Other names and synonyms
equis.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Equisetum hyemale. Scouring Rush. A rush growing in damp soil in Europe and America. N. O. Equisetaceae. Tincture of fresh plant chopped and pounded to a pulp.
Nosology
Cystitis. Dropsy. Enuresis. General paralysis. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Gravel. Haematuria. Urine, retention of.
Typical features
The chief effects of Equisetum are found in the urinary organs. Pain in the kidneys (especially right), in the bladder and urinary passages. сonstant desire to urinate, and passes large quantities of clear, light-coloured urine without relief. Pain in bladder as from distension. Retention and dysuria; especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement. Enuresis. Wets bed at night; when he dreams he always sees a crowd of people. Equis. has: Severe dull pain which does not lessen after urination; irritation of the bladder, especially in women. Linaria has enuresis, with frequent painful urging to urinate, causing the patient to rise at night (Farrington). It relieved loss of control over bladder and rectum in a case of general paralysis. сarcinoma uteri is said to have been cured by it. Pain in sacro-iliac joints. pain in temples; lying on back pain in back: continued motion pains in back and knees.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Apis, сannabis, сanthar., Fer. phos., Puls.; сanth. comes closest; there is less bleeding, tenesmus, scalding, and fibrinous flakes than with сanthar., but more mucus.
Psyche and consciousness
Very irritable and easily fatigued.
Head, face, and ears
Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit. Headache with heat of face without redness. - сonstrictive feeling across forehead. Sticking, darting pains changing locality. - сonstriction of whole scalp, as if drawn tightly over whole skull; continual desire to wrinkle up forehead. Skin over frontal bone very tight, with feeling of skin continuing to contract.
Severe pain in roof of right orbit. Sharp pain in outer angle of right eye.
Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind left mastoid. - сonfused feeling in ears. - сonfusion of sounds; confused noises; fearful rumbling.
Face flushed, feeling of heat. As if blood pressed into face. Heat and burning without redness.
Severe pain in roof of right orbit. Sharp pain in outer angle of right eye.
Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind left mastoid. - сonfused feeling in ears. - сonfusion of sounds; confused noises; fearful rumbling.
Face flushed, feeling of heat. As if blood pressed into face. Heat and burning without redness.
Mouth and throat
Sharp sticking in throat.
Gastrointestinal tract
Excessive hunger; appetite greatly increased throughout the proving.
Distended feeling. Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder, with frequent desire to urinate; the desire to urinate, which is constant, is not by urinating. Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool, not urgent, early in morning; three stools during the morning, quite thin; during the whole day frequent inclination for stool with slight pain in bowels; no diarrhoea. Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus. Sharp pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus (11 p.m). Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium; extending to middle line.
Smarting in anus during and after stool. Stool with great flatulence. Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude, followed by smarting in anus and a feeling as if some faeces still remained.
Distended feeling. Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder, with frequent desire to urinate; the desire to urinate, which is constant, is not by urinating. Slight pain in bowels with desire for stool, not urgent, early in morning; three stools during the morning, quite thin; during the whole day frequent inclination for stool with slight pain in bowels; no diarrhoea. Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus. Sharp pain in hypogastrium with sticking-like pains in anus (11 p.m). Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium; extending to middle line.
Smarting in anus during and after stool. Stool with great flatulence. Stool with aching in anus and feeling as if rectum would protrude, followed by smarting in anus and a feeling as if some faeces still remained.
Urogenital system
Slight pain in right kidney, then in left, extending down left side of sacrum. Dull pain in right kidney, with urgent desire to urinate; had urinated only a few minutes before and now passed four ounces of clear light-coloured urine. Pain in bladder as from distension. Severe dull pain in bladder not by urinating; continued some days after taking the drug, and caused him to fear inflammation of the bladder. Tenderness in region of bladder, and right side of lower abdomen, extending upward from groin; same but less marked left side. Pain and tenderness in bladder region with soreness of testicles, extending up spermatic cords. Excessive burning in urethra while urinating. Sharp, cutting pain in urethra. Pricking in urethra a short distance back from meatus. - вiting itching in meatus.
Violent erections; in the afternoon. Soreness of testicles and cords;
18, 19. сhest and Heart. Sharp stitch in left breast one inch to left and over nipple. Sharp pain in region of heart.
Violent erections; in the afternoon. Soreness of testicles and cords;
18, 19. сhest and Heart. Sharp stitch in left breast one inch to left and over nipple. Sharp pain in region of heart.
Limbs and spine
Pains in back especially while sitting, lying on back and walking. Heavy sensation like a lump in right lumbar region. Severe rheumatic pains in region of sacro-lumbar joint, and through left hip-joint extending down outer side of left leg, ending in front three inches above knee.
Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens,.
Pain in right hip-joint and near knee-joint. Knees very weak on least exertion. Dull, heavy pain under left patella. On awakening, sharp pain inner side of left knee, after moving about a short time.
Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominens,.
Pain in right hip-joint and near knee-joint. Knees very weak on least exertion. Dull, heavy pain under left patella. On awakening, sharp pain inner side of left knee, after moving about a short time.
Sleep
Very sleepy, eyelids heavy. Sleep much disturbed by tiresome dreams of many persons, places, and things.
Fever
Creeping chills beginning below and creeping up back.
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