Benzoic Acid


Homeopathy medicine Benzoic Acid from William D. Gentry ‘s Rubrical and Regional Text Book of Homeopathic Materia Medica, comprising the characteristic symptoms of homeopathic remedies from drug provings, published in 1890….


1 Urine:-

(a) Highly colored, dark, reddish-brown; sometimes has appearance of French brandy.

(b) Urinous odor, exceedingly strong, intensified, exaggerated (Nitr-ac.).

(c) Offensive, pungent smell (Asaf, Aspar.).

(d) Increased gravity

(e) Hot, scalding, ammoniacal

(f) Deep-red and of strong, offensive odor.

(g) Brown urine, smells sour, scalding in passing.

(h) Beer-brown, acid.

(i) Dark-brown, fetid, putrid, cadaverous; very repulsive.

(j) Granular kind of mucus, mixed with phosphates in sediment.

(k) Contains mucus and pus.

(l) With white flocculent sediment, immediately after urinating, composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime.

3 Fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times.

5 Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea, calculus or gout.

7 Nephritis; sore pain in back; burning in left kidney, with drawing when stooping; dull pain in kidneys; loins stiff; right knee swollen. Pain in kidneys extends to chest on deep breathing.

9 Irritability of bladder, with muco-purulent discharges and sediment of urate of ammonia.

11 Enuresis of children (Kali-phos, Kali-n.).

13 Catarrh of bladder, with offensive brown urine.

15 Senile dysuria.

17 Frequent desire, but urine appears natural.

William Daniel Gentry
William Daniel Gentry. (1836-1922) was the author of Concordance Repertory of the Materia Medica and The Rubical and Regional Textbook.