Chimaphila Umbellata chim.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Bladder. Kidneys. Glands: Liver. Prostate. Mammæ (R).

Worse

Cold damp. Standing. Sitting. Beginning urination.

Better

WALKING.

General

ROPY or muco-purulent, foul, scanty, thick, turbid, urine. Feels as if sitting on a ball, in the perineum; after gonorrhœa. Old nodes in or atrophy of glands. Fluttering in kidney region. Acute inflammation in urinary tract. Gravelly urine.

Related

Complementary: Kali-m. Related: Berb. Coc-c. Sabal.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Pipsissewa

General

Acts principally on kidneys, and genito-urinary tract; affects also lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mammæ. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and progressive cataracts.

One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.

Head

Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.

Mouth

Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.

Urinary

Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum (Cann ind). Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.

Female

Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammæ, not ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through it.

Male

Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and irritation.

Skin

Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.

Extremities

Feeling of a band above left knee.

Modalities

Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold stones or pavements; left side.

Relationship

Compare: Chimaph maculata (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits); Uva; Ledum; Epigoea.

Dose

Tincture, to third attenuation.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

I have had some valuable experience with this remedy in cystitis. It has made some fine cures where there were great quantities of ropy mucus in the urine. There may be strangury or not in such cases. There is one symptom to which I wish to call attention, because it indicates that this remedy may become very useful in prostatic troubles, and is found under only one other remedy that I know of, viz., Cannabis Indica. These prostatic troubles are very serious ones, and anything that can contribute to their successful treatment is valuable. The symptom is -"Sensation of swelling in the perinæum or near the anus, as if sitting on a ball." We often have very large amounts of mucus in the urine in prostatic troubles, and if I found it coupled with this sensation would expect benefit from the remedy. I know of no other use for this remedy at present. While we are here upon a urinary remedy, we will call attention to another comparatively new but good one.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Pipsissewa. Prince's Pine. Ground Holly. N. O. Pyroleæ, a tribe of the Ericaceæ. Tincture of root and leaves, or of fresh plant in flower.

Clinical

Acne. Breast, atrophy of; cancer of; tumour of. Cataract. Cystitis. Diabetes. Dropsies. Fevers. Glands, enlarged. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Intermittents. Jaundice. Kidneys, disorders of. Lactation, disorders of. Liver disorders. Nephritis. Proctitis. Prostatitis. Pterygium. Ringworm. Scrofula. Stricture. Syphilis. Toothache. Ulcers, malignant. Urinary disorders. Whitlow.

Characteristics

Chimaph. umb . is a medicine used by many North American Indians in gravel and urinary disorders. It has also been used as a vulnerary. Among the eclectics it is used as an "alterative" in skin affections, e.g ., acne, herpes, eczema, in enlarged lymphatic glands, in articular rheumatism. It is said by them to act mainly as an eliminative through the bowels and kidneys. They use it in cases of chyliferous urine, cystitis, strangury, smarting, burning pains on urination, turbid urine and frequent micturition, and diabetes. Also in passive renal, uterine and intestinal hæmorrhages, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. From its property of increasing the renal secretion they give it in cases of calculus and prostatic irritation. Catarrhal states, with mucus, muco-pus, pus and blood, offensive or not, indicate its use. Chim. u . has been proved by Jeanes, G. Bute, and H. P. Gatchell. It causes flushing of cheeks with some general heat and accelerated pulse. Toothache < after eating, and from exertion; > by cold water. Cannot close jaws at night; jaws feel stiff; sleeps with mouth open. Palate sore; very sensitive to warm drink or food; rawness of upper and back part of palate. Increase of appetite. It has been used with success in cases of: inflammation of liver with ascites; abdominal and renal dropsies; enlarged mesenteric glands; obstinate constipation and hæmorrhoids. A peculiar symptom is: shooting pain, deep-seated, left side of anus. The symptom: "Sensation of swelling in perineum on sitting, as if a ball was pressing against it," shows its appropriateness in prostatic disorders. There is also loss of prostatic fluid. Constant pain in region of kidneys, as if something fluttering in kidney region, first one side, then the other. Pressing fulness in region of bladder. Vesical tenesmus; strangury. Constant desire to urinate; must rise several times in the night. Great quantities of thick, ropy mucus in urine. Blood in urine. Smarting pain (also painful irritation) from neck of bladder, whole length of urethra to meatus. Bruised pain in testicle is a leading indication in stricture. Leucorrhœa. Rapid atrophy of breasts or tumours. Acute rheumatism of shoulder. Œdema of arms (right). Inward trembling without mental disturbance. In homœopathic practice Coburn reports the following cures: ( 1 ) Stricture: Man, 30, dysuria, severe pain, scalding and burning. At times urine voided in a large gush; at others in thready stream, and, towards the end, drained off drop by drop. (After Merc. c . and Canth . had relieved temporarily.) ( 2 ) Prostatitis after sitting on cold stone: Pain and a sensation in the parts, as if he had bruised one of the testicles. ( 3 ) Cancer of breast: Patient, 2l. Tumour in left breast, hard, movable; sharp pains at site. For four months, under Arn., Ars., Cicut., Thuj ., the tumour increased, skin became contracted, nipple drawn in. In eight months it broke out into an irregular ulceration with lacerated edges, fetid discharge. Axillary glands swollen. Chim. umb . Ø gtt. x. every four hours was given, and the same locally applied. The pains diminished, swelling decreased, and in six months the patient was well. The symptoms of Chim. u . are < In damp weather; after washing in cold water; from sitting on a cold, wet stone. (Though evergreens and "winter-lovers" ─ hence the name ─ the Chimaphilas are generally < by cold). Suited to cachectic, scrofulous individuals and broken-down constitutions.

