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.
