CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA

  
CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA
Pipsissewa

Acts principally on kidneys, and genito-urinary tract; affects also
lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mammæ. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women
with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and
progressive cataracts.

One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder
affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty urine, and
loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.

Head.–

Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the
light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.

Mouth.–

Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better
cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.

Urinary.–

Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive,
containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding
during micturition, and straining afterwards. Must strain
before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling
of a ball in perineum (Cann ind). Fluttering
in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate
without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.

Female.–

Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes.
Painful tumor of mammæ, not ulcerated, with undue
secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large
breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp
pain through it.

Male.–

Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus.
Gleet. Loss of prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and irritation.

Skin.–

Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargements.

Extremities.–

Feeling of a band above left knee.

Modalities.–

Worse, in
damp weather; from sitting on cold stones or pavements; left side.

Relationship.–

Compare: Chimaph
maculata (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm
pits); Uva; Ledum; Epigoea.

Dose.–

Tincture, to third attenuation.