Urinary Symptoms & its Indications



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Cutting pressure from the kidneys, before micturition; anxious pressure in the bladder, with sudden desire to urinate, but scanty emission, nocturnal enuresis, frequent, micturition, especially at night, the urine turbid and deposits a reddish sediment.

Hadeoma [Hedeo]

Suppression of urine, tenesmus; painful micturition, scanty emission of urine with frequent and urgent desire, urine very dark, like black tea.

Helleborus [Hell]

Black spots in urine retention of urine in children without any particular cause, child cross and fretful, will not allow anyone to touch it.

Helonias [Helon]

Profuse and frequent urination weariness and feeling of weight in renal region; after micturition some urine will flow out; burning sensation in urethra when urinating, suitable to women who are enervated from indolence and luxury (Alet., weakness from long sickness and defective nutrition)

Hepar [Hep]

Nocturnal enuresis, weakness of the bladder, URINE PASSES SLOWLY WITHOUT FORCE, dropping perpendicularly from the urethra, flocculent and turbid urine; dark-yellow urine, burning when passing and corroding the internal surface of the prepuce, orifice of urethra red and inflamed; brown-red urine, the last drops mixed with blood.

Hydrastis [Hydr]

Chronic cystitis, catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy mucous sediment in the urine, decomposed smell of the urine.

Hyoscyamus [Hyos]

Enuresis, paralysis of the bladder, retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder, frequent micturition, with scanty discharges; retention of urine in children suffering from worm fever or during the progress of various acute affections, retention of urine after labor or in lying in women.

Ignatia [Ign]

Irresistible desire to urinate painful pressure, with a scraping sensation in the neck of the bladder, especially when walking, turbid urine frequent emission of watery urine.

Ind. [Indg]

Urine of a dark-violet color and assuming a bluish tinge after standing.

Iodum [Iod]

Nocturnal urination retention of urine, increased secretion of thick urine, with dark sediment, urine dark, turbid, milky ammoniacal smell of the urine.

Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]

Frequent discharge of watery urine of strong odor; painful drawing from the perineum towards the urethra urine with white film and deposit of white sediment; after micturition, burning in back part of urethra, as if one drop had remained behind, with unsuccessful effort to void it, shooting in renal region, small pulse, prostration, SUPPRESSION OF URINE FOLLOWING CHOLERA.

Kali-brom [Kali-br]

Irresistible desire to urinate, but no flow except with urging and difficulty, DIABETES, urine loaded with sugar, dribbling of urine at beginning of stool.

Kali-iod [Kali-i]

Granulated kidney, urine copious, frequent, pale and watery, red as blood, with unquenchable thirst.

Kali-nit [Kali-n]

Frequent and profuse urination, urine as clear as water; burning in urethra while passing water, with greatly diminished urine, passes at first only a few drops then the usual stream.

Kalmia-lat [Kalm]

Albuminuria, with pains in lower limbs, frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine.

Kreosotum [Kreos]

Sudden and imperative desire to urinate, in women micturition is attended and followed by smarting and burning in pudenda urine turbid and offensive depositing a reddish sediment, bland, yellow leucorrhoea preceding each urination, with frequent desire to micturate.

Lachesis [Lach]

Urging to urinate, copious emission of foaming urine, yellow- colored urine, copious red-brown urine, turbid and dark urine, with sediment of dark sand and severe cutting during micturition, sensation as if a ball were rolling in the bladder.

Lac-caninum [Lac-c]

Frequent desire to urinate, which if not immediately attended to causes pain bladder, a numb, dull sensation, if not relieved by micturition, it spreads over whole abdomen, would often wake at night dreaming of the pain and would have to urinate to relieves it, constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, enuresis nocturna.

Lac-defloratum [Lac-d]

Albuminuria urine very dark and thick, scanty or pale and profuse, renal pains, passing down thighs, not better in any position, but (<) lying down.

Laurocerasus [Laur]

Retention of urine, pale, yellowish urine, scanty, acrid, depositing a thick, reddish sediment, burning in urethra and pressing after urinating.

Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]

Continuous pressure in region of bladder, constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge smarting in urethra and tenesmus; frequent urination through the day, with dull headache moving from forehead to occiput finally settling in left temple; if desire is not attended to, feeling of congestion to chest, urine milky, scanty increased and dark, hot like boiling.

Linaria [Lina]

Enuresis, with frequent painful urging to urinate, causing the patient to rise at night.

Lithium-carb [Lith-c]

Almost constant desire to urinate, gradually increasing till bladder is emptied; some difficulty in passing water, and violent tenesmus after; with sensitive pain in middle of urethra, on rising to urinate a pressing in cardiac region, not ceasing until after urinating, mornings, frequent and copious, (<) at night, albuminuria, turbid urine, with much mucous sediment, dark reddish-brown sediment, profuse, with uric acid deposit.

Lobelia-infl [Lob]

Urine has a deep-red color and deposits a copious red sediment.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

Pain before urinating, shown in young children by crying and screaming at that time and by adults referred to the renal region, very severe pain in back before urinating which ceases when the urine flows children awake from sleep screaming, and feel better after urinating, urging to urinate, must wait a long time before it passes, jerking, cutting in urethra after urinating, urine scanty, dark-red, albuminous, with strangury, deposits of red, sandy sediments, frequent and copious at night, scanty by day, greasy pellicle floats on urine painless haemorrhages from bladder, gravel and calculi haemorrhoids, enlarged prostata.

Magnesia-carb [Mag=c]

Involuntary urination while walking or rising from a seat, burning smarting during micturition.

Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]

ANTONY OF BLADDER; urine can only be passed by hearing down with abdominal muscles, frequent desire, but urine passes only by drops, numb urethra.

Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]

Nocturnal enuresis from nervous irritation, spasmodic retention of urine, spasm of the neck of the bladder.

Mercurius [Merc]

Vesical region sore to touch urine passes in a thin stream on in drops and contains blood white flakes and pus, haematuria, with violent and frequent urging to urinate, inability to retain the urine, urging to urinate with copious flow, larger than the quantity of fluid taken with sudden, irresistible desire.

Mercurius-cor [Merc-c]

TENESMUS OF BLADDER; SUPPRESSION URINE albuminuria, filaments flocks or dark flesh-like pieces of mucus in the urine urine scanty, hot bloody, passed in drops with great pain.

Mezereum [Mez]

Itching and sensation of soreness in urethra when urinating, aroused or increased by touch or pressure, intensely painful tenesmus tearing and drawing in anus and perineum, from which it extends through the whole urethra.

Murex [Murx]

Urine diminished in quantity, but the calls to pass urine more frequent and urging than in the normal state, especially during the night, urine foetid, with an odor like that of valerian, while sediment in urine (uterine complications) hysterical polyuria, urine watery.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

Involuntary micturition when walking, coughing or laughing; desire to urinate day and night, stitches in bladder during micturition, with burning-smarting sensations in urethra, pale urine, with brick-dust sediment, discharge of mucus from the urethra, dark coffee-colored urine, cutting in urethra after micturition; polyuria with waterbrash and emaciation; haematuria from scurvy, has to wait a long time for urine to pass, if others are near by.

Nitrate-of-Uranium [Nat-uric]

Sore feeling in the pubic region, increased frequency of micturition, profuse nocturnal urination, straw-colored and foetid, burning in urethra, with very acrid urine, desire to urinate again immediately after voiding urine.

Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]

Enuresis, nightly desire to urinate, with cutting pain in abdomen, scanty turbid, bad smelling urine, smarting-burning pain in urethra while urinating, cramplike, contractive pain from the kidneys toward the bladder, discharge of bloody mucus, or of pus from urethra; the urine is cold when emitted (Agar)

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Retention of urine, strangury, painful ineffectual desire to urinate, painful emission of thick urine, discharge of pale urine, followed by passage of thick viscid, whitish purulent mucus from the bladder, reddish urine, with brickdust sediment burning and lancinating pain in the neck of the bladder during micturition haematuria.

Ocimum-canum [Oci-c]

Turbid urine depositing a white and albuminous sediment, urine of saffron color, thick purulent urine with an unbearable smell of musk, renal colic with vomiting.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.