Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Petroselinum petros.

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General

A tincture is made of the fresh plant of the Parsley, Petroselinum sativum, Hoff.

▶ Frequent desire to urinate caused by a crawling stitch behind navicular fossa. ▶ Orifice of urethra agglutinated with mucus. ▶ Discharge from urethra milky; (yellow); (albuminous). ▶ Drawing and sticking in navicular fossa, that changed after urinating to cutting biting; D. in navicular fossa, then itching; D. behind navicular fossa, with pressure. ▶ Burning in navicular fossa when urinating. ▶ (Crawling rather than burning, extending from perineum through urethra when urinating.). ▶ Creeping crawling in isthmus of urethra in morning in bed; in urethra, in region of Cowper's glands, in morning in bed, then pressure, amel. standing and sitting. ▶ Voluptuous tickling in navicular fossa. ▶ Priapismus, without curvature of penis. ▶ Profuse emission towards morning.

Clinical

Acute inflammation of the urethra and bladder, sudden attacks of urging to urinate, which, if not immediately attended to, will cause severe pain. ▶ Gonorrhœa, with strangury, constant irresistible desire to urinate. ▶ (Notice the marked localization of sensations in the navicular fossa; this is quite characteristic.).