+ Bright's disease
Ammonium benz Am-be
Eyelids swollen, face bloated, head heavy and stupid; soreness in region of right kidney when pressing back against something; pain across sacrum with urgency to a stool; urine scanty, smoky.
Apis mell Apis
SECONDARY MORBUS BRIGHTII, A GENUINE CATARRH OF THE URINARY CANALICULI; dropsy may be general, but usually worse on eyelids and in upper part of body, with thirstlessness and absence of sweat; anasarca with shining white skin, ascites with great soreness and sensitiveness of the abdominal walls; cerebral oedema; pericardial effusion; oedema of lungs, with great dyspnoea and suffocative constriction about throat; pain in renal region, soreness on pressure and when stooping; frequent sudden attacks of pain along ureters, urine suppressed or scanty, high- colored, foetid, containing albumen, blood- corpuscles, uriniferous tubes and epithelium. Great debility; NO ANGUISH OR FEAR OF DEATH, AS IN ARS.; especially after scarlatina or diphtheria.
Argentum nit Arg-n
Gastro-intestinal irritation, dull, passive, persistent headache, (>) from firm pressure; confusion of thought; giddiness with lassitude from fatty degeneration of liver and kidneys; haematuria, epithelial casts in urine.
Arsenicum album Ars
PRIMARY CASES, TUBAL NEPHRITIS, Oedema begins with puffiness of eyes and swelling of feet and ends with general anasarca; great dyspnoea from cardiac trouble, either from defective carrying of the blood through lungs and system generally or from dropsy in chest, hydrothorax and hydropericardium; suffocative spells, (<) at night and on lying down; skin cool and clammy, while internally patient feels burning hot; urine highly albuminous with waxy and fatty casts; little blisters on legs burst and serum oozes from the dropsical limbs; with their tense, waxy, shining skin; exhausting diarrhoea; burning thirst with intolerance of water; extraordinary restlessness, especially after midnight, pulse intermittent, quick, weak, slow, tense; progressive emaciation and debility.
Arsenicum hydr Ars-h
DEADNESS OF VARIOUS PARTS; hair rapidly loses its color; great fatigue and weakness, prostration on walking, urine suppressed, followed by vomiting; haematuria and haemorrhages from mucous membranes.
Arsenicum iod Ars-i
MORBUS BRIGHTII FROM CARDIAC DISTURBANCES AND PERIODICAL EFFUSIONS, as it reduces the amount of albumen in the urine; constant headache, sallow features, enlarged spleen; heaviness in limbs with weariness of whole body; emaciation and prostration; unable to exercise in any weather.
Aurum Aur
INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; CONTRACTED KIDNEY, marked cardiac hypertrophy; mercurial and syphilitic cachexia, swelling of liver, caries. RENAL TROUBLES SECONDARY TO CARDIAC AFFECTIONS, causing a decided albuminous crisis, passing over into hydraemia; at first the urine is increased in quantity, later it becomes scanty and albuminous; bloated, shining face; vertigo as if he would fall to the left side; bruised pain in head confusion in thinking, dyspnoea, palpitations.
Brachyglottis repens Brach
(Puka-Puka). Albuminuria depending on nervous disturbance, as from overwork, gradually causing renal disorganization.
Berberis vulg Berb
Gouty or rheumatic diathesis; burning in back; urine of dark, bloody appearance and largely supplied with albumen; tough mucus in mouth and throat; constant nausea and loss of sleep; frequent palpitation, slow, weak pulse, painful pressure and tension in the lumbar and renal regions, with sensation of numbness, puffiness, warmth, stiffness and lameness, extending at times into the lower limbs, especially indicated in persons addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages.
Bryonia Bry
Urine almost dark-brown, darker and more scanty than usual; effusion in chest with sticking pain under sternum; frequent catching for breath immediately before paroxysm of coughing; suffocative attacks, more after midnight; asthmatic breathing, (<) from least motion; breathing hurried, quick, anxious, from stitches in sternum, compelling him to sit up.
