Hepar is characteristically chilly, with hyperaesthesia mental and physical.
Silica [Sil]
Suppuration of kidneys: abscesses.
“All sorts of suppurative conditions in the urinary tract; catarrh of the mucous membranes.
Old inveterate catarrhs of bladder, with pus and blood in the urine.”
Bloody, purulent discharge, thick or curdy.
Silicea is chilly: worse cold damp weather.
Sensitive to noise, pain, cold. Every hurt festers.
Silica headaches need heat, and wrapping up.
Foot-sweats: especially foul: ailments from suppressed foot- sweat.
Hippozaeninum Tubercles and abscesses in kidneys.
(Glanders) Albuminuria; also leucine and tyrosine.
“Used in a large number of cases involving low forms of suppuration and catarrh, malignant ulcerations and swellings, abscesses and enlarged glands.” Clarke.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Nephritis with stitches in renal region; on breathing or sneezing.,
Abscess of kidney (Mercurius, Hipp., Hepar, Silicea, Crot.).
Uraemia, with vomiting, colic.
Urine, dark-brown; dark yellow: turbid: mixed with blood and pus; greenish.
Urine like thick beer; rotten smell (Benz. acid, etc.).
Suppression of urine.
Albuminuria; fatty degeneration (Mercurius cor., Phosphorus).
Extreme restlessness, anxiety, prostration.
Crot. horridus [Crot-h]
Nephritis albuminosa, in toxaemia, or pregnancy.
Urine dark, smoky from admixture of fluid blood. Haematuria.
Urine extremely scanty dark red with blood; jelly-like; green- yellow from much bile.
One of our greatest remedies for sepsis.
Black water-fever, urine like dark bloody jelly.
Skin may be yellow to green: yellow colour of eyes.
May have haemorrhage from any and every part of body (Terebintha). Dark thin blood.
Putridity.
Even the most rapid and desperate cases.
Lachesis [Lach]
Stitches in kidneys, extending through ureters.
Urine almost black: frequent, foamy, dark (Kali ars.).
Like coffee grounds: black, scanty after scarlatina (Colchicum). Loaded with albumen.
Suppressed. No urine: no stool.
Lachesis is cyanosed: extremely sensitive to heat and Touch: especially about neck and abdomen.
Sleeps into an aggravation.
Typically, loquacious, suspicious and jealous.
Kali ars [Kali-ar]
Tensive pain in left kidney: oedema left foot, extending to right and over whole body.
Blackish urine (Lachesis), foams on shaking, on standing leaves a thick, reddish, slime.
Stitches, dull, or sharp in both renal regions.
Urine: the more one presses the less the flow.
Kali chlor [Kali-chl]
Nephritis Frequent urging. Could only pass a few drops of bloody urine (Cantharis, etc.).
Urine black and albuminous, greenish black.
Prostration, coldness and easy haemorrhage.
A cold day had “cooled off her blood”.
Argentum nit. [Arg-n]
Touching the kidney region increases the pain to the highest degree (Hepar, Chelidonium, etc.).
Acute pain, kidneys, extends down ureters to bladder (Lachesis); worse slightest touch or motion, even deep inspiration.
Typical Argentum nit. has apprehension. Gets diarrhoea from anticipation (Gelsemium).
Craves sweets, which disagree: salt.
Is nervous: hurried: walks fast (Lilium tigr.).
Cannabis Indica. [Cann-i]
Constant pain right kidney: sharp stitches both kidneys. Aching, burning, in kidneys keep him awake at night.
Pain in Kidneys when laughing.
(Hashish) has the most extravagant mental symptoms; with exaggerations of time and space.
Cannabis sativa [Cann-s]
Ulcerative pain in Kidney regions.
Sensation of soreness kidneys and bladder.
Gonorrhoeal cases (Thuja).
Aurum met. [Aur]
Kidneys hyperaemic, with pressure round waist, and increase of urine (Cardiac hypertrophy).
Suppression or retention of urine. Haematuria.
In Aurum all the natural healthy affections are perverted: he loathes life: is weary of life: longs to die; is suicidal.
Absolute loss of enjoyment in everything.
Eupatorium purpureum. [Eup-pur]
Chronic nephritis.
