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PETROSELINUM SATIVUM (petros)

"I do not propose to adopt the usual way by beginning with /Aconite/ and ending with /Zincum/, but to follow the bent of my inclinations, or, as it is sometimes expressed, the movings of the spirit; and may I not here invoke the aid of the spirits of the immortal Hahnemann, Boenninghausen and the galaxy of bright names that adorn the fair page of the history of Homoeopathy to help me."

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It has a very characteristic indication for its administration, viz.: "Great and SUDDEN desire to urinate," children stand and jump right up and down from pain and urging. This is mostly found in chronic cases (especially after gonorrhoea) after the inflammation has extended backward to the neck of the bladder. Another very troublesome symptom found under Petroselinum is ITCHING in the urethra; feels as if he must run a stick or something in there and scratch it. Burning, tingling, from perinæum throughout whole urethra. Children are sometimes troubled with such sudden and intense desire to urinate that they will jump right up and down, trying to hold on until their clothes are unbuttoned. It is like the sudden desire for stool of Aloe: "must git thar."