Calcarea ars Calc-ar
Great depression of mind with great anxiety and restlessness, head hot, temples oedematous, eyes have little brilliancy, face swollen, more about eyes, features pale and sunken; lips and tongue dry, but drinking causes pain in abdomen and diarrhoea; distention of stomach and abdomen; great sensitiveness to pressure in renal region; must urinate every hour and urine full of albumen; beat of heart very strong; pulse rapid and easily compressed; oedema of hands and legs; great weariness and drowsiness; collapse.
Calcarea carb Calc
ALBUMINURIA FOLLOWING ERUPTIVE DISEASES, especially variola; pressing pains in kidneys and loins or aching when riding; frequent urination, also at night; anxious sensation about heart and palpitations from slightest exercise; fluttering or heart and faintness; fatty degeneration of heart; dyspnoea (<) after walking and ascending, even turning in bed puts her out of breath; difficult breathing, awaking with anxiety; enlargement or induration of liver and spleen.
Cannabis ind Cann-i
SEQUELAE OF PERICARDITIS; palpitations which awaken from sleep; pressing pain in heart, with dyspnoea, all night: oppression of chest, with deep, labored breathing, (<) when ascending; trembling with mental weakness; dimness of vision; countenance dejected and careworn.
Cantharis Canth
Early stage, especially when occurring from blows on the loins, or sudden changes of temperature; scanty secretion of high- colored urine, with scalding irritation in bladder and urethra; aching pains across the loins, or in the testicles; strangury, haematuria, erotism, serous exudations, burning pains, paraplegia; dysentery, with shreddy scrapings from the intestines; PLEURISY. Urine contains an excessive quantity of swollen epithelial cells, and coagulates rapidly under heat and nitric acid. Post- scarlatinal nephritis, threatening uraemia; more renal desquamation than blood (Tereb., more blood than casts).
Carbolic acid Carb-ac
POST-SCARLATINAL NEPHRITIS; EXHAUSTION, pale face; cold clammy sweat, loss of appetite; smoky urine, dark-green, almost black; desire for stimulants.
Chelidonium Chel
INTERCURRENT PNEUMONIA (Cann., pericarditis); short and quick breathing, with oppression and anxiety, as if he would choke; urine red and turbid, dark-yellow; constant pain under inferior angle of right scapula, extending into chest and stomach, causing nausea and vomiting; severe palpitations; weariness and lassitude; migraine with lethargy; weight in lower limbs; neuralgia in limbs.
Coccus cacti Coc-c
Palliates the suffocative distress of breathing and the cough arising from the crowding of water against the diaphragm, as in the last stage with ascites; fits of absence of mind or unconsciousness; headache in forehead and temple; face deep red; sweetish taste, little appetite, thirst; unbearable abdominal
pains at night; urging to urinate, urine turbid; general lassitude. Pulmonary congestions during acute desquamative nephritis, with profuse mucous secretion and suffocative spasmodic cough.
Colchicum Colch
FIRST STAGE, flatulent distention of stomach; stools watery, jellylike, mucous or bloody, and mingled with a stringy substance; gouty pains in joints, urine dark and scanty, discharged in drops and depositing a whitish sediment; URINE AS BLACK AS INK, CONTAINING BLOOD, and loaded with albumen and tube-casts, smoky in appearance; pericarditis rheumatica with violent cutting, stinging pain in chest, with great oppression and dyspnoea; sensation as if the chest or heat were squeezed by a tight bandage; relapses from talking cold in damp weather or from suppressed perspiration; PATIENT CANNOT STAND UP STRAIGHT OR LIE DOWN WITH STRETCHED - OUT LEGS WITHOUT CAUSING PAIN IN RENAL REGION and vomiting, especially in albuminuria of pregnancy.
