Equisetum hyemale
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Equisetum Hiemale
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General
Scouring-rush Principal action on the bladder. A remedy for enuresis and dysuria.
Modalities
Worse, right side; movement, pressure, touch, sitting down; better, in afternoon from lying down.
Urinary
Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by urinating. Frequent urging with severe pain at the close of urination. Urine flows only drop by drop. Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating. Incontinence in children, with dreams or night-mares when passing urine. Incontinence in old women, also with involuntary stools. Retention and dysuria during pregnancy and after delivery. Much mucus in urine. Albuminuria. Involuntary urination. Kidney.––Deep pain in region of right kidney, extending to lower abdomen, with urgent desire to micturate. Right lumbar region painful.
Relationships
Compare: Hydrangea; Ferr phos; Apis; Canth; Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum contains silica in appreciable quantity.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency. A decoction, teaspoonful doses, or the tincture in hot water, is found useful to allay irritability of urinary tract, calculus, dysuria, etc; also for pleuritic effusion and dropsy.
What the other books say about Equisetum hyemale
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Equisetum hyemale in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Equisetum hyemale in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Equisetum hyemale — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/equisetum-hyemale. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.