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RETENTION OF URINE AFTER PARTURITION

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

CONFINEMENT AND POSTPARTUM DERANGEMENTS

Aconite Acon

Desire to urinate, accompanied with great distress, anxiety and fear.

Arnica Arn

Retention of urine with urging to urinate, with sore, bruised feeling of the parts from mechanical injury; constant dribbling of urine after labor.

Arsenicum Ars

No sensation of a desire to urinate and no power to do so from atony of the bladder; seems to have lost all control over the power to emit.

Belladonna Bell

Urine passed in drops without pain; very sensitive to jars of the bed.

Cantharis Canth

Great desire to urinate, with cutting, burning pains in the bladder or in the urethra; complete strangury, or the urine may dribble and drop, with cutting, burning pains.

Causticum Caust

Retention of urine, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate, but occasionally a small quantity or a few drops pass off involuntarily; the desire may be frequent and urgent, but unsuccessful, only a few drops flow.

Equisetum hyem Equis

Continuous desire to urinate, but passes only a small quantity and feels as if she had not urinated.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

Apparent paralysis of bladder, no will to make water; retention of urine, with constant pressure on bladder; urine drawn turbid with mucous sediment.

Lycopodium Lyc

Retention of urine with much violent pain in back and urine flowing in fits and starts, with increased pain in back at every interruption.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Painful and ineffectual desire to urinate, pain being burning and tearing; retention of urine, with frequent urging to stool.

Opium Op

Retention of urine and faeces, without any desire to expel them.

Pulsatilla Puls

Retention of urine with redness, heat and soreness of the external region of bladder which is painful to the touch.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Retention of urine, backache, restless, cannot keep quiet.

Stramonium Stram

Retention of urine, with sensation as if urethra were too narrow, passes only a few drops after severe straining, no stream being formed in spite of all straining; retention without any painful sensation.

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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