Crotalus Crot-h
Torpor, sluggishness and quiet indifference; RETINITIS albuminuria; pale face as in faintness; nephritis albuminosa in pregnancy or form toxaemia, urine dark, smoky from admixture o fluid blood; passive renal congestion, when from embarrassed circulation, as from obstructive heart disease, asthma, chronic bronchitis, etc., especially during its course, or as sequelae of zymotic diseases; tremulous weakness all over, muscles refuse their service.
Cuprum met Cupr
Convulsions of the head, which is drawn to one side; purplish-red swelling of face, twitching of limbs and biting of tongue; convulsions alternate with loquacious delirium, respiratory muscles affected by spasms, face and tongue turn blue; cold breath; DROPS FROM HYPERTROPHY OF HEART, urine containing albumen and renal elements; URAEMIC CONVULSIONS, vomiting, dyspnoea, suffocative cough; slow wasting away of the muscles; ascites; syphilitic hepatitis and cirrhosis hepatitis.
Digitalis Dig
GRANULAR DEGENERATION OF THE KIDNEYS; hydropericardium; scanty urination, urine albuminous, thick, blackish, urinary solids absolutely diminished; nephritis after scarlatina, with anasarca and oedema of lungs; dropsy with suppression of urine, CONTRACTED KIDNEY AND URAEMIC POISONING, with drowsiness, insensibility and frightful convulsions; general nervous prostration; effusion from weakness of vessels and diminished force of circulation; jaundice and easy vomiting; slow and intermittent pulse; bluish hue of skin.
Euonymus atrop Euon-a
LIVER COMPLAINT; chronic catarrh and rheumatic troubles; dyspepsia; migraine, the more severe the headache the more albumen in urine; melancholy and bodily weakness.
Glonoinum Glon
CIRRHOTIC KIDNEY, ALBUMINOUS URINE, passes much urine at night with dyspnoea and sleeplessness; high-colored , BURNING WHILE PASSING, with red sediment and muddy, reddish-yellow slime; constant tremulous sensation in cardiac region; heart's impulse increased; pulse quick, small'; dry, parched feeling, wants cold water; nausea with faintness; jerkings through body; brain feels too large, congested; throbbing headache, (<) by stepping or jarring.
Helleborus Hell
Post-scarlatinal or post-diphtheritic dropsy; black urine with a cloud near the bottom of the chamber or a coffee-ground sediment; congestion of kidneys with extensive effusion of serum in abdominal cavity and tissue of lower extremities; jellylike stools; dullness of mind; with slowness in responding; anxious about heart which prevents him from resting anywhere; pulse often slower than beating of heart; want of bodily irritability.
Helonias Helon
Great languor; feeling of weakness and weight in the region of the kidneys; albuminuria following scarlatina, or during and after pregnancy; profound melancholy, better while doing something; burning pains in abdomen and kidneys; palpitations; aching burning pain in sacrum down into buttocks; dropsy, general debility, uterine atony; urine profuse, clear, light-colored albuminous.
Hepar Hep
DROPSY AFTER SCARLATINA.- sensation as if bruised in small of back and thighs; palpitation of heart; with fine stitches though the heart and chest; urine dark-red, hot, bloody, burning, or pale, with flocculent, muddy-looking sediment.
Kali bichrom Kali-bi
MORBUS BRIGHTII ON A SYPHILITIC BASIS; blindness before headache and sight returning with the onset of pain; yellow sight from bile in blood; yellow pallor of face, difficult breathing, sits bent forward, (<) after midnight; nausea, palpitations, COLD SENSATION IN CARDIAC REGION, pressure on heart when lying, (>) after rising, painful retraction of anus; rheumatic, paretic states; urine loaded with epithelial casts and albumen.
Kali carb Kali-c
Urine hot, scanty, frequent, sediment red and slimy; urine blackish, foaming when shaken; tensive pain on left renal region; sacculated swelling of eyelids; swelling of inguinal glands and oedema of left foot, extending gradually to right foot and upward over body; jerking of limbs if foot is touched.
