Colocynthis


Homeopathy medicine Colocynthis 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 Sudden violent pressure upon bladder, which was full, passed off suddenly on emission of flatus.

3 Stitches and burning in loins and region of kidneys.

5 Acute catarrh of bladder.

7 Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emissions (Aesc, Apis, Hell, Merc, Nitr-ac.).

9 Urging to urinate, with discharge of turbid, slimy urine, which quickly deposits a mucous sediment, with cutting pains from umbilical to ovarian region.

11 Urine:-

(a) Like brown beer (Bryonia), becoming turbid when cold (Cina); depositing copious sediment.

(b) Viscid.

(c) Looks like, and has consistency of, thin glue.

(d) Thick, fetid, jelly-like.

(e) When voided is white and turbid; on becoming cold it coagulates and becomes a white jelly-like mass, which glides out of vessel in a body.

(f) Light flesh-colored, depositing a light-brown, flocky, translucent sediment, with hard, solid, reddish crystals adhering to vessel, and are not easily removed by water.

(g) Peculiar milky-white, which coagulates on standing.

13 Frequent urination.

15 Difficult urination, with brown discharge.

17 Retention of urine, with retraction of testicles, and priapism.

19 Alternate stitches in bladder and rectum.

21 Itching at meatus, with desire to urinate.

23 Severe burning through urethra during stool.

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