- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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.”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MAMMÆ. Genito - urinary organs. Liver. Spleen. 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…”
- 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 /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Nettle-rash with intolerable itching and burning, with white spots. Diarrhœa with the same spots.”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“{Stinging Nettle.) Botanical Description. — A well-known perennial herbaceous plant, growing both in Europe and the United States, by the roadsides, in hedges and gardens. The stinging, or irritating property, is caused by the free formic acid, which is found in the little hairs, which are very sharp. Officinal…”
- 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 …”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“URTICA. Urtka urnu, L., small stinging-nettle ; and other species of Nat. Ord. Urticaat. 1. Prcvingi, — i. Dr. Redman Coxe, jun., proved i, dil. of Uurens, talcing 3 times daily 12 dr. on June ist and and, 15 on 3rd, and 20 on 4th. 2nd. — Considerable burning in throat, with frequent hawking up of frothy mucus …”
- 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…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“IN the country it is difficult to get away from stinging nettles. We call them weeds: we belabour them with sticks: we cut them down with bill-hooks: we dig them up: and in spite of the old saw, “Cut them in June And they come again soon, Cut them in July, You cut them down truly” they are always with us. WHY? Is it…”
