Choudary Study of MM.
These plants grow in swampy forests seldom visited by civilized travelers, so they are only imperfectly known to botanists. Since its introduction it has been regarded as a valuable diaphoretic by the Allopaths in chroaic rheumatism, syphilis and various skin diseases.
The dried root of the Honduras variety is coarsely powdered and mixed with five parts by weight of alcohol and kept for a period of eight days in a well stoppered bottle.
The tincture is then poured off and filtered.
XXXXXXX is our great stand by in renal and vesicular affections.
It will help us to tide over many troubled waters.
There is retention and also suppression of urine in XXXXXXX. Great tenderness and distention are felt over the region of the bladder.
It is attended by pain and cramps in the bladder with urging and burning.
There is severe strangury with discharge of white, acrid, turbid matter.
The urine is either too frequent, copious and pale, or scanty, slimy and flaky.
At the conclusion of urination, severe, almost unbearable pain is felt.
There may be slight distress before and during micturition, but after micturition, it is especially marked.
The patient cries through agony.
We find a similar symptom under Berberis, Equisetum, Cantharis, Lithium and Thuja.
In Canth, Clem. and Merc. the pain is felt more at the commencement of urination.
In Prunus spinosa there is an urgent desire to urinate, which, if not attended to immediately, causes sharp crampy pain in bladder.
This pain is relieved as soon as the flow of urine is established.
This symptom of excruciating pain at the conclusion of urination is worth its weight in gold.
It has been verified hundreds of times. Dr. Case reports of a case of dysuria that he cured with a few doses of this remedy, the symptom to guide him being this peculiarity of the pain. Another symptom that went along with this, was a " shudder that used to go all over her person with the last drop of urine, so that she had to hold on to something tightly at the time".
Another distinctive feature that we must not over-look is that urinary complaints are at abeyance during the menstrual period.
The bladder does not trouble during the period of flow; but as soon as the flow ceases, the trouble re-starts and lasts till the next monthly function.
There is one more peculiarity about the urinary symptom of XXXXXXX that we will do well to remember.
It is this.
When the patient sits, urine dribbles from him; but when he stands up it passes freely.
In Causticum, Conium and Hypericum it passes best standing.
The peculiarities of a few of our remedies and the postures of patients while urinating will reward study.
In Pareira brava patient is in an unenviable fix. Whenever he wants to urinate, he is compelled to take the posture of going down on his knees with his head pressing against the floor.
In Zincum met the patient can urinate only when sitting or leaning back.
There is also, in this remedy, the reverse condition of weakness of the bladder and a consequent difficulty in retaining urine.
When sitting the patient must swing her feet constantly or else the urine will escape.
In Chimaphila we meet with a different condition.
The patient, a sufferer from chronic catarrh of the bladder, is unable to pass urine unless standing with feet wide apart and the body inclined forward.
Some patients suffer from difficulty of urination, which no position relieves.
They are forced to urge and urge hard till urination starts. Alum, Caust, Hep., Mag. M., Mar. ac. and Opium are a few remedies where great and constant urging is unavoidable.
In Mar. acid he has to urge so hard, to start the flow that his anus protrudes through the pressure.
XXXXXXXXXis one of our best remedies in uric acid irritations, especially in children. Uric acid crystals are noticed very often in urine or on the child's diaper.
The child screams before urinating.
We notice this also in Lycop. and Bor.
As regards gravel and calculi, we ought to think of remedies like Benz. ac, Berb., Calc, Canth., Lith., Lycop. and Pareira, for they are all noted for their curative influence in this sphere.
There is really no danger of confusion between these remedies.
In Benz. ac. the urine is terribly offensive.
The smell is like that of horse's urine.
It is very high-coloured and it contains an excess of hippuric acid.
The specific gravity too is very high.
Berberis vulg affects principally the left side.
The pain is felt mostly in the loins and hips. All the symptoms grow worse from fatigue.
Calc. os is an important remedy in urinary troubles.
The urine of our fat, flabby patient soon turns turbid and deposits a white fatty, flaky sediment on the surface.
The trouble is very frequently brought on by the wetting of the feet.
Canth is an excellent remedy in vesicular troubles.
The painful retention of urine, the intolerable tenesmus, the burning pain worse before arid after urination are symptoms too prominent to escape the physician's attention.
