Alumina [Alum]
Pain in right kidney, and soreness as if full of small stones, red sand urine; sensation as if sand was pricking urethra; numbness and tingling down right leg and up right scapula.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Nephralgia from congestion of kidney or from passage of little stones; face dark, dried up; dull aching across small of back and over region of bladder, urine burns while passing; urethra feels swollen; sudden urging to urinate, urine dark, containing blood or renal epithelium and uric acid deposits.
Arnica [Arn]
Agonizing pain in back and hips from passage of calculi; piercing pains as if knives were plunged into renal region; violent tenesmus of bladder; chilly and inclined to vomiting.
Asparagus [Aspar]
Nephritis colic; gravel passing in small quantities with urination, urging to urinate; bloody urine; strong-smelling urine; after micturition burning in urethra, with sensation as if some were still passing; swelling of penis, with erection and urging to urinate.
Belladonna [Bell]
Spasmodic crampy straining along ureter through which calculus
has to pass.
Benzoic-acid [Benz-ac]
Nephritic colic; morbid condition of urine in persons with calculus or gouty diathesis; urine containing urates of ammonia and having a strong ammoniacal smell. Dysuria senilis from irritability of the bladder and muco-purulent discharge.
Berberis [Berb]
Tearing cutting pains in kidneys, extending down the ureters to the bladder or urethra, or shooting all through the pelvis and into the hip; burning, cutting and sticking pain in bladder and urethra; pain extends to testicle of affected side, which is drawn up; urine hot, dark or bright yellow, or blood-red with white, grayish, or bright red, mealy sediment or red granules or yellowish-red crystals; paralyzed, bruised sensation in renal region and small of back, (<) while sitting or lying; bubbling sensation in various parts.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Stone in the bladder; copious white mealy sediment in urine; gravel and urinary calculi; urine after standing looks turbid like lime-water; bloody urine; cutting stitches in urethra with ineffectual desire to urinate; after urinating, renewed desire with burning; itching in glands.
Cantharis [Canth]
Renal region sore and sensitive to touch; dull pressing in kidneys; cutting, contracting pain in ureters, extending to bladder and urethra and down the spermatic chord, with retraction of the testicles or shooting into the legs or thighs; frequent urging to urinate; urine passes in drops; burning and cutting pins before, during and after micturition; urine scanty, dark- colored; haematuria; children pull constantly at penis from irritation of gravel extending down to that organ.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Renal colic; frequent desire to urinate; urine increased, foetid; sometimes-stream is interrupted, (<) at night; burning soreness in urethra.
China [Chin]
Urine clear, pale, copious depositing a red-rose or brickdust sediment; deposits of crystals of urates, oxalates and other salts.
Eryngium-aquat [Ery-a]
Left renal colic; constant tenesmus; great tenderness over whole left hypogastric region, extending down ureter into bladder.
Ipomoea [Ipom]
Intense soreness over left kidney, with paroxysms of pain along ureter as well as the back, always accompanied with NAUSEA AND VOMITING.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Renal colic, pain extending down (right) ureter to the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate; urine scanty, high colored and deposits a red or yellowish-red sandy sediment; severe backache relieved by passing urine; rumbling and bloated feeling in abdomen; burning between scapulae; haematuria; children scream out with pain when awaking from sleep and kick all around.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Urinary calculi, consisting of oxalates; URINE COLD WHEN IT PASSES; scanty, dark smelling strong like horse’s urine; haematuria, blood flows actively.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Renal colic especially in right kidney, extending to genitals and right leg, (<) lying on that side, better on back; spasmodic strangury; paralysis vesicae, urine dribbles.
Ocimum-canum [Oci]
Turbid urine, deposing a white and albuminous sediment; urine of saffron color; cramp-pain in kidneys; renal colic with vomiting after the attack; red urine brickdust sediment, or discharge of large quantities of blood with the urine; thick, purulent urine, with an intolerable smell of musk.
Opium [Op]
Pressive, squeezing pains, as though something has to force its way through a narrow; shooting pains from different places into the bladder and testicles; vomiting of smile and bile; dysuria with feeling of deathly sickness at stomach; face bloated, dark- red or sunken; haematuria.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.