Solidago virga
Golden-rod
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 598
Inhalation of the pollen has caused hemorrhage from the lungs in phthisis. Repeated colds of tuberculosis (2x). Feeling of weakness, chilliness alternating with heat; naso-pharyngeal catarrh, burning in throat, pains in limbs and thoracic oppression. Pain in region of kidneys, with dysuria. Kidneys sensitive to pressure. Bright’s disease. Hay-fever when Solidago is the exciting cause. Here give 30th potency or higher.
Eyes p. 599
Injected, watery, burning, stinging.
Nose p. 599
Nares irritated with abundant mucus secretion ; paroxysms of sneezing.
Stomach p. 599
Bitter taste, especially at night; coated tongue with very scanty brown and sour urine.
Respiratory p. 599
Bronchitis, cough with much purulent expectoration, blood-streaked; oppressed breathing. Continuous dyspnœa. Asthma, with nightly dysuria.
Female p. 599
Uterine enlargement, organ pressed down upon the bladder. Fibroid tumors.
Urine p. 599
Scanty, reddish brown, thick sediment, dysuria, gravel. Difficult and scanty. Albumen, blood, and slime in urine. Pain in kidneys extend forward to abdomen and bladder. [Berb.] Clear and offensive urine. Sometimes makes the use of the catheter unnecessary.
Back p. 599
Backache of congested kidneys. [Senec. aur.]
Skin p. 599
Blotches, especially on lower extremities; dich. Exanthema of lower extremities, with urinary disturbances, dropsy and threatened gangrene.
Relationship p. 599
Iodoform 2x antidotes poison of Golden-rod. Arsenic. Agrimonia. (Pain in region of kindeys.)
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