Homeopathy Remedy Equisetum


Equisetum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Equisetum…


      A tincture is made of the whole plant of Equisetum hymenale, L.

General Action

      The most prominent effects are noticed on the urinary tract, especially on the bladder.

Generalities and Mind

      Stiffness of muscles of trunk. Uneasiness in different parts; U. in evening. General malaise. Weakness. Irritability and easy fatigue.

Head

      Neuralgia at night in different parts, (<) l. temple. Aching all the morning; at noon, with pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit; with inclination to scowl; stupefying, about 4 O’clock. Heaviness; all day, with general prostration; of brain at 9 A.M., with dullness; at 10.15 A.M., with Dullness and with constriction through temples and weakness from the slightest exertion; in afternoon, with inability to study; with confusion; in afternoon; with inability to study; with confusion; with pain above r. temple; as if it would fall forward at 9.30 A.M. Vertigo; on

moving head; with wavelike pains in head and intermittent lightness, and on walking feeling as if he would fall.

Forehead.- Aching; over r. eye; at 9.30 A.M., with tightness of scalp and pain in roof of r. orbit; across F. and upper part of eyes and through temples at 10.25 A.M.; with hot and rather flushed face; changing to occiput, then darting from l. to r. side of occiput; deep-seated, with prickling of skin on rubbing. Prickling as from electricity in evening and on rubbing. Fulness, with pain and feeling as if skin of F. were tight, (<) looking up, with heat in face, but no redness; F. as if all the brain were packed in front, at 9.30 A.M. Constriction, and in vertex; across F. and in l. temple at 10.10 A.M., as if scalp were too tight; C. in F. and though temples in afternoon, with shooting through temples, (<) r., the pains in temples (<) movement and in open air, not (>) quiet, but (>) eating. Heavy dull feeling at 11.30 A.M., and in temples.

Temples.- Sticking near l. at 9 A.M., extending in a straight line on anterior of forehead to r. temple, then darting pains extending to vertex; occasional S. in l. at 10 A.M.; S. darting from one to the other, with a heavy, drowsy sensation. Darting in each; in l. at 10.45. A.M., (<) in open air and extending over l. eye, in roof of orbit. Boring i n l. at 11.45 A.M.; B. in l., darting to r. Sharp pains; in l. at 9.30 P.M., extending to supraorbital region, with redness and burning of face; suddenly in r. at at 11.25 A.M.; intermittent, in l. at 11 A.M., extending to roof of l. orbit. Pain over r.; in r. at 9.25 A.M.; P. at 10.45 A.M., with heat in face and forehead; through T. in afternoon and evening; (<) l., then the pain covered in a straight line from one T. to the other. Constriction through T. at 12.45. P.M.

Vertex.- Pain. Weight. Heaviness at 12.30 P.M., with pain through temples.

Occiput.- Sticking near lambdoidal suture; S. on l. side of occipital bone, near superior curved line. Darting on sides of bones, near superior cured line. Sharp and quick pains near l. superior curved line. Boring changing from side to side. Drawing pain in evening, and in neck.

Scalp.- Tight feeling, with continual inclination to raise and wrinkle the brow, which when wrinkled requires an effort to smooth again.

Eyes

      Pain in l.; in roof or r. orbit at 10.20 A.M. Sharp pain in outer angle of r. 4 P.M. Heavy, sleepy feeling in lids. Soreness of l. ball in evening.

Ears

      Pain at back of l. mastoid process at 12.40 P.M., with a stiff feeling. Sounds intermitting so as to be indistinguishable. Confused sounds, (<) l. Rumbling, with Dullness and heaviness of head; R. in l., then confusion of sounds.

Face, Mouth and Throat

      Flushed face at 1.25 M.P., with hot feeling. Feeling as if blood pressed into the face, (<) forehead. Salivation at night, causing frequent desire to swallow. Sticking in throat at 1.30 P.M.

Stomach

      Excessive hunger. Much wind at night. Acidity. Pain in region of pyloric orifice; in epigastric and umbilical regions; heavy, after every meal. Uneasiness; in epigastric and r. hypochondriac regions. Burning over epigastric region.

Abdomen

      Emission of much flatus with the stool. Distended feeling at 11.30 A.M. Feeling as before diarrhoea. Sharp pain above crest of r. ilium at 10.45 A.M.; above crest of l. ilium at noon; in hypogastrium at 11 A.M., with sticking in anus. Pains frequently during the day, with desire for stool, three thin stools in the morning. Pain in hypogastrium at 11 A.M., with passage of flatus; at 12.50 P.M., with passage of much fetid flatus; above crest of l. ilium at 1.40 P.M., extending forward to median line of body. Heavy pain in both sides of hypogastrium and in bladder, with frequent desire to urinate, the desire not (>) micturition. Soreness in hypogastric region on pressure; S. in r. side of H. region in morning and in region of bladder.

