# Chimaphila Umbellata

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Chim. acts principally on the kidneys and bladder, producing gravel in kidneys and acute 
and chronic catarrh in the bladder (cystitis). Scanty urine loaded with 
ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Calculus. 
Hepatic and kidney dropsies. 
Passive kidney, uterine and intestinal hemorrhages. Leucorrhea. Gonorrhea. Chim. also acts on the prostate 
and liver. Prostatic enlargement. Prostatic irritation. Catarrhal states with mucus, pus and blood, offensive or 
not. 
Affects lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female breasts. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women 
with large breasts. Chronic alcoholics. Incipient and progressive cataracts.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from walking. Worse in damp weather, washing in cold water, si tting on cold stones 
orpavements, beginning urination, and on left side.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Pain in left frontal protuberance.
- Halo about the light.
- Itching of eyelids.
- Stabbing pain in the left eye 
with lachrymation.
- Tinea capitis.
- Kidneys - Acute inflammation of the uri nary tract.
- Nephritis.
- Suppressed urine in infants.
- Urging to urinate.
- Urine turbid offensive, containing rop y or bloody mucus and depositing a copious sediment.
- Burning and 
scalding during urination and straining afterwards.
- Must strain before 
flow comes.
- Scanty urine.
- Fluttering in region of kidney.
- Cystitis.
- Bladder tenes mus, worse sitting, better 
walking.
- Cannot pass urine without standing with feet apart and body inclined forwards.
- Clots of blood pass 
with urine.
- Sugar in urine.
- Pain in left frontal protuberance.
- Halo about the light.
- Itching of eyelids.
- Stabbing pain in the left eye 
with lachrymation.
- Tinea capitis.
- Kidneys - Acute inflammation of the uri nary tract.
- Nephritis.
- Suppressed urine in infants.
- Urging to urinate.
- Urine turbid offensive, containing rop y or bloody mucus and depositing a copious sediment.
- Burning and 
scalding during urination and straining afterwards.
- Must strain before 
flow comes.
- Scanty urine.
- Fluttering in region of kidney.
- Cystitis.
- Bladder tenes mus, worse sitting, better 
walking.
- Cannot pass urine without standing with feet apart and body inclined forwards.
- Clots of blood pass 
with urine.
- Sugar in urine.

### Eyes
- Halo around the light.
- Stabbing pain in the left eye with lachrymation.

### Face
- Flushing of cheeks with some general heat and quickened pulse.

### Mouth
- Jaws feel stiff, cannot close mouth at night, sleeps with the mouth open.
- Vesicular ulcers in mouth.

### Throat
- Palate sore, very sensitive to warm drink or food.
- Rawness of upper and back part of palate.
- Tongue - Tongue smarting, sore.
- Full of vesicles, great thirst and desire to cool the tongue.
- Tongue is furred, 
more towards root, no appetite.
- COMMENTS-Chim.
- has been proved by Jean 
G.
- Bute and H.
- P.Gatchell.
- Itcauses flushing of cheeks with some general heat and accelerated pulse.
- Increase 
of appetite.
- Worse in cold damp weather, after washing in cold water, from sitting on a cold, wet stone.
- Acute rheumatism of shoulder.
- Edema of arms (right).
- Inward trembling without mental disturbance.
- Cannot close jaws at night jaws feel stiff, sleeps with mouth open.
- Toothache worse after eating and from 
exertion, better by cold water.
- Palate sore, very sensitive to warm drink or food, rawness of upper and back 
part of palate.
- Inflammation of liver with ascites, abdominal and kidney dropsies.
- Enlarged mesenteric glands.
- Gallstone colic.
- Particularly indicated for kidney and liver problems in conjunction (Berb., Lyc.).
- Co nstant pain in region of 
kidneys, as if something fluttering in kidney region, first one side, then the other.
- Obstinate constipation and hemorrhoids.
- Deep -seated shooting pain in the left side of anus.
- “Sensation of 
swelling in perineum on sitting, as if a ball was pressing against it.” 
Pressing fullness in region of bladder.
- Bladder tenesmus, strangury.
- Constant desire to urinate, must rise 
several times in the night.
- Great quantities of thick, ropy mucus in urine.
- Blood in urine.
- Smarting pain, painful 
irritation from neck of bladder, whole length of urethra to meatus.
- Prostatic disorders.
- Loss of prostatic fluid.
- Bruised pain in testicle, with stricture.
- Leucorrhea.
- Rapid atrophy of 
breasts ortumors.
- In homeopathic practice, Coburn reported the cures i n several cases.
- The first concerned a case of stricture 
in a man, 30.
- He had dysuria, severe pain, scalding and burning.
- At times urine voided in a large gush, at 
others in thready stream and towards the end, drained off drop by drop.
- Merc -c.
- and Canth.
- had temporarily 
relieved.
- Coburn also noted a case of prostatitis after sitting on cold stone.
- There was pain and a sensation as if he had 
bruised one of the testicles.
- The third case Coburn recorded concerned a case of breast cancer in a 21 year old patien t.
- Tumor in left 
breast, hard, movable, sharp pains at site.
- For four months, under Arn., Ars., Cic., Thuj., the tumor increased, 
skin became contracted, nipple drawn in.
- In eight months, it broke out into an irregular ulceration with lacerated 
edges, fetid discharge.
- Axillary glands swollen.
- Chim.
- 1c in 10 drops doses, every four hours was given and the same locally applied.
- The pains diminished.
- Swelling decreased, and in six months the patient was well.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Aching pain below right hypochondrium while writing.
- Organic disease of the liver with ascites.
- Ascites.
- Scrofulous mesenteric gland.

### Urinary & Genital
- Acute prostatitis with retention and dysuria and feeling of a ball in perineum, as if sitting on aball 
(Cann-i.).
- Gonorrhea and prostatitis.
- Smarting in urethra from n eck of bladder to meatus, excessive itching.
- Gonorrhea, gleet, syphilis, prostatorrhea.
- Loss of prostatic fluid.
- Prostatic enlarge ment and irritation.
- Atrophy 
of testicles.
- Labia inflamed, swollen.
- Pain in vagina.
- Hot flashes.
- Prolapsed uterus or vagina.
- Leucorrhea.

### Extremities
- Feeling of a band above left knee.
- Acute rheumatism of shoulder.
- Pain in right arm, about upper half 
of biceps and shoulder joint.
- Fistulous ulcer on right forearm, with stinging and crawling.
- Paronychia.

### Neck & Back
- Sensation in region of kidneys, as if something were fluttering within.
- Breasts - Suppression of milk.
- Rapid atro phy of breasts.
- Scirrhus tumors.
- Painful tumor of breasts, not 
ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk.
- Painful breast tumor in young unmarried women.
- Women with very 
large breasts and tumor in the breast gland with sharp pain through it.
- Constitutions - Suited to cachectic, scrofulous individuals and broken -down constitutions.
- Abdominal and 
kidney dropsies in broken-drown constitutions and intemperate subjects.
- Women with large breasts or plethoric 
women with dysuria.

### Skin
- Scrofulous ulcers.
- Glandular enlargements.
- Redness, vesication or desquamation.
- Eruption of dark red 
spots without sensation.
- Malignant ulcers.
- Scarlet fever.
- Teeth - Toothache, as if being gently pulled, worse after eating or from exertion, better by cold water.
- Temperature - Hectic fever and night sweats.
- Flushing of checks with general heat.