# Urtica Urens ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations) 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. - COMMENTS - Severe allergic reactions (Apis., worse heat), particularly food al lergies (Lyc., Bry.). - Urticaria, weals, welts, and hives (Apis., Puls., Nat-m., Sulph.). - Allergic reactions to bites or stings (Apis., Led., Hyper.). - Dermographia, red and itchy skin, easily marked. - Bright red shiny rashes that itch and sting. - Vesicles (Canth.). - Burns (Canth.). - Old burns that refuse to heal. - Shiny sunburns with a stinging, burning pain (Calen.). - Palliative for herpes, canker sores. - Fever blisters with stinging (Nat -m., Rhus-t.). - Burning and itching of the anus and vulva. - Allergic vaginitis, vaginal lips are swollen, red and inflamed, especially if due to some dietary reaction. - Regulates milk production. - For reactions to the fresh stinging nettle plant. - Intermittent fevers, malaria (Ars., Nat -m., Chin.). - Enlarged spleen, painful, often associated with viral infections (Nairn., Cean.). - Gout, used in tincture. - Arthritis or gout, in packs on the joints. - A woman who had no children for three and a half years and had nursed none of her children took a pint of hot infusion of the herb. - Her breasts swelled, then discharged serum, followed by copious milk. - Burnett may be said to have rediscovered Urt -u. - as a remedy. - The history of how he came to use it is one of the most fascinating passages of his works. - Burnett’s tincture is made of the small nettle, Urt -u., which is the variety used in homeopathy. - Burnett noted that the nettle springs up everywhere near human habitations. - He noticed it flourishing more by the side of ditches that carry off fluid sewage, thus possibly living to some extent on uric acid. - Burnett’s discovery of its fev er action oc curred when a female patient was cured of ague (which he had not succeeded in helping) by drinking nettle-tea on the advice of her herbalist. - Urt-u. - was useful to him in cases of the fevers of the East India, Burma and Siam. - It also has a mark ed anti-gout action. - Urt-u. - causes fever as well as cures it, and one of Burnett’s patients was obliged to stop taking it: “It sets all my pulses beating, makes me terribly giddy, makes me feel as if I was going to topple (forwards) on my head and then a bad headache comes on and when I take it at night, it makes me very feverish.” When she took the dose in the morning she did not have the fever, and Burnett said, “The fever of gout generally comes on at night.” With Urt-u., Burnett cured severe cases of uremia, vertigo. - Burnett used Urt-u. - a good deal in spleen disorders and found patients under its use often passed large quantities of gravel. - Burnett gave Urt -u. - to a middle -aged, unmarried woman who had enlarged spleen and “who smelled so strongly of nettles that it almost nauseated me whenever it was my duty to examine her.” While taking it, she passed large quantities of gravel, but this did not attract much notice, as the woman was in the habit of passing considerable quantities of gravel with her motion s. - She had localized abdominal pain preceding such an occasion by a number of days. - The painful spot, just under her spleen, she called her “gravel-pit.” Putting this and other points together, including the fever action of Urt -u., Burnett concluded that Urt-u. - was a remedy for acute gout, which would cut short the attack “in a safe manner, namely, by ridding the economy of the essence of the disease product, its actual suffering producing material.” He usually ordered five drops of the tincture in a wineglass full of warm water every two or three hours. - Under its action the urine became more plentiful, dark and loaded with uric acid. - J. - L. - Nottingham noted two cases cured with Urt -r. - The first concerned Mrs. - W., 38, tall, slender, with auburn hair, who had eczema vulvae with violent itching and burning. - She had swelling and thickening of her labia. - Smooth, pale, dry appearance of the mucus surface. - A dry, scaly, fissured appearance of labia majora and skin. - Thirteen years before, she had a sinus from the right ovary emptying into the uterus. - The husband had sycotic warts on the glans penis. - Urt -u. - lx relieved all the symptoms and removed sexual excitement induced by the itching and uncontrollable desire to rub. - The second case concerned Mr. - N., 21, who had s welling, stinging, and burning of his face, hands and feet with redness. - Rubbing with a fingertip would leave a white line for some time. - When out in the cold, damp, snowy air, his hands, feet and face became purple -red, puffed and stinging cold. - Going into a warm room he had increased swelling, stinging, itching all over him, especially of hands and face. - Urt-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. - Stinging pain in right parietal bone. - Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing. - Kidneys - Hemorrhage from bladder. - Urine suppressed. - Strangury, gravel, di sease of bladder and kidneys. - Uric acid toxemia. - Acrid urine causing itching. - Headaches, worse over eyes. - Headache with stitches in spleen. - Dull aching in occiput and over eyes. - Stinging pain in right parietal bone. - Urticaria of scalp suddenly appearing. - Kidneys - Hemorrhage from bladder. - Urine suppressed. - Strangury, gravel, di sease of bladder and kidneys. - Uric 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. - Hemoptysis from least exertion of lungs. - Constitutions - Gouty constitutions. - Uric acid diathesis. - Hemoptysis after violent exertion. - Whooping cough. - Scanty expectoration, frothy. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Nausea with burning in throat. - Vomiting from suppression of nettle rash. - Temperature - General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. - Fever of gout. - Tropical fever. - Sweatiness, at night with vertigo, with throbbing all over the body. - Chronic disease of large in testine characterized by large secretion of mucus. - Sore abdomen, when lying. - Burnett noted it for liver tumors. - Breasts - Swelling of the breast with sting ing, burning pains. - Diminished secretion of milk after childbirth. - Arrests the flow of milk after weaning. - Causations - 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 edema. ### Extremities - Rheumatic pain in arms and ankles, worse right arm. - Continuous pain in del toid. - worse rotating arm inwards, difficulty dressing. - Acute and chronic gout. - Gout pain in ankles, wrists. - Raised, red, itching blisters on 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 rheumatism, after shellfish, with pinworms. - Itching, raised, red blotches. - Nettle rash, worse every year in the same season, suppressed nettle rash. - Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. - Chickenpox (Dulc.). - Urticaria nodosa (Bov.). - Urticaria, burning heat with formication, violent itching. - Ery thema with burning and stinging. - Prickly 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. - As of sand in eyes. - Muscles of right arm as if bruised.