Anus

      Smarting during and after stool. Aching during stool, with feeling as if rectum would protrude, and after the stool smarting in anus, with sensation as if some faeces remained.

Urinary Organs

      Pain in bladder, not (>) micturition; in region of bladder and tenderness, with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords. Pain in bladder as from distention; with pricking in urethra during and after micturition. Tenderness in region of bladder and in lower abdomen, extending upward from groin, (<) r. side, in forenoon. Constant desire to urinate, not (>) copious discharges of clear light-colored urine. Urging, but only a small quantity is passed-each time. Frequent desire in afternoon, with biting in urethra during and after micturition; frequent D., the urine has an ammoniacal smell; frequent, D., with cramplike pain in hypogastric region, which was (>) by micturition. Frequent micturition, the quantity growing less each time while the desire increases; frequent M. at night.

Urethra.- Pricking at 10.25 A.M.; a short distance from means at 11.10 A.M., when urinating; during the frequent and profuse micturition, with biting. Pricking of meatus, with soreness from touch or pressure. Cutting at 12.35 P.M. Pain at 11 A.M., and in testicles. Smarting on urinating, extending back an inch from meatus, with prickling. Biting itching in meatus at 2.25 P.M., (<) scratching. Burning when urinating; and sharp pain in root of penis; in fore-part during copious micturition.

Urine.- Scanty and high-colored; S., with feeling as if he had not urinated or for hours. Copious; in morning; in morning on waking; and pale; with pressure in vesicle region, heavy aching over l. kidney and sharp pain in l. hypochondrium; and specific gravity higher. Darker. Specific gravity diminished. Cloudy on standing a short time. Showed great excess of mucus after standing a short time. (Compared all urinary symptoms with Cantharis.)

Clinical Nocturnal enuresis. Curative even when vesical irritation is marked, especially in women (Eup. purp.), and urine contains blood and mucus. Cystitis, with tenderness over region of bladder and pain as from distention. Dysuria during pregnancy and after confinement. Dysuria, extreme and frequent urging with pain, (<) just after micturition. Incontinence of urine in old men. Weakness of bladder, dribbling, in insane people who will not attend to the bladder.

Sexual Organs

      Pain in penis on urinating; with burning. Violent erections. Sharp pain in r. testicle just before urinating. Pain in testicles and cords, (<) l. Soreness of testicles and spermatic cords, (<) l.; and the cords seem gone the whole length. No desire.

Chest

      Shooting through lungs; S. in l. breast an inch to l. and over nipple at 1.30 P.M. Pain in centre at 12.50 P.M. on any forward movement; P. in r., (<) evening, with pain in r. lung preventing filling it with air, (<) next morning, and at 9 P.M. feeling as if both lungs were becoming congested; under sternum at 10.30 A.M., on deep breathing; P. in r. lung between fourth and fifth ribs. Soreness.

Heart and Pulse

      Sharp pain at heart; at 1.50 P.M., (<) inspiration. Rapid pulse.

Neck

      Pain at 10.30 A.M., extending to shoulders on motion. Stiffness of muscles.

Back

      Pain in morning, (>) lying on back an walking, (<) sitting; P. in back and hips in forenoon, with soreness; P. all the afternoon, with throbbing pain in l. temple, then in r., with constriction of whole scalp; on movement; (<) sitting. Pain in scapulae, (<) through l. Soreness in r. scapula; in l. on movement of l. arm. Lameness below lower angle of scapulae, (<) motion or deep breathing.

Lumbar Region.- Pain, (<) r.; P. at 12.30 P.M., (<) sitting still; P. extending along coccyx; in two lower vertebrae; in region of r. kidney, with urging to urinate; in r. kidney at 9 P.M., then in l., extending down l. side of sacrum. Heavy pain in morning on waking; H pain over r. kidney; over kidneys, preventing sleep the first part of the night. Heaviness like a lump over r. hip-joint. Rheumatic pain in region of sacro-lumbar articulation and through l. hip-joint, at 2.30 P.M. extending down outer side of l. leg, ending in front three inches above knee, (>) lying on back and by quiet, (<) beginning to move, but (>) continued motion, in back and hips the pain were gnawing and deep-seated, but not continuous. Soreness of kidneys; (<) r.

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.