Pareira Brava

Virgin-vine

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

(CHONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM)

The urinary symptoms are most important. Useful in renal colic, prostatic affections, and catarrh of bladder. Sensation as if bladder were distended, with pain. Pain going down thigh .

Urinary

Black, bloody, thick mucous urine. Constant urging; great straining; pain down thighs during efforts to urinate . Can emit urine only when he goes on his knees, pressing head firmly against the floor. Feeling of the bladder being distended and neuralgic pain in the anterior crural region. ( Staph .) Dribbling after micturition. ( Selen .) Violent pain in glans penis . Itching along urethra; urethritis, with prostatic trouble. Inflammation of urethra; becomes almost cartilaginous.

Relationship

Compare: Parietaria (renal calculi; nightmare, patient dreaming of being buried alive); Chimaphila (chronic catarrhal congestion following cystitis; acute prostatitis; feeling of a ball in perineum when sitting); Fabiana , see Pichi (dysuria; post-gonorrhœal complications; gravel; vesical catarrh); Uva; Hydrang; Berber; Ocim; Hedeom .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Pareira Brava across the other classic books

Pareira Brava appears in 7 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.

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CALCULI, atheroma, etc.”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Genito-urinary organs. Left side. On hands and knees. Must get on hands and knees to urinate; pains go into glans and thighs. Bursting feeling in bladder or glans. Dysuria. Urine contains thick, stringy, white mucus or red sand. Renal colic. Enlarged prostate. Related: Berb. Med.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“brava. Cessampelos pareira. Velvet Leaf. Virgin Vine. N. O. Menispermaceæ. Tincture of fresh root. Bladder, catarrh of / Calculus / Dysuria / Gonorrhœa / Leucorrhœa / Prostate, enlargement of / Renal colic / Urine, slimy Pareira is a climbing plant, a native of the West Indies, Central America, and India. The root has…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Virgin Vine. Menispermaceæ. A climbing plant, native of the West Indies and South America. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root. Proving by Foss, Med. Adv., Dec., 1885, from A. H. Z., vol. 113, p. 71. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Renal colic (six cases), Turrel, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 442 ; B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 591 …”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Micturition difficult, with much pressing and straining only in drops, with the sensation as if the urine should be emitted in large quantities. Violent pains in the bladder, and at times in the back; the left testicle is painfully drawn up; pain in the thighs, shooting down into the toes and soles of the feet…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Constant urging to urinate; goes down on his knees with straining; pain runs down thighs.”

Pareira Brava in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Pareira Brava in 81 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in BLADDER (28), URINE (11), KIDNEYS (10), URETHRA (10), MALE GENITALIA (8).

URINE - SEDIMENT - renal calculi
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Penis - glans
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - painful
KIDNEYS - PAIN - cutting - ureters
URINE - SEDIMENT - sand - red (brick-dust)
BLADDER - TENESMUS
URINE - SEDIMENT - mucous
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - constant
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine
BLADDER - URINATION - dysuria
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Leg - urinate,on attempting to
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - tearing - penis - glans - urination - during
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burnings - Penis - glans - urination, - during
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - old people,in - men with enlarged prostate
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - tearing - penis - glans
URINE - SEDIMENT - gelatinous
KIDNEYS - PAIN - ureters, - left side
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling (by drops) - retention,with
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burnings - Penis - glans
URINE - COLOR, - black

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