Relations

Compare: Chim. mac.; Apocy. (dropsy); Agnus (gonorrhœa, lactation); Con.; Coff. (toothache > by cold water); Led., Rhod., Kalm., Uva ursi, Sabal. In pterygium Calc., Zn. Ball in perineum, Can. ind. In kidney-ache, Santalum.

Head

Tinea capitis.

Eyes

Halo round lamp flame. ─ Stabbing shooting in l. eyeball. ─ Itching and smarting of edges and insides of lids.

Face

Flushing of cheeks with some general heat and quickened pulse.

7, 8. Teeth and Mouth. ─ Toothache, < after eating and from exertion; cannot close teeth at night, jaws feel stiff, sleeps with mouth open. ─ Toothache > by cold water. ─ Tongue: smarting; sore, full of vesicles, great thirst and desire to cool the tongue; furred, more towards root, no appetite. ─ Vesicular ulcers in mouth.

Throat

Palate sore, very sensitive to warm drink or food. ─ Rawness of upper and back part of palate.

Stomach

Agreeable sensation in stomach soon after taking the drug, followed sometimes by an extraordinary increase of appetite.

Abdomen

Aching pain below r. hypochondrium while writing. ─ Organic disease of liver with ascites. ─ Abdominal and renal dropsies in broken-drown constitutions and intemperate subjects. ─ Ascites. ─ Scrofulous mesenteric glands. ─ Worms.

Stool and Rectum

Griping after stool. ─ Sticking pain in l. side rectum, deep in. ─ Bloody mucous stools. ─ Diarrhœa. ─ Inclination to stool, either ineffectual or attended with great pain. ─ Obstinate constipation; with hæmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Acute prostatitis with dysuria and retention, sensation in perineum as if sitting on a ball. ─ Constant pain in region of kidneys; urine scanty, dark, fetid, thick, with copious sediment. ─ Strangury; constant desire to urinate. ─ Cutting, scalding pain, divided stream; stricture. ─ Urethritis with purulent or profuse mucous discharge. ─ Great quantities of thick, ropy, bloody mucus in urine. ─ Greenish-black urine. ─ Urine scanty; frequently voided, pressing pain before, burning prickling, scalding and smarting during and after, and vesical tenesmus; < sitting, > walking about. ─ Albuminuria; hæmaturia, from long-lasting gonorrhœa; clots of coagulated blood pass with urine. ─ Renal dropsy.

Male Sexual Organs

Smarting from neck of bladder the whole length of urethra to meatus; excessive itching. ─ Atrophy of testicles. ─ Sensation as if he had bruised one of testicles. ─ Sensation of swelling in perineum, as if sitting on a ball. ─ Gonorrhœa; gleet; syphilis; prostatorrhœa.

Female Sexual Organs

Prolapsus and slight uterine leucorrhœa. ─ Vaginal prolapsus. ─ Rapid atrophy of breasts. ─ Tumours (scirrhous) of breasts. ─ Painful tumour of breast in young unmarried women. ─ Undue secretion, or suppression of milk.

Neck and Back

Uncommon sensation in region of kidneys, sometimes one side the spine, sometimes the other, as if something were fluttering within, without pain or uneasiness.

