CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA
Pipsissewa
Acts basically on kidneys, and genito-urinary tract; influences additionally lymphatic and mesenteric glands and lady mammae. Plethoric younger female with dysuria. Women with massive breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; persistent alcoholics. Incipient and modern cataracts.
One of the redress whose signs factor to its employment in bladder affections, highly catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.
Head.–Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing ache in left eye with lachrymation.
Mouth.–Toothache, worse after ingesting and exertion, higher cool water. Pain as if enamel used to be being gently pulled.
Urinary.–Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding for the duration of micturition, and straining afterwards. Must stress earlier than waft comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum (Cann ind). Fluttering in place of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate barring standing with ft large apart and physique inclined forward.
Female.–Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammae, no longer ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very massive breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp ache via it.
Male.–Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic expansion and irritation.
Skin.–Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.
Extremities.–Feeling of a band above left knee.
Modalities.–Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on bloodless stones or pavements; left side.
Relationship.–Compare: Chimaph maculata (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits); Uva; Ledum; Epigoea.
Dose.–Tincture, to 1/3 attenuation.
