Petroselinum


Petroselinum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


   Common names: Parsley, Petersilie, Le Persil.

Introduction

Carum petroselinum, Benth. (Petroselinum sativum, Hoffm., Apium petroselinum, L.)

Natural order: Umbelliferae.

Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

Discharge of a milky fluid from the urethra (fifth day). Orifice of the urethra agglutinated with mucus (sixth day). (Yellow discharge from the urethra). (Albuminous discharge from the urethra). Slight burning in the navicular fossa while urinating (fifth day). Drawing and sticking in the navicular fossa, that after urinating changed to a cutting biting (fifth day).

(Crawling rather than burning, extending from the perineum through the whole urethra, while urinating). Creeping crawling in the isthmus of the urethra, in the morning, in bed (fourth day).

At first a creeping crawling, then a pressure in the urethra, in the region of Cowper’s glands, in the morning in bed, relieved while standing and sitting (fifth day). Drawing followed by itching of the navicular fossa. Drawing and pressure just behind the navicular fossa. (Frequent voluptuous tickling in the navicular fossa). Frequent desire to urinate, recurring nearly every half hour, caused by crawling stitch behind the navicular fossa. (Priapismus, without curvature of the penis). Profuse emission, towards morning.

Conditions.-

Aggravation.

(Towards morning), Emission.

(Morning), In bed, creeping crawling in the isthmus of the urethra; crawling, then pressure, in the region of Cowper’s glands.

(While urinating), Burning in the navicular fossa; crawling through the urethra.

Amelioration

(While standing and sitting), Crawling and pressure in the region of Cowper’s glands.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.