Kali-iod Kali-i
Urine scanty, dark, micturition painful or urine copious, frequent, pale and watery, or red as blood, great thirst; chronic headaches with coldness of the affected part, (>) by external warmth; oppression of breathing, (<) morning hours; when lungs become engorged; palpitations while walking; weak digestion with empty belching, eating does not relieve, food tastes like straw.
Kali mur Kali-m
NEPHRITIS CROUPOSA with dirty, yellow sediment; congestion to heart, slow pulse, twitching of face, alternate states of sadness and cheerfulness with congestion, . by nosebleed; congestive vertigo, , after violent exercise; luminous vibrations before eyes when sneezing, brassy taste, foetid breath, CARDIAC ASTHMA, with sensation as if heart and lungs were constricted; with cold feet; portal congestion and enlarged liver; dryness of stool, so that if crumbles, twitching of facial muscles; SCORBUTIC STATE FROM ABUSE OF MERCURIALS.
Kali phos Kali-p
Depressed condition of nerves, insomnia, weary feeling, irritability; nervous asthma with sallow features, sunken eyes, emaciation, on ascending, with dyspnoea; intermittent action of heart; oedema pulmonum.
Kalmia Kalm
MORBUS BRIGHTII FROM HEART COMPLICATIONS; dropsy from cold with rheumatic manifestations; persistent pains in back and lower extremities; scanty urine, albuminous, with fibrinous casts and epithelial cells; oppression of chest; dyspnoea, vertigo, dulness of head, periosteal pains prevent sleep.
Lachesis Lach
Morbus brightii, after scarlatina or diphtheria, AFTER EXCESSIVE USE OF ALCOHOL (Berb.); urine dark, turbid of black in spots; dropsy with suffocating spells; pale, puffy, yellow face, Dropsical swelling and pain in sacral region during pregnancy, urine scanty, full of albumen, pale face, left leg swollen and painful, left side oedematous; stitches from the kidneys through ureters; difficulty of breathing, blue surface, (<) after sleeping; HYDROTHORAX AND HYDROPERICARDIUM FROM ORGANIC DISEASES OF HEART.
Mercurius cor Merc-c
EARLY STAGES, especially when caused by abuse of alcoholic drinks, by cold or by obstructed portal circulation; face pale, puffed, doughy; thirst, swollen tongue; renal and rectal region painful; scanty, bloody urine; effusion of fibrin or fat globules in the urine, or profuse secretion of pale, albuminous urine; colic and tenesmus; yellowish tint of body; offensive secretions; tendency to ulcerations and glandular swellings.
Mercurius iod Merc-i-f
Urine copious, thick and dark when passing, (<) at night and in the open air; easily swelling; yellow, heavy-furred tongue, headache, especially right side; pressure on vertex, etc.
Myrica cerif Myric
Great despondency and irritability; drowsy sensation in head; dryness of mouth and fauces; the whole mouth; including the roof, coated with dirty-white, adherent mucus; foul, nauseous, bitter taste; throat sore and rough with painful and difficult deglutition; horrid epigastric pains, with great weakness and soreness; urine high-colored and loaded with sand.
Nitric acid Nit-ac
CONTRACTED KIDNEY. Nausea, excessive slimy secretion from mouth and throat; yellow coating all over tongue, with bitter or acid taste; bilious diarrhoea or constipation, piles, anorexia; haematuria, urging after and shuddering along the spine urination; skin dry, dark and dirty.
Phosphoric acid Ph-ac
Great torpor, melanotic dyscrasia, similar to scurvy and stupid typhoids; the heart relaxed, dilated, with thin walls; atheroma of the arteries, insidious appearance of the renal degeneration, carelessness and apathy, perfect prostration, with low delirium, neither hunger nor thirst, nausea and vomiting, bleeding gums, urine contains much phosphates, fibrinous casts and epithelial cells, fatty corpuscles, rarely carbonate of ammonia, and never much albumen, costiveness or light-yellow diarrhoea, no fever or heat; cool wrinkled skin, cool breath, cool sweat.