Dull, deep pain in kidneys: cutting pain
Suppression of urine.
Senecio aur. [Senec]
Recurrent attacks nephritis, especially right kidney.
With intense pain, fever. Every time he passed water, cried out in anguish. Clarke.
Sarsaparilla. [Sars]
Neuralgia; attacks of most excruciating pain from right kidney downwards.
Chronic nephritis.
Renal colic and passage of gravel.
Much pain at conclusion of passing water, almost unbearable.
“Lycopodium has red sand with clear urine; Sarsaparilla white sand with scanty, slimy or flaky urine.” Nash.
Urine dribbles while sitting.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Nephritis with characteristic Lycopodium symptoms.
One of the suppression of urine drugs.
4 to 8 p.m. aggravation of symptoms.
Desire for hot drinks: sweets.
Characteristics, Red sand in (? clear) urine.
Urine reddens and causes eruptions if allowed to remain in contact with parts (esp. babies).
A (Lycopodium) symptom: polyuria at night only.
Bryonia [Bry]
Inflammation and pain kidneys.
Pinkish urinary deposits: uric acid crystals.”
Whenever he strains himself, lifting, or unusual motion, pain in kidneys; a rousing up of congestion and long-lasting pain.
“After overheating or over exertion, he gets pain in the back.” Kent.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Violent pain kidney region after long stooping.
Chronic nephritis, especially.
Secretions burn and redden orifices: eyelids, anus, etc.
11 a.m. emptiness and hunger.
Burning soles at night: puts them out.
Theorizing: the ragged philosopher.”.
Nux vomica [Nux-v]
Nephritis from stagnation of portal circulation.
Bloating of abdomen.
Pressure, heat, burning in loins and kidneys. Pains in small of back, as if bruised: so violent, he cannot move.
Haematuria, after abuse of alcoholic stimulants, or drugs; suppression of haemorrhoidal or menstrual discharges. Pressure and distension in abdomen, loins, and kidneys.
Spasmodic retention of urine: discharge drop by drop.
Strangury after beer.
Nux is irritable and chilly: with hyperaesthesia mental and physical (Hepar).
Rhus tox [Rhus-t]
Tearing pain in kidneys: oedema: after exposure to wet.
After exposure to much dampness, oedema of face, feet, developing into general anasarca: urine full of albumen.
Tearing pains small of back; urine contains blood and albumen.
Urine voided slowly, paralytic weakness of bladder.
Rhus is worse for Cold: Wet (Dulcamara): washing; chill, and draught.
Worse for first moving: but better for continued motion.
Natrum mur. [Nat-m]
Must be considered where there has been much malaria, and quinine.
Tension and heat in renal regions.
Polyuria with violent desire to urinate; inability to retain urine.
Curious symptoms, unable to urinate unless alone.
Thuja. [Thuj]
Kidneys inflamed: feet swollen.
Urine: profuse, light yellow: contains sugar: foams, scanty, exceedingly dark: deposits. brown mucus.
Pain left kidney to epigastrium.
Especially useful in gonorrhoeal, or “Vaccinosis” (Burnett) cases.
Laurocerasus [Laur]
Urinary difficulties, with palpitation and gasping for breath, coming on by spells.
Suppressed urine: retention from paralysis of bladder. Involuntary urination.
Stramonium [Stram]
Kidneys secrete less urine or none, in acute diseases, in children, in eruptive fevers etc.
Great desire to urinate, though secretion is suppressed.
Urine dribbles away very slowly and feebly.
Retention: sensation urine could not be passed, because of narrowness of urethra.
After straining, a few drops are passed.
Better after drinking vinegar.
Streptococcin [Strept]
Scarlatinum or Streptococcin as an intercurrent remedy in cases that have followed an attack of scarlet fever.
After scarlet fever, or acute tonsillitis.
“Scarlet fever is a well-known cause” (of nephritis)” but acute tonsillitis is eight times as common as scarlet fever as the predisposing cause.” (Taylor’s Practice of Medicine.).
Urtica urens [Urt-u]
Burnett’s great remedy for suppression of urine: (5 or 10 drops of the O in hot water).
(Dramatically verified in the case of a child dying of T.B. meningitis.)
N.B.-Consider any of the nosodes, family history, or past history suggesting them.
