Chimaphila umbellata

ROPY or muco-purulent, foul, scanty, thick, turbid, urine. Feels as if sitting on a ball, in the perineum; after gonorrhœa. Old nodes in or atrophy of glands. Fluttering in kidney region. Acute inflammation in urinary tract. Gravelly urine. (Abro. Calc-hyp. Pho-ac.). Weak, oversensitive and nervous; everything upsets him, light, noise, odors, pain, etc. Hard swelling. Bursting. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. Emaciation. Anæmia. Dropsy. .................... Stubborn. Disobedient. Vertigo; falls backward. Throbbing, bursting, swashing, or bruised feeling in brain, < temples. Sore scalp, < touching hair. Hot red ears. Tinnitus; then vertigo. Deafness. Pale, earthy, sickly look; bluish about eyes. Teeth throb; < sucking. Acute, sour or bitter taste, or eructations. Craves delicacies. Quick satiety. Anorexia. Loud belching, without relief (Arg-n.). Slow digestion. Sore stomach. Thirst for cold water that aggravates diarrhœa. Periodical liver symptoms (Quas.). Gall-stones. Swelled liver and spleen. Flatulent bloating. Tympanitis. Pain from rectum into genitals. STOOLS; LIENTERIC; dark; foul; watery; BLOODY; painless; < eating; < night. Dark, profuse, clotted menses. Blood spitting. Puffing, rattling, breathing. Every motion excites palpitation and takes his breath. Suppurative phthisis (Hep.). Painfully sore chest and interscapular spine. Heavy pressure (load) on shoulders, between scapulæ or on sacrum. Twitching in knees. As of a band about legs. Pain in marrow. Drowsy. Heavy, snoring sleep. Anxious dreams. Swelled veins (hands, face). Marked prodrome. Clearly staged chill, heat and sweat. Chill, then thirst, then heat, then thirst. Red, hot face, with cold hands. Hectic. Sleeplessness, as a prodrome. Thirst during apyrexia. DRENCHING SWEATS; AT NIGHT, < least motion; from weakness, etc. Tropical fevers. Sepsis.

Cold damp. Standing. Sitting. Beginning urination. VITAL LOSSES. TOUCH. Jar. Noise. PERIODICALLY: Alternate days (Ars. Nat-m.). Cold; drafts; wind. Open air. Eating; fruit; milk. Mental exertion.

WALKING. Hard pressure (Lach.). Loose clothes. INTERMITTENCY. PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES, HÆMORRHAGES, etc.

Bladder. Kidneys. Glands: Liver. Prostate. Mammæ (R). BLOOD. CIRCULATION. SECRETIONS: Digestive. Organs. Liver. Spleen. Nerves.

Complementary: Kali-m. Related: Berb. Coc-c. Sabal. CHINA OFFICINALIS (RUBRA) Complementary: Carb-v. Fer. Kali-c. Related: Carb-v. CHININUM ARSENICICUM Nightsweats; profuse, exhaustive. Oscillating temperature.

Acts principally on kidneys, and genito-urinary tract; affects also lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mammæ. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and progressive cataracts. One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.

Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold stones or pavements; left side.

Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.

Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.

Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum (Cann ind).

Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.

Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and irritation.

Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammæ, not ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through it.

Feeling of a band above left knee.

Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.

Compare: Chimaph maculata (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits); Uva; Ledum; Epigoea.

Tincture, to third attenuation.