Brachyglottis repens
Plant · Asteraceae
Brachyglottis Repens suits patients with Bright disease and albuminuria presenting with urinary urgency, a swashing sensation in the bladder, and inability to retain urine. A characteristic fluttering sensation and the tendency toward writer cramp distinguish this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate; produces albuminuria
- Pressure in neck of bladder with urging to urinate
- Sense of swashing in bladder; feeling urine cannot be retained
- Urine contains mucous corpuscles, epithelium, albumen, and casts
- Fluttering sensation in abdomen and ovarian region
- Itching in ears and nostrils
- Oppression of chest
- Writer cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing
Puka-Puka (BRACHYGLOTTIS)
Fluttering sensation (Caladium). Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itching in ears and nostrils. Bright's disease. Oppression of chest. Writer's cramp.
Abdomen
Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.
Urinary
Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.
Extremities
Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.
Relationship
Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum.
Dose
Third potency.
New Zealand "Puka Puka." Tincture of green leaves and flowers. N. O. Eupatoriaceæ.
Clinical
Bright's disease. Dysmenorrhœa.
Characteristics
Brachyglottis was proved by C. L. Fischer. The Maories use the leaves to apply to old sores and ulcers. Horses eating young shrubs lose all power over hind legs and spine. It causes lassitude; weakness; loss of flesh. A large number of symptoms were produced in all regions of body, but few have been tested clinically. This appears to be the most marked: Urgency in passing urine; pain in neck of bladder; pain in bladder after urinating, and in urethra and stinging in penis; a large quantity of pale-coloured urine voided, of low specific gravity and containing albumen. Throbbing pains are very prominent in the proving. Dysmenorrhœa with fluttering in abdomen and right ovary has been cured with it. Pains in the back and limbs. Chilliness predominates.
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