THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS
Shepherd’s Purse (CAPSELLA)
Is an anti-haemorrhagic and anti-uric-acid remedy. Albuminuria throughout gestation. Chronic neuralgia. Renal and vesical irritation. Haemorrhage from uterine fibroid with aching in lower back or accepted bruised soreness. Aching between scapulae. Uterine haemorrhage, with cramps and expulsion of clots. Craves buttermilk. Effects of suppressed uterine ailment (Burnett).
Head.–Eyes and face puffy. Frequent epistaxis. Vertigo; worse, rising. Frontal pain; worse toward evening. Scaly eruption in the back of ears. Tongue white, coated. Mouth and lips cracked. Sharp ache over proper eye drawing eye upwards.
Nose.–Bleeding in nasal operations. Especially passive haemorrhage.
Male.–Spermatic wire touchy to concussion of taking walks or riding.
Female.–Metrorrhagia; too widely wide-spread and copious menses. Haemorrhage, with violent uterine colic. Every alternate length very profuse. Leucorrhoea earlier than and after menses; bloody, dark, offensive; stains indelibly. Sore ache in womb on rising. Scarcely recovers from one duration before any other begins.
Urinary.–Frequent desire; urine heavy, phosphatic. Chronic cystitis. Dysuria and spasmodic retention. Haematuria. Accumulation of gravel. Renal colic. Brick-dust sediment. Urethritis; urine runs away in little jets. Often replaces the use of the catheter.
Relationship.–Compare: Urtica; Croc; Trill; Millefol.
Dose.–Tincture, to sixth potency.
