Relations
*Antidoted by: Dock leaves (Rumex obtus.) rubbed on the stung part lessen the pain, also the nettle’s own juice, and the juice from the common snail. *Antidote to: Apis (bee-stings). *Compare: Gout, fever, spleen, Natrum mur. Dropsy, uremia, gravel, gout, Ur-ac., Urea, Urinum. (The relation of Urt-u. to Natrum mur. and Urinum is interesting in connection with the fact that nettles do not grow at any distance from human dwellings or away from parts where animals are fed. Schlegel asks (*H. R., xii. 179), is this due to the wetting of the soil with urine? He says yes, and queries further, if the *salt in the urine is the efficient agent, recalling the fact that Barbarossa, after destroying Milan, strewed *salt over the ruins “so that *nettles might grow there.” Schlegel remarks that the briny waves produce stinging nettles of their own in the shape of Medusae.) Fever, vertigo, spleen, Querc. Spleen, Cean. Rheumatism of right deltoid, Sanguinaria Secretion of milk, Ric., Pulsatilla Urticaria, Apis, Natrum mur., Ast-fl., Medusa, Homar, Pariet.
Causation
Burns. Bee-stings. Blows. Suppressed milk. Suppressed nettle- rash.
SYMPTOMS.
Head
Terribly giddy, as if I were going to topple forwards on my head, then headache (B). Fullness in head, sensation of rush of blood and dulness, all day, with giddiness. Headache worse over eyes. Headache with stitches in region of spleen. Pain: in right side of sinciput, and in right side of face, extending to malar- bone, over right eye and eyeball, over eyes during the day and evening, neuralgic, in right side of forehead and face at 9 p.m. Stinging pain in right parietal bone forcing me to rub and press it. Dull aching in occiput and over eyes. Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing and determining internally.
Eyes
Pain: in right eye, in left at 3 p.m. Pain in eyeballs as from a blow, with feeling as if sand were in eyes. Eyes feel weak and sore.
Throat
Burning in throat, with frequent hawking of frothy mucus, causing cough, expectoration scanty, frothy.
Stomach
Nausea, with burning in throat. Vomiting from suppression of nettle-rash.
Abdomen
Soreness of abdomen at 10 a.m. when lying, and on pressure a sound as if bowels were full of water. Pain in left hypochondrium at 10 p.m. (Tumour of liver, “sorted gout.” _ Burnett.).
Stool and Anus
Stool omitted in morning, but at 2. p.m. scanty, dysenteric stool, a greenish-brown slime, with urging and tenesmus, afterwards constipation, then small stool with straining, later dysentery, frequent urging, small painful stool, mucus mixed with white matter like boiled white of eggs, at times a little blood, pain in abdomen for a week. Stool omitted for three days, then six hours after *Nux 3 a natural stool, four hours later several dysenteric stools of whitish slime, with pain around umbilicus, then for the next five days, daily, two to four white and yellow stools mixed with mucus, with colic and tenesmus. A small hemorrhoid, with raw burning in anus during and after stool, and in afternoon and evening itching and burning. Ascarides with great rectal irritation.
Urinary Organs
Urine suppressed for eight days, everything disappeared with desquamation. Suppression of urine for twelve days, edematous swelling of whole upper body to umbilicus. Strangury, gravel, disease of bladder and kidneys. Hemorrhage from bladder.
Male Sexual Organs
Itching of scrotum, kept him awake at night and tormented him nearly all day, scrotum swollen, stinging and itching, no moisture.
Female Sexual Organs
Menorrhagia, intense hemorrhage. Leucorrhoea, very acrid or excoriating. Pruritus vulvae with great itching, stinging, and oedema of the parts. A woman who had no children for three years and a half, and had nursed none of her children, had at first great swelling of breasts, which discharged serum, then copious milk (from a pint of hot infusion of the herb). Arrested flow of milk after weaning.
Respiratory Organs
Whooping-cough. Not much expectoration, and what there is frothy.
Chest
Sore feeling as from a blow in left side of chest. Intermittent soreness in right chest during day. Hemoptysis from least exertion of lungs.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse accelerated.
Limbs
Rheumatic pain in arms and ankles, worse right arm.
Upper Limbs
Pain in right deltoid, worse 9 p.m., could not put on his coat alone. Cramp like pain in right deltoid in evening, worse rotating arm inward, with soreness to touch, with rheumatic feeling in left arm, next day pain in right arm worse by lying on it, and on moving it a stitch darted through arm, extending over front of humerus. At times pain in left arm, muscles of right arm feel sore as if bruised, cannot raise or stretch right arm on account of pain, afterwards rheumatic stiffness and pain in right wrist, later rheumatic pain in left arm, wrist, and fingers. Raised, red, itching blisters on skin of hands and fingers. (Nodous joints of fingers. R.T.C.).
Lower Limbs
Stiff soreness on inside of left knee. Rheumatic pain in both ankles.
Generalities
Symptoms returned at the same time every year. Hemorrhage from various organs. Dropsy. Sets all my pulses beating (B).
Skin
Itching swellings all over fingers and hands, resembling “bold hives,” lumps and red spots on hands and fever blisters on lips, itching. Heat in skin of face, arms, shoulders, and chest, with formication, numbness and itching, lips, nose, and ears swollen, lids so edematous that they could scarcely be opened, after awhile upper part of body as far as navel edematous and pale, transparent blisters filled with serum and looking like sudamina, becoming confluent and making the skin look wrinkled, lids closed, forming transparent, here and there bluish shining swellings as large as hen’s eggs, disappeared on sixth day with desquamation. (Intense burning in skin after sleep.) Erythema. Vesicular erysipelas. Burns and scalds.
Sleep
Drowsiness when reading.
Fever
General heat on getting into bed, with soreness over abdomen. When I take it at night it makes me very feverish (not when taken in morning. B.).
