Materia Medica

Uranium Nitricum

Nitrate of Uranium

Is known to produce nephritis, diabetes, degeneration of the liver, high biood pressure and dropsy. Its ther- peutic keynote is great emaciation, debility and ten- dency to ascites and general dropsy.

Head

Ill-tempered; dull, heavy pain. Nostrils sore, with' purulent, acrid discharge.

Eyes

Lids inflamed and agglutinated; styes.

Stomach

Excessive thirst ; nausea; vomiting. Rav- enous appetite: eating followed by flatulence. Boring pain in pyloric region. Gastric and duodenal ulcers. Burning pain. Abdomen bloated.

Urinary

Copious urination. Diuresis. Inconti- nence of urine. Diabetes. Emaciation and tympanites. Burning in urethra, with very acid urine. Unable to retain urine without pain. Enuresis. [Mullein oil.]

Male

Complete impotency, with nocturnal emis- sions. Organs cold, relaxed, sweaty.

Relationships

Compare: Phos. ac.; Lact. ac.; Arg. nit.; Kali brch.; Ars.; Phloridsin (a glucosidal principle obtained from the bark of the apple and other fruit trees. Produces diabetes and fatty degeneration of the liver; intermittent fever. Daily doses, 15 grains).

Dose

Second trituration.