PAREIRA BRAVA
Virgin-vine (CHONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM)
The urinary signs are most important. Useful in renal colic, prostatic affections, and catarrh of bladder. Sensation as if bladder have been distended, with pain. Pain going down thigh.
Urinary.–Black, bloody, thick mucous urine. Constant urging; wonderful straining; ache down thighs throughout efforts to urinate. Can emit urine solely when he goes on his knees, urgent head firmly towards the floor. Feeling of the bladder being distended and neuralgic ache in the anterior crural region. (Staph.) Dribbling after micturition. (Selen.) Violent ache in glans penis. Itching alongside urethra; urethritis, with prostatic trouble. Inflammation of urethra; turns into nearly cartilaginous.
Relationship.–Compare: Parietaria (renal calculi; nightmare, affected person dreaming of being buried alive); Chimaphila (chronic catarrhal congestion following cystitis; acute prostatitis; feeling of a ball in perineum when sitting); Fabiana, see Pichi (dysuria; post-gonorrhoeal complications; gravel; vesical catarrh); Uva; Hydrang; Berber; Ocim; Hedeom.
Dose.–Tincture, to 1/3 potency.
