Equisetum Hyemale equis.

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

GENITO-URINARY TRACT.

Worse

At close of urination. Pressure.

General

Aching, full, tender bladder. Cystitis. Prickling, burning, or cutting in urethra. Dysuria. NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; with irritable bladder. Dribbling urine. Mucus in urine.

Related

Complementary: Sil. Related: Canth.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Sever dull pain in the bladder, as from distension, not > after urinating. Frequent and intolerable urging to urinate, with severe pain at close of urination (Berb., Sars., Thuja). Constant desire to urinate; large quantity of clear, watery urine, without > (scanty, a few drops, Apis, Canth.). Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating. Paralysis of bladder in old women. Enuresis diurna et nocturna: profuse watery urine, where habit is the only ascertainable cause.

Relations

Compare: Apis, Canth., Fer. p., Puls., Squilla.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Scouring-rush (EQUISETUM)

General

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

Urinary

Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by 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-mares 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, extending to lower abdomen, with urgent desire to micturate. Right lumbar region painful.

Modalities

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

Relationship

Compare: Hydrangea; Ferr phos; Apis; Canth; Linaria; Chimaph. Equisitum contains silica in appreciable quantity.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency. A decoction, teaspoonful doses, or the tincture in hot water, is found useful to allay irritability of urinary tract, calculus, dysuria, etc; also for pleuritic effusion and dropsy.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

This remedy is sometimes successful in cases which are not relieved by Cantharis. There is as much inclination to urinate as with Cantharis, and there is pain in the bladder, as if too full of urine, which must be voided in order to get relief from both pain and pressure, but urinating does not satisfy and he must soon go again. There is burning in the urethra when urinating, but there are larger quantities of urine discharged than with Cantharis, which has characteristically very small amounts, but often repeated, even but a few drops at a time. Equisetum, like Chimaphila, sometimes shows excess of mucus, and it is also very useful in enuresis. Both Chimaphila and Equisetum need further proving to draw out their characteristic. Equisetum sometimes has severe pain at the close of urination. (See Berberis, Natrum mur., Sarsaparilla, Thuja).

Frequent inclination to urinate, with pain in bladder as if too full, which must be relieved; normal quantity at a time, sometimes excess of urine.

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

Equisetum hyemale. Scouring Rush. A rush growing in damp soil in Europe and America. N. O. Equisetaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant chopped and pounded to a pulp.

Clinical

Cystitis. Dropsy. Enuresis. General paralysis. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Gravel. Hæmaturia. Urine, retention of.

Characteristics

The chief effects of Equisetum are found in the urinary organs. Pain in the kidneys (especially right), in the bladder and urinary passages. Constant desire to urinate, and passes large quantities of clear, light-coloured urine without relief. Pain in bladder as from distension. Retention and dysuria; especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement. Enuresis. Wets bed at night; when he dreams he always sees a crowd of people. Equis . has: Severe dull pain which does not lessen after urination; irritation of the bladder, especially in women. Linaria has enuresis, with frequent painful urging to urinate, causing the patient to rise at night (Farrington). It relieved loss of control over bladder and rectum in a case of general paralysis. Carcinoma uteri is said to have been cured by it. Pain in sacro-iliac joints. < From pressure or contact; moving; sitting. Eating > pain in temples; lying on back > pain in back: continued motion > pains in back and knees.

Relations

Compare: Apis, Cannabis, Canthar., Fer. phos., Puls.; Canth. comes closest; there is less bleeding, tenesmus, scalding, and fibrinous flakes than with Canthar., but more mucus.

Mind

Very irritable and easily fatigued.

Head

Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit. ─ Headache with heat of face without redness. ─ Constrictive feeling across forehead. ─ Sticking, darting pains changing locality. ─ Constriction of whole scalp, as if drawn tightly over whole skull; continual desire to wrinkle up forehead. ─ Skin over frontal bone very tight, with feeling of skin continuing to contract.

Eyes

Severe pain in roof of r. orbit. ─ Sharp pain in outer angle of r. eye.

Ears

Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind l. mastoid. ─ Confused feeling in ears. ─ Confusion of sounds; confused noises; fearful rumbling.

Face

Face flushed, feeling of heat. ─ As if blood pressed into face. ─ Heat and burning without redness.

Throat

Sharp sticking in throat.

Stomach

Excessive hunger; appetite greatly increased throughout the proving.

Abdomen

Distended feeling. ─ Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder, with frequent desire to urinate; the desire to urinate, which is constant, is not > by urinating. ─ Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool, not urgent, early in morning; three stools during the morning, quite thin; during the whole day frequent inclination for stool with slight pain in bowels; no diarrhœa. ─ Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus. ─ Sharp pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus (11 a.m.). ─ Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium; extending to middle line.

Stool and Anus

Smarting in anus during and after stool. ─ Stool with great flatulence. ─ Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude, followed by smarting in anus and a feeling as if some fæces still remained.

