, these same remedies are given in powerful doses internally to assist the local measures in their so-called cures of gonorrhoea. Cubebs, Copaiba, oil of cedron, and other anti-sycotics are commonly used and they are all profound irritants of the urinary tract. Even the use of tea, coffee, pepper, tobacco, are also taken away from these patients, as soon as it is discovered that they are victims of the disease.
For the reasons above mentioned Capsicum proves a valuable remedy in this complaint. Mental symptoms-Tormented with thoughts of suicide; does not want to take his own life, but the thoughts are persistent and never leave him. If he does commit suicide it is because of these strong impulses. Sycosis produces suicidal symptoms more than any other miasm. Capsicum is adapted to rosy, red-faced, clear skinned, blond individuals who are fond of beer or stimulating food, and aromatics. They are as a rule quite plethoric, easily tired and have slow and sluggish reaction.
Urinary Organs-Burning in the bladder is given in Herings’ Guiding Symptoms as a marked symptom, but I have not verified this symptom. Burning at the meatus or at the orifice is a strong symptom of the remedy in gonorrhoea; a burning as of fire. It is a burning, peppery, urine hot as it passes the orifice and the burning continues for some time after urination. Burning, biting, cutting, smarting, scalding with tenesmus and chordee after urinating. Urine reddish or even bloody.