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Cowperitis

Remedy Characteristics Symptoms Patient Worse by Patient Better by

Aconitum A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body In warm room In open air
Napellus
Physical and mental restlessness In evening and
night
Fright
Lying on affected
Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever side

Does not want to be touched From music

Sudden and great sinking of strength From tobacco-

smoke
Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry,
cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, Dry, cold winds
also complaints from very hot weather

First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers

Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected

markedly

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and

numbness

Its action is brief and shows no periodicity

Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and

not to be continued after pathological change comes

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

Intense thirst

Urine scanty, red, hot, painful

Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder

Burning in urethra

Urine suppressed, bloody

Anxiety always on beginning to urinate

Urine retention, with screaming and restlessness, and

handling of genitals

Renal region sensitive

Crawling and stinging in glans

Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard

Frequent erections and emissions

Painful erections

Nightmare

Nightly ravings
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Anxious dreams

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about

Starts up in sleep

Long dreams, with anxiety in chest

Cannabis Sativa Seems to affect especially the urinary, sexual, and Lying down
respiratory organs
Going upstairs
Sensations as of dropping water

Great fatigue, as from over-exertion; weary after meals

Choking in swallowing; things go down the wrong way

Stuttering

Confusion of thought and speech

Wavering speech, hasty, incoherent

Urine retained, with obstinate constipation

Painful urging to urinate

Micturition in split stream

Stitches in urethra

Inflamed sensation, with soreness to touch

Burning while urinating, extending to bladder

Urine scalding, with spasmodic closure of sphincter.

Walks with legs apart

Zigzag pain along urethra

Sexual overexcitement

Stoppage of urethra by mucus and pus

Frightful dreams

More tired in morning

Sleepy during day

Gelsemium Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing Damp weather Bending forward
various degrees of motor paralysis
Fog By profuse
General prostration urination
Before a
Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling thunderstorm Open air

Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy Emotion, or Continued motion

excitement
Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, Stimulants
throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc Bad news

Muscular weakness Tobacco-smoking

Complete relaxation and prostration When thinking of

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Lack of muscular co-ordination his ailments

General depression from heat of sun At 10 am

Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness

brings on many complaints

Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib

Sluggish circulation

Has no thirst

Urine profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and

tremulousness

Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent

Retention of urine

Cannot get fully to sleep

Delirious on falling asleep

Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable

thinking; tobacco

Yawning

Sleepless from nervous irritation

Hepar Sulph Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions From dry cold In damp weather
who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular winds
swellings From wrapping
Cool air head up
Unhealthy skin
Slightest draught From warmth
Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles
From Mercury After eating
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Touch
Sweating patient pulling blanket around him
Lying on painful
Tendency to suppuration side

Chilliness

Hypersensitiveness

Splinter-like pains

Craving for sour and strong things

Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part

The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes

gradually insufferably painful; he must turn

Aversion to fat food

Frequent eructations, without taste or smell.

Stool clay-colored and soft; sour, white, undigested,

fetid

Loss of power to expel even a soft stool

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Urine voided slowly, without force-drops vertically,

bladder weak; seems as if some always remained

Greasy pellicle on urine

Mercurius Salivation Evening While at rest

Corrosivus
Taste salty and bitter Night

Intense burning in urethra Acids

Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody,

greenish discharge; albuminous

Tenesmus of bladder

Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder

Perspiration after urinating

Petroselinum Burning, tingling, from perineum throughout whole

Sativum urethra; sudden urging, to urinate; frequent,
voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis

Sudden, irresistible desire to urinate; intense biting,

itching, deep in urethra; milky discharge

Thirsty and hungry, but desire fails on beginning to eat

or drink

Fabiana Vesical tenesmus and burning after urination

Imbricata
Excoriating urine and calculi

Sabal Serrulata Irritability of the genito-urinary organs

General and sexual debility

Of unquestioned value in prostatic enlargement,

epididymitis, and urinary difficulties

Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of urethra

Fear of going to sleep

Languor, apathy and indifference

Belching and acidity

Desire for milk

Constant desire to pass water at night

Paresis of sphincter vesicæ

Difficult urination

Silicea Increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and New moon Warmth

exaggerated reflexes
In morning Wrapping up head
Periodical states
From washing Summer
Feeling of coldness before an attack
During menses In wet or humid
Ill effects of vaccination weather
Uncovering
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Suppurative processes Lying down

Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty Damp
warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse
in winter Lying on left side

Lack of vital heat Cold

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Urine bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment

Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in

head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

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