CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA

Pipsissewa


  • Acts principally on kidneys, and genito-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 enlargements.

Extremities

  • Feeling of a band above left knee.

Modalities

  • Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold 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 third attenuation.