Materia Medica

Equisetum

Scouring-rush

Principal action on the bladder. A remedy for enuresis and dysuria.

Urinary

Severe, dull pain in bladder, not relieved vy urinating. Frequent urging with severe pain at the close of urination. Urine flows only drop by drop. Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating Incontinence in children, with dreams or night-ares when passing urine. Incontinence in old women, also with involuntary stools. Retention and dysuria during pregnancy and after delivery. Much mucus in urine. Albuminuria Involuntary urination. Kidney. - Deep pain in region of right kidney, cx- tending to lower abdomen, with urgent desire to mic- turate. Right lumbar region painful.

Modalities

Worse, right side; movement, pressure, touch, sitting down; better, in afternoon from lying down.

Relationships

Compare: Ferr. phos.; Apis: Canth.; Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum contains silica.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 306. Public domain.

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