URTICA URENS

Stinging-nettle

A treatment for agalactia and lithiasis. Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Antidotes ill-effects of ingesting shellfish. Symptoms return at the equal time each and every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination.

Rheumatism related with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis.

Head.–Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen.–Diarrhoea continual sickness of giant gut characterised via giant secretion of mucus.

Male.–Itching of scrotum, maintains him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female.–Diminished secretion of milk. Uterine haemorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhoea. Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching, and oedema. Arrests waft of milk after weaning. Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities.–Pain in acute gout deltoid; ache in ankles, wrists.

Skin.–Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettlerash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn restricted to skin. Urticaria nodosa (Bov). Erythema, with burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chicken-pox (Dulc). Angioneurotic oedema. Herpes labialis with sensation of warmness and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.

Fever.–General warmness in mattress with ache over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.

Modalities.–Worse, from snow-air; water, cool moist air, touch.

Relationship.–Compare: Medusa; Nat mur; Lac can; Ricin (diminished mammary secretion); Bombyx; Rhus; Apis; Chloral; Astac; Puls (urticaria); Boletus luridus and Anacard (urticaria tuberosa); Lycop and Hedeoma (uric acid conditions); Formica.

Dose.–Tincture and decrease potencies.