Books · Homoeopathic Therapeutics

ISCHURIA, RETENTION OF URINE

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Chief remedy with newborn babes, when they fail to urinate the first few days after birth.

Apis Apis

Child screams continually and passes little or no water.

Belladonna Bell

Much moaning; distress; sudden crying out from the retention.

Borax Bor

Infant screams before urinating; urine hot and has a pungent foetid odor.

Camphora Camph

Unsuccessful urging to urinate; urine passes only in drops and is burning.

Cantharis Canth

Gravel in children, irritation extending down to the penis, with almost constant pulling at the organ.; a few drops of urine flow only with mucus screaming.

Colocynthis Coloc

Ineffectual straining, (>) before, during and after urination; urine is scanty.

Ipecacuanha Ip

Ischuria with convulsions.

Lycopodium Lyc

Pain before passing water, the child cries and screams at that time; reddish or sand sediment in urine; much rolling and rumbling of flatus in abdomen; child awakes from sleep screaming and kicking.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Retention with painful, ineffectual urging to urinate, urine passes in drops, with burning and tearing; constipation.

Opium Op

Child very drowsy and sleepy; face bloated; bladder full, urine retained. Child nursed when the nurse's milk was poisoned by emotion.

Petroselinum Petros

Sudden violent urging to urinate, with profuse urination every

little while.

Pulsatilla Puls

After failure of Acon. or Nux, for frequent, almost ineffectual urging to urinate, with cutting pains.

Sarsaparilla Sars

Sand in the urine or on the diaper, the child screams before and when passing it.

Sulphur Sulph

Retention occurs every time the child catches cold (Dulc).

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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