Eryngium Aquaticum

Button Snake-root

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

A remedy for urinary disorders. Strangury, etc, with nervous erethism. Thick, yellow mucous discharges . Influenza. Uridrosis, sweat of urinous odor in evening.

Respiratory

Cough, with sense of constriction. Smarting in throat and larynx.

Urinary

Tenesmus of bladder and urethra. Difficult and frequent micturition. Pain behind pubes. Spasmodic stricture. Renal colic ( Pareira; Calc ). Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs. Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate gland, or from pressure of uterus.

Male

Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Seminal emissions without erections, with lassitude ( Dioscor; Phos ac ).

Relationship

Compare: Conium; Cannab; Dios; Ocim; Clemat .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Eryngium Aquaticum across the other classic books

Eryngium Aquaticum appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“(Eryngium aquaticum, Linn., in part only, E. aquaticum, β. Linn., belongs to E. Virginianum, Lam.) E. yuccæfolium, Michx., comprises our true species. Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common names , Button Snakeroot, etc. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Emotional. Very sober and depressed in spirits…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Button Snake-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh root. Anus, prolapse of / Conjunctivitis / Constipation / Cough / Diarrhœa / Dropsy / Gleet / Gonorrhœa / Hæmorrhoids / Influenza / Laryngitis / Leucorrhœa / Renal colic / Sclerotitis / Sexual weakness / Strabismus / Spermatorrhœa / Urine, incontinence of / Wounds”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Button Snakeroot. Umbelliferæ. An indigenous plant, growing in low, wet places ; flowers in August. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root. Provings by C. H. McClelland, Coggswell and Jones. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 213 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Incontinence of urine , Barenburg, Organon, vol. 3, p…”

Eryngium Aquaticum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Eryngium Aquaticum in 116 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EAR (22), BLADDER (12), EYE (11), EXTREMITIES (10), MALE GENITALIA (8).

BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - constant
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - constant - night
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent - night and day
EYE - INFLAMMATION - conjunctiva - granular
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly) - erections,without
PROSTATE GLAND - EMISSION prostatic fluid
BLADDER - INFLAMMATION
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - night
KIDNEYS - INFLAMMATION
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling (by drops)
URETHRA - PAIN - burning
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly)
URETHRA - PAIN - burning - urination, - during
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - Lower Limbs - walking,while
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Testes - afternoon - 2 p.m.
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burnings - Penis - urination - behind,during urination
VISION - DIM - occiput,with pain in,extending to eye
EYE - PAIN - aching - warmth amel.

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