Urinary Organs

Slight pain in r. kidney, then in l., extending down l. side of sacrum. ─ Dull pain in r. kidney, with urgent desire to urinate; had urinated only a few minutes before and now passed four ounces of clear light-coloured urine. ─ Pain in bladder as from distension. ─ Severe dull pain in bladder not > by urinating; continued some days after taking the drug, and caused him to fear inflammation of the bladder. ─ Tenderness in region of bladder, and r. side of lower abdomen, extending upward from groin; same but less marked l. side. ─ Pain and tenderness in bladder region with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords. ─ Excessive burning in urethra while urinating. ─ Sharp, cutting pain in urethra. ─ Pricking in urethra a short distance back from meatus. ─ Biting itching in meatus < scratching. ─ Great desire to urinate but only a small quantity passes. ─ Urgent desire to urinate with prickling and soreness of meatus from contact and pressure. ─ Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. ─ Profuse urination, with burning in urethra and sharp pain at root of penis. ─ Later passes smaller quantities and darker. ─ Passed small amount but felt as if he had not urinated for hours; the amount grew less each time but the desire increased. ─ Urine cloudy. ─ Great excess of mucus on standing. ─ Enuresis, nocturnal and diurnal.

Male Sexual Organs

Violent erections; in the afternoon. ─ Soreness of testicles and cords; < l.

18, 19. Chest and Heart. ─ Sharp stitch in l. breast one inch to l. and over nipple. ─ Sharp pain in region of heart < by inspiration.

Back

Pains in back esp. while sitting, > lying on back and walking. ─ Heavy sensation like a lump in r. lumbar region. ─ Severe rheumatic pains in region of sacro-lumbar joint, and through l. hip-joint extending down outer side of l. leg, ending in front three inches above knee.

Upper Limbs

Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens, < by least motion or contact. ─ Pain in r. shoulder to middle of upper arm. ─ Pain in l. shoulder with shivering over body and great heat of head.

Lower Limbs

Pain in r. hip-joint and near knee-joint. ─ Knees very weak on least exertion. ─ Dull, heavy pain under l. patella. ─ On awakening, sharp pain inner side of l. knee, > after moving about a short time.

Sleep

Very sleepy, eyelids heavy. ─ Sleep much disturbed by tiresome dreams of many persons, places, and things.

Fever

Creeping chills beginning below and creeping up back.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Scouring Rush. Equisetaceæ.
A rush, growing in damp soil in Europe and North America.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant, chopped and pounded to a pulp.
A popular remedy for dropsy, suppression of urine, gravel, hæmaturia, gonorrhœa and gleet.
Proved by Smith, De Korth, and Chapin. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 204 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
Enuresis of children . Hom. Ztg., vol. 101, p. 23 ; Enuresis , Mitchell, Organon, vol. 2, p. 233 ; Dysuria (Infusion), Marsden, Hale's Therap., p. 223 ; Enuresis (20 cases mentioned), Carmichael, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 392 ; General paralysis , Heath, Hahn. Monthly, Sept., 1877.

Scrobiculum and stomach

(OBS :) Dyspepsia, with obstinate acidity of stomach.

Urinary organs

Dull pain in region of right kidney, with urgent desire to urinate.
Pain and tenderness in region of bladder, with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords.
Tenderness in region of bladder on pressure.
Tenderness in region of bladder, and right side of lower abdomen, extending upward from groin ; same in left but more on right, in forenoon.
Pain in bladder, as from distension.
Severe and dull pain in bladder, not > after urinating.
Dysuria of women, with extreme and frequent urging to urinate, with severe pain, especially immediately after urine is voided.
Sharp, cutting pain in urethra.
Excessive burning in urethra while urinating.
Extreme and frequent urging to urinate, with severe pain, especially immediately after urine is voided.
Frequent desire to urinate, during afternoon, with biting sensation in urethra during and after urination.
Constant desire to urinate, and pass large quantities of clear light-colored urine without relief.
Profuse flow of urine night and day, pain after urination ; involuntary urination without pain.
Enuresis diurna et nocturna of children.
Enuresis nocturna, when there is no tangible cause, except a habit.
Obliged to get up several times during night to urinate.
Great desire to urinate, but only a small amount passed each time.
Amount of urine grows less each time he urinates, but the desire increases.
Passed small amount of urine, but felt as though had not urinated for hours.
Urine high-colored and scanty.
Urine on standing shows great excess of mucus, otherwise normal.
Painful urination with albuminous urine.
Cystitis.
General paralysis in an old woman, in whom control over stools and urine, long completely lost, was rapidly restored.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Dysuria, especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement.

Sleep

Wets bed at night ; when he dreams, he always sees crowds of people. (Enuresis)

Time

Day : profuse flow of urine.
Forenoon : more tenderness of abdomen right side.
Afternoon : frequent urging to urinate.
Night : profuse flow of urine ; obliged to get up several times to urinate ; wets bed.

Locality and direction

Left : tenderness of lower abdomen.
Right : dull pain in region of kidney ; tenderness of side of lower abdomen.

Sensations

Pain : in bladder.
Severe pain : in bladder.
Sharp cutting pain : in urethra.
Biting sensation : in urethra.
Burning : in urethra.
Soreness : of testicle.
Tenderness : in region of bladder ; right side of lower abdomen extending upward from groin.
Dull pain : in region of right kidney ; in region of bladder ; in bladder.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : tenderness of bladder.

Relations

Compare in bladder troubles Apis, Cannab., Canthar., Ferr. phos., Pulsat .