Urtica Urens

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

MAMMÆ.
Genito - urinary organs.
Liver.
Spleen.

WORSE

Cool: Moist air. Bathing.
Yearly.
Burns.
Stings.
Snow air (Sep.).

Stinging or stinging - burning. Urinous odor of body. Uric acid diathesis. Hæmorrhage. .................... White stool. Pinworms. Acrid urine, causing itching. Lithiasis. Swelled mammæ. Absence of milk. Fever at night; with vertigo and general pulsation. Acute gout. Itching-burning; on genitals. Uric acid intoxication. Pruritus. Nettlerash. Prickly heat. Hives; elevated; with rheumatism; after shell fish; with pinworms. Angio-neurotic œdema. Sweatiness. Vesicles.

Related: Form. Nat-m. Ocim.

Urtica Urens across the other classic books

Urtica Urens appears in 8 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.
“Urtica urens, L. Natural order , Urticaceæ. Commom name , Nettle. Preparation , Tincture of the plant. Authorities. All day a fulness of head and giddiness, like a rush of blood to the head (eighth day), 3. Fulness of head; sensation of rush of blood and dulness (twentieth day), 3. A dull aching pain in the head…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Stinging-nettle A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis . Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish . Symptoms return at the same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination. Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“JOINTS, arthritic complaints, etc. WHEALS, hives, etc.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Small Stinging-nettle. [Urtica dioica, the Common Nettle, has similar if not identical properties.] N. O. Urticaceæ. Tincture of the fresh plant in flower. Agalactia / Anæmia / Bee-stings / Burns / Calculus, prevention of / Deltoid, rheumatism of / Dysentery / Erysipelas, vesicular / Erythema / Gout / Gravel /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Nettle. Urticaceæ. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant. Proved by Coxe, Jr., and Shaw, reported by Neidhard, Hale's New Rem. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Sealding of arm , Wurmb, B. J. H., vol. 19, p. 146 ; Helminthiasis , Richards, H. W., Apr., 1870, p. 84 ; Richards, H. W., vol. 7, p. 260 ; Itching of scrotum …”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Hæmoptysis, from violent exertion of the lungs. Dysentery. Insufficiency, or entire want of secretion of milk after parturition. Nettle-rash. Burns.”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: dwarf nettle. Nettle-rash, with intolerable itching and burning (G.). Urticaria alternating with rheumatism (alternating with asthma- Calad.) (K.). Urticaria, worse after bathing (Phos.), after violent exercise (Con., Nat-M., Psor.), and from warmth (Apis, Kali-I., Nat-M., Puls.) (K.). URTICARIA, DURING…”

Urtica Urens in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Urtica Urens in 177 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (40), SKIN (32), CHEST (13), FEMALE GENITALIA (13), HEAD (13).

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - urticaria - rheumatism,during
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Upper Limbs - nettles,as from
SKIN - BURNING - nettles,as from
SKIN - ITCHING - burning - as from nettles
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - urticaria - warmth and exercise
SKIN - ITCHING - warm - on becoming
SKIN - STINGS of insects
CHEST - MILK - disappearing
SKIN - ITCHING - night
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Fingers
SKIN - STINGING
MALE GENITALIA - ITCHING - Scrotum
SKIN - ITCHING - biting
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - urticaria
SKIN - ITCHING - stinging
SKIN - ITCHING
SKIN - BURNING - sleep,after
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - urticaria - alternating - with rheumatism
STOMACH - VOMITING - urticaria,during - from suppression of
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - itching

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