Phosphorus Phos
Affects primarily the right heart, producing venous stasis; kidneys present great structural changes, granular and fatty degenerations, destruction of epithelium, and finally atrophy; urine highly albuminous; the blood profusely affected, the red corpuscles greatly diminished and the white corpuscles increased. Nervous exhaustion, atrophy of softening of the brain, sensation of weakness or emptiness in the stomach; painless watery diarrhoea; congestion of the right heart, and hence venous congestion of kidneys; dimness of sight, amaurosis; haemorrhages; hoarseness; pneumonia; jaundice; fatty degeneration and atrophy of liver or pancreas; tuberculosis; caries; retinitis albuminuria.
Plumbum Plb
GRANULAR KIDNEY. Loss of appetite, frontal headache worse from mental application; difficulty of breathing, especially at night when lying down; oedema of ankles; dry skin, no perspiration even after exercise; colicky pains proceeding from the spine, with obstinate constipation and retracted abdomen; amaurosis from atrophy of the optic nerve (phos., from retinal haemorrhage); epileptiform conditions, paralysis; cutaneous anaesthesia, with albuminuria; exceedingly pale skin; chlorosis; rapid emaciation and progressive debility; hypertrophy of heart; atheromatous degeneration of the arteries; haemorrhagic tendency, intractable epistaxis; urine of low specific gravity, pale, containing albumen, tube-casts, epithelial cells, blood and pus corpuscles; urine dribbles; inability to pass urine, though bladder is full; urine foetid and high-colored; HARDLY ANY DROPSY.
Sarsaparilla Sars
Syphilitic taint, mercurial poisoning. scrofula, cachectic states from hepatic diseases or rheumatism; cloudiness of head; dim sight, as if looking through a mist; aphthae; frequent and copious micturition of pale urine, depositing a sediment; frequent desire, but scanty urination; foetid breath; dyspnoea; tearing in almost all the joints and limbs; great weakness; languid feeling; emaciation.
Secale Sec
MORBUS BRIGHTII AFTER SCARLATINA; retention of urine, urine pale or bloody, urinary deposits looking like cheese; discharge of thick black blood from kidneys; obscuration of sight.
Tartar emet Ant-t
Humid asthma; dyspnoea from mucous accumulation and impending paralysis of the pneumogastric nerve; vanishing of sight, sees only through a thick veil; pale, puffed face, with coma; pale, sunken face; nausea and vomiting; stools of cadaverous smell; albuminous urine; palpitation, pulse rapid, weak and trembling; great weakness and lassitude, fainting.
Terebinthina Ter
Adapted to the early stages, when blood and albumen abound more than casts and epithelium; renal dropsy, attacking rapidly, with pain in lumbar region, urine much diminished in quantity, loaded with albumen, casts of tubes with blood-disks; URINE HIGHLY CHARGED WITH DECOMPOSED BLOOD, especially if it is bright and is passed in very small quantity; dyspnoea, especially at night, scarcely able to breathe; copious mucous sputa; organic disease of heart and large blood vessels; irritability and weakness of the alimentary canal; anorexia; smooth and glossy tongue; oedema of legs which are of enormous size; tendency to a typhoid state; rigors, followed by feverish heat through whole body, headache and fever, red face, urine very scanty, dark- colored, smelling strongly of violets, smoky and containing tube- casts; congestion of kidneys with rupture of the fine capillaries and consequent pouring out of blood into the pelvis of kidneys.
Uranium nitr Uran-n
Patient is compelled to rise often during the night and urinate, which disturbs his sleep; ill-tempered, cross and irritable, pains over left eye; disturbed stomach, faintness of stomach, even after a hearty meal; cardiac complications, diabetes; pregnancy.