Materia Medica de A a Z

URTICA URENS (urt-u)

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 leucorrhœa. 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 (Medus); Nat-m; Lac-c; Ricin (Ric) (diminished mammary secretion); Bombyx; Rhus-t; Apis; Chloral (Chlol); Astac; Puls (urticaria); Boletus luridus (Bol-lu) and Anac (urticaria tuberosa); Lyc and Hedeoma (Hedeo) (uric acid conditions); Formica (Form).

Dose

Tincture and lower potencies.