# Petroselinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Hahnemann noted the use fulness of Petros, as agonorrheal remedy when there is a 
frequent desire to urinate. Affinity for the genito -urinary sphere. The leading indication is sudden urging to 
urinate and drawing, tingling, crawling or itching in navicular fossa. During urination, burning and tingling from 
perineum through whole urethra. After urination, cutting and biting in fossa navicularis. Very painful urination 
causing him to shiver, dance around the room in agony. 
Gonorrhea with a milky or yellow discharge. Dysuria with prostatic enlargement. Urinary difficulties of babies. 
Hemorrhoids with much itching.

## Symptoms by System

### Eyes
- Blindness at night with swelling of eyes.

### Ears
- Shrill singing in ears like a bell ringing out of tune, which affects the whole organism.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Twitching, jerking pains in epigastrium.
- Flatulent belchings, colic, nausea and vomiting.
- Temperature - Ague, especially quotidian, marked periodicity, regular stages.
- Acute fevers from defective 
assimilation or perverted innervation, accompanied by flatulent dyspeps ia.
- Intermittent fevers with abdominal 
disorders.
- Fevers with traumatic or chronic inflammation of urethra or even stricture.
- COMMENTS - Petros, was proved by Beth - mann.
- He obtained only thirty -six symptoms, all in the genito -
urinary sphere, but these were very characteristic and have given the remedy a definite place in homeopathic 
medicine, especially in gonorrhea and gleet.
- Farrington said Petros, is a great “baby medicine” for urinary difficulties.
- Hering collected symptoms from other 
observers.
- It has cured many cases of intermittent fever and^raumatic or other urethral fevers.
- Acute cystitis, urethritis.
- Burning and tingling in the urethra.
- Irresistible desire to urinate, frequent urination.
- Children will scream and yell with the urge to urinate, anti cipating the pain.
- Bladder infections in children.
- Gonorrhea.
- Trauma to the urethra from catheters.
- Clarke confirmed its efficiency in gonorrhea and gleet, giving ten-drop doses of the tincture.
- In a case of dysuria 
from prostatic enlargement there was fr equent urging to urinate every half to three -quarters of an hour with 
burning pains in bladder and urethra.
- Petros.
- 4x, three drops every hour took away all the pains and relieved the tenesmus in a few days.
- The 
prostate gland itself was not influenced.
- Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to eat or drink they lose all desire.
- Kidneys - Tingling, lancinating, pressure and drawing in urethra.
- Burning, tingling from perineum throughout 
whole urethra.
- Dysuria and polyuria.
- Frequent and almost fruitless desire to urinate, every half-hour.
- Sudden 
urging to urinate, voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis.
- Child suddenly seized with desire to urinate, if not 
gratified immediately, jumps up and down with pain.
- Urethritis.
- Gonorrhea with intense biting, itching, deep 
in urethra.
- Milky fluid, albuminous yellow discharge from urethra.
- Orifice of urethra agglutinated with mucus.

### Urinary & Genital
- Priapism, without curvature of penis.
- Urethritis.
- Pollutions, profuse emission toward morning.

### Neck & Back
- Jerking or bubbling sensation in muscles of back and arms.

### Skin
- Urticaria.

### Sleep
- Sleep late, with many anxious dreams.