CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA
(Pipsissewa)
Acts
principally on kidneys, and genitor-urinary tract; affects also lymphatic and
mesenteric glands and female mammae. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women
with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient
and progressive cataracts.
One of
the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder affections,
notably 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 pain
in left eye with lachrymation.
Mouth:-
Toothache, worse
after eating and exertion, better cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently
pulled.
Urinary:-
Urging to
urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and
depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding during micturition, and
straining afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute
prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum. [Cann.ind.]
Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate
without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.
Female:-
Labia inflamed,
swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammae, not
ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very
large breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through
it.
Male:-
Smarting in
urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of Prostatic fluid. Prostatic
enlargement and irritation.
Skin:-
Scrofulous
ulcers. Glandular enlargments.
Extremities:-
Feeling of a band
above left knee.
Modalities:-
Worse,
in damp weather;
from sitting on cold stones or pavements; left side.
Relationship:-
Compare: Chimaphila
maculate (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in
arm pits); Uva.; Ledum; Epigaea.
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