Uva Ursi

Bearberry

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

Urinary symptoms most important. Cystitis, with bloody urine. Uterine hæmorrhage. Chronic vesical irritation, with pain, tenesmus, and catarrhal discharges. Burning after the discharge of slimy urine. Pyelitis . Calculous inflammation. Dyspnœa, nausea, vomiting, pulse small and irregular. Cyanosis. Urticaria without itching.

Urinary

Frequent urging, with severe spasms of bladder; burning and tearing pain. Urine contains blood, pus, and much tenacious mucus, with clots in large masses. Involuntary; green urine. Painful dysuria.

Relationship

Compare: Arbutin (a crystallized glucoside of Uva; found also in Kalmia, Gaultheria and other genera of the family of Eriaceæ ; given in doses of 3 to 8 grains with sugar three times a day. Used as an urinary antiseptic and diuretic). Arctosphylos manzanita (acts on renal and reproductive organs. Gonorrhœa, vesical catarrh, diabetes menorrhagia. Tincture of leaves). Vaccinum myrtillus -Huckleberries--(dysentery; typhoid, keeps intestines aseptic and prevents absorption and reinfection).

Dose

Tincture, five to thirty drops. In pyelitis a trituration of the leaves.

Uva Ursi across the other classic books

Uva Ursi appears in 6 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.
“Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. Natural order , Ericaceæ. Common name , Bearberry. Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the dried leaves and fruit. Authorities. 1 to 3 , from Noack and Trinks. Slight vertiginous affection of the head (after thirty minutes), 4d. Slight headache continued till near the close of the…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Bearberry. N. O. Ericaceæ. Tincture or trituration of dried leaves and fruit. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered in autumn. Cystitis / Dysuria / Hæmaturia / Urinary affections A few experiments have been made with Uva, and these have seemed to accentuate its traditional reputation as an…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Bearberry. Ericaceæ. The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves gathered in Autumn. Provings by Hahnemann, Heberden, Sauvauges, Noak and Trinks ; Mitchell, Essay ; and Bartram. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Cysto-blennorrhœa , Genzke, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 56 ; Dysuria , Hull, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 350 ; Vesical…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Painful micturition, with burning. Hæmaturia; slimy, purulent urine.”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: bear berry. This agent is an astringent, tonic and mild diuretic (Bl.). The urine contains pus and blood (Hep., Merc., Sil.) (Bl.). With straining discharge of tenacious mucus and large clots of blood (Bl.). Constant urging to urinate (Canth.) (Bl.). DYSURIA AND STRANGURY (Apis, Bell.) (Bl.). CYSTITIS…”

Uva Ursi in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Uva Ursi in 29 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in BLADDER (11), URINE (7), GENERALITIES (5), URETHRA (2), FACE (1).

URINE - SEDIMENT - purulent
BLADDER - CATARRH,muco-pus
URETHRA - PAIN - burning - urination, - during
URINE - BURNING (includes Hot)
GENERALITIES - SUN,from exposure to
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - painful
GENERALITIES - WARM - agg.
URINE - SEDIMENT - mucous
BLADDER - URINATION - dysuria
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent
BLADDER - SPASM - urination, - before
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - constant - prolapsus of uterus,during
BLADDER - PAIN - evening
URETHRA - CLOGGED by pieces of coagulated mucus
NOSE - PAIN in - rawness - coryza,during
URINE - MUDDY
URINE - SEDIMENT - bloody
BLADDER - SPASM
BLADDER - PAIN - burning

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