• Spleen affections
• Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like symptoms
• Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching and oedema
• A remedy for agalactia and LITHIASIS
• ANTIDOTES ILL-EFFECTS OF EATING SHELLFISH
• Symptoms return at the same time every year

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Stinging nettle, Dwarf nettle
Family: Urticaceae
Prover: Introduced by Fiard and proved by Coxe
Diathesis: Gout and uric acid diathesis

Introduction and History: Urtica has long since been used as a remedy for anaemia, rheumatism (when applied locally), and for provoking increased urine and expelling stones from the kidneys.

Ailments From: Burns, bee stings, eating shellfish, suppressed milk,
suppressed nettle rash.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Gout. Uric acid diathesis.
2. Rheumatism with urticaria-like eruptions.
3. Pain in right deltoid muscle with great soreness, lameness of muscles. Weakness in general; restlessness.
4. Afraid to go to sleep, due to intense burning after sleep with continued fever (Clarke).
5. Fever in gout, tropical. Pulsation all over the body, giddiness, sensation of falling down (forwards) with spleen pain, headache, mainly at night (Clarke).
6. Lump in left breast. Complete absence of milk after confinement without apparent cause.
7. Angioneurotic oedema. Urticaria. Itching blotches with central white spot and red areola with burning and stinging pains.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen: Diarrhoea. Chronic disease of large intestines characterized by excessive secretion of mucous.

Male: Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female: DIMINISHED SECRETION OF MILK. Uterine haemorrhage. Acrid and excoriating leucorrhoea. PRURITUS VULVAE, WITH STINGING, ITCHING and oedema. Arrests flow of milk after weaning. Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities: Pain in acute gout; pain in ankles, wrists, deltoid.

Skin: ITCHING BLOTCHES. URTICARIA, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettle rash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle rash. Burn confined to skin. Urticaria nodosa (Bov). Erythema, with burning and stinging. BURNS AND SCALDS. CHICKENPOX (Dulc). Angioneurotic oedema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.

Fever: General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From snow-air, water, cool moist air, touch, lying on arm, annually, after sleep (Clarke).

Amelioration: Lying down.

Remedy Relationships

Antidote to: Apis (bee stings).

Antidoted by: Rumx.

Comparison

Rheumatism of right deltoid: Sang.

Gout, fever, spleen affected: Nat-m.

Dropsy, uraemia, gravel, gout: Ur-ac, Urea, Urin.

Quercus fever, vertigo, spleen pain: Querc.

Spleen affections: Cean.

Secretion of milk: Ric, Puls, Lac-c, Medus, Nat-m.

Urticaria: Apis, Nat-m, Medus, Astac, Hom-am.

Uric acid conditions: Form.

Potency: Tincture and lower potencies.

Repetition: May be repeated frequently.

Therapeutic Value: Agalactia, Angioneurotic oedema, Ascarides, Bee stings, Burns, Deltoid rheumatism, Enteritis, Enuresis, Fevers especially at night, Gout (acute) with fever, Haemorrhages, Lithiasis, Neuritis, Peritonitis followed by effusion, Prevention of calculus, Spleen affections, Uremia, Uric acid diathesis, Urticaria nodosa, Worms -pin worms.