Upper Limbs

Acute rheumatism of shoulder. ─ Pain in r. arm, about upper half of biceps and shoulder-joint. ─ Fistulous ulcer on r. forearm, with stinging and crawling. ─ Paronychia.

Lower Limbs

Opening and shutting pain, slow, pulsating, in middle of anterior part of thigh, leaving a severe aching and tenderness on pressure, whilst lying down.

Skin

Redness, vesication or desquamation. ─ Eruption of dark red spots without sensation. ─ Malignant ulcers. ─ Scarlet fever.

Sleep

Would have slept well, if he had not been constantly waked by calls to make water.

Fever

Hectic fever and night sweats. ─ Flushing of cheeks with general heat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Sensorium

Pain in left frontal protuberance.

Inner head

(OBS :) Tinea capitis.

Sight and eyes

Halo around the lamp flame.
Eyes painful.
(In sick :) Sudden stitch in front part of both eyes, from right to left ; eyes run water.
Stabbing or shooting pain in left eyeball.
Itching and smarting of edges of eyelids, and inside of eyelids.
Itching of left eye.
Stinging pain in left eye ; a colored halo around the candle.
Blue rings around eyes.
Pterygium ; cataract.

Hearing and ears

Pain in right ear.

Upper face

A flushing of cheeks with some general heat, and accelerated pulse.
Pain at lower edge of zygomatic process of left superior maxillary bone, above second bicuspid tooth, sore on pressure.

Teeth and gums

Continuous pain in upper teeth, extending into right eye.
Drawing in an upper and lower tooth, as if it was being gently pulled.
Toothache, < after eating and from exertion.
Cannot close teeth at night, jaws feel stiff, sleeps with open mouth. θ Toothache.
Toothache, > by cold water.

Taste, speech, tongue

Pungent, bitter-sweet taste.
Smarting of tongue.
Tongue sore, full of little vesicles ; great thirst and desire to cool tongue.
(In sick :) Tongue furred, more towards root, no appetite.

Inner mouth

Vesicular ulcers in mouth.

Palate and throat

(In sick :) Palate sore, very sensitive to warm drink or food.
Rawness of upper and back part of palate.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great increase of appetite.
Much thirst ; desire to cool tongue.

Eating and drinking

Poor digestion.
Eating aggravates toothache.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Agreeable sensation in stomach, soon after, followed sometimes by an extraordinary increase of appetite.

Hypochondria

Aching pain below right hypochondrium whilst writing.
(OBS :) Hepatitis.
Organic disease of liver with ascites.
Abdomen

Abdomen and loins

Abdominal and renal dropsies, in broken down constitutions and intemperate subjects.
Ascents and swelling of legs.
(OBS :) Atonic or passive dropsies.
Abdomen bloated.
Ascites in consequence of organic affection of liver.
Scrofulous swelling of abdominal glands ; enlarged mesenteries.
Worm troubles.

Stools and rectum

Griping after stool.
Sticking pain in rectum, left side, deep in.
Shooting pain, deep-seated, in left side of anus ; more internal than a pile, which at times protrudes there.
Bloody mucous stools.
(OBS :) Diarrhœa.
Inclination to stool either ineffectual or attended with great pain.
Obstinate constipation. θ Renal disturbances. θ Cystitis.
Constipation and hemorrhoids. θ Dysuria.
Constipation, stool every third day. θ Vesical irritability.
Sensation of swelling in perineum on sitting down, as if a ball was pressing against it. θ Urinary troubles.
Acute prostitis from sitting on a cold, wet stone ; pain and dysuria, which increased to complete retention from swelling of prostate ; pain and soreness in perineum, with sensation as if sitting on a ball.
Ineffectual urging to stool. θ Dysuria.