In Lithium carb. the urine turns very turbid through the presence of mucous sediments.
It is surcharged with uric acid and pus.
When these urinary symptoms are associated with chronic rheumatism and valvular affections of the heart, the indications for the use of this remedy are very positive.
Lycop has severs pain in the back before urination.
There is also a deposit of red, sandy sediments. Greasy particles sometimes float on the surface.
The acidity, the heartburn, the time of aggravation and the flatulence make the selection an easy affair.
The effect of XXXXXXXXX on the skin is very important.
It cures rhagades. Ulcers, the effect of abuse of mercury and of syphilis come within its jurisdiction. Sometimes the ulcers are herpetic.
They extend in a circular form.
It will not do to neglect the mental attitude of this patient. Gloominess, despondency and depression are the keynotes of his mental condition. Strange to say that this depression accompanies any pain that may trouble him.
It matters not where the pain is located, but if it causes depression, the indications for this remedy will be positive.
We know of no other remedy in our Materia Medica that can claim this symptom.
Dr. Taylor reports of a case of backache that he cured with XXXXXXXX
It was a case that baffled quite a few other physicians.
We have said again and again that it needs keen insight, strong power of observation, and the ability to penetrate into the hidden mysteries of the constitution, to make a sound Homoeopath.
A simple memorizing of the Materia Medica will not go very far to bring success.
We will do well to quote Dr. Taylor's words:
When in a curable case, we fail, the fault is with us and not with the remedy " and it was so in this case.
The patient would frequently declare that he would not mind the pain so much if it did not depress him so.
It was this pronounced depression accompanying the pain that so greatly distressed him.
Here then was the characteristic feature of the case.
He received XXXXXXXX 10m. and made a perfect recovery.
Chronic, obstinate constipation sometimes calls for XXXXXXXX
An attempt to pass stool is accompanied by an intense desire to urinate.
The patient goes to the closet, sits there for a long time, and strains hard till he breaks out into profuse perspiration and faints. Now this fainting during stool is peculiar and hence it is an important symptom. Not many remedies in our Materia Medica have this. Aloes. Crotalus and Sulph. are the only ones that we know of that can claim similar symptoms.
There is fainting in Arsen., and Digit, but then it happens before the stool.
We have fainting after the stools in Aloes, Coccul, Crot. tig., Phos. and Tereb.
We use XXXXXXXX often in certain varieties of sexual ills and ailments.
The patient's constitution is debilitated by intemperance and undermined by the abuse of mercury.
He combines in him all the punishments of his former vices.
He is bent double with gonorrheal rheumatism.
The syphilitic taint and the long suppressed gonorrheal history make his life none too pleasant and his sexual life too is on the wane.
He complains of frequent nocturnal emissions.
The least excitement causes emission without sexual feeling. Sometimes they come on even during daytime.
These emissions are very prostrating and they depress him very greatly
XXXXXXXXX is a great remedy for dyspepsia but only when the patient combines in him the troubles of the urinary sphere with symptoms of indigestion. Like Lycopodium, he feels full and satiated after partaking of a small meal. Of all food, bread seems to disagree with him the most.
We notice this aggravation from bread also in Bryonia and Pulsatilla, but the totality of the symptoms always helps in the final selection.
XXXXXXXXXXis useful in marasmus of children.
It is characterized by great want of assimilation.
The emaciation in XXXXXXXXX is most marked in the neck.
A few words more about the asthma of XXXXXXX and we will be done with it.
It is asthma from emphysema.
He feels a sort of rigor spreading over his body from below upward.
There are also nausea, vomiting and headache. Constant urging with only scanty emission of urine is another distressing feature of this asthma.
A sickly-looking child, a girl aged three, was brought to my office from the country, in the summer of 1872.
The child had been in bad health several weeks.
The symptoms of the urinary organs were most conspicuous. Two prescriptions had been given by me, without any good result.
The mother, an intelligent lady, finally stated that she was confident that every time the child urinated, wind came, with a noise, from the bladder.
This symptom, which I never met with in practice before, at once directed my attention to XXXX
The other urinary symptoms corresponding with considerable accuracy, XXXXX one dose, was administered, and in a few days the case was, in all respects, very much improved.
The symptoms mentioned permanently disappeared.-Dr. H. Ring.
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