Aconite N: When brought on by cold or sudden suppression of
perspiration by sitting or lying on damp ground, followed by
restlessness, thirst, headache and sudden suppression of urine.
Apis Mel: In acute cases of Bright's disease with thirstlessness.
In dropsy; oedematous swellings of the face and extremities.
Pain in the head, back and limbs and also in kidneys. Urination
frequent but scanty. Urine heavily charged with albumin.
Feeling of suffocation and breathing difficult. Puffiness with
pitting on pressure. All symptoms are aggravated by heat and
ameliorated by cold. Give in low potency in which it acts best.
Helleborus: Dropsy due to inflammation of kidney. Urine
scanty and dark. Uraemia with unconsciousness pupils dilated
and insensible to light; convulsions; strong urinous odour from
the body. Effusion occurring within the brain is guiding
symptom.
Arsenic Alb: Covers all stages of Bright's disease but mostly
indicated in later stages when watery diarrhoea sets in, with
pale skin, waxen appearance. Urine loaded with casts and
albumin. Thirst for small quantities of water at short intervals.
Desire for warmth. Restlessness, puffiness of face, anguish,
fear of death. Convulsions.
Cannabis Sativa: Stoppage of urinary duct by pus and mucus.
Urine turbid, reddish. Emission drop by drop. Stiches and
burning in urethra.
Kali Chlor: Violent nephritis with scanty dark albuminous
urine containing casts.
Calcarea Sulph: Anaemia, with progressive emaciation and
debility. There is pus in urine. Burning during urination. Much
distension of the abdomen. Catarrhal headaches.
Mercurius Cor: Indicated in large white kidney. Scanty and
red urine with albumin and casts. Nephritis of pregnancy.
Suppurative nephritis. Swelling of feet from fifth to seventh
month of pregnancy.
Picric Acid: Hemoglobinuria. Urine contains much indican,
granular cylinders and fatty degenerated epithelium.
Inflammation of kidneys with profound weakness, dark,
bloody, scanty urine. Nightly urging.
Phosphorus: Hemoglobinuria. Urine turbid brown with red
sediment and blood.
Cantharis: Uraemic delusions with sense of persecution.
Suppression of urine with restlessness, flushed face, sparkling
eyes. Urge to pass urine but nothing is voided, there being no
urine in the bladder. Dropsy after scarlet fever or diphtheria.
Urination painful, only a few drops passing at a time. The urine
is scaldy and bloody.
Terebinth: In early stages of congestion of kidneys. Urine
bloody with pain along the ureters and in the back.
Plumbum: Granular degeneration of kidneys, gouty kidney.
Pale, bloated, heavy expression. Constipation. Albuminuria.
Kidney contracted.
Digitalis: Granular degeneration of the kidneys with
palpitation of heart, slow pulse.
Benzoic Acid: Renal pains that are sharp and severe, radiating
through the back and even to chest. Urine dark and strongly ammoniacal. The odour is exceedingly penetrating. Nephritis
accompanied with rheumatism is the guiding symptom.
Mercurius Cynat: Excellent remedy in the first and second
stage. The urine is scanty, dark, loaded with albumin. Pain in
the tubes of kidney.
Apocynum: Dropsical condition with scanty urine and thirst.
There is no thirst in Apis with which this remedy is comparable.
Indicated in coma and convulsions in nephritis of pregnancy.
Vesicaria: Nephralgia. Nervous pain in kidneys, dribbling, of
urine with burning in urethra and irritable bladder. Passing
urine about thirty times in the night. Gonorrhoea, brick dust
sediments in urine. It also cures polyuria. Passing too much
urine. Painful urination, pus, albumin and bloody urine in
dropsy.
Colchicum: Album in urine which becomes black, scanty urine
with dropsical swelling. Acute form of Bright's disease.
Solidago: Tenderness of kidneys to slightest touch with pain
extending from kidneys to abdomen, bladder and down the
limbs. Urine red, brown, scanty, thick, voided with difficulty,
albuminous, mucus, phosphatic urine. Give IX or 3X.
Lycopodium: When red sand is passed with urine with
nephritis and dropsy.
Nitric Acid: Kidney disease associated with ear trouble such as
yellowish-white discharge from the ear. Urine smelling like
that of a horse.
Arsenic Brom: When albuminuria is associated with diabetes.
It should be given when Plumbum fails.