Urinary organs

Constant pain in region of kidneys ; urine scanty, dark colored, fetid, and very thick, depositing a copious sediment ; obstinate constipation.
Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty urine. θ Urinary difficulty.
Vesical tenesmus, from prolapsus or retroversion.
Pressing fulness in region of bladder. θ Nephritis. θ Cystitis.
Strangury.
Constant disposition to urinate ; as often as every hour or two ; passes only a small quantity.
Urging to urinate after voiding urine. θ Nephritis, etc.
(OBS :) Retention of urine.
Difficult urination, cutting, scalding pain ; sometimes stream is split, at other times small as a thread, or in drops. θ Stricture.
Inability to pass urine without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.
Catarrhal affection of bladder.
Urethritis with purulent or profuse mucous discharge.
Copious, clear, limpid urine.
Great quantities of thick, ropy, bloody mucus in urine.
Color of urine changed from that of brick-dust to green tea.
(In sick :) Greenish-black color of urine. θ Ague.
Urine thick, ropy, of brick color.
Urine scanty, frequently voided with much pressing pain before, scalding and smarting during and after, and vesical tenesmus. θ Dysuria.
Burning, pricking pain during emission of urine. θ Obstinate vesical irritability.
Urine high colored, depositing a copious mucous sediment. θ Dysuria.
Tenderness of anterior portion of vagina (bladder) and urethra. θ Dysuria.
Constant urging to urinate without sufficient discharge ; catheter will not enter ; < when sitting, walks about.
Causes mucous sediment to disappear from urine. θ Cystitis. θ Nephritis. θ Dropsy,
etc.
Scanty urine, with muco-purulent sediment.
(OBS :) Lessens lithic acid or lithates, while it increases renal secretion. θ Urinary difficulty.
Albuminuria occurring during Bright's disease.
(OBS :) Advanced stages of albuminuria.
Hæmaturia from long-lasting gonorrhœa.
Clots of coagulated blood pass with urine.
(OBS :) Chronic nephritis ; diabetes ; gravel.
Dropsy from renal disease.

Male sexual organs

Smarting pain from neck of bladder whole length of urethra to meatus.
Excessive itching and painful irritation of urethra from end of penis to neck of bladder. θ Urinary difficulty.
Burning in urethra.
Atrophy of testicles.
Sensation of swelling in perineum, as if in sitting down a ball was pressing against it. θ Urinary difficulty.
Disease of prostate with waste of prostatic fluid.
(OBS :) Gonorrhœa ; chronic gleet ; syphilis.

Female sexual organs

Prolapsus and slight uterine leucorrhœa. θ Dysuria.
(OBS :) Leucorrhœa.
Vaginal prolapsus.
Rapid atrophy of breasts.
Atrophy or tumors of mamma.
Lump in left breast broke, leaving small, irregular ulcer with ragged, everted edges, sloughing and discharging fetid pus. θ Cancer of breast.
Scirrhous tumor of right breast, about an inch in diameter ; hard, but movable ; nipple drawn in ; a good deal of sharp pain in tumor and in axillæ.
(In sick :) Taken as tea for cancer on breast, three years after cessation of menses, she had soon a slight return, three weeks later a copious flow, and another two weeks later.
Painful tumor of mamma in a young unmarried woman.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Undue secretion or suppression of milk.

Inner chest and lungs

Dull pains under middle of sternum.
Pain in right side, ribs, and integument below axilla.
Tuberculosis of lungs.
(OBS :) Hydrothorax.

Neck and back

A most uncommon sensation in small of back, in region of kidneys ; sometimes on one side of spine, sometimes on other, as if something was fluttering within, without occasioning pain or uneasiness of any sort.
On back and thighs painless dark red pustules which do not suppurate.

Upper limbs

Acute rheumatism of shoulder.
Pain in right arm about upper half of biceps and shoulder joint.
Pain in lower part of left arm.
Œdematous swelling of right arm as in dropsy.
Stinging in swelling on arm.
Swelling in arm feels better when uncovered.
Fistulous ulcer on right forearm, with stinging and crawling.
Paronychia.

Lower limbs

An opening and shutting pain, slow pulsatory, in middle of anterior part of right thigh, very singular, and leaving a severe aching and a tenderness on pressure, whilst lying down.
Pain in flexors of left knee, extending around thigh, immediately above patella ; pain as if limb was severely grasped.
Bruised sensation in calves and thighs.
Cold feet in evening.
(OBS :) Ischias.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : pain in thigh.
On sitting down : as if a ball was pressing against perineum ; urging to urinate <.
Writing : aching below right hypochondrium.
Exertion : < toothache.

Nerves

Inward trembling without mental disturbance. θ Toothache.
Strength improved. θ Liver complaint.
(OBS :) Torpor and debility with kidney affection.
Hysteria.

Sleep

Would have slept well if he had not been constantly waked by calls to make water. θ Vesical irritability.
Great drowsiness.
Sleeps with open mouth, cannot close the jaws. θ Toothache.

Time

At night : cannot close teeth.
Worse in evening.

Temperature and weather

Temperature and Weather
Worse in damp weather.
Shivering after washing with cold water.
Cold water : > toothache.
From sitting on a cold, wet stone : acute prostitis.

