{"id":16435,"remedy_name":"Urtica Urens","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the whole fresh plant of Urtica urens, commonly known as Dwarf Nettle or. Annual Nettle, a member of the Urticaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration. and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material irritant properties, in. accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for dermatological, rheumatological,. allergic, and urinary disorders , particularly those involving burning, stinging sensations, and. urticarial eruptions. It is noted for symptoms such as hives, gouty pains, and aggravation from cold,. often worsened by cold, water, or touch, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or rubbing. Modern  Context :  Indicated  for  dermatological  conditions  (e.g.,  urticaria,  eczema),. rheumatological conditions  (e.g., gout, rheumatoid arthritis),  allergic conditions  (e.g., allergic. rhinitis, anaphylaxis), and urinary conditions (e.g., uric acid diathesis, renal colic). It suits patients. with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by burning sensations, stinging pains, urticarial. eruptions,  joint swelling , or  allergic reactions , typically exacerbated by cold, water, touch, or. dietary  triggers,  and  often  seen  in  individuals  with  sensitive,  inflammatory  constitutions.  The. remedy is particularly relevant for those with dermatological or rheumatological conditions, often. presenting with symptoms like hives or gouty pains, commonly observed in patients with urticaria,. gout, or allergic rhinitis triggered by cold, water, or allergens.","modalities":"Worse from: Cold (weather, air, water), water (bathing, exposure), touch, motion, dietary. triggers (purines, acidic foods), allergens, night, scratching, exertion, stress, tight clothing,. morning.","symptoms_by_system":{"Vertigo":"Headache with spleen pains. \nCOMMENTS - Severe allergic reactions (Apis., worse heat), particularly food al lergies (Lyc., Bry.). Urticaria, \nweals, welts, and hives (Apis., Puls., Nat-m., Sulph.). Allergic reactions to bites or stings (Apis., Led., Hyper.). \nDermographia, red and itchy skin, easily marked. Bright red shiny rashes that itch and sting. Vesicles (Canth.). \nBurns (Canth.). Old burns that refuse to heal. Shiny sunburns with a stinging, burning pain (Calen.). Palliative \nfor herpes, canker sores. Fever blisters with stinging (Nat -m., Rhus-t.). Burning and itching of the anus and \nvulva. Allergic vaginitis, vaginal lips are swollen, red and inflamed, especially if due to some dietary reaction. \nRegulates milk production. \nFor reactions to the fresh stinging nettle plant. Intermittent fevers, malaria (Ars., Nat -m., Chin.). Enlarged \nspleen, painful, often associated with viral infections (Nairn., Cean.). Gout, used in tincture. Arthritis or gout, in \npacks on the joints. \nA woman who had no children for three and a half years and had nursed none of her  \nchildren took a pint of hot infusion of the herb. Her breasts swelled, then discharged serum, followed by copious \nmilk. \nBurnett may be said to have rediscovered Urt -u. as a remedy. The history of how he came to use it is one of \nthe most fascinating passages of his works. Burnett\u2019s tincture is made of the small nettle, Urt -u., which is the \nvariety used in homeopathy. \nBurnett noted that the nettle springs up everywhere near human habitations. He noticed it flourishing more by \nthe side of ditches that carry off fluid sewage, thus possibly living to some extent on uric acid. \nBurnett\u2019s discovery of its fev er action oc curred when a female patient was cured of ague (which he had not \nsucceeded in helping) by drinking nettle-tea on the advice of her herbalist. Urt-u. was useful to him in cases of \nthe fevers of the East India, Burma and Siam. It also has a mark ed anti-gout action. \nUrt-u. causes fever as well as cures it, and one of Burnett\u2019s patients was obliged to stop taking it: \u201cIt sets all \nmy pulses beating, makes me terribly giddy, makes me feel as if I was going to topple (forwards) on my head \nand then a bad headache comes on and when I take it at night, it makes me very feverish.\u201d When she took the \ndose in the morning she did not have the fever, and Burnett said, \u201cThe fever of gout generally comes on at \nnight.\u201d \nWith Urt-u., Burnett cured severe cases of uremia, vertigo. Burnett used Urt-u. a good deal in spleen disorders \nand found patients under its use often passed large quantities of gravel. \nBurnett gave Urt -u. to a middle -aged, unmarried woman who had enlarged spleen and \u201cwho smelled so \nstrongly of nettles that it almost nauseated me whenever it was my duty to examine her.\u201d  \nWhile taking it, she passed large quantities of gravel, but this did not attract much notice, as the woman was \nin the habit of passing considerable quantities of gravel with her motion s. She had localized abdominal pain \npreceding such an occasion by a number of days. The painful spot, just under her spleen, she called her \n\u201cgravel-pit.