Materia Medica
Brachyglottis
Puka-Puka
Puka-Puka (BRACHYGLOTTIS) Fluttering sensation (Caladium). Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itching in ears and nostrils. Bright's disease. Oppression of chest. Writer's cramp.
Abdomen
Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.
Urinary
Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.
Extremities
Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.
Relationships
Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum.
Dose
Third potency.