EQUISETUM HYEMALE
Scouring-rush
(EQUISETUM)
Principal motion on the bladder. A treatment for enuresis and dysuria.
Urinary.–Severe, stupid ache and feeling of fullness in bladder, no longer relieved by way of urinating. Frequent urging with extreme ache at the shut of urination. Urine flows solely drop with the aid of drop. Sharp, burning, reducing ache in urethra whilst urinating.
Incontinence in children, with desires or night-mares when passing urine. Incontinence in ancient women, additionally with involuntary stools. Retention and dysuria at some point of being pregnant and after delivery. Much mucus in urine. Albuminuria. Involuntary urination.
Kidney.–Deep ache in vicinity of proper kidney, extending to decrease abdomen, with pressing want to micturate. Right lumbar vicinity painful.
Modalities.–Worse, proper side; movement, pressure, touch, sitting down; better, in afternoon from mendacity down.
Relationship.–Compare: Hydrangea; Ferr phos; Apis; Canth; Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum carries silica in considerable quantity.
Dose.–Tincture, to sixth potency. A decoction, teaspoonful doses, or the tincture in warm water, is determined beneficial to allay irritability of urinary tract, calculus, dysuria, etc; additionally for pleuritic effusion and dropsy.
