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Materia Medica by William Boericke

Materia Medica by
William Boericke
Materia Medica by William Boericke
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URTICA URENS

Stinging-nettle

A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis. Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. Symptoms return at the same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination.

Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis.

Head.--Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen.--Diarrhoea chronic disease of large intestine characterized by large secretion of mucus.

Male.--Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female.--Diminished secretion of milk. Uterine haemorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhoea. Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching, and oedema. Arrests flow of milk after weaning. Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities.--Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists.

Skin.--Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettlerash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn confined to skin. Urticaria nodosa (Bov). Erythema, with burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chicken-pox (Dulc). Angioneurotic oedema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.

Fever.--General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.

Modalities.--Worse, from snow-air; water, cool moist air, touch.

Relationship.--Compare: Medusa; Nat mur; Lac can; Ricin (diminished mammary secretion); Bombyx; Rhus; Apis; Chloral; Astac; Puls (urticaria); Boletus luridus and Anacard (urticaria tuberosa); Lycop and Hedeoma (uric acid conditions); Formica.

Dose.--Tincture and lower potencies.