Fever

Great heat, irritation and redness, followed by such sharp pain that profuse sweat over whole body ensued.
Hectic fever and night sweats. θ Cystitis, or renal disease.
Flushing of cheeks, with some general heat and accelerated pulse.
(OBS :) Intermittent or low fevers, typhus.

Attacks, periodicity

Every third day, constipated stool.
Every hour : desire to urinate.

Locality and direction

Left : pain in frontal protuberance ; stabbing or shooting pain in eyeball ; itching of eye ; stinging in eye ; pain in superior maxillary bone ; pain in rectum and anus ; lumps in breast ; pain in arm ; pain in knee.
Right : pain in ear ; pain from upper teeth into eye ; aching below hypochondrium ; tumor in breast ; pain in side ; pain in arm ; pain in thigh.
Right to left : sudden stitch in eyes.

Sensations

As if tooth was being gently pulled ; as if a ball was pressing against perineum ; as if sitting on a ball ; as if something was fluttering within small of back ; as if limb was severely grasped.
Pain : in left frontal protuberance ; in eyes ; in right ear ; at lower edge of zygomatic process of left superior maxillary bone ; continuous in upper teeth ; extending into right eye ; in region of kidneys ; in perineum in right side ; in
arms.
Sharp pain : in tumor and axillæ.
Stitch : in front part of both eyes from right to left.
Stabbing : in left eyeball.
Cutting, scalding pain : during urination.
Sticking : in left side of rectum.
Shooting : in left eyeball ; in left side of anus.
Stinging : in left eye ; in ulcer ; in swelling of arm.
Burning, pricking pain : during emission of urine.
Burning : in urethra.
Smarting : of edges of lids and inside of lids ; of tongue ; from neck of bladder to meatus.
Soreness : of palate ; of tongue ; in perineum.
Bruised sensation : in calves and thighs.
Rawness : of upper and back part of palate.
Aching : below right hypochondrium.
Dull pains : under middle of sternum.
Acute rheumatism : of shoulder.
An opening and shutting pain, slow pulsatory : in middle of anterior part of right thigh.
Drawing : in an upper and lower tooth.
Griping : after stool.
Pressing fulness : in region of bladder.
Stiffness : in jaws.
Crawling : in ulcer.
Agreeable sensation : in stomach.
Itching : of edges of eyelids and inside of lids ; of left eye ; of urethra.
Swelling : in perineum.

Tissues

Acts in a very prominent degree on the kidneys.
Abnormal elimination of solid matters in the urine, with atrophy of glandular structures.
Dropsy from renal diseases.
Anasarca and ascites following intermittents.
Glandular enlargement, especially of lymphatics ; enlargement of mesenteric glands. θ Scrofulosis.
Scrofula, with ulcers of an indolent or flabby character.
Tumors in mamma.
Useful in scrofula and chronic, rheumatic, and nephritic affections.
In strangury, chronic gonorrhœa, and catarrh of bladder ; as antilithic, it is said to diminish lithic acid in urine.
In dropsy it is better adapted to cases accompanied by weakness and loss of appetite.
Enlargement of lymphatic glands in neck.
Enlarged lymphatic and mesenteric glands.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : maxillary bone sore ; right thigh tender.

Skin

Redness, vesication, or desquamation of skin.
(OBS :) Ulcers of an indolent and flabby character.
(OBS :) Malignant ulcers.
Ulcer, discharging yellowish ichor.
Crawling and stinging in ulcer.
Jaundice and dropsy.
Eruption of dark red spots without sensation.
Anasarca following intermittents.
(OBS :) Scarlet fever.

Stage of life, constitution

Cachectic and scrofulous individuals.
Broken down constitutions in intemperate subjects ; abdominal and renal dropsies.
A woman, æt. 21 ; cancer of breast.
Woman, æt. 26 ; in a cachectic condition, menses always scant ; scirrhous tumor of breast ; the mother of patient had also had scirrhous tumor of breast, necessitating extirpation of gland.
Plethoric, hysterical young woman ; dysuria.
Married lady, æt. 34, suffering formerly from uterine troubles ; obstinate vesical irritability.
A man, æt. 38 ; stricture of urethra.
Sir James C. ; organic disease of liver with ascites.
Old gentleman ; suffered for years with "the gravel," so called by his physicians.

Relations

Compare : Apocynum ; ( Chimoph . cured ascites and swelling of legs, where Apoc . had been of benefit but did not cure), Coffea
( Chimoph . cured toothache, relieved by cold water, when Coffea failed), Ledum, Rhodod . and Kalmia , all Ericaceæ.
(OBS :) Recommended as a substitute for Uva ursi .