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Urtica Urens
Remedy
Urtica Urens
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Sycotic Miasm
The Sycotic miasm is characterized by overgrowth and retention. It manifests as warts, tumors, fibroids, joint pain, excessive discharges, and suspicious or secretive mental states.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
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 arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age.), 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.
Gout, used in tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water..
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.
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🩺 UremiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
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.🌿 Her.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.” While taking it, she passed large quantities of gravelSmall sand-like deposits in urineSmall, sandy or stony deposits passed in the urine, causing painful urination or colic., 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.🌿 Pit.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.” 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.
Dock leaves (Rumex obtus.) rubbed on the stung part lessen the pain, also the
nettle’s own juice and the juice from the common snail. Antidote to: Apis (bee-stings). Antidotal to hemlock,
mushrooms, quicksilver, henbane, serpents, and scorpions
🔍 General Keynotes:Stannum Metallicum 647 STANNUM METALLICUM Stannum is a metal used for plati ng of utensils. In homoeopathic form, it is...
▲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
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👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Headache with spleen pains
▲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
▲EYES
Eyes feel weak and sore.
Pain in eyeballs as from a blow.
Feeling as if sand were in eyes
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲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.
HemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. from least exertion of lungs.
Constitutions-Gouty constitutions.
Uric acid diathesis.
Hemoptysis after violent exertion.
Whooping cough.
Scanty expectoration, frothy.
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
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🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Nausea with burning in throat.
Vomiting from suppression of nettle rash
▲GENITALS ETC
Kidneys-HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from bladder.
Urine suppressed.
StrangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge., 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.
Acrid urine causing itching and stinging of scrotum, keeps him awake.
Swollen scrotum.
Uterine hemorrhage.
Acid and excoriating leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
PruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch. vulvae with stinging, itching and edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.
🦴Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pain in arms and ankles, worse right arm.
Continuous pain in del toid worse rotating arm inwards, difficulty dressing.
Acute and chronic 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 rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., after shellfish, with pinworms.
Itching, raised, red blotches.
Nettle rash, worse every year in the same season, suppressed nettle rash.
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
🩺Medical Verification & Disclaimer:
This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
⚠️ Important: This information is for educational and informational purposes only and should not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or a professional homeopathic practitioner before starting any treatment.
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