URTICA URENS

Stinging-nettle


  • A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis. 
  • Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. 
  • Enuresis and urticaria. 
  • Spleen affections. 
  • Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. 
  • Symptoms return at the same time every year. 
  • Gout and uric acid diathesis. 
  • Favors elimination.
  • Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. 
  • Neuritis.

Head

  • Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen

  • Diarrhea chronic disease of large intestine characterized by large secretion of mucus.

Male

  • Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female

  • Diminished secretion of milk. 
  • Uterine hemorrhage. 
  • Acid and excoriating leucorrhea. 
  • Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching, and edema. 
  • Arrests flow of milk after weaning. 
  • Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities

  • Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists.

Skin

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

Fever

  • General heat in bed with soreness 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 lower potencies.