\u201d Putting this and other points together, including the fever action of Urt -u., Burnett concluded that \nUrt-u. was a remedy for acute gout, which would cut short the attack \u201cin a safe manner, namely, by ridding the \neconomy of the essence of the disease product, its actual suffering producing material.\u201d  \nHe usually ordered five drops of the tincture in a wineglass full of warm water every two or three hours. Under \nits action the urine became more plentiful, dark and loaded with uric acid. \nJ. L. Nottingham noted two cases cured with Urt -r. The first concerned Mrs. W., 38, tall, slender, with auburn \nhair, who had eczema vulvae with violent itching and burning. She had swelling and thickening of her labia. \nSmooth, pale, dry appearance of the mucus surface. A dry, scaly, fissured appearance of labia majora and \nskin. \nThirteen years before, she had a sinus from the right ovary emptying into the uterus. The husband had sycotic \nwarts on the glans penis. Urt -u. lx relieved all the symptoms and removed sexual excitement induced by the \nitching and uncontrollable desire to rub. \nThe second case concerned Mr. N., 21, who had s welling, stinging, and burning of his face, hands and feet \nwith redness. Rubbing with a fingertip would leave a white line for some time. \nWhen out in the cold, damp, snowy air, his hands, feet and face became purple -red, puffed and stinging cold. \nGoing into a warm room he had increased swelling, stinging, itching all over him, especially of hands and face. \nUrt-u. relieved in twenty-four hours. In four days he returned home better than he had been for years.","Head":"Headaches, worse over eyes. Headache with stitches in spleen. Dull aching in occiput and over eyes. \nStinging pain in right parietal bone. Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing.  \nKidneys - Hemorrhage from bladder. Urine suppressed. Strangury, gravel, di sease of bladder and kidneys. \nUric acid toxemia. Acrid urine causing itching. Headaches, worse over eyes. Headache with stitches in spleen. Dull aching in occiput and over eyes. \nStinging pain in right parietal bone. Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing.  \nKidneys - Hemorrhage from bladder. Urine suppressed. Strangury, gravel, di sease of bladder and kidneys. \nUric acid toxemia. Acrid urine causing itching.","Eyes":"Eyes feel weak and sore. Pain in eyeballs as from a blow. Feeling as if sand were in eyes.","Throat":"Burning in throat. Frequent hawking of frothy mucus causing cough, expectoration scanty, frothy.","Chest":"Sore feeling as from a blow to left side of chest. Intermittent soreness in right chest during day. \nHemoptysis from least exertion of lungs. \nConstitutions - Gouty constitutions. Uric acid diathesis. Hemoptysis after violent exertion. Whooping cough. Scanty expectoration, frothy.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Nausea with burning in throat. \nVomiting from suppression of nettle rash. \nTemperature - General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever. Sweatiness, \n \n \nat night with vertigo, with throbbing all over the body. Chronic disease of large in testine characterized by large secretion of mucus. Sore abdomen, \nwhen lying. Burnett noted it for liver tumors. \nBreasts - Swelling of the breast with sting ing, burning pains. Diminished secretion of milk  after childbirth. \nArrests the flow of milk after weaning. \nCausations - Ill effects of burns, beestings, eating shellfish, suppressed milk, urticaria.","Urinary & Genital":"Itching and stinging of scrotum, keeps him awake. Swollen scrotum. Uterine hemorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhea. Pruritus vulvae with stinging,  itching and \nedema.","Extremities":"Rheumatic pain in arms and ankles, worse right arm. Continuous pain in del toid. worse rotating arm \ninwards, difficulty dressing. Acute and chronic gout. Gout pain in ankles, wrists. Raised, red, itching blisters \non skin of hands and fingers. Stiff soreness on inside of left knee.","Skin":"Burns and scalds. Sunburn with intense burning, itching. Vesicles. Burn confined to skin. Hives with \nrheumatism, after shellfish, with pinworms. Itching, raised, red blotches. Nettle rash, worse every year in the \nsame season, suppressed nettle rash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Chickenpox (Dulc.). Urticaria \nnodosa (Bov.). Urticaria, burning heat with formication, violent itching. Ery thema with burning and stinging. \nPrickly heat. Angio-neurotic edema. Herpes la- bialis with sensation of heat and itching.","Sleep":"Drowsiness when reading.","Generalities":"Burning, stinging, itching and soreness are the principal pains. As from a blow in the eyeballs. \nAs of sand in eyes. Muscles of right arm as if bruised."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}