Urtica urens

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

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.

Modalities

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

Head

Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa 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 hæmorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhœa. Pruritus vulvæ, with stinging, itching, and œdema. 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 œdema. 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.

Relationships

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.

What the other books say about Urtica urens

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Urtica urens in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Urtica urens — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/urtica-urens. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.